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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.”

I have a useful rule for engaging on the internet: If someone seems like they are unpleasant to interact with, then don't interact with them.

English passive voice is fine. It's not a mark of bad writing, it's not especially evasive or wordy, it doesn't lack action, and it's not wimpy or indirect. The writing guides that recommend against it cheat to construct examples that can't ordinarily be used.

This is the source of our modern word "sorry." Surprisingly, the word "sorrow" is etymologically unrelated. It comes from Old English "sorg": grief, regret, trouble, pain, anxiety.

the first half is about humanity's fundamental refusal to acknowledge threats that are outside their everyday experience. the second half is about trying to kill a giant fish. they're both the greatest movie ever made

Been playing Breath of the Wild with my daughter. Seems the Guardians have made an impression.

Make sure your RPG battle transitions, scene composition, and attack animations are at least as cool as this Taiwanese DOS RPG from 1995

I have an ESL coworker who always says, e.g., "16th of the May" instead of "the 16th of May." And I don't know why, but I love it.

Obviously a bit late to the conversation on this, but something funny about FF7 Remake/Rebirth: People got mad at Aeris -> Aerith, because it clashed with their childhood. They were relieved when Cait Sith was pronounced like "kate sihth." But the situation's reversed for me, because...

Maybe an unusual reaction, this is how I feel about prescriptivists and language.

Is it weird that I find tower defense games 1000x more stressful than horror games?

"What we do know is that President Trump was sent by God to lead us. And if God’s vessel wants my wife as his own, different kind of vessel, who am I to tell him no?” Amazing.

When you have an econ degree, watching public commentary on economics is always painful. I've been pleasantly surprised by how many rags have rightfully explained that tariffs increase prices, that bilateral trade deficits aren't bad, that 0 trade deficit with all countries is *impossible*, etc...

got my monthly magazine from @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social (game players dec 1990) and Wow i want to know what was on these tapes

I revisited MGS2 criticism for the first time in a decade. It feels good to reconnect with it. I hope everyone loves something like I love Metal Gear. Here, I discuss narrative design in MGS2's VR Missions, how it folds back into the campaign's story, and the meaning this has beyond the game.

In Metal Gear Solid 5, you could customize your base's insignia with two pre-set words & two stamps. This is how the game would introduce invaders to your base during the async multiplayer mode. Most Mother Base insignias were hardcore — DEATH SQUAD, KILLER SNAKE, etc.

dr0p.bandcamp.com/album/subtra... Really like this drop album.

20 years ago today, I saw the news that Mitch Hedberg and Bass Wolf had both died, and I thought they were April Fool's jokes. Actually both had died before April 1 and it took a couple days for the news to appear where I'd see it. I didn't believe until people pointed that out.

Trying to get your family to make sufficient vegan dishes on the holidays.

See if you can figure out what this ad from 1984 is selling before the reveal…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bustard @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxvf... This is a good segment and all, but in this context, I always hear something repeated that makes me feel like an alien: "Modern sports betting is uniquely dangerous because people do it on their phones, a device that's already convenient and addictive."

they're making monster rancher too easy these days. back in my day you had to own a physical copy of the best of earth wind and fire on cd in order to get the suezo that looked like the planet. if you wanted a golem in his underwear you had to go buy the abbey road ep by red hot chili peppers