PJ Martin | Desert Bus Oct23rd

Hello new friends! I post/share a myriad of dumb things, mostly video games and wrestling. Some may be NSFW! I (an idiot) didn't think this platform was going to take off, so I posted some weird stuff this year. That is not apology, it will continue. Good talk, everybody. Have fun out there.

All the friends I'm visiting are both super enthusiastic for the thing we're doing and upset another thing that just happened.

DB continues, and once again I make something beautiful and then destroy it. #DB2026

Whew, that's @desertbus.org done, right? There's probably 7 more days of this?!

Last month we lost our jobs. This month we made new ones. Introducing X BUTTON: an independent gaming network from three ex-IGN employees. A new weekly Nintendo podcast! A new weekly video game podcast! And that’s just the start, but we can’t do it without your help! www.patreon.com/cw/XButtonShow

If you want another game in the vein of Outer Wilds where the abilities and systems you discover were actually accessible all along, seek out Echo Weaver.

All the Silksong and Expedition 33 prizes for @desertbus.org have done unimaginable and lasting damage to my envy modules.

Commiserations to Biddy Blas, who we did not scrib doon.

Join us this Friday, October 16th, at 4PM PDT for a special one week early pre-marathon stream coinciding with the donations for #DB2026 officially opening, as well as the prize schedule.

T-minus two weeks until #DB2026! The tip-top training continues.

Oh look, the AI Adobe decomp grifters are _also_ grifting, what a surprise.

Animal Crossing - Offshore Account t-shirt (by Terry Mack) is $20 at The Yetee (today only) buff.ly/ZFQ3KnQ #ad

The explosion of shitty ai game merges across my socials media is terrifying.

I do think an important aspect of last night's Dynamite is that it chips away at a kind of toxic masculinity that says men don't cry. Everyone last night was bawling and the ones that weren't actively crying were supporting the ones that were. I think it's necessary to internalize that.

Cathartic.

I don't know if Jon Moxley can see the future, but he can see truth. #AEWDynamite

I've been running this for the last month, and this was the part I dreaded the most. How can you pick between vastly different emotional triggers?

Hire Jordan.

still can't believe this is real

No one hates dorks having fun more than other dorks.

@lunarjade.bsky.social I'm no @lordhosk.bsky.social but here

I always hope that @electrolemon.bsky.social goes back to the Sep 21 videos, even more so since this was the 10th anniversary of the first, but I also love the path his career has taken after them.

Meet Xander, one of the coolest gamers at Rady Children’s Hospital. He’s been streaming Mario Party from their studio, not just to play, but to teach other kids how to master the mini‑games. Absolute boss energy.

I sure am!

Hey as an artist it's really fucking cool and awesome that "looks like AI slop" has become such a normalized insult for works created by humans. Fuck off.

Even after twenty years of attending PAX, lobby encounters remain undefeated: my partner shouted "Pants twin!" at @biqtchpuddin.bsky.social

Four pins, twenty bucks, support @childsplaycharity.bsky.social Simple as

“Lost media” no longer! I finally got permission to upload “AL’S BRAIN,” an 11-minute educational 3-D film attraction which ran at the Orange County and Western Washington fairs, and hasn’t been seen publicly since 2009. You can watch the whole thing here: youtu.be/2xujU87ZHt4

A cheeky nap after All In, before I gotta set up @desertbus.org's Weird Moment poll.

The infectious joy of wrestlers debuting in AEW after getting out of the WWE rules.

Dropout 24/7 late at night put me on their scripted shows, and there's some real gold there. I wish they did like a six ep series once a year.

Since there was patch coinciding with the Tarnished edition of Elden Ring, I decided to load the game up for the first time in a while. I knew I made two characters, but do not recall this friend. Their name is Fartknuckle and apparently I have THREE DAYS of playtime on their file???

Killing this boss in Elden Ring to cop her fit

We should all aspire to live a life that can be looked back on with admiration and fondness.

Bracketologists will be shocked to hear the top 4 in each group are seeded and the rest are thrown to the winds of chance for their pairings. One in this group is quite rude.

Pipistrello was one of my favorites from 2025, a real sleeper hit during a stacked year. If you enjoyed the GBA Legend of Zelda games, seek this out.

This game was a banger for younger, book and text obsessed me. I keep trying to find people who played it to confirm it was a real thing.

I came back to work and it was the actual, factual "Troy walks into his apartment and everything is on fire and terrible" scene from Community.

So many secret lair dreams crushed youtu.be/1xqNGdY0cbw

Desert Bus for 2026 is 69 days away. This weekend we're prepping some secret segments that'll you'll be seeing over the upcoming weeks, and during the show!