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an undigested bit of beef@mrreciprocity· 18d

All I know is, this is the best button in cinema history:

an undigested bit of beef@mrreciprocity· 19d

"The King in Yellow" (Raymond Chandler, 1938 💙📚) Despite the title and the plot (hotel detective gets tangled up with hard-partying band leader), this story doesn't really stand out in Chandler's ouvre. Some good bits, but not nearly as artful as the novels that would follow. However...

Cover to an issue of Detective Magazine featuring a woman in a red dress photographing a skeleton, while a skeletal hand brandishes a dagger behind her. Chandler's "The King In Yellow" is among the stories advertised.

an undigested bit of beef@mrreciprocity· Jun 30

Achewood panels of Teodor displaying a tee-shirt that says "I'm the guy who sucks" on the front and "plus I got depression" on the back.

an undigested bit of beef@mrreciprocity· May 29

Man, I gotta get a patch kit for my ocelot, it's completely deflated.

Photo of an ocelot, from the zoo, looking absolutely flat, draped embarrassingly over a branch. Like, the long way. Right between the back legs.

an undigested bit of beef@mrreciprocity· May 29

Or sometimes just, y'know, a reasonably-sized peck... peccer? It's a peccary.

an undigested bit of beef@mrreciprocity· May 29

Used to be you couldn't scroll ten posts without stumbling across a big fat hog.

Photo of a big ol guinea hog, from the zoo, lounging in the hay.

an undigested bit of beef@mrreciprocity· May 29

Sometimes you get nostalgic for the early days of Bluesky, and you just gotta post hog.

Photo of a pair of red river hogs, from the zoo

an undigested bit of beef@mrreciprocity· May 26

URGENT URGENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

an undigested bit of beef@mrreciprocity· May 24

Game design creates some real sentences.

screenshotted text. Starts halfway through a sentence that ends with "tree once their animations finish."

Then there's a highlighted line reading "You rarely need to manually kill a tween after it finishes playing naturally."

the next line is cut off after saying "However, if you want to kill or stop a tween early (e.g., when"

an undigested bit of beef@mrreciprocity· May 24

hOnK

an undigested bit of beef@mrreciprocity· May 8

You actually do fight that guy in Plague Tale: Requiem. I mean, he's just a sketchy beekeeper, you just sling a rock at his head or whatever, but still, creepy.

Plague Tale: Requiem screenshot: a medieval beekeeper guy with his weird wicker mask, blood splashed across his outfit

an undigested bit of beef@mrreciprocity· May 4

Okay, yeah, let's do it: Early character sketches for a game I am intermittently messing around with. (I have revised versions of a couple of these, but they need to be resized and exported and I'm hell of sleepy.)

Pixel art of a skinny, pale guy with shaggy hair and a little mustache, wearing a drab overcoat, white shirt, slacks, skinny black tie, brown leather shoes. He has a bit of an Edgar Allen Poe vibe.

Pixel art of a dark-skinned woman with dreadlocks, wearing black boots, cargo pants, a tank top, and a hoodie down off the shoulders. Her hand is resting on a big sword. She's also wearing headphones with a ring of violet-white light on the side.

Pixel art of a short, pink-haired woman in a yellow-orange crop top, cutoffs, tattered fishnets, and black skates with matching yellow-orange wheels. She is leaning on a baseball bat and blowing pink mist off the top of a can of spray paint like it's a pistol.

Pixel art of a woman in a pop idol costume, cream white with accents in pale blue and pink, and trimmed in gold. She's standing on one foot, head tilted, arms outstretched and draped in a pink cord that leads to a white and gold microphone. The other end is unplugged and dangling.

an undigested bit of beef@mrreciprocity· May 2

When you use chatGPT to generate your survey about chatGPT:

Screenshot of a YouTube survey. The question reads "which of the following platforms or apps are exciting to you? Select one."

The options are, in order:

A. None of the others.

B. ChatGPT

C. Tiktok

D. Google search

an undigested bit of beef@mrreciprocity· Apr 18

First picture is the rear wheel well, where he initially hit & apparently just pressed real hard to rub the paint off? Then rode up the side, doing surprisingly little damage, before crunching on the *front* wheel well. Honestly I expected it to look a lot worse, cause it was a hard prolonged shove.

an undigested bit of beef@mrreciprocity· Apr 16

RISE OF THE GOLDEN IDOL (🎮 2024) More GOLDEN IDOL is good, but RISE is just kinda worse along most axes. CASE was a portrait of a rot that bubbled and grew and ultimately blossomed into terror; RISE is a disjointed and unfocused landscape dotted with bumbling randos randomly bumbling.

screenshot from Rise of the Golden Idol.

Interior, aviary. A woman in a bird-keeper's uniform is assaulted by a number of large, crazed exotic birds. A man in a matching uniform lies on the ground, bloody and motionless. A squat, goofy-looking bird sits to the side with an expression of oblivious serenity.

an undigested bit of beef@mrreciprocity· Apr 4

Picked up a little countertop dishwasher, and it's only been a couple hours but I think this thing might be a game changer. If hand-washing dishes is a struggle for you (for disability reasons or otherwise), it's very much worth considering.

Photo of a small countertop dishwasher with a glass door, revealing the load of dishes inside.

an undigested bit of beef@mrreciprocity· Mar 19

FAUST / ERIC (Terry Pratchett, 1990💙📚) The one Discworld book I've never heard anyone talk about, and now I know why. A handful of fun-ish pastiches strung together by an unexplored and unenthusiastic plot. Pratchett's style is all over this one, but his characteristic depth is completely absent.

Cover to Faust, which is crossed out, with Eric written in next to it, by Terry Pratchett.

an undigested bit of beef@mrreciprocity· Mar 7

Well, there's something to be said for consistency, right? Right?

an undigested bit of beef@mrreciprocity· Mar 5

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an undigested bit of beef@mrreciprocity· Mar 2

In less terrible news, last week's fruit discourse prompted me to get a mango. It was a basic-ass American grocery store mango, but it was still real good on the scale of Fruit I Have Regular Access To, & pretty good on the scale of Mangoes I Have Had. Plus I didn't even injure myself carving it!

an undigested bit of beef@mrreciprocity· Feb 28

Of course, on the other end of the spectrum, you get YOJIMBO (1961):

After sizing up the situation and recognizing that no one in town cares about ending the violence, the rōnin says he intends to stay, as the town would be better off with both sides dead. He convinces the weaker Seibei to hire his services by effortlessly killing three of Ushitora's men. When asked his name, he sees a mulberry field and states his name is Kuwabatake ("mulberry field") Sanjuro ("thirty-years-old")

an undigested bit of beef@mrreciprocity· Feb 28

an undigested bit of beef@mrreciprocity· Feb 25

NIFFT THE LEAN (Michael Shea, 1982 💙📚) Heist-oriented Conan-esque fantasy, w/ most of the problems that implies. The style is not amazing, but it sure does go places--the twists are sharp, & the occult weirdness is big, bizarre, & horrifying, as well as horny & ridiculous, usually at the same time.

an undigested bit of beef@mrreciprocity· Feb 23

Yeah okay, I guess it's pretty blizzy out there.

an undigested bit of beef@mrreciprocity· Feb 19

1872, 1961, 1965, 1973. The idea that kids, or people in general, can only appreciate art created within their lifetime is ridiculous.

Cover to The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald

Cover to The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, illustrated by Jules Feiffer

Cover to The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander

Cover to The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper

an undigested bit of beef@mrreciprocity· Feb 6

So there's bad marketing, and then there's sending targeted vaginal care ads to a person without a vagina, and THEN there's giving your vaginal care cream a name that was clearly devised for a colon cancer screening kit.

an undigested bit of beef@mrreciprocity· Feb 3

@plumberduck.bsky.social Will, forgive me if this has come up before and I just forgot, but Were you aware that SUCCESSION was at least partly inspired by Ghislaine Maxwell's dad?

an undigested bit of beef@mrreciprocity· Jan 19

Photo of John Townsend in a tricorne hat, grinning

an undigested bit of beef@mrreciprocity· Jan 16

See, @bsky.app, this is a good example of bad communication. The first impression is the headline, which only says "SHOW WHEN YOU'RE LIVE", and the reader's brain fills in "ON BLUESKY"--you know, the app that the user is using? No one wants their online status to be visible here. Visceral dislike.