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Broken Arms Gordon
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Kind of losing my mind at the games that did get nominated.
The full nomination list is: 1. Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora – Secrets of the Spire: Pinar Toprak, composer 2. Helldivers 2: Wilbert Roget, II, composer 3. Indiana Jones And The Great Circle: Gordy Haab, composer 4. Star Wars Outlaws: Wild Card & A Pirate’s Fortune: Cody Matthew Johnson & Wilbert Roget, II, composers 5. Sword of the Sea: Austin Wintory, composer
November 18, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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I'm dizzy.
You cannot outrun your life on fire. I would take a bullet for you,” the Politician said. He always said that. “Please don’t say that,” I said. I always said that. From his mouth the bullet theoretical launched the bullet possible. I did not like to think about it. About the armed man at his speech. Or the armed man who broke into his home. Or the armed men he paid to guard him from armed men who sought to harm him while the federal government denied his pleas for protection from the security agency whose modern protocols were carved by the same bullets that cut boughs from his family tree and cut the track of the American experiment. I did not like to think about it just as later I would not like to think about the worm in his brain that other people found so funny. I loved his brain. I hated the idea of an intruder therein. Others thought he was a madman; he was not quite mad the way they thought, but I loved the private ways that he was mad. I loved that he was insatiable in all ways, as if he would swallow up the whole world just to know it better if he could. He made me laugh, but I winced when he joked about the worm. “Baby, don’t worry,” he said. “It’s not a worm.” A doctor he trusted had reviewed the scans of his brain obtained by The New York Times, he said, and concluded that the shadowy figure was likely not a parasite at all. He sighed. It was too late to interfere with what had already vaulted from the sphere of meme to the sphere of screwy legend, but at least I did not have to worry about the worm that was not a worm in his brain.
November 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Immediately reminds me of the "Project Gemstone" scene from White House Plumbers
November 16, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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M-maybe he's just a fan of cheesy Superman antagonists from the 80's and 90's...
November 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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I kind of loved it
October 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Colossus is really showing us their whole ass
Artist's conception of the Colossus of Rhodes from the Grolier Society's 1911 Book of Knowledge
October 15, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Could it be to indicate non-functional elements?
October 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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A four panel screen capture from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season 4 episode 16. Buffy's mind has been swapped into the body of Faith and speaking to Giles. Panel 1: Faith says "When I had psychic power, I heard my Mom think that you were like a stevedore during sex. What-" Panel 2: Faith says "Do you want me to continue?" Panel 3: Giles says "Actually I beg you to stop." Panel 4: Faith says "What's a stevedore?"
September 25, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Canon.
September 24, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Permanent spot in my saved folder
September 23, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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The Joker from 1989's Batman film. A man is tied up in the background and the Joker stands next to him. The closed captioning for the Joker says "He don't look happy. He's been using Brand X."
September 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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The "powered by" really stands out, not least of which is that I'd want a system like that to be hard-wired or on its own local network. I'm sure it's only nominally connected, but still.

It's sort of worse for being singled-out. It would be less tacky dress the players like racecar drivers.
A baseball player covered in brand logos, resembling the way racecar drivers are sponsored.
September 23, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Really appreciate the honesty, here.
Other Factory Entertainment replicas may have their issues, such as modifications to their Next Generation tricorder due to manufacturing limitations and so forth, but the text kerning — and especially the name typo — is the sort of thing that really should have been addressed before final production started.
September 21, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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The word spacing really stands out, and I'm not thrilled by their response (kudos for asking!). The way they reproduced "YARDENGINEERS" and "ENGINEERINGGROUP" look like straight-up mistakes.

Also clearly a different font. It's serifed, sure, but with lots of minor differences. "J" most obviously.
We inquired about the text spacing concerns with Factory Entertainment’s team, who told us this about their review of the original plaque: >>FACTORY ENTERTAINMENT: “On the original plaque, some of the kerning/spacing of letters is quite tight — not missing spaces per say, but just tighter spaced, like a 1/2 or 1/4 space. If you look closely, you will see that the spacing of various words and letters is not fully consistent. >> The gaps between the R I & S in ENTERPRISE for example, but there are several places; we suspect this was indicative of hand-laid hot-metal typesetting used to make the original plaque (which was cast metal). You can also see that the delta symbol is fractionally off-center. We duplicated all this detail as precisely as we could.” Even with this feedback on the matter, there is definitely some room for improvement here — while spacing between “ENGINEERING” and “GROUP” may be a bit tight, it’s still visibly two distinct words on the original prop. Close-up images showing two portions of the original plaque on top with two portions of the reproduction on the bottom. The spacing between words is noticeably different, while the font choice is similar but obviously not exact.
September 21, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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September 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Dear lord. However stupid the premise seemed, I was NOT ready for the "substance" of comparing recruitment of Palestinian suicide bombers to "cancel culture" as a tool of the evil left, and asserting that Trump's second term is so awful is directly because progressives won't post on Twitter.
Screenshot reading: What happened? Palestinian recruitment for suicide terror might have flagged, but from what I’ve read, the main reason was that Israel built a big fence around the West Bank and implemented a bunch of other security measures that made it very difficult for suicide bombers to get through. What looked for a while like an invincible weapon turned out to just be another temporary advantage. I think about this when I think about cancel culture. Screenshot reading: The perception that cancel culture was the progressive H-bomb — an invincible weapon that could be fired any time at anyone who didn’t conform perfectly to a set of progressive mores that had only emerged a few years ago — reshaped much of American society in the 2010s. Every organization in the country, from knitting circles to romance novelist associations to sci-fi conventions, had its internal hierarchy disrupted by the fear that disgruntled or opportunistic subordinates would take their grievances online and summon the dreaded cancel-mob against their superiors. Screenshot reading: And so the ranks of the online cancel-mobs were probably also swollen by people who participated in the mobs out of fear that if they didn’t, they too would be canceled. This gave rise to a phenomenon I call ponzi screaming — berating the person immediately to your right on the political spectrum, out of fear that if you don’t berate them, people further to your left will berate you. You have people like the progressive online shouter and failed Congressional candidate Will Stancil berating Nate Silver even as he gets frequently dogpiled and berated by leftists. Screenshot reading: Within this little hothouse world that American progressives have created for themselves, there’s not much to do except try to cancel each other. Meanwhile, the broader country is moving on without them, and not in a good direction. One of the reasons opposition to Donald Trump’s executive overreach and harmful policies has been weak in his second term in office is that progressive writers are hanging out on Bluesky trying (and failing) to cancel Matt Yglesias and Nate Silver.
September 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Recently watched this b-grade action movie from 1997 called "Drive." The movie is fine enough for what you'd expect, but when she shows up for about 15 minutes in the middle she *completely* steals the show. Charisma vibrating off the screen. It was kind of nuts.
A screenshot of Brittany Murphy from the movie "Drive," released in 1997. The view is from the inside of a car. She's wearing a pink sweater with her back leaning against the door from the outside, turned backward to look into the cabin with a smile. The movie has some surprisingly well-choreographed action scenes and an even more surprisingly well-done part where Brittany Murphy chaotically, charismatically runs a motel.
September 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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It's time.
September 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Freud looking at the "helmet" and immediately reaching for his snuff box
September 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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That's an interesting, uh, helmet design
September 5, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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I recently discovered Logos-World.net, which is amazing, and this pretty much says it all. What a remarkable improvement on the previous two designs.
Four logos for Los Angeles. The first one is labeled "Before 2012" is a minimalist font with the letters in "Los" colored yellow, red, and green. The second, labeled "2012-2018" is a minimalist, black hand-written script with the word "discover" above it. The third logo, labeled "2019-2021" removes the word "discover" and renders the script with a light-blue drop shadow. The final logo, labeled "2021-Present" stylizes the lettering much more pleasingly to the eye while adding an 80's-style pastel gradient that moves from orange through red, pink, blue, and green. A yellow sun sits above "Angeles," as part of the gradient, with brush lines that evoke both the stylizing of the text and the horizon of a sun setting over the ocean.
September 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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The sub-header is beyond belief (I believe it) and fills me with incandescent revulsion.
Amazon-backed firm Showrunner, led by Edward Saatchi, is using the film as a test case for how Hollywood can overhaul production. The results won't be commercialized — the tech giant hasn't obtained rights from Warner Bros.
September 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Wow, the German box art is phenomenal, too!
Google Translate: Something strange is happening to you. Night after night, your dreams are filled with images of a strange world, and with each night, the image becomes clearer. Then, one night, you are there! The lords of Navan, a distant island world, have summoned you. Immortal Druids, each of whom rules their own island kingdom and who now need your help to find their missing brother, Lawson. But perhaps he hasn't disappeared at all, but has been vanished...
September 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Impossible for anyone to approach the names in any context other than "it's what I grew up with," but just looking at the designs I prefer the hard edges of the Genesis. And "Mega Drive" always sounded like an IBM add-on to me.

Plus, I had a ton of fun doing the logo homage for my Hitbox design.
August 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Thinking again about the 17 year age gap between Tim Thomerson, supposedly 38, and a baby-faced Helen Hunt, 21, in Trancers. Overall a pretty great "so bad it's good" kind of movie.
Actor Tim Thomerson on the left, 38 years old. He has completely white hair on the sides, grey stubble, and deep lines in his forehead. On the right is actress Helen Hunt, 21 years old, in one of her earliest roles. Her youthful appearance makes the age gap seem more severe. In the context of the film, Helen Hunt is essentially Tim Thomerson's great-great-great-grandmother and primary love interest.
August 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM