God fuck I found out this guy I used to talk to like 20 years ago is still around after we had a falling out and I'm not sure what to do with that knowledge.

I was watching a friend play Deadlock as the Doorman and my first question was "Is there an actual Baroness Hotel somewhere that's getting deluged by Google reviews talking about their doorman?" There is one, it's in Seattle probably not far from Valve HQ, and I'm not the first one to find it.

Weekly Shonen Sunday ToC for Issue 16 (2026). No Conan, Frieren, Aozakura, Kaihen, Kaiten no Albus, Akeboshi, or Major 2nd.

I did one final update to the Baldur's Gate 3 LP. Larian adds DLSS5 to the game and I figure out the secret to the final fight too late for it to be useful.

I'm glad I went ahead and got a 7900XTX when I built my PC last year because DLSS is going to be a fucking nightmare. What happens when the slop machine "hallucinates" mid game?

The Baldur's Gate 3 LP is now complete, as I join the 23.7% of people who have ever bothered to finish the game.

I tried some shitty Freelancer clone I had on Steam and the first thing it does is ask you to make a 20-minute long, unskippable trip to Mars to fill out tax paperwork. Imagine being that boring.

I would vote for Kat if I lived in Illinois.

Deadlock is such a bad fucking game it's unreal how people play it for any length of time. The same shit that was broken a year ago is still broken.

Highguard is now officially dead, which is probably for the best.

Acobou Highguard

Going live with Highguard again on this, the last day of John Highguard's life. twitch.tv/timrod

I just called for pizza and the guy on the other end was hilariously confused. Told him I wanted mushrooms on it, and I hear him put the phone down. "HEY MIKE, WE GOT MUSHROOMS AROUND HERE?"

A while back, I saw that @deviousvacuum.bsky.social got her own fursona and said "Fuck it, I'll get one". I browsed the tags on Furaffinity for one that had never been done before and got a sloth lemur. The artist is "MinionPiggy" but their Discord has been taken over by a hacker.

Me: "Hmm, this "Liar Princess" game looks interesting, maybe I'll pick it up." Me, seeing the publisher: "Oh, it's NISA. Translation's automatically a fanfic and I can safely not buy this."

A new Look Outside LP update has been posted. Sam spends two days playing a JRPG, overcomes his fear of clowns, and finally gives Jeanne her laundry back. He also does yoga.

Weekly Shonen Sunday ToC for Issue 15 (2026). Not appearing: Conan, Frieren, Aozakura, Kaihen, Kaiten no Albus, Maoujou de Oyasumi, or Shibuya Near Family.

I'm going live with Highguard at twitch.tv/timrod so that some day when historians write a book about high-profile game failures I'll get put in the screencap.

I talked to someone who saw my 100% of Highguard and went "You know you can just hack those in, right?" followed by "You.. did hack those in, didn't you?" Buddy, I wish.

I'm going to invoke that one Something Awful rule and say that if any of these jobs call me back, I will sing the worst song from Hazbin Hotel (it's called Brighter) and post it for all to hear. I can't possibly do a worse job than the actual singer for that.

I'm trying to cancel my old internet service and I wish that Biden-era "click to cancel" rule was still around because the ISP has made it a fucking nightmare to cancel with them.

I finally did it. I 100%ed Highguard. What a fucking rotten game.

I got the rarest achievement in Highguard and all it took me was hours of trying to get a lobby with farmers on both teams.

I switched from Frontier (which was charging me $10 extra a month every month until my bill went from $40 a month to $120 a month for 500 mbit fiber) to a local ISP and so far things are going just fine. $50/month for 1 gigabit.

I was checking my email and found an ad for "vaginal health gummies" and apart from them obviously being snake oil my first question was "do you eat them or like, put them up there and see what happens?"

I now have 69% of the achievements in Highguard and I feel like maybe I should just stop there.

I somehow got invited to a Nextdoor for the town of Caldwell, Idaho and every so often I check it for content like this guy who got bad KFC (as if good KFC is a thing).

@kobuddy.bsky.social Just out of curiosity, I'm apparently permabanned from your stream and can't figure out why.

I gave Highguard a try before it shuts down and I can safely say the world's better off without it. It is the most generic FPS I've ever played.

I think I just hate Resident Evil 9. Grace's segments are "What if the Grinning Beast chase from Look Outside was the entire game?" and it's dumb as shit.

A new Look Outside LP update has been posted. In this one, Sam finally meets his neighbor, murders his landlord, and then fights God.

Weekly Shonen Sunday ToC for Issue 14 (2026). No Conan, Frieren, Aozakura, Kaihen, Ogami Tsumiki, or Major 2nd.

I gave Dragon's Dogma Online a try and I can see why they never released it outside of Japan. The reason is because the game was MTX-ridden spaghetti where an enemy one level above you can do four times your max HP in one hit.

Me: "I wonder if anyone has modded RE9 to not have fucked lighting" Every single mod is "Grace has bigger breasts".

I posted the final boss update of BG3. Pollux fights the Netherbrain and its evil fanfiction bullshit. I get sick of the game and nearly uninstall it.

The final fight of Baldur's Gate 3 is so fucking bullshit that I'm considering killing the LP. Love when a game forces no-counterplay RNG and you have to just save every turn and hope you don't get stunlocked to death.

After like two hours of RE9 I can safely say I don't like it. Grace is laughably dumb and Leon's segments feel like they tried to combine RE4 and RE2Make and nothing works.

Started RE9 and I'm already not a fan of how it's trying to soft reboot the franchise.

Finished the archive LP of Bug Fables. I immediately lost all respect for it when I found out that literally 2/3 of the characters are random backer OCs.

Great, I wake up and we're at war with Iran. I'm sure the "Iranian people" are totally going to rise up and "take back their country" and it won't get taken over by the Taliban or Islamic State just like what happened in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Just spent like ten minutes finding my Dreamcast and as soon as I do it's revealed that the Segagaga translation is a shitty MTL done with GenAI that was "reviewed" by actual people. I've seen manga done that way before and there's a word for it - WRONG.

Had a job interview, didn't go well because the person there knew my old boss but not about any of the shit he did and then asked why I'd prefer they not contact him. Maybe it's because of the time he (allegedly) sent an anonymous letter to the media about one of his former employees.

A new Look Outside LP update has been posted. A bunch of fungus gets lit on fire as we clear up the remaining bosses.

A new Look Outside LP update has been posted. A bunch of fungus gets lit on fire as we clear up the remaining bosses.

@frankiepixel.bsky.social I'm doing a let's play of your game and the world wants to know - why is there no scene where the Laughing Mold meets Pierre?

I looked up Look Outside fics on AO3 and regret it immensely. There are like half a dozen fics involving the Freds fucking each other, but no Pierre/Laughing Mold.

Weekly Shonen Sunday Issue 13 (2026). No Frieren, Aozakura, Red Blue, Silver Mountain, Mizu Polo, Tonikaku, or Kaihen.

Gave Demon Tides a try, thought it sucked.

Look Outside asks "Who would paint themselves as some kind of angel god thing" and I had @saltyvanilla.bsky.social answer that question.

A new Baldur's Gate 3 LP update has been posted. In this one, we watch as Larian shamelessly rips off Monster Hunter and laugh as Gortash gets stuck on a treasure chest.