Stop Making Sense is a Christmas movie

Folks are discovering Blippo+ as we reach end of the year so sharing some of my favorite things around it in thread here. 🧵 Did you know the team put on an open to the public exhibition/puppet show to celebrate the launch? The team showcased some of the game's props, costumes, miniatures, and more.

I'm listening to Christmas music and I couldn't help but crack up when I heard "The King of Kings salvation brings", I was like that's Donkey Kong and yeah he does 😭 @dkvine.com

Be near me, Lord Kiddy I ask You to stay Close by me forever And love me I pray

who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there

Inspired by lo-fi study beats and driven by my desire for peaceful winter ambience, Endless Winters is a simple hack of EarthBound that perpetually pans over a snowy landscape. Designed for original hardware, it functions as a installation piece that can be quickly installed using a SNES and a CRT.

As an Ice Choir fan I've been even more hyped for this soundtrack than the game itself, and after hearing it I feel vindicated. Chock full of wonderfully spooky synth tunes 💀🎹🔥💀

when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare

Mechanic [sliding out from under Optimus Prime]: I think I see what the issue is. This truck is also a big guy somehow

Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry

Easy choice if you're a deer deciding where to buy a house

The Beatles - Pollyanna (I Believe In You)

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.

Politicians know if you want to “steal” an election, you don’t do it by tampering with the ballot box or recruiting fake voters. Doesn’t work. You do it by discouraging and intimidating voters into staying home. Please fight for fair access to the voting booth.

You don’t get to name your kid X Æ A-12 and then say “or whatever his name is” about anyone else.

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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

When a Nintendo Direct shows one more thing

So much of "cancel culture" discourse is a re-description of the normal functioning of a democracy and public discourse by people who didn't like the results of one, or both, or how it made them feel.

The Logitech T-CD2-6F TrackMan (1991)

so much of the Bible takes place in Egypt and yet there's not a single mummy attack during any of those arcs, in case you were still under the illusion that prophets care about what the fandom wants

Tony Hawk's Pro Tactics Advance

i feel like this discourse is 500% worse with video games. gamers -- but specifically, those who primarily play AAA titles -- are the most entitled consumers in the universe.

R.I.P. Dave Ball (The Grid, Soft Cell). Thank you for the music. youtu.be/gqH-HpqZsYQ?...

do not fall for "your starter must be your best friend" propaganda

POV: you've committed the perfect crime, disposed of the weapon and and hidden the body, but now you arrive back at your pasture to find you are well and truly fucked.

This also indicates the essential dishonesty of saying “it’s just a tool.” A hammer is a tool. Nobody writes about the “inevitability” of hammers. Nobody has ever studied the harmful effects of hammers on learning and concluded that teachers must all hit their students with hammers “responsibly.”

If you enjoyed this thread and I want to know more about the Pokemania...ummm...Poliwhirlimania era of Pokémon, please consider picking up the book I wrote about it! www.amazon.com/Monster-Kids...

Every once in a while, I see people wonder why, out of all of the available Pokémon to choose, Poliwhirl was so often shown front and center. Especially in the case of Pokémon's marketing in America. Well, I'm going to do my best to answer that question now.

The media has also published far too many essays by these "autism parents" who hate their autistic kids. This has increased the vilification of autism IMO.

Pokemon games have gotten bigger since, but none have improved on the feeling you got in Red/Blue that the land you were travelling through was almost infinitely immense.

One of the greatest video game surprises of my childhood was finally seeing a full map of Saffron City and realizing that it was only this big, instead of the size of a massive real-life city like I'd originally assumed.

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

Handheld TV that’s totally Decked out! Blippo+ is Steam Deck Verified and on sale for a limited time. Buy it now! blippo.plus/steam

Embargo is up! Let's talk about tactics! No, not *those* Tactics... I recently played Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance. A blind spot for me as a fan, I found the best writing in the series and one of the few systems that really makes you *roleplay* Read more: transgamerthoughts.com/post/7955940...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

In Metal Gear Solid (1998), when fighting the Hind D helicopter, you're advised to keep track of its location by listening to the stereo panning. But if you've set "Sound" to "Monaural" in the Options menu, you get this exclusive addition. . .

My state keeps being in the news for things that aren’t horrible and honestly, as an NC expat, I had forgotten what that was like.

lately when i’m feeling hopeless i just think of the Katamari cat wearing scuba gear. if she can survive in an inhospitable environment then so can i

I’ve often thought of genres as tags, not categories. It’s helpful to understand that being one thing does not preclude you from being another thing, too.

Return to Monkey Island is is $7.49 on US PS+ buff.ly/87teosx $9.99 US eShop buff.ly/a6EJzO0 (Steam) $9.99 Humble buff.ly/zqNlBqO $9.99 GOG buff.ly/of5p85g XSX/Switch $29.08 US Dollars at VGP buff.ly/T9u61DE also on Game Pass Standard/PS+ Extra

I crunched the numbers on game console price drops back to 1977 to figure out why today's consoles are so historically expensive. Short answer: It's not inflation. Long answer: arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...