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You know, for being a writer constantly surrounded by murder, that Jessica Fletcher really has her life together.

Target: hey we’re having a sale on final fantasy art books

Past me: oh hell yeah I love final fantasy

[2 days later]

Target: here is your incredibly heavy box

Present me, trying not to trip over my doorstep: why would you do this to me

Remember, if you find some small flaw in your pull request, leave it in, lest your reviewers are motivated to find fault elsewhere.

Why did Jurassic Park have such a banger soundtrack? It didn’t need to. We all would have loved it anyway; it had dinosaurs.

It’s always so funny to me when artists I follow release new albums on Bandcamp Friday. Like, I absolutely get why they do that, and I’m sure it’s great stuff, but I’m already methodically going through my queue of albums I added to my wishlist over the past month and buying them in carefully timed intervals so as to not confuse the credit card company with a dozen Bandcamp transactions at once. I’ll put you on the list but the soonest I can fit you in is next Bandcamp Friday.

(Yes, I know it’s possible to buy music from Bandcamp on other days of the month, and in fact I was buying music from them daily for a while, but I lost my enthusiasm for that when they were acquired by Epic.)

A fun thing I’ve started to do when I’m on my own: Every time a piece of technology does something infuriating like interpret a stray gesture as a request to pop up a modal dialogue, I’ll yell NO in exactly the same tone as a disapproving toddler.

If anyone would like to feel better about their own technical skill, it took me months of occasionally playing FFXI and thinking I know this is a 20 year old game but it looks like it was rendered on an N64 before realizing today I’d set the game resolution lower than the window it was playing in.

A hypothetical person trying to talk to me about video games: So Epic…
Me: Epic MegaGames?

Them: Well, anyway, their CEO Tim Sweeney —
Me: Oh, the guy who wrote ZZT.

Them: I guess? But then Cliff Bleszinski —
Me: The creator of Dare to Dream, right, go on.

I've never actually seen Miami Vice because I'm pretty sure I'd be allergic to it, so instead whenever I listen to Jan Hammer's epic soundtrack for it I just make up fic in my head about what it must be like. In my imagination, it's sort of like Highlander, but with more beaches and alligators.