Marty Runyon

After reading about Brazil's use of social media yesterday, I'm done complaining about people who bring over X posts to mock them. I'm just going to block anyone whose raison d'etre is replatforming assholes here, no matter their intention. We dont need see them being evil to know they're evil!

You know what? I feel pretty good about this. www.trueachievements.com/gamer/AnjinM...

This sounds like a very good day for Toad. He was probably worried that he would do every one of these things.

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Richard “Levelord” Gray. From his legendary work on Duke Nukem 3D to the countless players and developers he inspired, Richard leaves behind a lasting legacy. Rest in peace, Levelord.

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

Whenever I want to weigh in on the latest discourse, I try to remember this.

Congratulations to Sen. Schmitt for making me pay any attention to the hearings today. Hahahaha! Good job, dummy!

Just saw myself in the mirror and I look like something that would scare kids in one of the darker Jim Henson films.

We need a plumber, so my wife sent mr three online recommendations. I picked the one that wasn't made with AI. Why would I trust you with my home if you are going to cut corners like that?

2030?!?!?!

I think we have to thank @antlervel.vet for warning us that this was coming.

This is exceptionally fucked.

As a card carrying gen-xer, I am so tired of my cohort reacting to being overlooked for so long by being the absolute worst assholes in the world. We were better off being ignored than whatever this is.

Democratic Socialism: Myth Vs. Fact https://theonion.com/democratic-socialism-myth-vs-fact/

I will always have time for Dragon Half art.

It doesn't matter now many times I get taken down in Marathon, as long as I can end on an exfil I will be on cloud nine.

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Started up 007 First Light today and I was immediately captivated by it. It's everything I want from a Bond game and the intro sequence into the title sequence is perfection. I was in love before I even got to the much discussed interactive montage. I can't wait to see it to the end.

Politicians are always saying that they are doing terrible things "for the choldren" that kids don't want. This is not one of those times. 😅

I guess I'm learning how to play The Witcher III again.

And people need to learn to be normal about people not liking the latest critically beloved new game. It goes both ways. Whatever it is, I haven't played it, so I have no horse in this race. I'm still working through TotK.

Ghost Gal

I'm on the block list! Yay!

Got back into Marathon with the new patch and I'm in love again. Even got to take out an assassin, that big dummy.

You know that thing where you leave a piece over night to work on it the next day with fresh eyes, but when you come back it looks like ass? Yeah, that's me today. 😭

I've had three good exfils today. I feel like I can do anything! #Marathon

Art journey time! It has been 16 days since my last drawing. (why does this sound like a confession?) I finally decided to get out of my own way and put pencil to paper. The warmup was a bust, but my second, a reproduction a manga character, was a lot better. Oh, I'm rusty! My hand is so shaky!

I have to say, Marathon is 100% more fun with the free kits. I only take out a build when my vault gets full and I always lose it before the first exfil goes up.

No matter what else is going on in Marathon, I will always take the time to honk the horn in Hauler.

Made it through the #Marathon tutorial is one try this time. LOL

/sigh @marathonthegame.bungie.net

Got in one last exfiltration before the test went down. I'm really looking forward to Marathon's launch date.

Art journey update... I drew again today. It was bad. I will try again tomorrow. 😞

The art journey continues! I have run aground on my Proko course's next assignment, a master line art study. Since I skipped a lot of the formative experience of drawing favorite characters, I have decided to dig into a long time favorite, Shirow Masamune. His manga work only because OMG.

Two things: 1) You can tell this guy doesn't make his money from the algorithm. Easy to talk when you have no skin in the game. 2) Developing a new way of speech to circumvent their oppressors is the most punk thing to do! It's crazy seeing online people so stoggy and dismayed by a language shift.

Probably Robocop 2. I spent the entire movie in a perpetual state of tension because there is no title card until the very end of the film. This was years before titles running at the end became de rigueur. I was too young for that kind of change.

AI gets the whole problem backwards. I want technology to let me work less so that I can be more creative, I don't want it to do the creativity so that i can work harder. What a miserable life that would be.

Happy Valentines Day from the Valentines Spider. And me.

Art journey time. I decided to just draw something and ended up with this. I need to dive into anatomy soon so that I don't embarrass myself. And if I knew I was going to finish this, I wouldn't have drawn at an angle. But! Lines are going about where I want so that's progress!

@puzzmo.com Why do you have to call her out like this? 😂

Art throwback day! I found a school project I made when I was five. (Still coming to grips with the fact that I was in kindergarten in the 70s.) Here we have a brown bear, clearly modeled on a stuffed animal, drawn in brown crayon. This book is the earliest proof that I once enjoyed drawing.

If you want to stop people from using cliched and overused words, I say go for it. Throw out "immersive" too. Reviewers rely on too many crutch words. But saying an emphasizing word is being used inaccurately is some prescriptivist bullshit. Language is mutable. Just ask "literally."

18 days since I posted proof that I'm actually trying to learn art? I promise I haven't given up. Here is a thoroughly embarrassing, sausage-fingered rendition of a hand doing that thwipy thing. I really need to work harder so that I can post less embarrassing art.

The fact that big companies have been all in on AI for game dev, only for AI exuberance to bite them on the ass, is a chef's kiss moment.

Up through episode six of Dispatch and I am destroyed. Eff.