KrunchyLex

Time to dust off the old Ventrilo server…

A fly just flew up my nose while I was breathing in.

Bro, why?

The infamous giant inflatable Doro on a barge in New York harbor

I honestly love how Doro has become an actual thing they embraced, especially considering how Dorothy, who it’s modeled after, is an absolutely dangerous and elegant mess of an individual.

My brain: okay! Now you need to take good care of your body and not be reckless so you can stay healthy and uninjured to fly as long as possible!

Also my brain: Hey. You need a Ducati Supersport. Vroom vroom pew.

About 67 miles east of Wapakoneta, if memory serves.

Ive been a bit tight lipped about my flight school progress, but today I’m allowing myself to be proud of what I’ve accomplished to date.

As of this past Monday, I am officially the holder of a commercial
Pilot certificate with an instrument rating. I feel very very cool right now.

Look, I got one as a bit of a joke with a friend and it turned out to legit help me sleep better. Embrace the pillow. Literally.

Fishin' buddies.

Edit scene from a Simpson’s episode with the memes Steamed Hams scene where Chalmers and Skinner look at an aurora boeralis in Skinner’s kitchen

Holy shit, that’s just actual theft.

Today I found out Capcom did a collab with Hamilton to make two watches for the new Resident Evil and I cannot figure out who it’s for. Most people will think they’re overpriced while me and the other two people who actually get excited about both RE and horology probably won’t be able to get them.

I think the most damning thing about Scott Adams's passing is that, as someone who works in an office, a place depicted in his comics, a place where people are desperate for small talk, the topic simply did not come up at all today.

“So youre sending us to a conference so a bunch of tech wankers can talk to us about how their awesome and not actually ecologically catastrophic tech can do our job but worse and not be helpful at all? Like…you sure about this?”

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best. It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

Honey the Cat! ✨🧡

I think probably the best advice I have is no matter how cool someone seems online they are, at the end of the day probably just some nerd too and that’s a positive

One thing I enjoyed today is getting to trot out my special seasonal insult to yell at bad drivers:

"I hope you resolve to be a better driver next year!"

My latest wave of midwest homesickness has manifested as watching youtube documentaries about the great lakes and then attempting to find lighthouses without using map search.

Officially on break for Crimmus now. This will actually be the first one of my entire life where I won't see family at all because I'm not able to be home for it. I knew this was going to be the case, but a little bit of sadness is unavoidable.

Take care of yourselves this week, friends.

At 12000ft relaxing with Debussy. AMA.

Dear parents that let their kids run around coffee shops unfettered, clomping and being loud:

I genuinely hope you may never know peace at home. Like, ever.

Please stop me before I start quoting…

But honestly it’s also how Louis Sachar writes that makes the books work so well. He doesn’t point at the absurdity of anything that happens, he just narrates it all as if it’s normal, providing no needless explanation for anything, and that makes it all feel even more absurd.

I can’t pick one fav, but a few standouts are the three Eric brothers and the made up terrible insult that is never explained, when it turns out the 19th floor and Ms Zarves actually DO exist in a limbo world, and the bad cafeteria food that makes someone give the first person they see a big kiss.

One only tells the truth and one only tells lies.

Wait, is that how it goes?

I remember the books distressingly well. I read them multiple times when I was younger, including the one that came out way too many years after the first two. They were actually really solid youth literature. I remember them fondly.

I can't believe they made an enemy theme that I actually hate more than the space pirate theme lol.

The rest of the music and sounds were tops.

Retro really recaptured a good chunk of the magic with this one and I hope they do more to follow up on this story.

My biggest quibble is probably that two of the most common enemies in the game are just annoying and not fun to fight. Having an entire chunk of a zone where certain common but required actions cause scads of said enemies to spawn is good flavor, but anti-fun.

Finished Metroid Prime 4. I enjoyed it a lot. Excellent game. With regard to the common bugbears, I found the desert section weirdly zen like sailing in Windwaker and I actually liked the NPCs. I do have a few frustrations, but they're in no way dealbreakers. Def a top 2025 game for me.

At the last boss of Prime 4. I have 100% items and 99% of the scans because I somehow MISSED THE FIRST SCAN IN THE GAME HOW DID I DO THAT I SPENT THE ENTIRE INTRO STAGE IN SCAN VISOR TO AVOID THIS VERY THING AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!