Keeping my teen ignorant of the fact that I'm not ignorant is like 80% of my time with her.

I dunno if the Hal/Arisia plotline was Steve Englehart's worst ever writing decision, but it certainly has to be a contender.

I've found myself falling back into my Gen X "we might all be swallowed by nuclear fire tomorrow" survival strategy of "be normal, be normal, be normal, get through the day."

And it sucks because *none of this is normal* and we shouldn't act like it's normal. But brains work how they work.

Without stating your age, post a movie that was just released when you turned 18

"Writing like an educated person makes you sound like AI" is certainly a suspiciously popular thing to claim lately. Gosh, it's almost like there's a billionaire class who wants everyone else to be ignorant and easy to manipulate, and education stands in the way of that.

Is there any more bullshit nonpology than "I'm sorry you were offended, but..."?

Ugh, Haute Tension. I *really like* unreliable narrator stuff, and it *still* pissed me off.

I know some people dislike how FFXIV “forces” the MSQ on you, but at least you don’t have to do backflips to get something resembling a coherent narrative.

Saw a video on YT that was like “how to play the complete story of WoW in chronological order,” and it boiled down to “you can’t anymore, but I will try to give you the closest approximation of it, but it’s going to take a whole series of videos so stay tuned.”

I’m not by any means the world’s greatest game designer, but dang does it burn my butt when people with zero game design experience make a stink about how game design isn’t a real thing and anyone can easily do it.

Half of the "this is a tell for AI" shit is just "writes like an adult who has been educated about proper punctuation and sentence structure," and I'm not about to start writing like an idiot to dodge that accusation.

And the other way around, where if you say “I didn’t like <things>, it wasn’t to my taste” and people act like they can argue with you about that.

Holy SHIT does Christine look good for her age.

Oh damn. I've always been a giant fan of Sid & Marty's work.

And yeah, things like Lidsville are probably part of why I am a hugely weird adult.

Flat River sucks but let’s not forget to also blame Trump. His tariff nonsense is what started this whole mess.

I am *really* hoping Handelabra is also working to get Spirit Island and just can't say anything yet.

If Catholocism was a monolith, we wouldn't have so many historical antipopes.

Is the British one science fiction, or just an accurate glimpse at 2027?

Some sort of weird genetic queueing fetish.

(More seriously, that totally sounds like part of the whole cultural "never stand out, disappear into the crowd" thing.)

Dammit, I watched an XCOM video and now I kinda wanna re-install one of them.

Huh. New 7th Sea.

Wonder if they'll fix all the "Oh by the way your character has actually been helping destroy the world all along" stuff.

Repost with your first crush

June Angela/"Julie" from the Short Circus, a kids' pop band from the PBS TV show The Electric Company

I reserve the absolute right to be a picky bastard about the games *I* play, but why the heck should anyone care even the tiniest bit about what *other* people are playing?

Now I’m trying and failing to imagine what Book of Love covering a Goblin song would sound like.

Cam, if you start using the word "liminal" as a synonym for "creepy" I am going to giver you a Stern Look.

My mentor back in my theater/communications major days always liked to say "the only message that matters is the one that's received. Intent is worth nothing."

Was just watching a video and someone pointed out that the 80s are now as long ago as the 40s were in the 80s, and I swear I can *feel* myself gradually turning into dust.

Those of us who are Gen X are entirely desensitized to nuclear panic thanks to *waves at 1980s*.

"Tinnitus Blowhard"

I'm pretty sure I've played that character!

Dang, you need to be watching better reactors. If there’s no analysis or discussion I nope out really quickly.