When I was a kid we used to get the Sears catalog delivered to our house. This was a huge book of stuff you could buy from Sears including clothes, tools, appliances and Toys. Oh God, the toys. I used to spend hours drooling over Micro Machines, G.I. Joe figures and Ninja Turtles. There’s not really a Sears anymore but we happened to get an Amazon catalog in the mail a few weeks ago. While going through it with my 11yo son Noah we saw an ad for something called Snap Ships.
Because we were given the opportunity to build a machine using all the ASUS x GUNDAM stuff for a sponsored stream, among other things it means that Gabriel actually has something I would call a computer.
Somebody claiming they aren't going to the thing I specifically disinvited them from isn't some kinda savvy rhetorical judo.
Tonight the Penny Arcade iRacing league is headed to USA International (the dirt oval) and we'll be racing the dirt street stocks. Join us in the pit crew at 7:30 PST over on Twitch for the chaotic opening to season 8! Oh and if you aren't familiar with the PA league check out this awesome hype video with footage from last season!
The story in the strip is mostly exact; I did invent a sedative when in truth regular, human sedatives were sufficient. Even if they did inspire some amateur Krav Maga.
I’m getting back to the Gunpla streams today at 1:30PT over on the Twitch. Thanks to the folks at ROG North America this will be a sponsored stream with some cool giveaways. Check out these incredible custom Zaku head keycaps from the people responsible for the Asus x Gundam collaboration. and I’ll be giving away two of them during each of my upcoming streams!
They are apparently, well… not rebooting Willy Wonka, but now that Warner Bros. has secured the rights they're engaging in some light Issue Zero/Origin story type embroidery just around the edge.
These have been weird times for Twitch. Obviously the hack is the more recent issue, laying the very spine of the operation bare, and their ongoing issues with moderation - but this week's strips were written in advance so that Gabriel's tender craw could heal, and we were unable to pierce the veil of time and peer into the future. Although, I should see what pills they gave him. One of those might do the trick.
Tooth stuff, the "realm of the mouth" as it were, is where Gabriel's most primal horrors are situated. I don't have the particular problems he has, and has endeavored to resolve by resorting to the predations of unaccountable forest mystics. But that's only an index of how much he loathes Dentists as a profession.
Kiko and I have never vibed on a game harder than Alan Wake. Mass Effect was big too, but that rolled in Gabe and a couple other people to compare choices and timelines - Alan Wake, for whatever reason, was just for us. We discussed everything chapter by chapter, like a book club. We watched the fucking webseries! I linked it there, but I haven't seen it since then. Maybe it's actually bad. I don't think so, but the mind is a fragile instrument.
I've said a couple times that there is a something, maybe even a physical something, wrong with the part of my brain that would ordinarily collect a crisp basilisk urethra in an MMOs. It just won't let me do it. The particular cadence of its repetitive activity activates the same part of the brain that the burner of a hot stove might - it says hey! Idiot! Stop doing this.
Our reorganization of the streaming room here at home is just about done. Gabe and I don’t have everything exactly where we want it just yet but we have the new Gundam PC hooked up and everything works. If you watched the build stream it's worth mentioning that once we got it home, Gabe was able to fix the front panel lights.
We were overjoyed to have the opportunity to work with Asus, specifically the Asus X GUNDAM line, and even more specifically the EFSF manifestation of it. We went for the EFSF because we weren't sure if expressing sympathies for the Principality of Zeon on stream would be a TOS violation.
Kara beat Kena: Bridge of Spirits even before Gabe did, which is impressive, seeing as that was his life's focus. But I guess he was gutting his streaming room and drawing a bunch of shit and building a Gundam PC with me for an Asus sponsored stream and also being terrified about his oral surgery so maybe there were some other things happening. Or maybe Kara continues to be a baller, shot-caller, and/or brawler. There is an established precedent where she is concerned re: clutch plays.
Apple's reprisal against Epic's weird-ass gambit was a foregone conclusion. The Gambit, just so we're clear, was to sneak in a parallel payment system that privileged itself over Apple's, and then when Apple responded by ejecting them from their ecosystem - as Epic knew they would - to then release a video they'd apparently already made to suggest that adhering to the contractual obligations that had made them hundreds of millions of dollars up to that point was now tyranny.