Not feeling work but I *am* feeling cute.

The nice part of my floor of the office being quiet is that I can smell like this and there’s nobody around that might get a migraine from it (doesn’t smell “pink” at all to me but what do I know, I’m just an olfactory baby)

good morning to everyone except the load balancer that failed to register a new task instance at four in the damn morning

*slaps the roof of Pinwheel on Outpost* This bad boy can fit so many Rooks in it

Wore suspenders into the office for the first time and I regret to inform you that I am now suspender-pilled

“I’m not hyperfixating,” he said as his fingers danced across the keyboard, opening three new tabs worth of Marathon lore. “This is actually a very normal and chill level of engagement.”

If you see this, post a concert photo you took I’ll do two: the xx’s tour in support of I See You with its giant rainbow pillars, and seeing Wolf Parade and Beach House playing Alki Beach for SPF30

Much as I hate to admit falling for targeted Instagram marketing shit - that gay west end deodorant balm is actually really good. the scents even smell nice! deodorant NEVER smells nice!

*repeating like a mantra* I don’t need more gear, I don’t need more gear, I don’t…

Everyone is listening to cool hot girl pop albums but I’m Built Different* *tearfully listening to a newly-released cover of Canadian alt-country classic single Six O’clock News and pretending I’m a hard-bitten small town prairie widow

I know an excess of power and money is corrosive to the soul but I just think I’d be the one person to be the exception to the rule wouldn’t even consume the blood of twinks to stay ever young, pinky promise

peak internet UI design and every day we're further from it we're worse

god bless this recent wave of 80’s HK action movies from the 80s/90s. I’m a nostalgic bitch but at a certain point the bootleg dvd with the nearly incomprehensible subtitles loses its charm (also cutter’s way is great. watch cutter’s way! a decision you surely won’t regret)

this is the best shit of all time and Ricky Jay was the coolest to ever live

why does my local brewery have better merch than most of the bands I listen to

making a new AD account and treating it like a roguelike by manually following people because I’m too lazy to figure out how starter packs work on here

of course I end up hearing Chalk for the first time *after* they’ve just played a set at my local record store

All the lil zombie guys so far

remember regardless of whats happening in the world the most important thing to use youre time and energy on is getting into fights with people on the internet

Photographic proof that I clean up alright every now and then

Something so deeply unwell about how closely mic'd all of the mixing and pouring is in old Barefoot Contessa episodes. Who was the freaky lil' sound engineer that was out there going "yeah, no, let's really push that sloppy wet pouring sound up in the mix, our viewers crave it"

VIRTUA COP 2 DREAMCAST AM R&D DEPT #2 2000

alright so who’s gonna make me a TTRPG system inspired by Marathon

Runnah UESC wants to move bedtime up an houha! MIDA says no sleep til revolution. Stay up late. Midnight oil. Dusk til dawn. Cock a doodle do or die. You know what to do QUEST In a single run: 🔳 Play your gameboy under the covers and don’t get caught 🔳 Pretend to be asleep when Orion checks on you

All these articles are great and serve to remind us of something: how diverse and important the role of narrative design is in creating something that’s compelling to play. I love the gameplay loop of Marathon, but what really sucked me in is that LORE, baby

Dermatologist’s baby gay assistant gave me the up and down but the doctor gave me a hand clasp hello and a fist bump goodbye, so I’ve apparently nailed straight dilf vibes. Please clap

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Remember: since it’s my birthday you’re legally obligated to tell me I look good in this jock.

Heated Rivalry’s needle drop really revived All The Things She Said but mangetout remains criminally underplayed at events. I’m here today to beg us to come together as a community to give me something other than dance pop on the PA.

if I’m working for a soulless megacorp in MARATHON why haven’t any of them talked to me about KPIs yet

Really digging the class design in Marathon. Triage, Assassin, and Recon are all really solid team comp options. All of my steamroller runs have been with an Assassin carrying the entire team, reminded me a lot of Hunter/Omnioculus builds.

Got a new phone case so now I can pretend I took an art history class at some point in my life

Marty Supreme is just ping pong Uncut Gems and honestly I’m fine with that

Now that I’m 40 I really need to develop a slightly but not too quirky hobby in order to prepare myself to metamorphose into a Murakami protagonist. Maybe rehearse a monologue that I can repeat soulfully to a stranger at a hotel bar too, idk

I have a relatively pristine copy of this sitting on the shelf, and every time I look over at this cover it makes me smile. Jumping Flash rules so hard

MY HUSBAND: What are you going to do while I'm gone this week? Watch one of those Claude Chabrol movies from that box set, or that Tarkovsky you got? ME: Oh, yeah, probably... ME, 24 HOURS LATER, WATCHING 'PHYSICAL: ASIA': You're up against Eddie in the bag toss? You poor bastard. You're fucked.

Hi yes hello I would like *more* directors to reference Jarman’s set design for The Devils, but more explicitly. Give me that theatrical modernism as juxtaposition to the understood gothic elements of the setting. Bonus points if its 70s retro modernism.

the face / the summer scent / the winter scent

DARK ARMS: BEAST BUSTER 1999 NOISE FACTORY 1999 (Captured on Neo Geo Pocket Color)

YouTube has recently decided that it REALLY wants to show me some kind of SEO slop ads about gut health, so I’m now consistently getting placements shouting about poop in front of the chill ambient sets I’m trying to play The future is so aggressively dumb

Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.

Exorcist 3 absolutely rips. It's got its rough edges (Kinderman's dream, the pacing) but it's also got some great heights (the hallway sequence, the visuals, the carp!). I feel like I've been seeing people bite the visuals in this for years and years, even excluding Clock Tower.

The FMV games exhibit at the retro gaming con had the same MYST hat I was wearing on display in the exhibit. Gonna crumble into old old dust brb

Watched From Beyond for the first time - truly the single goopiest movie I've ever seen. So much slime, blood, ooze, and goop in every scene. The gelatin budget on this thing must've been *insane*. A little Hellraiser, a little Prince of Darkness, a whole lot Looney Tunes.

Finally arrived at that brief window where I can comfortably wear a nice wool jacket outside

Genuinely really enjoying Baby Steps and think it might somehow be one of my favorite games of 2025? It’s very abrasive in a lot of ways, but it’s also the most pleasantly game-like thing I’ve run into in a while. Nothing matters, so why not climb a tree to get a dumb hat?

Asked the local bookstore to hold a copy of the new Pynchon. None of the staff had heard of him before, and when I arrived to pick it up they cheerily offered me a promotional tote from the publisher as I was “the first person to express interest in the book” Not looking good for our boy Tommy P

Love that Bats (1999) goes full fuck-it mode for the climax and decides to interpret the script's setting (bottom of a mine shaft, activating an ultra-high-powered refridgeration unit) through the lens of an outer space picture. You can't tell me this shit isn't made with remnants from Armageddon.

Rereading Vineland after seeing OBAA last weekend, and it’s really reminding me why I loved it so much in the first place. There’s a kind of immediacy and sense of place from the jump that I never really got from Pynchon’s other stuff, it’s like catnip