This was such a fun day. Really, it was like any sitcom came to life. Truly unbelievable.

Earl of Sandwich, Hurler of Hoagies, Slinger of Subs

Growing up were there any moments in movies that traumatized you? 😬

One of the reforms I don't hear anyone talking about is that I think we need to change immigration courts into Article 3 courts, with all the rights and protections that entails. Then we turn ICE into basically a bailiff service and far less acting like they're Elliot Ness going after bootleggers.

I feel like we're going to need another Arrested Development that skewers the last 10 years.

There's so much talent and experience out there with mortgages and kids who can't go do the garage indie game route anymore while saving for college and retirement. They'd fill the world with games people love that we never knew we wanted. Same with TV, movies, books, etc.

Over the past years, I've been radicalized from "Hey, let's enforce antitrust laws again" to "Let's pass newer, harsher antitrust laws that will force the unravelling of every merger or acquisition for the last 50 years."

Imagine it's 1850 and you've just been flattened by an elite cavalry officer who just yells "SOWWY" as he thunders away.

There's also a market for tight strategy skirmish games. And a market for fussy, niche economic sim games. And yet, those are old genres with dedicated fanbases, so you're never going to get the desired quarterly growth numbers demanded by finance bros. And there are no single player game whales.

Helluva campaign slogan

It's cool how we keep proving over and over and over again that there's a significant market for narrative-heavy, character-driven, single-player experiences in video games and publishers just categorically refuse to believe us

Housing is bad, so this isn't a surprise. But how murdered? Murder suicide? Maybe. Part of elevated crime in the neighborhood? Ehhhh. Mysteriously died in some inexplicable way and the family photos taken in the home show a door that is not there in the listing photos? Probably not.

I'm serious. Start saying this now, because people are starting to sweat the existence of Congressional oversight.

I'm glad I don't have to make this mistake very much longer. It wasn't my favorite part of that show.

Printed from the office inkjet printer and taped to the wall. I didn't think they could take a step down from the cheap plastic gewgaws with gold leaf they glued everywhere (including over that window).

Talking to Trump the same way we'd talk to a Spider-Man villain is correct.

I think high ranking Democrats should start saying that they'll be open to immunity deals for people in this who preserve their Signal chats.

I have had trouble following the Virginia governor's race because I keep thinking Winsome Earle-Sears is the evil former FBI agent from Twin Peaks.

Scout isn't registered to vote, so it was just me in the booth and her trying to smell everything and everyone around us.

Woof, the gaming industry is bleak, but here's my rant. I don't want to say the problems are people who aren't me, but... The problems are a) a lack of any credible sources for financing the games most people want to make and/or buy, and 2) to many middle managers as funded games teams grow too big.

What's the best movie that you ever went into 100% blind? The Empty Man. Even watching the trailer gives you the wrong impression of what the movie is and it turned out to be a lot of my jam.

Halfway through Dispatch and I think I'm going to play it a couple of times to see the other options. Also, I really want the Dispatch portion of the game more. But I'm glad it's a bigger part of the third and fourth episodes.

It’s basically Deep Space Nine.

Because it's my favorite 80s horror franchise, I'm thinking this Halloween about what it would be like in D&D to be a Warlock with a Cenobite patron. Pact of the Chain? That chain has hooks! The apotheosis of your character is they become a cenobite and have such sights to show people.

If you're not a fan of horror movies or are easily scared or disturbed, I suggest your Halloween season watching should be superheroes, pirates, ninjas, etc. Watch movies about popular costumes!

Watching the @criticalrole.bsky.social Dispatch one shot makes me wonder if @darringtonpress.bsky.social would make a Superhero game, would it be like Daggerheart (like how Mutants and Masterminds was 3.5 D&D)? Would they do something related but different? Somewhere between Candela and Daggerheart?

One thing the Tron movies never got right, even the original, was the promise that the discs were supposed to be like the lightsabers of Tron. There were all of two disc duels in the original. They dropped that idea in the sequels, which is a shame, because Captain America proves it can be cool.

I realize it was filmed a well in advance, but it's funny that I just got my Outgunned Superheroes RPG beta the day before @criticalrole.bsky.social did their Dispatch one shot. I couldn't help but rebuild every character in that system while I was watching it.

I hope Guillermo Del Toro gets to do the whole series of "Hot, Fuckable Universal Monsters."

Change one letter, ruin a candy Sweatarts

Change one letter, ruin a candy Knickers

Change one letter, ruin a candy Sharties

Change one letter, ruin a candy Nestle Brunch

The trick to the mixed fun sized Halloween candy is to get a handful and then sort them into an order to eat them. Not least favorite to favorite. I'm talking about Rolos to Milkyway to Snickers to Peanut M&Ms, based on overlap of ingredients.

I feel like there's something very Lynchian about Weapons. Lynch was freaked out by the kind of everyday monstrosities of the world even in comfortable, familiar places like small towns and the suburbs. And he liked to interrogate that as a monstrous supernatural thing at work beneath the surface.

Break up big companies, more consumer protection like Right to Repair. These were more universal than rural voters and classic liberal populism.

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follow the rules

Ridiculous. The majority of Justices are usually swayed by a stream of segments on Fox News.

We used to have to do this the hard way, VCR to VCR and copies distributed the same way, friend to friend.

Kids, back when sound on most computers was a speaker designed to give one kind of beep, game fans bought sound cards like people now buy graphics cards. Games like Wing Commander sold speech packs as a separate expansion for people who had the sound cards to handle it.

Dispatch is a fun game. It's got that classic Telltale flavor in the scenes. But honestly, I'd play just the superhero dispatcher game. Like if it was more of that, and that game was a lot deeper, I wouldn't need the cut scenes. I could get by with a visual novel or JRPG portraits and text boxes.

This is a threat. And it's barely soft-pedaled. How can anyone hear this and not hear the fascism in every sentence?

🎶Confidentially, she never called me baby-doll🎶

This is a fever dream. It's almost impressive in how bad it is.

Nobody needs permission to use presidential addresses. The edits just shortened the address to fit in a commercial (and put the intro at the end as a kind of wrap up), but the meaning is precisely the same. It's clear the Ronald Regan Presidential Foundation is headed by sycophantic MAGA chuds.

So, the wealthy ARE willing to pay a lot more in taxes...

🎶Overture, curtain, lights,🎶 🎶This is it, the night of nights🎶