things used to be better

stop using ai, and start blocking people who do

i engaged and made it so

with hurricanes, Texans start to worry when Jim Cantore shows up with winter storms, it's whenever Ted Cruz leaves

tech is a cult

not to brag or anything, but i've been an official member of the New Power Generation ever since i was first inducted at the end of Gold in 1995

while i’m not expecting Sheev to stop by for my birthday or anything, i baked a few extra cookies, just in case i’m told he loves imperial gingerbread

welp, i somehow made it to 51 while the world’s on fire, history is being rewritten as it’s being repeated, it seems like everyone has lost their damn minds, and nothing makes a lick of sense but hey, my pixel screen wished me a happy birthday this morning, so that was nice

i feel like we could simply retire "said the quiet part out loud" now that they're pretty much all loud, all the time just call these people what they are stop couching it in cute little phrases

don't forget to leave cookies and video games out tonight for my Birthday Eve

share a core memory of peak gaming using a single image with no explanation

at&t out here crushing it with their outage map

did a few miles this morning and checked my progress so i wouldn’t waste any overage on a completed challenge, and found i can apply the same day’s miles to multiple challenges, but that feels like cheating the thought of disappointing Captain Picard with fraudulent space miles is too much to bear

Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers

got my first conqueror challenge medal in today for The Dark Side, and i finish my second challenge tomorrow for The Jedi Order, then imma jump galaxies to do a quick Star Trek challenge for obvious TNG nerd-related reasons, then it's back to the galaxy far, far away is it silly? sure BUT I LIKE IT

Not my house, but I know my way around.

What About Microslop?

i may have to pause my star wars challenges to grab this medal because nothing warms my cold nerd heart quite like the 1701-D and LCARS and TNG communicator badges it's a sacred sci-fi trinity

Monday.

i was just trying to play baldur's gate, but the internet ruins everything

I'm so glad I didn't chose Unreal for Marble Game. Or I'd change the engine a second time now.

clean place, reasonably priced. i had a lovely stay

someday, i’ll finish an article explaining how the application of game theory was/is the *single* most destructive (and fundamentally flawed) force ever unleashed upon mankind, but it’s a lotta work short version: it broke our brains (ai will be a worse force, but not for the reasons people think)

i should write a story about a strange dial-up modem that only connects to the past internet - where it's still 2026, but smartphones were never invented, social media doesn't exist, and broadband is limited to government and universities also, every old multiplayer game is still alive and active

omg my wife made gingerbread ice cream for me then mixed in pieces of gingerbread cookie dough and while i can’t be 100% certain, i’m pretty sure this is how i die

i dunno why everyone's saying conformitygate wasn't real when all you need to do to unlock the true finale is grab yoshi from the top of peach's castle then ride down to san andreas and find a bigfoot to take you to diablo's cow level where you defeat herobrine for a qr code that unlocks the episode

this is difficult to admit publicly, but over the holidays, i had multiple brief, but passionate affairs with a seemingly endless series of men of the gingerbread persuasion and i refuse to stop i plan on having more gentlebread callers tonight, and i won't apologize for it eat cookies live true

walked in on Giles waiting for his dinner at the kitchen table like a people

Sure, Anakin just fell to The Dark Side and all, but my medal is on the way so everything balances out. You know, like in the prophecy.

i may not be putting 2025 on all the checks i don’t write because it’s not the 1900s anymore, but i’m apparently not immune to constantly typing it the whole damn day in related news, Happy International Back To School And/Or Work Day, y’all

no offense, but the dystopian techbro hellscape we're living in is exactly the kind of world you get after spending decades exclusively prioritizing STEM over the humanities across every level of education turns out, humans are not, in fact, squishy robots* *Squishy Robots, though...good band name

new year, new shirt, same nerd

documenting this moment so i’ll know Where It All Went Wrong after It All Goes Wrong so what had happened was, i got my wife a ninja creami swirl thing for christmas because i try to be a good husband every now and then, but now she’s making irresistible dipping pints for my cookies I AM IN DANGER

release the Hale cut, you cowards

made a new friend who likes wearing my glasses whenever i’m not imma call him Murray (and yes, i know they’re dirty shut up)

How I'm entering the new year

hoping everyone can find and appreciate the small joys of life in the coming year we're gonna need them

welp, we started Stranger Things the year we moved to Louisiana, and we finished it the year we moved back to Texas

Picture of the staff who operate my account.

i did some things in 2025 that i'm really proud of, but i'm not telling cuz it ain't ya business still, i wanted to mark the end of the year with something positive because fasten your seatbelts and return your tray tables to their upright positions: 2026 is gonna get turbulent af set loins_gird=1

still waiting for '90s FMV to become a whole indie game aesthetic

my wife surprised me with a Star Wars Conqueror Challenge as a between-christmas-and-my-birthday present this morning - which i will now refer to as Krismas Gifts - and i'm already addicted to it my journey toward The Dark Side should be complete within the week, then it's on to The Death Star 🤓

i hope people realize that countries will empty their treasuries in bailouts, backstops, and subsidies before letting the ai bubble burst, and it's not just because the biggest scam in financial history is already so overvalued that its collapse would likely crash the entire global economy

Current century progress, but in birthdays ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░░░░░ 50%

Journalist's Guide To Improving Climate Change Coverage 1) Launch Notepad++ 2) Open all of your climate articles 3) Hit Control-F 4) Find what: if global temperatures continue to rise 5) Replace with: as global temperatures continue to rise 6) Click Replace All in All Opened Documents 7) Save All

imma need people to understand that nations today are simply different flavors of the same cyberpunk dystopia, so let's chill with the nationalism it's all the same authoritarian, corporate tech bullshit underneath some countries just have cleaner streets than others and also sometimes healthcare

i wish there was a game like Second Life that wasn't anything at all like Second Life but was still a fun second life, sort of thing i promise that makes sense