Orfeo Mattar

Should I be worried that the "we scan your face" feature of age verification seems perfectly happy that I'm over 18? Am I, at 37, no longer looking youthful?

We often think of ourselves as smarter and wiser than our predecessors, and yet, they are so often right about our present.

Dishoom opening what seems to be a small hotel is madness.

A blue cocktail

A Gin Martini with a splash of Creme de Violette. Honestly, a nice subtle twist on a classic.

Sometimes you don't need fancy analysis. The thing is what it appears to be.

Steve Bannon echoing the language of Yanis Varoufakis in calling Musk a techno-feudalist is just fucking wild.

Yeah, I'm just gonna start unfollowing people who post deranged takes.

The fires in LA are horrific and the human cost will be unimaginable.

That said, the grid system looks banging ablaze.

Did everyone forget that dogecoin was originally a joke? Why is it now like 60k a coin?! It was literally a parody.

Eh, probably, but libel is tough. Arguably, you could say it's an opinion which wouldn't fall under libel.

Having finally caved and bought some proper speakers for my PC I can now play video games with wet hair.

A whole new world is open to me.

The Tyranny of Xmas begins, when we all have to pretend we're having a good time.

If you aren't, then just know that you aren't alone in that!

It's only taken 2 years for me to finally do it!

Maybe, in 2025, we could be spared polling? Just as a treat?

Bluesky is gonna make me play the new Indy game isn't it?

I caved and got PoE2.

I also, tried STALKER 2 for like.. 2 minutes and decided that the real world was quite gloomy enough. at least in PoE I can be an angry sorceress or something, not a sad man in a wasteland.

Saw Vampire Weekend last night and was profoundly disappointed.

The gig felt slow, meandering and the audience really didn't seem that energetic.

The main shame was that there was a desire for more, A Punk got everyone going, but the band kept killing the vibe with ballads.

One year, I'll not have Arctic Monkeys at the top but that is not this year.

Also Fleetwood Mac remain the best classic rock you can get.

Oh the PC game by HBS! The tabletop as a whole I never really gelled with - it felt best when put into a digital form.

Battletech was a masterpiece that never quite got the recognition that it deserved.

South Korea's president declares emergency martial law In a surprise late night television address he says the move was necessary to protect the country from North Korea's communist forces.

Headlines with the words 'Martial Law' will never not be chilling.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...

I discovered this morning that, in fact, going out late on Friday and Saturday is not a thing I can do without consequence anymore.

Crypto boss eats banana artwork bought for $6.2m Justin Sun described Maurizio Cattelan's infamous 2019 work as

Look, think what you want, but I think that this is peak performance art.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Also damn man, but Justice for Justice. Another really interesting character who as an embodiment of a concept really allows you to write black-and-white in an interesting way?

I guess, yay for blander characters that don't challenge the status quo.

Saw this when I was idly looking at IGN's review of Veilguard and I can't help but notice that the most non-male overtly queer-coded characters were predictably at the bottom.

Which is a shame because both Sera and Taash are well written and interesting characters.

Just mopped my flat and I am now trapped into a small corner of it.

Well played Orfeo, well played.

I've loved Marvel Snap since it released but the sheer number of bullshit ways I have lost recently is convincing me it may be time to just stop playing.

I'm a mediocre player, with no real desire to improve, but the last week has completely ruined my enjoyment of the game.

Rewatching The Sandman on Netflix. I read the comic a long time ago and only half watched the show when it released and, boy oh boy, does it not hold up now that I'm neither a teenager nor half paying attention.

It's a tricky one and I'd welcome your thoughts once you are further in.

I guess it would only really matter if they continue the series with the same story, but I do wonder if they moved too far and too fast to explaining how 'everything is connected' when they could have told smaller stories?

Veilguard is weird because in some ways, it is is answering all the questions I had about the Dragon Age setting, but in others it is leaving very little mystery left in an otherwise fantastic world.

I don't know how I feel about that.