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@alanmcmillian.bsky.social

Freelance cartoonist and graphic artist. Currently main artist on Mega Knockdown.

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Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you.

07.03.2026 00:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    đŸ’Ŧ 0    📌 1

I remember Nash Bridges, though. Mainly because of the aging hippie aesthetic and the episode with Tommy Chong and Phillip Michael Thomas.

07.03.2026 00:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    đŸ’Ŧ 1    📌 0

Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you.

Cadillacs & Dinosaurs

07.03.2026 00:37 — 👍 2    🔁 0    đŸ’Ŧ 1    📌 0

The end of season 4 of TNG ran, as a block: Q Who, Half A Life, The Drumhead, The Host, The Minds Eye, In Theory, and Redemption Pt. 1.

Those are some WILD swings in tone and content but they are also when the show was at its best no matter what the episodes are about.

06.03.2026 23:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    đŸ’Ŧ 1    📌 0

Sadly true.

06.03.2026 23:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    đŸ’Ŧ 1    📌 0

For reference, S1 of Discovery was an audacious failure, being daring and taking wild swings even if it didn't connect. But it did a lot more right than Voyager did.

06.03.2026 22:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    đŸ’Ŧ 0    📌 0

The strike against Voyager is just that it was boring. It pretty much failed at whatever it was trying to do (which was never really clear) and looked pretty sad in the attempt.

Enterprise was similarly pathetic but it found its teeth in the last season by deciding to be a proper prequel.

06.03.2026 22:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    đŸ’Ŧ 1    📌 0

I'll now be spending the rest of the night contemplating the universe where Star Wars flopped.

06.03.2026 22:51 — 👍 2    🔁 1    đŸ’Ŧ 1    📌 0

Careful, some people think those are fightin' words.

(To be clear I'm not one of 'em. I would pay real money to see Tom Paris get slapped.)

06.03.2026 22:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    đŸ’Ŧ 1    📌 0

I used this exact same gif in my reaction.

06.03.2026 22:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    đŸ’Ŧ 0    📌 0
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a man is standing in front of a city with a body of water in the background ALT: a man is standing in front of a city with a body of water in the background
06.03.2026 21:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    đŸ’Ŧ 0    📌 0
06.03.2026 18:55 — 👍 3    🔁 0    đŸ’Ŧ 0    📌 0

When you look at WB's track record with these things, it turns out to be wildly uneven: You can get a Donner Superman, or Superman IV. You can get a Dark Knight, or a Green Lantern.

Batman has the steadiest track record and studios are notoriously risk averse. Film makers have less to do with it.

06.03.2026 01:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    đŸ’Ŧ 1    📌 0

Reminds me of a bus trip to Canada I was on as a kid. We started watching Anne of Green Gables.

By day 3 the whole bus was chanting "We Want Anne!" like maniacs.

06.03.2026 01:20 — 👍 2    🔁 0    đŸ’Ŧ 0    📌 0

Sims style community development with Civilization style battles and political intrigue.

06.03.2026 00:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    đŸ’Ŧ 0    📌 0
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Match of the Day: TacBac (Lewis) vs MegaS (Nils)

Mega Knockdown on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1492750/...

#fgc #indiegames #fgcsky đŸ’ĒđŸ•šī¸

05.03.2026 05:25 — 👍 10    🔁 5    đŸ’Ŧ 0    📌 0
Game of Thrones Season 3 Unique Deleted Scene
YouTube video by ExploreWesteros Game of Thrones Season 3 Unique Deleted Scene

Maybe his best moment never actually made it into an episode.

youtu.be/Zb-RVIETRCE?...

05.03.2026 01:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    đŸ’Ŧ 1    📌 0
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It also taught me that Et in Arcadia Ego was a apparently a famous painting

04.03.2026 23:27 — 👍 3    🔁 0    đŸ’Ŧ 1    📌 0

I think a dangerous thing happened: I posted a video on YouTube and watched the view count go up and felt my brain release dopamine.

I may have a problem.

04.03.2026 23:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    đŸ’Ŧ 0    📌 0

Satire is often lost on those who with brains like hammers looking for nails.

There are some people who think Fight Club is just about dudes fighting.

04.03.2026 19:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    đŸ’Ŧ 1    📌 0

4 issue prestige miniseries. I think it might have been folded into the elseworlds line.

04.03.2026 18:54 — 👍 2    🔁 0    đŸ’Ŧ 1    📌 0

Or Metaphysical: Nothing assembled by a machine has the inherent worth of art created by a person.

04.03.2026 18:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    đŸ’Ŧ 1    📌 0

Isn't that a water treatment plant that also doubled as Starfleet Academy?

04.03.2026 08:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    đŸ’Ŧ 2    📌 0
Star Trek Outpost - animatic
YouTube video by Alan McMillian Star Trek Outpost - animatic

The recent discussion about #StarTrek story concepts reminded me of this (very rough, very unfinished) animatic that I made with some friends of mine years ago.

Two Starfleet shmucks out in the hind end of space.

youtu.be/2qBg4m6rUkA?...

04.03.2026 00:57 — 👍 0    🔁 1    đŸ’Ŧ 0    📌 0
Star Trek Outpost - animatic
YouTube video by Alan McMillian Star Trek Outpost - animatic

In fact, some friends of mine and I did a (very rough, very unfinished) animatic of what that might look like.

youtu.be/2qBg4m6rUkA?...

04.03.2026 00:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    đŸ’Ŧ 0    📌 0

Don't look at me, I prefer single player video game experiences and I'm more than happy to never have to experience gamer bros online.

04.03.2026 00:21 — 👍 3    🔁 0    đŸ’Ŧ 0    📌 0

Thanks. The great thing about MKD is that its the game for people who are terrible at fighting games because there is no execution barrier. You input your action, turn plays out, then you have time to decide your next move.

04.03.2026 00:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    đŸ’Ŧ 0    📌 0

I'm kind an old fart but Ive always felt like SFA had the perfect level of mechanical complexity and anything more than that was just inaccessible.

03.03.2026 23:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    đŸ’Ŧ 0    📌 0

Not for nothing but I'm a dev on @megaknockdown.com which is turning based but also uses RPS strategies.

03.03.2026 23:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    đŸ’Ŧ 1    📌 0

How do you know they weren't?

03.03.2026 23:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    đŸ’Ŧ 0    📌 0