"I fear the day either of you find out I've been involved in franchises I don't really let on about in 2026; I'm not a weeb though" I type, as I respond to news of a friend's purchase of a game lot with twenty Yu-Gi-Oh GBA carts and a JP Xenogears PS1 release with this amazing music video

every miku song is like "ohh, the power of love!" and every teto song is like "ohhh ahhh they gave me overtime at work fuuuuckkk"

People act like MrBeast is a capitalistic blight unique to the modern media era and honestly, he's really not. Jim Davis did it better for decades before streaming video even existed

I’m am begging y’all to engage with media in a healthy manner and ask questions and explore metaphor and to sus out the themes of what you are watching. You’re capable of doing it I promise you.

I’m gripping you all with a cartoonishly large hand. Listen very closely. In media, a character does not need to openly say what they are feeling or what they are, because the director is telling you through the medium of story telling. Lighting, shot composition, music choice, etc, IS your answer

According to a test I took on genius dot com I'm too smart to ever fall for confirmation bias

Feels weird seeing the Knicks finally win the championship with how vivid I remember the 1994 Finals going. In a good way, though, especially given how much else was going on that very summer (the NHL Eastern Conference Finals between the Devils and Rangers; the, uh, whole Bronco chase...)

Got both the rare Goblin and Cockatrice summon drops in FFIV Pixel Remaster earlier today after starting a new file, and it took less than an hour. You've been avenged, 2014.

Windows 10: "Update and shut down" reboots PC but returns to the login screen and never shuts down and acts like you never asked anything else Also Windows 10: "Update and restart" reboots PC and you log in as normal but it invariably freaks the hell out and crashes, rejecting its conscious form

Imagine Dragons is just Phil Collins era Genesis for alt-rock millennials

Oh no, oh dear, I've aged past enjoying Maruchan's Cheddar Cheese cup noodles. Ramenmouse is dead, long live ramenmouse (I have not even remotely attempted to use this moniker in over 23 years). Nissin's switch to paper cups, with the broth absorbed by the noodles, is just too good to ignore now.

'Vampire Survivors developer poncle will establish a new studio based in Japan, with El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron creator and crim CEO Sawaki Takeyasu as its head' www.gematsu.com/2026/06/ponc...

And another one! Just over two months from first boot to finish, and most of that in the last week-and-change. Not feeling very talkative these days, so I might come back to writing about the game at a later date. But I did enjoy FFIII more than expected (and for one surprising reason, TBA).

Hozier is the modern-gen analogue to Blues Traveler from the mid-nineties

If I ever make a game I will put "special thanks: Anita Sarkeesian" in the credits even though she had nothing to do with the game just so I can make people upset

so you're telling me a white dude calls for mods to "clean house" of trans people, furries, and leftists he doesn't like, the head moderator of the website likes a bunch of his tweets, and then the next day the moderators begin purging the website of trans people, furries, and leftists? strange!

Anaheim Jollibee employees seeing yet another 32yo white guy dressed like emet-selch walk up to the counter and order 67 drumsticks

Also, I feel like the differences between NJ and WI with their claw machines can be summed up in one picture. See if you can figure it out.

Saying this outside the last skeet thread but for those not in the know (a few of you! more than zero! wow!?) - April 22nd back-in-antiquity was when I reinstated a meaningful presence on social media in my modern era (i.e. set up a new livejournal); the 23rd was when I began posting to it.

I'm cursed with a few murky thoughts that I'm not yet certain I wish to gift written word. But in the spirit of it being the April 22nd/23rd bridge and to attempt to honor that long-gone promise, I'll try just one for now: You're not supposed to take ibuprofen with high blood pressure, apparently.

There are two types of people in this world

there are altogether too many quotable paragraphs in this must-read article but i think i can restrain myself to just this one

Yeah I’m honestly pretty irritated by people who act like internet harassment has zero impact on the people being harassed. It changes you. I’m a different person after years of constant harassment.

That unsettled, disquieting feeling I get when I realize that the Avenue Q soundtrack is the contemporary shitposter's Nostalgia Cringe in the exact same way as millennial nerds making "the cake is a lie" references in casual conversation in 2026.

Ah yes. PJM: That Year I Spent in Seattle Edition.

VG CRYPTID ALERT. in XENOGEARS there's a battle arena 1v1 mode. by endgame there are ~48 chars, and if you beat 3-round hard mode vs all 48, you unlock ARGENTO. i could not find a single picture or video of this guy online. brady guide didn't even mention him. well i beat em all! here he is at last.

The other problem is that they thought "fortnites" were match-based multiplayer shooters with microtransactions when really "fortnites" are games that are fun when you aren't good at them and can be played with your friends as a non-goal-driven hangout space.

In case it isn't somehow entirely obvious: I'm racing towards starting FFIV before I inevitably run out of steam with these PR edition masteries. My own rules-and-restrictions and I could discard them, sure, but it's way too likely I'll never come back to the third game if I just skip ahead, so 🙃

Okay, whew, there we go. Only took me a year and a half. Small rambling 🧵 Hopefully FFIII doesn't take me nearly as long...

we've come up with a system where you can demonstrate growth to shareholders by hiring more people than you should, but also you can demonstrate growth by firing more people than you should. we call it the economy and we think it's going to be great

Current weather in Allentown

lol okay

Got 2015 on the mind today, for better or worse.

Yesterday: 80°F and tropically humid Today: 37°F and flurrying If I could concentrate with my sinuses apoplectically cratering as they are, I would be deeply upset right now

Me in 2012: Calories don't stop counting just because it's your birthday Me in 2026, to my cat: The food plate I served you two hours ago doesn't go away just because you took a nap

I promise with every part of my assailed and broken heart, Sprecher, I don't need the (literal) honeyed promise of "natural antioxidants" to be compelled to drink your root beer.

Seeing Prompto there brandishing a firearm in modern-day Japan and bemusedly muttering "who up Shinzoing they Abe" and getting thrown out of my internal monologue group chat

This is a cat checkpoint. Show me the most recent cat image on your phone.

12:14am: "yeah sure let's crash early tonight" 2:57am:

Really amused how a solid half of the time when I restart my browser after waking up, the r/AskReddit thread I previously had open has inevitably been removed. Not sure if that says more about that platform or my reading habits, tbh

Achievement Unlocked - This Free Service Has Changed The Way I Play Retro Games In 2026.

Oh dear god, she's learned alchemy (anime edition)

My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.

No new pictures, where are you mentally?

Chappel Roan coming to Fortnite and a beet delivery to my house? Time to break out one of the best images I’ve ever made in my life.

oomf: *likes my tweet* Me: Oh thank God they still like me