Not quite as retro as a manual typewriter, but I got a Fiio Echo Mini audio player, which has a cassette theme and also there's a 3D printable case shaped like a cassette case.

This is making me appreciate the spread at the Friendsgiving potluck I went to, with food that involved seasoning, effort, and moisture.

I randomly came across the Black Sabbath song "The Wizard," which really feels like a midpoint between Black Sabbath and Tenacious D. www.youtube.com/watch?v=69rU... Evil power disappears Demons worry when the wizard is near He turns tears into joy Everyone's happy when the wizard walks by

Tired: Die Hard is a Christmas movie Wired: Eyes Wide Shut is a Christmas movie

I belatedly got into Dragon Ball Z Abridged, and while the humor is sometimes tasteless, overall it's just an amazing parody. They managed to exaggerate how dumb Goku is, which is a feat. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

So basically, calling a place California is like a 16th Century version of calling a place like Westeros or Tatooine.

I started reading Rachel Wagner's Cowboy Apocalypse, which is nothing to do with DeadLands, and is in fact a nonfiction book that explores the intersection of apocalypticism and America's cowboy mythos. It's fascinating and disturbing.

Realized that YouTube got more aggressive about muting copyrighted music, and it isn't that my Apple TV is malfunctioning. Would've been nice if YouTube could bother to say literally anything so I'd have some way to know, but "informing the user of what's happening" isn't as much a thing these days.

My current wishlist for Xeroverse stories written by someone else: • A story about a superheroine that explores gender • A story that explores race in superhero stories • A story framed as a fanfic that explores fanfic

I'm going to have to find a Jewish sensitivity reader for M-Force: Messiah, because in critiquing how superhero blockbusters are cowardly about political themes, I wrote Momentus (my Magneto expy) being really blatant about his experiences with the Holocaust and after.

So Samsung means "Three Stars," whereas the main North Korean smartphone brand is Samtaesung, or "Three BIG Stars." www.youtube.com/watch?v=3olq...

Among the things I like about Hades II: • Nic Cage Narcissus • Siren Rock Band • Cat who fishes for you • Hypno-Toad

yukari's vtubing room #azumangadaioh

There are times when a lone dissenter stands for what's right against the majority. This is not one of those times.

Once again, Killfile in Xeroverse is first and foremost an expression of the idea that dealing with Deadpool in person would just be the worst.

Hold up

I got to see the new Deathstalker movie and it was great. It's a funny low-budget fantasy thing, full of over the top practical effects. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAdo...

I finished reading the complete works of Fletcher Hanks, and I made a list of my favorite lines. I realized that his work is the first time I've come across a "so bad it's good" thing in comics, like a graphic novel by Ed Wood or Tommy Wiseau.

I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha

One theme in conspiracy theories is that they invent malevolent competence to explain how the world works, because the amount of chaos and stupidity behind how things really work is just depressing.

Well if you put it like that, yeah. Grucko.

Patrick H. Willems did a two-part video on legacy sequels (think Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Top Gun: Maverick, etc.), and trying to think of how to work some of that weirdness into the Xeroverse. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvXZ...

I like how there's a playable Jiangshi character in Vampire Survivors, and if you unlock him with a code, the code is "hophophophophophophophophophophophophop".

The Steam Deck looks neat but I pretty much only do couch gaming, so I was already hoping for something like the Steam Machine they just announced. Hopefully I can actually afford it, but they haven't announced pricing yet. www.pcgamer.com/hardware/val...

going on twitter now is like the dark world part of link to the past, where the shape of things is roughly the same only now instead of the friendly villagers there's some demihuman freak snarling at you going "welcome to the village of assholes!! we hate you!!" also the trees shoot bombs now

I really want someone to create a recipe for the "royal sauce" from Kamen Rider Zeztz.

Taking a break from Hades to play the new Balatro-themed DLC for Vampire Survivors, even though by the end of each run my poor Nintendo Switch gets into "seconds per frame" territory.

One of the finalists in a Chilean beauty contest used the talent portion to show off her death metal band. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwbZ...

I've done a ridiculous amount of research for my Xeroverse Tetralogy, and I think by trying to do a deconstruction of contemporary superhero blockbusters, I'm doing something that hasn't quite been done before. There's been all sorts of deconstructions, but nothing quite like this.

Getting back into writing M-Force: Messiah, which comments on the treatment of politics in superhero blockbusters and also has room for dumb nonsense like this.

I realized that there's a certain parallel between Fletcher Hanks' comics and Chick Tracts. Both are formulaic, and often involve an evildoer/sinner facing sadistic divine vengeance.

Holy shit I think I finished the first draft of Xero 2004. Writing a fake novelization interspersed with the fictional writer writing about the surreal mental breakdown he had while writing it kinda took over for a while. Safe to say it's going to be the most Lynchian part of the series.

At this point a lot of conspiracy theories serve the purpose of shifting the blame for the world's problems away from things conspiracy theorists value. Alex Jones essentially believes that conservatives are utterly blameless, and thus invents false flags and so on to maintain their halo.

Since the Xeroverse is going to have "Beelzebub" as a primal force of late-stage capitalist greed, I got a figure of the Helluva Boss version of Beelzebub, even though the butterfly fox demon party girl is rather different from the Beelzebub that'll be in my novels.

I got to see an advance screening of Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein at a local Alamo Drafthouse, and it's just a phenomenal movie that captures the essence of the story by way of unique and original visuals. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WZl...

Reddit atheists are less bad than Twitter Christians.

Glad I’m not the only one who has whatever condition it is where you think of this joke.

There are people severely overestimating how much power the NYC mayor has, like after his inauguration Mamdani is going to have Hamas sweep through the city to enforce Marxism rather than, like, arguing with people about bus fares.

Since I'm planning to include Stardust the Super Wizard in the final Xeroverse book, I got the collection of the complete works of Fletcher Hanks, appropriately titled Turn Loose Our Death Rays and Kill Them All. There's nothing quite like it, though Dick Tracy is probably the closest.

Now available on WeirdLittleKeebs.com, I built a Corne split keyboard with a tented case and even keycaps made from Cookiecad's very pretty Witches Blue PLA filament. www.etsy.com/listing/4399... #mechanialkeyboard #crkbd

Sorry, but my hands were tied!

I finished a custom Sofle keyboard for an Etsy customer. This one has orange Asimov keycaps from Keyreative. #mechanicalkeyboard #sofle weirdlittlekeebs.com

There are certain things I wish would become part of the discourse. Right now that's the phrase "Sounds like you messed up!" in response to someone trying to shift blame. Like Elon talking about advertisers leaving Twitter, or Trump predicting disaster if his illegal tariffs get removed.

LMFAOOOO alright now 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

My friend group never did much on Halloween, so tonight I'm watching The Shining and having Little Caesar's. I will probably regret the latter lol.

Name a movie you've seen more than 7 times with just a gif

"Remember when The Onion was funny?" --The least original guy in the universe "I do in fact remember October 31st at 2pm." --Me

Bugonia was really good, but way darker and generally more fucked up than the trailer had led me to believe.

If I have a theater to myself (like at this showing of Bugonia) I should be able to have them skip the pre-show nonsense.