Was the entire East Bay woken up by that quake or what, hoooly shit

Looked up the review for Donkey Kong 64 and it doesn't even attempt to explain how the game ties into "Christian values" or whatever, it just says "I don't know, it's Donkey Kong, it's for the N64, what else do you want, man"

I recently became fascinated with the Dove Foundation, a non-profit that, once upon a time ~25 years ago, reviewed video games based on their suitability for Christian families Here is, as far as I can tell, a complete list of all 77 games that received the Dove Seal of Approval

Ow my throat hurts after I do a stream where I talk constantly for 3 hours

Going to do a stream readalong with MULTIMEDIA MERCHANDISING, a trade magazine about multimedia www.twitch.tv/obscuritory

Someone was trying to take a portrait of their two fave Chickens, and this happened.

If you've ever wondered what it was like to live through the dot-com bubble, just look at the ads for AI startups that are all over San Francisco

Two months after sustaining a minor injury at a punk show in Brooklyn, I am declaring that my wound is now Healed™ In the event that I have a weird scar on my toe for the rest of my life, I can say "yeah I went too hard at the farewell tour for my favorite punk band" which is a pretty good story

Bad news: I've figured out how to reconstitute box art from the source files

I love befriending the cats who live in my parking lot, because when there's something weird going on, like a fire truck, they come right over to me and go "mow mow" ("you seein this shit?")

P.S.X. is a great magazine because the gimmick for most of their run was "What if we made our writers look as stupid as possible"

Feeling sad. Ate some Hawaiian BBQ about it

Third place at Star Trek trivia in Oakland gets you a black-and-white pin. Second place gets you a silver pin. Gold seems out of reach but our team is getting close

Love working from home when I have projects that I can do in bed (voice-dictating a video script)

For those who don't know, I've been (very slowly) working on a book about the history of Maxis! It's been on the backburner while I've prioritized other work (and, honestly, taken care of my mental health), but I've heard so, so many good stories

If your placeholder assets aren't clearly placeholders, you'll forget to replace them Back in ~1999, the art director for some dollhouse game made a temporary diamond-shaped model for their character UI. By the time he realized they hadn't replaced it, it was too late and it shipped as-is. Oops!

Twitch ads are a rich window into our culture. I just got an ad for breath mints that are supposed to make your brain powerful

Larry Niven's Ringworm

New tea today: Burma Love from Imperial Tea Court. I was feeling like a puerh recently, and this black-puerh blend hits the spot. Earthy, like something you would drink in the woods www.imperialtea.com/products/bur...

Yell

Same tbh

Looking ahead for VGHF, my goal is to get us ready to launch... two new collections in the next month. Plus whatever other stuff (flyers, magazines, etc) I decide to add. Never dull!

Sunday tea-venture with Phil

Went to ihop drunk at 4am and asked them to make the pancakes Evil. Maybe one of the best escapades I’ve Ever been on LMFAOOOOO

Unfortunately,

Whatever its merits for other uses, I hope archivists can agree that generative AI is a really bad idea for archival description. If you're trying to explain the context for rare materials, you are never, in a trillion years, going to get that by pointing an algorithm at them

Happy 40th birthday Super Mario Bros

Happy 40th birthday Super Mario Bros

oh hell yeah dude

It is Friday and there is time for rooibos ☕

I'm going to count the Virtual Boy for this one

Carly Rae Jepsen did a PS1 jungle-style song and we don't talk about that enough

Following the death of the Norse god Baldur, Jörmungandr the World Serpent will emerge and fill the skies with venom, signaling the beginning of Ragnarok

Froger

24 years ago today, Keanu Reeves went public with the remarkable story that he was tricked into starring in a movie because the director forged his signature on a contract en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wat... No one's heard about this because it was not the biggest news on September 11, 2001

Palate cleanser: A story about US food franchise wars that involves Reggie Fils-Aime and culminates in a blimp crash

Just recorded an episode of the Video Game History Hour where we did a vintage "What Pokemon are you?" quiz from an Australian girl's magazine I got Skitty

This is Dr. Frasier Crane wishing you good MENTAL HELL!!

I googled "5390 hours from now" and Google's broken AI gave me an incomprehensible formula about how you have to "add 110 days to October" and declared that the answer is October 10, which it revised to October 20 Please give Google $100 billion for this new innovative technology

Ponder Mortality in the Maze

This AMV, frankly, rules

It's the 26th US release anniversary of a landmark ahead-of-its-time piece of gaming history, celebrated on its release, unfairly maligned for years, and now finally appreciated for its unique qualities It's not the Dreamcast

Going through a list of saints trying to find the coolest patronage. So far the winner is St. Albinus of Angers, the patron saint against pirate attacks

Watching a guy in front of me on the train arguing at an AI to make it fix his broken website. Embarrassing. It's like watching a dog barking at a mirror

@tolkoto.com @grubb.wtf Now that you're done with Riven, you can watch the Making of Riven documentary from 1998 that we remastered recently!

What's it gonna take for us to get a Star Trek extended universe action-comedy starring Kira and Mariner