"The Ween Dad"

Eighteen months ago, I tried reporting him to his institution. A year ago, I tried asking editors for retractions. Today, he’s publishing faster than ever. crystalprisonzone.blogspot.com/2021/01/i-trie…

At the Chicago Museum of Science & Industry, they have the miniature "fairy castle" built by actress Colleen Moore. The song in that room was oddly familiar, but then I clocked it -- "Velocity of Love" by the Diva of the Diode, Suzanne Ciani. This is my deep pull of the month.

Every complaint people have with Silksong (currency, double damage, runbacks, puckish sense of level design) is completely wrong-headed and marks the critic as a total herb, btw

Finished Silksong. A masterpiece, 10/10. Such fluid movement, so fun to explore, just demanding enough to keep it interesting but not so difficult that this middle-aged dad ever got discouraged.

@wolicyponk Its so nice that they made an action game that wasnt even 20% about parries or i-frame dodge-rolls

i think the neatest thing about Silksong is seeing some old school action game heads, and fg heads love the combat. also now i want to play megaman x.

Discovered DMX Krew and Public Circuit this year. New John Maus album + saw him in concert -- incredible experience. Born at Midnite has great singles & my kids like them, too. And Gloomfather always.

Another solid year of house music, italodisco, PS2-style drum&bass, John Maus, and Ween

Remembering the extremely funny bit in La-Mulana 2 where, upon finally getting an item that makes you immune to lava, the devs immediately introduce you to "poison lava".

It finally happened: Noodling around in Ableton was less intimidating than playing Factorio, so I recorded as a way to procrastinate on playing video games.

@caylenb Lace 2 was a really good fight, yeah. Neat progression from "this thing is reading my mind" to "I predict your every move and give you a little slap after every single move"

@JoeHilgard but I do fully agree with the sentiment in your original post AND also really like the boss fights with said mechanic inversion

Thinking about this essay again in light of Silksong being an excellent action game & having AFAIK no serious parry or iframe roll mechanics for the player. You can make a great game without parries!

@caylenb Is the first one the "clashing normals" i sometimes experience? Thats so inconsistent and gives so little advantage that I consider it just flavor / a happy accident

@JoeHilgard spoilers but iirc there are two parries available to the player in silksong one is similar to the enemy riposte that is nearly frame perfect on regular attacks - not worth perfecting but it is doable one is an unlockable - cross stitch

@timeskull @aardvarkwizard A beautiful, indolent dream of an aimless, timeless summer vacation with your lovable shithead friends. Its great

@timeskull @aardvarkwizard Neat to see the thematic and stylistic through-line of Oshii's movies. Despite Patlabor, Ghost in the Shell, Beautiful Dreamer all coming from different IPs by different authors, they all feel consonant with each other.

@timeskull @aardvarkwizard Having never watched any Rumiko Takahashi stuff before, 90s/00s internet/webcomic culture makes a lot more sense now. It all came from here: skirt-chaser guys, reserved dignified guys, dignified girls with slapstick strength, gender confusion, etc

Straw hat gang rise up

@valleycandle @JOHNMAUS We're all doing it

@DickSandwich69 @cornoisseur Good news, it passed blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/16/bro…

@cornoisseur It's so much fun watching you fаggots fail at this. No one's ever gonna ride the heckin wholesome chungus bus, sorry.

Incredible YIMBY propaganda in Edgewater (Photo: bsky.app/profile/jennyh…)

@atlanticesque Good news, it passed blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/16/bro…

Look at my yimbys dawg we’re never getting out of the housing shortage

@Bourbon_Dem Good news, it passed blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/16/bro…