Jesus H. Bloody 'ell Christ'onna sticky bicycle! RJK Jr/Trump need to learn the difference between correlation and causation; otherwise, someone's going to need to look into UAPs out in the Rhode Island wilderness and why Democrats aren't doing anything about it!
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr legitimately believes that he has the authority to silence critics, or in this case, a comedian, on behalf of the US President, because they're critical of how people have reacted to an assassination. And that the Trump administration can sue a news outlet, in this case, the New York Times, for $15,000,000,000.00 because their reporting of him was unfavorable and didn't highlight his accomplishments enough, which is similar, but this time with a price tag. If you can't see that as distinctly authoritarian, then you should rethink some of your other life choices.
I can say that I think Donald Trump is an idiot, and that's my opinion, and that's protected speech under the 1st Amendment of the Constitution. I can say that Donald Trump is a sexual abuser because he was found guilty in the court of law of having committed sexual abuse against E. Jean Carol. And no, presidential immunity does not apply here, you dolt, because you weren't the President in 1995/96 and you weren't President when you were convicted in 2023. And just because Trump is the President now in 2025 doesn't mean that, because 77,302,580 people knowingly voted for a known sexual abuser, it doesn't mean that he's excused from having to pay his court-ordered $88,300,000 fine.
This is so last week and is already dated, but I'm going to leave it here for posterity's sake.
But in other news, I'm apparently living in a war-ravaged city that's just been constantly on fire for the last couple of years. And let me just catastrophize with you for a moment with a bullet point list while I have you here:
- 07/01/2024: The Supreme Court rules that the President cannot be prosecuted for actions they commit that are deemed to be part of their Presidential duty.
- 06/09/2025: The President deploys National Guard troops and US Marines to Los Angeles, CA, in response to protests against ICE raids and deportations.
- 08/05/2025: BigBalls is carjacked in Washington, D.C.
- 08/13/2025: The President orders National Guard troops to be deployed in Washington, D.C.
- 09/02/2025: Trump announces that the day before, on September 1st, they blew up a boat carrying 11 drug smugglers from Venezuela in the southern Caribbean Sea.
- No evidence is provided to prove that the boat was smuggling drugs.
- 09/15/2025: Trump announces that another boat carrying three drug smugglers has been blown up.
- 09/16/2025: Trump announces that a third boat carrying drug smugglers has been blown up.
- 09/17/2025: Trump announces that a fourth boat carrying three drug smugglers was blown up, and 2,200 lbs of cocaine were recovered by the Dominican Navy.
- 09/21/2025: Following the assassination of right-wing Christian Nationalist Charlie Kirk, the President says, "I hate my opponent, and I don't want the best for them" at a funeral rally for the late Kirk.
- 09/28/2025: The President orders National Guard troops to be deployed in Portland, OR, in response to protests against ICE raids and deportations.
- Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield sues the Trump administration over deploying troops
- 09/28/2025: US Attorney General Pam Bondi orders National Guard troops to Memphis, TN, because of increased crime rates.
- 09/29/2025: The Governor of Illinois said that National Guard troops would be deployed in Illinois.
- 09/30/2025: President Trump & Pete Hegseth hold a meeting of US Military leaders, declaring that the US Military should be more lethal and should be trained as such in US cities.
- During his speech, Hegseth says that if anything he's saying is giving the military leaders pause, and likely any enlisted soldiers as well, they should honorably resign.
We've got a month full of games I got from Keymailer, which all came in rather quickly. I've noticed that I seem to go through stretches where I'll submit requests for 10-15 games a month and hear nothing, but then all of a sudden I'll get a handful of granted requests and a couple of offers, all within a week or two. Or in the case of Cursed Dungeon Raider, I've had it for nearly a year, and it just so happens that the deadline fell in line with the other games I'll be writing about. But we had our first adult-rated (but not actually ESRB-rated) game that went up last Friday, along with accompanying playthrough videos. There was nothing scandalous in the visuals, and there wasn't any language stronger than a standard R-rated movie. There are some bonus puzzles in Only Cards you can solve, but only the last two have any bit of nudity, and I didn't include either of those on the YouTube playthrough for obvious reasons. So nearly every Friday, we'll be featuring a game I played via Keymailer, and most of them are seasonally appropriate.
In 9 Years of Shadows, I've hit a bit of a wall. Or at least I had until Tuesday night, when I realized that a method of fast travel in the game had actually unlocked a new area, but because I don't like to use fast travel, I didn't know that the central shaft elevator now had a new accessible area. Additionally, the in-game mechanics of the elevator had previously been established as only being accessible after you come across another elevator access point on the map, as opposed to accessing a new area by way of the elevator. I'm really just blaming a major update to the game that happened back in April, which makes a lot of the late-game maps and walkthroughs null because new areas were added, and some of the mechanics were fine-tuned. Basically, anything posted prior to the April 21st update is now essentially useless, but I may have just found a solution, but I'll need to test it out first (if I could get the Switch 2 back from The Squire due to the whole game card sharing system that I've already talked about).
I've picked up Triangle Strategy again. I know I'm close to finishing it because in an exploration scene, I didn't find a particular item, and then, following an immediate cutscene, all my characters were wiped off the map, and I was given an epilogue stating that history eventually forgot about the existence of House Wolffort. I've also come to a realization with Fire Emblem: Awakening that one of the reasons why I haven't been able to stick with that game is that the identity of the "Prince" (not the actual Prince-prince in the game, but an inside joke of sorts between Conklederp and Beardsnbourbon that I've picked up using as well) was revealed in the mobile game Fire Emblem Heroes a few years back and I haven't been able to forget it.
On the Steam Deck, I'm again nearly done with Resident Evil 6. I'll probably have a slough of articles for that game, each one focusing on one of the campaigns, followed by a final thoughts-type article, similar to what I did for Resident Evil: Revelations 2 back in 2019. And I think I brought it up a month or so ago, but I'm also playing through the Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters on the Steam Deck as a wind-down at night. I already went through the first Final Fantasy, and I'm about 17 hours into Final Fantasy II; we just destroyed the Dreadnaught.
And who knew that the Steam Autumn Sale was happening? I sure didn't until I got an email telling me that Dead Space and 53 games on my wishlist were currently discounted. So, in direct response to EA Games being bought by a mix of Saudi investment firms and Jared Kushner's investment firm, I bought both Dead Space (the 2023 remake) and Dead Space 3 so that I would never have to use EA's Origin client again and so that I wouldn't have to give either PIF or Affinity Partners any of my money after the sale is closed in Q1 FY2027.
Let's end it there since this isn't supposed to be an up-to-date news column, and it's making writing these articles even a week ahead of time feel a lot less relevant than they were 90 minutes ago.
~JWfW/JDub/The Faceplantman/Jaconian
So Raise a Glass, Raise Your Voices
P.S. RIP Jane Goodall.
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