The downside of emulation handhelds (a device category that I love, to be clear, would not trade them for the world) is that they don’t really work as a way to engage with the hardware side of games history. Everything gets flattened down to one form factor

As much as I love the Retroid for Gamecube, PS2 and Dreamcast games, is it crazy to say I still prefer playing PSP games on my Vita?

Finished One Piece season 2. Huge huge huge step up from season one all around, loved it, loved everything about it. Episode 7 might be the best ep of the series so far. The guy they got to play Doctor Hiriluk absolutely crushed it

No, Microsoft, I’m still very much a console player

There’s a big change that Netflix One Piece makes in Loguetown that I absolutely love. One of the things this show does a really good job of is taking all the expansive “yes, and”ing that Oda does in the back half of the series and gracefully incorporating it earlier on

Ended up watching the first six episodes of One Piece season 2. Any minor complaints I may have had about season one have been ironed out entirely here.

First ep of One Piece season 2 is so good. They’ve already stepped it up massively from season 1. Had the biggest grin on my face through the whole thing

…I’ll be honest, I thought GameFly shut down years ago

My position on One More Day is that from a craft perspective it’s a basically fine comic with an ending that’s a real downer, but makes sense from a character perspective, and that it’s been long enough with enough good comics in between that making a big Thing out of it at this point would be folly

Downloaded Aliexpress and immediately found a pair of OEM Retroid caps for one (1) US dollar🙃

Update: the PSP nubs do not fit. And the 3D printed caps I got fucking suck ass

New season of One Piece tomorrow

Ok so I’m actually gonna try something crazy- the analog stick itself, not the cap, seems to be the same size as the one on the PSP. So I spent an extra $5 and also ordered some replacement PSP nubs. And I’m gonna see if they fit

Already lost one of the thumbstick caps on my Retroid lmao. Fuck my life

The thing I’ll give the first Super Mario Bros. Movie (having only seen it the one time in theaters) is that it gets, on a filmmaking level, that the joy of a Mario game is in how it feels to move through a space.

Mario Galaxy Movie looks good, sorry to say

Damn, we’re already at “Mission Accomplished,” huh

The more X-Men I read the more insane it becomes that those movies ran for like 20 years and never once gave Storm a meaningful arc

It’s crazy how Claremont X-Men gets really fucking good *after* all the stories that people cite as The Classics

Even if she actually was right about everything (she obviously wasn’t), how did no one on her PR team warn her about how unbelievably gauche it is to do this at a funeral

The funny thing is even Marvel’s collected editions department is not safe from The Rot. They let the previous team go about a year ago, and now the name of the game is milking whales and FOMO. Epic Collections and omnibi get print runs in the low thousands at inflated prices and then go OOS forever

Look, I’m just gonna say it- in the face of the complete and utter enshittification of Disney over the last decade, you do, in fact, have to hand it to Kathleen Kennedy

lmao dawg are you fucking kidding me. “Yeah let’s just recreate the chaos of Toy Story 1’s production for every single movie, that’ll work out, that’s sustainable.” Do you know how much time this studio used to put into its scripts!!!!

Camping in shooters is a fake complaint. I played a ton of Halo 3 back in the day, and let me tell you, camping only works if you simply refuse to adjust your situational awareness to accommodate for it. If you know where they are, fuckin hit em before they hit you!

Wait am I understanding this right, are there people upset that an online multiplayer shooter forces you to kill other players

Still slowly making my way through Claremont X-Men. This is the best bunch of issues of any single Epic Collection of the run so far, fantastic stuff all around

The curse of the Enlightened Disney Adult is knowing that they actually used to be a creative force worth emotionally investing in. WDAS, Pixar, even Marvel if we want to treat that as the sub-brand it now is, all used to make not just good stuff, but *exciting* stuff

If you told a young person who didn’t live through Pixar’s 2000s run that they used to be considered the boundary-pushing standard bearers for all of American animation, would they even believe you

Kids don’t care, it’s their awful, hateful parents who care

Obscure game recommendation: Radirgy GeneriC, a Japan only vertical shmup for the Gamecube that I’ve been playing on the Retroid. Great game, extremely good early 2000s soundtrack. Should run smooth as butter in Dolphin on any semi-capable hardware.

Sorry folks, I’m on board for Absolute Stinky

Still no dedicated iPad app for Bluesky, huh

I’ve slowed way down on buying Epic Collections in the last year, just because the pricing has gotten so insane compared to what DC is charging for the DC Finests, but it’s exciting that the few lines I am committed to are so close to finishing

My copy of volume 12 of the Spider-Man Epic Collections arrived today. So close to a complete set. Need those Cosmic Adventures and Man-Wolf at Midnight reprints

tech CEO in 2026: My computer has anxiety. venture capitalist in 2026: Here, have 200 billion more dollars. child in 2006: My NeoPet is angry at me. mom in 2006: No it isn't sweetie, go to bed. mom to dad in 2006: We have an idiot boy. Our boy is a little idiot person. It's too late to fix him.

Listened to The Mountain front to back about three times now. It’s like neck and neck with Plastic Beach for me, it’s an excellent album

9 games that made me (This was extremely hard to narrow down)

Y’know the more I think about the MacBook Neo the more tempting it becomes (once it’s on sale) just as a way to dip a toe in the waters of MacOS

Look we’ve seen that the groypers will co-opt any old piece of art to make their fascist propaganda shitposts, it’s not necessarily reflective of the work itself in all cases, but some things certainly make that job easier than others

Glad these are at least starting at 256 GB. I can’t believe the new iPad Air is still launching with 128 as the base storage. I know SSDs have shot up in price, but goddamn man it’s 2026, iOS, Photos and Apple Music alone will fill up half of a 128 gig

It is funny that they announced that comic before even releasing the trailer for Brand New Day. The general audience doesn’t even know Hulk and Punisher are in that movie yet

I mean look, it’s shameless movie synergy, sure, but it’s Hickman fresh off of writing the best Spider-Man comic in nearly 20 years, with Adam Kubert on art, who am I to doubt it

I say this as someone who has been very hot and cold on Scott Snyder for the last 15 years- he has been on an unbelievable tear since his return to DC. The dude is batting 1000. I can’t believe this is the same guy who wrote Death Metal just five years ago

DC KO the rare DC “Crisis” where the meta critiques and the broader themes actually meaningfully cohere by the end of the story. Turns out I don’t mind Comics About Comics if they also have something to say about real life, or at least the way these things are applicable irl

Loved DC KO. First good DC event since…. Fuck, I guess the original Metal? You can count the good DC events on one hand, but this one owns

Googling/duckduckgo-ing a question plus “site:Reddit.com” will get you better answers to whatever you want to know than an AI will 99% of the time

It’s not like one of the most famous Green Lantern stories of all time is about Hal driving across America with a buddy or anything

Lanterns looks good