outta my way lady i gotta write Jurassic Park

Let us all come together on the holiest of holidays: Rex Manning Day.

Why in the fuck does everything on the goddamn internet have baked in subtitles now?

I don't need a summary of what's available online, in biographies, or even in my own notes. I need to comb through and find the great details, decide what interests ME. No, it's not efficient. It's slow and painstaking. But I don't believe in efficiency as an ultimate good, especially in writing. /

The name has changed, but it’s still me.

Many square numbers are also round numbers. We’ve got people trying to sort this out.

May 16.

I hate robots so fucking much.

The Alan Wake games take place in a fantastical world where a hack crime novelist can be famous enough to get followed by paparazzi.

May 11

Thinking of becoming the kind of guy who calls movies “pictures” except I call TV shows “programs”.

This. A lot of people miss that Quidditch is intentionally nonsensical as a game. It’s the result of a writer who’s not a sports fan making fun of British soccer culture.

Anyone who appears to be sad about Sora going away is not a person.

The replies to this are a competition to see who can shout “I AM A GOOD PERSON!” the loudest. It’s kind of hilarious.

Cagic Mards

Also, when they reboot Bond, please let's NOT do that "Slow introduction of key elements over several films" bollocks like Craig did. Let's just go: "Bond, here's your mission. Here's your gadget. Here's your fancy car and love interest. Now fuck off and kill perverted oligarchs."

One of these days the almighty Apple corporation will build a laptop I can clean without accidentally turning it on.

Lost 5ish matches of Computer Magic in a row, causing my rank to drop from 230 to about 1000. As is Magic tradition I blame Mark Rosewater personally for this.

Saw a 12:30AM IMAX showing of Project Hail Mary the other day. I also walked to and from the theater. I worry I’ve done irreparable damage to my sleep schedule.

May 7.

Reminder that HORIZON: AN AMERICAN SAGA -- CHAPTER 2 exists on a hard drive somewhere, and The Man doesn't want you to see it.

Feels like this particular slop ad is on every goddam YouTube video I watch nowadays. I’m not sure what the product being advertised even is. Other than the downfall of human culture, of course.

I genuinely do not understand why MTG Arena’s frame rate is such dogshit.

So in the world of SINNERS is it possible for a vampire to drink someone’s blood without turning them into a vampire, or does Remnick spawn a new thrall whenever he eats lunch, in a neverending vampire pyramid scheme?

I don’t care if Kilmer’s daughter gave her blessing. This is stupid. This is not Val Kilmer, it’s a shitty drawing of him. The “AI” dumbfucks are incapable of understanding that people like actors for reasons other than the shape of the actor’s face.

So in the K-pop Demon Hunters world does North Korea kind of have to fend for themselves on the demon front or what?

Unless you are a chip or AI company, this new DLSS 5 stuff doesn't serve you. Spits in the face of artists who do real work. Spits in the face of customers who are served a soulless "quick-fix" nobody needs. Do we want cool games or do we want games full of tech-bro buzzwords?

Huntrslashx

4 TB SSD bought in 2019, kept in a desk drawer: Failed for no apparent reason. 1 TB HDD bought in 2013, banged all to hell, often kept in a hot car for months at a time: Still going strong. Things are strange.

Just watched Blue Moon. We don’t talk enough about how Linklater and Hawke are two of the best currently doing it. Also “Linklater and Hawke” sounds like a kickass mismatched duo of detectives, or possibly a law firm.

According to this thing, I am in the top 200 Computer Magic players in the world.

Firefly without Joss Whedon? What’s the fucking point?

Cups: like buckets, but smaller.

So close I can almost taste it.

Turn 3, on the draw. Historic is a silly format.

I bet living in zero gravity would do a lot to alleviate my back pain.

I’m not sure what a “Yamava theater” is but apparently it’s the source of 90% of Spotify’s ad revenue.

Someone’s going to need to make an episode III poster now.

England is a pretend country.

One of the coolest things about mountain climbing is it’s totally optional. You can just not do it.

in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with. this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US.

Ever get one of those opponents who you feel a little bad about curb stomping?

Just saw a trailer for a new biopic of Michael Jackson. I wonder how this hagiography will address the fact that he almost definitely molested a bunch of kids.

We’ve had teetotaler presidents for the last 9 years, and I think that explains a lot.

Historic is a dumb format.

Gagic the Mathering

Burbank has a weirdly high concentration of gun stores.