projHECKtyl (it is october)

Glad to see staff is so considerate to newer gamers in advance of the OoT remake. Not everyone has played through the game before, it's a lot harder to spoil the later temples when bluesky is blocking adult Links.

another one of the things that can happen in life is that sometimes you will get an email congratulating you on having had a livejournal account for twenty years i was not especially ready for that particular blast of psychic damage today

you know what, obvious gen-ai video game company? i think i *will* click on your youtube ad every time it pops up now you'll think the ad is working and worth continuing to pay for not gonna buy anything though

"2 zacharias = 1 scaramucci" feels like an entry in a wikipedia table about obscure wine bottle sizes

jaw absolutely unhinged at the GALL of Richard Ayoade quoting "fix your hearts or die" (a Twin Peaks line explicitly condemning transphobia) on Taskmaster, after effusively blurbing Graham Linehan's book about getting ~canceled~ for being a proud transphobe. genuinely sick to my stomach. no words.

oh no was it stealing things you were saying and doing to use for its own purposes

i have discovered my superpower and it is recognizing the names of minor nerd celebrities among the steady stream of escape room booking notifications

Here is a crossword

Mister Mr.

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

sometimes a book will have magical de-aging medicine and a character will take too much of it and their age will become negative and they will be teleported to "minusland" where everybody hovers horizontally because that is how minus signs look that is one of the things that can happen in a book

it's michaelmas, everybody as both a michael and a person whose initials are MAS, this is my day you have to be nice to me, the calendar says so

[to the tune of She Blinded Me With Science] executive dysfunction having trouble starting things

there's a list of the top 100 tv shows of this century going around i've seen (at least one episode of) five of them i've never heard of at least a quarter of them maybe i'm not much of a tv guy? i don't think i knew that about myself

1. Identify the current member of the U.S. Cabinet who appeared on MTV's The Real World: Boston in 1997, and later competed in Log Rolling and Speed Climbing at the ESPN Great Outdoor Games in the early 2000s. IN A SANE WORLD, I WOULDN'T HAVE TO. #LL110 #bestwronganswers

Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man

to exit our building, you have to walk by our control room window, so sometimes i get to eavesdrop on people's unfiltered opinions on our escape rooms as they leave friends, in this world, be the guy i heard yesterday who yelled "i'm all JAZZED UP on PROBLEM-SOLVING!!!" in a monster truck ad voice

ed sheeran does not speak for the Crappy Doofus community. we are not a monolith

executive: all right team, we need new product ideas the pocket of a guy who in ten seconds will be desperately trying to cover up that he's smuggled a furby into work:

[adele voice] this could have been an EEEEEEE-MAIL

this isn't how i wanted any of you to find out, but the chair and i are now in a committed long-distance relationship and it's convinced me I've discovered a new kind of physics.

"bandicoots are a real animal it turns out"

happy birthday work

oh no tomorrow will mark *twenty years* of mark halpin labor day puzzle sets now i am but a skeleton

if you see this, quote the energy you bring to bluesky

this post is how i, an american who was obsessed with clue as a 90s kid, learned that overseas they got a whole tv show of it

i know we're coming up on fifty years of normalization in the public consciousness, but take a sec to step out of that frame of reference with me "garfield" is a buckwild thing to name a pet, right? same with "odie" or "nermal", or to a lesser extent "arlene" what is happening in that universe

Every drag show this weekend is going to have to make some very hard choices

i use a mood tracker app usually it's one prompt a day to rate my mood on a 1-5 scale there's a notes function, too, but i don't remember ever using it apparently i did use it once because it has just cheerily notified me of the ten-year anniversary of the time i made the note "asshole escape team"

[spelling bee] JUDGE: your word is "literal" KID: can you use it in a sentence JUDGE: yes

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Vast and Trunkless Leg of Stone, Standing in the Desert from classic poem Ozymandias.

if you have played and enjoyed the 2021 video game lingo and you have not played dart's custom map "the alphabet mines" then i simply do not know what you are about

do people know about cadgy? onelook made a daily -dle game and it's pretty fun i think www.onelook.com/cadgy/archiv...

Odysseus mentioning that he’s in the Bronze Age made me think of a caveman saying “Man it is extremely Paleolithic around here lately”