So I'm looking at my calendar for October and um...well, it's so packed for me that I won't be doing Friday night video game streams until November. It'll mean that the finale of my Chrono Trigger playthrough will simply just have to happen on a random free night at some point this month.

Microsoft shoved their AI Copilot into everything in Windows 11. Which lead to an increase in Windows 10 use. So they announced they'd stop support for Windows 10, but its usage was still strong. So they started to put Copilot into Windows 10. Windows 7 use is surging 5x now. AI is product poison.

PAX Unplugged tourney schedule is up. Monopoly still remains on the permanently banned list. It still hasn't been forgiven for the hostilities that broke out the first and only time a tournament was held for it at the very first PAXU.

RIP Patricia Routledge

Pay-what-you-want Munkustrap sketch for a client on Ko-fi~🖤

I don't have anything properly published to promote, but I've got a Patreon that's been going since 2018, so that's something! I blog about random historical research topics, the things I'm reading, and the things I'm trying to write. www.patreon.com/ethanquinsey #LGBTQWriteAThon #writesky

Welp, with the Red Sox out, I'll have to hope that Toronto restores order and puts a stop to the Yankees.

When a 75-second ad for a drug devotes 40 seconds of it to list all the side effects, methinks taking it isn't really worth it.

Well, whaddaya know, Detroit got the last laugh over Cleveland after all.

#LGBTQWriteAThon "The Lion's Paw" is a novel about an immortal woman whose past (and previous lovers, alive and dead) catch up with her all at once. Dark Shadows meets Orlando meets Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries. Spiritualism, messy artists and messier bisexuals.

Man, I love when the Yankees leave the bases loaded to lose the game. Especially against the Red Sox. An excellent way to wind down for the night. 😃 😃 😃

(2025) Requiescat Hudson City Cemetery, Hudson, NY. Shot on 35mm Ilford Delta 400. brianjfrench.carrd.co #photography #blackandwhite #cemetery

It's been so warm these last 2 weeks that I got another round of lettuce and basil from my garden while I was clearing it out in prep for winter/growing garlic.

Give folks their flowers No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier "They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

"just need more hours in the day" says man who sincerely wishes to play four additional hours of videogames

ICYMI: Chrono Trigger, Stream 7 youtu.be/GlCe83dqDjI

Really hope people are doing welfare checks on Tigers and Mets fans. Tigers at least hobbled into the playoffs. The Mets...well, they've become excellent at the choke.

So that's how the Guardians punch their ticket to the playoffs. A walk-off hit-by-pitch. You couldn't make this shit up, after starting September 11 games out of 1st place.

I'm reading each of @biblioasis.bsky.social's Christmas Ghost Stories series! This month it's "Afterward" by Edith Wharton.

Sports writers: the Red Sox making it to the playoffs for the first time in 4 years does NOT constitute a playoff "drought." Four years removed from the playoffs is really just a short absence.

ICYMI: Chrono Trigger, Stream 6 youtu.be/tH4xzPYycTw

Got the very pleasant news while I was streaming that the Red Sox ARE GOING TO THE POSTSEASON. I'm going to be insufferable BUT I REGRET NOTHING LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOO RED SOX

With Crono back in the fold, let's spend some time tackling some side quests tonight, so come join me for more Chrono Trigger. www.twitch.tv/eroivas

Oh goodie, Pumpkin Spice Palpatine has now declared war on IKEA. I'm guessing he couldn't figure out how to put together a bookshelf.

(2025) A Mom's Joy brianjfrench.carrd.co #photography #blackandwhite #studiophotography

ICYMI: Chrono Trigger, Stream 5, in which @libbycudmore.bsky.social declares her undying love for Lucca. youtu.be/5JQoXgCUX5Y

Coworker: Do you fast for Rosh Hashanah? Me: No that’s Yom Kippur. We start fasting at sundown. Coworker: I thought it was at midnight. Me: No, we’re Jews. You’re thinking of Mogwai.

🎵Nothing I can say A total collapse of Detroit🎵🎵

ICYMI: Photography art stream -- Stream 50 -- Mixed photo editing youtu.be/skHXSM9zt-Y

the rapture is a hilarious idea that the american protestants made up in the mid 19th century as a way for chickenshit losers to spare themselves the miserable horrors they liked imagining for other people skipping suffering??? NOT VERY CATHOLIC TBH

What I should've done at 18 instead.

Came out publicly as bi a year ago today. It's been nice to not be afraid of that anymore, so happy Bi Visibility Day, and hope none of you have to roll for stealth.

once again, if tylenol caused autism, america would have a better rail system

Happy Rosh Hashanah y'all.

In a bind for funds as I’m still searching for a job and I’m having to appeal my disability case again. If anyone would like a commission, I have slots open. Even some dollars thrown my way help a lot. 🥹💙 Thank you~ ko-fi.com/aorticinkwell #Art #Kofi #Commission

You look at every culture that's ever existed and the running theme is everyone pretty much just wants to play/dance to music, make art, eat stewed meat wrapped in flat bread, and tell stories about the shapes we find in the stars. Somehow we turned that into wars and overtime and profit margins.

ICYMI: Photography art stream -- Stream 49 - Maternity shoot photo editing youtu.be/EmjK_5IFAro

Quick update to remind folks that tomorrow evening I am recording the last episode of DLC for 2025 tomorrow night at 7 PM ET, talking about the rise, fall, and resurrection of Game Informer magazine. Anyone who wants in, let me know!

The demo for Lady Dracula, my "Castlevania for girls," has been released. Play now: store.steampowered.com/app/4044270/... Wishlist Lady Dracula: store.steampowered.com/app/3624840/... Glitch art (TV shots) by @glitchwolfe.studio Music by @mikhailagkonov.bsky.social Game by me. #castlevania

Untold causalities and eventualities may or may not unfold, because time's a soup, really. That said, more Chrono Trigger, live right now: www.twitch.tv/eroivas

In other news, I have another interview for a promotion at a different state agency. Although I'm not quite as hopeful with this one, it sounds like it's an incredibly high-stress position that would involve a lot of travel. But we'll see.

So I've been taking a break from FB almost entirely for about a week now, only posting when I go live on Twitch. Messenger's off my phone. And I'm noticing (which also happened when I experimented with going back to a flip phone) -- my world is so much quieter. I hear from friends so much less...

Social media algorithms can go fuck right off into the sun.

Did two unplanned art streams, now you get a not-quite-unplanned Chrono Trigger stream! www.twitch.tv/eroivas

While the fucking US is making being trans and autistic illegal. Just know that at least one level in all Dishonored games and DLC (yes even that one) was designed by an autistic trans woman. Daud. Timsh. Clockwork Mansion. Bank Job. Autistic trans girl shit. Even without that, I deserve to exist.

(2025) Black-Eyed Susan Shot on Ilford Delta 400 medium format film. brianjfrench.carrd.co #photography #blackandwhite #filmphotography #nature

Choir cancelled tonight, so another unexpected free evening which means another photo editing stream, so stop on by! www.twitch.tv/eroivas

Chrono Trigger, Stream 4 youtu.be/50khd50e6yY?...

Eventually it becomes impossible to be a normal person and not be a socialist because the rich take everything away from you other than hating them

I'm finding myself. A version of myself less ruled by fear and expectation.