I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha

this is literally never not accurate

STOP THE PRESSES. The ROM for the unreleased Famicom RPG Splatter World has been released (in a thread on 4chan, of all places). I've tried it myself, and it does seem to be genuine. If it's a fake, it's a damn good one. Expect (more) coverage on West Mansion soon. @hg101.bsky.social

CHOTINER: So this movie, you already had it on bluray? ME: That's correct. CHOTINER: And you've bought it again. ME: Not exactly. I bought a 4K bluray of it. CHOTINER: Superior? ME: Yes. CHOTINER: Perceptibly superior? ME: The resolution is...look, on an OLED- CHOTINER: Do you have an OLED?

i really don't get why for a brief moment of a few weeks, the Dems finally hit upon a truly winning rhetorical strategy, and then they pivoted as far away from it as possible ever since

i'm only happy when it's strange i'm only happy when it's obfuscated my understanding is overrated i'm only happy when it's strange

Got kicked out of my work’s holiday party planning committee for suggesting the theme be “man’s inhumanity to man”

The Orphan Crusher is here to stay. If we don’t feed more Orphans to the Crusher the Orphan Crushing industry will die. It’s time to wake up to the reality of the Orphan Crusher. The Orphan Crusher is worth billions. We need to teach people to use the Orphan Crusher. It’s here to stay.

i don't pay attention to lyrics all that much compared to other people, but my answers would be fairly boring and obvious: Leonard Cohen, The Mountain Goats, Joanna Newsom, Scott Walker, MF Doom come to mind. any of these would wipe the floor with Taylor Swift and leave bloodstains in their wake

🎶 capitalism as totalizing ideology 🎶

good thread here to catch up on Kaleb Horton's genius-level writing

stuff i've been into in 2025: -walks, walking in general -reading a book quietly -drinking a coffee slowly -staring into the middle distance as an aging dad of two i'm acutely aware of all of these activities being luxury & leisure, rare treats to indulge in

RIP Kaleb Horton kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

my husband @kalebhorton.bsky.social hated the phrase “passed away” and had nothing but scorn for softening euphemisms in general. he was a firm believer in the comedy rule of threes, but only if the third thing can hit as a surprise. and he just died

Stop reading the news and normalize lounging inside “Visiona 2” by Verner Panton at the Cologne Furniture Fair in 1970.

seems like i've got the next half year of gaming fully locked in here

Busytown metroidvania now

'Flow' cost $4M. 'Hundreds of Beavers' was shot in 12 weeks and cost $150,000. Artists rethink what movies are, techbros rethink how to shaft the people who make them. www.theverge.com/news/773584/...

A lot of video-game publishers spend hundreds of millions of dollars chasing after "realistic graphics" and "massive open-worlds" when what players really want is just a shitload of weird little guys

After an hour of playing, I am happy to confirm that Silksong is exactly what I wanted: an endless parade of weird little guys

legitimately much better catalog than Netflix. LOTS of off-kilter bangers

this isn't a new thought, but i really, really think one way our laws need to catch up, and fast, is that AI-generated music, art, etc. that is being sold or streamed or on any kind of marketplace or revenue-generating place MUST be clearly disclosed as AI

that's never stopped most people in the underground/DIY scene. make noise or pick up Ableton and just fuck around, it's way funner and you won't accidentally destroy culture

I've been looking at futuristic cityscapes from Akira and Syd Mead this week and seeing this neat trick where they draw somewhat realistic foreground buildings up to a point, Then draw incomprehensibly gigantic structures behind them to push it over the top

it was all a dream, i used to read wire magazine

constantly thinking about this

no, I said I wanted a tradewife. like a union electrician

I need all of #lawsky to see this video from a Colorado appeals court livestream yesterday. I am in actual tears. Sound *incredibly* on, the subtitles will not help.

we like to think of bodies as objects but they are actually clusters of tiny unknowable particles suspended in a complex mesh by an arrangement of magic spells

i'm a stereolab socialist

🎶Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses🎶

everybody talks about snake oil salesmen like they're the worst thing ever, but those same people conveniently forget that one time when they really needed some snake oil and couldn't find it anywhere

I couldn’t even watch wonder showzen because it was so good & so intense that it broke my mind

1. twin peaks 2. wonder showzen 3. enlightened 4. my so-called life 5. better call saul 6. breaking bad 7. mad men 8. tim & eric 9. liquid television 10. lost

they've gone beyond mask off and now they're flesh off and it's a mass of wriggling, seething pustule-worms underneath

It is really bothering me (understatement) that the message is “bring back that one innocent guy” and not “WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK SHUT DOWN THIS WHOLE OPERATION IMMEDIATELY.”

the part where "i kissed a girl" unravels entirely is the line "hope my boyfriend don't mind it". instantly what was supposed to be a coquettishly sexy line (of course he loves the very idea of it) turns into outright cheating and lack of discussion of boundaries. he'd be right to leave her

hey babe, new "blame and shame individuals rather than systemic causes" just dropped

Checked in on a podcast which used to be a funny, interesting highlight of my listening week until the hosts started talking about AI being “a useful tool”. A few months on, they are now seemingly incapable of processing any thought without consulting ChatGPT. Really grim stuff.

"Pavement is an overrated band" is one of the most hilariously wrong opinions I've had, and I've held it for decades until now. they're exactly rated. so sunny and generous, i wanna lie in their music like a cat in a sunbeam. excited for myself with their whole-ass discography in front of me

People will always say they’re your friend and they support you no matter what but then they’ll say some toxic shit to you like “you have to let go of the cursed amulet, it’s changing who you are” and “don’t let its power corrupt you” all because they want the amulet for themselves

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

Tonight we learned that it was indeed Andry, the gay man sent to El Salvador because of his “mom” and “dad” tattoos, who an American journalist saw sobbing as guards slapped him repeatedly and shaved his head. He is an innocent. And Trump sent him to a torture prison. Bring them back!

This is just how the economy’s gonna work from now on.

these amounts of money are barely even pocket change in the federal budget

this game has gone for $24 on Steam in recent sales. feel like i'm probably just skipping the Switch 2 until a mid-lifecycle refresh, or skipping it entirely, and happily sticking to Steam Deck for the foreseeable future

if there's one thing we know Trump respects, it's a big, honking, working penis. he cannot abide a broken, shriveled one, or its owner