the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

this is one of the most chilling scenes in jurassic park, wherein, rather than showing us the brutality on screen, the movie uses sound effects to imply the gruesome violence as the cow beats the shit out of a bunch of velociraptors

Think the era of $80-$90CAD game is where I get pushed back into just pirating everything I can again, and I'm not really feeling apologetic about that I buy stuff on sale when I can if it's something I'm down to wait 3-5 years for, but shit is ridiculous

I had never played either before. It's absolutely nutty how much better Super Mario Land 2 is over the first

It's cool how every dinosaur goon has the same trajectory of their favourite dinosaur being t-rex -> something with more niche/hipster factor -> t-rex just a case where the most famous dinosaur is also the most interesting one, even when you get into the field in a more serious sense

I hate that it works on me, but Retro Achievements has unfortunately been a pretty cool framing device for getting me to replay old games I haven't thought about in 20+ years

@authorblu.es hear you were struggling with this one lately - I'm gonna end it all after finally getting perfect size but somehow not having it centred

Once again annoyed that Archipelago is such a cool collection of software that is run by some of the dumbest lamers I've seen in an online community

I played some pretty peak games last year; still haven't done something in 2025 that hit as hard as Omori, Obra Dinn, or VA11 HALL-A Inscryption was pretty sick but other than that there's not been much yet. Always wondering what the next piece of art to imprint on my personality will be

the fact that the fandom wiki is the default search result when looking up any game stuff on google sucks so much, man

Watching Wicked for some reason, if anything the people flaming it for looking like shit were being too kind Don't think I've ever seen high production movie with colour and lighting balancing this bad before. It wasn't cherry picked screenshots, it regularly looks awful

Currently rocking the most diabolical tan line I think I've had maybe ever, it is fucking rough

idk if I'm the only one who has this issue but a low stakes annoyance is going to a youtube tab you just clicked and finding this instead of the video

Thinking about that time Gohan (like my friend, ribbedkilla) had a durag phase

girl are you a 96% chance to hit in an XCOM game because i miss you so much

“i asked chat gpt” “i asked grok” Jeeves would kill you where you stand

It sucks that real searches don't exist on any platform anymore; it's all just shitty engagement catered algorithms (yes I know 'searches' are also algorithms - you know what I mean)

Shocked it took this long for the falling out to happen Hope the one good thing that comes of it at the very least is Elon getting absolutely ruined

Started Zelda: Echoes of Wisom - it's really good imo (about 10 hours in). Might be my favourite Zelda since ALBW, very pleasantly surprised by this

Morbidly fascinated by the Archipelego Team and how they've really made their mission to embrace the use of the most insane ruleset and understanding of Copyright Infringement I think I've ever seen from a community

Since I was up at ungodly hours anyway I decided to take as many photos of the lunar eclipse as possible. Since I got so many I put them together in this composite photo! #photography #astrophotography #moon #lunareclipse #bloodmoon #fujifilm

He tried . . .

Girls in in the 80s and 90s loved to hold orbs. Whatever happened to that

Thinking about him tonight

Do analysis channels like Matthewmatosis and SuperBunnyHop exist anymore, I miss them both badly and they've left holes that haven't been filled by others

@entropyxd.bsky.social my youtube guilty pleasure has become finding good personalities doing "Subject Matter Expert critiques ___" and I found this one guy who is an Antiquity warfare expert who is an absolute darling and made me think of u www.youtube.com/watch?v=AumS...

hmmmmmmmmff 🍷

I would love an Analogue Pocket that was just a tv-bound machine don't need the fancy super gameboy aspect, just a nice modern console I can play and run well on my tv w/o lag or inaccuracies

Didn't play a lot of games this year, so a top 10 feels goofy, so here's the 4 that stood apart from the others to me, in order

Someone smarter than I could probably write a cool essay talking about how Gen Z has over-corrected from Gen X's overzealous culture of calling artists "sell outs" b/c those dudes not only have no shame, but can't conceive of having to feel shame over getting the bag in ways that harm others

one very annoying thing about the death of games media and the rise of the youtube/streamer influencer as the primary pillar of game related criticism and so on is that it is weirdly fucking difficult to find a simple explanation of what a popular game is and if it is any good

Saw this post and fuck me if it isn't shockingly accurate in portraying my experience in the last 3 or 4 years The internet is probably the worst its ever been in my time using it right now tbh, only saving grace is streaming and youtube

Was up until like 1 making a giga batch of cookies with gf to include as goodie boxes for family They're so so good, it's Claire Saffitz' recipe

No matter how many times I hear it, I cannot get used to "Metatron" being an actual biblical character and not a Transformer

I'm a little birthday boy (of 34 years)

Pet peeve for today: clicking a youtube video and thinking it's prepped in a new tab, only to find out I accidentally clicked the "paid promotion" disclaimer and it's just some EULA bullshit page

need to know this video is on this website

One of the larger insights I had last decade that has stuck is how insanely tolerant people in general are of systemic violence/suffering brought about by policy, and have 0 stomach for any that is more direct This dude's org puts up numbers that put Ted Bundy to shame

I had 4 days off and by the end of that time I was thinking about creative pursuits, maybe even getting involved in my community. Thank god that's over now

Might be bouncing off Disco Elysium, bummer b/c on paper this game is very much my jam Something in my soul just shuts down whenever I’m playing a game and a dialogue tree option roulette pops up (WRPGs are, by far, my least fav genre in gaming)

lots of people pegging today

Going wild every time Jason Bourne tells somebody he’s peeking at them from afar

This hit my weak point for massive damage

My lukewarm take for tonight is I think there's been a massive overcorrection by the "No Backseating" people to include insane things that would have improved someone's experience of a game by giving info they missed (sometimes for external reasons) and have no reasonable way to obtain

Trying to find a happy medium between not knowing anything that's happening in the world and being pissed off all the time

I've never seen discord die this hard before; can't even access most of my DMs

Nier: Automata is such a beautiful game, just watched someone do a blind play and it's so cool how the game confronts the player with the 'point' it was trying to make in such an effective way I've yet to see someone fail the test it gives at the very end