Was thinking maybe I should come back to my Lit Analysis 101 via Negative Saga Reviews thing, then I read one of the reviews I'd saved and I blacked out. I don't know if I'm capable of being generous with the rest of these and I don't know how useful a dunkfest is.

Just a reminder that in the popular and award-winning Baldur’s Gate 3, available everywhere games are sold, you can have sex with a bear.

Just no

deer dreams

I think at two quote-posts in a row I have to put myself on time out.

See, I get the argument it’s not helpful to criticize someone for this kind of ahistorical take because then you’re ignoring the thing they’re mad about, which is horrible and should be the focus. But like, you live in Texas. Come the fuck on.

I mean the most obvious difference between his list and mine is just that we have different tastes, but it’s also interesting that his list doesn’t include anything after 2017, whereas mine only has 3 movies from before 2017.

Not to steal @logonlog.bsky.social ‘s bit, but I mean:

Neither rain nor shine, sleet nor snow, major life events nor just being kind of tired shall keep it from being Music Monday. Today's randomly selected album from my backlog is...Gordi—Like Plasticine (2025) gordi.bandcamp.com/album/like-p...

Strong floors, old foundations, tunnels that go deeper than any human has ever gone, vast caverns filled with unspeakable horrors, a portal to another dimension, and a Starbucks.

Ope, anxiety has usurped depression and now it’s a civil war for which mental illness gets to ruin my life.

So apparently good things happening don't cure depression so much as give it more joy to feed on! Fun!

The Fauxgiving dinner (all the elements of a traditional Thanksgiving meal but in non-traditional forms). See if you can guess where everything is then see the alt text for the answers.

Oh my god I forgot there was a whole Totoro sequence

That’s probably gonna catch me a block but I mean really. “We don’t have to keep inventing new words for the same shit?” That’s language, mate. That’s the whole thing. Come on.

Happy 60th Anniversary of the Alice’s Restaurant littering incident.

The thing about NPC dialogue is that some people will sometimes remember some of that big important speech the big important character gives, but most people will constantly remember that one line that shopkeeper says every time you talk to him.

Yes, HID headlights are very bright but the bigger problem is the proliferation of gargantuan vehicles with 5’+ hood heights so that if you’re driving a normal sized car their headlights are at your eye level rather than seat level like they’re supposed to be.

It's time for Tunes Tuesday, because I'm feeling productive this week. Since this isn't an official Music Monday the format's a bit looser, I'm thinking we're gonna go through some singles, and maybe an EP or two. To start with, we've got two singles from Mega Mango.

Just noticed there’s a cloth in my bathroom that isn’t mine, so I guess they sent someone to fix my sink today? And didn’t tell me? Slightly creepy? But efficient? Assuming it’s actually fixed? (Been getting an occasional sewer smell, no apparent clog or leak so not even sure what the problem is.)

Okay I've seen this going around and I know the colloquial understanding is "obscure bit of trivia" but I've been thinking about what it means for knowledge to be useless.

It's time for Music Monday, where appealing the "Adult Content" tag with "Man, it's just an album cover" apparently doesn't work. Today's randomly selected album from my backlog is...Mal Blum—The Villain (2025) malblum.bandcamp.com/album/the-vi...

Got an email from my old high school band director reaching out to build an alumni database, which, whatever, but weirdly it didn't come to my main email that I've had since middle school or my gmail that I literally created for high school, no, somehow it came to the email for @rhac.bsky.social.

I couldn't sleep because I was thinking about <redacted>* so I got up and opened my computer to try to distract myself and then ended up spending the next 2.5 hours mostly still thinking about <redacted>* and only just now did I process that that entire time I was sitting in front of this image.

As clunky as it is in basically every instance, I do appreciate that companions will pick up their “passing the time while we explore” dialogue where they left off if they’re interrupted by combat or other triggers. Would love to see that implemented in other games (but maybe less awkwardly.)

I wouldn’t normally do one of these because I don’t want to get in the way of the actual artists but I am entirely unable to resist a pun.

Ok whoever did the character portraits on the party selection screen in Veilguard…I strongly disagree with your artistic vision. And also maybe your actual vision if that’s what you think Harding looks like.

Honorable Mentions: Every other character in Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector.

D:OS2 as “the ultimate puddle-management simulator” is so correct oh my god. And like, kind of one of the things I dislike about BG3 is it inherently has less of that because it has to fit its environmental interactions into 5E rules.

11/20/2025

Those Legend of Zelda live-action stills and the reactions to them got me thinking a lot about video game adaptations and here are some of those thoughts in some sort of order or possibly no particular order:

A legitimate question(s) I have for genAI art enjoyers (who presumably will not see this but hey) is, how do you talk about the art? Like, when you’re talking about an AI image you like, how do you express your appreciation of it? What aspects of the image do you highlight?

@timclare.bsky.social listening to the first episode of But Why Vikings? and a supplementary note I’d add to the conversation about introducing people to RPGs is you could even start by playing games that lend themselves to role-playing but are not strictly speaking RPGs.

It's time for Music Monday, somehow. Today's randomly selected album from my backlog is...San Fermin—Your Ghost (2022) sanferminband.bandcamp.com/album/your-g...

- comedies that make you cry - heist movies where they don’t lie to you about the twist (any movie with a plan and a twist is a heist movie) - animated movies so beautiful that they pierce your soul - actors making choices - we’re going to spend the next three hours talking about this

Maybe it’s just because I haven’t played anything attempting photorealistic graphics in a while, but going back to look at Horizon Forbidden West footage I’m actually kind of gobsmacked. As much as I slightly hate the game I think maybe I didn’t give it enough credit for how good it looks.

I did not know OpenGuessr could put you on a boat.

Got back to my re-read(/actually finishing this time) of Ultrasylvania after a couple months away and immediately came across another stunner of a panel: web.archive.org/web/20170912...

“Ew, you only know that person from their easily accessible contemporary commercial work and not their older/more obscure/more niche stuff that you would only seek out if you already knew about them

I'd forgotten about this poem for like three years and then dug it out for an open mic last night and it went over pretty well so I guess it's actually not bad: certainofeventualfailure.com/2025/11/13/t...

There are lots of games that should be on here that aren’t (Citizen Sleeper (despite me voting for it 3 times), Transistor, Dragon Age II) and yet somehow there was room for 9 Mario Karts and a plethora of Pokémons, but it gives me hope for humanity that Far Cry 3 is nowhere to be found.

Continuing my college essay retrospective series, which is increasingly difficult to justify as I run out of things to say to satisfy the premise that I'm doing this as a teaching tool but I'm over halfway done so I'm gonna keep going: certainofeventualfailure.com/2025/11/10/o...

It's time for Music Monday, despite everything. Today's randomly selected album from my backlog is...Holland Patent Public Library—Songs to Fall Asleep at the Wheel To (2022) hollandpatentpubliclibrary.bandcamp.com/album/songs-...

I did end up leaving work early just to be safe but I’m really glad I went in because two of my coworkers who were laid off a few months ago are back and that was a huge mood booster.

Back started hurting out of nowhere but feels better now that I’m dressed with my belt as tight as possible, so now I feel like the girl in the story with the right around her neck, like what’s gonna happen when I take my belt off is my torso just going to fall off.

So I’ve seen some discussion of monotropism and felt like I vibed with ~60% of it, but I took the test and, well, I just don’t know how to weigh this, and my 164 RAADS-R score, against the autistic psychologist who specialized in treating people with autism who said I’m definitely not autistic.

Famously you can see Will Smith mouthing other people’s lines in early Fresh Prince episodes, but what’s really weird is you can also see Alex Horne doing that (specifically with Greg Davies) in early Taskmaster episodes—but not just during the scripted portions.

In the last 2 years I’ve not had a single day off that wasn’t for medical reasons or because my parents were in town. I finally got enough PTO to schedule two days off next week, and even made plans with a friend. Now I’m sick.

Literally wrote a whole-ass song today, arguably I think the first complete song I’ve ever written, and I can’t even get excited about it. Fittingly, I managed to rhyme “coping with the” with “choking anhedonia.”