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Gabe is losing his shit over Adventures of Elliot, which was not a sure thing, because there are two versions of the demo and only one of them lets you continue from where you left off in the retail version. I'll leave it to you to guess which one he had, and the theft of several hours would ordinarily be a dealbreaker but it charmed the pants off him. Technically his pants sublimated, moving directly to a gaseous form without first passing through a liquid state.

I try to be as much of a moving target for social media algos as I can, battering it with strange data; the best guess TikTok could possibly make is that I'm an ancient moth with zymurgical inclinations who works part-time as a welder. At least, that's what I thought. Somewhere in that hostile nonsense it managed to constellate a route from point A to point B and put my whole deal into stark relief. I am someone who likes robots that turn into shit, and vice-versa. I was under the impression that Transformers ruled the roost - by and large a metaphorical roost, but I assume Swoop has a literal aerie in addition to the rhetorical one. But there's a whole industry now around making things not as they were, but as you remember them. Sorcerous.

Apple TV is fascinating. It doesn't have a super deep roster, but it has a weirdly high ratio of absolutely must watch shit. I got some free Apple TV when I got an iPad a few Christmases ago, and ended up hooked on For All Mankind - then let it lapse, and now my three favorite shows are all from there. It goes Severance, Pluribus, and now Widow's Bay. They don't seem to be able to produce on any kind of schedule, but then, I don't think they're even trying to. This is exactly what a modern leviathan should be doing with its bulging coffers. As a young man, I was told that Campbell's Chunky Soup was said to eat like a meal. These are shows that watch like books, that benefit very clearly from study.

It's very textbook stuff; now that the game festivals are over, now that the charm offensive has been executed more or less flawlessly and there's no more juice to squeeze from it, it's time to produce an incredibly large cartoon knife from nowhere and move to the next phase.