It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

Thank God the Moon Child theme song finally saw the light of day

The boy had a day off school and we swung by the local retro store/arcade

a world-historical nightmare blunt rotation in my last three “trying to find out what everybody is yelling about on here” searches

It's a celebratory Manhattans at 2pm kind of day

I am obsessed with this clip and have watched it multiple times

Edge-computing architect Rohan Puranik ran circuit simulations on every pedal in Hendrix's signal chain and concludes that he was a systems engineer who iterated fast on a modular analog signal chain.

You know what doesn't get its support unceremoniously pulled by a tech company? Fuckin' books, brother

it is the job of writers to be difficult and inefficient and it is the job of people in "facilitating culture orgs" to deal with that, and in an era of Professionalize Yourself Hustle culture, Helen Dewitt is like one of the Olde Gods rearing up to instill fear, terror, and awe

I love her. Give her all the money and a personal assistant.

One of the very best from Clickhole

In Korea, when the president declared martial law after midnight and erected barricades in Seoul, congressional reps from all parties ran into the streets, yanked ak47s from the army at the barricades, broke down the locked door to Congress, repealed the martial law order, and arrested the president

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon

In space no one can hear you Teams.

"i have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working." The Astronauts truly representing us all up there.

SHIT GPT - dashare.zone ADMIN

when a traveler from an antique land begins to speak i sit my white ass down and listen

i've yet to see evidence that this man is anything other than the fucking coolest to ever do it

You can and should block it

You would get so many more amazing books if you had Universal Basic Income. Not even the most dream-scenario AI could compete with the creativity of a world of authors no longer afraid of affording rent.

How I feel reading 99% of art and media critique these days

1488 Jump Street

Seven-word death punch

"Acerbic gentlesir. Skeptical optimist, curmudgeonly raconteur, writer of things, imbiber of coffee. Owned by cats."

If you've never seen the intro to Dirty Pair: Project Eden, you may be surprised to discover that it's one of the most beautiful things ever animated.

googoo dolls iris voice

The Video Game History Foundation's newly digitized GDC 1989 tapes are rad. Talks with Dani Bunten! Trip Hawkins blasting Nintendo's licensing policies! A *retrospective* panel for gaming in 1980! Absolute gold that this stuff survived and is accessible for everyone now.

The novel went to editors today, and for ten minutes I was cool about it and now I'm ready to barf forever

Someone needs to send an ambulance to X

"No to war... and free Palestine" Javier Bardem

The difference between how places like Nightdive and GOG think of terms like "retro" and "nostalgia" and how, say, Nintendo does is fascinating

Guido / ZX Spectrum / Blaby Computer Games / 1984

I think AI discourse would be wildly different if AI people understood the difference between bad writing and good writing

Happy Mario day!

leland palmer in the black lodge

“Piracy is the most effective form of artistic distribution these days. So be it.” -Werner Herzog on NPR just now 🔥

Watching a demo of how you can turn every NPC in your RPG town into somebody who says "That's right — you *are* the four LIGHT WARRIORS. You make a great point! The bridge to the main continent *does* need to be repaired, and you're just the person to do it."

This might be the part of this whole thing I'm maddest about

this post deserves to be presented to you by having an index card moved down word by word with photos taken of your face after every new reveal

In a hotel in Grand Rapids and the art is extremely CAPTCHA-core

"The CIA conspired to make me less cool than I was when I was 25" is the most succinct Gen X manifesto I've ever heard