New on the Ponett Gazette: A quick review of Scott Pilgrim EX, the flawed but intriguingly different followup to the 2010 cult classic, which has a lot to love if you approach it with an open mind. Come listen to me gush about its pixel art and soundtrack! ponett.dog/blog/thought...

finished scott pilgrim EX so i've got a quick 1500 word review of that dropping on the blog later today, please look forward to it

i actually didn't realize the new star force collection had new arranged soundtracks for all three games... maybe capcom really does have a soft spot for star force. i mean i know a lot of the remaining mega man devs were star force devs but wow

tetris worlds for gba is fucked up and scary. why is it like the nubby's number factory version of tetris www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVJ_...

my everdrive is here so the real fun begins now

i'm sorry but "who cares if the mario movie is bad, it's for kids, if they like it who are we to criticize it" is such a silly argument when 90% of the movie is references and nostalgic cameos from games that came out before they were born

how is this your only takeaway to what i wrote

aw man i didn't know the artemis ii was launching today, i would've tried to see it. daytona's close enough to the kennedy space center that if you look south, especially along the beach with nothing in the way, you can usually see the rockets once they're in the air

really funny how season 1 of the pitt made mel The Autism Whisperer who's good with autistic patients because of her sister and for nooo other reason and then right from the start of season 2 it's like they realized she seemed like she's on the spectrum herself and are pivoting to lean into that

got a random moderate sore throat today even though i feel normal otherwise, no allergy symptoms or whatever. hoping it's just stress or something and it goes away on its own

love when a bad movie comes out and critics have to find their own fun in the writing process

so if fox is in the mario galaxy movie then is krystal there too? does she throw it back? same question for wolf

i didn't get the tomodachi life demo because i can just wait for the full game but i'm already assembling a list of miis i need to make. my fursona. melody. father grigori. dracula flow. you know, the basics

maybe i'm just misremembering but the gen z/millennial generational divide online feels so inescapable and i don't know why. i don't remember us bitching about gen Xers as often as i currently see zoomers say they hate everyone 10-15 years older than them and everything they make

dr. robby: it's okay, there's only one hour left in the shift me, knowing there are still four more episodes and therefore four more hours in the shift: uh oh!

damn they really showed that birth on-screen on the pitt huh. making the most of the fact that this isn't a network show

New on the Ponett Gazette: Here it is! My deep dive into the arc of IDW Sonic's controversial Lanolin the Sheep, the fandom's response to her, and my concern that the algorithm-driven fandom pressure cooker on Twitter has begun to influence the comics. ponett.dog/blog/lanolin...

once again i have a late night gastric headache so i don't really feel like doing anything that requires focus and i just want to kill time hoping it goes away so i just look at social media aimlessly and the internet makes me feel worse. many such cases

what happened in marvel rivals that suddenly made every rando i get matched with in quick play not want to pick tanks this season. it used to be no one picked healers, but now every match my team gets white fox, some other healer, and two dive dps insta-locks on frame 1

are there still enough people employed in the game industry for there to be april fools jokes this year

is the pitt the first (live action) show to depict someone playing a steam deck

my mom told me she's been seeing a lot of ads for live action one piece and she thinks chopper looks very cute but she does not like to look at dr. hiriluk's hair

one idw sonic discourse thing that i didn't bring up in the lanolin post is how people turn the lack of humans in the idw comics into an east vs. west storytelling differences thing and not just sega being weirdly strict about introducing humans to the idw comics

"we here at bluesky are using AI to give you more agency over your feed" you don't need AI-generated algorithmic feeds to curate your feed. it's called the follow/unfollow button

the moral of the pitt is that pittsburgh is some kind of hellish cartoon town where every five minutes someone suffers from some kind of happy tree friends type injury

i still love that you can look up "naruto filler song" on youtube and it will know to give you afternoon of konoha

it's kind of funny having my first and last name out here online rather than preferring a handle because i'll see people say bobby schroeder made something and i'm like oh jeez that's me

it's so fucked up that slarpg is gonna be four years old this year. feels like barely any time at all has passed. burnout's a bitch

finally got to watch nirvanna the band the show the movie since it's out digitally and god that did NOT disappoint. somehow it packs way more "how the hell did they pull this off" movie magic than any blockbuster movie i've seen in the last 20 years

anyone have a preferred method of downloading bluesky videos on desktop? i'd been using cobalt.tools but now whenever i try to download a bluesky video it gives me a 0 byte blank file instead

first issue of ryan north's run on the flash is out and it's really good. feels like they told him to just do what he did with fantastic four and do it for the flash (episodic adventures, funny and optimistic tone, family stuff, neat science facts) but this is the opposite of a problem for me

if they are building up to a smash bros. movie my only hope is that they retain the live action link and zelda from the upcoming zelda movie and everything else is a cartoon. just green screen them in. would this be the right choice? absolutely not. but it'd be funny

damn and here i thought they might actually give the new mario movie an actual story and not just the bare minimum outline of a plot to tie together an overstuffed bunch of things for the audience to recognize. phew, bullet dodged

oh yeah last call for the spring sale

the lack of online mii sharing in tomodachi life is kinda disappointing, but also it's probably the only reason the game is completely uncensored and you can have your miis talk about cock. so it's a worthwhile sacrifice

lotta chihuahuas in my neighborhood. i rarely see other dogs. wonder if everyone around here has the same small dogs only clause in their lease that we do

anyway i am so relieved to have that post done lol. like i said, i started writing it a year ago, then kept shelving it because the state of the sonic fandom is an exhausting topic, and then i powered through over the last three weeks to finish it. i'm free to think about other things now

New on the Ponett Gazette: Here it is! My deep dive into the arc of IDW Sonic's controversial Lanolin the Sheep, the fandom's response to her, and my concern that the algorithm-driven fandom pressure cooker on Twitter has begun to influence the comics. ponett.dog/blog/lanolin...

but without sora how will all of our underappreciated creative geniuses be able to bring their dreams to life and make videos where a kitten turns green while giggling like a baby and its buff cat dad runs around screaming

big lanolin post... tomorrow maybe? i've cut about 800 words and im still trying to cut it down a bit more just by reducing repetition and phrasing things a little more concisely, but it's still probably gonna be over 12k words total because there's a lot to talk about

well the chainsaw man ending was... interesting. it feels very sudden, but i also want to believe this was always the plan for the ending. it's very fujimoto. he loves weird endings like this

the cool thing about star trek is that there's so much of it to go back to. the scary thing about star trek is that there's so much of it to go back to

a genderless burger experience

watched the kamen rider geats/revice/ryuki crossover movie without having watched revice or ryuki (the latter's on my list). i could not for the life of me explain the intricacies of the plot but the final antagonist's power is fortnite building and there's a demon baby puppet so it's awesome

it does still drive me a little crazy knowing how many people read the idw sonic comics via youtube uploads that crop it to one panel at a time. like can't you at least go to a site that lets you see the full page layouts? those are kind of important to the medium of comic books