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!

Simply Having A wonderful

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"

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...