John Thompson
@firesofanarchy.bsky.social
Gamer. SFF Fan. Fanfiction Writer. History Degree.
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Well, you'd have thought TNA would have brought out a few more stops than that for their first episode on a regular TV station in almost a decade. I know Hard To Kill 2024 was a pay per view, but they did a lot more to really boost the feeling of something new and something important there. #TNA
January 16, 2026 at 4:28 AM
Well, you'd have thought TNA would have brought out a few more stops than that for their first episode on a regular TV station in almost a decade. I know Hard To Kill 2024 was a pay per view, but they did a lot more to really boost the feeling of something new and something important there. #TNA
I like Forbidden West and all, and I think I'm finally going to get to playing that again next, but there's just something special about Zero Dawn that very few games capture. #HorizonZeroDawn
January 10, 2026 at 6:26 PM
I like Forbidden West and all, and I think I'm finally going to get to playing that again next, but there's just something special about Zero Dawn that very few games capture. #HorizonZeroDawn
Starting this year's gaming out the same way I started 2025. This time it's a NewGame+ run of the Horizon Zero Dawn remaster. #HorizonZeroDawn
January 1, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Starting this year's gaming out the same way I started 2025. This time it's a NewGame+ run of the Horizon Zero Dawn remaster. #HorizonZeroDawn
I don't know man, no one's entitled to award nominations. There's so much SFF being written every day and so many authors over the last ten years let alone 50 or 100 who have not and probably will never get their due. Even more so if you look at the self publishing front. #SFF
December 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I don't know man, no one's entitled to award nominations. There's so much SFF being written every day and so many authors over the last ten years let alone 50 or 100 who have not and probably will never get their due. Even more so if you look at the self publishing front. #SFF
Well I finished my replay of Ace Combat 7. Still probably some messing around to do for trophies, but yeah that was a fun campaign to play through again. #AceCombat
December 18, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Well I finished my replay of Ace Combat 7. Still probably some messing around to do for trophies, but yeah that was a fun campaign to play through again. #AceCombat
I mean, I'll still be playing games regardless of what it ends up looking like, but man that's freaking dire for the traditional console market. #VideoGames
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Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN
Last month, November, was a shockingly terrible month for video game sales in the U.S. While we traditionally think of November as a huge sales month what with Black Friday and all, November 2025 was ...
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December 17, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I mean, I'll still be playing games regardless of what it ends up looking like, but man that's freaking dire for the traditional console market. #VideoGames
If it wasn't for mass market paperbacks, particularly the Star Trek tie in novels and stuff from Angry Robot, I probably wouldn't have read anywhere near as much as a kid. But I've been mostly switched over to trades for a while. #Books
All my recent books went from hardcover to trade paperback and almost all of my backlist in mass market has now migrated to trade. The role of mass market paperbacks is now handled almost entirely by ebooks. I'm okay with this but it is the end of an era.
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Last Call for Mass Market Paperbacks
After years of steady sales declines, the format will largely disappear next year.
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December 15, 2025 at 8:34 PM
If it wasn't for mass market paperbacks, particularly the Star Trek tie in novels and stuff from Angry Robot, I probably wouldn't have read anywhere near as much as a kid. But I've been mostly switched over to trades for a while. #Books
Looks like a replay of Ace Combat 7 is in order. #AceCombat
December 12, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Looks like a replay of Ace Combat 7 is in order. #AceCombat
We still got a while before we see if all of these games even come out, and with the state of the games industry these days that's not a guarantee. But man, the next few years is looking good for sci fi RPGs. #VideoGames
Star Wars Fate of the Old Republic announced from Casey Hudson - single player game
December 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
We still got a while before we see if all of these games even come out, and with the state of the games industry these days that's not a guarantee. But man, the next few years is looking good for sci fi RPGs. #VideoGames
Another Playstation Wrap Up in the books. Despite entering an Outer Worlds induced slump in November and not being able to finish Ghost Of Yotei or even start Outer Worlds 2, I'd say I still had a pretty good gaming year. #PlaystationWrapUp
December 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Another Playstation Wrap Up in the books. Despite entering an Outer Worlds induced slump in November and not being able to finish Ghost Of Yotei or even start Outer Worlds 2, I'd say I still had a pretty good gaming year. #PlaystationWrapUp
Well since it's on PS Plus now, and I'm still kinda in my gaming slump, I've decided to finally check out Lego Horizon and I gotta say it's pretty fun so far as long as you're not overly particular about how the lore should be presented. #LegoHorizon
December 9, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Well since it's on PS Plus now, and I'm still kinda in my gaming slump, I've decided to finally check out Lego Horizon and I gotta say it's pretty fun so far as long as you're not overly particular about how the lore should be presented. #LegoHorizon
So CNN's not even pretending to be a legitimate news organization anymore.
Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones. One recent Kalshi betting market that allowed people to bet on whether Palestinians in Gaza would suffer mass starvation.
CNN Partners With a Gambling App That Lets You Wager on Starvation in Gaza
The app company’s two biggest investors are also heavily invested in the Israeli military.
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December 6, 2025 at 12:56 PM
So CNN's not even pretending to be a legitimate news organization anymore.
I wasn't going to watch anyways but the tone they're setting with the marketing for this show definitely isn't filling me with any interest. Between this and the rumored TOS retread after Strange New Worlds I don't really understand what they're doing with the franchise at this point. #StarTrek
🚨 BREAKING - New Star Trek: #StarfleetAcademy Poster!
The first season of the new #StarTrek live-action series premieres January 15th on Paramount+
🖖 Will YOU be watching?
The first season of the new #StarTrek live-action series premieres January 15th on Paramount+
🖖 Will YOU be watching?
December 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I wasn't going to watch anyways but the tone they're setting with the marketing for this show definitely isn't filling me with any interest. Between this and the rumored TOS retread after Strange New Worlds I don't really understand what they're doing with the franchise at this point. #StarTrek
Like I said about The Magnificent Nine, though this one ended up lower in my estimation, I understand the constraints these Firefly novels are under, but I still feel like there should be more to these endings than just resetting the status quo. #Firefly
December 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Like I said about The Magnificent Nine, though this one ended up lower in my estimation, I understand the constraints these Firefly novels are under, but I still feel like there should be more to these endings than just resetting the status quo. #Firefly
If Sony actually cared about Concord they would have kept the game up for longer than two weeks. But God forbid, people actually want to still play the game you put out to die. #Concord
Sony slaps down fan-made Concord resurrection effort with copyright takedown and "worrying legal action"
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www.eurogamer.net/sony-slaps-d...
November 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
If Sony actually cared about Concord they would have kept the game up for longer than two weeks. But God forbid, people actually want to still play the game you put out to die. #Concord
Not that I'm clamoring for sex scenes, but we cut the sex scenes for the romances that would have meant something but kept the Invisigal sex dream scene. Okay dude, I see where the priorities were. #Dispatch
Dispatch writer regrets cutting sex scenes www.eurogamer.net/dispatch-wri...
November 14, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Not that I'm clamoring for sex scenes, but we cut the sex scenes for the romances that would have meant something but kept the Invisigal sex dream scene. Okay dude, I see where the priorities were. #Dispatch
Well I finished Dispatch and got a mostly happy ending, even managed to get a 1% happy ending with Invisigal. That was a fun time and the later episodes definitely packed more into them than the earlier ones did. #Dispatch
November 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Well I finished Dispatch and got a mostly happy ending, even managed to get a 1% happy ending with Invisigal. That was a fun time and the later episodes definitely packed more into them than the earlier ones did. #Dispatch
Back during my first stint of heavy reading I read a lot of Star Trek novels. I know the novel universe ended a few years ago but when I saw that some of them were still available in these trade paperback editions, I just had to pick a couple up and add them to my new reading list. #StarTrek
November 12, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Back during my first stint of heavy reading I read a lot of Star Trek novels. I know the novel universe ended a few years ago but when I saw that some of them were still available in these trade paperback editions, I just had to pick a couple up and add them to my new reading list. #StarTrek
Well Senate Dems had their fun playing with people's lives for 40 days. Back to regular programming I guess. #GovernmentShutdown
November 10, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Well Senate Dems had their fun playing with people's lives for 40 days. Back to regular programming I guess. #GovernmentShutdown
Interesting stuff. #History
The End of European Superpowers? The Suez Crisis - W2W 050
YouTube video by TimeGhost History
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October 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Interesting stuff. #History