Tim Newton

I'm so glad I learned that most Things Everyone Likes are so widely liked because they're pretty enjoyable, actually, and that's fine.

Same As Cash by the Mountain Goats is an evergreen song bc we are all spiritually In Your Car with Your Head in Your Hands at the Far End of the Walmart Parking Lot these days

Alan Wake 2

[repeating myself louder in the haunted house attraction] did the dracula throw water on anyone else’s pants??

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

pure rage at this

a man in a trench coat walks into a door with a blaring sign in lights above that says “Dog Fights!” (PS secret) the man goes up to the counter and says “fifty bucks on the Rottweiler” the shady man at the bar replies “no bets. we dog fight for the love of the sport.” we cut to the two men watching dogs with boxing gloves dance around a ring.

atlantic article screenshot headline: no one knows how big pumpkins can get sub head: a decade ago, the worlds heaviest pumpkin weighed 2,000 pounds. now the 3,000 pound mark is within sight by yasmin tayag

this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread

Five bookmark games, laid out side-by-side. From left to right, The Backbone of Beasts, a book revision and monster creation game for 2+ (white background with a black minimalist geometric stag), Words Unsaid, a revision game for one (white brushstroke design on black background), The Watcher, a self insert narrative horror game for one (grey, yellow, and pink brushstrokes on a teal background with a single yellow eye graphic), Reader's Note, a marginalia game for two (violet and pink hearts), and Waylaid Travelers, a storytelling and "map" making game for two (an atlas-style road map background)

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Five literary solo+ adventures. Pick a game, a pen, and a book you don't mind annotating - build a creature, tell a travel story, be a horror guest star, leave a note, or alter the reality of the story to better suit your sensibilities

There should be 10,000 weird zines made by teenagers instead of a single shred of AI in the world.

dude I'm getting ads to have a witch blast off my dick

That moon is like two seconds away from hatching into a cosmic horror

It's the first Assassin's Creed set entirely at your cousin's house

Pivoting to posting exclusively single lines that fit the scansion for iambic pentameter so the Shakespeare bot will repost me

chat, is this a dagger i see before me?

Charlie Browns mom: Waaah wah wah wah waaah waaah waaah wah

Charlie Brown: oh, you mean pigpen

Charlie browns mom: Wah way. Waaaah wahwahwah wah wah waaah waaaah wahwhawah wah wah

Charlie Brown: yeah I get that. It’s pretty bad over there but I don’t think they hit him

God, the 10th anniversary edition of No Closer to Heaven fucking WHIPS. The Wonder Years still one of the bands of all time.

The world is not out to get you. That's paranoid thinking. There are, at most, three to fifteen people out to get you, working day and night on your downfall. Relax.

I'm saying this as your bestie: It's NOT a toxic trait to have high standards. Now release your suitors into the labyrinth and let the tournament begin.

This is a gorgeous production and one of my games of the year for 2024.

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chat, is saying you want to destroy a computer program the same as genocide?

I really do think that Taylor saw Sabrina Carpenter and Chapell Roan, realized people like songs that talk about sex in an explicit but light-hearted way, and then made the biggest series of miscalculations anyone has ever made

Just finished watching Chainsaw Man and immediately put a hold in at my library for the manga. Fucking incredible stuff.

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games: EP: A Year of UFO 50 - Epilogue: Final developer interview We're joined by (most of) the developers of UFO 50 - Derek Yu, Jon Perry, Eirik Suhrke, Tyriq Plummer, and Paul Hubans - to close out our series with a project-spanning discussion of their development...

here it is: the last episode of our year of UFO 50, featuring most of the dev team. this was already an indelible experience and talking to the folks responsible elevated it even more! forever inspired by their combo of generous design wisdom and rigorous secret-keeping eggplant.show/ep-a-year-of...

Nancy comic by Ernie Bushmiller. Sluggo is walking with a hammer over his shoulder saying, "Nancy wants to borrow my sledge hammer. She said She'd meet me on dis corner." as he approaches an advertisement for Garden Implements with a picture of a sickle on it. When Nancy arrives, he is standing so that the hammer and sickle line up, forming the communist logo. Nancy warns, "Don't stand there, Sluggo - The F.B.I will get you."

the original is a banger:

It's truly incredible. A monument to hubris.