Nick LS Whelan

"super mario 64 scientists"

oh come o-

"panenkoek2012"

say no more.

Ebook screenshot which reads: "A Foreword by William Gibson Samuel Delany's Dhalgren is a prose-city, a labyrinth, a vast construct the reader learns to enter by any one of a multiplicity of doors. Once established in memory, it comes to have the feel of a climate, a season. It turns there, on the mind's horizon, exerting its own peculiar gravity, a tidal force urging the reader's re-entry. It is a literary singularity. It is a work of sustained conceptual daring, executed by the most remarkable prose stylist to have emerged from the culture of American science fiction. I have never understood it."

Oh thank god I'm not alone.

L'shana tova. If you follow me for nerdy game design things and not dank leftwing takes, I have been writing again and posting to ye olde Hill Cantons blog. Links follow.

Exactly so!

My hand holding up a sippy cup of wine. I'm a few rows back from the stage

Equipped with my official Bremerton Community Theatre Sippy Cup, I am now entitled to drink wine in the performance hall. It's called the privileges of rank, peasants.

Orestruck cover image of person holding a torch in a skull cave. the skull has eyes like a fly

spread image of a forest map and the full credits page

thank you to @sal.gay for editing and @roqueromero.bsky.social for the awesome cover. Thank you also to everyone who did reading and gave feedback including @ratkingrpg.bsky.social @naeolin.bsky.social @bradkerr.net @cairnrpg.com @linkskywalker.bsky.social and to my wonderful playtesters!

mario is a divisive figure in the bobomb community

YouTube video by NostalgicWizard Doritos defeats Communism in 1990

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj6c...

Buy me dinner first, Ram.

I'm trying to buy a rubber ring right now, and the closest match I can find online only lists inner diameter. Not outer, not thickness. I dont even know if rubber hardness is a factor or not, but its never listed.

I miss Radio Shack from 30 years ago.

I've read a fair amount of more modern fantasy fiction, but holy hell "the magic system is great" is like 10 red flags at once.

(Blacktongue Thief is worthwhile though.)

all the best windows software in history is called something like "joe's thing doer". it does the thing and nothing else and is available on a html website in plain text and takes up under a megabyte of space and uses default windows ui elements and will work until the heat death of the universe

It's strange having grown up in the region where pickleball originated. I never knew it was a local thing until everyone started talking about it as a new phenomenon.

Newsom is proof that if Trump was more clean cut and well spoken liberals wouldn’t have a problem with Trump

Oh geeze I dunno, but I like the notion!! That sort of simple, suggested interconnectivity is fun

Very possible! Commando being an earlier game for the same developers makes it a natural story for them to tell, but localization changed so much in such poorly documented ways in that era

Autocorrect wins this one. "Backstreet" is a cooler word than "backstory"

In 2005 I was shocked to realize there were old metal gear games, where the backstreet of MGS played out.

In 2025 I am shocked to realize Super Joe from Bionic Commando's backstreet is actually the protagonist of an older game called Commando

Screenshot of wikipedia. Setting: the bionic commando universe is set in a timeline in which nazisim is not completely eradicated following world war ii.

Crazy setting. Wild imaginations on these fellas.

Someone find me a comparative analysis of the narratives of Metal Gear and Bionic Commando.

A jank ass computer mouse from the late 90s (I think) with two mousewheels and three centre buttons.

Lots of people ask me: "Leaf, your online presence seems so funny and talented. How are you so good at internet?"

Easy.

"but pressing the apocalypse button would kill even more people than just trannies!!"

damn. sounds like they shouldnt put the trannies in a situation where we have nothing to lose. that would be a dumb idea. lmao.

Tim Walz : trans rights are human rights

JB Pritzker : we’re taking names of all you fuckers and coming after you

Gavin Newsom : lol my pr firm made another meme while i guest starred on another right wing podcast

Giuli has written postcards, phone-banked, text-banked, knocked on doors, and volunteered for Democrats in every presidential cycle for 20 years. In the swingiest part of the biggest swing state. Newsom is so toxic he turns your most ardent foot soldiers into people who won't even show up to vote.

Gonna run an online game. Only thing the players know is that a face cam is mandatory.

Game starts, they play themselves in a dungeon. The only items they have with them are things they can reach without standing up, and hold up to the camera.

Fun fact: you can just _say_ you're "Elf Friend." They have no way to check.

In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen Update 8/8/2025 – I wrote this the day before a certain post by a popular developer services company. I’ve seen some comments this is a rebuttal – it wasn’t meant to be! But…

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Photograph of two overflowing dumpsters, and me photographer-posing next to them like a nerd.

I done got caught.