Define “successful” 🤔

The Muppet Christmas Carol is peak. Annual viewing in our home 🎉

Pizza is making a comeback on Bluesky and I’m here for it 🎉

I’ll never forget that time Thor adopted a new secret identity that was just him wearing glasses and he immediately bumped into the guy who started that whole thing.

There’s a lot I find completely ironic about the whole “Bluesky is dying” narrative. Set aside the idea of dead internet, where the discourse elsewhere is basically curated influencers and bots… I’m talking about how this place was arguably better when it was smaller. Just people chatting.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is brilliant, a western even for people who normally don’t like westerns. It’s a buddy movie first, and the performances from Redford and Newman at its heart are what makes it so memorable. And the music was good too 🙏

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There’s a huge optimism to the first six games in the Trails series. They’re coming-of-age stories, about connecting with people, and finding your way. There’s a lot of other stuff going on (Mystery! Intrigue! Worldbuilding) but the human element is the heart of this series 💝💝💝

A nice thing about fall is that it’s easier to catch a sunrise. As I’ve gotten older, I no longer have the time and energy for everything; it requires focusing on what is most important 🙏

Trails of Cold Steel is fantastic through three chapters 🎉 If it keeps up like this, it might be a while before I check out Trails in the Sky remake 😅

This panel from Classic XMen is bonkers

Me: oh look. It’s a hush puppy Stella: they’re not real Me: yes they are. Stella: no they all died in the 1700s 💀

Bluefacts.app + equally rated game. I’ll take it 🎉

As the father of the world’s biggest Pikmen fan, can’t wait to show my son that photo 💕

It’s really between two scenes: “I wish it need not have happened in my time…” from Fellowship of the Ring or “It’s like in the great stories, Mr Frodo. The ones that really mattered…” from the Two Towers. Both of those movies ended with really strong scenes 🎉

Cornucopia has best coffee in Malden. Pumpkin is back and it’s 🔥

Love how this variant cover for She Hulk Deconstructed has the first comic she appeared in as a puzzle. And how both versions of Jennifer Walters are wearing the same clothes 💝 This series was good. Definitely a bit heavier than the other runs I’ve read.

All this Wolverine talk yesterday got me to revisit when he joined the X-men (Classic X-men #1) 💝🙏

Oh hai classic Trails sheep mouse monsters, showing up during the sheep wrangling mission 👋 #TrailsofColdSteel

Makin the bacon 🥓

I can almost hear Max Von Sydow saying the words 💝🙏 #Skyrim

This variant cover for She Hulk Deconstructed is 🔥

Meta humor is a staple of She Hulk

Fun fact: the Tuttle edition for Romance of the Three Kingdoms was the only translation I could get my hands on for decades, so I’ll probably check this out 💝

I wrote this about Trails in the Sky before playing the Crossbell duology. But it perfectly describes what made the whole Crossbell arc so great 🎉 #TrailstoAzure #TrailstoZero #TrailsintheSky

I’d love to know the story behind how Marvel came up with the idea for She Hulk as we know it and made it into consistently one of their best comics over the past 25 years. It’s not always being published but it’s always good.

I’ve only seen a little bit of this movie, but the whole thing of a kid fascinated with space stuff really landed for me. The golden record, the audio of Carl Sagan- it brings me back. Fun telling my kids the parts of this movie that were real 🙌

I’m far enough into Trails of Cold Steel to say that it’s the pretty fun and interesting so far. I like how it builds on the first five games, and the new Persona-like features (the calendar and social-linkish ways to spend your time) It feels like a mix of Trails, Persona and FF Type 0 💝🎉🙏

True story 💝 #TrailsofColdSteel #TrailsfromZero #TrailstoAzure

This but with cows was Vermont when I was growing up 💝

“We live in a magical world of cynical obsessed know it alls” Peak Jen Walters, from She Hulk Deconstructed

My son requested this as a birthday present 💝

Counterpoint: a more interesting debate is whether Silver Surfer could clear Batman With Prep Time

I just started my fourth Joe Leaphorn mystery. They’re really good. There’s about 30 of them, and I’ve never worried about having to read them all, if I liked the first one. Yes, I do think of this when people tell that’s why they won’t play any of the Trails games 🙏

Ramen in the news 😔 www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

Mary Marvel was in the Shazam movies? This changes things for me 💝 ew.com/movies/mary-...

Played the battle of Fan Castle last night in DW9, and it was pretty good. At its best this game reminds me of how Wellington seemed to be at the heat of the action everywhere at Waterloo. That’s kind of how you do it right in Dynasty Warriors 9 🙏

Guan Yu’s last stand 😔 #DW9 #ThreeKingdoms

Lu Meng wasn’t ready for the takedown. Guan Yingping smash 🎉 #DynastyWarriors9

Reading She Hulk Deconstructed and I mostly like it. It’s very rooted in the aftermath of some Massive Crossover Event (and I’ve been out on those for decades). But l like how it all Jennifer Walters, and how she’s recovering from trauma 💝

The only royal wedding that moves the needle for me 💝 #DynastyWarriors #ThreeKingdoms #SunBei

All hail the Queen 👑 #SunShangXiang #DynastyWarriors9

She was great as She Hulk and Jennifer Walters 🙏

Trails of Cold Steel getting serious 😔

I’m okay with discussions about what did or did not happen in media. But when people start going on about canon my eyes glaze over. As Alan Moore said “this is an imaginary story. But then again, aren’t they all?”

Had the pineapple fried rice feast today ☺️

Hot take: the Pats aren’t very good

It’s peak 🙏 #RedCliff #DynastyWarriors9

Is Dynasty Warriors 9 good? Yeah, it is, if Musou games and Three Kingdoms are your thing. The open world is kind of unique and not always intuitive but overall well utilized. You can run straight to the boss, but it’s better to explore the battlefield and lead your allies out of jams 1st 🎉