The death of middle class America is documented in the commercial breaks of the World Cup, where the two genres are “this is how AI can benefit YOU, the CEO watching this” or “did u know u can just keep uncrustables in the fridge so u can eat them faster?”

Silver lining: I guess soon I'll get to play Keeper

One of the things that really brought a smile to my elderly mother-in-law was hearing what her visitor counts were to her quilting website. Now she's in hospice, so I'm going to try to drive some visitation numbers up quiltsbymarlene.com This is just a fraction of her 50 years of quilting.

I know everyone’s focused on soccer rn but TIL polar bears and grizzly bears are so closely related that they can interbreed to create, and this is real, “pizzly bears”

Be sure you don’t offend native speakers when you say, “Fuck your mother.”

Game: American Gladiators (1991, NES) TAS Author: X2poet Source: tasvideos.org/2168M

Finishing up a 3-day weekend by staying home so maintenance guys can deal with a clogged AC unit that filled the drip pan and soaked the walls around it as a result

I saw PETER ASHER: EVERYWHERE MAN w/ a mostly Boomer audience and was swept up in infectious nostalgia. Asher is a charmer, and a parade of icons make working w/ him sound like a gift. It's a fresh look at the British Invasion and '70s aftermath in the person of one of its unsung heroes. #FilmSky

you know who else made a call to a higher power to reverse a penalty for us

To celebrate Hypnospace Outlaw's latest Torment Nexus: Don't Create the Torment Nexus moment, I've written a quick blog with links to all of our Nexuses that have been Tormented 🙃 tetronimike.bearblog.dev/list-of-hypn... Please do let me know if I missed something!!

well that's rockstar, uber and nvidia on the fuck no list source www.bbc.com/news/technol...

Oh my goodness, Primal Rage's emulation in MAME might finally be fixed up! If you're unaware, the game's copy protection has been uncracked for decades, leading to bugs and strange behaviour, even Midway Arcade Treasures 2 wasn't 100% accurate, so this is big news! xcancel.com/Armonte/stat...

This is tonight! Tune in and root my buddy Matt on as I spout random facts about No More Heroes and Suda51 in the background

NO WAY? NO WAY!

Blast Rush LS is on sale on the Steam Summer Sale and I would love it if you got it. It is on sale often but now your reason is "it's summer" store.steampowered.com/app/3629840/...

this is one of my fave games from last year, an aesthetically strange and funny sokoban style game that is oddly relaxing to play. check it out

happy 4th

Longshot podcast guest calf callout: do I have any followers/connections who write about or work in the love/dating/relationship space that would be willing to do a podcast episode? Bonus points if you do politics and dating specifically.

I just realized that Ben Franklin and Worf have the same hairstyle

I tried to assemble a baseball team made up of reptiles, but some of them are snakes, which don't have hands, so they can't wear baseball gloves, and basically the whole thing is mitt-or-hiss.

I left the screen reader options on in Rhythm Heaven Groove because the little girl who does the screen reading looked so sad when I tried to turn it off.

Cool physical game. Remember, every used game had a previous owner like Kimberly who loved playing it. #blutoid

Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes (Switch, 2019)

Week 2 of N64 rankings is now complete! Now you can see Toy Story 2, Tonic Trouble, and Asteroids Hyper 64 get added to the big list! youtu.be/VgtvG1UrKJo

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

I discovered a lot of fascinatingly terrible, obscure movies about filmmaking while researching my book The Fractured Mirror, like Forever, a hilariously bad retro romp about a guy who moves into a house filled with the horny ghosts of silent-film stars. www.nathanrabin.com/happy-place/...

i'd like to present my argument against digital-only

My favorite character is the Trivia Boy (ウンチク少年). This kid teleports in, drops esoteric knowledge, then blinks out like Mister Mxyzptlk.

For the next few days, every morning someone in America is waking up with ten fingers for the last time and doesn't know it.

EarthBound (SNES, 1995)

this really is a marvelous relic, from the retired teacher who's identified on screen as YOUNG AT HEART to the most "1980s ticket scalper" you could imagine to the allegedly young guy who thinks '86 could be the last time he'll get to see Dylan live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCvD...

Deltarune Chapter 4 (2025)

We lived through this kind of digital closure with Nintendo a couple times, it doesn't not suck shit of course but keep some perspective. Giving just a month's notice and announcing the end of discs in the same breath is a real lol, though.

new merch reveal for Canada Day: my take on a classic joke. Plus: an Awebo bird on their way to burn everything down. Stickers available at VanCAF

Okay.

Link used in post: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugemu

TOMORROW! We're back to celebrate thirty years of INDEPENDENCE DAY! It's the biggest, baddest, dumbest summer popcorn movie of the nineties, and we here at the OST Party love it dearly. So join us for a podcast about all things ID4: The music, the mayhem, and more!

This stopped me dead in my tracks. Potentially the greatest YT thumbnail + title combo of all time.

every time Sony shuts down a digital store I get ask for a last-minute shopping list and I gotta tell ya, it's real short: just steal that shit, all of it—those old stores were virtually non-functional while they were current and under no circumstances should you waste time trying to wrangle em now

22 years ago today I released Salad Fingers.

seems bad

a delightful tidbit from this JP survey of 400+ creative/marketing folk: ~60% are using a|, and 70%+ of those people are not disclosing it ¯\________(ツ)________/¯https://gamebiz.jp/news/428698 🇯🇵

I need to raise 350 by the 14th

seriously, tune in and support my bud! he's been getting some impressive times in his practice runs, so we might see some real magic on the stage that night