Reading the book Time Cat to my daughter, and I'm afraid I'm training her in pedantry.

Quoth the Raven "Quest 64."

RPG Limit Break starts today! And I'll be doing the 3rd run of the day. Doing a race of Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter on www.twitch.tv/rpglimitbreak at 3:30pm Mountain time. And immediately after, I'm on couch commentary for Sawneyrath's run of Final Fantasy 1 PSP.

This is what peak masculinity USED to look like. Society is so broken now

street fighter get iphone

Huh. Well, lock Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter challenge complete. Game is not perfectly programmed, who knew?

Almost every single grammatical or style suggestion that Microsoft Word gives me is wrong. "As long as" here doesn't mean "if." It means "if and only if." What doofus suggested that those were completely interchangeable?

I was frying something in a pan and oil was spattering everywhere. I thought, "I wish this thing had, like, blast shields, a little wall to prevent this from happening." And that's how I invented the pot.

Ye gods, writing advice culture is dumb. Imagine saying something like this with a straight face. As if it's possible to write well without using adverbs. As if it's possible to write at all without using adverbs.

Well OK, if you insist

found out about the manga kuma gurashi which is like those ones where a manic pixie dream girl comes into a salaryman's life and starts doing all his domestic chores for him to heal his heart except in this one it's a realistically drawn bear and the salaryman is terrified on every single page

people, I am tired of repeating myself. re-file skulls when you're done with them. that means back in the skull filing cabinet. not on the cabinet, not near the cabinet, in the cabinet. we have a skull filing cabinet for a reason

I still don't understand why the Spear of Longinus would be a holy relic rather than a cursed relic. Middle Ages, explain yourselves!

british videogames are called stuff like flimbo's quest, fat worm blows a sparky, thingy and the doodahs, and my name is uncle groucho you win a fat cigar

I beat this game! The story goes very odd places, compared to the inspirational material.

Aaaaaaaand uninstalled. #Duolingo

I know a bunch of things about FF4 that are not *quite* as useless as these two examples, but they're still pretty marginal and only useful depending on version, or in a randomizer. Here some are, as I think of them.

HUZZAH! I saved a video once, dreaming of this day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_px...

"Assassin's Creed 3 is like the sixth or eigth game depending on how you count" - Funny "Kingdom Hearts 3 is roughly the 13th game" - Extremely Funny "Beatmania 3 is the 13th one but they never made beatmania 4 and instead made 32 sequels to beatmania 2, which is the fifth one" - True Masterwork

I was watching Home Movies in Japanese and the subtitled translations for the Franz Kafka rock opera are, uh...

Does this count?

“Get in, loser, we’re going to hell”

lufung, f.n: loving, action of loving. (LUH-vung / ˈlʌ-vʌŋ) Image: Book of Hours; Flanders (Cambrai?), c. 1300-1310; Walters Art Museum, Ms. W.88, f. 139v. #OldEnglish #WOTD

Ominous bird valentines.

"prohibition in the united states" has this time lapse map that switches from folksy banjo music to ominous industrial sci-fi for the 15 seconds when alcohol was illegal nationwide

Video game intros and voice acting peaked in this moment

So it's not a total loss, I cut out all five video game commercials from the 5.5 hours of off-the-air nonsense on this tape. Enjoy video game commercials from 25 years ago. I kind of forgot that the year 2000 was still very much the 90s.

Classics of Movie 40

My daughter apparently couldn't remember what the Goodybag enemies are called, but it's clear enough what she meant to draw due to the Metal Slime friend.

People keep saying the codenames in Metal Gear Solid sound like Megaman X bosses, so I decided to give them actual designs. Matches the scale of my other X mockups. Something I've been sitting on for several years that I finally decided to wrap up tonight. #megaman #pixelart #ドット絵

they should make the worlds most fucked up anime where the characters are all stiff awkward cgi models but the vehicles and mecha are beautiful 1980s style hand drawn 2d cel animation

Reading Charlie & the Chocolate Factory to my daughter, and the assortment of bad kids is so curious. Two of them map very easily to classic Deadly Sins: Gluttony (Augustus Gloop) and Greed (Veruca Salt). One of them is sort of like Sloth (Mike Teavee). And then one of them chews gum.

If the universe really were conscious, what do you think its personality would be like? I'm thinking tsundere.

Who up forgetting they auld acquaintance

An analogue I’ve noticed between fundamentalist scriptural exegesis and jurispudential originalism as actually practiced in the wild: Both enable a kind of ventriloquism by assuming univocality in the texts they purport to interpret.

Just when you thought a landmark year for historical video game research was over!

The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

oh my god

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"