On the other hand, Trump's domination of the party is thorough compared to those figures. Even now only a handful of fringe figures are refusing to fully prostrate themselves before him.

Yeah, pretty sure raising a labrador puppy has significantly increased the density of my facial bones

One of the weirdest things I noticed when learning Danish is that I was sometimes unable to recall what language a conversation I just had was in

I've heard it speculated that there's a Gamechanger episode this season about who can get on the most TV shows

I’ve missed Morningstar buffalo wings so much since moving to the UK. Nothing like them here

I guess the question is how long the bag being served typically sits there

I'm genuinely curious because I don't understand why I can eat the chicken, beans, rice, and even the steak strips without problems but that ground beef gives me stomach cramps within hours

not touching anything adam baldwin is in with a serenity-sized pole

Taco Bell beans are great! It's the beef that gives me digestion problems. I wonder if they tend to make it really large batches and leave it sitting in the ideal temperature for bacterial growth for hours.

Is there a name for the trope where a game builds up this terrible thing that you come to hate, and then in the second game you play as that thing? Like Mass Effect 2 or Control 2. I don't know if it's all that common but it's still weird that it happened even twice.

Happy birthday!

_the_ international woman

What a ghoul this man is

We cannot contemplate milk, so it must contemplate us

It's because we're typing the review quickly so we can get back to playing the game

Ugh. The Democratic Party in the US and Labour in the UK can't even muster the most lukewarm of condemnations of this pointless, unprovoked war

Master of Magic, Capitalism, and Colonization will always suck me in for hours whenever I revisit them

But nothing makes me miss mousewheel support so much as Capitalism's UI

I regret that I have but one Nitro to cancel

It somehow gets even sadder when you read about the author of the short story on which it's based

I still get the music stuck in my head occasionally

I spent the whole game with Lune in my party simply because her "sprint" is so satisfying

The British English way of expressing time like "half two" to mean 2:30 drives me batty. American English just doesn't do that, and in Danish "halv to" means 1:30

I miss my circa-1999 portable CD player. RIP Aiwa.

Website procedural note: I now have a landing page for the Visible Zorker collection.

eblong.com/infocom/visi/

Still just has Zork 1 and Zork 2, but now there's a list to grow.

Florencia wearing a dark top, sitting behind a table with Writers' Guild QR codes, in front of a guild banner.

Getting ready to start the #GlobalGameJam at Goldsmiths - if you're participating, come say hi and learn a little more about unions. Don't let your passion for games be exploited! #GGJ26 @writersguildgb.bsky.social

It is easier for a camel to fit through the knee of an idol than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven

Here we go...

Announcing the Visible Zorker Project and Patreon! Remember how I did Visible Zork 1 and 2? I'm going to do Zork 3, and then continue through Infocom's entire canon -- in chronological order, one per month.

blog.zarfhome.com/2026/01/the-...

Ugh, TIL :(

Oh no, I still think of you as having this hair colour. Have I really not seen you in person in 10 years? 🥲

“It cuts through steel like butter, if butter were really good at cutting through steel.”