Dawn of War and its expansions are awesome, if you don’t mind playing a game from two decades ago.

Vampire Robot. Love me some B-roll.

It was right around the release of Star Wars Episode I, and the new pastor thought if he brought modern pop culture references into his sermon, maybe The Youths would sit up and pay attention.

The sermon was a whole thing about “being a Jedi Knight for God” and it was insufferable. I’m not sure time has ever gone by slower. I was twelve and absolutely not won over, I wanted to crawl out of the pew and die.

Wow, I have such a vivid memory of my elementary school music teacher telling us the exact same story.

Andy, but they decided against it at the last minute. However, my dad’s brother and his pregnant wife really liked the name, and a few months later my cousin Andy was born.

JustWatch does a decent job of telling you if a specific movie is on any of the streaming services. For example, I just searched for the movie Tombstone and apparently it’s on Apple TV+, Hulu, and AMC’s service.

It’s not always accurate, so take everything it says with a grain of salt, but it’s better than nothing.

Some digital artists use Switch JoyCons for shortcuts in Clip Studio and other painting programs.

Since the Internet Archive has already been suggested, you might also want to check out the Queer Zine Archive Project

3D Dot Game Heroes on the PS3. Forget good ports, this poor game didn’t get ANY ports.

You might want to check out Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers. The book is about the people of the Exodus Fleet, a group of multi-generation ships that left Earth years ago. Even though the fleet eventually found other planets for them to live on, many are content to continue living out in space. It’s a neat little slice of life book about this community doing their part to keep these ships going.

When it comes to buying furniture: Get secondhand furniture handed down by relatives, or found at thrift stores, Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace, garage sales, whatever. It’s more eco-friendly to buy stuff that already exists, it’ll probably cost less than brand-new furniture, and the older stuff is sturdier than anything you’re going to get at Ikea.

With the money you save buying secondhand tables and drawers and such, buy a GOOD brand new mattress. You can cheap out on a lot of furniture, but never cheap out on a mattress. Decades from now, your back will thank you.

Rhythm Heaven might be one of my favorite rhythm game series of all time. It’s kind of hard to compare with other rhythm games, because RH isn’t really like DDR or Guitar Hero or Osu! where the harder songs = more notes to hit. There are some songs where you might only have a couple dozen inputs, but you need to be exact on all of them. It’s charming as hell and I love it, and Dolphin running RH Fever works greeeeeeat on the Deck.

That looks GREAT! I love that you got the matching buttons too.

I can’t say I’ve ever heard of Duolingo speedrunning, but I already love the concept.

The plan was to cover everything in orange, but as I was applying the skin I liked the orange/black combo so much I decided to leave it like that.

I’m not saying I WANT Dick Van Dyke to pass away, but the man did just turn 98.

I left the house, but only to drive over to my parents’ place for food and presents.

On my way over I saw a drugstore and a Burger King open, everything else looked pretty closed.

A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs - This is one of my favorite podcasts, but I’m going to warn you it’s not for everybody. The creator of this show, Andrew Hickey, is THOROUGH. A great example is the most reason episode about Hey Jude. Either you will love the concept of a 3.5-hour episode where 80% of the podcast is not about the song but rather the circumstances and lives of The Beatles, Yoko Ono, and the late 1960s music scene leading up to the creation of Hey Jude, or you will be furious that so much of the episode is about stuff that isn’t the song.

Ah, the SSC. I lived about 20 minutes from Waxahachie in the early 90s, cancelling the project messed up the local economy. My family’s house was suddenly worth way less than when we had bought it. We wound up moving away in 94 and had to pay the difference.

I think a lot about what the area would have been like if the SSC had been completed (and how bad the traffic might have been).

A couple of blog suggestions:

Weird Fucking Games. Guess what that blog is about.

There’s also Virtual Moose, who blogs about a bunch of stuff, but mostly retro and obscure indie games.

Finally, Indie Hell Zone. IDH isn’t updated nearly as frequently as the first two, but there’s still plenty of archives to go through.