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I was never religious growing up but I joined a bible study group as a teenager and I had a very similar reaction to the answer to “so every single human who was born before Jesus came around was just damned forever?”

I walked away thinking “if your God is real, he fucking sucks”

Put on Game Changer - Sam Says 1 last night, so of course I had to follow it with Sam Says 2, Sam Says 3, and now One Year Later.

They learned nothing from the last Indiana Jones film flopping

Man I could not with the culture and vibe of Mastodon.

I am pro Content Warnings but Mastodon’s culture of “You must CW literally everything ever or we will yell at you!” was insufferable.

And it’s not their fault, it was just a completely different screen ecosystem than we had.

Kids today were never like “I mean I guess I’ll watch Dennis the Menace because nothing better is on”.

There’s a really interesting generational divide happening where when Gen X and Millennials were kids we grew up on a steady diet of Old TV, like Threes Company and MASH were on all the time growing up, but Zoomers and Alphas grew up almost exclusively on modern streaming content.

A screenshot of my computer monitor, showing a black screen with the text “From the collection of The Museum of Modern Art. MoMA”. Audacity is open in the background.

Russ Meyer’s Vixen, presented by MoMA

This is because we all called them Skeets too many times

Acrobat has always sucked and it’s so much worse now

My cat Charlie, a black and tan tabby, with his face inches from the camera. He is very cute. In the background there is a tv playing Um, Actually and a sweet 1980s boombox

Extreme Charlie Closeup

Tonight my players immediately thirsted after 20something William Faulkner and 40something Etienne Laurent de Marigny, renowned occult scholar.

I saw a thing the other day where someone was mad about how thirsty the players in Critical Role C4 are, how they immediately sexualize every NPC and I’m like that’s exactly how my group acts.

Current Planchette Agency Mysteries:

The Hermetic Order of the Silver Twilight
The Feathered Serpent Krewe and Monsieur Stardust
The Return of the Yellow Sign
Mr. Corbitt's Mansion
The Dead Light and Emilia Webb
Professor Thomas and the Alien Parasite
Etienne Laurent de Marigny's Strange Clock

- the cult of the King In Yellow, and drove out to the country to the lakefront lodge of The Hermetic Order of the Silver Twilight for a late night afterparty.

Had a really fun Call of Cthulhu game tonight.

Continuing our sandbox mini-campaign of various published adventures, the Investigators of the Planchette Agency met up with Etienne Laurent de Marigny, Inspector Legrasse, and a young William Faulkner, learned about the potential return of -

Gretel and Lotte’s NYE Party Shenanigans will forever be one of my favorite game moments.

Reasonable

I want to watch Shallow Grave again sometime, it’s been far too long

I had never heard of it, and I'm really glad I watched it

I saw his tour in like 2018. Absolutely killed it.

musician Gary Numan, born March 8, 1958, aged 68

actor Gary Oldman, born March 21, 1958, aged 67

Happy Gary Retrograde everyone!

The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman

Screenshot from the Planet of the Bass Tiktok where lyrics on screen say "Women are my favorite guy"

Screenshot from the Planet of the Bass Tiktok where lyrics on screen say "Tell the world 'stop the war'"

This song feels incredibly relevant today.

Back in the day we played TMNT and Ninjas and Superspies together

I rolled up a Mutant Mountain Lion who was a master of the Drunken Style of Kung Fu, being a very enlightened and wise 11 year old, he was of course an alcoholic homeless man.

too late

The System of a Down episodes are also a lot of fun

One of my favorites. I saw her Slipknot videos last year and was hooked

That was really good. Kind of starts and ends a bit too arch and formal, the ends don't feel as alive as the middle, but I'm really glad I watched it.

“Officers come in, I’m sorry I’m just so distraught about my husband’s sudden accidental death that I haven’t gotten dressed.”

God bless Ewan McGregor’s love of full frontal

Watching The Pillow Book (1996), with Vivian Wu and Ewan McGregor.

It’s doing some absolute wild things with collage and picture in picture that I’ve never seen before. It’s practically an experimental art film.

Digging it so far.

oops i did it again