a movie that takes place where you’re from

In the first five minutes of Wicked: For Good, Elphaba tre flips her broom over the Yellow Brick Road. Greatest movie of the 21st century.

Peak user interface.

GameMill's take on Rudolph is a reindeer game I hope that more people join.

I’m playing Ys 1 & 2 on PSP, and I would have gone sicko mode for this game if they had put it on GBA. I’m not sure if it would have been for me at the time that I had a PSP, but the grind would have been perfect on the bus to school or on breaks at work.

Playlist Dungeon rules. Go get it and buy Quinn’s books!

I never really looked twice at the Ys games, but I checked one out since it’s one of the few RPGs on PlayStation Plus. It’s pretty fun. It’s interesting to learn more about such a long running RPG series and compare it to Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest too.

My daughter saw some of Fast Five the other day and said “Dad! I’m Dom and you’re Brian, ok!?”

ACAB includes the cashier policing how many oyster crackers you can take.

I’m dumb and didn’t think through that volunteering for the PTA playground committee would mean fundraising. Spent this afternoon hand delivering letters to businesses around town and it is so outside my comfort zone. But I’m doing it and it’s probably good for my emotional growth 🤷‍♂️

Raising my four year old on 80s pop culture is paying off because she decided she wants to watch Stranger Things, and she was just that Leo meme and saying “those kids like all the things I like!”

I played two seconds of the demo of DK Bananza at Target, and I played the first hour of Clair Obscur but it was too sad. I can’t remember what other releases from this year I’ve played other than Absolum, but that’s probably how I can’t remember anything farther than two weeks ago.

I think AI discourse from the right is showing how wedge issues are made. People on the right keep saying the AI debate is on party lines, but lots of people on the left use and argue for AI. I think the left is more likely to dislike AI, but it’s not actually a left/right issue. Seems fishy.

I gave my teen nephew a book of skateboard photography for his birthday and tucked in $100 bucks as a “bookmark.” His friend clocked the cash and said “damn, I need to start reading!”

can’t wait for my aunts and uncles to ask me about this at thanksgiving

Also worth mentioning that PaxU is the first time you'll be able to buy Griot Anthology, a collection of awesome work by black TTRPG designers and artists. We'll be at booth 3850, come check it out!

What are some games that have the exploration and world building of Dark Souls, but not the intensity of combat?

New skateboard today!

Happy Lumines day everyone!

AI stresses me out and I have big opinions, but it comes up so casually in normal real life conversations now that lecturing everyone who says they “ChatGPT’d” something would make me so annoying so fast. It’s like a new version of “you know smoking will kill you, right?”

Facebook tells me someone in my town is selling a 47 inch 3D tv with a blu ray player, nine 3D movies, and a shit load of glasses for $100 bucks. That sounds like too good of a deal for a fun little novelty.

Ran a game of Land of Eem for my daughter and her friend. It was super fun. I can’t wait for them to grow into the game more because it was a very fun system. They loved the game, but four year old attention spans are short. I’m impressed with how well they did.

I tried reading Dungeon Crawler Carl and I hate it fiercely. I would have loved it if I was 20. Even though people shit on it, I did enjoy Ready Player One. Carl feels like all the worst parts of that book people hated cranked to 11. I’m surprised this is a hit.

Phantasy Star City Builder when?

I got a tip to take my Vyvanse after breakfast and skip the coffee, and it’s like I was never even taking it the last few weeks. At the very least, I needed to take it later because it was definitely wearing off at dinner time when I needed it most.

Having a kid and seeing how she engages with movies makes me realize the debate Star Wars nerds had about the proper order to show Star Wars to our future kids was absurd and irrelevant. Did we think we were withholding Star Wars from our kids for 8-12 years for order to matter?

Just bought an eReader. I hope it’s something I actually use. For a little more I could have gotten an iPad, but I worried I would just use that to play Slay the Spire on a bigger screen.

I’m playing Chivalry 2. It’s a blast. I had no idea it was basically a Battlefield game with swords and sieges. I really like the loop of a Battlefield style game, but I’m less interested in shooters these days. Although this game is so gruesome that I’m realizing there isn’t much difference 😬

This little ranger just spent two hours hunting orcs in the woods.

I think it’s Chivarly 2? I wasn’t expecting a game with this cover art to be so silly. Also, like with Tsushima’s “Kurosawa Mode,” I now appreciate the gore toggled in the options menu when my kid is around.

Looking for game recommendations: - I went to a ren faire, and I’m mad I couldn’t stay there forever - I want to play on the PS4 in my room because I’m lazy and want to stay in bed What’s an RPG I should be playing? (It can be old and something I’ve played before)

Every time I hear podcast people say “Halo: CE,” I forget the original subtitle and think it means Halo: Championship Edition.

This weekend started with Halloween, ended with my first ren faire, and the middle was spent watching a bunch of 80s fantasy movies for the first time. Tomorrow will be the worst Monday of my life 😭

ridge racer 2 (2006) for the sony playstation portable

Watching Willow for the first time. It’s always been on my list, but it’s even more surprising than I thought. I didn’t know Willow was a dad 🥰 I watched a video essay on 80s dark fantasy, so I got a great list of movies I need to catch up on.

I got UFO 50 running on a Raspberry Pi. I’ve been fighting with it for two weeks. It’s a little sluggish in some games, but I’m so psyched to have a dedicated box for it.

Florence + the Machine just put out the perfect Halloween album.

People keep talking about Her and dudes falling in love with ChatGPT, but I want to know how many kids are doing Serenity with Roblox.

My daughter has demanded to watch “Jack” every day for the last six months. This house is lawless.

The music in the Carl the Collector Halloween episode is so sick. Like, a modern Vince Guaraldi thing with a little more spookiness.

I think about this LeGuin essay a lot. (link in next post; you should read it too.)

Seasonal reminder that if you've played a Dread game recently or plan to play one before spooky season ends,* I love hearing about it! * Spooky season, of course, doesn't end until the spring, when folk horror season begins.

It’s easy to make fun of the Kurosawa mode in Ghost of Tsushima, but it makes it a lot easier to play with my kid in the room.

Oh no, how will you access the website that destroyed a generation's ability to interact with art in a normal way

Hilary Clinton saying “it’s not his house, it’s your house” just instantly radicalized me into thinking the American president shouldn’t even have a special house and should just have an office at the capital building.

The Remap Hotline discussion of dad movies was funny today because my daughter walked in on me watching one of my most rewatched movies, Practical Magic. It’s definitely a “mom movie,” but I watch it like a dad movie for some reason 👨

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

A fun thing about having season passes to the local amusement park is that after seeing the same ride operators all summer, we get to thank the fun ones who make the kid rides extra special as the season comes to a close.

I needed a break from Hollow Knight and wasn’t sure what my next game would be. Silksong is too close, and even Hades II didn’t feel like it had enough distance for how dumb my brain needs right now. But Absolum. Man, Absolum rocks. It is perfect. And it’s easy to play by myself or my wife and kid.

no kings seems like a good message because its like the very default mythological american stance