Jank Frenn @jennatar@mastodon.social
big fan of adventure games, Nintendo, the 2600, Victorian parlor games, Tarot, mysticism, murder mysteries, horror, comics, and the year 1995
Last night I tried to NOT wake up from a nightmare because I wanted ideas for a horror movie screenplay, which I think is the healthiest reaction to a nightmare I've ever had
The popularity of breakout Instagram star Lil' Miquela is proof that the world is ready for the triumphant return of Kyoko Date https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1229-a-brief-history-of-virtual-pop-stars/
@jennatar so what you're saying is calling out of work because your cat won't let you come in IS a reasonable action to take
I think there's a certain truth to that, too. My life has been a lot happier ever since I started taking Ted's cats' feelings into account. Like, they're a lot less aggressive with furniture now
That said: I've read that you should always feed your cat before yourself, lest your cat's resentful Evil Eye befall you
I think a lot about that recent study that said cats prefer hanging out with us over food
oh hey, Gog has Shivers now. remember Shivers? it was sort of Sierra's YA horror adventure counterpart franchise to Phantasmagoria. the overall plan at the time if I recall was that each would eventually have several (unrelated in terms of plot and characters) games under its name, but I think they ended up only getting to 2 for each franchise.
I hate u Buzzfeed
OH DAMN
Technically Indy burns down Marion Ravenwood's whole bar
Alfred Molina is so terrific in the opening of Raiders of the Lost Ark
Amazon what the heck
I was searching online for "fancy Othello"—like, a pretty copy of Reversi for a coffee table—and HERE IS WHAT I FOUND INSTEAD https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/218721/classy-acts-game-covers-wine-cheese-fancy-things
3-D Ultra Pinball, CyberStorm, and Woodruff, heretofore notoriously difficult to get running, were all ISO downloads, by the way. (I do have the original discs!! Just no disc drive.) I downloaded patches from this amazingly helpful person https://www.google.com/amp/s/namethattech.wordpress.com/2016/01/18/fixing-up-old-computer-games/amp/ and I also recently learned Woodfruff is a ScummVM game. Most of these other games were GOG downloads. Yay! No more virtual WinXP machines!!! Happy gaming!
OK, the fact that MissionForce: CyberStorm didn't have box art was really irritating me. All my Launchbox games now have box art, even the homebrew Atari carts
Ahhhhh, the Jank Frenn '90s collection
Ted and I are both fighting with our respective computers, and our little cat keeps alternating between whose laptop she most wants to sit on
Like, there are deep flaws with either one, certainly, but dismissing either entire work as an autobiographical exercise is... eesh
That's really irritating. Wow. That's very reminiscent of the negative reactions to "Cat Person," isn't it? Just because you can capably write an unlikable fictional character does not mean you're inserting yourself into an it-actually-happened real-life narrative.
Ughghk;h is that the new thing? Dismissing fiction as "autobiography"? It isn't enough that female memoirists constantly take shit, now fiction writers and screenwriters are memoirists too? God.
Wow, Letts wrote a short op/ed for Variety, regarding people's tendencies to diminish Greta Gerwig's 'Lady Bird' for being "autobiography": http://variety.com/2017/film/news/tracy-letts-greta-gerwig-lady-bird-1202578697/
