I wonder, are X-Men comics that bad right now (just read one and repeatedly internally yelled at it) or has the fall of Krakoa left me with less patience for mediocre stories about the characters I love? If the latter, that's awkward, because this is the one franchise I will never stop following.

It's that time of year again when PlayStation tries to shame me for how much game I've gamed (but nobody needs to know my total hours).

just a collection of "inevitable" multi-billion dollar tech that was going to be the future of everything until everyone in the audience who was supposed to just get on board said "lol no"

Between Thought Bubble and Sinterklaas, stuff has really been piling up. Maybe it's time for a new slogan: A graphic novel a day keeps the to-be-read pile at bay!

Started playing Far Cry Primal this week. Many people underestimate games like these, but they really pose the player profound questions about life. Like, "Why do I keep subjecting myself to the mediocre-but-addictive when I'm sitting on a pile of five-star games I'm dying to get to?"

Catching up to the Game Awards (well, to the trailers, I believe I can skip the award announcements and just assume Clair Obscur won the next one too) and really really hoping Star Wars: Legally Distinct From Knight of the Old Republic will a) be all it suggests it can be and b) come out soonish.

It inspires such confidence when you straight-up make up a word, then run the document through a spell check and it says, "Yeah, that's fine, no notes."

MARVEL VS DC THREAD Cypher VS Jericho: who is the gentler boy?

Still not sure if I want to watch The Mighty Nein animated. (Got that month of Amazon Prime free try-out saved since whenever, so I *could*.) The word is very positive, but they've made changes for the new medium, which is fine... but it's just not the version of the story which means so much to me.

It's perfectly normal to be planning what books you're going to read and what games you're going to play in 2026 in early December, right?

Recently hit a hundred platinum trophies on PlayStation, a proudly empty accomplishment, but it sure proves I can be obsessive about stuff. Wanted to take a look back at all the #games, so I'm making a list. Ask me about any of them! And we'll see how much I remember. #1 Horizon: Zero Dawn #2 Skyrim

I've stayed with Netflix through a lot of price hikes because... well, it's convenient to just not think about it too much and that's how they get you. But if they're buying WB/HBO, I might be out if they suddenly have "no choice" but to double prices for all the extra content I won't have time for.

Okay, maybe there really *is* too much Marvel on our screens. I mean, even the new Star Trek TV show is a Marvel comic now... 🙃

I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but I believe I have written a story. (I was honestly starting to doubt it was ever going to happen.) #amwriting

The scariest accidental command in any word processor is surely Ctrl+N. Because suddenly you're looking at an empty file without any of your work and Ctrl+Z does nothing. Until after that first half second passes and you realize what's happened.

I mean I did just get a PS2 copy... and a PS2... to experience original Drakengard, but yeah. That one. (Also playing Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic right now and it is great but boy gameplay is rough/dated. I'm sure that remake will still come out at some point ever.)

Pay squeezes in freelance creative jobs are a grim scene. The expected payments for most musical jobs as a freelancer are the same in figure terms as they were when I first started doing this 25 years ago.

Love it when games go: "This is the sprint button." ... "What, are you trying to use the sprint button? No no no, that's only for special occasions. You're going to take the slowest walk humanly possible past these graphics we worked so hard on and you'll be grateful for it."

I may be way behind on #CriticalRole, but I managed to time reaching the last Mighty Nein oneshot* the week that Mighty Nein animated launched and everyone's talking about our favorite disaster party. And damn! Echoes of the Solstice was phenomenal, I really missed Caduceus in the earlier specials.

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made. Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊

Right, I've been away and focused on comics for the weekend, I'm sure the gaming world has been quiet without any major news... *blinks in Gabecube and Horizon: Steel Frontiers*

OH WELL WHY NOT

And this isn’t even (nearly) everything. @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social was good to me again this year and I’ll be feasting for a while. #comics

When I bought the #diecomic RPG Quickstart Edition this weekend, I got a set of dice with it. Which was, let’s be real, a crazy bargain. But what’s more important is that I did a test role to check this set’s karma, as you do, and I used the percentile dice and got 69. Dangerous dice to RP with?

#3157 A helpful tutorial

OSCAR ISAAC, on whether he'd return to "Star Wars": ".. Yeah. I mean, I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great." @variety.com $DIS variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Raak! #VVD

Is Sweet Shop the digital platform I've been waiting for since ComiXology imploded into the Amazon abyss? I do believe "download DRM-free" are the magic words. What a concept, to get to own what you buy.

Being a fantasy writer is typing "they extended an olive branch" and then going "shit, do they even have olives in this world?"

Every service after you somehow get logged out on the same pc you've been using for years and sign back in: "OH NO, STRANGER DANGER! Some unknown person in an unknown place on an unknown device probably stole your password because who else could possibly have logged in!?"

The world is watching.

I did it! To the best of my knowledge, I've now read every last Krakoan X-Men comic published, including digital and shorts in Marvel Voices specials and the like. Took me a bit to work up to reading the Fall, but it was as I expected--I didn't like it ending, but it was told in very good comics.

Since they started putting in glass fiber lines for extra expensive internet in my neighborhood, the salesmen/scammers have been so persistent that they've apparently pavloved me into flying into a rage if I unexpectedly see or hear the term.

I would have liked a more left-leaning election result (by like, a LOT) but on the positive side it looks like we might get a prime minister who is aware of what the concepts of "charisma" and "human warmth" mean? The last time that happened... I don't remember that ever happening.

Een verhaal dat zich overigens afspeelt in mijn grotere fantasywereld De Negen Torens/The Nine Towers, al dan in een heel ander deel van het continent dan bijvoorbeeld mijn verhaal in de bundel Vuurspuwers van Godijn Publishing.

Nieuw fantasyverhaal! Ik schreef een kort verhaal voor de wedstrijd met het thema 'de belofte', en dat is nu te lezen in het online tijdschrift Out of This World! Mijn eerste verhaal daar, maar niet mijn laatste. #amwriting ootw-magazine.weebly.com/fiction/niel...

Fanfiction is the sign of a healthy show, like a cold nose on a dog. It took me a while to come around to it early in my career, but I got there.

It's been a while, so here are my Ten Rules For Writing.

This is my election post. For everyone who can vote but feels exhausted from the longevity of the failed populist extreme right. #verkiezingen

I want to rave about how wild the story of #Harvestella gets, considering how basic it starts, but it'd all be major spoilers, so everyone quickly go play this 70-hour game, then come chat about how this "fantasy" story has scathing things to say about very current fears for the future of humanity.

Silly me for thinking I could install a program in 2025 without getting AI "help" I never asked for with it. So what PDF reader is everyone using these days, any tips?

I read so many comics that sometimes I forget it actually takes time to finish comics. And then when the new Monstress hardcover comes out, I decide to reread the whole series (always a good choice) ignoring the fact that I'm trying to catch up on X-Men and have a GN to finish for book club too.

My #NeonGenesisEvangelion rewatch continues, and what a wild episode #15 is—there is no plot. Everything that happens in this episode is the stuff that happens in between plot in a series like this. And yet it’s psychological, emotional, philosophical, fantastic. What an experience. 🙈🙉🙊

#TheApothecaryDiaries Season 3 and movie confirmed with release date, woo! ...Still over a year away, but hey, that's more than we've got for Vinland Saga S3. www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1pK...

When the (First) Krakoan Age of X-Men #comics was ending, I got depressed over it and mostly stopped reading them, but now I'm SO close to my goal of reading every single Krakoan comic ever that I'm searching Marvel Voices specials and the like for any relevant shorts. Soon (I'll have nothing left)!

In #games, sometimes sometimes you run up against a big difficulty spike at a boss fight and it forces you to really dive into the mechanics. And after that you realize you can craft some bombs and just win. #Harvestella