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If you're in the mood for a weird, analog-adjacent horror short, The Chairman is available free on YouTube: youtu.be/70nTc2UeSr0

I was surprised to discover that nobody at the annual Halloween triple feature media potluck was familiar with The Guest, as it's a little more mainstream than my usual contributions. (Terrorvision, Society, Spookies, etc.)

How come they had Jim Caviezel playing Bolsonaro Sr in the movies when Steve Railsback is still working at age 80?

Goldang that's some mighty thick atmosphere for 1997.

Putting more thought into what disc to bring to the horror marathon tomorrow than I did for naming my children.

I saw some interesting arcade discourse about asset tourism vs 1 credit clears... except that it was about classic beat 'em ups. I'm firmly in the tourist camp for that genre, with the big exception of Alien vs Predator. 1CCs are impressive, but I'd rather spam continues than off screen jump kicks.

Now I have to break the news to Dallas that his namesake passed away.

Why is it called You Can See Everything and not Oops! All Sociopaths?

An interesting side effect of "assholes" being elevated to social dominance in the Trump era is a flattening of the asshole subtypes. Mr White used to be a unique and interesting asshole variant, but now he's just a Trump Guy. Many such cases.

I thought "grippy sock vacation" meant going to one of those indoor trampoline parks, but I guess that's just a "grippy sock birthday party."

Somehow I am at a No Kings rally in Baraboo.

I just saw the "life-changing amount of money discourse" and my big takeaway is that economics is like medicine in that the messiness of human experience makes everything hard to quantify, except economists aren't allowed to test things because giving people $30k would be communism.

Life size concrete replica of E1M1 in Doom for laser tag or paintball The courtyard toxic waste pool is a real pool and the control room is a movie theater.

Braved the construction traffic to check out the Vinegar Syndrome Dinkytown soft launch. Luckily, I was illegally parked so I couldn't stick around and put myself into debt.

If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do for Tax Purposes?

People keep getting "dirtbag leftist" and "hipster fascist" confused.

They're taking the Beatles to Isengard.

Finally watched Hokum, which was pretty great. My only nitpick is some plot based inconsistencies about the difficulty of drawing a chalk circle while under pressure.

The thing about avoiding GenAI in video games is that I could easily survive on my current backlog alone until the stock market implodes in 203X. Plus there are a bunch of guys who are going to dip out of buying new stuff for years after GTA6 drops.

Unseasonable warmth should be illegal during flu shot/flu season. I keep thinking I'm dying, but it's just outside being a jerk.

The car thermometer topped out at 92F on the way back from Duluth. In October. They're calling it the most normal climate ever.

The whole "what if this classic/indie game was AAA slop instead" gag is rapidly approaching "I identify as [X]" levels of one-note hackitude.

The slightly less obvious joke:

Sometimes cinema YouTubers are like "why is this movie so forgotten?" and then you look it up and Michael Paré has top billing in the cast.

They are going to botch the live streamed execution like they botch everything.

Why does Joseph Kahn think anyone cares about his opinion on literally anything except the best wide angle lens to shoot pop stars with?

I'm a little jealous of everyone with goofy stuff on their page. Mine is almost entirely just a weirdly phrased list of things I have purchased. How much money and compute have they dumped into this system that uses my video equipment purchases to determine that I am interested in video production?

Music video about the Twin Cities ICE protests last winter:

Stray Control Resonant thoughts: It's a fun inversion of open world secret hunting to have tons of rooftop traversal abilities while a majority of the secrets are found at street level. There is an entire category of sidequest that barely 10% of players have even discovered, based on trophy data.

Is there a reason why lethal injections aren't just a buttload of morphine, other than that our bloodthirsty "law & order" politicians wouldn't want the condemned to enjoy themselves too much on the way to oblivion?

Cleaning and organizing the spice cabinet, and I found a sealed container of lime beer salt from 2007.

Tension between the "I hate welfare because it helps minorities" faction and the "I hate minorities because they use welfare" faction.

Experiencing a middle school flex learning day as a parent for the first time and... WTF!? Kiddo has been going for more than six hours cumulatively, and every class has a different system for turning in the work.

What a wild era when Crazy Castle could be a half dozen different licensed games, while the SNES and Genesis would take one IP licence and make two games of completely different genres.

The Futurama x Disenchantment crossover feels like when Millennium got cancelled and they wrapped it up inside of an X-Files episode.

I feel like I'm missing something with the Control Resonant combat tuning, because the game is largely quite easy so far, with the extreme outlier exception of side missions where you have to defend a stationary object against enemy waves.

The backyard is having a three way scream war between the crows, bluejays, and a barred owl.

Hey everybody, you have to sanitize your YouTube links before posting them now, or disable the new channel visibility feature. Don't make me become a new kind of social media scold.

Control Resonant isn't blowing me away yet, but there was a side mission with a moral choice where the "good" option (that is also more in character for the protagonist) may have locked me out of some content, which is a really good way of doing video game moral choices.

It really seems like the goal of AI is to foist the negative externalities of being super rich upon the population at large.

It's actually bi vincibility day. The one time of the year when the bisexual health bar stops being grayed out and they can take damage.