It's amazing how many of the sound effects from Mechwarrior 2 remain burned into my brain despite not having played the game since the late 90s.

Having to properly nail down a characters outfit after years of it existing in my head. The usual problem I run into where I can perfectly visualize it, but putting it on the page looks wrong. So this will take a while. Time to stare at a ton of reference material to help.

This is going to be a long holiday week from the work side of things.

Wanted to try to get back to No Man’s Sky and it turns out it makes me motion sick now. No settings tweaking has helped so far so that might be that.

"Hm. I've had a slowly growing headache all day. I'm also very tired. I wonder if...oh, yeah, apparently that's a fever. Nevertheless."

Feel like I've finally hit a point where I'm just always tired to one degree or another.

#3157 A helpful tutorial

Was thinking about taking a crack at drawing Mara Jade in the nearish future for my own amusement and to surprise a friend…but now @zoewithasword.bsky.social’s going to think it’s because of her if I end up doing it.

Depending on the price, the Steam Machine hitting as MS pretty much tanks their console business could get really interesting.

"no, mecha is not AWESOME. There's a difference between that, & extremely expensive CRAP. Zeon doesn't even make money, it's all savings from the Gryps War. You would never understand." "So you live alone & spend all your money on mecha & sunglasses?" "oh, so you do understand"

Help mom I’m being bullied by 87 year old novella writer Joyce Carol Oates again can you pick me up

More and more, Marcie is responding to me saying his name. Not just looking at me, but turning and vocally responding. I am going to teach this cat to have conversations with me and it apparently will not be very difficult.

The world would be a better place if this had been made reality.

The one negative of replaying BG3 is each time I get annoyed by how dirty it does Viconia. I know it's largely the fault of WotC creating a defined narrative from BG1 and 2 and making some awful choices, but BG3 really makes it unavoidable.

sorry guys i accidentally deleted the spreadsheet with the first drafts of homophobic potato chip brands and it turns out it was somehow load bearing to the entire driving system and the only guy who knows how to fix it got fired in the union busting so

15 years of Caroline and I being married today. There's a thousand positive things to say, but I can't help but think more and more about the people that gave us shit for getting engaged and married "too young" as if we were wrong.

Stared at a model kit of Trunks's time machine in Little Tokyo today for far too long. If the box hadn't been so big, I might have caved.

An eerily accurate portrait of West Hollywood these days

need to know much more about the full title of the simpsons theme currently for sale in fortnite

Purposefully stayed up to watch the clock go from 1:59 to 1:00 because………..because

Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!

Ended the workday with an ocular migraine and apparently my head warm enough that it was like an overheating CPU. So, you know, my week is fairly calm!

I legitimately didn't know they were competing with Steam and it's crazy to me that they burnt so much money on what sounds like something with very little (or wildly misguided) market research.

Consistently, no matter where we’ve lived since moving to LA, I know how the Dodgers win due to late night yelling by random people somewhere in the vicinity.

HARLEY AND IVY: LIFE AND CRIMES IS OUT NEXT WEEK! AHHHH

Don't mind me, just spending a Friday night thinking about the idea that the Valar were wrong to bring the Elves to Valinor and that was the source of many of Middle-earth's problems. Or at least for the Elves.

The TVTropes method of reducing every story down to a series of reusable modular tropes was actually a necessary precursor to and handmaiden of the concept that stories can be built by LLMs

A) Rest in piss, the way this website tried to factor down narrative like math caused incalculable damage to media literacy for a generation B) Enshittification is my favorite TV Trope

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

You're writing this down right? Good. As I was saying my car sucked so bad my wife left me. Yes I can spell my name for you.

LMAOOO WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE NEW XBOX HANDHELD COMES WITH MICROSOFT TEAMS AND ONEDRIVE INSTALLED??? this is the fucking goofiest company in games

In this constant weird place where I know I’m uniquely extremely good at what I do, yet still constantly surprised when others tell me as much. Probably helps keep the ego in check a bit, but I should be better with compliments/support at this point, I’d have thought.

Drew Struzan's Indiana Jones book covers. Need to work harder on tracking these down.

Currently at the stage of drawing these pages where I’m repeating “stop worrying about ‘on model’, just get it close enough” constantly to myself

I really do miss the sound of rain as a constant, so a night like this is wonderful

That was a wild week.

I like Things, but at some point it'd be nice to not have everything have to be a Fortnite.

This is one of those weeks that's already exhausting and going to continue to be but technically because of good things...still, it's only Tuesday.

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

There's a host of reasons it's dumb, but I'm REALLY hung up on articles framing the AI "actress" as "their favorite" when it hasn't even BEEN IN ANYTHING. You like a fake picture of a fake woman. These people's brains are broken in so many ways.

This is how Marcie sits with me while I work now. There’s also a lot of groaning to get my attention.

Just sitting here at night being angry about TRON stuff.

Kind of wild going back to Baldur's Gate 3 after playing so many Bethesda style games, finishing with Starfield. BG3 just LOOKS so much better than even a contemporary like that.

Very glad to be back to the Dark Urge run with Minthara around.

The greatest exchange in comics interview history still belongs to Jack Kirby

Finally worked up the energy to fix and update all my Baldur's Gate 3 mods after not having touched the game for...two huge patches and around a year. So back to the Dark Urge playthrough at the start of Act 3 where only 4 of the companions are still alive with me.

They should invent a computer powerful enough to load all the ads on a fandom dot com wiki page.