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Hot stuff, Nick!
Trying to figure out if the 8yo's Halloween costume request is at all feasible š
Need something Of The Time to read? Can't do much better than Barbara Yelin's Irmina and Caplan and Weinersmith's Open Borders. In one, a fiery progressive slides into Nazi complicity thru a series of banal choices, in the other we reevaluate our immigration policy both morally and scientifically.
(a la Witness)
Okay, that's good.
Little hand drawn animation and banjo theme I made. It's been a year since my brother's passing, it's hard to type stuff so l'll just let the video speak for itself. Thank you for watching. Keep going, enjoy the sandwiches.
My 8yo got to see marine animals for his birthday and could not physically contain his joy in the experience.
Currently Anders Nilsen's Tongues is in the lead for my comic of the year. I guess we'll see what happens when the final vol of Land Of The Lustrous lands in November; I could see that sweeping me well off my feet.
Just a wonderful example of subtitling.
Yeah, she was playing it normal and then just decided it needed some pizazz :D
Daughter working on figuring out a thing. The struggle is where all the good stuff comes from. Can't wait to hear this in three weeks.
It's okay to not put things in pockets appropriate to their size.
Thanks Josh! You never fail to be sunlight.
I'm not sure if the screenshot including the x,y coordinates elevates this as a piece of art or not.
It turns out I like drawing trees.
I started up The Magic Mountain this morning thinking I only had 12 hrs left. Immediately deflated to discover it was actually 15 hrs. It's not so much that I'm not enjoying it or don't think it's good but more that it's not at all what I want to read. But now I'm 2/3 through I've got to push thru.
Think tank sounded so cool when I was a kid. Then I realized it was less this: And more this:
A date with my dog! He's super cute and will bark a little fierce bark at you, like, a lot. Win-win.
And take my dog with you please. He's got to poop. At least let some good come from your blunder not seeing the problem.
Huh, I don't think I've seen a Mac requirement before. I've been doing professional design on Windows since 1998.
Shipbreaker is such a great game and while I enjoyed the story the first time I played it, not including a skip button on the cutscene monologues kind of sucks. I'm on my fifth playthrough and being forced to listen to Lou earnestly monologue through each "Hey Rook" is just grating.
I don't understand the brain that sees AI video and thinks, "Oh yeah. That's the stuff. This is beautiful. Love it." It's like those people who see 60fps upscales of 12 or 24fps animation and think, "Wow this looks better."
People on my FB are sharing an AI video where Kirk is talking about his death and introducing you to some of his friends who were also *martyred* for their faith. Friends like St Paul, St Andrew, and St Peter. Gruesome stuff. Wouldn't wish that on anyone.
At least you made a long day, one of our principal domestically produced goods.
Hundreds of hours toward earning an award just abolished in one more failure of the administration's thirst to dismantle things without understanding them. -_- Service for the sake of service is obviously a virtue, but when a reward for service is offered and then withheld, that is a lack of virtue
Another minor (comparatively) victim of DOGE's mishandling of federal services that nonetheless kind of sucks a lot is the Presidential Service Award. My kids have worked for years volunteering hours of time toward the award. We recently went to submit their hours and found the program suspended.
Today's churchdoodle: amethyst deceiver its name misspelled in the doodle. Also, pay no attention to trying to come up with a reason that someone might tape whole mushrooms into their journal.
I haven't played Earthborn Rangers, but from comparison reviews, I think they'd feel like pretty different games. I've definitely had some minor frustrations with Vantage (mostly that locational directions for quests can be extremely vague), but I've loved every game of it I've played so a far.
Vantage remains nuts and one of my new favorite boardgames. We crash landed, as per usual, and while Michelle fought and defeated a kraken and feasted on one of its tentacles AND THEN solved a murder mystery, the first thing I did was build a winery and explore the joys of viticulture.
Shades of 2002 -_-
That sounds like such a great group activity. I've seen several over the years but it's definitely the kind of thing I'd like to have on the shelf next to some Attenborough nature documentaries.
It's still insane that Manben isn't available on disc in the US. Like, what on earth, guys?
Haha, fantastic. I took mine at 12:20 at the sea lion pit at Sea World. They apparently aren't owned by Sea World but just love stealing food from the sea lions and the guests feeding them!
@unctions.bsky.social lookit this nutty thing
Every now and then on September 11th, you'll post a banger.
One of my all-time favorite photos is this one from 2015 of my tiny then-6yo daughter reading to me of the battles of Athelwulf and Guthram and Alfred while I unpack a pallet of my then-nearly-releasing children's picture book/graphic novel, Monkess The Homunculus.
Haha, that's great
She also, having only seen the OP, said that it looked A LOT like Nadia: The Secret Of Blue Water. She's always had a good eye.
She pretty much immediately put herself in that position -- not wanting to face incredible violence, fighting for her life against monsters larger than buildings, and knowing that 100s of 1000s will die if she doesn't -- and said, "That's... that's a lot to put on your shoulders."
Maybe she will get it.
Daughter asked she could watch Neon Genesis Evangelion (she's been practicing Cruel Angel's Thesis for her piano recital). I said, Sure, but I wasn't sure she'd like it. I told her about Shinji being her age and being terrified and traumatized. Her: "Oh, so it's like a shonen but with a real teen."
I like to think that in the end, Kim eventually came to respect my Heavy And Constant drug use, so long as I used it to solve crime in the wildest manner possible.
I know you can do playthroughs where you're dismissive of Kim, where you disappoint him into the distance; but I could never. Not even in something that's *just a game*.
It really is amazing that there are so many options that people will never encounter. Kim was the most important thing to me in the game. The game wasn't about the case or communism or getting Cuno on a better track or the encroaching Pale. It was about Kim. I wrote this at the time:
You focus on absconding with Radiant Spinners.
Tree drawing for work.
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I'm definitely biased because BOTW was in my top 5 games until it got knocked out by TOTK.
Wow, our last year of paddling was 1979, when I was in kindergarten. 1990 feels like an eternity later.
This is somewhat how One Hundred Years Of Solitude hit me. Being ignorant of the Colombian history GarcĆa MĆ”rquez is interacting with and commenting on, so much of what makes the book valuable was simply lost on me. I enjoyed the story, but was always haunted by knowing that I wouldn't Get It.
150 pages into The Magic Mountain and I'm not sure whether I like it or not. There are, certainly, bright spots (esp the meditations on time and illness), but much of the rest appears critique of the intellectual movements native to Germany at the turn of the 19th century, which are alien to me.
[this post could've been workshopped more - or at all.]
I'm 2 chapters into Kagurabachi and it turns out that the author read The Sixth Gun while trying to come up with an idea and thought, "This is amazing, but how can I do this but better." Two minutes later, Spinal Tap came on and he thought: I'll make it one louder! The Seventh Gun! NO! 7th KATANA!!
Guys, I applied for a job and even though I didn't get it -- get this -- I heard back within a week that I didn't get it! I'm almost as happy about that as I'd have been if I got the job! (Last time I was looking for work I'd get maybe four replies for every 100 resumes.)
Oh ho ho. www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
Have you played Two Points Hospital? That looks like a solid update on Theme Hospital, and is by the same people! But yeah, there looks like some solid overlap and I plan to try Two Point Hospital after I'm done with Megaquarium:
I also like to be up front now about who I was in my youth so that I can help other guys maybe get out of their toxic spirals more quickly than I did. I want them to know that it's even a possibility.
I was definitely all about protective guises, cosplaying the outsider as a means of protecting myself from legitimate judgments -- I gave people an easy exterior to judge at first look so that they wouldn't look too close at the real me and then judge *that* I've so much compassion for my own kids!
Haha, pure accident, but it made me happy to know I had a fictional brother in arms.
I was going to say That reminds me of the canyon sections of Cobra Command, but they were much more impressive in my memory. They're still rad, but Birth looks cooler. youtu.be/Q7E7HGL0TWY?...
My natural childbirth hippie friend was like, "Oh I love those guys! That's a good one!"
Haha! Reminds me of the time at work I unthinkingly searched something banal and brought up an NSFW youtube video of a natural childbirth at a riverside with the birthing couple just there naked, walking on the stony "beach" getting her ready.
It wasn't 'til my forties that I could finally be proud of who I was, that I could honestly say I was doing my best to be a Good Person. Some people get there faster, but I untangled myself slowly and some never untangle themselves at all. In any case, always aiming toward evolution.
It wasn't 'til the end of my 20s that I took a look at who I was, realized that I didn't measure up to who I thought a person should be, saw I needed A LOT more humility, and started working toward change. Four years into that process, I met Michelle and she helped accelerate that process.
If you asked me, I'd have said I respected women, but I didn't. I didn't respect anyone. I was a passive aggressive asshole and and my relationships through that decade weren't healthy.
Not entirely averted, I'm sad to say. I spent my 20s not being a great guy. This was pre-incels and social media so I didn't have that nonsense feeding into me (I can't imagine!), but I did grown into an arrogant turd.
And another funny thing? I was super self-conscious about my looks, thinking I looked gross and kind of like a total dork, but honestly? That's a decent-looking kid in that picture. I was pretty skinny, sure, but not bad looking at all. So, like, your typical future self-sabotaging incel-adjacent.
Of course, I was completely awkward, have no memory of the actual photo being taken, and have only this piece of photographic evidence to show that I had left ample room for the Holy Spirit between us. And several Swiss castles. And maybe even a manatee. Or two.
I was insanely happy about winning Best Eyes with her and the idea that I'd have my arm around her gave me not unreasonable chills of anticipation.
But as I was incredibly shy and could barely talk to anyoneālet alone someone upon whom all my young hope and dreams clung like a particularly frisky lemurāI of course never told her and, indeed, barely spoke with her. As was the fashion at the time.
Storytime: In sixth grade, I was voted Best Eyes for the yearbook. The girl who also won Best Eyes was this girl whom I had *deeply* adored since third grade. We're talking massive crush here.
Books 26-28 of 2025 Ascendance Of A Bookworm, Part 1, vols 1-3 by Miya Kazuki (2015), translated by quof (2019), performed by Reba Buhr (2024) bsky.app/profile/seth...
A friend in high school swore I looked like the MC, so he just started calling me what he thought was the character's name. [NOTE: It was not the character's name -- nor even a name at all -- but it was my nickname for YEARS bc of this book.]
Glacier Bay is so close you guys. Go get some great looking books! www.kickstarter.com/projects/gla...
Yeah! SOMEBODY'S gotta be desperate for my Area 88 floppies.
And weirdly, a used Bride's Story 13 is only 13 bucks, even though you can't buy it new. (unless that's just a temporary stock issue)
Yeah, Twin Spica is great but never caught on here so even though it's out of print, the more expensive vols are still only $30.
Sanctuary 6 sadly says helloš„²
For a book that normally looks like this (pic1), Ballad For Sophie gets pretty out there for a couple pages in the late '60s (pics 2&3 not very SFW)
Thank you for your service š«”
Oh that's interesting. I'm trying to think of the last places I've been that doesn't have a changing table. And I suppose they're all hole-in-the-wall restaurants where having a bathroom at all feels like kind of an afterthought. š
I just know that at the time, it felt like a real win that moms were beginning to not be shamed for meeting the needs of their babies, without being tapped on the shoulder and advised to cover up or feed elsewhere - bc the last thing Michelle or our kids needed in those moments was to get hassled.
And so I hadn't thought about it until yesterday when the mom next to me started feeding her baby in Starbucks, but that struck me as rare so maybe I missed a regressive cultural shift. Or maybe I'm just not in a place where the babies hang out.
Was there a generational backlash against public breastfeeding? 15 years ago when our littlest were little, it wasn't uncommon to see babies eating out, some with covers, some without. It felt like the culture was at a good place where it was gauche to object to feeding in public.
We got my 8yo Megaquarium for his birthday bc he and his brother are real oceanheads, but here's the secret: I'm loving it. I just finished the fourth campaign aquarium (the one that introduces cold-water creatures) and man it's great. Really disappointed to find that Switch only has one of the DLC
Oops for got the link to the archive of reviews: goodokbad.com/dailyrec/
481) The Adventures Of Alexander Von Humboldt 482) Angola Janga 483) Flash Point 484) The Harrowing Of Hell 485) The Quest For The Missing Girl 486) Bea Wolf 487) Portrait Of A Drunk 488) Kit + The Wolf 489) Look Back 490) The Hard Switch
I'm taking a week off to take care of some deadlines, but here's the latest 10 of my daily graphic novel rec series. Only 10 more to go until I've recommended all the graphic novels that can be recommended.
I like that pretty early on the construction hurdle becomes negligible through recipes, making it so the non-crafters can have a seamless game and the crafters can dick around making a heat-seeking tank with spinning mandible blades harvested from endbosses. Good worlds for both kinds of players.
If you're a platformer and you add PUSH ā¬ļø WHILE JUMPING for a downward attack, then I immediately stop thinking you're rad. If you add a camera mechanic that you need to use and you are not a camera game, then I immediately stop thinking you're rad. Worse if it's snap enemy while it attacks you.
Someone else said the same thing about my evaluation of Crime And Punishment as "a real hoot."
My mom told me yesterday that I've half convinced her to read Moby-Dick BUT that I'm the only one she's ever heard describe it as essentially A Very Funny Book, so she worries that it's just my sense of humor.
If it wasn't for her, that book would never have been made physical and would have merely remained digital vapor. She is a hero. Also, this was the campaign that convinced me I probably wouldn't do any more big money campaigns again in the future.
I still go on Facebook once a day to a) check my memories so I can remember the good and bad I've been through and done, and b) post things that future me will appreciate being reminded of. Like a year ago, the most anxiety-inducing campaign succeeded bc my mom donated $1500 at the bell.
I started Mann's The Magic Mountain and I have a LOT of book left (527 more pages), but I'm laughing at how CONSTANTLY it refers to Hans as "Hans Castorp." Not Hans. Not Castorp. Hans Castorp. I can't figure out what kind of book I'm reading, but I'm guessing rather arch comedy of some sort.
I'm like, Yeah, I dunno what to tell you. Maybe Mori got her Great Game-era fashion researched muffed, but you're wrong about the location. Like, she's pretty specific that Smith travels down south along the Aral and then east past the Caspian and finally arriving in Ankara. So that's a Kaz start.
My favorite of the nitpicky-randos genre of internet interaction is when people comment on my ancient review for A Bride's Story on goodreads to correct me from saying that the story begins in Kazakhstan. "The outfits are clearly Tajik!"
And the gum wrapper. My Juicy Fruit brings all the dogs to the caps.
Today's churchdoodle is indigo milk cap and a snuffling pup
