When shilling your product requires you to admit you're a huge moron.

Scraped together a blog recapping my @extralife4kids.bsky.social 2025 marathon. It ALMOST didn't happen this year—things have been a little nuts—but then I got an idea that brought it together. www.badenoughdudes.com/2025/12/extr...

Nintendo decided your Thanksgiving plans weren't important.

Though I've started on a write-up for Castlevania: Curse of Darkness, I must mention that my Castlevania: Lament of Innocence review has seen only 50 visits. pepsimanvsjoe.blogspot.com/2025/11/play... If I had an editor, they'd stake me for crafting a follow-up review after this bomb. #retrogaming

Alright, done. pepsimanvsjoe.blogspot.com/2025/11/nes-... Here's a review of Power Blade for the NES. This is one of the many games that I think everyone is required to play at least once. #retrogaming #taito #natsume

Hey Bluesky pals! It's been a while! I'm playing video games for 24 hours tomorrow in support of @extralife4kids.bsky.social. Exclusively retro games this year (with a couple of HD remakes thrown in), check it out and thanks for your support! www.extra-life.org/participants...

My primary duty as a father is to finish all of the half-eaten pieces of fruit left around our house daily.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

AI, nope.

I wrote a new blog! Yes, it's about Ultima Online again, but this time, I may have finally found direction and purpose for my aimless characters. This 28-year old MMO still has my attention, at least when I have some attention to spare! www.badenoughdudes.com/2025/09/play...

Spider-Man on the Genesis has the best continue screen I've ever seen in a video game.

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

This is still one of the best 90s gaming magazine ads ever.

Ah, Optoman. My arch-nemesis.

I love this take. Are we really enjoying our games, or just checking them off a list? It can be tough to really slow down and enjoy something when life is busy, but taking my time with games often results in some of my best memories.

I wrote this column and I'll just say that the original headline was much meaner. The piece itself, though, is still very angry and very mean, I assure you.

I wrote a new blog post! Not my usual fare—this is not a discussion about a particular game, but more of a philosophical exploration. It's true, I probably won't play your favorite video game, but it's not because I don't want to. www.badenoughdudes.com/2025/07/ill-...

(2/2) Even when it's messy (what's a blog launch without a good personal ramble?), even when it's unpolished, I want to champion your personal creativity... and participate in my own ways, too. Introducing: Cozyscroll. Why Blog? cozyscroll.wordpress.com/2025/07/09/w...

My kids have started bringing me my phone when I don't have it with me. That sucks. I have to do better.

Thousands of years of innovation and the fingernail is still the single best cleaning implement in existence.

1. Nintendo kept trying to make Pauline a playable character back in the day 2. The idea of Pauline being a singer goes back to Famicon era 3. She might pre-date both Donkey Kong and Mario. www.thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/blog/pauline...

I know we have a lot of problems but idk how you can watch a video like this and not feel a little patriotic

I told you we’d be back

A ha ha ha YESSSSSSSS

I'm back with one more blog post about Star Wars: Rebellion. Did I bring freedom to the galaxy? Was Han Solo able to calm an angry mob? And I lost HOW MANY planets to natural disasters?! Check it out, and thanks for reading! www.badenoughdudes.com/2025/06/star...

At Alaska Comics Camp, a pal asked me to write up a guide to hand-lettering/hand-drawing word balloons. Here it is, in case it’s helpful!

All Robot Masters based on songs with the word Man in the title

The public alpha of the XWVM project is really great. The gameplay is really smooth and the HD graphics are really amazing. Check moddb.com/mods/xwvm #xwing #starwars #lucasarts #pcgaming #spacesim #retrogaming #retrogames #retrogamer #dosgaming #dosgames #msdos

Has anybody made Progressive Mega Man? In which the powers Mega Man gains in the first game would carry over to Mega Man 2, and Mega Man 2 powers would then carry over to Mega Man 3, and so on? That could be fun and crazy, right?

Golden Axe 3 I can't complain too much about the gameplay, as it's totally Golden Axe with some added perks like special moves and team-up attacks. Graphically though... oof. Somehow it looks worse than its 1991 predecessor. Music is great at least. #retrogaming #sega #genesis

Hey, it's me, your resident gaming blogger (one of like 57 on your feed, probably) feebly promoting his work about imaginary struggle in a galaxy far far away while the real world self-destructs around us. A good use of my time, I assure you.

Star Wars. I can't get enough. Movies, books, video games. Hook it to my veins. Let's look at a 90s PC strategy game I haven't touched since my adolescent days of too much cream soda and the belief that no fleet of Star Destroyers could ever be large enough. www.badenoughdudes.com/2025/05/star...

There's nothing holy about writing discrimination into the law.

The feedback on this has been interesting—it turns out a lot more people think Harmony of Dissonance is the weak link in the GBA Castlevania trilogy than I would have guessed.

Quote post this with a picture of the airplane you’ll accept as a bribe.

I am working my final pro wrestling show on the 24th. It is a fundraiser for the Highschool that was destroyed by the April tornadoes. This is going to be my first time working as a bad guy AND my first time managing, which is something I have wanted to do since I was a kid!

I revisited Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance for the first time in over 20 years. I didn't care much for this one at the time. What'd I miss? Am I so out of touch, or is it the children who are wrong? Let's see if my second playthrough is more enjoyable! www.badenoughdudes.com/2025/05/cast...

Challenge of the Superfriends has a villain saying “That’s what YOU think!” about 40 billion times per episode. Just once, I want to hear Superman say, “Yes! That IS what I think, mother fucker!” and then beat the shit out of everyone.

Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.

"Neighbors hate him." Yup, that's me, just mowing my lawn for the third time this year while everybody else hasn't mowed once. Look I have a low-powered lawnmower and it clogs easily and I just don't want the yard to get away from me, okay?

This is a little art project by me. What would Belmont's Revenge look like if it were remade? 🧵1/18 #pixelart

Insomnia doing its thing, making me write reviews. This time around it's everyone's favorite NES Classic: Crystalis pepsimanvsjoe.blogspot.com/2025/04/2025... #retrogaming #nintendo #snk

My useless Switch 2 Direct takeaways: - Does that Switch 2 Welcome Tour come packaged with a Joycon? - Definitely time for a new Donkey Kong. - The Switch 2 Edition Upgrade Packs feel a *little* nickel-dimey. - Still excited, but nothing blew me away. This household will get one eventually.

Oh crap I rekindled another obsession with a '90s PC game this weekend.

Old LucasArts website (from 1995/1996?) in Netscape Navigator. #xwing #tiefighter #starwars #lucasarts #pcgaming #spacesim #retrogaming #retrogames #retrogamer #dosgaming #dosgames #msdos

My useless Nintendo Direct takeaways: - Haven't played any Square Enix HD-2D remakes, but they are all very pretty and I want to. - Prime 4: haven't played Primes 2 and 3; I can be patient on this one. - Gradius Origins: wish it included Gaiden, IV, and/or V. - Witchbrook: gimme

Fashionably late as always, it's my annual blog post covering my Top 8 games of last year! It's normally Top 10, but I was apparently too busy for that many games in 2024, and maybe distracted by some old favorites, as well. www.badenoughdudes.com/2025/03/top-...

Fashionably late as always, it's my annual blog post covering my Top 8 games of last year! It's normally Top 10, but I was apparently too busy for that many games in 2024, and maybe distracted by some old favorites, as well. www.badenoughdudes.com/2025/03/top-...

Sharing because of the laugh-out-loud rule. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...