Help me out by sharing this video far & wide! This is everything anyone needs to know about how Cheevos For Charity 2025 works! I'm streaming from noon to midnight Eastern this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, raising money for @translifeline.bsky.social and giving away a mess of Steam games!

Every region lists the top 4 seeds in the headline, except the south, which makes a point to show Michigan as the #5 and not #2 MSU. #bluewall

Coaches go for 2 far too early.

The Cheevos for Charity stream is on again for 2025 (in March) and I'm looking for any input for refining/improving the experience! I'm gonna go for 3 days this year, Friday-Sunday. If you have ideas, please let me have it!

It’s an @ericlang.bsky.social Christmas!

We just finished a 2 player game of Renature from @capstone-games.bsky.social and the famed duo of Kramer & Kiesling. Using dominos for area control feels both familiar and new. As always with Capstone, the production is amazing! It plays well at 2, but I suspect it will be very mean at 3 or 4.

@kosmosgamesuk.bsky.social Nunatak is a magnificent game by Kane Klenko! It has fun decisions, many ways to win, and very quick turns. It can easily be played by kids 8-10yo while still being engaging for adults. Nunatak will almost certainly finish in my top 5 of the year.

10 favorite Melodic Death Metal bands:

Soilwork
Scar Symmetry
Mercenary
In Flames
Dark Tranquillity
Disarmonia Mundi
Arch Enemy
Solution .45
Before the Dawn
Children of Bodom

Let’s talk books!

The Power of One
Idlewild
Revelation Space
Red Rising
The Legend of Drizzt
Relic
Dune
Lord of the Rings

And the separate the art from the bigots for the sake of conversation corner:

Ender’s Shadow
Harry Potter

Interests for the algorithm:

Board games
Metal music
The X-Files
Detroit sports
Michigan State University
Retro video games
Sci-fi books
The environment
Progressive politics
Progressive music

Just because, here are my favorite episodes of The X-Files.

Ice
Darkness Falls
Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose
Jose Chung’s From Outer Space
Bad Blood
How the Ghosts Stole Christmas
Humbug
Post-Modern Prometheus
Redrum
X-Cops

10 video games to get to know me:

Mega Man 3
River City Ransom
Earthworm Jim
NBA Jam TE
Syphon Filter
Final Fantasy
Knights of the Old Republic 2
Mass Effect 2
Borderlands 2
Hades

As a native Michigander and long-suffering Lions fan that has lived in Buffalo for almost 20 years, I am both scared and excited for the chance at a Lions/Bills Super Bowl.

10 artist/bands to get to know me, in chronological order:

Michael Jackson
Pearl Jam
Bush
Creed
Metallica
Linkin Park
Killswitch Engage
Soilwork
Dream Theater
Opeth

Matt Steigenga came to my basketball camp when I was a kid.