Today's goals: Cleaning, Laundry, Putting up Christmasses (and Hanukkahs, and Kwanzaas, as Little Ocho wants to celebrate everything this year), Grocery Shopping, and then later tonight streaming my next DOS Ultima game: Savage Empire.

The good thing about the latest Epic Games Store giveaway, same as it did when the game released, is it's showing the people whom I've been following that I really shouldn't be. The bar is pretty low for showing support to the trans community, and some are incapable of hurdling even that.

24 hour Extra Life charity stream begins at 8pm EST! Also my farewell stream, as I will no longer be streaming after this. Come say hi and bye! www.Twitch.tv/highbury_hazard

A few memorable ones. Once went on a date with this cute girl to see Titanic, and I was so tired from the week I fell asleep. Went to the theatre that The Blob was filmed in to see a 3D double feature of The Blob and Creature from the Black Lagoon. All the Rocky Horror... so much Rocky Horror...

Brand swagger is producing a 10 hour lo-fi music video with new art and animations just... because. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIZF...

30,000 @dmsguild.com users can't be wrong! Get CLAUS FOR CONCERN, my Adamantine bestseller for the low, low price of Pay What You Want! Give your #DnD party some Christmas cheer as you save Santa from Eldara the Christmas Witch! site.dmsguild.com/product/3396...

Current prediction for us is 1-3 inches of snow starting 7 pm Saturday and stopping 10 am Sunday. Perfect snow times, really.

Don't claim this. Fuck Rowling.

I mean...

Also, this exchange: 5 Y/O: You know Santa isn't real, right? Me: Yes, I know. But Santa to many represents the spirit of giving and love and joy and family, which are very real feelings. 5 Y/O: Yeah. I wanted to pet his reindeer, though. Me: Yeah, that would be awesome.

Notable: I was helping a 5 year old kindergartener wrap presents and she told me they weren't actually celebrating Christmas and asked was it okay to still give gifts. I told her this was a "Holiday" shop, not just a "Christmas" shop, and that whatever she was celebrating was totally good and valid.

Spent time after work volunteering at Little Ocho's school helping K-2nd grade kids wrap presents for their family from the Holiday Shop. Then, because I was there and waiting for his day to end, helped some lady find her lost dog. Maxed out my good deeds for today. Time for only bad deeds.

I'm sad to announce that I will not be doing any more DOSember streams, and so my 24 hour Extra Life fundraiser will be my final stream. Please drop by to say goodbye! So long and thanks for all the bits!

The Lord of the Rings

Pizza Hut CEO: Did you design the new wings container? Designer: Sure thing boss, inspired by the slave pits of Giedi Prime just like you asked.

www.twitch.tv/pumpkincomplex mogtome time! www.youtube.com/@pumpkincomp... trying YT again!

Probably on my way to being kicked out of yet another FB group. I won't lie, FB is where I'm the spiciest, but seeing so many people circle-jerk over their latest AI slop gets me. Just baffles me how they can claim to be fans of art and then abjectly disrespect the artistic process. Ingrates.

What are your favorite Christmas songs (if you're into that sort of thing)? Christmas Eve Sarajevo -TSO Sleigh Ride -Boston Pops Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas -Judy Garland, Meet Me In St Louis Anything Rat Pack And my most non-traditional fav: Christmas Lullaby -Songs for a New World ⬇️

My luck strikes again. Last night we went out to eat at Chilis and had a pretty awful experience. Busy season, it happens. Not every time is going to be a winner. So tonight, after the 7 y/o birthday party, we just got McD's, and they messed up, too. But they literally handed us 2x our order. So 🤷

There's a Carvel I've Cream freezer at our grocery store with a bunch of ice cream cakes and I keep looking to see if they have a Fudgie the Whale. Not yet. Maybe next week.

@petitwallaby.bsky.social !!!! news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

And if you can’t get enough dumb made up honors that no one could ever possibly respect then be sure to tune in to The Game Award next week!

Surprising nobody, Shaq-A-Liciois gummies are terrible. Flavors taste off, and the gummi mixture they use is both too hard and sticks to your teeth too much.

Feel like I'm losing my mind. The headache isn't helping things.

Twitch streaming End-of-Year recap thing! Hey, for only restarting mid-year and generally being awful at advertising myself, I don't think I did that bad. #twitch #dune #lotro #gw2 #nms #ultima

Pantone folks taking that "no more DEI" directive seriously

When I'm waiting for something to start or complete, I've started using the timer on my phone, which puts a widget over top anything else on the screen. Seeing exactly how much time is left while I'm doing phone stuff has oddly helped alleviate some anxiety.

Checked earlier tonight. 2 years ago I bought RAM to build a new PC to replace my aging one. Bought 2x16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR5 5600 for $185.98. Just looked and today that same exact RAM 2-pack is $1069.99. There are more affordable options from other sellers, most ~2x what I paid, but holy shit.

Just finished, but it's too late to start a stream. Ahhh well. Tomorrow night. Good DOS gaming. Probably old Sierra. There's a lot of good Sierra games I never finished. Think I'm up to Kings Quest 3? Let's plan on that. #DOSember www.twitch.tv/bigmikeyocho

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Thankful that I can just throw in my earbuds, put on a few podcasts, and grind away.

First Day of #DOSember and I want to join in and stream some good DOS gaming tonight. But I have to put away all the fall (and summer) stuff into the attic, pull out all the Cheistmasses to be put up this week, and winter-proof our homes exterior. We'll see if I can get it all done.

If you post AI slop on purpose I won't bother to tell you, I'll just block and unfollow and you'll never see me again.

I mean... (these are just the ones I have yet to get around to opening)

Trying to eat something that's not pie today, but it's not easy. I have a pecan, pumpkin, apple, and Oreo peanut-butter pie to contend with.

My always-been-food-picky sister-in-law, at Thanksgiving, offered me a Lays Caramel flavored chip and told me "you don't know this, but I'm really into trying weird potato chip flavors". Wild, as that's been my thing for years. I showed her pics of the hundreds of bags I've tasted over the years. 😅

We're not Jewish, but Little Ocho wants to celebrate Hanukkah this year as well as Christmas. So we're going to attempt it as respectfully as we can. For real, though, getting excited thinking about the latkes.

The lesson here is beware those who put more reverence into the symbol of the thing than the actual thing itself.

Woah! I found my lost wedding ring in the bottom of my sock drawer! I never told my wife that I had lost it, but the truth is she lost hers years ago and we just didn't mind much? They're just symbols. And you don't need the symbol if you're already reminded of the meaning regularly.

Great thread happening over on Threads. The boyfriend of a girl named Megan (Meghan?) was overheard in Denver Airport dissing his girlfriend. The comments are epic.

Hey! Just wanted to say I'm thankful for all of my mutuals on here. Thank you for all your insights, your hopes, your fears, your aspirations, your jokes, your worries, your successes, your failures, your projects, your loves, your hates, your empathy, all your thoughts. Thank you for being you. 🤗

When you see this, skeet a pic from your gallery to describe your mental health.

Perfection. Pretty sure @themizzinator.bsky.social will be sorry he didn't do this first. 🤣

Another call for holiday cards! I've got way too many, and spent too much on cute holiday stamps, so please give me something to do with them. forms.gle/Cb5JtP6hLJTW...

This is just how we sing it now.

American public opinion is largely generated by foreigners who make money by lying to Americans over unregulated social media. Out of respect to those entrepreneurial foreigners, we will continue to treat their commodified fictions as one side of a reasoned American debate. -The Editorial Board

maybe i am going insane

Probably one of my most controversial takes: Stuffing. Never had a stuffing I've enjoyed.

Reminder starting Saturday I am celebrating affiliateversary and starting Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen! Friday I will get back into .hack because I've been putting it off and that's a travesty. Also why Dragon's Dogma? Because I can and I never finished it.

Do no harm. But take no shit.