This has the same energy as “The McRib is back at McDonalds”

Recorded my last podcast of 2025 so if you listened to me on any @ign.com shows, @thisthingrules.bsky.social with @maxscoville.bsky.social, or any of the other things I guested on this year, I just wanna say thank you for being there and I’m very excited to do it all again in 2026 ❤️

You all have Trump Derangement Syndrome. Stop thinking about and talking about the guy who for a decade now has forced himself into the news cycle seventy times a day, wants to rename everything in his own name, and is trying to put his own face on money. Why can’t you just leave him alone.

Hey, what are your favorite children's books that got great (or interesting) film adaptations? I read with my kid every night (lots of Roald Dahl recently) and I love to show her the movie version afterwards as a little treat so we can talk about the differences between both. Tell me your favs!

Haven't finished the full scientific study yet but so far 100% of people who took their profile picture while sitting in a car think that there's absolutely nothing wrong with Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein being best friends for decades.

Once a year you should be allowed to go to your kid’s school and get on the loudspeaker and make an announcement that you know will make the entire building erupt in cheers.

Best part about this is NYC's "Big Apple" is always depicted as red. It's not like it's usually one of those mealy yellow ones nobody likes, or the rock hard green ones they have at hotel breakfast buffets. The Big Apple is always a red apple! Even if he made it red it would still be the same color!

Good job New York, now Zohran Mamdani is gonna enact SARIA’S LAW (everyone gets a free ocarina)

Y'all, I know two hours is a big time commitment, but this panel I arranged and hosted last month is one of the most important things I've ever done for video game history. The launch of the NES is a crazier story than most people realize, and my guests were extremely generous with their memories.

GUY WHO JUST CAME BACK FROM DOING THE JABBA'S PALACE COMEDY FESTIVAL: You know, I gotta say they're really great in there, they're just like us. I thought it was only gonna be women in chains and a trapdoor monster they feed slaves to but like, they also have a band that plays cool music.

Sorry we had to cancel your cancer treatment, but the Secretary of Defense had to fly all the generals in so he could call them fat.

Watched The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) and there's a part where a violent storm destroys their homes and sends Pooh & Piglet spiraling towards a waterfall while a totally oblivious Owl decides to tell a story and wait for someone else to help and I thought.. hey, that's Chuck Schumer!

Need to show you all this 1991 soft vinyl Super Mario coin bank I picked up at a vintage toy store recently. I believe he was a promotional item given out to people that signed up for a savings account at a bank chain in Kyoto. He’s awesome!

Hi sorry this was my fault. My friends and I like to hang out in escalator buildings after everyone leaves to see how much stuff we can make ride the escalator. Sandwiches, bags of coins, soup that isn’t in a bowl. Things of that nature. It mostly just gets jammed up in there. Bad? Yes. Funny? Very.

One of my favorite things I have in my kitchen is this custom print that guests think is a “Live, Laugh, Love” sign until they actually read it.

We asked four professional chefs which store bought mayonnaise tastes best and they said please, when will you let us out of this prison, we can't answer any more of these questions and we haven't seen our families in weeks.

These miserable little imp men are so scared of cities, public transportation, seasoned food, a trans kid five states over who sometimes plays kickball in her own backyard etc. Just terrified, awful ghoul people who make everything they touch worse and add nothing of value to anything anywhere.

Here is a photo I took six years ago of the Safdie brothers competing on a Pong machine and now one of them is making a movie called The Smashing Machine and the other is making a movie about ping pong. @a24movies.bsky.social

Off to Germany to host a live show for @ign at Gamescom! I’ll be in a studio on the show floor for most of the week but if you’re there don’t hesitate to say hi! Very excited to work a massive video game convention again, interview game devs, and wash down large plates of food with small beers 🍻🇩🇪🍻

I’ll be going about my life like normal and then it hits me that in just a few days we’re getting Donkey Kong Bananza, the first new game from the Super Mario Odyssey team since 2017 and the first new 3D Donkey Kong game since 1999!

We've finally gone full circle with Donkey Kong's original inspiration!

In this house we call him Wasferatu.

I went to Super Nintendo World and interviewed Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Super Mario, Donkey Kong, and more. Obviously, he was an absolute delight. Just a genuine and wonderful person and we’re so lucky to have him. www.ign.com/articles/the...

I hope it gets a port of GTA 5.

May the 4th be with you. Happy Star Wars Day! I drew Boba Fett skateboarding out of the sarlacc pit several years ago.

Need to show you all this pepperoni & jalapeño pizza I made last night. 72 hour cold ferment dough. Crushed tomato sauce. Finished with parmigiano reggiano, olive oil, & hot honey. Baked at 550 in a kitchen oven on a Baking Steel for 5 minutes + 2 minutes under the broiler. Very happy with it 🍕

Sonic the Stretchhog

I'm all in on Nintendo Switch 2 and I'll be trying my best to get one ASAP, but I'm a little surprised at how light the first party game lineup is on day one. Mario Kart World is gonna be absolutely massive and fun but after that there's not a ton of NEW stuff to play at launch. Thoughts?

One of the many reasons that @duckvalentine.bsky.social rules is that I’ll message her saying “Cow can eat steak in the new Mario Kart game” and she’ll spend an hour verifying details, tracking down footage, and contacting PR before publishing an article about it.

It’s been a long week so you deserve a picture of a Nintendo Switch 2 being held next to a PS1 Wu-Tang controller.

That’s fine! Buy local!! We’ll just make our OWN Nintendo Switch 2 right here in America, right guys? Right…??

Mike’s book & audiobook are out today! It’s an incredibly funny and endearing personal journey through his craft and love for video games and I promise it’s good. Also he says several nice things about me in it (true) AND he gave me a $5 Nintendo eshop gift card to post this (untrue, but deserved)

Seeing JD Vance act like a big brave alpha male tough guy is hilarious considering he couldn’t figure out how to order food at a DONUT SHOP which is like the most rock bottom bare minimum hunter gatherer thing a dad has to do for his family these days.

I got to help exclusively reveal these "Klassic Mortal Kombat" action figures today and if I traveled back in time to tell middle school version of me that he'd be doing this some day, he'd probably say "dude holy shit!" and then he'd say "so... when exactly do I go bald?"

Hope folks enjoyed this show! I was head writer on this show for third or fourth year in a row and it's always an honor (and a ton of fun) to help with these!

I usually only ask you to do one bit of self care every day, but today's a special day. Bonus self care. The current admin is considering shutting down the free covid test program and just destroying 160 million tests instead. You can get 4 tests free sent directly by the USPS.

Outside of being a ghastly, rotting bag of painted shit, the other most consistent thing about this guy is he's just a totally spineless and incapable leader. It's the easiest thing in the world for a politician to say "this is a tragedy, our thoughts are with the families" and he just can't do it.

Nintendo Switch 2 predictions: Price: $349.99 Release date: May 9th Big launch game: Mario Kart 9 Now tell me yours!

Oh wow, they brought back 2020 doomscrolling. They’ll remake anything these days.

Wide DK

In space, no one can hear you Switch

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So.. is the Yoshi’s burger restaurant called that because the Yoshis MAKE the burgers or because the Yoshis ARE the burgers?

Your dog can come to the bar but not the restaurant.

Wow I can’t believe forcing customers to push a button on a cage that makes the whole store speaker system yell “CUSTOMER ASSISTANCE NEEDED IN THE TAMPON ZONE” didn’t end up being a fun experience for people!

I've seen the first two panels of this comic ten thousand times in the past twelve years but I've somehow never seen the last panel until today. Which is odd because most of us have felt like the last panel of this comic ten thousand times in the past twelve years.

Elon Musk: Why isn’t there enough water in California? Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness

Been friends with Mike for 15 years now so I'm slightly biased here but I'm reading this now and it's an absolute joy. Like a big hug. But also really funny! So like, a funny hug! Wait, that sounds weird? A hug that also makes a funny sound, like when you die in a LEGO video game. Just read it.

His health bar is huge

Santa brought my kid a Godzilla and it’s already getting along great with the Barbies.