Capt. Spike 2099

People’s Sexiest Man Alive gets a pass from me this year 🤣 Not my type, but I’m v happy for the folks that are v happy

I ordered my first cameo recently, the voice actor for Biddy Blas wishing my husband and I a happy anniversary. I have to be honest, I’m fucking delighted by it 🤣

I’m seeing a repost going around that’s basically “ew some people skip stories in video games” and like… yeah, most game stories are terribly told? But that doesn’t make the games mechanically uninteresting. IDK, different people play games for different reasons, and I think that’s good 

Feeling very ~curtains for zoosha~ about some of these names in pop culture rn tbh 🤣 Hearing about some big podcast kerfuffle and feeling very ~sorry to this man~ like I don’t know who this man is.

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam opened up a Cheesecake Factory" Obama just spoke to an ELECTRIC audience in Ohio, skewering Trump & Hegseth and making the case that while we may be stuck with the same POTUS until 2029, we are not stuck with a spineless do-nothing Congress Highlights:

I remember going to New York some 20 years ago, and eating at a world renowned vegetarian café as I had always heard tell of their seitan-based meat replacement, and I had never had such a thing. Now I get delicious meat replacements at the grocery store every week.

This guy as a historic character in Fire Emblem Fortune’s Weave’s backstory: Dagda’s Cauldron is fine, it has nothing to do with me, I won’t be in Dagsion that day

Another useful property of a large backlog? If you (like me) are trying to avoid GenAI in current games, you might literally already have a bunch of games from pre-GPT days to play. I’ve been peppering classics I missed in between the stuff I do still wanna play and it’s been great

I got woken up before the sun came out because our big dog was having a bathroom emergency, and I never was able to fall back asleep. I’m now at the point where I have to proceed with my day, and I hate it here lol. I hope everybody’s Friday goes as well as it can. 😭🤣

if trans people's rights are up for debate, so are yours that's just how this fucking works guys

For the past two years, and long before that, Trans folx have been telling everyone that their rights are not up for negotiation, election or not. Democrats refused to listen. Be angry at the candidates who ignored them, not the people begging to have their human rights respected.

Murakami

It’s pretty funny to be called “elite” for supporting trans people by a cigar-smoking, champagne-swilling, yacht-owning billionaire, but hey, why shouldn’t we all bow to the opinion of someone not trans, not queer, not a doctor, not a scientist, but who’s really really rich?

I just finished getting the best ending of the new Castlevania game. I’d stop a hair short of calling it a masterpiece, but by the end nearly all of my initial concerns were put to bed, and I will absolutely revisit this. I hope they can do another one, and refine this approach further. 🤩

As a big Nathan Fielder fan for years (obligatory: watch The Curse, and try not to form an opinion on it until you’ve seen every episode) it’s been a treat to see interest in him spreading this week online 🤩

We joke a lot about recession indicators around here, but

Maneater by Hall & Oates, now *this* is what I expect to hear when I’m shopping at the grocery store lol 🕺🏻🛒🎶

…I’m going to be forever mad that NBC only ran Stumble for one season. 📣

It took right wing propaganda in order to get me to realize it, but yes, I think I *would* like to watch Abdul El-Sayed and Hasan Piker make love

it’s really telling how Tommy refuses, even when pushed, to say why he wants El-Sayed to disavow the Muslim Brotherhood even though everyone in the room knows the reason these guys are almost all cowards in person

Wait, the new Jason show gives him a super power origin story? 🤣🤣🤣 I’ll admit, as I always say, I prefer when the series is off the rails, but was his heart becoming a demon worm that can possess others and needs to be stabbed with a magic dagger too much*? *Jason Goes to Hell

in case it was not already clear why the ellisons want to own and control all media

Oh hey, protests today. Much like voting, not a panacea for the modern moment, but I do broadly believe it is better to do something than to do nothing.

Damn, if you’re not a basic failure of a white man, he literally has no time for you.

Always loved this photo. It has a kind of "Get in loser, we're going to the Black Lodge" energy.

And look, I love cool tech stuff, but this isn’t cool tech stuff, it’s an obvious scam from a known scammer. Honest reporters should treat it as such.

The latest Musk publicity stunt with his “”””flying”””” car illustrates the broader issue with a lot of the tech industry these days (particularly AI, but related to enshittification in general) in that: What pressing problem is this supposed to solve, and does it do so efficiently and effectively?

I feel like this kinda misses the point?

I don’t think I’ve said this here in a while, so it’s probably a good time to note if you’re in the US and unhappy with the way things are, you should vote. But for candidates whom do not support human rights, I understand not supporting those ones, but otherwise vote for Not This.

With the Fortunes Weave DLC incoming, but the sublords’ chapters not coming until 2027, I think I’ll slow down and do one Part 1 a month for the rest of the year? And hold off on Part 3 until the new routes are out (and do Part 2 again, since I’ll be rusty on it by then, lol)

Um… I tremendously enjoyed the first two episodes of VisionQuest? Phenomenal performances by a surprisingly stacked cast.

I find myself praying for the health of the pope for the first time since I was a child, and I’m very confused right now

Oof, gay celebs with mental health crises in their history dying while I’m managing my own mental health kerfuffle is… always notable. If you can manage it, love (take care of, and be compassionate toward,) yourself.

"On the other networks, especially Mastodon, they tell you you’re “feeding Nazis” — by going to the platform where Tim Cook posts Pikachu videos" I dunno, John. You're recommending that people pay at least $8/mo to the platform owned by a Nazi to make the Nazi richer. Isn't that right?

Me for years: I’m so excited they’re adapting Time Runs Out, it’s going to be kinda challenging for mainstream audiences because it’s going to play like Empire or Endgame (but even worse,) until the other shoe drops. This to me is just a sign they’re presently doing it right?