It's easy to understand why PSA and other top card graders are getting so much business when you see all the stupid bullshit people are submitting to get graded. Why are you sending a card to PSA that wouldn't even make back the submission fee even if it were a 10?

I see an AI-generated Short on YouTube with a lot of views, and before I hide the channel, I see the top comments with thousands of likes are "who cares if it's AI? it's funny!" AI will succeed, not because it's good, but because most "normal" people are too dumb and/or apathetic to art.

It takes much longer for the on-boarding process to hook me into a game now. As a kid, I started up a game and played it for several straight hours, but now I can only play for like 45-60 minutes at a time each day until I reach a point that really makes me go "time to lock in."

Apologies to the LGS employees who are gonna have to search for 20+ Yu-Gi-Oh cards I ordered for a total price of $5.

did bill slap it against donnie's cheeks?

Asian Guy CONFOUNDS White Waiters in Boston with PERFECT Proto-Goidelic

Total value of the contents of my full 112-card toploader binder (no graded cards) is $1628. We'll be conservative and call it $1500. This is several hundred more than I assumed. Hell yeah. Not bad for under a year of collecting.

Megabonk became so much more fun when I downloaded the "Toggle Everything" mod, because the game is so overtuned that stage 3 and the final boss are still tedious.

Finished Ghazghkull Thraka and started Brutal Kunnin. After a bunch of human and Astartes-focused stories, I'm really enjoying this change of pace.

Watched One Battle After Another. Long, but paced well and equally tense and hilarious. Biggest takeaway is that I think I'm in love with Chase Infiniti now. Every close up shot of her was like staring into the sun, an overpowering majesty my eyes could only wish to gaze at.

Mine is Kiryu's best antagonist, and I'm glad RGG Studio agrees.

Coworker said I'd love to visit Germany, and he'd introduce me to his grandmother, who loves finding wives for his friends he brings over. Sounds like silly grandma stuff, but apparently her success rate is crazy high.

Accidentally got a super glue stain on my desk mat. I considered replacing it, then I realized I could just... rotate it 180 degrees and the stain would be covered by my keyboard.

Fishman Island arc fucking sucks. Jesus.

Noticed a few people over on Twitter who fancy themselves cool, apathetic edgelords are being really timid today. Wonder what that means.

Part of me is glad to know that my channel's stagnation as of July isn't my fault, but it's really, really infuriating that YouTube threw me back to 2021, growth-wise, and wants me to just... accept it.

bored so i'm learning some italian

Is there a pro wrestling stipulation with a hit rate as high as Best Two Out of Three Falls? Kazuchika Okada vs. Kenny Omega, Ric Flair vs. Ricky Steamboat, all the way back to Antonio Inoki vs. Bill Robinson in 1975. If a match has this stip, it's likely gonna be great.

NEW VIDEO. Tricky Madness Impressions. The loss of SSX has left a big hole in arcade extreme sports games, especially snowboarding. But this indie successor accurately revives that feeling of racing down a huge mountain and pulling off impossible tricks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFTx...

It's insane how many people still believe a company MUST sue people over copyright or they lose it. That's TRADEMARK, which is a product's name/logo. You sue over TRADEMARK because if you don't, your product's name becomes genericized (Velcro). Copyright is WAY HARDER to lose.

More wrestlers at computers.

Christ, Bash at the Beach 1996 is so weird. It starts with an incredible match between Rey Mysterio and Psychosis, then it's 2.5 hours of dogshit, then ends with a solid tag match and one of the most historic heel turns in wrestling history. What a fucking weird show.

when you're mean to me, this is who you're being mean to

amazing things happening at WCW Great American Bash 1996

Every year, I get into a pro wrestling obsessive episode where I download and watch like 200 matches across various eras and countries. I'm in the middle of this year's episode now.

Video game criticism is too populated with people who would say video games are worth more than the sum of their parts, but then immediately lose the forest for the trees when they start to actually talk about a game.

NEW VIDEO. The Most Influential Game You Don't Know – The Portopia Serial Murder Case. You might know him as the creator of Dragon Quest, but Yuji Horii has another important title under his belt that never made it westside. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH-i...

Cut up my videos and uploaded them to TikTok, 2 to 6 clips per day. And in only six days, I got 100 followers and over 1100 total likes, and my most popular clip is at 9000 views. It took *months* to get those numbers on YouTube. How is YT discoverability so damn bad?

Pachter hasn't been right about anything in at least two decades, if at all.

I read psilocybin loses potency over time, but I just ate shrooms that have been dried, crushed, and put in pill capsules, and have been sitting for 3.5 years, and they hit as hard as they ever have.

NEW VIDEO. The inaugural episode of Abandonware Jail, a new series where I cover games no longer available for purchase. Episode one is about 3D fighter Genei Tougi: Shadow Struggle and its sequel, Critical Blow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECPx...

I uploaded six clips to my empty TikTok account, and they got more engagement than my last five full-length videos on YouTube. I don't know if that's an indictment on how hard it is to be seen on YouTube, praise for how easy it is to be seen on TikTok, or both.

Betrayer finished. ADB does it again.

A quick Miss All Sunday Nico Robin ~

I've been glancing at a lot of the criticisms of Weapons, and it seems most of them wanted the movie to be either more generic or more overwrought. Really drives home the idea that most people wouldn't be able to write a decent screenplay to save their lives.

NEW VIDEO. I talk about obscure SNES RPGs (localized; not Japan-only) for 70 minutes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA5H...

Saw someone basically suggest that Bethesda doesn't really exist anymore because they outsource a lot of stuff, like they're just making random assets and sticking them together. Painful when someone has a vague grasp on something, but they fill in the blanks with their own nonsense.

Hilarious that this concept is JUST alien enough to Pat's mind goblins, it warrants a new series. My own revolutionary trick for keeping a game's pace enjoyable: when I feel like continuing the story, I simply do so.

If you're already "sick" of the HD-2D style, you're simply a loser.

Found a guy on YouTube still doing the mid-00s "comedy" "review" style video game content and it activated my fight or flight.

You cannot trust someone who seriously thinks Robotrek is one of the bad SNES RPGs. That's an enemy of whimsy.

Every time I have to see or hear someone explain why they hate video game remakes, I eventually notice the word "replacement" slipped in there, as if it's not a part of their own definition of remake that they made up themselves to get mad at.

We need a AAA mecha game with a robust photo mode. I would kill for Armored Core 7 to come out with a photo mode like Death Stranding 2's.

the pun was initially not intended, but after some careful deliberation, we have decided to rescind that claim.

I was curious about how bad filler/stretched time was for the One Piece anime, so I looked at arc lengths, and... Long Ring Long Land is apparently 21 fucking episodes? Holy shit that's awful.

We don't praise the original soundtracks of the Gran Turismo games. Smooth as fuck, jazzy tracks. YouTube essayists love using video game music, but they're usually RPG scores. Get some GT in there.

is labubu just gen z beanie babies? we really doing this again?

sexual eyes sexualize sexual lies

virgin "nooo alienate OTHERS, not ME" vs. chad "kojima will never alienate me because i simply vibe with him on a fundamental level every time"

Painful that I'm gonna watch Tron: Ares, but instead of just watching as a regular fan, it has to come with an asterisk that I'm watching in spite of Jared Leto.