Sometimes I wonder how misinfo gets like this gets added to wikis. Why make this stuff up? Is it people trusting their crappy memories? Mistranslating stuff from another language? Trolling? What? (This is about Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter, and the alt text contains an explanation.)

A book I was reading to my daughter repeated the "fact" that honey never spoils--that Egyptologists found a jar of honey that was still edible after 3,500 years. Sorry to spoil the fun, but... no. It's not true. You just have to pull out your copy of the journal Bee World, volume 56, from 1975...

New post: amirrorpaledimly.beehiiv.com/p/exaggerate... Japanese doesn't have a future tense. But English often talks about the future in the same ways as Japanese.

Seconded. That last line hits hard.

This was my white whale for a long time, but the sourced audio sample during Xenogears' "Blazing Knights" boss fight track was taken from Christian Brando's manslaughter trial in 1990!

In the original SNES release of FF4/2US, in the Misty Cave, if you walk onto this bridge from the north side, you can walk around on the two squares to the left and right that are supposed to be beneath the bridge.

I've long said that Jim Carrey actually did a good job playing The Joker. It's just too bad he was cast as The Riddler. But watching 60s Batman has me rethinking it. Carrey was channeling Frank Gorshin's portrayal of The Riddler from the 60s.

www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlo... 60s Batman made me want to revisit the classic Evil Overlord list, and I got a chuckle at how one of them would be utterly baffling to someone 10 years younger. "Any data file of crucial importance will be padded to 1.45Mb in size"

I still can't get over how good this gag is.

at that point even if some buckaroo was like 'hey check out this HILARIOUS BIT where i had where i wrote 400 books of surrealist erotica over 10 years' everyone would just be like 'bud... i am not sure what to tell you. i dont think thats a bit.'

Lyle in Cube Sector fan art? Now these are the deep cuts.

If I could have one coin-op video game thing for decoration it would be the above-monitor glass for Cheeky Mouse with all of these diseased freaks running around some cheese

Nailed it imo.

*me being insufferable* oh you mean Wikipaedia?

‘Garth Marenghi’s Skull Flusher’ ep 1 is now LIVE. Horror Master GARTH MARENGHI flushes the creative skull of Fellow Horror Master MIKE FLANAGAN. m.youtube.com/@TheGarthMar...

I'm not an achievement hunter, but things like this are why I appreciate their existence. This gave me a good laugh. (I did, in fact, make many mistakes, but I died every time. Apparently the achievement only locks you out if you make a mistake, survive the resulting encounter, and continue on.)

Interactions like this are why I love getting info from GameFAQs message boards rather than articles.

Kiddo's gettin' in on that Super Metroid love.

Why do you have to put a date on everything?

blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2025-0... Fantastic post. I would add: I agree that people don't really believe that 1 in 5 people are trans. But I still think that survey data *like* the YouGov poll in question can tell us interesting things.

EXTREMELY FUCKING FUNNY bridge that goes on for a minute and a half

6yo in response to the dog making a playful snarling face: "She's making a teeth fist at you."

how the *hell* did Frank Herbert write the Psalm 23 of the third millennium

LOL

Another Dragon Quest 7 remake? Sure, why not? I'm one of those weirdos who played through the PS1 version multiple times.

Saw in a high school student's essay online the claim that distance wasn't a good justification for social media, because we didn't have social media for most of the last 4 decades, and they had great communication. I didn't say it to the student, because it's just an ESL kid, but: omg no.

Found this in an old discussion online and... what? "A", "an", and "the" have all the characteristics of normal adjectives? I can think of tons of properties of adjectives, and articles share only one of them!

Pollen monster in my yard.

store.steampowered.com/app/3127000/... I'm a big fan of this game. It's basically Dragon Warrior Rando, but with a lot of modern tweaks that make it very breezy. It's on sale now, and the price will go up when it reaches 1.0 in a couple months.

I migrated my blog away from Substack, for Reasons. amirrorpaledimly.beehiiv.com The most important thing of note is that now my Illusion of Gaia translation is now much more readable with tables.

I'll be honest, I was making a face at this page, wherein the young, hard-data-driven statistics professor was citing sketchy nudgelord studies. But then @chucktingle.bsky.social made clear he's familiar with the replication crisis and my disbelief was suspended again.

this is fucking horrifying

Classics Of Game 200 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp6T...

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When I'm three paragraphs into writing a game industry article for the nyt and I haven't said that video games have come a long way since pac man

Classics Of Game 191 www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4pu...

If you use the Brave browser and Google as your default search, try this: Brave Settings -> Shields -> Content Filtering -> Turn developer mode on -> add this as a custom filter and click Save: google.*##.YzCcne:not([jscontroller]) And just like that, the nightmare of google AI results is gone.

ripping the LaserDisc for Beastmaster II and it contains one of my favorite bits of distracting dubbing in history

The replacement of the Charterstone pool party with "private cruise on Dr. Jeff's yacht" as the standard Mary Worth storyline interstitial is symptomatic of the broader pandemic-era trend towards isolation and atomization in American society. In this essay I will

my new short film Homemade Gatorade is out now youtu.be/SFJOHlnoQNM

🌈 Happy Wednesday, Scooby Gang 🌈 ⛧💖💜💙⛧

Something I noticed and appreciated in Breath of the Wild: The game has rainbows. But far better than that, it has scientifically accurate rainbows. Alt text for explanations why. RD2R's double rainbow for comparison of a game that got it wrong.

y'all ever think about how blockbusters about AI always make it an evil sentient supergenius but only robocop had the AI be bullshit that didn't actually work and killed people but was still forced on everyone by a corporation and replaced by what was basically just a guy forced to use it poorly

“Some of y’all cant handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows.”