watching GDQ

how it feels to live in a walkable neighborhood

Good to be back in Maryland

In 2016 or so everyone was like "man Skype sucks. We should move to something that isn't Skype." and then everyone overnight just packed their things and moved to Discord. No drama, no hand wringing or complaining about discord being cringe, we just did it. Surreal to think about now.

seems every day is an attempt to get me to scream into the void so, on this, remember that none of the infrastructure for this to happen existed 25 years ago. If he can abolish the Department of Education whole cloth, there's certain other Departments that could vanish too.

Someone in a chicken suit walked out onto their hotel balcony, and everyone in the atrium started chanting CLUCK! CLUCK! CLUCK! Welcome to MAGFest, a video game festival

sunday night at frosty faustings

Just another night 🍸 #va11halla

Works

Koihime Enbu is a fine example of an egalitarian video game, as every character has access to The Funny Gong.

Gonna be holding an SFV bracket at frosty faustings on saturday night. If you're one of the new old guys like me I'd love to see you there, free to enter. Link in reply

gonna keep it to just this for all the years of hearing him talk about the threat of El Imperio I never thought it would actually happen

Die Fugger II / PC / Sunflowers / 1996

There's no fat in it either. I was so worried when I went in that I was going to be bored but nah it just rips the entire time. Fucked up how people really did figure out how to make an incredible movie 75 years ago and it still stands as a towering giant.

Some people out there really still complaining about how their favorite show born on a magazine aimed at young boys doesn't have adult protagonists or explicit queer characters while there's literally anthologies called shit like ALCOHOL YURI ANTHOLOGY STRONG and YULIQUEUR ALCOHOL YURI ANTHOLOGY

Memes like this are how we heal our broken world. It's so nice to be able to do this again.

WOW!!!!!!!

Someone mentioned The Image so I'm bound by law to post The Image again

it's a really good watch. "What if Twilight Zone had kaiju?" is a great concept.

if you don't start taking Ws then you're never going to stop taking Ls

my one plea as we ring in the new year with Zohran being sworn in as mayor is to take some fucking wins he’s not going to be perfect, there will be setbacks and disappointments, but take some joy and some pride in the good that comes out of this good things are more durable when we celebrate them

Those Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles sets from the 90s are way better preserved than I would have expected, color me impressed.

Deeply sad that I have only started digging into Soda Stereo properly now, too distracted by the Anglosphere when I was little and could have conceivably seen Cerati in concert. But man, they were *good*. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYPh...

2026 gonna be the biggest year of US pop'n in decades

Earlier this year, I released a feature-length science documentary about testosterone, the misinformation industry around the hormone and why science isn't actually self-correcting. I was very proud of it and decided to launch it out again with a new title and thumbnail.

I recently said that my motivation for preserving video game history is to inspire beautiful new things in the world and then five days later this happened

Just an incredible work. I own very few movies because I don't have a super strong attachment to a lot of stuff, but this is gonna be one of them. If you haven't, make some time and sit down with it. It pushes the limits of visual storytelling in a way almost nothing else does.

The Digital Bits: Speed Racer 4K UHD release coming in 2026 thedigitalbits.com/columns/bill...

it came to me in a dream

新年明けましておめでとうございます。今年はデビュー40周年。ファンの皆さんと思い出に残る1年にしたいです。 そして今年も血の汗を噴き出しながら駆け続けます。めちゃめちゃ休みながら。😤 ーっていうか自分の描いた馬関係の絵って、これとユニコーンゾディアーツしかないわけで。😅

me buying a PS5 in 2021: with how expensive PC parts are lately, this is a huge bargain, I highly recommend you get one if you can manage me in 2025:

"What was your biggest impact on the internet?" tough call tbh

heartbreaking: the Japanese copy of the album has the same lyric sheet as the US release, meaning it's all roman letters for the songs that are in Japanese guess I'll have to piece it together myself

Was talking about this a bit with someone when trying to pinpoint how anime has changed with the mainstreaming internationally, and it's the lack of curiosity in fans Specifically, fans pre-2017-or-so would have their 'pet anime', some show no one cared about but held a strange obsession for

nobody has ever talked about this game before. I am a changed man

Next year we gotta bring that number down by 60 seconds so I can start posting F.A.N.G. quotes after hotels go up

I hope everyone has someone who shows up for you as enthusiastically as the FGC shows up for the Combo Breaker hotel reservation drop.

meanwhile RGG studio keeps the same guys working on mostly the same assets and they basically pump them out once a year at this point

Red Letter Media if it were a Japanese variety show

We’re just innocent men

Doctor, I'm feeling anxious about my lack of control in how my work is received. What if I've just been lucky and my past success was a fluke? "The treatment is simple. The great YouTuber RickiHirsch has a new video. Go watch it. That should pick you up." But doctor...

I'd welcome the ghost of Christmas Brazil into my home, and you should too.

And on that night, Ebenezer Sega, CEO of Sega, was visited by three spirits: 1. The Ghost of Christmas in America, who recommended they make the 32X 2. The Ghost of Christmas Japan, who recommended they make the Sega Saturn 3. The Ghost of Christmas Brazil, who just wanted more Master System

This video is so good, a true new standard. As someone who's tired of "game history" as people parroting trivia on Nintendo in the US, it's so refreshing to see how a tired topic can still be interesting when it's properly researched & contextualized. And also reminds us why any of this matters :)

Globally famous and unsure if he was actually that good, Stephen King published under the name Richard Bachman to see if his success was a fluke. What did he find out and what can we learn? New video is up about the dynamics of luck, skill and getting struck by lighting.

CHAOS CONTROL

Don't forget to sign up for Vortex Gallery at Frosty Faustings XVIII besite! #VGFFXVIII #FFXVIII2026

this is what playing Tetris Plus for PlayStation 1 feels like