My first Valentine’s Day with the love of my life, and my heart is so full ☺️ We’re doing a nice dinner, Wuthering Heights, and a chill evening together :) I hope you get to spend today with people you love dearly!

Happy birthday to Mewtwo!!!

I reference this image like once a month now when I cook.

Quick Pokemon update because that’s all I post anymore. Made some model kits I got for Christmas, shiny hunting in PoGo, and playing Let’s Go Pikachu for the Creature Quorum podcast (not photographed, haven’t played enough).

On the latest Novel Not New, @aibrahim.bsky.social dropped by to talk about Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker with us! The game is more concerned with being a riff on Monster Hunter’s social multiplayer than a true stealth-action game, and suffers dearly as a result. www.patreon.com/posts/novel-...

We are recording at 7pm ET tonight! That still gives you a little less than ten hours to send us questions about Peace Walker. You can even send us questions about the series as a whole, as long as they don’t involve Ground Zeroes or 5!

Send in questions about this very uhhhhh interesting entry in the Metal Gear franchise for our narrative gaming podcast!

My first ever Pokemon regional was in Toronto this weekend! Here’s the list I brought and my 2-4-1 record (I left before round 8 because I was exhausted). What a beautiful city :) I’m glad this hobby gave me an excuse to meet new people and enjoy Canada with my lovely girlfriend ☺️

Later this month on Novel Not New, we’ll be discussing Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker with @aibrahim.bsky.social! This PSP game directed by Hideo Kojima put the full MGS experience on a handheld. Is it any good? Uhhhhhhhhh You can send in questions early to [email protected]!

As I gear up for my first ever Pokemon TCG regional this weekend, I want to take a second and shout out the queer TCG community big time, and any wins I get are for all of us who don’t always show up to locals or cups, but we do play loud and proud.

imagine wearing the rock slide jersey and you click on rock slide and then you miss

it’s going to be weird going back to work and people talking like everything is normal. like in a final fantasy game when someone’s summoned a meteor from hell to destroy the planet and the villagers still only talk about the big chocobo pageant coming up

One thing they never taught us in marketing school is that if you have a catered public image on your Instagram account, you need to not like funny reels because it always ruins the gimmick that you’re cool/interesting when we see you liking bad memes 😭

I’m locked in bringing Grimmsnarl to Toronto my first ever Pokémon regional. No, the endless memes about how it’s a dead deck aren’t making me feel insane why do you ask?

The “happy Holidays vs Merry Christmas” debate is so fetid and dead now that the only people who care anymore irl are the grumpiest, most miserable people alive. Nobody is offended that you said Merry Christmas, you just want to feel superior and rub it in non-Christian faces.

Xena’s the first @chatzpod.bsky.social show where I can genuinely enjoy it more the less I turn my critic brain on. It’s a show that deeply rewards you for having a meal or getting cozy while things play out, and I mean that as a huge compliment.

Just got to the Cardinal’s death in Wolf Hall. I’m obsessed with a novel that hinges its entire premise on a climactic event that happens a) exactly halfway through its 600 pages and b) over the span of maybe one paragraph.

Obviously this is impossible because Alan Moore looks like he's genetically a wizard, it's simply impossible to imagine what he would look like as a schoolboy oh there he is.

Never for a minute doubt that I’ve always that thang on me (that thang being a love of Snoopy, sweatpants, and manga)

you cannot outsmart a gas. you can only slowly wither to inertness when you ping away from consensus

we watched Booksmart for a @chatzpod.bsky.social bonus episode yesterday and i've not stopped thinking about adapting The Hero's Journey for the teen party-jumping comedy it fascinates me how even though these movies need to END at a party they also need to FEEL like a party with parties on the way

I haven’t had a personal laptop in like 10 years, so getting to finally break out the sticker collection for this one was really delightful

What’s the general take been on Kirby Air Riders after a weekend with it? I haven’t had a ton of time to play, but my first City Ride run brought me a feeling of warm inspiring nostalgia and hope that games can make me feel like they did as a kid again.

Recently YouTube has been determined to recommend me fan-made "clips of [Streamer] I have saved to my camera roll". I will never understand why people would actually do this. Do people really keep like...Twitch clips saved to their camera roll? Am I missing a joke here?

cancelling disney plus isn’t enough i need to sneak into the park and spank the pirates

My last cup of 2025, the first year of my Pokemon TCG career! Changes to Grimmsnarl were basically just adding consistency via Nest Ball and Iono, and the extra E. Switch makes Pecharunt ex a BEAST for closing out tight games. Need to practice it more next year, but happy to have gone out on a 2-3.

The animation change half way through is killing me

Long and tiring Monday, but fun! I got to tour the MBTA’s train and bus parts factory in Everett, and I need my afternoon with 3.1 miles around my favorite track in anticipation of a 5K this weekend…my feet hurt!

Why is this the ONLY picture I have of my Fred costume from this past weekend 😭

No correct aspect ratio upload to be found on YouTube, and I could be more rigorous about my editing, but I genuinely think this is some of the funniest 106 seconds in comedy history, and definitely in my top five Simpsons jokes.

Shonen training arc reaches a milestone! Last night I went 3-1-1 at a challenge with this Grimmsnarl list! Got top 8, prize packs, store credit, and 8 championship points 😭 I am really loving this consistent spread deck against the current meta, Grimmy boy gets the job done 💪🏼

I wrote about baseball, and I'm pretty damn proud of how it turned out. Free Patreon post about MLB The Show 25, deliberately coding in mistakes, and women in baseball. www.patreon.com/posts/140377...

Tomorrow’s my last day at this job I’ve been at for six years, so I printed 15 of these and I’m leaving them on everyone’s desks.

We went to the Survivor fan cafe last night! They have two floors with a few games directly from the show, the whole menu is themed, and lots of photo ops. But pricey, but worth it for diehard fans or folks who want a unique date night

All the friends I open packs with are busy this weekend, but I have nearly 60 Mega Evolution packs ready to go for a fun evening soon 😊

I got to speak on a panel last night about podcasting and business for @amaboston.bsky.social! I never thought this hobby would last ten years and that people would pay to hear me yap about it. So blessed to be where I’m at right now.

One Piece writers: Okay, this episode is gonna be about some of the biggest villains of the series transform into their ultimate beastly forms. Have fun! The animators on 1144: Hold my sakuga...

Can’t wait for ten years from now when some cynical Gen Alpha teen posts a “worst song of all time?” thread and it’s Stick Season 😭

Me when she texts me good morning

Thinkin about this fuckass Gundam Wing art of Quatre with some huskies tonight for some reason.

First time placing dead last at a challenge this Sunday with Raging Bolt. Was able to pull off a surprising tie against a slow player and misplay FIVE CONSECUTIVE turns against Eevee Box. I think I’m at 0 cp now 😄

Recently learned that if you took the canonical weight of every pokemon – all 1200ish, legendaries and ultrabeasts included – and combined it all into one total, it wouldn't even be enough to outweigh a moderately sized specimen of the heaviest REAL animal, the great Blue Whale

Sometimes I fire up my old Twitter at work because I'm bored, and it's wild how much of that site now is people rushing to state that they proudly hate something or someone. Every viral post is someone proclaiming their unique and special dislike of something popular and getting 10k likes for it.

I’m evolving into the next stage of my Pokemon TCG career (building every meta deck and having them all available to randomely pick from for tournaments)

I’m in the early stages of talking to someone from a dating app once again, and now I’m seriously considering just posting all my thoughts and feelings about it in a Notes app because my friends have all heard this shit way too many times 😂

A very happy 30th birthday to bisexuality, born this day in 1995 🎂

i thought this was really brave of kotaku