Penny Arcade

This week the Penny Arcade League begins Season 5 of our racing journey together. We’re up over 250 people now with races all during the week and an active Discord. It’s a great group that I interact with at least once a week for our Thursday night race. I will also sometimes pop in for the practice races when I need them... I usually need them. I had a great time at the fun race during the "off season" last week and if you missed it I reccomend you check out the VOD.  This…

I had to shift some text into previous panels, but I was able - and pleased to be able - to grant the request. Alien has a complicated history as a soil for creative projects. This is probably the most diplomatic way I can put it. I've softened a little bit on 3. But if I said that the first two were almost perfect films, whose reliance on practical effects mean that they still read correctly to the eye, a refusal to join that grim fraternity of movies whose CG marks them forever as…

Greb sent me a picture of his grandfather, a picture I've seen in his dining room incorporated into a mounted plaque of honor, complete with medals. The main difference is that this person was looking around, in something like wonderment or surprise, tempered by his martial tradition. It was from something called MyHeritage Deep Nostalgia, and there's something about this construction that unsettles me, but it's probably the most incredible marketing tool they've ever…

The Vanity Fair article we are all slicing thin and plating up on our own sites is genuinely packed with bizarre truths. I'd sorta been content to say, hey, the director shift resulted in a different perspective on largely the same corpus. That's not what happened at all. There's some ratfucking in there, and then Joss Whedon's head rises, like a bad moon, breaking the soup of algae laid over a brackish pond. Comics aren't my primary interest. It's been fun to…