justin achilli

I also enjoyed that Dementus just, like, wanted to be the boss of Gas Town so he takes it over by force and is profoundly terrible at actually running it.

I got that distinct impression from the first one, basically a road trip across a sparsely populated interior. It had, like, regular towns and houses and stuff.

The Singularity is upon us: Apple's AI summarized a text message that read "I'm still down to clown if you are" to.... "clown event still possible."

Dunno why this keeps coming to mind: I frequently think about how the fictional world of Mad Max begins not with a mutant-making nuclear exchange or some fanciful zombie apocalypse, but with peak-oil-related societal collapse, and the rise of disaster profiteers in the aftermath.

I do feel somewhat vindicated by the runaway success of ARC Raiders, and kudos to them.

Absolutely fantastic looking across the "warp tunnel" and seeing rivals jumping across the cold vastness of space to the same airlock you wanted to crack into, because you were both after the same thing and position and time were precious.

We had a great prototype — probably my favorite in all my years in gamedev — for a game where you kicked your way into a spaceship mid-FTL jump to capture a VIP and plunder while other player groups tried to do same. It got canned because it used an in-house engine the decision-maker didn't like.

I haven't played the new Marathon, but I wonder if it includes any nods to the classic emergent comedy bits like Frog Blast the Vent Core and the scintillating Pfhor dialogue "KANNAP KOLI" and "OH OH AH AH."

Why do farmers plant anything other than magic beans?

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Man, when I learned that some bats can live for 40-ish years, that really changed my perspective on them. One time I was walking home from seeing Don Giovanni at the Fox in Atlanta and a bat flew right at me and I hope that bat is still out there somewhere raising hell.

Only place in the airport that serves redhots for breakfast!

Speaking of whom, Nickolas Grace is also in the (earlier, better) production of Brideshead, Revisited with Jeremy Irons and is PERFECTLY cast as Anthony Blanche.

A potent combination of craven and domineering.

I do like how complementary Conan and Elric ended up being, tho.

Players not knowing the details of a setting is awesome because they get to experience the thrill of discovery and learn setting pillars by making gaffes, while the whole group plays an emergent, unique story that sets their own sessions apart from everyone else’s.

*Doctor looking at my X-Rays*
Doctor: Ah, this is exactly what I was afraid of.
Me: Oh my God, what?
Doctor: Skeletons.

Saw a guy do it at karaoke once

Pixies are good at that stuff. Tony's Theme starts in a similar way: "This is a song about a superhero named Tony.
It's called 'Tony's Theme.'" Hell, yes, Tony, what are you up to?

A collage of images from #Nosferatu of 1922 - on the left a dramatic poster portraying Count Orlok, on the top right the iconic scene of his shadow ascending a staircase, and in the lower right Orlok is fatally exposed to the sun.

On this day in 1922, German director #FWMurnau released the iconic expressionist silent movie #Nosferatu – Eine Symphonie des Grauens (A Symphony of Horror).

BTW, the sax guy’s name is Tim Capello, which I know not from much Lost Boys watching, but because one of the CCP WoD marketing guys paid him for a Cameo vid where he called one of the WoD MMO producers “Big Stupid” and then peaced out with a sax riff.

I love that all the art in BREAK!! feels like a "found" still from a formative show or movie that lives hazily in memory. All of the art very immediately communicates "make it feel like this."

Wait until you see how many legislators have for-profit health care investments in their portfolios.

Separately, been doing this-and-that on an espionage game and one of the design hurdles is the horrific nature of any state capable of fielding modern spies. My solve is to have the characters be stateless operators, because testing shows that the game's themes are at odds with many gov't agendas.

Along these lines, one of Le Carré's foundations being compromised morality avoids the jingoistic traditions of some other genre writers. Wonderful reading for "wheels-within-wheels" enjoyers, and those enjoying psychological tales of justification and misdeed. *ahem vampire players take note*

I know it's the least of its crimes but I really do resent the way that AI has taken the em dash from us

i demand an apology for the time i was caught running a "prediction market" in high school and disciplined