Hundreds of free games. Hundreds. How could I ever buy enough games for them to get that money back? Make it make sense.

When Epic laid off a ton of people, I thought, well yeah no shit. They're pouring money down the drain to give me and every other person like me free games, when we will never actually buy other games on their platform. It's absolute nonsense. They're fully bad at business.

I always log into the Epic Games store and claim the free game. I've gotten hundreds of games this way. I love to imagine the devs getting whatever Epic pays them per copy from my quick clicks. However, I've never actually purchased a single game from the Epic Games store. Why would I?

Fun fact: my dog does not love it when I say “Yall ready to dog?” and then boop her nose fifty times to the beat.

Apparently this Bluesky account is now a Marathon fan account now? But damn I'm really taken with this game.

Playing as a Rook in Marathon is some of the most fun I've had gaming in ages. I finally feel that emergent narrative THING taking place, where my playthrough is actually a story, and I'm a character, and the world is alive. It's quite an incredible trick.

Otakon was my first con, back in high school in the year 2000. Glad to see the aesthetic is still exactly where I left it.

I really hope the lore works for me as well as the gameplay and aesthetic does. Time will tell.

I played that Marathon server slam thing and really liked it. Rarely is the presentation of a game that nice looking.

Radio Cambodia

I’m not impressed.

In 2015 my old boss had an email signature that said “Keep it GREEN just read it on your SCREEN” because overuse of printing paper was a big deal to her.

It’s 2026 and they’re boiling lakes to power ai slop machines and executing citizens in the street for interfering with mass deportation orders.

My friend, it ain't happening

Nothing about this makes murder legal. But it does create a bit of a back-channel go fund me for hit men. But can’t you say the same about Polymarket?

The more people wish for your doom, wager, yet fail to correctly predict it, the more it pays out to the person who eventually is correct. If nobody feels the need to bet on your death, the pot in your name never grows.

Say you’re watching a corrupt official lie on tv, covering up a crime. You say “I’ll bet $20 God strikes them down tomorrow,” and you drop your $20 into the bucket. If God wills it, you win. If not? The bucket starts to fill up. The prize grows.

Crowdfunding a bounty, however, could make for some pretty big bounties. And the betting market angle distributes the guilt. Is it wrong to bet on when a bad person will die? What’s the crime there? You could simply get lucky and win big. Read the trends, like actual investing.

It’s easy enough to rig a Deadpool if you want to commit murder, but murder is a crime. It’s bad to do crime. Very bad. So only a certain type of risk-taking individual would try and collect this Deadpool prize by planning when a person would die and betting on their own plan.

It’s basically a deadpool, but amped up with tech like Kalshi or Polymarket. The more a community buys guesses as to the date someone dies, the larger the prize grows.

You place bets on when a person will die. If your bet is incorrect, it goes into the prize fund. If your bet is correct, you get the prize fund.

So I was writing this spec script about a group of people who use cryptocurrency to crowdfund bounties via a betting market where you win a prize for correctly predicting the time of a person’s death.

It’s a battle between feelings of anger and helplessness.

Damn that’s good

just thinking about korn as cartoon kids

The Summer Hikaru Died is a very good cartoon.

You missed out! But there’s enough tv

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

My wife is having trouble following The Sopranos because they talk funny.

Shout if you’re going to San Diego Comic-Con or Gen Con! I’ll be at both.

They scream at me at the end, and then thank me, for explaining that immortals in Highlander are like capacitors.