Every so often I have to remind myself that I can just block people for being obnoxious. I don't have to catch them being objectively bad first.

They could have given us Patrick Stewart as Bowser Jr., but they decided to be cowards.

A very friendly game of Mario Party. #rosalina #pauline #diddykong #yuri

Eggman should almost always be the villain. It's okay if he isn't every once in a while, but it should be a REALLY big deal, like it's a twist and not the norm. I'd love if something seems to usurp him and then his sheer tenacity and brilliance lets him steal back the role in the end.

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Another revelation from all of these emails is that many of the richest and most powerful people in the country absolutely cannot write. Helps explain their sweaty embrace of LLMs.

The people who will most profit from this quality and connection-sapping technology being assumed to be inevitable, want you to give up on pushing against it today, by believing that fight is already over. Don’t give in. Don’t be fooled. Don’t accept the thing already making our medium worse.

move over Beavis

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In Super Mario Galaxy, the stars on the letters of the logo spell "u r mr gay", while for the movie it says "he mr gay". This is because you are watching Mario, not playing him.

Yep, that was the reaction from game store employees pretty much every time teen Josh bought a GameCube game. Ahh, the 2000s, rot in hell. xD

Mario movie 1: Peach is a girlboss and wears pants Mario movie 2: God is a woman and she's voiced by Brie Larson Mario movie 3 should finally make Daisy brown, then we can watch all the worst people on the internet get so mad they spontaneously combust

basically believe that this mostly depends on when you got Properly Online - before a certain cut-off your normal internet experience was high agency/high effort, but it eventually became low agency/low effort, and it's impossible to create a social media experience that caters to both groups

Make your move, break it out That's what life is all about It's your adventure From the dark to the light It's a supersonic flight Gotta keep it goin'

> how do you rank Sonic's "eras"? Oh boy. Genesis (91-94) > Boost (08-12) > Retro (13-17) > Current (22-present) = Dreamcast (99-02) > Saturn (95-98) > Covid (18-21) > Naka (03-07)

obviously not a new topic of discussion but it really is crazy how perfect a name nuzlocke is for the challenge despite having literally nothing to do with the rules and being a result of like 8 coincidences piling up on top of each other. maybe he was right.

I spent an hour or so last night very casually playing this game while listening to this album, like I might have done on one lazy Sunday afternoon circa 1998, and it was *delightful*.

“I was there, Gandalf. I was there 3,000 years ago. I was there the day the strength of Hardcore Gamers failed.”

SPECIAL RULES: No Classic characters, nobody outside of the game canon, and no using anyone who was playable in SA1 besides Sonic, because otherwise I'd just pick C. Sonic, C. Tails, C. Knuckles, Sally, Bunnie, & AoStH Robotnik.

Nah, see, you have to subract COVID time to any period that includes 2020-2021, and remove two years. The PS5 came out three years ago. Doesn't that sound more correct somehow? It works every time.

Wake up, living day by day Do what I want, and I'll do it my way The world is flying right below my feet Got no regrets inside of me Not looking back! Not giving up! Not letting go! I'll keep on running...! (Happy 15th, Sonic Colors!)

Windswept - OUT NOW! A 90's inspired collectathon platformer - tough as nails - and oh so cute! You must help them! 🦆🐢 Find it on: 🔹 Steam 🔹 Nintendo Switch 🔹 PS4/5 🔹 Xbox Series X/S 🔹 GOG

"This use of GenAI is fine because VAs signed contracts to relinquish their rights". Well yeah, have you seen what happens to those who don't want to sign off on this? Can you really call that consent when the alternative is losing (or never getting) a job?

I'm glad that people are finally waking up.

Minor issues: The melodramatic tone, the realistic world design, everything about Chaos Island, the boss fights being INCREDIBLE spectacle without a lot of substance or challenge, some of the ways they characterized Tails & Eggman.

I was interviewed at a con over the weekend, and asked what my favorite Christmas game is. I bet you all already know the answer. youtube.com/shorts/fAabH...

Hey, the only thing that's for sure about Sonic is that nothing's for sure. I think they'll iterate on the open-zone formula next time, but it's anybody's guess what exactly that'll *mean*.

Honestly, Frontiers + SOAP Shoes is prolly my favorite Modern Sonic model anyway, and Superstars is easily the best the character has ever looked in 3D. So I guess I just don't have much to complain about when it comes to this stuff!

Love these new delightfully off-model figures from Fang designer Shin’ichi Higashi. You could make the argument they're somewhere between a little too weird and not quite weird enough, but I'll take my orangutan Eggman and Charlie-Brown-Ninja-Turtle Knuckles however Sega cares to serve them to me

Recent Sonic pixel art in the Quake 1 palette because I like Quake 1's weird blues

I can't believe SA1 came out seven years ago yesterday!

It's too busy inside the gym and too cold outside (literally snowing!) so this is what I've got to do for today!

I *do* hate that it's been nine years of this shit, but it's as true now as it was then.

> assuming you know them all what's your favorite Power Rangers theme? Of course I know them all. Of course I do.

This is the future leftists want

gaming magazines used to be so true........

Kirby Air Riders impressions!

I'm going to stream. I'm thinking of doing a Pokémon video. Should I play Pokémon on stream so I can get some footage? Or should I play the Air Riders test?

It is 2003. People are complaining about the lack of depth in the new Kirby racing game. It is 2025. People are complaining about the lack of depth in the new Kirby racing game.

29 long years have passed since I founded the emulation archive, Zophar's Domain, on 11.9.96. To this very day, the site still stands as a testament to an era that never actually disappeared but continues to live in the hearts of retrogamers all over the word. Emulation Forever!

Nine months!

You make me wanna make you fall in love Oh, late at night, I'm thinking 'bout you, ah-ah Wanna try out some freaky positions? Have you ever tried this one?

From the late 90s up until about the mid to late-aughts, a *lot* of culture was hellbent on being as mean as possible all the time for no reason.

I honor of @camreigle.bsky.social’s birthday, one of my favorite pieces of artwork that captures the critical anti-Donkey Kong Country sentiments of the 2000s and early 2010s… and now familiar they felt.

> what's your favorite MK game? I already made this and... y'know, I'm just assuming you meant this and not Mario Kart.