Jason Petitjean

I wrote a quick follow-up to my last post on Deltarune and its use of leitmotif.

Political media is the only topic other than “small dogs with names inspired by Superman” that I feel like I can honestly refer to myself as an “expert,” and I implore you to stop watching cable news. It doesn’t inform you. TV news is one of the worst ways possible to get the news.

I've been going through my password manager, resetting all my passwords to be as long as allowed. One interesting new idea, which I first read on EFF's website, is creating a passphrase instead of a password. You can read more and generate a phrase here: strongphrase.net

We tried "everyone is entitled to an opinion" for three straight decades and all we have to show for it is four thousand cases of measles and a death cult running the government. It's time for people who don't know what they're talking about to shut the fuck up.

Cool site

I like how You Can See Everything is priming a lot of discussion about what it means to trust documentaries and how well anyone can really know the truth, but I'm now worried that watching it will taint how I enjoy This Is Spinal Tap.

it's hard to describe to young folks how cool airbnb was when it first launched. just weirdos and spare rooms for like twenty bucks. we stayed at a guy's house in oregon who was a "bear safety expert" and when we asked him what to do if a bear attacked you he replied, completely seriously "i dunno."

Every single hobby I love has has been infected by slopped up and unserious software. It's exhausting. aftermath.site/ai-slop-hobbie...

I have been meaning to write about this for a month or so now but it breaks my heart. AI has infected every hobby. Everything is noise. It's hurting existing communities and trudging through the slop is exhausting.

I discovered that I still somehow own this book. Time to throw it away.

We're restricting horse-drawn carriages faster than we are restricting guns.

"I don’t really care who discovered the Justin Bailey code first. What interests me about this asterisk in Metroid history is the way it points to a very human need to make sense of a world that is chaotic and therefore dangerous" www.thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/blog/metroid...

I'm convinced that all someone has to do to be hot is to get salt-n-pepper hair in public.

I really love Deltarune a lot, especially the music, so I wrote what I find special about the music (particularly chapter 5's soundtrack).

I really love Deltarune a lot, especially the music, so I wrote what I find special about the music (particularly chapter 5's soundtrack).

This shit is so cool. They took away being able to afford computers for this shit.

Moby Dick is taking forever for me to read because it is five parts plot and twenty parts explaining what a whale is to people who died a hundred years before Discovery Channel existed.

Or we can tax the hell out of him and fine the hell out of his companies every time they do something wrong.

A little frog with big feelings

My child's kindergarten recommended five different apps to keep track of grades and announcements and bus routes and dues. Why.

What a strange and wonderful life it must be, to be good at parrying in video games.

I won't call Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse a bad movie, per se, but I will call completely unnecessary and less entertaining than the film before it.

The only thing that might help me stop thinking about Deltarune is restarting Silksong.

i’m just so fucking sorry that my muslim friends have to be hit with this despicable racism every single day. it’s not ok and you should not have to tolerate it. this country belongs to all of us.

I had this idea from reading the elizabeth holmes mouse post and then I couldn't do anything else until i painted the idea to completion

The owner of X is almost single-handedly funding the Republican midterm election campaigns. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem.

I finally saw an AI-generated menu in the wild today. The pictures of the food looked so nauseating that I had to leave and find lunch elsewhere. I cannot understand how anyone can look at those pictures and not immediately scrap the whole design.

She didn't even make it one Scaramucci

I pledge to use my smashed-orphan orphan-smashing hammer - the world's first hammer built from smashed orphans for smashing orphans - to protect and support orphans.

Being an evidence-based physician in this climate is the most tiresome thing I've done my whole life. apnews.com/article/pept...

You cannot escape AI's ability to invade your privacy. www.theverge.com/tech/1011938...

The weight of the multi-payer medical administrative industrial complex is crushingly heavy today.

I think a lot of this has to do with refresh rates and hardware. Pixels and iPhones just respond instantly, so using them is no hassle. But car touch screens, bloated Fire tablets, other cheap hardware... The imprecise touch screen and laggy software become obstacles to usability.

A SpaceX rep had a Q&A session with the residents of Pecan Island, and it does not sound as if it went well. lailluminator.com/2026/10/13/s...

I just think it’s a waste to blow up a data center when you could just rob it instead.

Contrasted with today's Swan Boy, I just last week listened to the Rude Tales of Magic live episode in which the pirate captain Twice-Damned Regina does, in fact, keep receipts.

I posted a joke the other day about how my kid wanted a Mickey song that didn't exist, and a bunch of people were like "just AI to make it." I understand needing to please a toddler, but man--that's just not how I want him to think about music at all. It's not a vending machine.

Trying to be the most annoying tourist in India