ICE = emotionally immature, underdeveloped nutjobs (oftentimes felons who wouldn’t qualify for a post office position) with a license to carry. They can’t meet their ignominious end fast enough.

Oh wow. Jump on this. www.humblebundle.com/books/lone-w...

59 cover versions of John Cage's 4:33 -- a mostly silent track -- leading to 58 versions of near-silent cover versions. Your mileage may vary. mutebank.co.uk/products/var...

What.

Watching Heat and just funny how it stars one of the biggest Trump suck ups (Voight) and the dude who knows what’s up (De Niro).

I hate the Xbox as a blu-ray player, but my Sony 4K player is on the fritz so I have to use it as a player, and every time I touch the controller I FFWD a chapter. So I put the thing on a couch ledge out of the way. Somehow it leapt to its death, rewound an entire chapter AND managed to power off.

I've never met a less compelling product. www.kickstarter.com/projects/hum...

I don’t think I own anything finer.

You had me at "Motherfucker have you listened to yourself." aftermath.site/please-seek-...

A couple of amazing new gets, signed by Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange). To go with my signed Clockwork Orange, etc.

Pet peeve: Newscasters, video bloggers, influencers holding clip-on mics to their mouth. Or even worse, corded Apple earbud mics to their mouth. It’s like…..

Yesssss.

Classic.

Revisiting The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter, but what’s up with the archers in Santa hats?

I’m impressed by Assassins Creed Odyssey’s ship customization. It’s quite deep. Is Black Flag’s just as good/better/worse? You know what game had good naval combat? Pirates: The Legend of Black Kat on Xbox.

New trend I can't abide is companies adding a tip field to the checkout step. Sure everyone wants a few extra bucks, but are you kidding me?

I sure wish someone would make a game based on a Q Hayashida manga. Dorohedoro or Dai Dark (although I guess technically Maken X fits the description, even though her manga was based on the game and not the other way around).

Awww, just got a holiday card from @chuhailabs.com. Thanks @kinszilla.bsky.social 🫶🏻

My kids are watching Big and there ist really requires massive suspension of disbelief. The transforming into an adult version of yourself being the least fantastical thing about it. I’m talking about getting paid or an apartment without identification, etc. Parents idling while son is missing etc.

I just realized bender from futurama and jake from adventure time are both voiced by John DiMaggio.

Dreadful day in Wellington.

US/Japan power plugs (minus the grounding plug) > every other power plugs. European plugs, and Aussie/NZ plugs suck because you can’t flip the plug around, and more often than not you’re dealing with cut-outs at odds with the non-standardized shapes that moronic adapter makers produce.

I’m so phenomenally dissatisfied with the 8BitDo SN30 Pro. The other day it wouldn’t pair with my Steam Deck at all. Today it did, but pressing right on the analogue stick makes the cursor go up, left = down, right = up, down = right. No amount of restarting or resetting fixed things. 🗡️

My third time trying to finish The Last Duel.

Really digging Assassins Creed Odyssey. Just me and my cyclops. I love the little details, like dumping an enemy in the water and the blood spreads (and then washes away). Nice and casual and I can take my time with it.

Probably the most beautiful steelbook I’ve seen for a game.

Donkey Rhubarb. #AphexTwin

Which is the best Assassins Creed? I’m finally getting around to Odyssey. It looks like a lot of fun.

So clean.

These collab mash-up mecha are hilarious. The King Mickey jumbo mech of olde is one of the best, but this one despite the incredible Frankenmecha illustration —especially considering the participants— is so bad in its actual form.

Yoshitaka Amano showing me one of his recent works, in the summer of 2005. I remember sweating off 20 lbs that year.

The funkiest song I’ve heard since the turn of the millennium. youtu.be/RecY5iZn6B0?...

Really? Why? Is it because Japan Studio was shuttered before they could do the thing? Japan Studio > everything.

I’m dead serious when I say we should squad up in Lost Planet 2.

I thought this was much better than it gets credit for. James Mangold did good.

If you haven’t seen Mr. Holmes I highly recommend it. Imagine if the world’s greatest detective is losing his memory but has one last case to solve. That’s the premise.

My PS5 disc drive, which is set to Region A, is giving me this nonsense for a US blu-ray. Lionsgate is such a pain in my ass.

Oh shi…

Nailed it. #NYE

PSA:

Promotional Tokyo Jungle gloves. Why, I dunno. They just are.

Found a fresh, polybagged copy of my cover story for OPM on Hideo Kojima, the first time we’d put a person and not a game on the cover. Coincidentally also found an open copy so I can re-read it, and save the other one for slabbing.

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Paul Sinclair of @super-deluxe.bsky.social scores extra points from me for not slagging Johnny Hates Jazz and instead calls their debut LP ‘the perfect pop album,’ which is most certainly is. Polished, tuneful. Late 80s stuff for sure, but better than Bros FFS. superdeluxeedition.com/reviews/revi...

The craziest of taxis.

Best Of 2025: The Making Of Earthion - "Working On It Again Reminded Me Just How Incredible The Mega Drive Really Is".

Good grief. Watching Last Of The Mohicans on streaming and the quality is approximately ‘early DVD,’ at best. Usually streaming upgrades to the best current quality and this is dismal. Background details, faces, etc., are 480p-tastic at times. 4K is desperately needed pronto.