So goddamn tired and barely ready for the incoming weeks, but shit man it feels good to see so much come to fruition finally.

Early concept art for the Super Mario Bros. Super Show suggesting the cartoon was planned to have animated public service announcements. While Captain Lou Albano did a similar PSA wearing a Mario hat ("if you do drugs, you go to Hell before you die"), that one was live-action.

Have you ever been lost in a video game level, wandering empty halls, until you know you're going the right way because you finally run into enemies? Because you don't know what to do without conflict? Well some people live their real lives that way

I often fantasize about big artists being sicced onto a crazy fusion record or singing oldies tunes live in a cigar room with no cameras

what gets me is how/why a billionaire musician would want to just keep making the same pop stuff every couple of years, she should be on her third krautjazz fusion record by now not whatever it is she's doing, imo

The piss tank on the ISS is now 69% full.

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

good vibrations in the coffee shop goes so hard

Silent Hill f has been shocking and satisfying in ways that horror games seldom fulfill. It's as if they took the most interesting horror "moments" from recent games and fleshed them out into a full experience.

The grand effort is complete, and it seems like the dust has finally settled for now. I'm so unbelievably thankful that, for once, folks managed to listen to reason and actually recognize a nuanced situation for what it was. Also, bye bye to the professional reputations of the scumbags

I'm free

I dug into that recent Pokémon patent on @theverge.com in the interest of getting some facts straight www.theverge.com/games/779062...

In honor of the 40th anniversary of Mario Bros., checkout that time @chriskohler.net showed Super Mario Land running on a PSP to Miyamoto. kotaku.com/that-time-mi...

Good as hell

Giveaway time!

i think if something big happened there'd be noticeable movement around white house and lago and probably leakers besides but something like he fell on the toilet and got poop on his hands and then wiped his hands on his mouth and then coughed and spit the poop around is still possible, likely even

rendering the thing that I have dedicated the last year and a half of my life towards wish me luck folks

gserafini.substack.com/p/death-stra... Death Stranding 2 left me with so much on my mind, but it fucked me up as a dad. Kojima is dad, metal gear is a dead baby, and we can all find a way to live life in spite of grief.

every passing day it feels like the world i grew up in is slowly being replaced by a worse, less free version of it and most people seem either completely numb or generally don’t feel like it’s worth fighting for the fear of losing their comfort

You have more in common with the average Iranian citizen than you do with the people that run this country

if you spend most of your free time being hateful online i think it would be good for you to wash your armpits and get a job

when i eat my slop its charming, self aware and if we're being honest with ourselves a little revolutionary. a small liberation from the prison of high culture and good taste. when you eat your slop it's anti-intellectual, myopic and a self-centred rejection of art as conscious human value

“She Blinded Me With Science” peaks at #5 today in 1983 — a song for which Thomas Dolby, an aspiring filmmaker, pitched the video before writing the actual song. “I showed [the label] the storyboard .. They said, ‘But when can we hear the SONG?’ I said, ‘Oh, I'll bring it on Monday morning.’” 😆

Good Morning From The Drummer, My Friends.

Movie you’ve seen more than six times, no star war or lotr etc

there's a local kebab place whose website claims to have a PDF of the menu, but when you open the PDF it's just a single photo of a kebab and chips

Given the typical audience of people engaging with written pieces about games, i am all for the shaming of easy, meaningless word choices in favor of more engaging writing. Is that gatekeeping? Am I the bad guy? Who knows!

It's my biggest video yet: A 4,000 year-long 100-minute narrative about how real-life political history has shaped the underlying basic mechanisms of an entire genre of games we take for granted today. Kriegsspiel: How Napoleon Accidentally Invented Strategy Games www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6Am...

And as always, it's not the games media's job to make your game successful. There's too many games, there's not enough time to play or talk about them all, and sometimes there's just not a lot to say about a game.

Xbox 360, PS3, XBOne, and Ps4 generations are still cheap and plentiful if you’re looking for good games to play. These are probably the last generations of most games getting a physical release, and they’ll never be as cheap as they are now. Appreciate it while you can for another year or two

The Pokemon Gold that never was, resurrected by dedicated modders. It’s a thoroughly enjoyable play that made me feel ten years old again, and god I fucking needed that given the current state of things. Super Gold 97 is a dumb name for an amazing game.

losing my mind over this

Worst bummer of social media is learning too much about individuals you respect. It’s so true that you don’t need to know *everything* about somebody just because they create Thing I Like.

It’s time to chin up, baby! ☀️ History has taught us that we have the power when we’re united. Don’t defeat yourself before you even try. The only way out is through. @50501movement.bsky.social #Unite #Unity #Politics #USA #fiftyfiftyone #History #Progress #Progressive #Change

The Video Game History Foundation Library is now in early access. For free. For everyone. Wherever you are. Read more: gamehistory.org/vghf-library...

landing on the discover tab is like if the stadium fan cam locked onto you for a solid couple of hours and everybody else in the stadium walked over to you to tell you about their dietary restrictions

Spinning wildly between committing myself to god-ordained missions against bad faith internet losers, and locking in for lifeless busy work funded by self absorbed tech sycophants. I have a cool life I think?

I think the correct type of webpage is hosted from a server in your garage and it is only online while you're awake

McCartney 1970 is the perfect album for sad, lonely boys

Every conspiracy theory is borne from a childhood disillusionment with the idea that no, the world really is that boring. The correct response should be to find wonder and amazement in that truth, not to search for a more fantastical sequence of events because it doesn’t match your headcannon

My Balls Pro+ now available for premium users looking for exclusive ad-free content

New account because old one got targetted don’t tell anybody 🫡