finally, a song that captures what it is like to smoke a doobie

radio is so incredible. at any moment the greatest song you will never hear might be slamming into your skull, just in a way you can't hear

NO ONE CAN STOP MR. DOMINO ARTDINK CORP 1998 PLAYSTATION

welcome to autumn, motherfuckers

👑, 👑👑👑

yes yes, Earth Wind & Fire are wonderful, but don’t forget the true reason for the season

The estate posted this on Thursday. Will they post more? Not clear. youtu.be/-vawlWmqDfg?...

Fun fact! I had a big role in Magical Athlete coming to the US. Here's the story: 🧵

this is good and cautious maxread.substack.com/p/what-type-...

People praise Mr. Show sketches for having modern-day relevance all the time, like when the "blow up the moon" bit went viral a few weeks ago. To me, THIS remains the show's endlessly resonant, weirdly poignant masterpiece. That closing line is me, every time I piss away an hour getting mad online.

You, also, want to read some interviews w/ old game devs about their work on Virtual Boy? So did I. www.timeextension.com/features/i-s...

*to the tune of the opening song in Wicked* No one mourns the curs-ed! Red and black, it shant return! No one cares that Virtual Boy is deeeaaaaaaad

I’m in favor of “cursed”, but you have to pronounce it with two syllables

dudes rock

- Most excitingly, we can announce what we'll be doing next: A Year of Michael Brough (@smestorp.bsky.social) Premiering November 12 1 game a month for 12 months, starting with 868-HACK plus other non-Brough episodes in between We hope you'll join us!

Apple Town Mongatari: Little Computer People - English Translation (FDS) Added

18 Sep 2025

the fun thing about Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias is that, if they had been opposed to the Iraq War in 2002, few of us would remember them and the rest would have no idea who they were at all

this feels sincere because for reasons I can’t articulate the “Disney Adult” and “Watches Jimmy Kimmel” venn diagram feels like a circle

time-traveling back to myself 20 years ago to warn about rising fascism, but he just keeps screaming “OVER ‘GIVE IT A DAY?!?’”

“This is all feeling awfully like home,” a friend of mine from Russia texted me yesterday evening. www.unpopularfront.news/p/this-is-it

When you make a Rube Goldberg machine you have to pay for the candle and the bowling pin and the alarm clock and everything

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

I thought this was a great read about the new Magical Athlete edition coming out. I always enjoy reading Richard Garfield's thoughts on design. boardgamegeek.com/blog/1/blogp...

If you have significant crossover between games and Bowie fans in your life, the "remastered" version of BOWIE is now available for download on the BGG game page. Changes are mostly cosmetic, but the batshit premise is still the same. Enjoy! boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/25...

A producer told me once she has to warn young crewmembers to avoid being alone with Aykroyd. "Not because he's a creep, he's a gentleman. But if you let him strike up a conversation the next thing we know all the PAs will be huddled in his dressing room learning how humans evolved from dolphins."

Happy birthday to the MOS 6502! It was 50 years ago today that people were able to buy their first samples of the chip from a jar in a hotel room at WESCON. Here's my oldest 6502 from the 52nd week of 1975. Still works perfectly!

The right's intense, government-backed cooption of public shaming, one of the few weapons available to vulnerable people regularly unserved by hard politics or the legal system, is probably one of the most successful cultural operations of the decade.

if someone is in the mood to start a silly novelty account, “Cats Who Look Like Kash Patel” is clearly a gold mine

Bugs and Drugs (1978) released on the PLATO mainframe by Mark Gorback, Dave Tanaka, and Paul Alfille is an early edutainment RPG. Targeted mainly towards medical students, players explore a hospital "dungeon" fighting diseases with fists or with medicine! (a deadly residency thread)

people only become left handed if the mirror baby crawls out when nobody is looking and pushes the normal baby into the mirror dimension. it’s a sign of bad parenting

it would be funny if there was a cat that perpetually looked like he actually was the director of the FBI, possibly one who was two days from reitrement

it makes sense, but it’s still funny how perpetually having this look is so endearing in a cat, yet so disconcerting in a director of the FBI

inordinately proud of my font choice here

Michael Barnes Thought (mostly) Vindicated

I emailed him as soon as I saw on BGG they were running playtests, and thus found out he was involved in the funniest way

I'm very envious that @cmyk.games has brought back Magical Athlete (gosh I wanted to). Games like this (and, quite frankly, Thunder Road: Vendetta) showcase that "roll and move" isn't inherently a bad thing. I also love the retro vibe illustration approach. I can't wait to try this new edition.

Magical Athlete is back and better than ever. This game is full of loud laughter, crazy abilities, and more joy than a hundred other games combined. It is perfect. My review: spacebiff.com/2025/09/16/m...

Tsunenomoro, who has jute leaves (a locally-grown vegetable) around his neck, is the mascot for the town of Osato in Miyagi Prefecture. He’s based on legendary local samurai Hasekura Tsunenaga, a catholic with a moustache.

It's the Fellow Traveller Publisher Sale! Paradise Killer is 75% off from September 15th-29th. Come visit Island 24 and its completely normal inhabitants and solve its mystery however you choose to! 💗💜💙 https://store.steampowered.com/app/1160220/Paradise_Killer/

um holy shit what CMYK is publishing MAGICAL ATHLETE with an updated design by Richard Garfield !??! This is one of the stone cold unpurchasble classics. how the heck did they manage to track down the rights to this???? instant order from me. cc @jessefuchs.bsky.social www.cmyk.games/products/mag...

Bluey episode where the dog family visits a museum filled with 1,000,000 year old extinct human skeletons

This is the opening of Klein’s podcast/interview with Shapiro (which, tbf, was actually recorded before Kirk’s murder, not in response), and says all you need to know. Ezra viscerally identifies with Kirk in a way he doesn’t with Hortman, with Abrego Garcia, with any Palestinian. That is all.

his spirit lives on 😌

Ezra went from we must fight them on the beaches to sure thing have the Sudetenland in one week. all it took was someone of his social class being murdered.

explain this with your "science"

Announcing: NYU Game Center Lecture Series Presents Zeke Virant Picking Up Things in Indiana Jones & the Great Circle Thurs. Oct. 2nd 7pm - 8:30pm IRL & at twitch.tv/nyugamecenter Join us for our first Lecture Series of Fall 2025 feat. alum Zeke Virant! RSVP: zekevirantlectureseries.eventbrite.com

You don't understand the depths of human vanity and depravity until you have been looped into a 57 email-long chain trying to move $500 dollars between university ledgers.

I have to run a recitation section where my students play soccer two weeks before Halloween 🤔