I found this online and I can't stop saying "Dark Souls Among Us" I think I'm catching Hideki Naganuma disease.

Again thinking about how Yakuza 4's plot doesn't make any sense and its big character moments/an entire redemption arc don't make sense anymore because Kiwami 3 decided that the emotional core of the series just kind of doesn't matter anymore. Being disappointed with Infinite Wealth was a blessing.

Even if you don't have a valentine, please use the day to show the ones you care about that you care.

It's good when video games become accessible to play and not stuck on a 20 year old console, making them impossible to play for most people. I mean, *on paper* it's good that more people can play MGS4.

"Yakuza Sunset" was a substory in Kiwami 2 where they talk about how bad they think Yakuza 3 was, so I'm not surprised Kiwami 3 ended up disrespecting the original Either way they were wrong because Yakuza 4 was the bad one and the series has always been way more hit-or-miss than fans want to admit

Sometimes I wonder if I'm being picky or whatever, but people say you should never settle so I'm sure that a beautiful woman that knows who Nuno Bettencourt is and also agrees with my opinions on Dark Souls is just around the corner waiting for me.

What is the business model for new plastic guitar games? YARG & CH are free, as are RB3DX & GH mods. Do Fret Smasher, Sound System, and TBD Red Octane Game all expect to compete in the freeware space? Do they expect people to pay for an engine without huge libraries of songs people actually know?

You can tell they did a very professional job on redacting The Files and definitely didn't just CTRL+F words like "harm" to end up with "Harmonix" unnecessarily half-redacted. Also apologies to the ****onix Rock Band 3 Mustang Pro Midi Guitar Controller for ending up in The Files.

JSRF's soundtrack came up and instead of resurfacing fond memories of listening to it a bunch in the mid-2000s it made me think of Hideki Naganuma's godawful twitter account. I'm kind of upset that someone could be so bad at posting that it lessens my enjoyment of their music.

Rock Band 1 is pretty good. Hot take. Rather than talk shit about Neversoft, I'll just say that I love the way RB1 looks and honestly really appreciate the solo career mode just being "here's a list of the songs in order of increasing difficulty" and I wish later games just did that.

4chan's nazi turn starting due to moot meeting with epstein further cements that something awful could never have had an intentional shift like that because lowtax was too unlikeable to have any kind of meetings with anyone of consequence and too incompetent to see any kind of plan through

I'm sure they're fine games, but the explosion of "Balatro but X" games in the last year or so isn't really slowing down. People get inspired by what they get inspired by, but seeing a dozen posts for the new "Pop-o-Matic Trouble, but Balatro" every week just makes it feel kind of shameless.

Playing a Rock Band game after going through (most of) the Guitar Hero series is so refreshing because Harmonix didn't move the crowd, combo, and overdrive/star power meters on the HUD in every fucking game for no reason.

Dick Van Dyke is 100 years old and social media word filters are going to make it very hard for everyone to find out when he dies.

I feel so bad for Columbo's wife, all of her favorite artists and TV stars are murderers.

Saw a post that said Guitar Hero 3 "refined" the gameplay after 2 and is still good despite the "precise" timing window and I'm not going to respond to it I'm not going to respond to it I'm not going to respond to it I'm not going to respond to it I'm not going to respond to it I'm not going to resp

Guess which "not made with ai" rhythm game is getting a new art director for reasons unrelated to the main response being people posting "Slop System" over and over

I've played 9 Guitar Hero games and I keep thinking I'm almost done but there's still Band Hero and Shits before I can play the final* game. Fuck! Fuuuuuuuck these games I just want to play good video games (RB3DX) *I don't own a ghlive controller or a way to play the handheld/mobile games

Guitar Hero Metallica's cartoon cutscenes are being extremely kind to Lars' hairline.

Guitar Hero Aerosmith has an achievement called "Jailbait" for playing a song at a high school Hey neversoft can I ask you a question

I remembered Cobain being talked about but why the fuck did they exhume Johnny Cash for Guitar Hero 5 lmao

I feel like I've wasted my entire life for not having watched this show sooner. Jesus Christ what a good show.

I hope this leads to Trump making a statement pretending to know who Victor Wooten is.

jesus I forgot GHWT reanimated jimi hendrix's corpse to make him a guest star in this game fucking lmao

Red Letter Media if it were a Japanese variety show

watched a video that ended with Scrandle for no reason and it ended with "if you want to support Scrandle, i also made this game" and it's fucking Blue Revolver starting off 2026 with a danbo jumpscare

Getting sworn in on the Chicago Manual of Style 17th Edition and instituting the Eternal Science of Chicagoism-Turabianism to ostracise everyone supporting the American Psychological Association style formatting.

I caught some random 70s Doctor Who episode and he visits a planet full of people who dress like American Box Art Mega Man and I think this kind of owns, actually?

Jesus I forgot how fucking ugly Guitar Hero 3 is.

Lots of things do "80s" stuff to varying degrees of success with hairspray and colors or whatever, but the Austin, TX venue in Guitar Hero 80s has "PMRC" on the tombstone props on stage, which is authenticity you only get from someone who lived through it.

oh, did a yearsball happen???????

Anyway I cheated and started before 2025 ended. I started the series with 2, so this was my first time actually playing the first one, and going into it knowing about the engine wrt ho/pos, this holds up. Guitar Hero 1 is still super fun. Texas Flood in this engine really made me work for 5 stars

I've decided to start off 2026 by going back and replaying these to see if my opinions that calcified over the last 2 decades are something I still believe.

Pluto TV has a Classic Doctor Who channel and, having never seen it before and just wanting background noise to cook over, had the luck of tuning in to one of the Turbo Racist stories.

It's sad when funny posters die, but the curse of being around for so long is that you remember all their funny posts as well as all the transphobic stuff they posted in FYAD. It was a really bad time for FYAD

California's CSUs spent $17 million on chat gpt, which students are using to avoid doing work and professors are using to grade assignments, and now they're pushing "tuition insurance" what the fuck is this gamestop shit

Currently experiencing extreme volumes of shame because the old Ray Combs family feud episode I had on in the background had a sponsor from DeMet's Turtles and and I instinctively yelled "LOVE DEMET'S, BABY" from the other room and I'm laughing at my own joke. I'm better than this.

At E3M6 Elementary's wellness center checking out the FIREBLU sensory tiles

This is the frustration I tried to articulate in my video. Indie games at their best (weird, personal, creative, experimental etc.) are a much-needed challenge to AAA - but often the most successful ones are those that most resemble AAA games (but smaller). youtu.be/67V-GSaceFQ

Boo this man

Tragic news as R Crumb, age 82, confirmed still alive and making comics.

I got some medical news requiring a change in diet, and I expected the youtube recipe space to be filled with AI slop but I wasn't expecting it to *also* be crypto scams. An oatmeal recipe had the bitcoin logo in the thumbnail. Didn't even bother trying to hide it for 30 seconds. Dogshit website.

opened up mastodon again and saw a joke about benedict cumberbatch's name and a "group of white men is called a podcast" joke, like it was a time capsule from 2016 there seems to be less liberal anti-palestinian racism now, so there's that at least

I decided to look up more context to give Jonathan Blow and Phil Fish's comments a fair reevaluation and they just look even worse now, tbh. Saying "Japanese games are too safe, linear, and hand-holdy" at a time when this meme was popular is so funny. I think saying they were full of shit is fair!

Phil Fish came up so I was curious if people still talk about him and there's a surprising amount of "Phil Fish did nothing wrong" here. The argument: anti-japanese xenophobia was really common in the industry at the time so it's ok, he can tell people to kill themselves for calling him annoying.

Dreams started playing at the place I was getting lunch just now, and the more time goes on the more disappointed I am that this exists solely as the "holy shit piss" song in my brain anymore.

Water heater breaks Friday, takes a few days and a few thousand dollars to replace. I notice one of my tires is in bad shape, decide to get new tires the next day. Car doesn't start Saturday, too mad to do anything about it. Car doesn't start Monday, call AAA, car starts when they turn the key.

This is one of my favorite channels I've come across on youtube. I really appreciate the perspectives she brings that I don't really see in a lot of gaming-related content. Stuff that isn't "thing good" or "thing bad" tends to not do as well on youtube, and I wish there was more out there like this

I was having a bad enough mental health day that I started watching let's plays on youtube, which is a bad sign, but stumbled across a playthrough of Doki Doki Literature Club by a person so unobservant that it ruined my mood so badly that it motivated me to get out of bed and stop procrastinating.

Diagnosing some problems with my plastic guitars, starting a fresh save in Rock Band 3 with no mods or anything I forgot that some of these RB3 disc songs have *absolute dogshit* guitar charts. Did they outsource this to neversoft because they were busy with MIDI stuff? Genuinely embarrassing.