Not Denimtendo?

I’m starting to suspect that actually House of Leaves might just be a bad book with cool formatting.

This the real, actual, first result that comes up when I filter doordash for “healthy”

This country is a fucking joke

Anyway which mutual have read this so I can talk about it?

Which is to say liminal horror is having its heyday and this story, while fascinating and well presented, isn’t really convincing me its horror elements are all that horrific.

Finally reading House of Leaves and like, it’s fine, but I’m wondering if this is a “the Beatles are overrated” situation where like, so much has been built on the back of this piece that’s it’s now a load bearing element of the zeitgeist, unrecognizable from everything that has benefited from it

Yesterday I got lunch with a friend who’s been out of games since 2022, just staying at home with his daughter, hanging out with his retiring generation of game folks and holy shit.

He looks so relaxed. Nothing tired or worn about his face. Just truly, deeply, thriving.

Game of The Week 15 for 2026 is: Timber Rush

I’m traveling this week, and this one is great on a Steam deck in 5-15 minute bursts. Played it on the plane, play it when I get to the hotel, nice lil unwind game about chopping a big tree down and filling out a tech tree. Like a digital can of beer.

Stopped at one of my old favorite parks in north Seattle today and found these guys had taken over one of the piers at a local yacht yard.

Didn’t get a video of it, but minutes later, thunder broke over the ocean and all of them flipped out, barking and diving into the water.

Oh! Discovery, from Daft Punk is like seconds over an hour.

Gorillaz debut album and Plastic Beach are both ~56 minutes
Demon Days is like 50ish.

Pup albums are all 30-35 minutes, I use those for focus when doing data management tasks or organization.

Damn

“This is the worms’ hour.”
- my Lyft driver, on how early it was as we got in the car this morning.

I worked at Netflix in 2022 - it wasn’t great. Amazing pay, but…

One perk was whitelisting my account. I could set the region of each profile on my Netflix, so I had US, UK, Japan, etc, content. When I left, my account was still whitelisted.

Today, they all went back to default.

Bye, Netflix!

None of my friends live close enough to visit my apartment so I want you all to know there’s an antique brass crab ashtray offering you a comb in the bathroom.

Democrats don’t want progress or improvement, they want to maintain the status quo. Progress comes from angry, violent, far left people and a public that pushes the narrative that progressive ideals are normal. Democrats won’t make change, they’ll just make peace.

Game of The Week 14 for 2026 is: Raccoin

This game has a power, where i say "i will play a small Raccoin game" then suddenly its been hours. The Balatro inspiration shows, but its a little more... Vampire Survivors? You push, you lean into a strat, you score, you wonder if your time was well spent.

I live in a community with a guide dog training institute near the center of town, and it must be finals week because this morning I walked past someone wearing a full sleeping-mask blindfold just taking a dog for a stroll.

Game of The Week 13 for 2026 is: Artisan of Glimith

A really fun and satisfyingly frustrating puzzle game about making stained glass windows. The puzzles feel very inspired by The Witness, so it’s almost like getting a sequel to a great puzzle game without having to put up with Jon Blow. Fantastic!

What are they up to?

It’s the “develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information” for me.

This is the shittiest apocalypse, now sped up by technology that makes people unable to think for themselves OR challenge what is truth. And billionaires control what it can say. Cool.

Whoever decided to just play weird indie rap from the late 90s last night at Frogtown is my Angelino Of The Week.

Thanks for reminding me about Dr Octagon and Deltron 3030 and Handsome Boy Modeling School and People Under The Stairs… 1997 was such a good year for music.

Game of The Week 12 for 2026 is: Crimson Desert

I'd like to highlight the wacky indie games I play with this platform as often as I can, but this is literally the only game I've played all week. It might be the only one for 4 weeks. It has its grip on me and I must explore the ends of this earth.

why learn cursive to build character when you can learn to hand-letter comics or posters? why limit yourself to outdated and boring systems of improving your handwriting? why stop there? why not learn how to mimic the graffiti styles of 20 different cities so you can make graffiti assets for games?

Taking 20 pages to talk about how to jerk off a penis while also infusing as much casual cultural misogyny, homophobia, and gender role bullshit that Christians love is kinda fucking hilarious.

Like this whole book is as long winded as it is deeply inaccurate.

So I purchased a book on “the physical problems of marriage” at an estate sale as a bit. It was written in 1926, and it calls itself an un-erotic guide to sexual stimulation.

Folks… it’s gold. Cover to cover instructions on every sex act you can think of in the most scientific, least sexy terms.

Please, consider games are made by hundreds of people who need a job, and have bosses who push them to do things they disagree with. Few of us can stand ten toes down on our morals in the face of capitalism. We can just mock everyone who uses AI and hope that rising oil prices destroy the AI market.

I dunno where that leaves me. I like the game! I don’t like the AI in it, and I’ll never know how much was used in development because I’ll bet only the individuals that used it know, and they only know about their own use. There’s lead in the water of every game made after 2020, can you taste it?

There’s definitely AI in the props and paintings. There is probably AI used in localization from Korean to multiple languages. There is no way to know who asked for that, who was aware of what, and what the intention was. Everyone is going to act like it was an accident because we all know AI sucks.

And that’s not even taking into account studios with executive staff or publishers they WANT to use AI. Places they push their employees into trying it to “save time and money.” I don’t know if Crimson Desert has AI because a lead thought it was a good idea, or if a stakeholder wanted to save a buck