It's just the same old show on my radio

And you know what they said? Well, some of it was true.

watching The Sting, which my white trash WASP family held in the same reverence our Italian-American neighbors held The Godfather when I was a kid

It cracks me up (and disappoints me) how the Shout Factory WKRP set managed to score the licensing rights for so many high power artists' music *yet* couldn't land them for a fairly obscure Australian power pop outfit.

North and South was utter shit, but it did do the god tier casting of William Schallert as Robert E. Lee and Anthony Zerbe as Ulysses S. Grant. A HOUSE OF THAT GUYS DIVIDED

My only issue with the Shout Factory WKRP box set is it only includes the original “downer” version of “The Contest Nobody Could Win.” It was a great to have the original on there because it was only aired during the show’s initial network run, but the syndicated version is the one most folks know.

I used to get this when I was in 3rd grade, and it was fifteen years before the movie premiered. 🤨

LIFE AT LAST SALUTATIONS FROM THE OTHER SIDE I CAN SEE THAT YOU'RE THE DEVIL'S PRIDE

Time to log on the eShop and see what’s on sale! (Seconds later) Oh. Huh.

I was showing the Kid and her boyfriend photos of my family and he pointed to Lil Bron in one and said "He looks just like your father." My first thought was "It's true but how did he know that?" before I realized he was talking to her and not me.

“You can buy stuff directly through a chatbot.” The hell I will. I’d sooner trust my dog Apito to guard a pound of fresh ground beef while I went upstairs to piss.

[ordering pizza online for the first time in 2006 through a Web 1.0 form] now what this really needs is to get so complex over the next 20 years that I have to upload a photo of the room and then type a paragraph

“This company is adding AI FUNCTIONALITY to its online portal!” *goes on to describe features which can all currently be done more reliably and less intrusively with proven non-AI tech*

I bet this is how God felt right before he unleashed the great flood.

CBS News, 1954: Edward R. Murrow calls out McCarthyism. CBS News, 1968: Walter Cronkite shows America the real situation on the ground in Vietnam. CBS News, 2026:

On top of everything else, this shows why going for two non-consecutive terms is a shit idea. You trade the pretty sturdy inertia of incumbency for capricious nostalgia, which crashes a LOT harder and faster. And probably still would even if you weren’t a human turd.

Trumpism expands its reach.

"Radical centrist" so...a typical Republican who holds one mildly progressive outlier view which they would never go to the mat for or a liberal with one reactionary view which will be the locus for them descending into full on fascism after a public meltdown

President Guy Who Knows a Single Button Mashing Three Hit Combo and Thinks He's Going to Dominate Ranked Play with It

I'm glad SlashOut is getting added to the Yakuza 3 remake so more people can wonder "uhhh, is this an unfinished beta or something?"

The original Garou Mark of the Wolves was a thing of wonder because of the gorgeous spritework (and TBH, because NeoRageX made it possible to emulate it while it was still pretty new). The sequel looks like a budget knock-off of SF IV and its roadmap is apparently "speedrun every problematic trend"

"Horny PSV Monkey Ball DLC levels discovered!" yet we still don't have a fan translation of the PS2 Macross game

"Amazon threatens ‘drastic’ action after Saks bankruptcy, says $475M stake is now worthless" tfw you demand to see Wall Street's manager because you made a bad investment

The roommate of a guy I used to play 40k with started making jokes about how I'd varied up the skin tones of my Imperial Guard figures (mainly to keep from getting bored painting 100+ models). I responded "Hey, man. Not cool." Dude was then terrified of me and virtue signaled whenever he saw me.

I'd say it's hard to walk back the optics of shooting a suburban mom in the face, lobbing a concussion grenade at a toddler, and sending a bunch of paramilitary goons door to door asking for papers.

I miss when game ads and articles looked like something peeled off an illicit fireworks package.

I remember taking the Red Line to Quincy Center for an emergency root canal back in the late '00s, spotting a solitary duck lazily paddling in the Neponset Marshes, and thinking "That lucky bastard."

Went to a wake for one of my sister-in-law's relatives (who was also a neighbor to my great-grandmother) and was not prepared to see Lil Bro's HS best friend with gray in his hair and adult children.

"You know, you could've just done this as a proper action RPG and it would've felt more satisfying to play." - me, playing FF XII, Xenoblade Saga X, and other RPGs with weird autocombat mechanics

Harold Russell sold his Oscar in the late 1980s, but whoever bought it didn't have the 1947 Best Supporting Actor award magical conveyed upon them for doing so. See also: Owning my great-grandfather and semi-namesake's navy commendation award doesn't mean I served on a minesweeper in 1918.

I grew up in a military family with a tradition of service dating back to the American Revolution, and the generations of it I knew personally hated all that tryhard cosplay bullshit.

It is almost never a good idea to put a “leader-in-exile” into power unless you’re talking about someone like Willy Brandt who went to Norway to fight the fascists when Germany got too hot for his safety.

Too many keep acting as if the problem is reaching the true believers. Fuck the true believers. I wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire. They've resigned from the human race. It's all about activating the fence-sitters and get-along-go-along crowd. And that *is* happening.

Ska is for everyone, motherfuckers.

Been trimming, resynching, and fixing the June 28, 1992 episode of 120 Minutes I found stuck at the end of a Nick at Nite tape transfer. It might be the platonic idea of a 120 Minutes episode -- a mix of the new hotness (Nirvana, The Breeders) and 80s stalwarts (The Cult, Cure, Siouxsie, Husker Du)

tfw you suspect you've only made a lateral move and should probably just start your own band

It is an aesthetic rooted in house flipping, because it was cheap, readily available, and was meant as a placeholder for prospects to project their own color scheme. Plum (etc) walls are a pain to paint over and might distract potential buyers. Shit wasn’t meant to be a thing unto itself.

I've done the "NONE MORE [moment in time]" bit a few times now with old commercial breaks, but this...? This is the absolute real deal. The apex predator. The shit the dealer usually keeps for himself. June 28, 1992 in pure crystalline form. Handle with extreme care.

"Arcade Beat-'Em-Up SlashOut Joins Emergency Call Ambulance in Yakuza Kiwami 3 on PS5, PS4" look, I love these retrogame extras in the Yakuza games but I wish they'd offer the individual games and bundles for those of us who'd just like to play them without watching three hours of cutscenes

“The Weisses are extinct, their fire has gone out of Woburn. You, my friend, are all that’s left of their rascalry.” - me, to myself, thinking about a thing I have to attend later

if you break into this car there’s 5 silver pieces and a broken sword

🎵the longer you make the public turn against the symbols of authority, the worse it will be for you in the end, fascists🎵 🎵the mystification of tradition is your biggest asset and you're whizzing down your leg by the moment🎵

After months of periodic attempts of trying to map custom dual stick controls for the Dreamcast port of Bangai-o (then saying "fuck it, I'll just play the N64 version), I finally managed to succeed in doing it.

Very disappointed to hear Matt Damon pronounce Woburn with "burn" and not "bin."