I'm almost 40 but I'm glad I still can rely on Minor Threat and Descendents to just reset my brain to factory settings for a bit, hearing issues be damned. Milo Goes to College + First Two 7" Inches will fix me.

This studio awards-season email is really matching the current mood in a way I’m not sure they intended.

I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.

coworker got me a small Godzilla figure and a calendar. I am just all in on giant lizards and this is My Thing now I guess! anyway don’t talk to me or my son ever again.

jesus, I see what you’ve done for other people, and i want that for me dot png

techbros: we have created AGI cognitive scientists: you fucked up a perfectly good spreadsheet is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

Will Navidson:

“try water fox or ice weasel” try chill penguin. install flame mammoth. you just download bubble crab. literally just use boomer kuwanger. sting chameleon has a search bar, use it to find toxic seahorse.

I swear I'm about to end up in a frenzy where the only computer I use is a late 90s / early 00s PowerMac G4 running a blazing fast install of OS 9 that can't connect to the internet. I don't want any of this shit, man. I just want to be left the fuck alone.

"we USE ai, but our game wont CONTAIN it" is a clarification that no one has ever cared about & now CEOs are using it as a wedge to get their foot in the door as a part of a long term plan into normalizing AI, just like how 'it's just placeholder' was used with E33. dont cede even an inch of ground

12/16/25 taste bud patch notes: - umami services have been partially restored - dairy remains offline due to memory leak issues - further improvements to overall system stability

"look we're not using AI in the final product we're just using it to speed up the conceptual stage" is what a lot of dopes affecting an enlightened middle position keep saying. I truly do not get that one. You hate imagining stuff? You don't like thinking and conceptualizing? Get a grip

I was talking to someone about concept art and gen AI literally less than an hour ago and Ralph McQuarrie's art was the exact thing I brought up. gen AI is creative poison.

"It's just concept art, who cares if they use genAI and not actual artists?" Look at this concept art for C-3P0 by Ralph McQuarrie. It's the very thing that inspired Anthony Daniels to go for the role of Threepio and perform him as such. It is the first heartbeat of the art that now exists.

hey people maybe spend less time getting upset about Divinity's "gross" reveal trailer and get upset about actual gross shit like this. fuck AI.

I like Gosei Sentai Dairanger but the Kiba Ranger kinda sucks. creepy kid to perv on Rin / Houou Ranger, great. show is fun otherwise. love the character designs.

“But but what if AI…” It’s not. Shut the fuck up.

holy shit

I'm giving out this star, so get it while you can folks

sharing doom levels is one of the only good things the internet has ever been used for.

me: hey Gosei Sentai Dairanger how’s it going? Dairanger: this episode has a motorbike monster, a telephone monster, and a tombstone monster, plus a footie game with the red ranger and the regular enemy jobbers. me: the pain meds I’m on means this makes total sense to me, carry on.

every once and a while a synapse fires off in my brain and I'm instantly reminded that mst3k is a not-small part of why I am the way I am while some random line from an episode just rattles off in my head.

I guess this weekend I am replaying tomb raider 2013 for the first time in maybe ten years.

oh I did not sleep good. welp guess we’ll see how today goes.

friendly reminder that you didn't waste your year. any moments of happiness or comfort. any small accomplishments, they all matter. this has been a really hard year, and simply surviving is something to be proud of.

🎵 I pour the ketchup onto my FRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEES🎵

12/12/25 taste bud hotfix 2: - chicken now tastes like chicken - further improvements to system stability

taste bud patch notes 12/12/25: Dr Pepper is now Sierra Mist

I love getting micromanaged by the big boss at my job from across the planet through the person I can stand the least in my office as a proxy. It’s fucking awesome.

manifesting: 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 ai bubble 🕯 🕯 to pop disastrously 🕯 🕯 for all involved 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯

Don't claim it, don't add to their metrics. Free or not. Just don't do it.

watched All Monsters Attack and some Dairanger instead of the game awards so if I were a small child in Japan in the early 90s I’m probably having a pretty good time. Godzilla movie aimed at kids and I just saw a weird priest / magnet monster on Dieranger? sure why not.

none of the ai slop commercials these companies churn out will have even one-tenth of the cultural impact as the folgers incest commercial and i think that's beautiful

today’s taste bud chronicle: mountain dew tastes like it has textures that won’t load.

today is the first day in weeks I’ve managed to not need my earbuds in at work all the time to filter out a lot of the noise. I’ve been staying in my office mostly, but even with the tinnitus it’s just… not as bad? maybe I’m improving. maybe I’m ignoring it. who knows?

"hmm i dont know the answer to this, but i asked chat gpt" shut the fuck up . you are useless

happy birthday to one of the only good video games

WE MADE IT. HELL YES

I can kind of taste potatoes. I cannot taste cheese. I understand the concept of lettuce. taste buds are so fuckin weird man.

hell yeah an award ceremony worth caring about

Zyuranger done (lost me a bit but I locked back in for the ending, enjoyed it), I have started Dairanger (oh this is weird already and the themes are bops, let’s go). my winter of tokusatsu and kaiju cannot and will not be stopped.

today I learned I am starting to be able to taste toast and it no longer tastes like cardboard. today I also learned I cannot taste peanut butter or chocolate at all. it is weird the way this stuff comes back online.

dudes rock

I got worried when I saw "Sedgwick County Zoo" and "AI" in the same sentence, and am very happy to be proven wrong here. I haven't been to the zoo since the spring, am looking forward to going back soon when it warms up / i get my strength back.