The biggest question is how well he works with actors, but based on the casting I think he's been set up for success.

They're calling it "the most about to be smashed by a flying goon glass water feature of all time"

We promise to only use the orphan crushing machine for good instead of evil.

Scene from GONE WITH THE POPE where Duke Mitchell is explaining his plan to kidnap the pope to his buddies

The Pentagon right now:

The presentation is top notch though, with just a pinch of oddball.

playing Hell is Us, and getting confused by how proud/nervous it is about the lack of waypoints, since the zones so far have been extremely manageable in size. I'm assuming that it got scaled way back at some point in development, especially since the combat has lots of barely utilized mechanics.

I guessed it was AI just from the header alone, but am unable to articulate exactly why.

A coloring book page depicting a frame around the words "This is fine. I'm fine."

Kiddo's coloring book project tonight seems particularly apt for the moment.

When you call a guy chicken for getting cold feet about starting WWIII:

I'm beginning to think it isn't good to have a president who jerks everyone around all the time.

"aawagga" sounds like a Doom II demon dying sound effect.

Disco Stu pointing at his '73 to'76 disco sales chart.

The internet this week:

Oh yeah, I forgot that Reddit is completely unusable today. I mean, moreso than usual.

You can get Kelpo cereal from Spongebob in stores now. Guess what it is made out of? Fucking corn, just like everything here in America except the tortillas.

Does he diarrhea on anyone this time?

A golden "milk of the Madonna" tallboy with a white snake on it from a Deftones collab with Belching Beaver Brewery. A brown dog is out of focus on the driveway in the background.

Front porch can check while the kids play RC cars with the neighbors down the street. Living the dream.

Track 3

Marathon is like playing Dark Souls if every player was a red phantom to everyone else all the time.

Circus of Values dollar store from The Simpsons.

Circus of Values ammo vending machine from Bioshock.

20 years later and I am just realizing that Bioshock takes place in The Simpsons universe.

The paperback cover to Matthew J Costello's Beneath Still Waters. Weird, pale skull-face people are swimming under a placid, sunset lit lake.

This one is kind of mid in hindsight, but it really freaked me out at B. Dalton as a kid.

DISTURBING BEHAVIOR (1998) | Classic Trailer | MGM YouTube video by Amazon MGM Studios

The true dividing line between GenX and Millennial is if they think of Flagpole Sitta as a generational anthem, or the music from the Disturbing Behavior trailer.

I wish I loved anything as much as my printer loves printing test pages.

RIP Sora. We'll miss seeing your watermark on hyper specific Deviantart fetish content and Facebook uncles' videos of welfare recipients.

Eventful solo Marathon: get pinned down by rifle fire and heat grenades upon leaving tunnels in Perimeter, just barely crawl back to the sewers while self-rezzing, and then take out my hunter with a claymore. 10 minutes later: lose everything to an Assassin with 2 seconds left at the guarded exfil.

The T-800 Terminator from the Gameboy port of the arcade shooting game Terminator 2: Judgment Day, as seen on a CRT via the SNES Gameboy color cartridge with the weird cyan, magenta, and green pallette. He is wearing sunglasses and pointing a gun at the screen.

Hey, yeah
I'm the one that you wanted
Hey, yeah
I'm your superbeast
Hey, yeah
I'm the one that you wanted
Hey, yeah
I'm your Nissan Leaf

It's amusing to see where everyone is in the stages of grief over the fact that Marathon '26 isn't an immersive sim with Bungie gunplay.

I hit acceptance around the time I found people to regularly crew up with.

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Wild to go from a snow day on Monday to nearly 80F by Saturday. It makes this amazing weather feel vaguely apocalyptic.