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With Buffy back in the news for frustrating reasons, you may be comforted to know that Xander is still the worst. Nicholas Brendon, who has a documented history of going through some things, is reportedly being accused of planting an...
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This week, a cupcake for my birthday! (This sticker was a freebie from Snarky Co's "Sweet and Snarky Bakeshop" set.)
This was a good week. Going to the zoo with Alex on Monday for a pre-birthday activity was fun. My birthday itself was lovely, despite being a workday. I am very happy with the amount of reading I did over the week, and that I got back to a little bit of WIP outline work (even if it felt a bit like pulling teeth to do.) I did get at least some of the responsible stuff done that I meant to. I'm also very happy about the time change (despite the lost hour of sleep) and no longer getting home after the sun goes down. Looking forward to getting to play new games.
Goals for the week:
Tracked habits:
Total words written: 1382 on my WIP outline
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kaberettI left so many things out of the zoo post on Saturday (that I have still not gone back to add in) but the one I am telling you about today (aside from the dwarf mongeese, which I mention only in passing) is Snake, But What If Unicorn:
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This Creature is Gonyosoma boulengeri, the rhinoceros ratsnake. The accompanying distractions included, gloriously,
The function of their majestic nose-points is unknown as we still have a lot to learn about these beautiful animals.
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The last time people on social media were feeling very nostalgic, it was earlier this year, and they were looking back to 2016. Many of them shared their photos and their memories of themselves from back then, along with expressing...
languagehat_feedI was excited to discover that the Centre for Expanded Poetics has an Archive section that presents the complete runs of Caterpillar (1967-1973), Sulfur (1981-2000), and transition (1927-1938). I don’t remember being aware of the first (which you can read about here: “Caterpillar was started by Clayton Eshleman as a series of chapbooks by such writers as Jackson Mac Low, David Antin, Paul Blackburn, and Louis Zukofsky”), but the other two are very familiar; I was excited when Sulfur first came out (I’ve probably got the first few issues kicking around somewhere), and of course transition is known to every aficionado of English-language modernism. What a gift to the online world!
For those who don’t care about defunct little magazines, try sengi, which is really two different words, one meaning ‘elephant shrew’ (from Swahili sengi, probably from another Bantu language) and the other the name of a former monetary unit of Zaire, one hundredth of a likuta and one ten-thousandth of a zaire — you might think it was named after the little mammal, but no, it’s from Kongo sengi, senki, from French cinq (in the sense of five sous). The second is in the OED but not, so far, the first.
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I can remember where I was when I read that Buffalo Wild Wings unveiled a buffalo sauce-flavored espresso martini with added protein. The "proteini," with a dry rub-dusted rim, stared back at me from my phone as I sat in...
pennyarcade_feedEnough time has passed since the initial DLSS5 detonation for us to have passed through the initial response (bad) to a coalition of contrarians, much-smarter-than-yous, and engineers who feel slighted by proxy. Digital Foundry most affected - you could have toasted marshmallows over their subreddit. They praised it like crazy and were subsequently exposed to solar heat, to the extent that they had to post a video called "We Should Have Waited," and now proponents of the technology are mad at them for that. Ah, yes. I remember the Internet.
pennyarcade_feedThere's no way to contextualize how ready Gabriel was to pawn something. That was just his bank, kinda. Anytime E3 rolled around he started foraging for anything made of silver colored plastic. He would have sold me if he could! I would have sold me too, I guess. Rented, at least. But panel three of this strip is a documentary.
pennyarcade_feedIf you like what you see, you can play it pretty much anywhere. Next Friday I'm gonna teach Dabe how to play on some sponsored stuff - now he's wrapping up all the video walls for PAX East, so he's gonna have to watch the stream if he's gonna bone up. Join me right here if you want to see what I am typically doing between miodnight and one in the morning.
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pennyarcade_feedSomething I forgot to mention yesterday was that our cautious lunch interrupter had purchased a Nintendo Switch 2 specifically for Pokopia. He said he was also goaded into buying it because he suspected RAM prices were gonna fuck him if he held off. Two things: one, I mean, system seller? Cozy system seller. I understand that it is at the nexus of several mechanical roads, executed by a trusted house with a freaky pedigree, and obviously people are fond of pocketable monsters, but a building game off the main series hitting like this? Yow. And two, having talks about RAM prices with the waiter at a bar is a communique from a dimension beyond reckoning. Just how badly have our masters fucked this up?
pennyarcade_feedI've been trying to have a beer with Kim Swift for about five years now, and it finally happened. She suggested The Bine up in Bothell, and you should draft on that suggestion. I'm afraid I made a pun there without meaning to. But it's also real close to Zulu's, a place you might want to be anyway. Anywhoozle, the last half of the meetup was just her breaking down how Pokopia is a masterclass of game design. A little while later, a sheepish server came over and said, "I don't want to interrupt… but were you talking about Pokopia?"
She was.
pennyarcade_feedI want to make a post about how great Pokopia is but it will have to be quick because I want to get back to playing Pokopia. So here are three reasons why it’s awesome.
