This year's Name That Tune competition was the best ever. The videos are up on @starhavenstudios.com YouTube RIGHT NOW but I will definitely be doing a watch party in the near future. Until then enjoy one of my finer moments youtube.com/shorts/qs9oN...

MAGFest Highlight (the first of many) - the community fish tank in the indie section. You would scan your badge to create a fish and then scan it more to feed your fish at set real-time intervals. There were also side quests? I kept stopping back just to see what was going on.

Well, well, well, Gaylord thermostat. We meet again.

Trying to parse what is going on with these MAGFest drink specials, SHAWW in particular.

Oh shit This Friday night, 7PM on the XP Stage - Name That Tune TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS

Happy New Year! It's 4.5 hours of blabbing on Fat Gatsby's Blank of the Year 2025! fatgatsby.com/blank-of-the...

FF MTG once again reinforces my bad habit by giving me cool shit I don't have out of one pack.

I set out in 2025 with a few goals in mind. Let's see how I did - the capoeira classes I run were basically restarting from zero. I started the year with one class a week and a few hold over students. Now I'm running two classes a week and have added a few more regular students. Feels good!

The greatest of all time. It brings me great joy that my kid has recently started digging through all my Calvin and Hobbes collection books

Tonight at 7PM EST - me, @juese.bsky.social and @davidautovino.bsky.social will be live on Twitch for our annual BLANK OF THE YEAR Awards www.twitch.tv/xstrikestudios

This would be awesome

trying to decide if this would be a good or bad idea

I don't like the Steam Replay because it presents sessions instead of just hours which means it counts the bajillion times I turn my Steamdeck on and off as a "session". Also Marvel Snap gets inflated stats because I play it while watching wrestling and sometimes forget the window is open.

Absolutely killer work from VGHF

I got Death Stranding 2 a few weeks ago and apparently if not for that I would have only spent 18 hours on my PS5 this whole year.

Here's some TGA counter-progamming if you'd like, a sick thread about cool indie games. I vow in 2026 to force myself to catch up on a bunch of these.

MY BOY

Valve has now rejected my complaint, confirming that "I don't like muslims" is a valid reason to leave a negative review on a game on Steam This is where we're at now.

I still have a copy of this ad that I ripped out of a magazine

I have no business still buying sealed packs of FF MTG but every time I do I still somehow get at least one cool card that I don't have and would have cost me about the same as a pack to purchase individually so my bad habit keeps getting reinforced.

Sometimes the best part of pro wrestling isn't what happens inside the ring, it's the dumb shit that happens outside of it.

Unrelated but lmao this is so pathetic of epic

Here’s my Wrapped for the year.

My YouTube Music recap is very reflective of my having to play KPop Demon Hunters every time I drove my kid anywhere this past summer.

Pizza is my order as well.

Walking out of Wake Up Dead Man and one of our fellow theater goers is LOUDLY discussing the plot of the movie in the tiny lobby of our local theater.

New TripleRaido and for the first time in a long time, we're live and in the same room! fatgatsby.com/november-2025/

Snitching to corporate and getting 30 people fired is not mandatory — rats have to make that choice for themselves.

One of the greatest consoles of all time. An absurd amount of classic games, XBLA pushing indie games into the spotlight and every night when I signed on there would be a ton of friends online ready to play the newest games. It was a moment in time that will never be replicated.

This is probably the worst thing I could have read regarding a new Metroid game.

Fun to see male fans get the vapors over women blading. The average gal has had a monthly relationship with blood before you had a whisker, goes to bed listening to podcasts about Ted Bundy, and would gleefully take a scalpel to any blemish you have if you let her. Catch up.

second verse on this is one of the funniest things i've ever heard

Vay stands out the most in my memory because I purchased a copy off of eBay and the guy just sent a burned CD-R with "Vay" written in marker on it.

Yeah this turns out to be a lie. Just non-stop Hades for the past week. Game is too good.

Actual conversation with my 10 year old today. *driving past the airport* Me: Hey bud, whenever I drive past the airport I think about how we're flying out to MAGFest in a couple months Him: Really? I think of 9/11 Me: ...alright... ...ok...

This is the big win for me. Local elections matter!

I also got credits on Hades II! Yeah, not quite "finished" because there's more stuff I can do but I think I'm gonna chill a little bit. Uh, it's awesome? Just as good and addicting as the original? Maybe not quite as flawless? Some of the crafting resource-gathering is kinda meh.

I finished Death Stranding! What a weird fucking game. I semi-hustled through it because I wanted to just see the story before playing DS2 but I found all the pain-in-the-ass walking around and delivering stuff to be surprisingly relaxing? Will probably do a lot more optional stuff in 2.

New awareness campaign

Fun fact - about 20 years ago I committed myself to learning Super Ghouls 'n' Ghosts in order to beat it and get the true ending. I spent at least a couple weeks playing as much as I could, learning all the patterns and RNG BS. I was eventually successful and then never played the game again.

I remember way back at MAG9 I had no idea who these clowns were or why they were getting two nights to perform some kind of pretentious rock opera. I went to their first show and within 5 minutes understood. This is going to be insane.

note the legals: LRG's using Japan's arbitration system for orphaned games to reissue Little Samson—if you can demonstrate that you've made a genuine effort to contact/identify a potential rights owner to no avail, you can legally commercialise an old game by paying royalties to the JP govt, which…

Gary Larson dropping Cow Tools in 1982

Looking for the 1000 - 5000 people who are willing to give a literal dollar a month on Patreon to help support 🫡 and it shouldn’t only just be me. Maybe skip a drink or a coffee a month and give 5 - 10 bucks to 5 - 10 creators on Patreon! www.patreon.com/Skatunenetwork

Ah yes, the siren call of someone invoking the words "Obra Dinn'

I played and finished Double Fine's Keeper! It was delightful. Especially coming off a somewhat difficult game that took me too long, Keeper was an absolute breeze that was always interesting and what a wonderfully, weird little world they built for you to toddle through.

SHOHEI OHTANI WHERE YOUR CURLY MUSTACHE

I finished Silksong! I had a kinda weird experience with the game. I got really bogged down wandering around a little aimlessly at points, made my life harder by not finding useful abilities/items until later than I should have and downright just missing stuff despite thinking I was being thorough.

Holy shit @maffewgregg.bsky.social with the line of the night in the wrasslin discord. @bigadamfest.bsky.social @ekkebus.bsky.social @aewontv.bsky.social #AEWDynamite #Kirby

Scrolling back through my timeline in the middle of the night I think my answer should have actually been about how a scene in Bubba Hotep where Bruce Campbell got an off-screen boner prompted a guy to immediately jerk off in the theater five feet away from me.