Joe Cecil

The Amazing Digital Circus's pilot

I have some thoughts on The Amazing Digital Circus. If you haven't seen the pilot episode of The Amazing Digital Circus yet, go watch it. It's strange and interesting and somewhat funny. The rest of this post will have spoilers. You have been warned. The heart

Frame text

There's a funny thing books sometimes do: They frame the same story they're telling as an important story inside the fictional world they are describing, by showing or telling how others have written about the events. I call the devices they use to do this frame

I can't believe it's not normally-colored

allRGB is a pretty cool website. It collects (and encourages the creation of) images that contain every 24-bit color exactly once. Why? Well, why not? It's completely pointless, a totally arbitrary constraint based on technical happenstance. That's what makes it delightful. See: Tunnel Man. Art. Lipograms.

The Giant's Coffin

In Mammoth Cave, there's a huge room and an enormous coffin-shaped rock inside it called the Giant's Coffin. This area would make an amazing setting for an anime battle or a dungeon in a tabletop RPG.

Doo-wop influence in the Doki Doki Literature Club soundtrack?

Something felt familiar about the Doki Doki Literature Club soundtrack, but I couldn't place it. Then I heard some doo-wop song waiting in line at the Newport Aquarium and realized: Hey, that's the kind of thing the soundtrack reminds me of. For example, the Wikipedia page

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