Back in February I happened to see a 5080 on sale for an okay price and grabbed it, thinking I'd be glad for it later if I needed an emergency replacement. I did the same with a CPU a month or two later. "That's enough for now -- it'll be easy enough to just buy RAM whenever," I thought

Trails in the Sky is my game of the year, of course, but it's no fun choosing a remake. If I had to choose a brand-new game...it might be Rune Factory! Definitely not one I expected would be in the running at the beginning of the year, especially with a new Nintendo console on the horizon

This thumbnail makes me laugh every time YouTube puts it in my recommendations. You can almost hear him sucking air through his teeth

a weird specific thing i love about side story: when one of the hosts gets all excited, winding up for a punchline or big reveal, and then says "you tell them!" and throws to someone else. the generosity to let someone else say the best part! years of collaborative storytelling experience, i suppose

When there's an annoying segment in a video game, it's possible it was a special one-off thing and it won't come up again. But if it happens a second time, that's when you know you're in trouble -- no designer will make something happen only twice

The days are still getting shorter for a little while, but where I live we’ve at least passed the earliest sunset of the season. All downhill from here, right? 😬

If a company issues patch notes that only specify “bug fixes and improvements” with no further details they should be fined $500,000

yes…ha ha ha…yes!

Isn't...isn't Australia more than one time zone? (I was looking up when the Game Awards air)

shoutout to this Flecktones setlist I got signed in 2009 where Howard thought my name was Pam (probably misled by that long-stemmed D in Béla's signature there)

In 1954 film On the Waterfront, Marlon Brando laments getting a “one-way ticket to Palookaville.” This is because one-way tickets are often more expensive due to pricing models that favor round-trip bookings, leaving Brando with less cash on hand to enjoy Palookaville’s restaurants and attractions.

Just did a test of the new Mario Kart World patch and I think Nintendo really outdid themselves this time.

The game I'm working on now is cool

Every Black Friday I take the time to read what is perhaps my favorite piece in the history of online media— @jonbois.bsky.social on RadioShack’s slow, painful death. www.sbnation.com/2014/11/26/7...

I like watching football but don't have it deep in my bones, so my rooting interest nowadays is "whatever will make Remap's sports podcast more entertaining." The Bears beating the Eagles? That smells like content baby

I turned on the parade and I think I just heard Caruso crossfade into All Star??

Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/

Amazing incorrect lyrics on the karaoke machine yesterday

It's a good thing the rest of the industry regards Roblox as a pariah, not as a model to aspire to, since they -- oh, what's that? Ah, I see

Oh my god that is the worst possible answer

i think that people who use headphones in public places like trains are selfish. keeping all your cool music and podcasts to yourself is genuinely sociopathic and deranged behavior. play it on your phone's speaker and let everyone enjoy it, or don't play it at all

the baseball subreddit held a vote on the minor league name of the year and it looks like it was a real barnburner www.reddit.com/r/baseball/c...

gonna post about something tomorrow

chaotic evil copyediting

NieR Automata genuinely might be one of the most important game releases of all time explicitly because of how it directly inspired DXVK, yes. www.digitaltrends.com/computing/ni...

it's on miro. it's literally on figma. you have to log into okta. it's in jira. it's on zoom. it's on pureref. it's on flow. it's on perforce. it's on slack. you can find it on slack. you can go to slack and find it. log onto slack right now. you can slack it. slack has it for you. it's on slack.

A new Final Pam episode of Monster Factory is 100 times more surprising than new Steam hardware

I liked this talk youtu.be/bGsl3kvntbE

I bet I’m getting close to the part in Z-A where I’ll finally have an opponent who’s bothered to fill out their party with six Pokemon

ice cubes are ridiculous. like yeah lemme just get a piece of water

nice

sometimes, your horse is too good automaton-media.com/en/news/atel...

hhhhhHHHHHHHHH

pretty interesting ballgame they've got going on tonight

I'm gonna miss this golden age when half of my Bluesky feed is about baseball

It's time…

Sometimes, when I see a YouTube video I want to save for later, I click on it and let it play for a fraction of a second so it gets added to my watch history. It’s probably very convenient, but I have never gone back to watch anything I’ve saved in this way

the giant skeleton in my neighborhood is wearing a t-shirt with a skeleton ribcage on it

I legitimately didn't know they were competing with Steam and it's crazy to me that they burnt so much money on what sounds like something with very little (or wildly misguided) market research.

*beededededoop* Sam. It’s me, Die-Hardman. Wanted to let you know there’s banana bread in the kitchen. You can take a portion of this sweet cake bread anytime. Use the knife to cut off part of the loaf. You can take a full piece or a small piece depending on how hungry you are.

for a time, calculators in the shape of floppy disks were a popular promotional item

generally speaking, people should be eating way more candy than they do. next time you find yourself reaching for fresh produce at the grocery store, consider a bag of candy instead

I can’t believe I’m rolling with some of these dipshits in my Pokemon party but sometimes it just takes too long to train up replacement dipshits

thinking about the anime uno opening youtu.be/bMO9U00pZ3k

It's good when a video game has a cutscene and in the background you can see a save point or a glittering resource node or something

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