i think the disconnect with the bluesky team and the userbase is that the userbase, the people who occupy this place, think of bluesky as purely a twitter alternative and the bluesky team thinks of it as purely a coding foundation for others build off of

Amazing breakfast this morning. I love waffles

Still awaiting justice for Pac-Man

This era will create 1 million new retro collectors

The hugest mood

Omlettesville was fun but thinking I'm switching back to Scrambletown

Thought my knockoff Dreamcast controller was busted. Turns out it just needed a good contact cleaning? So this majestic sucker is (finally) back in order.

I don't want to hear another damn thing about escalators ever again unless it's the Mitch Hedberg bit

Guess who's helping me alphabetize the early 80s section

Oh noes!

Never been a better time to have any sort of media backlog tbh

Social media's going great, y'all

Played the shareware episode multiple times as a kid (because we were a cheap house). Finally got to play the rest when we stepped up for Ultimate Doom a couple years later.

Hey Meta, how's it-- Uh. Nvm

These past two weeks have felt like the longest year since 2025

Ooof, tough situation all around. But yeah, whole scenario now sounds like a nightmare turned grifter's dream. Heed this advice and walk away.

So I played Slalom for the first time ever and I've gotta say: bold slope name

Citrus, lavendar and vanilla definitely sound like better options than "my shoes off in a room without AC post-workout"

I mean yeah, contact damage especially sucks if the boss is straight up stunned

Still my favorite retro R-type boss to date

Want to feel old? This is Jimmy Neutron today

The “Just Say No” list.

Been a minute since I did a #randomgamesaturday, so why not a Mario for his 40th? Recently revisited the Wii version of New Super Mario Bros. and remain impressed with how well it jumpstarted the 2.5D revamp following the DS release. And this one's still a delight to return to.

I'll play this weekend, I swear

2025: Nintendo acknowledges that the Virtual Boy does, in fact, exist Wow

Look, I know things are super testy right now and there's a lot of this-and-that flying around social, so I just want to set the record straight: I actually enjoy Metroid II

"We have Silksong at home"

Yeeeeah, gimme the good stuff

Coming to terms with my existence of being a (super) late 30-something millenial who can't tell whether the microplastics or CRT radiation exposure will ultimately prevail

There hasn't been enough time since at least 2004

So what the hell happened to video game ads? Besides the internet, that is. We touch on this and share tales of recollection involving the strangest ads of the '80s, '90s and early 2000s in the latest @presspauseradio.bsky.social podcast.

Looking back in hindsight, was Metroid Fusion foreshadowing?

Welp

Dude single-handedly ruined polling politics (somehow, because we all know it was already broken) so now he has to come after what's effectively the last social media-based bastion of techbro avoidance

I guess LTTP FOMO commands that I finally sit down and finish this before Silksong (hopefully) gets a physical release?

Mass media: "RFK Jr grilled over antivax views" Idk, he looked pretty well done to me already

Next up: GTA 6 is the first "5D chess game," industry veteran says

"You look worried, what's wrong?" Oh nothing, just thinking

Nostalgia is funny for me, because I look back at what people call "better times" and shrug. The past can be murkier than some of us remember. But revisiting my favorite classic games never disappoints, regardless of how life was. A great play experience just sticks. And that's why I love them.

Excuse me, I believe I ordered the-- Hm. Nah, this works, thanks

Sadly I will miss PRGE this year (which is literally close to home) due to finances. Sucks since I wanted to make this a bit of a branch-out session, but hey. Good news is I'm going to explore whether I can work with George to get some @presspauseradio.bsky.social involvement for next season!

*Society crumbles at the whims of a dollar store dictator wannabe and impending climate crisis* Tech bros with access to unlimited income and resources (unprompted): "so deep take here y'all, do you think AI can fart?"

Playing GameCube in a sewer for the first time

It's happening

Can't wait for Bubsy 5D chess

So apparently we got an arcade in my hometown? Just opened a couple days ago and seem to be feeling out the market. We shall see how this goes!

Not the greatest feeling in the world trying to pull up past clips for an online folio (for possible freelance) and discovering that the publishers deleted most of your best stuff. (I saved some archives and literal news clippings in most cases, but still -- links are just nice?)