In the interest of continuing to try to practice what I preach, I am standing on grass, if not really touching it per se. This is less than two hours of work, including the ten minutes where it started sprinkling and I had to use the panel to protect the palette.

hard to find a lot of good news in today's xbox news via @jasonschreier.bsky.social's reporting but there is, at least, this part: the studios going independent are keeping their IP and games. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The nice thing about having a membership at @metmuseum.org is I can just wander in when it’s 103 outside and spend some time hanging out with a painting in borderline frigid AC.

Bunny in a cemetery?

i am choosing to believe i will be in the mood to see live music in october (and if not i'm fine giving money to @chelsea-wolfe.bsky.social anyway).

This is a little more elegant, but the pop out part is a little … floppy?

A lot of stuff is generally p bad right now so I’m going to cling to the wins where I can.

there's a very specific way you can tell that an old-school halo weirdo piloted this new halo campaign evolved footage from assault on the control room.

i'm a little cheesed at this pcgamer write-up given it makes no mention of this part. the plaintiffs literally presented evidence countering this statement with official valve communications with a developer.

every time valve responds to things like the NY AG suit with comments along the lines of "we don't think it's gambling" moments like this should immediately be cited. valve is a company full of smart people that know exactly what's happening and what they're doing.

Tonight’s 4k Blu-ray. I haven’t seen this is maybe a decade?

... um ... yeah ... dota 2 has this guy already. his name is ... axe.

The Costume Art exhibit is one of the best things I’ve seen staged at the Met in the last year. Really stunning assemblage of work from major fashion houses and more esoteric sources, beautiful and funny and disturbing in the span of a dozen feet (none of which is pictured here).

this is especially embarrassing because gunnar deatherage did a whole thing about recreating amelie gautreau's dress from madame x already and blew this shit out of the water. www.youtube.com/watch?v=beVe...

Achievement Unlocked: get interrupted by the Haitian security guard who works the booth at the entrance of the cemetery.

The [REDACTED] trees are in bloom and the air smells like it. Iykyk.

In the interest in not being a hypocrite when I say you need to get out and touch some fucking grass, I went out and touched some metaphorically grass today (then worked more on it inside, where it was warm enough for the paint to behave normally).

yeah uhhhh ... that seems unlikely.

steam concurrent numbers don't tell the whole story on any game, but trends are highly suggestive, especially placed against comps. despite the word of mouth in my feed on marathon and an apparent snowball of enthusiasm, the trendline is really not encouraging.

this was from someone who was demanding to know why i wouldn't play crimson desert in response to me just not being interested in it (while i was streaming something else on twitch). i don't know what it is about this game that's causing people to get this jacked up about it, but jesus.

I don’t have a lot of stake in the crimson desert discourse but … oof. This is one of many, many reasons you don’t rely on AI art for your game (so you don’t, for example, use a wildly antisemitic trope). Also note TikTok has picked up in this story and the gamers are at war.

honestly the starfield stuff is even worse than the resident evil part of this demo.

Great googly moogly that’s a lot of pokopia. www.nintendo.co.jp/corporate/re...

The panel I felt it most important to hit today.

I could make a dozen of these with entirely different genres and still feel as strongly.

Varied but taste-indicative pile of 4k pickups tonight.