kicked aboot

Among tonight's records spun (alongside Heliocentrics' Out There and Fantomas' The Director's Cut) is one I forgot I had but am very glad to have dug up: Survival's S/T from 2013. Haela from Liturgy's other short-lived band that leans way more... post-hardcore? V hypnotic. It absolutely rules.

Whenever I see a photo of Wes Streeting my first thought is "he looks hungry for skin"

dude we cant lose to fascists this wet and embarassing man i won't allow it

I think about this game a lot. One of the absolute best of the decade for sure.

Haven't gotten very far into Panthalassa yet but I am VERY excited to play more (the vibes are impeccable) and VERY excited to listen to Thomas talk about it (the vibes are impeccable)

Whenever I see a photo of Wes Streeting my first thought is "he looks hungry for skin"

In a NEW VIDEO, I decide to invent new Pragmata discourse by asking: what is a PS360 game anyways? 📼: youtu.be/IVae86AzGSU

This is so good. Baby Steps is just... something else, man.

Both Fantomas DVDs feature some of the worst visual effects you can possibly imagine at all times. The Mummy, unfortunately, is kind of a shite mess. I don't know why I watched Ready or Not 2

Occasional comments like this kinda boggle my mind. In my head, this is a... compliment? Like, I get people have their own relationships with videos and I'm not here to judge really, but it has always struck me as a bit odd that people would treat "your video sent me to fuckin sleep" as a Good Thing

Continuing my adventures in retro game capture - just discovered a mod that lets you play MGS1 with a behind the back camera!! One downside - the controls don't adjust to the camera position so up is always north, down is south, etc. Going into first person makes Snake invisible though. Cool stuff.

smoke spot

Topping off a good night by listening to my favourite hip hop album of all time.

Saw Deaf Club tonight. Most fun I've had at a show in aaaages. Could not stop grinning the whole time. Absolutely schooled every other band ever. Everything Justin Pearson touches turns to gold. Fuck cops, fuck Lufthansa, long live Deaf Club

Navigating that conundrum was honestly a huge hurdle in treatment. "The reality is you're probably not in the kind of danger your brain convinces yourself you're in. Except for that period of literally years. You were actually spot on about that"

I know it's supposedly very different from how covid started but lemme tell ya, this hantavirus stuff, seeing the same characters from various agencies pop up and saying a lot of the same sorts of things they were saying at the start of 2020 is not helping my OCD lol

the UK now has the least transphobic Health Secretary in years (nobody)

New response to any comment I ever receive online:

They mistakenly believe there is a vas deferens between what the Constitution doesn’t authorize and what it expressly prohibits.

Alternatively for the fems

Lotta people talking about losing the political war by abandoning Twitter as if any of us should be doing anything on these websites other than posting The Dumbest Shit Humanly Possible to make our pals Laugh

ok well this made something click in my head for some reason

Lotta people talking about losing the political war by abandoning Twitter as if any of us should be doing anything on these websites other than posting The Dumbest Shit Humanly Possible to make our pals Laugh

Watching old Fantomas interviews. This one in particular, where they talk about Dave Lombardo's old bandmate Kerry King, is incredible. One can only aspire to reach this level of Hater. Masters of their craft in every conceivable way

You know things are absolutely fucked when you're thinking "well, I guess I'd have to pick Keir Starmer over Wes fucking Streeting"

I'm delighted to announce the forensic recovery of the original single-stroke font data from Vib-Ribbon (1999) — exhumed from Playstation ROMs — and now part of my archive of procedural skeleton fonts for #p5js: github.com/golanlevin/p... #mediaArchaeology #typography #plotterArt #creativeCoding

In general we should try to shy away from analysis that concludes that one of the smallest social media platforms with the highest density of the most unloved people in the world has outsized influence on a country in which every branch of government & corporation is controlled by fascists.

This guy just makes the current, already very stupid political situation in the UK feel all the more stupid.

still true

that’s right

Got around to acquiring the means to play some records so finally picked up my favourite Lungfish album alongside. Sounds so good!

I just want to work. I just want to work!! Even fake job listings are drying up again and I'm no less burnt out. I feel disgusting. I'll keep chasing work and I'll keep fighting for a place to stand, but until that day comes, unfortunately we still very much need your help. I'm so, so sorry.

I fuckin love the Hide User From Channel button. I luxuriate in it

All this talk about Mixtape has made me completely Not Arsed to play Mixtape

"but you don't understand i just HAD to run a full news story about a new fuckin console boot sequence. boycotts don't work anyway"

boycotts work. anyone stating otherwise is spreading state & corp sanctioned propoganda

We are longtime fans of your 𝚟𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚘𝚜 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚐𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚜 ! We especially liked 𝚟𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚘 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚐𝚊𝚖𝚎 !

one of the major differences between the us and the uk is the us holds onto a perception of journalists as brave truth tellers who can hold the government to account. no one thinks that here. lowest of the low. attack dogs of a ruling class that will eventually lay them off without a second thought

I do think at some point we need to move on from talking about this in terms of "convenience." Ditched Spotify a year ago and have experienced precisely 0 inconvenience. Realistically you do not need The Entirety of Recorded Music with you at all times. The streamers aren't even very good to use

Said it a lot but I sometimes still see conversations crop up about what streaming service "best supports artists" given Spotify's perpetual horseshit. While the thought is good, if ethics/artist support is your concern, streaming isn't the answer unfortunately. Gotta buy direct from artists.

Lotta people remembering a whole lot of absolutely dogshit music on here of late lol

NEW VIDEO! Freedom Fighters is a charmingly simple action game that an increasing number of players want brought into the modern era. However, its vision of revolution bumps into one small problem—the reality of America as an institution in 2026. Hope you enjoy—share it around if you feel like it!

This officially released DVD has the worst, most garish visual effects plastered all over it. The pre-encore is just minutes of boos under footage of an old man falling off a tightrope. Then Mike Patton comes back on stage and plays fart sounds off his phone. Greatest concert film ever, 10/10

I liked the Mixtape review

...the last episode of The Wire is also 1 hour and 33 minutes long

gta 6 costs zero dollars if you don’t want to play it

shout out to da mamas

I liked the first one because it was a bit janky and weird relative to the other games. That's about as strong a feeling as I have towards those games