“Die Hexe ist tot?” Or would you say “Die Hexe ist gestorben”?

And the item names are practically shouted out. I’m ready to overhear something awkward like “please place your MONISTAT 7 in the bag”

Sometimes it’s like she can’t believe what I’m buying. “Please place your… bananas???? in the bag”

Who is the voice actor for my self checkout, and why was she in such a bad mood?

Forge your own destiny with every spoonful.

Right outside my window is apparently a starling hangout this morning

This went on for a while.

The guys at homestarrunner would probably support this

Plus: I don’t like saying DMV because that’s where you get your drivers license.

I’ve become an old guy who talks about the weather a lot. But also damn the weather in the DC metro area has been wacky of late.

2004... who was even alive that long ago

Yeah, 3e seems so unremarkable until you compare it with what came before. It's like showing kids a skit from the Ben Stiller show.

Having some nostalgia this morning. Any of my Seattle peeps remember "Almost Live"?

Seattle in the early 90s is a dreamlike memory.

If you aren’t exhausted, you can’t be trusted

Somewhere in my game memorabilia, I have a Dragon magazine from the 80s that has an article about a detailed system for calculating a character's height and weight.

I got Ethan Hawke (same day as me), Dave Bautista, Nick Offerman, Melissa McCarthy, and Jennifer Connolly. These two lists should be the cast of the Secret Wars movie.

That much energy, affordable and clean? Let's see, we could radically improve the lives of pretty much everyone in the world, OR hear me out on this: we could just build some horrible data center the size of Nebraska to produce more of that "art". Hmm. Tough call.

I think he's just describing Facebook.

"Ah, but surely you can see in the game's title, you may fancy yourself a game master, but you are never, not ever the master of these swords."

Me at 55: I notice that there's some pain sometimes in my left elbow.

Doctor: Yeah.

I don't want AI that makes shitty slop "art" or writes a thank you note for me, but maybe I'd like one that tracks all my character's ammo and supplies on my sheet.

Is this real? Am I real?

I wish people would stop spamming videos of violence. Nobody on Bluesky is going to be "huh what's this, never seen it before."

My Lunch With Master

I worked at a small company once (not in the gaming industry) where the CEO told me to just make up numbers, because no one would ever care enough to try and verify them.

You had a very musical 80s!

It's been soooo long since I went to a concert... last one might have been 10 years ago.

David Bowie/Duran Duran -- the Glass Spider Tour
Depeche Mode -- Music for the Masses
Information Society
Cake
Barenaked Ladies

I've been having some non-blurby thoughts about gaming, and maybe I need to power up a blog or something. Even if nobody reads it, it'd be nice to write something a little more long form.

One thing about professors being frustrated with AI writing that I find a little amusing is that as problematic as AI slop is, I would still rather read it than the majority of published academic articles.

“It was so much better when people suffered quietly.”