Balatro (Nintendo Switch) Ohhhh boy, ohohohohoho buddy boy, here’s a trash can to dump all of your free time in for the next month. How does THIS grab ya: Okay obviously that’s a baseball helmet full of insane spaghetti covered in sprinkles that means nothing to anyone, so allow me to explain. Balatro is, at…
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7 Memos: Passing The Phibes Check
Memo #1 THIS IS NOT A DRILL: THERE ARE NEW COWS AT THE COWHAÜS. I GOT TO GIVE THEM SCRITCHEMS ON THEIR GOOD NOSES AND GENTLE FINGERTIP-STROKES BETWEEN THEIR EYES, WHICH IT TURNS OUT THEY LIKE JUST AS MUCH AS CATS AND WIVES WHO ARE FALLING ASLEEP DO. Needless to say: 10/10, no notes, would…
Reading Roundup Week Of 2.4.24: Parts And Pants Unknown
Batman by Chip Zdarsky, Vol. 2: The Bat-Man Of Gotham Chipper’s first volume was, as expected, spectacular: Batman is once again undone by his only true enemy: himself and was (spoiler) either exploded into his constituent, bat-shaped molecules or, as appears to be the case, flung through the aether into Parts Unknown. In this volume,…
Other Pursuits August 2023, Or, Hang On I Need To Call NASA
3rd Voice (WebToon/Rice-Boy.com) As I’ve mentioned before, I came up in the Golden Age of Webcomics, and one of the most beautiful things about it was that you could read all the…I don’t wanna say ‘mainsteam’ exactly, because that has dismissive connotations and they were up to some delightfully bonkers shit, but the more accessible…
Express Train To The Chaos Shrine: Final Fantasy, Part One
(Obligatory reminder to subscribe to my once-monthly newsletter here, which rounds up everything I wrote in the preceding month, grants access to a curated members-only Spotify playlist, and includes a piece of exclusive bonus collectible content I will NEVER repost anywhere else, ever!) It would be pointless to try to explain in words what Final Fantasy means to…
Other Pursuits, February 2023
Hi all my buddies, I am sleepy from staying up too late looking into alternate writing systems for Klingon, because the defacto pIqaD system is gross and the roman orthography for it is…problematic. But look what I found! Some honorable son of a gun put together a Tengwar mode for it! Quv tej, I think…