it's time to ENGAGE! with this week's episode

it turns out games, like gamers, were sick and tired of being constantly owned

witnessing the birth of a new all timer post is such a beautiful thing

the same can be said about beating boards... especially the hard boards

i’m completely fine with continuing to invest in Steam because if they take away my games, i’m finally free

Vancouverites! I made two new enamel pins: Pigeon Spikes and Skull Hot Pot. Both available at VanCAF this weekend! Table E10!

rewatched WALL-E for the first time since the theater, and now i can't help but feel salty about the creative state of Pixar after the Disney buyout letterboxd.com/bobservo/fil...

scenes without mommy’s face in them are unnecessary in movies. it does nothing to advance the story of where did mommy go

weekend used book buys

A quick post to announce that Thrilling Tales of Old Video Games is part of @warppoint.games, a new (but old-school) webring services linking together people who are blogging about gaming in 2026. www.thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/blog/warp-po...

Remember the internet before Google, before algorithmic feeds, before monolithic social media corralled us onto the same handful of apps? When small, *personal websites* and webrings linking them together reigned supreme? Time to bring it back.

your Patreon dollars hard at work

the bumper stickers were true: soccer really is a kick in the grass

i bought Mr. Sleepy Man on Steam and now the theme song has infected our household youtu.be/QoF-GaODjFI?...

you already know what's up (steam sale rec thread is what's up) as always, i focus primarily on older, obscure, and just plain weirder games, as big name titles don't need the help. with that said, onwards!

the biggies: Queen, Meatloaf, Rod Stewart, James Taylor (ZERO Beatles for reasons unknown to me)

me from 1992-1997

time to post my absolutely favorite meme

I will stop saying "I already have a Steam machine... it's a PC hooked up to my TV lmao" because it's an old and tired joke. However, I will not stop thinking it.

Spider-Man comes up so often on our podcasts that Amazon decided this is what i need to see

never ask a woman her age, a man his salary, and a husband what he spent in the Steam sale

🚨AFTER 33 MONTHS, I BRING YOU THE SINGLE LARGEST CREATIVE PROJECT OF MY LIFE 🚨: THE NAMCO MUSEUM MUSEUM: EVERY GAME, EVERY COLLECTION, EVERY PORT! EVERY RELEASE, EVERY REGION, NO EXCEPTIONS! I've meticulously studied & presented EVERY single instance of Namco's historic game collections, for you!

we’re not traveling this year but we’re having Japanese air conditioning installed, so if you close your eyes you can pretend you’re in a konbini

just learned that i’m now too old to be the wizened veteran of any team

there comes a time in every man’s life when he must experience Xanadu #LastFourWatched

It's STEAM SUMMER SALE time! Which means I've updated my Steam Curator page with everything I've enjoyed recently. I'll also be picking out the best deals in this thread - bookmark this post! If you like what I do, consider tipping! (Ko-Fi/Paypal) - All tips go towards more indie games to research!

my feed today: apple: it’s fucking over microsoft: it’s fucking over supreme court: it’s fucking over video game devs: it’s fucking over Wario64: undertale $2.49 on steam rn

Incredible value. Thousands of hours of fun, tons of cool design on display. Understand the early episodes of Everything to Guppy

just heard someone pronounce Patreon with a short a sound and my blood ran cold

Deltarune chapter 5 update: after a very chill first few hours, i met Flowery and immediately laughed out loud at least three times

what people say when they talk about this anniversary using the past tense

imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar

In a very Indy-like move, we've unearthed a never-before-seen Lucasfilm Games Indiana Jones adventure! Note that we said "adventure," not "game." For possibly the first time ever, here's Indiana Jones and the Quest for Paradise VGA, the best ten-minute commercial you'll see this week.

Talking Simpsons is eleven years old today. if we were The Simpsons, Maude Flanders would be dead

Deltarune Chapter 5 came out IDK if you saw

they refused to credit me as a Visiting Professor of Minionology but this episode is still a blast

if you're going to repost depressing news without even adding a joke, i'm going to ask that you at least attach a little maze i can print out and solve in my free time

after restarting the One Piece anime nine years ago (and taking several breaks) i FINALLY reached the timeskip today. i'm not sure what happens next, but it seems like at some point the entire crew goes to a hat store

they refused to credit me as a Visiting Professor of Minionology but this episode is still a blast

Surprise: it's the Toy Story 5 Spoilercast! Yes, just one day after its release, we recorded a quick 40-minute episode about these toys' latest adventure. One day we'll cover this in a full WAC Movie episode, but for now, Patreon subscribers can hear what we thought. www.patreon.com/talkingsimps...

when AI starts making the price of consumer goods unreasonably expensive

Let’s take a look at how Apple’s auto captioning is working on Elmo

me and the future-proofed gaming PC i bought in 2023

more #sheepdetectives

90s video game designer watching The Lion King: i really like the exuberant, colorful song with all of the animals jumping around. but you know what would make it better? if it was the single most frustrating level in any platformer ever

best movie of the Disney Renaissance, hands down

releasing a podcast one day after the premiere like

i hope there’s a few chapters from the shark’s point of view

"If I am to flower into something other than myself, I would rather rot into nothingness as I am." - The Reflecting Pool