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Games scholar, college professor, freelance writer, deeply tired all the time Was laevantine/arcanistfox on Twitter
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Is it a bad mental health sign if you look at the End of Time in Chrono Trigger and think "with a couch and some warm blankets this could be a nice place to hang out for a few years"

My parents have this poster, though I learned the song from Animaniacs way before we ever moved to Milwaukee

[moonwalking/cabbage patching] ♫ get to spend all day thinking everyone's angry at me ♫ love to feel this way every waking second of my life

Love to watch a 6 minute video "essay" which is text I could have read in 90 seconds set to music.

I think I need to take a break from ever playing the Tank role in Overwatch until someone can give me a concise and consistent definition of what the role is for.

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Gonna start a company named “Agnus Dei” and angle for government contracts at lowball rates until their heads explode

THIS IS GAY

Waking up, reaching over to find nothing, and hearing my own voice groggily, scratchily say “phone? where you at dog I need you”

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I am truly an idiot for thinking I can do anything and I don't know why I ever try

Look, I said this yesterday, but: I like SG, am willing to extend benefit of the doubt, but that last paragraph is… I dunno. A sudden swerve into ambiguity, when the problem here is how little people know about the facts of the situation, doesn’t inspire confidence?

The quiet joy of, every time someone in OW team chat talks shit about you, saying "Thanks for your feedback, but it's actually you that's bad at video games" If they argue, every reply, forever after: "Okay. Thanks for the insight, but it's actually you that's bad at video games."

FUCK 'EM UP JOTARO

...that statement from Supergiant sure is WEIRD.

This is the most incredible photo they could use. This is some "starring Wallace Shawn as the voice of the Grand Nagus" shit.

Folks I'd never heard Frank Zappa's "Bobby Brown" before today and that experience is wild enough without it being played ON THE SPEAKERS IN THE RESTAURANT WHERE I GOT LUNCH

Just in case it’s not clear: there are no journo jobs and even if there were there’s plenty of excellent candidates with 10x my experience!

Extremely darkly funny shower thought I had: "So, what could I do if I decided to leave academia?" [beat] "Well, I'm qualified to do something in games journalism, anyway." [remainder of shower conducted in mental silence]

Love to log in to Facebook after the longest time to discover someone I know "loving" a video that is an extended fat joke.

As a highly verbal person I think using the word "segregation" to describe having a Black student group on your campus should be considered a crime against language punishable by exile to the fucking Moon.

Getting a state-of-the-institution email from the university president that references www.ed.gov/media/docume... (which, if you haven't read it, is absolutely fucking WILD) but all he said was "we're watching it carefully and will keep you updated" which...

If you, like me, are suddenly overcome with a troublesome attack of sympathy reading this, consider a completely true reframing of this that will help: "I, a public servant, am comfortable letting innumerable other people suffer for the sole purpose of protecting myself/my interests."

A key argument for hosting conferences in the US — the relative ease of attendance compared to other countries — is being destroyed in real time. Lots of not-great things start to happen downstream fairly quickly because of that, a whole events industry facing a massive, artificial contraction.

tired and alone tonight, folks! tonight and every night! i kinda hate it!