no news and an anemic link round-up this week. but let's see what i can do!

• "type help" is a browser game i haven't played yet, but has rave reviews. if you get an error message, allow your browser to store cookies from itch.io. a mystery game with a text parser, from my understanding. it sounds right up my alley. "inspired by obra dinn" is a great way to get my attention.
• similarly: "the roottrees are dead" is a similar style of adventure game where you are trying to work through a deceased family's will and figure out who are the REAL blood relatives who inherit the fortune. if the AI assets of the free browser version bothers you, you can play the steam release which has original assets.
• my friend kelly released the first chapter of her comic "pipeburn" on itch.io as well some time ago. kelly's art is dramatic, engrossing in detail, and her story-telling chops always results in a raucous good time. she's been hacking away at this story for as long as i've known her (so over a decade!) and it's a delight to see it all come together into a cohesive story. well worth it if only to ogle over the ink work.
• vinny plays school teacher simulator. a quick sprint through a game that looks like it fucking sucks in the best ways. what's jeremy's fucking problem!
• a vulture article entitled "Review: The Baldwins is grimmer than you imagined". america's strangest and most off-putting celebrity family got a huge TLC show deal to show off the freakish number of kids they have (as TLC loves to do) BEFORE alec was indicted for manslaughter lol. the show, for some fucked up insane reason, weaves this narrative in between nauseating scenes of family together-ness. surreal story, especially if you know anything about hilaria baldwin's uh...weird behavior.

there will be an update next wednesday and saturday, but after the first i will be updating on saturdays only for a while to rebuild buffer. thank you for your patience and understanding! i got to the "climax" of this little character exploration we're deep diving into on patreon and people enjoyed it so i hope you do too.