Castle Magus

It's kind of weird, and increasingly so, how for me, a guy who does not have kids and will almost assuredly never have kids, my favorite segments of these guys' podcast, by far, is when they spend half an hour or more just talking non-stop about their kids. This, as opposed to lamenting whatever bullshit the modern video game industry or gen AI/LLMs have inflicted upon us today or some such thing, as they usually do 90% of the time. I mean, I still like (for a loose definition of the word "like") that stuff, too, but the baby stuff is genuinely (perhaps even strangely, for me) uplifting.

Two specific things...

Talking about needles, I've never liked needles, but I've never really had a problem with needles, either... up until the last time I had blood drawn for a medical thing a few years ago, during which I unexpectedly had a vasovagal response, which wasn't great at all.

Talking about potentially eating screws, I did in fact swallow a screw once as a child. The main downside of this, for me, was that, per doctor's instructions, I was introduced to the utterly delightful world of emetics for the first time. And let me just say, that was a super fun experience that I remember most fondly. ⸻⸻¬_____⸻⸻¬

Now that all the Christmas shit is over and done with (at least as far as I personally am concerned), I hope the next big get-together isn't until, like, fourth of July or whenever, at the absolute soonest. Blugh.

Also, 73°F on Christmas Day just feels unnatural and wrong. (On the bright side, no gas logs running, at least.)

If these grievously dogshit wastes of money aren't completely covered bow-to-stern in the absolute tackiest of tacky gold foil or lamé, I will be sorely disappointed.

Okay, that's pretty strong. It's not inaccurate, either. I like it. It's a good name for the current geologic epoch.

Why would they do this?

Oh, right, it's because Trump is (aLlEgEdLy) a pedophile rapist, which is such a closely guarded secret that nobody knows about. If it ever got out and people became aware of it, it would simply ruin the reputation of their God Emperor, and the lickspittles just can't let that happen, now can they? Their God Emperor has a pristine, unblemished character, and it would be unthinkable to allow something like this to tarnish it even the tiniest bit.

It's not at all as if selectively withholding images of specifically Trump "bEcAuSe oF tHe wOmEn wHo wErE aLsO iNcLuDeD iN iT" could possibly fuel already existing, strongly held beliefs that Trump is a pedophile rapist piece of shit, no way. That's "lAuGhAbLe," says one of the sycophants behind withholding the picture to protect the criminal who employs him.

We all already know how this story is going to end, though. It will end just like every other story about Trump's countless crimes: He's going to get away pretty much scot-free, and everyone will forget about it after a month or so. They mention other people in the article who have been properly and correctly ruined because of this shit, and (hopefully) more are to come, but Trump has always had this exceedingly strange ability to slither his way out of any and all consequences for his hideous actions, and I don't think this will end up being any different.

(This is another "I sorely hope I end up being wrong, but fear I won't be" prediction.)

Anyway, in conclusion, to hell forever with Donald Trump, and the sooner the better, as usual.

"In Angry Video Game Nerd episode 229, The Nerd celebrates the Christmas season by being good and playing another ET game, this time on PlayStation!"

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I knew what was coming as soon as I saw the video title, and his reaction didn't disappoint.

Apparently, this particular clip is just titled "Castle Super Beast," rather than whatever wacky, off-the-wall thing, because this is the realest they've gotten in a good long while. Shit sucks, game over, everyone dies in the end, sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do.

Anyway, so it's not just Larian but also the devs for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (a game which I have not yet bought or played, despite it apparently being the runaway game of the year according to practically everyone, including these guys).

And then they just kind of go ham about so many other bullshit things happening in the modern video game industry that I'm not even going to try to summarize it here, except to call it "modern video game industry bullshit."

Pat: "I feel like me giving a shit about anything does nothing but actively harm me. I'm at that point now."

Yeah, I've been feeling specifically that way for... *checks to see when was the last time I posted a Some/Even More News video or one of those Daily Cartoonist things* ...over two months now, at least about certain topics, anyway. I'm fast approaching that point with LLM/AI topics and "modern video game industry bullshit" topics as well. Not that any of that has stopped me from still continuing to at least occasionally trickle out rant/rage posts about them even now, of course ("occasionally," at least compared to the rate at which I was churning them out before, anyway).

Pat: "If you're gonna try and piss on me, can you give me some razzle dazzle so that I can at least think for one second 'maybe it is raining'? Can I have that, or is that too much to ask? Where's the showmanship?"

I'd rather not get pissed on at all (I'm not Donald Trump, after all), but that's just me.

I could just sit and listen to them have inaccurate conversations about movies I've never seen for minutes at a time.

Not that I want or need the ability for an entire month, mind you.

Why this very basic-ass feature is locked behind a paywall, though, I have no idea. As far as I can tell, having the ability to conveniently search my own blog is pretty much the only incentive I have, and will probably ever have, to pay cash money for a paid account, even on just a very limited basis like this. And once I've utilized that ability as needed, which will probably take all of five minutes or so (unless I decide to let all this power go to my head and get crazy with it), I'll probably never renew such a paid subscription. Unless, in the future, I find a need to search my own blog again, I suppose. *shrug*