Christopher Gates

I revisited my "Trees Hate You" project. I'm just continuing to come up with new ways to get bullied by foliage. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiegame #ragegame

not all heroes wear capes, etc.

once when I was at a CVS, police removed a very drunk man from the store, but left his handle of vodka behind. after the commotion died down, an elderly woman behind me left the line, filled her empty Starbucks cup to the top with booze, put the bottle back by the bathroom, and walked out the door.

what if I made a jrpg

the platonic ideal of a film noir, maybe

did they think kendrick lamar was elmo

oh hell yes

I think what really needs to happen re: The Game Awards is we all need to boycott it. it goes beyond Future Class; the game awards exist to push marketing at people. it's not a real award show and it's not produced by people who care about gamedevs at all. we're just props.

Also can video game journalists, please, please stop framing QA as a 'gateway' into the industry or a way for people to get their foot in the door so they can go into 'more creative' disciplines? QA is its own specialized field which requires very capable and specialized professionals.

the lack of "Joe Dante" in this report is concerning

"Try and calm down-" said Billy. "Where were the There. The novelizer, Mr. David Bischoff, Esq., has been successfully waylaid and is now tied up in the bathroom of his Los Angeles apartment. Do not attempt to adjust your book. We have control of the programming. Please excuse the rudeness. You have previously known me as the "Gremlin that drank the brain fluid"-or, as Bischoff quaintly called me, Mr. Glasses. Believe it or not, in the screenplay, I am referred to as BRAIN GREMLIN. I want to take this opportunity to talk to you about our philosophy toward life, so that we will not be misunderstood and branded as "monsters. Yes, but faithful novel readers, I do not intend to cheat you. In the movie presentation, Gremlins take over the movie theatre (ah, what a delicious conceit-excellent, Joe- was that you?) and Hulk Hogan comes to the rescue. I do believe that Kenneth Tobey of THE THING is somewhere in there. However, let us now deal with more intelectual matters. ism that is the vast American untermenchen, In the great paradigm of anti-intellectual- there needs be a seismic quake of thought, a veritable avalanche of anarchy, to wake

you somnambulent beings from your couch-potato torpor. May I offer you the services of we Gremlins. You may hereafter refer to us as the New Capalist Democratic Nice Folks. Already our numbers are spreading out from the heart of America to aid you in this endeavor and although you may be viewing this physically for the first time now (except for those lucky citizens of Kingston Falls who received a foreshadow some years ago) our intellectual forces have been at work for some time, albeit embodied in human form. According to my contacts with our crypto-CD's the Church of the SubGenius it is generally not known, for instance, that the entirety of network television is programmed by proto-Capalist Democrats. However, the past is merely prologue, introduction, forward, with some long footnotes thrown in. Our time is now! So, my dear readers (oh, the few, the chosen literate who have been intelligent enough to purchase this volume) prepare for a New Age of the New Capitalist Demo- Oh, dear. Mr. Bischoff seems to have suc-cessfully axed his way out of the bathroom. Methinks I need to fly and return this temporarily liberated keyboard to his superb, ur-bane and witty prose- Back I fly to the Clamp Cent.

Found the reason I bought the book

happy I Want to Move Back to New York Day, everyone

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

The solution to the male loneliness epidemic is attending a local Democratic Party canvassing event.

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

Still need more baseball?

We found a CD in our archives containing dozens of unused voice lines from MLB Slugfest 20-03 rejected by the MLB. Here's some of our favorites.

pretty sure there's never been a better time to be a Godzilla fan

It is very clear the gutting of Teen Vogue is about silencing their excellent political coverage. Corporations want you uninformed and shut off from meaningful journalism. And they’re staggeringly successful at it so far.

the Dodgers should hold a second parade in New Hampshire, just for me

on an objective level, like just as a game, Tactics is the best Final Fantasy, right? everyone agrees on that?

Your eyes didn't deceive you -- Game 7 really did have the most wild swings all time Game 7 of the 2025 World Series was one of the wildest, and to some extent that’s expressed as easily as “a deciding World Series game went to extra innings,” which had happened just twice before in b...

Wrote about how Game 7 not only had two of the five most impactful plays in history, it also had..

- the most impactful out ever
- 3 of the top dozen plays ever
- the most plays that swung championship WPA by at least 15% of any game ever (9)

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The best noir movies to stream this #Noirvember Join the Noirvember project, streaming noir picks from Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock to hidden gems and modern neo-noirs.

My favorite part of curating an annual #Noirvember recs list from the Polygon staff is learning about noir movies I've never seen. There are some bangers in the "deep cuts" section here.

The key hits were great, Yoshi was great, Pages nearly killing Kiké was great, but I believe we can all agree that the best thing about Game Seven was that Blake Treinen had nothing to do with it.

so obviously I'm thrilled my team won back-to-back series but man, the Jays are at least the Dodgers' equals. Would've traded the victory just to watch another 7 games between these teams.

Blaseball

Welp

Game 6: W, Yamamoto
Game 7: W, Yamamoto

It’s basically Deep Space Nine.

Do you like prolonged feelings of nausea punctuated by brief sighs of relief? Try baseball!

Which is honestly a little fair! because if you DO like horror, you HAVE seen a zillion sub-B-movies like that (especially zombie flicks), which is why the parody works. lol I dunno, it's like lightning in a bottle.

like, there's just no other movie that's more fun to *show people*