Meanwhile in #Portland

Silent Hill f is reminding me that my least favorite gamer is the “over 40; Silent Hill 2 is the deepest piece of media they have ever experienced and they hold the game to an absurdly high standard” variety.

In Bill Burr’s defense, if nobody had found out about the blatantly terrible image-laundering show he received tons of money to perform at,he wouldn’t have had to constantly defend what he did.

My hot old-school video game take: every metroidvania-style Castlevania post-Symphony of the Night has better gameplay and are more *fun* and less *confusing.* SotN’s got banger music and is generally much prettier though, and those go a long way in that series.

Chiitan has a dream. I hope that one day the term LGBT will become a thing of the past. I will continue to spread my message until we live in a world where everyone can love freely and is free from persecution and discrimination. Until then, let's all support each other🤍

That thing about how George R.R. Martin only writes on a 1987 word processor? I completely understand. MS Word sucks so much.

I saw some people say GET OUT deserved Best Picture and Best Director back in 2018 and lmao no. Guillermo Del Toro earned those awards. GET OUT ain’t even Jordan Peele’s best movie.

My favorite part of October is it gives me plenty of chances to say “plumpkin,” which my partner *HATES.*

I havent played Final Fantasy XIV in a few years. Do they still occasionally show Y’shtola holding and reading books, completely forgetting that she’s supposed to be blind?

Silent Hill f’s gameplay feels like a better version of what they were trying to do with SH4.

Started Silent Hill f and my first thought upon picking up yokan as an item was “oh man I could eat some yokan right now”

Silksong, Cronos: The New Dawn, Silent Hill f, Once Upon A Katamari, the Final Fantasy Tactics remaster… for the first time in *years,* I have the “there are too many games I wanna play through” problem. And I *still* have to beat Nier: Replicant, to boot.

Did that lady just get sliced up by booby-trapped tin can tops? #TheLastDriveIn

One of the more fun things about writing fiction is learning new stuff for your made-up story. For instance, this week I learned that the Northeastern part of California is pretty darn conservative, and the feminine version of an abbot is an “abbess.”

Watched Clown In A Cornfield. It’s aiight. “What if ‘Hot Fuzz’ was a slasher.” Kinda felt like they came up with the name and worked backwards from there.

The Gangster #poem #limerick #funny #story #jcjones #quick #spokenword #spokenpoetry #spokenwordpoetry #spokenwords #poems #poemsoftiktok #entertainment #audiobook #reallife #book #comedy #gangster #judge #gangstermovie #TheMob #trial #court #courtcase #CourtroomDrama #courtroom #criminalcase

Burr’s “‘ey I’m just a schlub, just one of the guys on the job site” stage persona is so effect that it’s easy to forget that he grew up an upper-middle class son of a dentist and his favorite hobby is piloting helicopters. He has no idea who “we” are and never has.

A criticism of Silent Hill f seems to be “it barely connects to the town of Silent Hill, if at all.” Okay. Is it good though? I don’t care about why Silent Hill is the way it is. I don’t care about the cult. If you do, you don’t understand the series.

I like how every single thing the administration has done or said for the past nine months has been met with “the next step is martial law” on here. This app seems very bad at predicting what the next step is. We’re on, what, the seventh Reichstag Fire now?

I am thoroughly loving Silksong, about to finish Chapter 2, but as someone who has spent the better part of 41 years playing playformers, I feel the “this is the most brutal game ever” hype is a tad overblown. It’s certainly challenging, but so everything’s been achievable.

I don’t get the Walmart nostalgia. The thing I remember from when I was a youngin’ was how the video game demo stations all had broken controllers because bored kids would pick the buttons out. Certainly nothing worth making an AI video over. Besides, what lunatic bought a Great Value-brand lobster?

My favorite part of leaving the dentist after getting a filling is having my mouth feel like the Phantom of the Opera’s

Man, I really wanted to like The Righteous Gemstones, but it felt like they chickened out of saying anything meaningful. Multiple seasons of hinting at how corrupt and wrong the whole megachurch thing is, and then by the end they just settle on “family sure is great, huh?”

You think any of those Christians a few days ago are gonna reflect on the sheer ego you gotta have to post a video where you talk about how you are 100% certain you are gonna be raptured? I at least hope they one day see the humor in being wrong on, like, *everything* relating to that prophecy.

Silksong did the thing I hate most in a game with amazing boss fights: the throwaway boss that isn’t tied to the lore or setting in any meaningful way BUT IT’S STUPID-HARD. Lithe, fast fencer that is all over the screen at any given time? A pair of dancing twins that move in sync? Nah. A big fly.

With recent changes in my way of life, I’m noticing that I’m more consistent with daily writing, but I seem to be spending more time to write fewer words *BUT* I really like those words. So overall win. #writing #WriteSky

Social media is millions of people making either the same exact joke or screaming the exact same amount of “the world is dying and you should be mad but also there’s nothing you can do about it.”

I think the Nexstar and Sinclair Jimmy Kimmel block is backfiring.

Does anybody remember that Benjamin Button movie? Remember how their answer to “how do we show dementia in a man who reverse-ages?” was “get a teen that vaguely looks like Brad Pitt and make him *very* autistic?” That movie sucked lol

Interesting character quirks that don’t show up until the third draft are fun. #writing #WriteSky

How is it that I see accounts on here older than this one with fewer followers? Like, I’m not stupid, mine are mostly bots. But there are some accounts that post *a lot* more frequently, and not even the bots latch onto them.

Looks like a lot of Silent Hill f reviews are mad it’s not Silent Hill 2. Remember when the SH2 remake came out and these types complained that it wasn’t the same game they played in their teens twenty years ago? Just go play the old SH2, bro. It hasn’t aged as gracefully as you think it has.

Figured I’d get Silksong, since it’s only $20. It’s more Hollow Knight. This is perfectly fine by me —it’s what I wanted, frankly!— but I’m not sure what the folks demanding an easy game were expecting.

Second draft. Better, but I gotta file off some of the edges and rework a few of the shapes into something smoother. #writing #writesky

Between Jimmy Kimmel and Joe Rogan, I’m tired of people from “The Man Show” having so much influence on global policy.

Make no mistake, this sucks for Jimmy Kimmel and this is very bad for fascism reasons, but he‘ll be fine. Shane Gillis (regardless of your opinion) took his SNL firing in stride because of Joe Rogan. Conan O’Brien lost his show and he’s more powerful than ever. Network TV’s in its death throes.

Started Wellbutrin not terribly long ago. It’s amazing what the correct type and amount of crazy-pills can do for one’s overall wellbeing. Stomach issues ain’t great, but I’m told they’ll pass.

Since the spooky season is upon us, I figured I’d try Crow Country, since it’s free on my PS+ plan. Had middling expectations, which were thankfully short-lived. This game is quite atmospheric, the sort of game that demands surround sound headphones.

Not to brag, but the story I’m working has a sermon in it and I think if I weren’t a more honest liar, I could’ve been a pretty good apologist. #writing #writingcommunity

An interesting thing I’m learning while researching a story about religious trauma is that no two Christians seem to be able to agree on what, exactly, the Holy Spirit *is.* The best I can deduce is “your conscience, except it’s a special ‘Christians Only’ conscience.” #writing

I’m playing through Nier: Replicant after beating Automata. Up to starting, all I heard was that it’s a slog with awful controls and you have to endure all that and a generic world until it starts getting good. I dunno, I’m about eight hours in and I’ve quite enjoyed all of it so far.

If there’s one think I will curse Charlie Kirk on (this is a bit, he’s Nazi trash that reaped what he sowed), it’s that everyone on BlueSky has spent the past few days pretending like they knew the word “hagiography” before September 10.

Tyler Robinson’s dad is definitely gonna try and collect that $100,000 from the FBI, isn’t he.

Sometimes I think on how, within my older lifetime, writers used to have to keep physical dictionaries and thesauruses. Modern tech certainly makes that whole process much easier. #writingcommunity

All of these calls of “oh no now it’s going to get violent,” re Charlie Kirk… …where have y’all been? They’ve been bombing boats full of civilians. They’ve been locking up minorities in concentration camps.

Do you like D&D but wish the mechanics were more cinematic? Try Savage Worlds! I just backed the newest setting in the system, Deadlands: Dark Ages on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/545...

Second draft of a short story done. I’ll sit on it for a week, have a look at it and make corrections, send it to my editor and adjust accordingly, and then shop it out. #writingcommunity

I know it ain’t worth a lot and I don’t play Magic: the Gathering, but I still appreciate my buddy knowing my favorite Final Fantasy character is Locke from FFVI and getting me his card.

I will endeavor to make this a not-entirely negative page. I think there’s enough of that ‘round these parts.