Apparently we were robbed of an adult version of Moby Dick? Probably for the best, really.
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Apparently we were robbed of an adult version of Moby Dick? Probably for the best, really.
My god, man. You gotta give Dishonored 2 another shot. The clockwork mansion! A Crack in the Slab! Absolute masterpieces of game design.
LET HIM DAMMIT.
It's like I can hear Wonderwall coming from that image.
Happy 86th birthday Lily Tomlin. My first memory of Lily was watching her singing and signing "Sing” on Sesame Street. Till this day, I still associate this song with Lily more than The Carpenters.
Verdict on the Fresh Peach Pie: so good! Some peach pies are super runny. Not this one! It all came together. And yeah, tasted great with vanilla ice cream. 100,000/10. This is excellent pie.
🔴 Our PAX West panel re-stream is LIVE! twitch.tv/borderlands
The lords of bakery demand their tribute. I am merely their servant.
It is a little messy, but it still looks pretty good. And it's likely to be delicious when served with a dollop of vanilla ice cream. I had to get one more peach pie in before the end of summer. I've got one more pie weekend before this game ships, so next weekend I'm thinking lemon meringue.
O dark lords of the blistering summer lands, I come before you today with my latest offering: a Fresh Peach Pie. May this slightly messy baked delight be worthy of your approval. #pieforthepiegods
Man, what a great story. Well done, @wes.readonlymemo.com! The LaserActive is one of those weird, forgotten systems. Incredible that it's finally getting emulated. www.readonlymemo.com/this-is-the-...
He was also a pretty shitty human being.
At the AFI Silver with the family to see Vertigo in 70mm!
Ours is the same way. Some cats put all their points into stealth.
Reactions to Del Toro's Frankenstein are hitting. It's a two and a half hour, visually extravagant, slavishly faithful adaptation of the book. Which is definitely divisive, but also...totally made for me.
Oh snap, Tron Legacy is finally getting a 4K release. GIVE ME THAT. gizmodo.com/the-first-tr...
I predict this venture lasts half a Quibi.
Let this be a lesson: always sleep in superhero onsies. You never know when you'll be called to service.
I've had this particular football pulled out from under me one too many times to get excited again. But still...fingers crossed. And really, it's 2025! There's nothing in Swamp Thing #88 that's worse than Preacher, and that came out 30 years ago at this point! bleedingcool.com/comics/dc-to...
Listening to @wamu.org this morning, and they just played music from The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover between segments. All it takes is the tiniest hint of that music and I'm completely transported back. A perfect film. youtu.be/RFRCazQPLbE
Hey, pay attention!! ☝ From Aug. 29-Sep. 29, you can earn the "Watch, Drop, and Roll" ECHO-4 Skin Twitch Drop by watching any Borderlands 4 stream for 30 minutes on either the official Borderlands 4 or Gearbox Twitch channels. Full Details: borderlands.2k.com/twitch-drops/
Congrats to my pal Richard Dansky on the release of his brand-new book, THE VIDEO GAME WRITER'S GUIDE TO SURVIVING AN INDUSTRY THAT HATES YOU. I'm reading it right now, and this is the exact book I wish I'd had when I was starting out writing for video games.
Looks like Archive.org has you backed up (with images!). web.archive.org/web/20060218...
A small controversy erupted on the pie subreddit after someone posted a photo of a cheesecake. Let it be known that I am firmly of the belief that cheesecake is pie. It is filling in a crust. Quiche on the other hand, is not pie. It is an abomination. We will not speak of it again.
I really hope an underground, "Dr. Weed" style approval system pops up so more people can get access to this. Signed, a man under 65 currently testing positive for covid who really, really doesn't want to get a worse variant. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
Here's your weird video game history for the day. The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay was cancelled for 2 weeks - but nobody at the studio noticed. Watch our video on the history of MachineGames here youtu.be/SAEdFG7_X_w
Are they planning a midnight launch
On 27th August 2015, The Shepherd's Crown, the last book Sir Terry Pratchett completed before he died, was published. To mark the ten year anniversary, we have a message from Rob Wilkins:
Do the president and the cabinet not have, like, things to do? It’s just hours everyday now of him saying stuff like “I personally signed the Khitomer Accords” while department heads nod.
Woah. And I thought our conference rooms were elaborate. They ARE, but...woah.
They give us media training every time but you’d never believe it
According to the nurse practitioner I spoke with, I have the "good" COVID. She referenced something called "razor blade throat" which doesn't sound like something I want. I'd rather you know, not have COVID at all, but hey, I'll take it.
Chapelle is so damn talented that it hurt me to watch that last special. It just wasn't *funny*. It alternated between punching down on trans people and rich guy whining. What a waste.
Ziff Davis and IGN routinely decide that work done by our laid off colleagues is not important. But inevitably, that crucial work falls onto those who remain. Not this time. Not anymore.
That's a solid top three. Mine are probably Superman '78, Spider-Man 2, Rocketeer. With Into the Spider-Verse and X-Men 2 shortly behind (although I haven't watched XM2 in so long I dunno how well it holds up).
Oh, sure the tentacles are harmless. But what about the razor sharp teeth, and bone rending claws? www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
We could use more execs with your passion. ❤️
Verdict on the Really Good Key Lime Pie: unsurprisingly, really good! I don't know if the pretzels in the crust do all that much (added salt, I guess?) but I do love the meringue. And the filling is classic key lime. 500,000/10. This is great pie.
This deal extends even to pre-orders, so that means it includes the upcoming Jaime Hernandez complete Locas collection, and the new edition of The Eternaut!
According to my notes I've made six key lime pies before, but I've always used the same recipe. This one is from Cook's Illustrated, and has two twists: ground pretzels in the crust, and meringue, not whipped cream on top. Key lime is easily in my top three pie, so looking forward to eating this.
O bleakest lords of the summer swelter, I come before you today with my latest offering: a Really Good Key Lime Pie. May this light and airy confection be a calming wind through the fired depths of your domain. #pieforthepiegods
Just got hit with a very severe/unexpected bill, so if folks wanted to purchase a #ttrpg in these trying times, that would be very awesome. (Boosts appreciated even more than normal) Dthru: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher... Site: undergroundoracle.com/collections/... Kofi: ko-fi.com/jesspendley
I am a Gazpacho Guy (TM) and can confirm, this is *excellent* gazpacho. My only issue: I prefer mine a touch chunkier. This is super smooth gazpacho. Leave out the straining step and it's pretty much perfection.
I'd swap 1 & 2, but that's personal taste. Otherwise, perfect list, and I don't think I've even seen some of those ones Dimension cranked out to hang on to the rights. 2022 was a bummer. I had high hopes.
Gillan's Scottish, so going by the first HIGHLANDER movie, this means she'll play an Egyptian born Spanish swordswoman.
My guess is that L&O (*especially* in the '90s!) was just an absolute actor mill. They employed all of Broadway, which is cool, but that also means they had a constant talent pool ready to go.
Seriously though, this is AMAZING. Game preservation is about preserving history, warts and all. These games suuuuuuuck. But they're an important part of MK history. I'm glad this won't just be a super polished collection of the games everyone already knows they love. (Alas, no MKT for Game.com)
Wow. Hats off to @digitaleclipse.bsky.social. You sickos actually did it.
This is true! And get a load of that amazing @cashbrowns.bsky.social poster! (Unfortunately it lands on our launch weekend so I have to work, but I plan to duck out for a few hours to swing by)
Of course by 2001, he couldn't afford to pay me full time anymore. But not a bad first gig out of college.
I made $30,000 a year writing posts full-time for Blue's News in 1999.
This is almost certainly because they started writing them before the reboot, and then only had minimal interaction with the other creative teams! Jeff Lemire suggested as much when I interviewed him.
Pretty much the same with me. I never played 3 at all.
Either the Alien or Predator series. Both have had decent rebounds very recently, but everything from Aliens until Romulus was pure garbage. Predator only had ONE good movie until Prey. And let's not even talk about the AvP films.
I don't know that I can muster up the excitement for a new RTS in 2025 but...these Dawn of War 4 previews sure have me interested. www.eurogamer.net/ive-played-w...
Up until June, my wife's job title was "Historian of Global Slavery" at the Smithsonian NMAAHC. Hence, I have strong feelings about the administration's words in support of erasing the history of slavery today. Expecting he'd be doing something along these lines, we went ahead and pulled... 1/2
Your reminder that if you want to read a fantasy series written by someone who wasn't a complete shit, hellbent on making the lives of marginalized people worse, the work of Terry Pratchett awaits.
I love the side-scrolling beat 'em up renaissance we're in right now. They all look (and play!) so good!
Hah. Wow. I have too many feelings to post here. Just...wow. youtu.be/7TsP09cZA7o
The fucking protein powder has a shrink wrap arbitration agreement now? This is like a nightmare law school hypo
Guys, I LOVE Outlaws. Great game. Dark Forces engine western. Amazing story. A soundtrack I still listen to. So happy it's coming back from Nightdive. I can stop nagging @pripyatbeast.bsky.social and @larrynightdive.bsky.social about it now. :)
*deep breathing*
*golf clap*
Not a writing role, but you'll still help us make a kickass story as lead narrative producer www.cdprojektred.com/en/jobs/2010...
JOB ALERT: Gearbox is hiring a full-time Senior Writer role. job-boards.greenhouse.io/2k/jobs/6676...
That 100% reads to me as, "Ms. Now"
Ahhhh this pie is so good. Alas, this was the final piece. But yeah, great pie. Will make again for sure.
I recently read her autobiography, Last Girl Standing. What a life she led! She floated through every scene in the sixties. Hell, Joni Mitchell wrote her into a song! (She's Trina with the wampum beads in "Ladies of the Canyon").
Yeah but that lighting though.
Verdict on the Summer Berry Pie: so good! First slice was a bit of a mess, but that happens, especially with graham cracker crusts. But most importantly, the filling is great (and set!), and topped with whipped cream it's delicious. 100,000/10. This is damn fine pie.
The only downside to Glenstone is that while it's free, you have to get tickets well in advance, and they run out very quickly every month. But because of that, they can really limit attendance. There are no crowds, no lines, just wide open spaces for the artwork. Like I said, it's really special.
Took the family to Glenstone today. The museum itself is as much a work of art as the pieces on display. And there's no commentary! They embrace Duchamp's idea that art happens between the work and the viewer (naturally, he's in the collection). It's really a special place. www.glenstone.org
O multicolored lords of the dying summer light, I come before you today with my latest offering: a Summer Berry Pie. May this cornucopia of seasonal fruits be worthy of your approval. #pieforthepiegods
This is a pie I've made a couple of times before, but both times I had serious issues getting the fruit to set. This time it looks like I nailed it. Looking forward to eating this one.
O multicolored lords of the dying summer light, I come before you today with my latest offering: a Summer Berry Pie. May this cornucopia of seasonal fruits be worthy of your approval. #pieforthepiegods
Thanks to @justjakesimpson.bsky.social I've gone down a rabbit hole of looking into teasmade machines - automated tea makers. They apparently go back to Victorian times, but were mostly a thing in the '60s and '70s. They all look like something out of Wallace & Gromit, and now I want one.
I had never heard of this thing, but just looked it up. That's...really cool? I'm shocked such a thing doesn't exist anymore.
Very nice! Channeling your inner Giger, I see.
I have no idea how it's possible, but yep.
Jamie Lee Curtis is a National Treasure.
This movie is legendary, because it's the one theaters wanted, but were required to take Star Wars along with in order to screen.
There are two, totally unrelated, working actors named Peyton List. I don't know what this means, but that information lives rent-free in my head, so now it's in yours.
Whenever someone shows a PowerPoint in non-presenter mode.
A comic I did decades ago that captures my measured response to current events #fuck #D.C. #FalseCrimeWave
Just trying to imagine the kind of person who makes ultimatums about condiments.
I had to try it. Holy crap, it works!
Woah. Stable, full-speed performance, with audio.
Great thread. Really looking forward to watching this.
That one's new to me! I'll have to check it out. I have used AbeBooks before.
We drive up and down from MD to NY and CT all the time, and I really want to take a side trip as a pilgrimage. But my wife absolutely will not understand why I need to go an hour out of our way to visit...a mall.
Mystery solved! www.thewrap.com/great-americ...
Yep, we did that too. Still own them, but doesn't feel right displaying them with pride anymore.
I am of course, keeping my Gaiman books. Those still mean a lot to me, even if I don't feel comfortable proudly displaying them in the same way.
