Brain Rot Blog

Old faithful

It's been a busy few weeks, between traveling, seeing old friends, and being short-staffed at work in between all that. But it's finally a weekend where I don't have anything going on, and we finally had our first snowfall of the year, so I figured this was a good opportunity to get…

Who are you, again?

I recently attended a presentation by author, Sue Harrison, where she talked about her journey to becoming a writer. She genuinely seems like a delightful person, and her personal story was an uplifting one. But when she mentioned that she has difficulty remembering faces--to…

Can a metaphor be a single word?

A rhetorical question, really; the answer is yes, but it's generally harder to accomplish. Today's word feels like an apt descriptor of...well, a lot of what's going on lately, if you stretch it a little. purulent, adj. - filled with, or oozing pus Learned from:…

Sinclair is refusing to broadcast Jimmy Kimmel. Here is a list of companies it invests in

You'd think eventually these people would get tired of being wrong about this.

My favorite time of year

Earlier today, my wife and I headed out to her folks' place to spend part of the afternoon helping her father harvest grapes, which we will later also help him crush to turn into wine. Somewhere, there's a photo of me grinning like a maniac, with my arms stained red damn…

Seriously though, the Dungeon Crawler Carl books are far better than they have any right to be.

Regarding yesterday's assassination, Matt Dinniman put it best in (of all things) Carl's Doomsday Scenario.

"I felt a sudden wave of anger wash over me. 'Now you're outraged? When it was your friend?' The cognitive dissonance was just overwhelming...'Fuck you. Fuck you all.' "
#CharlieKirk

Standalone

Recently, Merriam Webster shared a post about words you almost always seem used in pairs. Hem and haw; hither and yon (or hither and tither); pomp and circumstance, etc. Granted, it often only applies to one of the pairing, like "tither," or "pomp," since it's pretty easy to find…

Right back where we started

Well, as everyone and their grandmother knows, Hollow Knight: Silksong finally dropped this week. I haven't started playing it yet, because there are other games that had release dates set for around this time (before the big announcement overshadowed everything), and I…

You zagged when you should have zigged

I'm reading a book right now about how a lot of the discoveries and inventions in math and science that are traditionally attributed to the ancient Greeks might very well have actually come from other parts of the world. It's thought-provoking stuff, and the…

Hindsight

We're currently undergoing a remodel where I work, and it's...not really going as planned. They just got all of the offices usable again, a week and a half behind schedule, the new desks they put in take up like 75% of the floor space, and one--and only one--of the offices has carpet…

#AssassinationClassroom #TakopisOriginalSin

I love #anime because it's the only medium I know that can support not 1 but 2 poignant explorations of man's inhumanity to man as told through stories about goofy-looking octopus aliens trying to make children happy.

There was an old racist who stole the weapons, to get the money, to pay for the food, to distract the public from the fact that he's on the Epstein list.

I've never understood his recurring fixation on this; did a windmill kill his father or something?

Baby’s first dictatorship

It's been a weird week when it comes to entertainment. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert got cancelled for "financial reasons," which is a weird way of spelling "fear of retribution from a petty tyrant." But then, mere days later, the same company renewed South Park for…

Where we’re going, we won’t need…eyes.

You might be expecting me to be talking about a horror game today, with a title like that, but nope. Bit of a story behind what brought this word to mind: So, my wife and I went to see the fireworks downtown last week. Our city is situated on a lake, so we…

Tragicomedy

2025 has been an absolutely incredible year for games so far, which makes for a nice high point to distract us from, well...everything else. But the year's only half-over, and we've already had Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (my presumptive GOTY, unless something else really floors me),…

I really miss #E3, because you could just sit down and watch one show in the summer, instead of trying to keep track of the 10+ other shows that have sprung up in its wake.

Games like this are why I love indie devs. It looks weird, and different, and much more interesting than most AAA titles I've seen in awhile.

Busy news day

I really wish I'd learned the word "haboob" (a dust storm) from a game, because it would be perfect, considering there's one sweeping across Florida right now. Also, I guess I am perpetually 12 years old. But speaking of 12-year-olds, Elon Musk attested today to the worst-kept secret…

It could always be worse

And it probably will. Speaking mainly to my US readers here, but I mean...*gestures broadly*. In a month, they'll probably have banned schools, and sent children back to the mines, with breaks only for a few hours of sleep, and witch burnings where attendance is mandatory.…

Here comes the new boss

It's always a little surreal for me, when a piece of news takes the world by storm, and I personally end up finding it hard to care less. Nothing against those who do, but when all everyone's talking about is some British monarch getting married, or some celebrity having a…

Upside down

As I write this, it's May 2nd, 2025. If you're in the United States, that means it's 5/2/25: a number that looks the same if you flip it upside down, at least in certain typefaces, and so long as you ignore the slashes and the first two digits of the year. If you're in other, saner…

When you boil it down

If you've been on the Internet at all this week, I think it's statistically impossible that you haven't heard about the Oblivion remaster. I have mixed feelings on it, but the original did teach me some words, so let's get that out of the way first. alembic, noun - an…

#OblivionRemaster #indiegames #ClairObscur

Everything old is new again

Pixel graphics! '80s references across all of popular media! The stock market crashing! Retro is in, baby, and it's only a matter of time before 3D glasses make a comeback in movie theaters again...assuming theaters survive the streaming wars. But hey, paying way too…

I don’t think they know about second winter…

Ages ago, comedian and then-anchor at The Daily Show, Lewis Black, came to the town where I'd been going to college in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to do a stand-up show. My friends and I managed to get tickets for some of the last seats still…

I've played the first 2 chapters, and am loving it so far. But now I'm torn between playing 3 and 4 now, or waiting until the rest are out, and experiencing the rest of the story in one, uninterrupted go.