Jake Rodkin @ja2ke@idlethumbs.social

Feature request: Mastodon-style “this account has been redirected HERE” notices, but for everything I’ve ever said online in the last 20 years, pointing to the most recent thing I said.

Just found a file on my PC called "mylife.jpg" from January 31, 2006:

Still one of my favorite gaming moments captured on video, biased heavily because it’s two of my favorite people playing Far Cry 2, but man what a thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfgte5sW9mU

Saw this in the store and had to buy it because of how incredibly gross and upsetting this label looked. But also how desirable to me, a person who likes awful candies that have interesting mouthfeels.

Rating: fine :/

Trip was extremely good. Sorry to the few folks who sent recommendations for what to do - I mostly forgot to look at social media for the last week which made things even better. (Again sorry, but that is surely understandable.)

Going to NYC for a few days (weds-sun) for basically no reason. Haven’t taken a trip like this in approximately infinity years. Looking forward to it. Send toot.

Wait are these not officially called toots anymore? That’s probably for the best but also a shame.

(I saw Doctor Strange and while I was mostly just sort of whelmed by it, there was one notable shot in it that made me think, damn it’s been a while since I saw Evil Dead II.)

Watched Evil Dead II for the first time in probably 15 years. Turns out it’s still good! As more time passes and it fade seven farther into the woodwork, it’s wild how much of the modern genre aesthetic owes a debt of gratitude to this movie.

Love to delete and redraft.

This isn't to say that putting them in a big box automatically Elevates them in some objective way. But I do feel like the teams at Telltale put so much of themselves into the games, gave more to the company than it probably deserved. Internally these games always felt like "stepping stones to something greater" for the company/management, while for the team... these games were the point! It felt good to see and touch a version that didn't feel ephemeral, like it would slip out of my hand.

It's a little cheesy how much power a "big game box" can hold over a certain type of brain, I guess. I wasn't expecting the thing to have much of an effect on me other than liking the aesthetics, but unwrapping it and opening it see the game was, I would say, *annoyingly* emotional as an experience. Apparently I still have complicated contextual anxiety over how "real" the Telltale adventures were, as budget downloadable games living in the shadow of LucasArts classics that got me into games.

Over the last few years some friends and former coworkers of mine have been chipping away at remastering the Telltale Sam & Max games, after buying the games and assets from Telltale when the company died spectacularly in 2018. We did a physical release last year which I got to do all the design work on, and I finally got mine and opened it today... It turned out way better than I was expecting. (I didn't expect the little cardboard inserts for each layer!)