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Game writer. The Outer Worlds, Mass Effect, EverSpace 2, Aliens: Fireteam, Dawngate, Asheron's Call, Elder Scrolls Online, Magic: the Gathering.

Known elsewhen as Stormwaltz. A fairly terrible person trying to do the least harm. He/Him, masks, dysthymia.
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Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, noted Jace fan, contributes his opinion.
November 15, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Age yourself with gaming
Atari 2600 "Adventure." Screenshot of the novice difficulty showing the player-cube grabbing the gold key outside the (locked) gold castle.
November 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Between noon and 2PM today, Google sneakily changed something on their backend so that documents in G Docs, Sheets, and Slides can no longer be viewed in the Firefox or LibreWolf browsers, throwing the error below.
Secure Connection Failed An error occurred during a connection to docs.google.com. SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length. Error code: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified. Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.
November 12, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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YOU WILL ADAPT.
A Borg Cube starship with "Nintendo Gamecube" hastily pasted over its closest face, and an image of a nebula in Carina behind it.
November 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Reposting because I feel like it.
Screencap from "The Trouble With Tribbles." Kirk stands in a chest-high pile of dead tribbles while Spock looks on. Nilz Baris has been photoshopped out and replace with the Cabbage Guy from Avatar the Last Airbender, who clutches his head in wide-eyed horror. The image is subtitled, "MY QUADROTRITICALE!"
November 12, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Calvin & Hobbes: As two Calvins fight, Hobbes looks at the reader and says, "Wow, how existential can you get?"
November 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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I don't have a novel (thus I link rather than direct quote), but I still think "She knocked again, louder," is one of my better openings.

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She knocked again, louder. From the far side of the door came a thump and a muttered obscenity. After long seconds of fabric rustling this way and that, accompanied by sotto voce imprecations against *these* blankets in particular, bedding in *general*, and the entire profession of weaving *by extension*, the sounds of unsteady feet on hardwood lurched and swayed towards the door. "Yeah. What. What?" a sleep-thick feminine voice mumbled from the other side. "It's almost noon. You need to get up." "Can't be noon. It's still too heavy out."
November 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Spent an hour adding all the Bandcamp purchases from the past month.

(Apologies for lack of alt text... there's too much to manually type out and OCR returns a jumbled mess.)
(Apologies for lack of alt text... there's too much to manually type out and OCR returns a jumbled mess.)
November 9, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Palpatine exhorts Anakin to, "Dew it."
November 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Colonel Kurtz from Apocalypse Now lies on his back, blood-spattered, whispering, "The onions... the mustard..."
November 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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If you see this QTP with a female anime character you love.
November 4, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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My current Steam organization, for anyone interested in such things.
A list of my user-defined game categories in Steam, and the number of games in each. + FAVORITES (18) + ARCADE (30) + BOARD GAMES (5) + CASUAL (132) + CITY SIM (21) + CRAFTY (42) + GENERIC AAA (2) + I SHIP IT (43) + KICKSTARTED (50) + LIFE SIM (3) + MANAGEMENT (3) + MEANINGFUL (23) + MMORPG (28) + OPEN WORLD (76) + ROGUISH (26) + RPG - EASTERN (72) + RPG - STRATEGY (47) + RPG - WESTERN (212) + RTS (64) + SHOOTMANS (72) + SIMULATOR - CASUAL (11) + SIMULATOR - MILITARY (27) + SIMULATOR - SPACE (56) + SOFTWARE (16) + SPOOKY (37) + STRATEGY (163) + STRATEGY - 4X (37) + STRATEGY - PARADOX (9) + TRASH (20) + VISUAL NOVEL (100) + WARGAME (58)
November 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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This year's iteration of the Halloween porch playlist. I only had an hour or so to think about changes.
Aphex Twin - Curtains Steve Roach - Wonderworld Robert Rich - Borealis Ruptured World - Bow Fiddle Rock Alphaxone - Convergence Angela Winter - Dark Adaptation Bartosz Dziadosz & Tomasz Mrefca - Enlightenment Jarguna & Seetyca - I've Seen Too Many Wars Dead Melodies - Sacrificial Offerings Atrium Carceri & Kammarheit - In the Black Stone Aphex Twin - Tree Halgrath - Affatus (Amanait Akhat) Mercury's Antennae - They Are with Us Ataxy - Aurora Alphaxone - Exonova Simon Wilkinson - Black Prism Aphex Twin - Grass Dahlia's Tear - Celestial Bodies Lorenzo Montanà - Secret Baths Lingua Lustra - Golden Glow Steve Roach - Invisible
October 31, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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October 31, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Have a very bad (very bad!)
Very sad (very sad!)
Disgusting
Halloween
Radiskull and Devil Doll by Joe Sparks singing on a sidewalk.
October 31, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Terrible movies I like anyway:

The Black Hole
Screencap from The Black Hole (1979) showing the protags on the bridge of the starship Cygnus, with the titular space anomaly visible beyond the view dome. The small mascot robot VINCENT is facing down the demonic red robot Maximilian.
October 30, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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Timeline serendipity
A bsky post from the Cartoon Art Museum which says, "Did you know that Girls Scouts can earn a Cadette Comic Artist Badge for creating their own comic? If your troop's looking for some assist, we're here for you: CAM offers private group workshops that can help creators of all skill levels reach their goal. More info at cartoonart.org/education-index" Beneath that, a post from Garfield and Friends Screens showing Garfield standing with arms clasped behind his back, grinning with a malevolent squint.
October 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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"NOW JUST A GODDAMN--!" "..." "...Fine."
October 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Sounds like a wonderful problem to have, TBH. (Sorry.)
"This Is Fine" dog cut & pasted into the bowl of strawberries.
October 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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One Punch Man says, "OK."
October 11, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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I only do one holiday a year, and it's this one.
A grocery cart with 21 bags and boxes of candy, including Ring Pops and Blow Pops, Black Forest gummies, Chocolate Pocy, York Peppermint Patties, and full-size Swedish Fish, Skittles, and Starburst. There are a half dozen mix bags. Also, a selection of bubble wands for the smaller kids.
October 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Photo of a printed script for Babylon 5 episode "And Now For A Word," dated December 8, 1994. SHERIDAN: I'm not. I just think it sounds like jingoism and self deception and armchair quarterbacking. Any time you lose a war, wait a few years and you'll hear from all the people who suddenly think we could've won if THEY'D done the fighting.
October 6, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Uh oh.
TNG: holodeck Moriarty summons the arch.
October 5, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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At this point, EVERYONE wants to escape to a place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism.
Tim Curry in Command & Conquer Red Alert 3.
October 5, 2025 at 1:22 AM