It’s “vinyl night” and the music just went from Neu! to Hootie and I have never experienced anything like this but I had better close this tab.

“He jumped fifty times. ‘I am getting hungrier,’ said the Dark Frog. He jumped ninety times. ‘I am very hungry now!’ said the Dark Frog.”

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4) Catch the man

me at the slightest indication of outdoor temperatures below a thousand degrees

trying to obtain a super power by eating my weight in giardiniera in a single sitting

Blood-drinking sociopathic aristocrats with alienating preferences and prohibitions who serve as a thinly veiled metaphor.

Bipartisanship!

In the medium of games, specifically, I would say that this sort of rigid adherence to “the lore” does more damage than good. Games thrive on authenticity, not dogma. Secondarily, it creates an inflexible “true state” that curtails players’ ability to act in the opportunity space the game proposes.

Innovation!

If your Humanity falls past a certain threshold, you have to buy Twitter or own Amazon.

I remember seeing a “meet the congressperson” segment on the internet once and my takeaway was that Nancy Pelosi had more ice cream in her freezer than I had food in my fridge.

Just astounding, all the effort devoted toward an extension of the shitty ACA and therefore the ongoing for-profit insurance industry instead of a functioning national health care program. Americans are propagandized hostages fighting to increase the profit of their abusers.

Haunted by your soul, by your hair, by your clothes, by your eyes, by your voice, by your smile, by your mouth, by your soul, by your hair, by your clothes, by your eyes, by your voice, by your smile, by your mouth, by your soul, haunted

The first true cold snap of the season and I'm taking advantage of the opportunity to do a pressure-cooker beef stew. Magnificent comfort food and super-easy with an InstantPot. Throw a bunch of awesome stuff in a bucket, push "Yeah, Man," and just let it roll.

Innovation! Wait, no, just fraud.

These people have shown you time and again whose side they’re on and it’s never, ever yours.

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It's 20 years since @seanphillips.bsky.social and I exchanged a sketchbook back and forth in the mail, a drawn &painted call and response. INTERSECTIONS may be out of print but here is a flip through that sketchbook. You can still find the book out there :)

Landslide win for a guy who guy who campaigned on "let's make things better, not worse," while earlier in the week the establishment arm of that party wallowed in apologetics for the death of a profiteering war criminal.

One time we were told "Graybox is fine for this stage gate" and then got a NO GO because the lack of finished assets in the build made it impossible to forecast if art would be content-complete by ship. (The supporting documentation included the art road map indicating that it would be complete.)

This reminds me of the time a friend and I used that Wu-Tang name greater and my friend got HOMICIDAL TERRAHAWK and I got "Dizzy Cow."

It's also pretty straightforward capitalist metaphor. From the first-edition setting of the hollowed-out American Rust Belt to the fifth edition's omnipresent authoritarian Second Inquisition, the vampire is something that takes but does not create and the player character coming to terms with that.

Okay, so what if we did the mortgage-backed securities collapse again but this time the specious collateral was a business forecast of imaginary robots that plagiarize things instead of, like, houses.

Just found out that the Gargoyle Club where Evelyn Waugh and Anthony Powell (not the dudes in the photo) were members was the same Gargoyle that hosted the Batcave in the 1980s.

Bought light bulbs! Already had light bulbs.

might become a vourdalak and attempt to return to the courts of france

Sorry, everyone, it’s my fault. I like when it’s dark at 5:00.

“Insurance” is the profiteering layer between patient and health care.

Hey, Louvre thieves, there’s an ever-increasing amount of trash-ass gold accumulating in the White House

Pretty sure one person is “coconut shrimp” but the costume is kind of ambiguous

A friend was all dingo-bombs at pool night the other night and texted me because an old Ministry song was confusing him.

Seriously, though, happy Halloween, my friends.

Might use eyeliner to draw some stitches on my brow and go as a Frankastine.

Doesn’t have to be restricted to games. Can’t tell you how many parties I’ve ripcorded from, reasoning “Tomorrow is a new day” or “What if I died here and someone had to tell my mother about it.”

I think all of autumn should be a damn holiday. It's too hot and awful to be outside during the summer — let that be The Drudge Times. Basically every day from mid-October through mid-January should be Party Party holidays, everything from spooky times through winter Yulishness. Elect me president.

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do you ever think about what americans have in mind when they say things like "democracy" and "lesser evil"

Not gonna share the Tolkien screencap, but one thing creators often observe is poor synthesis of their creative work. Whether it's willful misinterpretation or low media literacy, sometimes what's right on the page goes completely past part of the audience.

I had made a custom ringtone assigned to an ex-girlfriend that was the first line from Kosheen's "Catch": "You create misery."

Remember me! But forget my fate.

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chewbaccula, wookiee vampire

When the "American experiment" finishes collapsing, the post-mortem will not consider it in the terms of a self-mythologized "land of the free," but rather a nation that had no cultural values or sense of common good, and reduced everything — education, health, life — to revenue generation centers.

Feels really disingenuous to wheel this out. The kids two doors down call me "uncle," for example.

remember when Joe Biden told cities to use moneys allocated to COVID recovery and hire police

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