Oh dear god, she's learned alchemy (anime edition)

My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.

No new pictures, where are you mentally?

Chappel Roan coming to Fortnite and a beet delivery to my house? Time to break out one of the best images I’ve ever made in my life.

oomf: *likes my tweet* Me: Oh thank God they still like me

I heard the Nintendo Wii crash noise in a YouTube video I watched today, and my brain, as usual, said "Hey, you want to make something silly?" #VideoEdits #YTPMV

So on the one hand, I feel really good now about not picking up Death Stranding at its all-time low (on Xbox) in the holiday sale. On the other, I'm starting to feel a bad way about getting the Pixel Remasters, playing through the first game immediately, and then dropping off them through now.

There's probably a very good reason I don't write about much any longer if it's not meaningless shitposting claptrap. I have little energy left as is than to be frustrated on main with the remnant. That said, I probably should have eaten more than one passable meal in the last, uh, measure of time.

Whenever I see that adage, I invariably think back to every viscous or remotely judgmental argument I faced in decades past about the supposed failures of new media, Wikipedia, and its mission particularly with respect to entrenched academic practices, and, man. I get pensive.

I am observing behaviors from the Heated Rivalry fandom that make the Spanish Inquisition look like a friendly door-to-door signature collecting operation

If pork roll is the Wario of offal varieties, scrapple is absolutely its deliciously questionable Waluigi.

ain't this that communist video game no one shuts up about

I already miss them dearly. Probably as good a time as any to mention that I plan on making a mastodon account soon, as soon as I decipher those arcane creation instruction runes and decide what cabal to apply to and finish any of the dozen other tasks I have on my plate (sigh).

Since Polygon is leaving it out of the headline: Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to put money into the pocket of a bigot who uses her wealth to further the genocide of trans people through lawsuits and legislation. Every 'free' game gives money directly to JKR, and they are complicit.

In light of every brand and their mother doing their own (largely undesired) year-in-review right now, I've decided it's time to jump on that bandwagon. Here's your tcdohl/PJM Wrap-it-Up 2025: You don't share enough photos of your pets with me, and it makes me sad. Please do better. Here's to 2026!

Everyone else's neurodivergence: smol snek must protecc hurr My neurodivergence: if anything happens to the Italian gymnast lady and her cheese wheels I will do a calamity

Feels like the highest form of praise for @famicom.bsky.social's egg sandwiches when I worry that I need to temporarily turn the room lights up high in order to triple-check that I didn't get yolk all over myself, lmao

𝘛𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘐 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘐 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯.

bad writing can lowkey be beautiful. not because the language is beautiful but because bad writing can reveal things about the writer that "good writing" would know to conceal or distract from. sometimes when reading bad writing I feel a terrible, thrilling closeness to the author.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an influencer in possession of a modicum of clout, must be in want of a Fortnite collab.

Babe wake up, new migraine inducer just dropped

welcome back ouya

"Vote blue no matter who" is the new "you pull you tank".

Not many things in this world involuntarily make me happy at this point in my life. But man, somehow the first peppermint mocha of the season still makes me crack a smile.

BREAKING: After months of stonewalling by Starbucks, unionized baristas just voted 92% to authorize a ULP strike unless Starbucks finalizes fair contracts & stops union busting. If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on November 13 – the company's busiest sales day of the year.

Worth adding that I've also unfortunately known a number of unhealthy, clout-needy, and outright threatening people through achievement hunting in XIV's in-game system. Some of that intersects with MMO player typing, sure. But it's still worth acknowledging how awful many can be with these systems.

<𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘦> I should call her.

𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲, having too much of a good thing by sleeping on my lap for half the day, now bereft of nutrition: <𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨> 𝐌𝐲𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟, possessing a miserable measure of time, heating up my first full meal of the day at 10pm due to being incubated earlier: What's wrong?? Didn't I just feed you??

"you're unhappy because you spend too much time on your phone" speak for yourself i'm posting this shit from desktop like a true lunatic

My favorite PS2 memory was how entirely nonchalant getting it was: I didn't buy one until I think some time into 2001 or early 2002, and it ended up being an impulse buy while I was out one day. (I want to say it was at the Funcoland in Bluestar, but I think it was somewhere in Watchung Square?)

I feel like we should be talking more about how, for most people, email ended up in the same weirdly deficient place as postal mail, except I at least don't need to put slippers on and go outside to check the former. I guess that makes it better? (I am terrible at keeping up with either.)

Me when the fries come fresh _and_ appropriately salted in 2025:

Me too, screencap of the third level clear in Falsion for the FDS. Me, too.

I feel like modern-day multimedia storytelling started getting really tiring after it became standard to have numerous extant side-stories and plot threads strewn amongst multiple different mediums, all for the unlikely chance one would show up in the "main" anchor storyline

People who say "history will judge" should check out a twenty dollar bill sometime.

Oh my gosh, I'm so happy that Clamp is finally returning to properly finish X's story!

The latest DevJam has now finished, and over 75 new achievements sets are now available for you to play for the MSX! With it also comes PlayJam, an event to celebrate these new releases by beating/mastering them. For more information, check out retroachievements.org/forums/topic...

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

"Don't call them skeets" was the canary in the coal mine

Almost went for the gif with the dramatic lightning flashes, but this seemed more appropriate (if clinical).

Hand to god: little remaining in this world feels as good as dropping a brand's rewards program and doing nearly anything else with your time and attention. Like I'm not going to go on about opportunity cost because that reminds me of people I'd prefer never to emulate, but cripes, it holds up.

I am begging Starbucks to stop sending me emails bragging about how they're "dropping protein".

gonna tell someone else's kids these were the three genders we had growing up

My mom used to beat level 20 and let the music play for me while Iaid in bed and she sat by the window. She never beat it on high, though. And neither had I. I don’t think a video game has ever made me cry more than Dr Mario.

Why are Joey Wheeler's sneakers in Fortnite? Why am I able to purchase these? You wouldn't even know they're from Yu-Gi-Oh on sight given the minimal branding unless you were a weeb-pilled elder millennial watching WB Kids in 2002. This is amazing, also maddening. Who approved this? Are they okay???

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system

these are the only photos that wikimedia commons has of this keyboard

This is not a good day to force me to switch off of Chrome, world. Think about what you're asking here.