Who the hell is Eric? Did Erik get replaced for what he did to Narfy?

Without looking it up: did he become his stereotype shitty gamer character?

Appear at bowling alleys in the form of a chimpanzee bearing a scroll

Think it’s just called “suspension”. I know someone who has done it professionally at least once

Long mover

Unless they want to get psionic powers, that screen is pretty heavy on the brain gore and worms

Cats, suddenly as of ~7 years ago. Had three cats at the time, still have two, my allergy doctor is appalled that we “let” them sleep on the bed with us.

Dogs, also suddenly as of ~2 years ago. Pet a dog in the neighborhood, didn’t think anytime of it and later rubbed my face while gaming. My eyeball swelled up painfully. Didn’t make the connection until I pet another dog a week or two later, scratched my back and got a painful rash. We had just installed a fence to get a dog of our own

The article mentions the preacher who started this rapture excitement is from South Africa

Is this the new America controlled algorithm?

We must figure out what other human laws chimpanzees respect

Massive Attack is the name of the band. The article was not ambiguous about that

When they’re weaned from the teat of round after round of investment

A mixture like that plus crushed up smarties or something got all powdered candy banned at my elementary school because kids were carrying around big bags of it and snorting it at recess. Can’t be a coincidence that we were doing DARE at the same time

Get an abacus before tariffs catch up with them too

“I’m telling!” It yells while uploading screenshots of everything you do

I will not respect their taxonomy because of their examples: “Sushi” as a class contains zero examples of sushi. Meanwhile there is an example of sushi in the “Toast” class.

Last book: The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook. It’s book three in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, which I’m enjoying a lot. Sometimes the game mechanic details get a little tiring, but they’re typically meaningful to the larger story, or at least the action scenes. The human drama of it is where it really shines, tons of righteous indignation and coming together against adversity. Lots of humor sprinkled in. It can be a little crude and definitely very violent, I’d recommend it as long as those aren’t deal breakers.

Current book: Citadel of the Autarch, fourth book in the New Sun series. It’s good so far, building on the story of the first three books, interested to see how it reaches the situation foreshadowed in the first book via the framing device of this being a memoir written by the main character. The meandering plot with occasional tangent story-within-a-story have made it a slower read for me, but the surreality of it keeps it intriguing during the slower moments. I’d definitely recommend it, it’s clear why this is a well regarded series, very different from my usual read.

Ain’t nothing quite like a robot on a bike

Not their marriage to each other, but I went to my dad’s second wedding, when I was in my twenties. Nice guerrilla ceremony at an art museum