My nine games

The morally bankrupt Trump administration has partnered with another morally bankrupt authoritarian to declare an unprovoked war on Iran, already killing scores of civilians. We need an immediate vote from Congress on a War Powers Resolution. Then articles of impeachment.

I am slowly uploading some of my old writing from my time on the college paper to my blog - honestly pretty proud of this review of Blade Runner 2049! maybe this is the year I finally write the follow-up piece blarple.net/blade-runner...

new album is good enough that I now feel completely comfortable blaming the last two (v bad) on the fact that their banjo player turned out to be an evil Jordan Peterson freak youtu.be/NFsqfZ6Mnrs?...

all I’m saying is that I would love to be sent lavishly crafted special editions of big cool RPG books to review in kind of a surface level way with clickbaity headlines and I could do it without occasionally “just asking some questions” about right wing dogwhistles or whether or not AI is good

the dark knight is a film that boldly asks the question, “what if Beetlejuice was evil”

jark doctor

I saw Batman V Superman at the Muvico Egyptian at Arundel Mills with a big group of friends and afterwards we were all just standing stunned in the lobby talking about some of the specific + weird plot beats and a man walking by turned and angrily went “come on man, some of us haven’t seen it yet”

emily got me expedition 33 for christmas, and i tried to pick up my pre-gamepass-cancellation save from April (approx 8 hours in) and it's incomprehensible. I would pay 150 USD right now for a Prima Guide. I do not want a website, I do not want a YouTube video, and for that, I am doomed to suffer.

rapidly approaching the 5 year anniversary of my first business trip - I’m probably gonna write something personal and sad about it? But also, I have so many good photos from my time on the road that I’d just completely forgotten about

thinking about making 2026 the year of considering the sega saturn

the silhouette levels from the DKCR games aren’t even that good. it’s not like they’re the Black Betty autoscroller level from that last Rayman game

just saw some pics of the town in California that Clint Eastwood was the mayor of and thought it was one of those stupid bits where people label some Scandinavian ice lake as Ohio. no wonder he‘s shooting everything in one take

real weird that i have the same last name as the wuthering heights director. she pronounces it the same way we do too, so like, we’ve gotta be related somewhere along the line. it does kinda recast my sorta contrarian willingness to “hear it out” as some kind of unconscious cousin defense response

this is a well known corollary to the "play the FF7 opening mission/bombing run theme when driving past an industrial zone at night" rule

holy shit i knew I was hearing the call of the squares of Civ 3 for a reason

new Mumford and Sons album’s got a single literally called “The Banjo Song” we are so back

Dude why do we keep doing “the mist” it’s not even that great of a story and it already has 1 good movie and a tv show! Give me a new “the mangler” or a new “the langoliers” or an adaptation of “Mrs. Todd’s Shortcut“ or “the sun dog” or literally any other king short story

They just want to make everything worse. They want us to die from diseases that could eradicated. They want dirty food and air and water. They want increased child mortality. They want a more unsafe, disgusting, hateful world. And the corporate press is like “but that’s a valid perspective tho?”

Absolute Batman hasn’t been quite my speed, but I’m really enjoying Fraction’s run on just regular Batman, even if I have a some issues with the legibility of the action. it is kind of a shame that it seems like the only axis mainstream popular Batman can revolve around is the Joker

the obvious move for season 2 of TASK is a crossover with MARE OF EASTTOWN, but what if we sent Tom Brandis west, on a special mission to the Steel City, hanging out with everyone’s favorite doctors at THE PITT

no phones, just living in the moment, etc. etc.

Bomberman collection on switch is pretty cool, I’m like the youngest possible person alive who still thinks Super Nintendo bomberman is the platonic ideal of multiplayer game

One thing I see a lot on reels is people posting “boss move” edits of scenes from that Hulu WeWork show as if the things they’re doing are ”aspirational” or “good” or “not absolute nonsense“ and every time I open the comments I just gotta wonder do people remember what happened to WeWork

I own the entire 2014 run and the Lemire one and I only watched the first episode of that thing. I was ready to be moonstruck and I couldn’t even make it to hour 2

for the past 10 years - since this backpacking trip to Ice Lake in the Wallowas - I’ve basically always had on my person a paperback copy of whichever Dark Tower book I was struggling through at the moment.

emily got me expedition 33 for christmas, and i tried to pick up my pre-gamepass-cancellation save from April (approx 8 hours in) and it's incomprehensible. I would pay 150 USD right now for a Prima Guide. I do not want a website, I do not want a YouTube video, and for that, I am doomed to suffer.

Devs (Alex Garland, 2020)

I wrote a quick piece about what it would really mean to abolish ICE

he’s gonna play Haro

the singles from the new lala lala album are absolutely incredible

Coming Later This Year. This is so stupid/funny it’s taking all of my willpower not to smack down a hundred bucks to preorder this moronic device. I love it

Please pay attention to what's happening in Minneapolis, Minnesota. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY Reposts are appreciated.

The Quiet Year is now back in stock no matter where you live! The Quiet Year is an award-winning map-making game about building community after the collapse. It comes in a little box with everything you need to play. And it's back in stock in the US! store.buriedwithoutceremony.com/products/the...

one touchdown each in that game huh. superbowl's gonna be a blast

taking a moment to post something positive in the face of all this - i have been thinking about the bone temple nonstop since i saw it on Tuesday. how did they do it. it’s a perfect movie and they hid it in the middle of a 28 days later sequel trilogy. Nia DaCosta, man.

i have never been to Sir Goony’s but my friend Austin loves to talk about it and then sadly look into the middle distance and say “it really went downhill when the hooters opened up next door”

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

This martyr could be any of us. He is doing what so many of us have been trained to do. Standing and recording on his phone, trying to warn his neighbors, and now he’s dead because armed, masked federal paramilitaries are acting with impunity to perform ethnic cleansing.

*Ninji Boy* 𝙃𝙀 𝘾𝘼𝙉 𝙇𝙊𝙒𝙀𝙍 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝘽𝙇𝙊𝘾𝙆

thank you to @ironageofcomics.bsky.social for educating me on the existence of this piece of art

maybe worst of all is that now we’re definitely gonna be the bad guys at the winter olympics

Hey, just purely out of curiosity, has anyone ever gotten the Rascal a-la-carte paywall to work? This is like the 3rd time I’ve tried to pay a dollar to read a piece and it simply will not do anything with any of my credit cards

getting word that the next American Godzilla film might feature him and Kong going up against SpaceGodzilla

Logging on once again to strongly reccomend THE ANIME BUSINESS by @animeigo.com youtu.be/g59AsmwgRUY?...

Crucial part of me becoming a person who loves point and click adventure games was me playing Putt Putt and Spy Fox with this monster

HamiltonBeach FlexBrew

I don’t think you should be allowed to have a podcast or be on Twitter if you’re in public office above like, city council. The only posts you should be doing are press releases.