It could be one more weird anomaly in this unending cycle of what the fuck.

Bradbury was on to something here

“Time Cat” by Lloyd Alexander hit me tonight with a passage. Egyptian Pharaoh or 2026 in the US? Who can tell, really?

Now we’re here, ready for the next major disaster. (Spoiler warning.)

Wyrmspan Coming to Digital - Soon @monstercouch.bsky.social

My wife brought home this new children’s book, “102”, from the library. We read it together with our kiddo tonight. We were blown away by the medium and the details, and it’s a fun heartwarming story to boot. Bravo, @cordellmatthew.bsky.social, I hope to see this on the Caldecott list.

A thing I wish I’d known about Banana Ball before going - it was very loud, and very constant. All of us could barely hear after the game, as if we’d gone to a rock concert. Strongly suggest earplugs if you’re ever thinking about going to one of those games in the future.

Meanwhile a shirt made it halfway up the upper deck section we were in at the Banana Ball game tonight, landing right at my feet! Those Party Animals don’t need a T-shirt cannon when they’ve got cannons built into their arms.

Love checking in on a community I’ve been enjoying, only to find someone intentionally misrepresenting several people’s comments and dumping all over things other people like. Not sure what crawled into that place today but I hope it doesn’t stick.

Overconfident humans who don’t listen to anybody else scare the hell out of me.

Indianapolis stop closing / constructing all the southbound pipelines at the same time: challenge level impossible

I’d rather have nice safe emotions about shows on the entertainment media; having them about things real-life humans said and did just led to stupid decisions.

I have not finished an entertainment product for a while, and there are a couple good reasons for that. For one, I’ve had multiple high-dollar home/car repair issues hit in the past two weeks and I’m a little exhausted. For another, I’m currently playing Xenoblade X.

The company is like an evil vending machine, you put money in and it does what you want, unless somebody else puts more money in and tells it to stop.

Please enjoy these excerpts from 1912’s “A Hoosier Chronicle”: - a dude bragging about a bargain he got on a rare item, extremely 2020s Midwestern meme - those darn girls today (1898 edition) - banana peels, causing slips for over a century - someone being sick of home maintenance appointments

more people get to play Ghost Babel, woo

Didn't something recently happen regarding this? Something in violation of gdpr and quite criminal? I can't remember www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

The numbers must be really bad. This district has been a 52/48, 53/47 kind of D district lately.

Since I had difficulty finding information about it online, and since not everyone has a hardware wizard like @robinhoodie.bsky.social as a contact: if you’ve got a TurboGrafx 16 Mini and you’re not sure what power adapter to use with it, use the power adapter from an NES or SNES Mini. Works great.

Wild that we live in a world where Nintendo’s reissuing VB games and putting out a couple of canceled ones, and SEGA still doesn’t have a single SEGA Saturn game out there on modern consoles

‘bout to go out for shoveling round 3, we’ve cracked the 1 foot mark here

Started in on a new-to-me game, and I like the vibe, but boy howdy am I in event flag hell. Time to keep a walkthrough up in a tab.

Quick, what’s your favorite Wikipedia article title, mine is “Jimmy Carter Rabbit Incident”

Sorry for the quote but the initial post got buried by replies; finished this VN on Steam Deck today and I think some folks will get enjoyment out of the screenshots

Maybe I had been watching too much media.

Ys II, I am playing you so that I don’t have to discuss how to cope with critical situations

2026 completed video games! 1) Puzzle Quest Immortal Edition (Steam) #rollcredits. Gifted by a friend at Christmas. This game is pretty much as good as I remembered it from cycling through all the characters on DS/360. I had a grand time buzzing through with a Ranger and will absolutely play more.

Don’t forget to clean your dishwasher’s filter If you just said “what filter”, it’s time to clean your dishwasher’s filter

Forced Shutdown: Restart: Failure Retry

My 2025 board game wrapup! These are physical plays only; I don’t log digital plays (it would drive me crazy and the experience just isn’t the same). Most played game of the year was the brilliant 2020 cooperative game Regicide, which I would love to see grow in popularity and audience.

Book Thread 2026! Finished book #1: Bible Adventures. In addition to learning more about the unlicensed NES developer Color Dreams that I was only vaguely aware of, I particularly enjoyed the relevance of 1990s Christian bookstores, as a person who grew up in the 80s/90s in a Christian school.

ACNH villager: “Let’s give 2025 the sendoff it deserves!” Me: “I don’t think Animal Crossing will allow me to do that.”

My 2025 in video games! Favorite 2025 release: Final Fantasy Tactics: Ivalice Chronicles Very good but one critical flaw: Shantae Advance (poor sound); Kirby Triple Deluxe (hyper mode very repetitive); Ys Memoire: Oath in Felghana (two bosses render and move at faster speed than all the others).

Dragon Quest I HD-2D Remaster #rollcredits. Largely agree with what @evokerfordogs.bsky.social said earlier today. I like and appreciate the glow up. Fleshing it out from 5-8 hours to 10-12 hours didn’t feel overlong. But it also is more interesting as a relic than it is entertaining to me.

Happy anniversary to the Phantasy Star series! ⭐ I just wanted to redraw that title screen.

Me: “I listened to a podcast today about Sprawlopolis [a card game I like], and it had listener testimonials. One said, you might know me from the BoardGameGeek thread in 2020, when I played through all 816 combinations of goals.” Wife: “Homer Simpson, backing into the bushes.” I’ve been Darmok’d.

Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate #rollcredits Played on Steam Deck. My playtime was 2 hours of blitzing story, hitting a brick wall, 18 hours of learning how to play the game and work the system, then 2 more hours of blitzing story. Level up jingle drove my wife nuts.

At the bookmobile, where there’s a “would you rather” poll on the whiteboard. Kid: “would you rather be Santa or an elf?” Me: “would I rather do all the behind-the-scenes work and not get the credit?”

Spotify starts tracking for Wrapped on Jan 01. Which means that right now, we are effectively in a Spotify version of The Purge: you can listen to whatever you like, as much as you like, and it won't show up on your public metrics next year.

Cannot believe the good fortune I had last week. Came into the weekend thinking, nope, not going to look for deals on board games or video games, I got the price I wanted on Zelda Echoes of Wisdom and that’s enough. Then a copy of Glory to Rome ended up on eBay for 25 US dollars.

…an astonishingly high percentage of the problems I have in the world would be solved if people were more apt to admit when they messed up.

YOU GUYS WANNA SEE SOMETHING CURSED???? HOW ABOUT NEON GENESIS LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS HOCKEY?????

“This means that when the Weeble is wobbled, as in position B…”

Super Mario Galaxy (replay from about 6 years ago) #rollcredits. It’s still a great game. Glad it’s back out there. All-timer of a soundtrack. Joy-Con 2 controls, detached from the system, were solid. Wish fire levels worked differently / were less punitive, but that’s a 3D Mario problem in general.

Playing Mario Galaxy on Switch 2 and having a lovely time for the most part. Still don’t like 3D Mario fire levels, still don’t like the slippy blue grabby stars, but overall, good stuff. And the OST is wonderful. Except for *this* aural abomination. What *is* this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqnq...

I finished a book and I have Thoughts

Name one other games writer who would remember and acknowledge the existence of Castlevania Puzzle: Encore of the Night. I’ll wait. 👑

Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles #rollcredits. I played it as we did in the old days, a single-class party with only its own abilities. Mystics served me well with only three speed bumps, one of which was entirely due to guest AI. I have a lot of thoughts, but I need to collect them.

THIS GAME IS COMPLETE Genuinely can’t remember the last time I put this much time into a game that wasn’t Animal Crossing or a casual puzzle game. This game is still REALLY good. I thought maybe I was elevating it unfairly based on nostalgia but no, this is still in my very top handful of games.