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Cover of The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay

34. The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay

I loved this book. I think my favorite thing is how GGK writes, fully leaning into the beauty of language in some passages and exploiting the power of ambiguity in others. Just an incredible book, all around.

Cover of The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay

34. The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay

I loved this book. I think my favorite thing is how GGK writes, fully leaning into the beauty of language in some passages and exploiting the power of ambiguity in others. Just an incredible book, all around.

BIG Challenges 🐊

My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane.

A plate of the same cookies.

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

What a great headline

It is until it very much isn't.

ah here he comes that soon of a gun that cat that Garfield that gigantic thing

thinking of her today

Friends at the Table: Clapcast: The Most Wanted Song Hello everyone! Instead of a proper episode today, I'm sharing one of our Clapcast episodes where a few of us listen to the most wanted and unwanted songs! The Clapcast is one of our monus patreon sho...

It's Thanksgiving, which means it's time for my favorite tradition, listening to the Friends at the Table episode where they play The Most Wanted and Most Unwanted Songs. friendsatthetable.net/clapcast-the...

A fun fact that I learned about Jojo is that minor antagonist Midler (who was maybe my favorite to play as) got a whole redesign specifically requested by Capcom for this game that the anime then completely ignored.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (PS1) screenshot, from left to right; Polnareff, Kakyoin, Avdol, Jotaro, and Joseph. All are holding coffee mugs. The text says: Jotaro: "Hey Kakyoin. Why did you prepare 6 cups?"

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (PS1) character select screen.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (PS1) gameplay, Midler vs Joseph

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (PS1), Story mode results: all S ranks, all secret factors, 100% story complete

35. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (PS1)

ME POSTING: Good pussy sound like the Silent Hill radio
ME AFTER I NOTICE A FAMOUS PERSON JUST FOLLOWED ME: More than ever it is so inportant to be apprised of all that is to be and furthermore to learn of all that could in the best manner we are able as this is the true delight of Life

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

me, thinking about picking up the golden claws in dq3: haha fuck yeah!!
me, actually picking up the golden claws: well this fucking sucks. what the fuck.

Let's all learn how to draw. Doesn't matter how good it looks as long as we're having fun making lines.

i picked up a pencil and started sketching again for the first time in years. it's just nice, the process of creation.

Yakuza: Like a Dragon title screen

Yakuza: Like a Dragon screenshot, the party is gathered around outside of a door.

Yakuza: Like a Dragon, a pretty fantastic Final Fantasy 7 reference

Yakuza: Like a Dragon screenshot, my endgame party: Kasuga (Hero), Adachi (Enforcer), Saeko (Idol), and Joon-Gi (Hitman). I used Eri (Hostess) for a good portion of the game as well.

34. Yakuza 7: Like a Dragon (PC)

Yakuza: Like a Dragon title screen

Yakuza: Like a Dragon screenshot, the party is gathered around outside of a door.

Yakuza: Like a Dragon, a pretty fantastic Final Fantasy 7 reference

Yakuza: Like a Dragon screenshot, my endgame party: Kasuga (Hero), Adachi (Enforcer), Saeko (Idol), and Joon-Gi (Hitman). I used Eri (Hostess) for a good portion of the game as well.

34. Yakuza 7: Like a Dragon (PC)

It's actually a toss up between Super Robot Taisen: OG Saga: Endless Frontier or Tetris DS. Or Radiant Historia. Man. MAN. Incredible System.

Izuna 1 and 2, Kingdom Hearts 358/2, Knights in the Knightmare, Lost in Blue, Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, New Super Mario Bros, Ninja Gaiden, Nostalgia, every single Pokemon game, Professor(s) Layton, RADIANT HISTORIA, Resident Evil, Retro Game Challenge, Rub Rabbits, SMT, Style Savvy,

(deep breath)

While these are four of my favorite games on the DS, they're probably not my TOP 4. I could mention the Ace Attorneys, Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin, Chrono Trigger, Dragon Quest IV and V, Elite Beat Agents, Feel the Magic XY/XX, Final Fantasy IV and Four Heroes of Light, Henry Hatsworth, Hotel Dusk

The DS is one of my favorite consoles ever. So many incredible experiences and phenomenal games. The four that come to mind are games that excel on the DS: while you can absolutely play them elsewhere (via re-releases or emulation), there's a real magic that comes from the dual screen experience.

Sure, I may have spent nearly six figures for my minor in art, but have you considered that I won a $25 gift card at work because of it? So who's really coming out ahead, here?

Sketches of Moshe Kasher, Ify Nwadiwe, Leslie Lao, and Frieren

Some more sketches, the three comics from yesterday's episode of Crowd Control on Dropout and my quick attempt of the Frieren head looking up sketch. That angle suuuuucks, no thank you!!

Nintendo 3DS

Block Head

Rebecca Heineman - Wikipedia

My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away.

Fuck cancer.

Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...

Cover of The Sins of Lord Lockwood by Meredith Duran

33. The Sins of Lord Lockwood by Meredith Duran

Marriage-in-trouble books are hard to do well, but damn Meredith Duran absolutely kills it. Both sides have wronged the other, both are hurt and dealing with their own issues and each other, both have to forgive and be forgiven. Just a great book.