Your game writer has a few holiday movie viewings to dissect: THE SUBSTANCE, PEARL, and MOANA 2. Of these, Coralie Fargeat’s THE SUBSTANCE is the most buzzy and the least worth your time. This by-the-numbers overlong feature rails against Hollywood’s beauty and youth vampirism, but offers nothing as an alternative, and despite Demi Moore’s best […]
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Betting Odds: U.S. President?
2024 Presidential Race and Citizen Action Items We’re betting you weren’t expecting this odd and odious outcome for U.S. president a year ago. It’s 2024 now, and boy does it feel like a snippet out of Orwell. In 2023, Trump was besieged by debts and losing court cases. Some of the malfeasance just boggles the […]
Best Budget Cat Food
Your Best Budget Cat Food Options Right Here, Boyo Budget cat food – while maintaining the best possible quality – is a tricky game (see how we wove in games into the picture??), and dependent in some part on your cat’s particular needs. Still, this is a solvable problem in our opinion, and one we’ve […]
The Yankees Baseball…
The Yankees’ “Goldilocks Baseball” and Why Baseball Needs a New Ball So the Yankees baseball or “Goldilocks baseball” made headlines in 2022, but it’s still a burning issue that’s also a golden opportunity for MLB to prove it cares about the future of Yankees baseball, major-league pitching talent, baseball in every state, and the kids […]
Square’s Login UX Sucks. It’s Not You.
Square login public service announcement: it’s broken Do you login to Square (squareup.com) regularly to do business? Maybe sell items or swipe a credit card using your phone? Well, their login has been broken for awhile and here’s how. First off, Square lets you choose to login either with your email or your phone number. […]
The Avatar 2 Plot: Recap and… Why’s It Broken?
Avatar 2’s plot is perhaps the least remarkable of this remarkable award-winning movie’s marvels. What happened in the movie? Here’s a complete refresher. And what made the Avatar 2 plot so porous, from a professional game writer’s point of view? The Avatar 2 Plot in bullet points: Wow, there are some whoppers in that Avatar […]
Disco Elysium Is The Game Writing Pinnacle
Quick note: I’m nominating Disco Elysium as the pinnacle of game writing (TM). If you haven’t played this tremendously heartfelt and involving game, get on it immediately. This game looks superficially like one of those classic “hunt-and-click” adventure games from Lucasarts, but plays like its own tormented, hilarious, luminous revolutionary. And I mean that in […]
Can’t Find Drafts Folder in the Gmail Android App? And How This Bodes Ill for the AI Future
Is there no Drafts folder in your Gmail app on Android? Yeah… me neither. Google continues to “do no harm” by slopping shovelware out there for us goofs to consume. The latest mind-numbing basic feature that is confounding me is this ridiculous situation with drafts. If you’re on Android (obscure OS) on a mobile phone […]
Moink Meat and Ethical Meat… on a Budget
Moink whattt? Moink meat is a new delivery service (Moink box) that ships you ethically-sourced beef, pork, salmon, lamb, and chicken. Moink – a farmer-run venture that supports small, family farms – is part of a growing groundswell of consumers who are aware of the grievous, heart-rending ethical failings of the American agribusinesses and is […]
How to Use Vimeo’s Slideshow Maker
Wanna know how to use Vimeo’s slideshow maker? Interested in a review of this new free feature? Surprise! You won’t find it here. Well, only a truncated one. Why? Because we don’t recommend it. We tried to use it for a project recently and invested a fair amount of effort, only to discover that it […]