As someone who has been following @dropout.tv since it was College Humor, this feels big. Thought I was looking at an ad for network television for a sec.

Taking another swing in Phantom Doctrine, and decided to be a Disco Spy.

I don't want to alarm anyone, but if you were wondering "how do the technocrats think the future is going to turn out?" The answer starts with, "well, the billionaires are teaching themselves how to farm."

Have been playing the Dupery demo as my idle game while I wait for things to compile. I like the story behind this one.

The 2030 economy

Reinstalled Darkest Dungeon this morning, found my old save files. I have fun.

The doomerism in my news feed has reached the existential phase.

And of course, from the folks that brought you "We Copyright Our Mechanics Because We Gatekeep Fun" This was just funny.

Looking through my library, the majority of games do none of this. Most of the big boys (Star Wars, Batman, Hitman) use TM. (R) I found mostly with smaller studios: Darkest Dungeon and Spiritfarer. And randomly: Dishonored and System Shock 2. But only the System Shock bit. And not System Shock 1

Batman cannot decide if it's a trademark or not.

Sekiro has it. Dark Souls remastered has it. Elden Ring doesn't.

I noticed Darkest Dungeon added a (R) symbol at some point, which (to me) indicates they are very committed to The Brand. (reasonable) The decision to call out the Brand seems like a very specific choice, and it got me curious about which games have a symbol, and which games don't.

It's a record high every day, Pinky.

If Firefly really is coming back, I want to find out Book was a kind of Shepherd-flavored Dr. Who character, and I want them to cast Keith David to play "the second Book in the series."

You may rest, but the patriarchy never sleeps.

I once wrote a comedy called "Dr Doolittle at the World Council of Animals." Near the end (spoilers) Dr Doolittle reveals he had an affair w/the wife of Mr Sheep. One anonymous feedback read: "Bestiality is NEVER funny under ANY circumstances." This reply reminded me of that, for some reason.

When you think you need to be perfect, remember that Batman: Arkham Knight said "close enough is enough."

Going to GDC this year? Me too! Here's some GDC panels I have marked as "can't miss" for Mon/Tues:

stop. betting. your. future. on. autocomplete.

Edmund McMillen in full marketing mode is a delight. I will brook no argument.

@mattfnwallace.bsky.social Permission to come aboard, sir.

"Sell out your profession before someone else does!" Call me crazy, but if someone offered me 300k a year for five years, with the promise of eradicating my career field, I would not take it. I would rather be unemployed now than unemployed later and a traitor.

I gotta appreciate this review of Clair Obscur:

The romance is dead in toy marketing, apparently.

Wanted to double check my timezone in GMT, and found this site. Let me draw your attention to this neat tidbit: It shows you right where "midday" is on the Earth right now. Don't know why that pleased me, but it did.

It is a dark time for the Prrrepublic.

Every time I web-swing in these games, I'm swinging for two: me, and the ten year old me that still lives inside me.

I feel obligated to get every incarnation of modern Spider-Man because when I was a kid, this was the best I had access to.

@pentadact.com Replaying through TBW and this line is still a banger. "I'm in this image and I don't like it."