BBC's coverage of Eurovision has sign language interpreters and watching them emote the songs is amusing alongside Graham Norton's snarky comments.

I tell ya, I get no respect! I’m in my easy chair reading a book about the fae, so I ask my wife, hey sweetheart, which court would you want us to be in? Seelie or Unseelie? She says honey, the only court I wanna be in with you is divorce court!!

GET IN THE ROBOT, ALPHINAUD

Chiitan belongs in Promise Mascot Agency and I'm not kidding

Whenever I hear or see a game dev discuss Steamworks I have to briefly pause and let my brain figure out which they mean. Especially when they discuss digging around in its backend.

I Saw the TV Glow was amazing and really looking forward to this.

Die Bitteren Tränen Der Petra Von Kant at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social for Sapphopalooza! Also finally got pictures of the engravings with my and @dapneym.bsky.social's name on 'em. Seemed appropriate for this event.

Keep having a moment of realizing I moved to Chicago 20 years ago (with a two year stint away), and am always glad I made the decision to move here. Definitely the longest I've lived anywhere (as a former military brat).

Resuming playing Alan Wake 2 (gods, playing anything via Epic is a pain), and every time Thresholds come up I start singing the Threshold Kids theme song.

Managed to get to the third biome in Saros so far. Going back to the first two biomes with new traversal skills is fun. Also good at making me feel more powerful. Liking the progression system that wasn't really present in Returnal.

Joining a cross-splat World of Darkness campaign soon and going to try something other than a vampire for once. Setting is in Chicago after Haymarket, so have come up with three different mage concepts and excitedly researching various things about the period.

Folks I had another dream after falling back asleep and it involved @aeazel.bsky.social explaining the queer praxis of sandwiches to two twinks.

Brie and her army of Lambchops.

Saros is a good example of why programmable back paddles should be mandated by the EU on every controller.

Enjoying Saros. Not sure if it's experience with Returnal or if the first biome is just easier, but managed to get past the first boss relatively easily and handily.

Trying to decide how I feel about this Diablo 4 expansion, but still early in its levels and story. I do wish this game had a feature like FFXIV where I could turn down some visual effects, because at some points it's just a godsdamn mess to read.

Having tanked these, I don't think Anaheim deserves that level of carnage.

Happy 80th Birthday to Tim Curry, a guy who treats every single part like it was the role he was born to play.

Waiting in line for Record Store Day and finished reading the 12th book of the Vampire Chronicles. Alien birds are responsible for vampires. The last few books have all read like bad fever dreams.

I'm about due for a rewatch of Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant.

Windy, the dog who tolerates us playing D&D, looked on in hopes of food.

Seeing HEALTH tonight and did a double take when the Balatro main theme started playing in the pre-show mix.

New glam time! Also finally finished the latest step of the relic weapon (didn't feel like rushing it, since I had the extreme weapon anyway).

First time rereading Morrison's X-Men in a while. Figured I can follow along with @xplainthexmen.bsky.social, and forgot how much I enjoy this run.

The Downward Spiral remains an excellent substitute for just screaming and not stopping.

I reached the end of the story of Pokopia, and while I'm enjoying tinkering at it, my executive function in the evenings is shot right now. You get four walls and a door as I get you into at least barebones housing. We'll fix it up along the way.

You can stream the MTV Oddities version of The Maxx on The Internet Archive for free. archive.org/details/The_...

So sad to hear about the passing of Sam Kieth, most known to me as the creator of The Maxx. I looooooove The Maxx. I own the comics and the MTV Oddities show on tape, DVD and streaming. Thank you, Sam. "Sam Kieth, Creator of The Maxx and Sandman, Has Died, Aged 63" bleedingcool.com/comics/sam-k...

Ditto as Ophelia. Day 3 of drawing Ditto until I give in and nab Pokopia...

A lot of great artists at the Big 2, especially at DC right now, but only ONE Javier Rodriguez.

Watch. This. Film.

There's something to be said for the IL Treasurer contacting me about a previous employer (from 2008) underpaying me and they have the money for me, now that I'm not starving and trying to make ends meet.

You asked for it! The long-awaited sequel to You Are Jeff Bezos is finally here: YOU ARE ELON MUSK 200+ passages. 7 endings. Secrets. In-jokes. Giant robots. All with the purpose of doing one thing: SPENDING ALL OF ELON MUSK'S FUCKING MONEY direkris.itch.io/elon

FEMALE MISBEHAVIOR: THE FILMS OF MONIKA TREUT All March long at the Music Box - Presented in partnership with Goethe Institut Chicago Full Schedule & Advance Tickets: musicboxtheatre.com/series-and-f...

I keep making slow but steady progress in Metroid Prime 4 and I just don't know that this is one I'd recommend. Prime the first is probably still the best? I found 2 had weird difficulty spikes. 3 I don't remember at all beyond Wiimote and Prime were great together.

Everyone give @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social a round of applause for their journalism

Rosemary thyme and parmesan scones are probably my most used baking recipe at this point. My sense of smell (and taste) thank me.

all the negative reviews of the star trek voyager game are like "i dont get it, its really slow and boring! it stinks!" and all the positive reviews are like "its exactly like star trek voyager, its really slow and boring. it rocks!!"

Finally finished Midnight Suns DLC's story, and Deadpool continued having me laugh. Deadpool can be hit or miss for me, but he's the pan-disaster he should be here.

Pączki this year was from the bakery close to me. Blueberry (pictured), raspberry, and cream. Nice to have a few different options.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Ask and you shall receive

eXistenZ is a movie that anyone working in games should watch. Prescient in a lot of ways, it's also a story about a woman game designer who is getting chased by men who don't like how she designs games. (Yes, really.)

Nearing the end of Iain M Banks's Hydrogen Sonata and one of the things I love about the Culture series is when we get group chats and then people talking on the side shit-talking others in said group chat.

Making my way through Metroid Prime 4 is mostly me grumbling at its hand holding and weird decisions. I didn't even want to hear it the first time, MacKenzie.

While this absolutely sucks, we are going to see a lot more places implementing universal global age verification over this next year, because the number of states and countries legally requiring it has gotten to the point no one can keep up anymore.

sorry i missed the virtual meeting on discord, liz. i got hit with the id verification that happens when the app detects youre young

Restarting Control to finally tackle the DLC. Rather than deal with the headache that was incosistent difficulty in the game, just turned on immortality (and the Tommasi fight reminded me why this was a good idea). Also want to get to Alan Wake 2 before the Control sequel releases.

FDT blasted through my neighborhood the day it was announced he lost an election. I'll stick with that classic.