"We've found their urge to spawn has been replaced by a desires to become a Wall Street derivatives broker, pitch their latest screenplay, and/or to 'ROCK THE SOCKS OFF AMERICA'," say scientists.

Doing the grocery shopping because Maura can't lift anything heavier than ten pounds. It involved going to my (completely redeveloped) childhood stomping grounds in North Woburn, and when 1st Wave started playing "Once in a Lifetime" I shouted "TOO ON THE NOSE."

January 1991.

A nice thing about emulation is you can map the thrust button for Sega's 1982 Star Trek game to a gamepad's right trigger and the dial to the left analog stick for a slicker "modern" experience.

ALART ALART BATTLE STATIONS

NEW! Pin-Up GameChanger case! Tekken’s Nina Williams in: Death By Degrees (PS2) (Will be available as case, or with real game included as I obtain them)

Point: "Q-Bert just isn’t that scary" Counterpoint:

Last night's ultra-late show video playlist:

My MAMEUI install is organized into custom folders for games/platforms which aren't emulated as well elsewhere. It's almost entirely arcade stuff, but there is a "Classic LED Handhelds & Tabletops" directory filled with nostalgia fuel of the most primordially crude variety.

November 1991.

Happy Superman Day

watching this made-for-TV jobber from 1979, which I caught in the mid 1980s as a WSBK weekend matinee movie

Neo-Yokohama is about to E X P L O D E (Cyber Cycles, 1995 Arcade)

Ace Driver (1994, Arcade)

Everything has been upended because of personal stuff going on, and I have other obligations that need to be met first, but @mikester.bsky.social's talk about JLA Detroit has made me seriously consider my penciled-in plans for a 20th Anniversary relaunch for Armagideon Time.

the opening of a late 90s Japanese bullet hell shooter? or Sam Altman's latest pitch to prospective investors and the media?

been sleeping on the sofa so Maura can use as much of the bed as she needs to be comfortable during her recovery, which means breaking out the next level graveyard shift video playlists: The Muppet Show, In Search Of, Best of Ed Sullivan, Classic MTV w/ Martha Quinn, The Dick Cavett Show...

Classic Winter King clip.

"I could try to cook something different...OR I could reheat this old lump of dogshit I found in the gutter!"

I'm a massive fan of the persona and Valkyria Chronicles franchises, and there are well-made anime adaptations of both...which I will tap out of a third of the way through to just play the original games. "What if we made the entire experience out of the cutscenes" doesn't appeal to me at all.

slowly but effectively rebuilding my MAME UI install got the paddle/dial/trackball and joypad stuff sorted, started fixing the interlacing issues on some of the old ZiNc suite games, and have the CRT shader working properly

Solemn James MacDonald Hudson Remembrance Day to those who recognize it. (Alpha Flight #12, featuring the death of Guardian*, on sale date: April 17, 1984) *Who never, ever came back from the dead. Not twelve issues later. Not nearly 100 issues later. Not ever. Nope. Didn't happen.

Darken the city, night is a wire Steam in the subway, earth is afire do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do

He turned water into wine And if he wanted to He could have turned wheat into marijuana Or sugar into cocaine Or vitamin pills into amphetamines

The Kid and her Boyfriend offered to pick up Maura’s meds but she was like “no, there’s pain management stuff in there that requires an ID and it would be less of an issue if a spouse picked it up.” Which did not consider said spouse’s ID photo.

Three years of MAMEUI updating finally ended up introducing weird fatal errors in random games. I started to bracket where they came from but decided it would be smarter to save some essential configs which weren't part of the problem and just do a fresh install.

I have my own physical on Tuesday, but my blood tests were all within decent parameters and I'm going to stiff arm the usual "you should/shouldn't" hectoring with "I just had the month from hell, and I think I handled it pretty well considering the stakes."

Picking up some post-surgery meds for Maura while she’s resting, and picked this to blast from my shitbox Malibu while navigating West Side rush hour traffic.

Thank fucking providence that went well.

"I'm leaving you to go to France and have a handbag named after me!"

Happy Secret Wars Part Two Day to those who celebrate! (Secret Wars II #1 on sale date: April 16, 1986)

wearing my lucky Clash shirt today because I am the type of person who has a lucky Clash shirt

And so one of the most harrowing days of my life begins.

Boys go to MetamorJupiter to get MetamorStupider

You could write a book about the American funnybook industry’s bad decisions, good decisions with awful timing, and the wider events complicating the fuck out of all of it that would read like this tome but double its thickness.

watching Death on the Nile (1978) and I keep waiting for William Conrad to explain how Simon Doyle stands against the crime that breeds in the concrete jungles and stretches its deadly tentacles to the fascinating but dangerous world beyond... the world of Manimal!

Hello! I'm looking for a queer horror artist for an anthology short (6-8 pgs)! This is paid work and the rate will go up based on crowdfunding. New creators welcome! Please DM ME with your PORTFOLIO. Final pages will be due in two months. I'll contact my choice in the next two weeks. Thanks!

hey, it's the 1995 gaming edition of Strong Female Protagonist

Still holding out hope there's a bunch of Pop-Up Videos and Big 80s in the Oakley Tapes collection which have yet to be digitized.

The "Let's not remind Catholics how much we privately think they are idolators and fake Christians" GOP Challenge 2026 seems to be going swimmingly.

"And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs"

Me: *using all my energy to grapple an existential hassle into a manageable deadlock* Minor hassle: HEY HEY HEY! DON'T FORGET MEEEEEEEEEEEEE! *bites at my ankles*

February 1996.