They invented the phrase "Don't judge a book by its cover" in response to everyone thinking that the first Harry Potter book was about a guy who was too stupid to get out of the way of an oncoming train

I think media companies still want Harry Potter to be a thing primarily because they can get away with charging $60 for a pair of plastic glasses and a scarf when it's Halloween

My Anker aux cable finally stopped working after 5 1/2 years. Impressive lifespan for an aux cable imo. I bought it in 2020 for $7 and now they're $20 minimum

Dreamt that me and Ray Romano were messing with a MAGA guy by saying we get the Covid vaccine multiple times a day. I said "Yeah I usually get it three to five times per day" and nudged Ray and told him to exasperatedly say "That's it?", like he gets it way more, and he did

Check out this Typing of the Dead cosplay tutorial that includes steps such as "remove all of the internals from your Dreamcast" and "drill a hole in the bottom of your Dreamcast" www.instructables.com/Typing-of-th...

Survival horror game protagonists are always returning home after 30 years to make peace with their tragic pasts... when will they learn

Remember those r/stupidpol people? "I'm leftist but in a way that lets me be right wing." ok

Opened a regular bag of Gardetto's and it has maybe 6 rye chips in the whole thing? Dire times in Trump's America

The one negative thing I will say about the N64 (and it is admittedly a big negative) - its controller layout makes playing its games with modern pads kind of a huge pain in the ass

Saw some guy trying to rile people up by posting about how the N64 was bad or whatever so I'm going to link my post about this very subject on Cohost web.archive.org/web/20250107...

In 2006 posts like this would derail entire threads as intended (and this one did), in 2026 you quote it with a picture of Comic Book Guy making it look like he was the one saying it and everybody goes on with their day

Classic 2000s forums user dipshit opinion in a thread about FMV games on the PS1

"California dreamin' on such a winter's day" You know California doesn't appear in the summertime like Dracula's castle right. You can just go there whenever

Also if a hockey player drops their stick anyone in the game should be able to pick it up and dual wield. If they pick up a third stick a voice on the PA announces "Zamboni mode" and they get to trade in their sticks to ride a Zamboni with a puck launcher on the front

When a hockey player gets a penalty they should stay in the game but have to sit inside a big oversized boot with huge skates on the bottom and steer it with their stick like a boat paddle

Someone at Red Bull is reading my posts www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwJx...

It's interesting that Michael Haneke made Funny Games in part because he was most appalled by the audience's reaction to a comedy death in Pulp Fiction, a movie containing a scene that the white director wrote for himself where he repeatedly says the N word. It's just interesting is all

"Mount & Blade" is what they call "Netflix and Chill" when you only own a copy of Blade on DVD

Funny Games is a film directed by a guy who doesn't know that other people are also aware that movies aren't real

Farm bankruptcies rose 2017 - 2020, dropped 2021 - 2024, then rose again in 2025... weird, I can't imagine why that is urbanmilwaukee.com/2026/02/18/f...

Every so often in real life I'll start going on about how the 2000s were a cultural wasteland and the point I keep going back to is "The 2000s were the decade that everyone decided the most mature, grown-up thing you could watch was Batman fighting a clown"

I respect the director's insistence that the name of the movie is "Wuthering Heights" with the quotation marks (because it's not really Wuthering Heights?) regardless of whether or not the movie is bad

Perhaps controversial but I don't think you should need 16 gigs of RAM and a graphics card and a core i7 CPU to play "Lego Batman" www.rockpapershotgun.com/holy-hardwar...

[Hulk Hogan voice] The three-body problem? Having three bodies isn't a problem when you have pythons like mine brother

I think the 2008 presidential election may have broken a lot of brains not only from a racism standpoint but by making a lot of people think that the primary reason for voting is to feel like a cool rebel (by supporting a candidate from one of the two main political parties)

The way the hockey rink curves in the corners so that the puck can ride the edges... now that's great game design

It's actually amazing how everyone at th grocery store is standing directly in front of everything you need and looking at it like they've never seen food before

I'm thinking that the Romaji text (Japanese words typed with the Latin alphabet) in the Japanese Typing of the Dead might not exist as a list of words and phrases a la the English ports, but rather there's a list of kanji that displays the Latin alphabet counterpart on the fly... which makes sense

I wonder how my MAGA uncle who was sincerely delighted when Somali immigrants moved into his neighborhood feels towards Trump now. Not enough to ask him though

Nick Fuentes' schtick is pandering to a specific fanbase: men who resent the societal pressure to get married and have a family but whose brains are too conservatively wired to consider that they can reject it. That's it. You can't just be gay, asexual, not interested in a relationship, want hookups

Nick Fuentes is the definition of a soulless husk, who will say whatever he thinks he needs to say to generate publicity for himself, flip flopping between supporting the current administration and hating it based on what will allow him to say the most controversial things

Imagining the last movie in a Little Nicky film series named "Enlarged: The Final Nicky"

There's a pop song on the radio right now that goes "Baby, where the hell is my husband" and the answer is he's trying to find you so that you can head to P.F. Chang's

Looking at the ELF file for The Typing of the Dead: Zombie Panic (Japan-only PS2 port) in a hex editor before bed. I don't really know what I'm doing, but I find it interesting that English cutscene text seems to exist in the code (?) but the subtitles are only Japanese in-game.

I've known about the abandoned Jumanji sequel where the President gets sucked into the game for a long time now, but I was totally unaware of the other Jumanji sequel pitch where a witch doctor turns Robin Williams into a wisecracking CGI toad www.syfy.com/jumanji-auth...

We would still be posting on Cohost if it had an "arcade" section. The next Cohost should have an "arcade" section

Dreamt that I went to see the Mortal Kombat II movie and a character said "Hara Kiri" in the Mortal Kombat Deception announcer voice and I threw my hands up in the theatre and cheered

I think that if an Olympic athlete makes a mistake, the judge's score should only count if they can go out there and perform the exact same move successfully (maybe have a second group of judges who rank the primary judges' performance which acts as a score modifier for the original athlete)

I need everyone to check out this modular transforming mini golf arcade game which I didn't know existed until 10 minutes ago. "The future is now" vimeo.com/591414422

Okay this guy was filmed being ran out of town crying and bloody yet he keeps coming back. So much for the power of incredible violence. But the fact he brags about recording this crime provides useful a clue as to what can be done to be rid of these people forever www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

2,025 years past due... these late fees are going to be a real motherfucker

Is there any greater indication that Trump is a huge coward (one might say, he "always chickens out") than him always talking shit about Obama online but then chatting his ear off like he's his best buddy in the world when he the had to sit next to him at Jimmy Carter's funeral

If you've ever wanted to own 16 sealed copies of Epic Megagames' Deep Sea pinball now is your chance shopgoodwill.com/item/254937265

[singing "Girls Girls Girls" by Motley Crue but I don't remember the lyrics] Girls Girls Girls uhhh Loose lips, sinkin' ships

I watched some clips from the second season of the Twisted Metal TV show and (I mean this in the most complimentary way possible) it seems to understand and embrace how stupid it all is

At this point I think Chuck Schumer is intentionally doing outlandish things to get fired and he's amusing himself by seeing how long it takes

Anyone who brought this up was accused of having confirmation bias by guys who just learned the phrase "confirmation bias"

I watched Jason and the Argonauts (1963) last night. Cool movie, cool stop motion effects. There's a brief montage of people winning various contests near the beginning, with the victors being recruited to join Jason's crew. I can't help but feel that part would be 45 minutes long if it was made now

If you think about it there's a bunch of nostalgia Youtubers now whose whole bit is the "every morning I wake up and open palm slam a VHS into the slot" thing but sincerely