I've been replaying Tokyo Xanadu ahead of the sequel...I had forgotten about one of the main characters entirely, but I remembered the behavior where you automatically lower your umbrella while standing under an overhang when it's raining

gonna find out where this student lives and break all the pots in her house like link

"There are two kinds of games--well-made games and interesting games" dang shigeru

Hey so we all got together and talked about your posts

video game collector’s edition that comes with a sheet of paper listing the prompts they used in place of actual concept art

The Sable soundtrack rules imo

I’m not sure I own a single article of clothing with a flag on it and people are out here today with a whole hat and shirt and shorts combo situation

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Yesterday you said you'd call Sears!

[looking at the World Cup scorebug CIV vs NOR] dang i hope civilization wins

I rewatched The Truman Show for the first time since it came out and it's wild that that movie is from 1998

I was listening to this while waiting for the T at Assembly and was jumpscared by the Costco in Everett looming across the river

today's excerpt from eighteenth-century singing school discourse: is learning to sing "by rule" or "by note" unholy because it's popular with young people? (Thomas Symmes, The Reasonableness of Regular Singing, or Singing by Note, 1720)

Remember the internet before Google, before algorithmic feeds, before monolithic social media corralled us onto the same handful of apps? When small, *personal websites* and webrings linking them together reigned supreme? Time to bring it back.

I listened to Giant Bomb’s news show this morning, which was recorded live like two hours ago, and there’s already been enough news for another episode. Jesus Christ

Very rude of my monitor to suddenly break, especially while I was looking at it

*taps microphone* Lynel Messi

RIP Bobby Prince. this 1993 clip of him explaining the Commander Keen menu music is amazing. worth a watch even if you don't give a rip about Keen. source link below.

I'm almost done working through my backlog of unplayed Ys games, and my biggest takeaway so far is that I think Ys 8 was an outlier and I usually don't like the party system

Despite what you might think it's actually good that I made hot chocolate at like 1 AM

IMO: the part of the SMB2 underground arrangement where they borrow the above-ground theme's B section, but play it half time with the swing straightened out, is one of the best moments on this entire soundtrack

Very much channeling the energy of 20-years-ago Tim Schafer and hoping that guy was right. www.gamespot.com/articles/bit...

I was watching some Direct reactions and I love what YouTube’s autotranslation did to this Japanese streamer who was excited about the Ocarina remake

I think I saw 10% of the population of Scotland while I was in the city today

KOOOYAAAAANIS

Maybe it's time I finally say goodbye to this undrilled bowling ball I got for a work anniversary at Harmonix like eight years ago

I learned about the Knicks because I randomly had the Angels game on while I was grinding in Ys VI and Randazzo mentioned what happened 🫠

This photo I took at E3 2014 is kind of misleading (I think they were out getting lunch maybe?), but it's always cracked me up and felt like a potent metaphor for how the show was going haha

could’ve used a little more thumb wrestling imo

🚫 can you pet the dog ✅ real time with paws

if i tune out in a meeting this is going on in my head

I decided to clean up a bit of MKW in the wake of the music thing and found a fresh disappointment: mirror mode is largely defanged because a) muscle memory for most tracks is weaker since you do fewer laps, and b) you spend a ton of time on the relatively straight roads between courses anyway

I got one of those thin wallets that holds like four cards and magnetizes to your phone and when it’s detached it looks like an interactable from a scifi video game

Nintendo is finally starting to add tunes from last year's soundtrack of the year Mario Kart World to their music app...though naturally it's another scheduled dripfeed of content that will be added over time 😑

New blog post! I came across a fully-interactive offline archive(!!) of a BBS from 1994 and wanted to share an interactive walkthrough of it. Let's explore 90s Kansai online and see what people were chatting about. cdrom.ca/games/2026/0...

I love the “let’s remember some guys” vibe of this interview shmuplations.com/yamaneshimom...

I’m glad Dragon Quest XII is backing away from the dark and gritty tone they’d previously suggested and I’m pleased to see it now has a charmingly shitty logo as well. If they can scrap the AI stuff I might be back on board www.gematsu.com/2026/05/drag...

If we found a Fenway employee who’s never heard of Ghostbusters, do you think we could convince them the Neil Cicierega mashup is saying “Boston, Boston, Boston […] makes me feel good” and play it over the PA

realizing that a lot of my favorite swoops are fell

So uh...some people might be aware of the fact that when they made a girl version of Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life, they just kinda had to pick from the dudes who were already there for the bachelors, none of them were designed with women in mind AND I FORGOT THE MANUAL JUST FUCKING SAYS THIS??

thinking about a time many years ago when a housemate came into my room, found the The Great Outdoor Fight (as in the Achewood storyline) on my bookshelf, borrowed it, and then came back later that day to ask if it was a true story

laxative brand called “content creator”

maybe the podcast episode of the year so far imo

My memory of what it was like to browse the Xbox Live Indie Games store page in 2010

1227% lol automaton-media.com/en/news/niho...

youtube algorithm…i'm not going to watch this video but good work

Steam Controller easter egg: the controller screams when dropped by about 3 feet (Big Picture Mode, about once every 5-6 drops) www.reddit.com/r/SteamContr...

giving the guy at the cvs $500 to max his affinity right away so i get a better deal during future merchant interactions

Experimental post: The Time 5-Year-Old Supper Mario Broth Thought Luigi Was a Cryptid I share a story from my personal life about the first time I encountered Luigi at the age of 5. Due to a combination of factors, I was unprepared for him and ended up believing he was a cryptid.