around a year ago, I had a couple interviews with a company and was feeling pretty optimistic about getting one of multiple open spots. then the tariff stuff happened, and they let everyone know they were no longer hiring for that role. anyways, I just interviewed with the same company this week lol

"good luck have fun" is the "bless your heart" of gaming phrases

what's the over/under on companies actually lowering prices back down once this is all settled, compared to them just shrugging their shoulders and maintaining the current inflated prices while pocketing the extra profits?

reinstate the de minimis exceptions you cowards

two consecutive 70° F days means reckoning with the fact that I must once again better keep up with shaving my legs and pits

did you all know that there used to be a game development company called BlueSky Software? they were around from the late 80s until 2001, very ahead of their time with the name. I wonder if any of them wound up on here

I have got to stop dreaming about dating women, it's clouding my judgement of reality

tbt when i read that post to actual damon albarn www.vulture.com/2021/11/damo...

cleaning the mesh filter that's in front of your PC air intake fans is self-care

when I was younger, finding out that santa claus wasn't real didn't really bother me very much. on the other hand, finding out that the gorillaz were just the guy from blur was world-shattering

(sea monster bio) You've probably seen my writhing in The Atlantic

Persona 5 (2016)

metal gear solid: ghost babel is great and it's a shame we don't hear about it much. I think it's actually being included on the master collection vol 2, so hopefully more people will give it a try

you couldn't make a game called Mr. Nutz today. for obvious reasons.

they were right, playstation really can produce some mind-boggling effects

the only substack I'm interested in engaging with

stop talking about mogging, and start talking about Mog King

trying to find an old CRT TV in a rural area sucks, because your options are an old lady who has one she is giving away for free but is 230 miles away, or buying one from the guy who has been hoarding them and selling the garbage models at massively inflated prices

The left doesn't hate technology, we hate being exploited: aftermath.site/anthropic-clau...

"this whole thing smacks of hegemonic pedophilia" I holler as I overturn my country's imperial display and turn the state of the union into the state of the boo-nion

the US is getting a lot of mileage out of that squidward looking out the window meme these days

*playing pokemon* you know, I'm something of a game freak myself

it must be hard to have kids these days. imagine you make your child food and they respond by calling it "mealslop"

I know that grind culture is bad, because sleeping in until 7:30am makes me feel guilty and it shouldn't be like that

things woud go fucking crazy if me and an open minded woman got up to some bisexual Shit

one of the things I don't like about modern existence is when you go into a business and it looks like they have a couple arcade cabinets in the corner, but then you walk over there to check them out and it turns out they are just gambling machines

Burnout 3 is underrated as one of the very, very best games of all time because you can show Burnout 3 footage to people two decades later and their reaction will still be "hell yeah, this rules. I wanna play this right now."

2026 basically

steampunk 1877

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

this is correct! and if you can't find a vita or want other options, there are companies like retroid and anbernic that make decent android-based emulation handhelds that can play many generations of older console and handheld games as well

logging on

of course I would have a pimple on the day I have a job interview

dating in your 30s is like, hope you like polyamory and people who have kids!

toeing the line between butch and femme, with a vibe I like to call "woman"

grungle her

I know video games are just a fantasy, because in real life if you put lots of product in your hair to make it spiky and carry a big sword people don't think that's cool. they just call you slurs and laugh at you

while you were studying the blade, I was also studying the blade. we have the same blade exam and I want to do well.

it's hard to see someone else live your dream

i think lots of people underestimate how badly these “AI” companies want people to be unable to afford computers. they view personal computing as a roadblock to their desire for complete end-to-end centralization. the fact that their tech is putting hardware out of reach is not just a happy accident

Watch them do WHAT???

found another freak of a controller...the microsoft sidewinder dual strike, which I guess lets you bend and twist the right half of the controller around as an alternative to a right analog stick. looks like it'd be horrible to use in practice, but you have to admire the attempt!

went to a gamestop for the first time in like a decade, and it's hard to imagine a video game store being depressing but that's the only way I can think to describe the experience

hey babe, are you unreal engine? because you look so good you make me stutter💜

correct! every post about fixing a broken games industry that involves [specific games industry tweaks] and not [destroying a speculation-mad executive class and using their bones for compost] is just wasting everyone's time

sometimes I open up pcpartpicker and look at RAM prices, just to drive myself into a spiral of despair

jumping on your head as I say "wahooooo!"