While I grew up among the sort of Christians that believed earnestly in The Rapture, and hoped that it would come for them while they still yet lived, they were also the sort who actually remembered Mathew 24:44. www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Mat...

Cleaned up a corroded Genesis cartridge (Sonic 2), bathed it in a chemical neutralizing bath, replaced the cap, cleaned up the pins with a fiberglass pen and a rubber eraser. Runs great now!

Imagine knowing what the term "frame generation" even means. "Oh no PSSR isn't as good as FSR3 now my games suck!" Well does the game still play alright? Is it a good game? Do you have fun playing it? "I don't know I haven't played a videogame since 2018; I just watch Digital Foundry videos."

By the way: "Vote blue no matter who" is fake, and always has been. Literally not even the Democratic Party actually believes it. All the slogan meant was "vote for right wingers and don't complain about it". Remember this moment:

Remember how I was talking about hobby shop owners like, yesterday?

If you are a born again airline pilot, long haul trucker, forklift operator, schoolbus driver, bomb dismantler, snake wrangler and you show up for work tomorrow you should be arrested for homicidal negligence.

These people fold if you punch back. So keep punching.

if you have a Christian family you’ve been wanting to wordlessly abandon tomorrow would be a great day to do it

Interesting aspect of Kimmel's return: ABC must have realized doing this was going to cause a blowback of MAGA supporters cancelling their *own* subs and vacations in retaliation. ABC did the math and realized MAGA money wasn't worth the cost. So why do we see other outlets capitulate in advance?

You should still cancel your Hulu/Disney+ sub though.

The thing I want tourists to NYC to understand ahead of anything else is that if they grab two different poles while riding the subway, then they are the biggest assholes in the entire universe and everyone hates them.

Okay but fuck Kimmel if he apologizes.

um so what the new plat url

I'm kinda sick of this hate of Easy Mode. I don’t care for pain without purpose. I care for a proper, well-made game. Easy mode doesn’t kill those, it preserves them; and if your identity as a gamer depends on others being excluded, what you love isn’t games... it’s gates. #blog #gaming #difficulty

The "terrorist reclassification" was an extreme over interpretation by Ken Klippenstein that circulated purely as a headline and is active disinfo, there are a whole gaggle of left/lib journalists right now who have found their niche getting massive engagement by scaring the shit out of trans people

Genuinely powerful words to live by.

It's so funny to tune into the Undertale 10th Anniversary stream on Twitch but first be hit with an ad roll for "Today's Military".

We need to stop saying "mask off" or "the quiet part out loud" anymore. They stopped with the contrivance.

Bearing your cross is a lot easier with wheels.

oh god no

There's way too many glider puzzles in the back half of Shinobi: Art of Vengeance and it honestly bums me out.

Does not appear that we will be subjected to Tush Push discourse this week

Vikings are the only team with the satin-look helmets that look good, right?

when i say the NYTimes deserves neither your money nor your respect, i also mean NYTimes cooking, NYTimes puzzles, crosswords, connections, and wordle, the wirecutter, the athletic, and all their podcasts. the nyt have repeatedly chosen to be right-wing stenographers, not reporters

Giggling like a madman as Brody acts like a ladder for Bandido

Watching All-Out: Watched the 3-way; immediately watched it again. Incredible. Best 3-way I've seen in a long time. Máscara Dorada is a fucking star and I want to see him against every top guy in the company. Okada/Takeshita is going to carry AEW for the rest of the year, if not further.

We had mandatory square dancing classes in North Carolina elementary school in the 1980's. Literally the only time dancing was ever brought up the entire time I was in school.

Hey has anyone like... googled Steven Seagal lately i.ibb.co/ynTthHQB/ima...

Dodged a real bullet having a WD-localized Shin Megami Tensei game. But also, lol about SMT being "too demonic" for the guy who was fighting to keep swastikas in the US localization of a Daisenryaku game.

Convenience and investment. How do you convince a 40 year old man who struggled his entire life to provide for his spouse, for his children, to put a roof over their head and food on their table, that his future and the future of others is incumbent on risking all of that? It's a difficult thing.

you have to admit "can you make a documentary about a contemporary subject that never directly quotes anything he ever said or did" is kind of an interesting challenge from an artistic perspective

In about a week the Right Wing movement managed to take one of their central figures who was murdered in broad daylight and made everyone even more sick of his bullshit than he was when he was alive and not gushing blood out of his neck.

It’s important to note that the only reason Americans didn’t get to hang out with a guy wearing a turban made of Versace crime scene tape that summons demons with a saxophone until 2012 or so is because Vic Ireland was a coward.

Crazy how Maher spent all this time toeing the fash line right up until the very very very very point that doing so could conceivably carry consequences for him, personally.

Was Kamala Harris under the impression she was ever getting the ball back? Why compromise herself like this? Is triangulation and appeasement simply a Liberal compulsion?

y'know the funny thing is Hobby Lobby isn't even a markedly good craft supply store. It's like if a Michaels stocked a handful of scale model kits and Tamiya paint.

I want to say this is a generational thing and GenX would never fall for this but I know so few fellow GenX'ers I'm honestly not sure if we are collectively still healthfully paranoid or if we became as trusting as Boomers

if you want to buy homophobic chicken or christian nationalist craft supply or jk rowling products i cannot stop you but it's kind of weird to talk about it where i can see

I'm starting to get texts about this now so I guess I need to say something: There is a fundraiser going around about a "preservation disaster" raising money right now that I highly advise you to stay very far away from. A particular British tabloid is running with it unquestioningly. Thread:

The Xbox has officially reached a very funny phase known as the 3D0 Zone.

You, as in, the peeps who use it. But yeah, that's what the peeps don't like to hear: that doing this causes genuine harm. They don't want the accountability, especially in the retro gaming/computing scene. Seeing one of the Italian Zzap peeps writhe around trying to justify it was infuriating.

This is the cost of casual legitimization of genai. The blood of this kind of suffering is on the hands of everyone who uses it for all the kind of stuff Giger has pointed out. Because you've been told for at least two years now what the cost of it is and to stop doing it.

searching silksong on bluesky is basically like this

seeing another rash of voter blaming and i wonder how people reconcile this with all the times dem senators - in deep blue states, even - that people voted for and put into office decided to give unanimous consent to GOP shit so they could go on vacation. they voted 'correctly', and yet, get nothing

Boy Asmongold's dad did a pretty shit job on that one kid, huh

Wonder how Joe Rogan and his free speech absolutist buddies at the Comedy Mothership will spin the silencing of Jimmy Kimmel.

zero sauce. none. its got to be fucked up to wake up one day a 50-something single mom who's sole source of income is cosplaying as camille paglia and find that the act has grown irreparably stale

The thing about snowflakes is that they’re fragile, but unique. These guys are always the exact same guy, time after time, every single time.

They fired someone famous and well-liked in defense of a guy most people don't know and most people who do know him dislike, on the orders of history's most unpopular president