Alex Epstein

A tourist asked my friend @fredmkaplan.bsky.social how to get to Carnegie Hall, and he is kicking himself that he gave them directions.

Dragon Woman translated to "Dragon Woman"

Hey, Google Translate, I am pretty sure that the translation for "dragon woman" in Japanese is not "dragon woman" spelled out in kana:

This is a brilliant response. "People who are scared of cities are weak." Let's keep repeating that until it sinks in.

Saw dolphins at Main Beach this morning! Three of them!

I really appreciate alt text in a picture when I can't figure out what the point is.

They are wild, and the land is dry.

Anyone got a good onomatopoeia for a herd of stampeding horses? "Thunder" is a good descriptive word, but how do I write down the sound they make?

It's less convincing than almost any Marvel movie, or any Batman movie, but it's definitely a step up for Supes.

in a Southern twang! newspapers mattering! people changing their opinions!) and yet somehow timely (bad guys stoking fear of aliens! for-profit extrajudicial prisons! vaguely Slavic country invading its neighbor to "liberate" it!) even though Gunn has to have been making it for the past four years.

We saw Superman 'cause y'all are raving about it. The plot is kitchen-sink preposterous (anti-protons! black holes! pocket universes! dimensional rifts! decoding an alien language based on 50 words! successfully evacuating a city in 15 minutes! people in Kansas speaking

Open air screening of Jaws on Main Beach in East Hampton.

What's the best place to watch Jaws?

Z-grip Flight, hands down.

Looking over the news for the six months, I would like to know who it was who gave a pig a pancake.

Mustard for sale on supermarket site. An icon is marked Tariff.

Here's what my Quebec supermarket's site looks like these days:

"You learn about the world not through cutscenes but through conversations between the three Thorns. Vivian, Leo, and Dylan talk. Like, actually talk. About the past. About what’s happening. About each other. These aren’t one-liner cardboard cutouts, they’re people unraveling just like you are."

Every Day We Fight Review [Early Access] | Gets Better Every Time You Die｜Game8 2025.07.11 Every Day We Fight is a turn-based tactics game where the characters you control are stuck in a time loop. Read on to learn everything we know, our review of the early access, and more.

Game8 has some nice things to say about the storytelling in Every Day We Fight (and the rest of it!)(game8.co/articles/rev...):

"There’s a kind of slow-burn storytelling embedded in exploration. The game doesn’t shove exposition in your face. It lets you find it.

I keep having to double-check in my brain whether my references are a bit old for the Zoomers among my colleagues...

In other news, my daughter saw a typewriter and asked if it was a cash register.

Experience the new lancer Hurricane Season 2 begins June 26th. Experience the new lancer Hurricane. FragPunk is a thrilling 5v5 hero shooter where Shard Cards allow you to break the rules of combat and ensure that no two rounds are ever...

Our first two Fragpunk comics are up on the Internet! Now you don't have to kill anyone to read them. "All the King's Horses" is the first comic I ever wrote. How'd it turn out?

www.fragpunk.com/shardverse/c...

Hallelujah is another one of these pretty songs that are really very angry.

What restaurant?

Ludonarrative Resonance: The Game complicationsensue.blogspot.com/2025/06/ludo...

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My book is pretty expensive. BUT you can read a free sample on Kindle(www.amazon.com/Crafty-Game-...). AND you can get a discount at the publisher's site if you want the paperback!

Magnifico at Escaparium is crazy good. It is to escape rooms as Punchdrunk is to immersive theater.

Turns out escape rooms are almost never about escaping! complicationsensue.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-mi...

"The reasonable person adapts themself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to themself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable person." -- George Bernard Shaw (1903) (slightly emended)

Is that a Philadelphia Cheesesteak? I love Elton John's song about them.

I like mine a lot.

To make a great indie game, pick one thing to do incredibly well, and do everything else well enough.

Necessity is a mother

I imagine both sets have the usual aversion to greenlighting anything the previous administration developed, since they won't get full credit for it?