As my husband jokes, the compliment you’re looking for is “lovely sternum.”

I have mixed feelings on this.

Part of the issue is that there’s been a growing and notable backlash against spec work and 99design style “contests” in the freelance industry over the past few years. A distaste for spec work has been there since its inception, I imagine, but I have seen it become considerably more vocal (and, while I have mixed…

I think it’s a reasonable measure of expectations versus reception, which makes sense for something like The Witch, which was marketed heavily as SHIT YOUR PANTS HORROR from what I recall, and was actually much more of a slowburn exercise in atmosphere and tension (and I liked it, personally, but it was not what I was…

I saw the movie as a....ten year old, perhaps? And had a strong recollection of it being HORROR. A real, legitimate horror film. (It was filmed in a town just up the road from mine, including at their high school, so that probably also contributed in some strange way. Spiders! Killing people! In Cambria! MINUTES…

I hadn’t heard of the new one, saw that header image, and immediately went to Skype to tell my husband that they’d made a new a Operation Genesis game and I was going to get it the instant it came out.

Oooooh, wonderful! :D I love Lovecraftian style and stories, and with the added mycology bonus, this was great! Thank you!

If you want more cordyceps horror, you should check out “The Hallow.” The gist is basically “fae reinterpreted as infectious fungus.” Good stuff! Comes on and off Netflix regularly and might be streamable elsewhere.

Not the OP, obviously, but I really enjoyed Vermintide.

As a Warhammer fan (albeit of primarily Fantasy/Age of Sigmar and secondarily 40k), it is a genuine delight in my day every time anything related to 40k is posted on the Gizmodo sites—not because the articles are always great, but because inevitably, the comments section is filled up with these tremendously longwinded…

Entirely unrelated and unsolicited advice for your friend: maybe check out “puzzle feeders” (there’s tons of different varieties) if they haven’t already. I’ve found that they work for most problem-eater cats I’ve encountered—basically, they force the cat to eat the food slower/single pieces at a time. I know they…

A friend of mine calls those “ifpologies.”

Path of Exile (action RPG, Diablo-esque) has been doing something along those lines for a few years now. It’s a free to play game, paid for by primarily cosmetic microtransactions and a small amount of convenience microtransactions (such as more stash tabs for storing items, etc). There are no microtransactions that…

But the malware called me pretty!

IT’S A FUCKING LEGAL SERVICE.

I read this entirely article with my brain unintentionally subbing in “MSG” for “MDMA”. Like, hm, sure, I guess that could be quite interesting! I don’t know that I’d have mixed it with brie, but....maybe the flavors mesh well! And I mean, I wouldn’t really consider MSG a drug, Hannah!

My husband’s birth certificate scales it down even further!

What a cutie! My black kitty was giving me a sphinx-y stare last night.

Passing Through Gethesemane gave me the momentary hope that for once, Brad Dourif would be allowed to play a through and through decent person, and then I immediately realized where it was going once the discussion of mindwipes came up. Alas for Brad, typecasting and “villain face.” It’s a great episode, though, I…

Yup, they’re all variations or straight-up pulls of various urban legends (it’s really a sewer rat!) or ghost stories (she was locked in the chest and died there!)—which is a perfectly fine enough thing, nothing wrong with that at all. But it was Gammell’s art that people remember. I really look forward to a movie…