Dude I am officially so done with speedrun leaderboard discourse

Cultaholic just released a video where they state pretty definitively that Bam Bam/Kamala was also pulled for time, though they don't mention what went long or cite a source on the statement

Weird wrestling fact: Wrestlemania 8-10 each had a match advertised on the VHS tape that was cut from the card. Those were: WM8: British Bulldog vs. The Berserker WM9: Bam Bam Bigelow vs. Kamala WM10: The Smoking Gunns/Tatanka/1-2-3 Kid/Bob Holly vs. The Headshrinkers/Jeff Jarrett/IRS/Rick Martel

Having to identify oneself as disabled to access accommodations is, on its own, a huge barrier to getting many disabled people the accommodations they need.

no shit?

Game Newton runs an annual event called SSS World Cup, it's tournaments for the arcade versions of Soul Calibur 1+2+3 One neat detail is the players at the arcade work together and make a tier list for each of the 3 games, then show it on stream before each game starts! Here's (ARCADE) SC1:

Karl Bode had a good thread about this recently, but more and more i'm thinking that once the Democrats' corporate donors realize the boomers are a dead end, they'll start putting their money into younger "abundance movement" types as their next attempt to counter socialism

wanting to boycott EVO after qiddiya acquired RTS and then backtracking when they announce the lineup because the game you like is in is some real cornball shit

Quick protip for whoever still pays attention to politics stuff on here: the revival of Dearborn discourse, and the new wrinkle of these liberals also bashing Somalis, is just the latest strat to push Zionist talking points (through anti-Muslim sentiment) since Israel is so unpopular now

WE FUCKING DID IT!!!! NEW GOONIES 2 WORLD RECORD!!!! #speedrun #retrogaming

My personal theory has been the transition from a primarily Desktop viewing experience, to a mobile one (around time they moved from Flash Player to HTML5) I feel that a desktop encourages more active chat participation since you're right in front of a keyboard. Mobile is much more passive imo

Random thought: i wondered for a long time why Twitch chats were less active for gaming streams than they were at the beginning of that site, but i have an idea now Will explain more below but i think Discord streaming kinda took the place of that experience

I guess this was the guy Jaleco USA's localization team decided to reference when they localized Rushing Beat to Rival Turf. lol

hey w how trad pub is likely going to be pulling back on books by marginalized authors, now more than ever, please get over whatever roadblock exists in your mind that keeps you from branching out to indie books. if the trad space starts to look dire soon (and it will), this is gonna be the solution

This topic came up in my threads on Flux magazine, but i think the 90s celebrity that Gen Z would be least likely to understand is Glenn Danzig: - Hard rock music was way bigger then - Satanic references weren't seen as a tired cliche yet - Bodybuilding was still considered cool

Again, this is the reason why City of The Wolves won’t be at ACT VIII or any other of my events for the foreseeable future until Saudi Arabia stops funding SNK. Cause now SNK is being used to fund Right Wing propaganda

The story of how Rebecca Heineman overcame corporate incompetence to develop the Doom 3DO port in two and a half months is incredible (via @bghof.com) www.badgamehalloffame.com/doom-3do/

Rebecca ported the adventure game Out of This World / Another World to the SNES. It plays at half the speed of the original, but she made that slow, plodding pace serve the game’s wordless mysteries. The SNES OOTW also has an understated soundtrack. RIP to a legend. youtu.be/42TupUcpxPw?...

Screw it, i'll post their list here: 100. Ecco the Dolphin 99. Marble Madness 98. Crossbow 97. Turmoil 96. Star Blade 95. Crystal Castles 94. Qix 93. Super Breakout 92. Impossible Mission 91. Karate Champ 90. Yars' Revenge 89. Gauntlet 88. Xevious 87. River Raid 86. Moon Patrol 85. Kaboom!

Being reminded of Flux Magazine today... For those who don't know, Flux was a pop-culture mag w/ a primary focus on video games, and it only existed for < 10 issues in 1995 i think. It oozed that mid-90s edgelord vibe, shitting on Kiddie Games(tm) in favor of Doom & Mortal Kombat

The New York Times obit for Alice Wong doesn’t mention Covid or Gaza It ignores two of her biggest causes because of political bias Alice fought tirelessly for Covid mitigations She fought for the people of Gaza She rightfully reminded us that the genocide in Gaza is a disability justice issue

Rebecca Heineman doesn't have much time left. If you can, please donate for her and her family to make end of life arrangements. One last kindness we can offer for a legend of the games industry and loud and proud trans woman: www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...

the self-titled song is absolutely crushing -- there's an earlier version of it from '86 and it's amazing how different the vibe to it is www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyec...

Malcolm Ingram is trying to re-release Small Town Gay Bar, a really valuable documentary from the 00s about...well, small town gay bars in Mississippi. They have to rebuy all music rights etc. 10 days left, they're at 20k of 53k. Please give em a shout. www.kickstarter.com/projects/163...

The graphs in this thread are formatted real awkwardly, but a good read that confirms some other stuff we've been seeing recently re: Gen Z men not being the Hitler Youth the media's portrayed them as since the election

I mean broad strokes but that's basically it. There hasn't really been a new wave of industrial because it's just everything now. Every metal band has synths, all dance music that isn't pure club pop has aggro elements...

The 8 new inductees to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame are Spiros Arion, Gran Hamada, Dorrell Dixon, CM Punk, Cody Rhodes, Sabu, Bobby Bruns and French promoter Raoul Paoli by fiat. 7 voted in, 1 via fiat. www.f4wonline.com/newsletters/...

Of all the stuff to come out of the Epstein revelations today, the dumbest i've seen might be Lawrence Krauss coming back to this site after not posting for like 8 months...to talk about "defending an unpopular friend" It's always the people you most suspect, huh

Y'know, as much as i bemoan industrial & noise music seemingly falling off w/ the kids, at least that stuff still has a presence among Serious Music Geeks The "debatably industrial" sort of 90s dance music has NO rep anymore - thinking of Wumpscut (except Soylent Green maybe?) & Funker Vogt

the fighting game history 09ers won't tell you

i saw a thread on RYM recently of someone asking for "gay industrial music" where the general tone of the replies was "wait, is there even such as thing as STRAIGHT industrial music?" Then someone found a perfect answer to that last question: 3TEETH (might also say White Zombie tbh?)

Briana White - Aerith’s voice actress in the FF7 series- is currently running a huge charity auction with a bunch of Final Fantasy memorabilia. And all proceeds are donated Immigrant Defenders Law Center - helping for legal funds and reconnecting families. Take a look! tiltify.com/@thestranger...

vtuberposting: So there's some new revelations for the talents who were in Vshojo & that discourse is heating up again That made me consider an analogy here: Twitch vtubing in 2025 feels like AEW in 2022 wrt the death of the "we're all friends here" kayfabe

A 34-year-old as a politician: My god he's like a baby. It's like they just elected an infant to be their mayor. A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.

An unused #SNES piece of #Battletoads in Battlemaniacs artwork by Steve Lang. The artwork we got it's pretty good but this one is also fantastic. Usual upscale/clean/retouch process applied. Thanks to @ovga.bsky.social for sharing this one!

Y’all really don’t get how Black women be in the TRENCHES outchea. Like, after last night, the first women mayors were elected in Albany, Detroit, and Syracuse. And every one of them is Black.

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

The real lesson is to put an actual hard number on income categories instead of shit like "the top 10%." People ALWAYS massively overestimate what percentile they're in, but a hard number for comparison lets them say oh yeah, fuck the rich, I ain't ever gonna see that number in my life.

This, over time the centrists' attempts to blame everything on the zoomers or Latinos look more and more like an attempt to keep the heat off their beloved Gen X i think another lesson from this is that young guys are still less likely to have fully coherent politics & can be fickle

At the risk of sounding petty, calls for Democratic unity going forward are all well and good, but let’s not forget that the reason Cuomo ran against Mamdani in the first place was a last-ditch effort by the New York Democratic Party to ratfuck their duly elected nominee.

haunted castle is the funniest game ever made www.twitch.tv/sebmal/clip/...

Here's a rare rateyourmusic W for the day: Ministry's highest-rated single on there is Every Day is Halloween i've come to think that genuinely is their best song, and maybe the best synthpop track of all time? Funny thing is Al hated it bc he's a meathead, but he's more at peace w/ it now IIRC

we really need more analysis of the very strange time in the early 90s when a handful of bands were trying to make the Sunset Strip sound into something more cerebral/experimental. Extreme's "Pornograffitti" is probably the ur-example but this and T-Ride's s/t deserve a lot more attention.

Holy shit. @shmuplations.bsky.social translated a massive thread of old tweets from Hideo Yoshizawa that goes deep into the NES Ninja Gaiden's development, including finally confirming the Castlevania influence shmuplations.com/ninjagaiden/

hello internet user I have a challenge for you you need to talk about liking how some older thing was without slipping into going full on retvrn speak

The media is about to blitz us with stories about how awful Maduro is and I want you to remember that even if they're all true, they are being issued solely for the purpose of manufacturing consent for invading Venezuela and killing innocent people.

Hi morning crew, started updating this thread again! The album quoted here is one you really need to check out if you like any of the other stuff i posted - it's criminally overlooked among the noise-rock crowd!

last repost: this reminds me of one particular autistic vtuber who had a rant along similar lines a while back, i.e. introversion/extroversion being pseudoscience her argument was that it's just way harder for ASD folks to find the kind of social connections that aren't horribly draining

Every time I see a social media meme about being an introvert, which is at least once a week, I think about how the modern conception of introversion was popularized by a book by a woman who worked on Wall Street who felt that she was so different and special compared to her coked up male colleagues