the #1 movie from when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 will go Uhh....maybe it's better to be a ghost, I guess??

I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.

Again I say: how fucking interesting that remote work technology is bad and not worth adopting despite all research pointing to productivity gains, but genAI which offers NOTHING is so important to adopt and force on people who have no use for it despite all the horrible things genAI does

Please enjoy my writing debut on Scanline Media and MAHQ! What is Gundam Base Chicago, why is Gundam Base Chicago, and how did I feel at the end of my time with Gundam Base Chicago's second day of operation?

If a manga publisher is fully ready to admit that they can't give the same attention that they'd give to a big name title to something of "lower-priority", then why should I even bother to support them at all? If you can't handle a "lower-priority" work, then you sure as hell don't deserve my money

Magic is not about winning games. Magic is about pulling off a totally sick, elaborate, surprise move that keeps you alive one turn longer than you thought and forces your opponent to do slightly more work to kill you anyway.

I love this, so it cost more, took more time, looked worse and everyone STILL hated it. I can see why so many people think it’s the future 😂😂

Every available method of age verification systematically excludes or harms marginalized people. The real question isn’t whether these systems discriminate, but how extensively. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Name an anime you're sure barely anyone has ever heard of that you discovered on your own (no prior recommendations) & wound up really enjoying & wish more people would check out. Requiem from the Darkness (aka 100 Stories). Fun horror series and I don't think I've ever met anyone who has seen it.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

Game developers were here first. Not executives. Game developers make games. Not executives. Game developers have skills & knowledge important to the business. Not executives. Game developers deserve to keep their jobs. Not executives. Executives are replaceable. Not game developers.

Having to hold down a button while a circular progress meter fills in just to do simple things like interact with an object or select something in a menu.

Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from. tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this. 🧵⬇️

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Happy thanksgiving, gang

#Gundamn325 New Ep! A double-fisted review of the latest projects set in the #AlienVerse - the 2024 film #AlienRomulus and the 2025 FX series, #AlienEarth"! Join us live on Thurs 11/20 @ 10:15 pm! #MAHQ #Mecha #Anime #Podcast Live Stream: youtube.com/live/jpTYiVq...

I am so excited to share this feature I worked really hard on. Thanks to @arkada.bsky.social for his input:

"Crows roost on large background ornaments before swooping in for the kill, candles flicker on huge chandeliers hung from high ceilings, and enormous skeletal figures dramatically kneel in reverence on their plinths" kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2025/03/14/d...

MyAnimeList scores are as irrelevant and useless as IMDB scores. Don't let arbitrary numbers influence and dissuade you from enjoying or checking out what looks interesting to you.

Every time someone asks for a suggested watch order for a big franchise like Gundam or Macross on social media, it turns into a shitshow of people who have no chill getting way too serious about it and being unhelpful. You're better off just picking something random and seeing if you like it.

Holy shit. @shmuplations.bsky.social translated a massive thread of old tweets from Hideo Yoshizawa that goes deep into the NES Ninja Gaiden's development, including finally confirming the Castlevania influence shmuplations.com/ninjagaiden/

As I keep saying, IP owners need to learn to start behaving more like farmers who plan for the long term and who know when to rotate crops & let the soil fall fallow, rather than greedy robber barons who relentlessly stripmine until there’s nothing left and the whole thing collapses.

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NINJA GAIDEN TRILOGY TECMO 1995 SNES

Every anime fan should have at least one Blu-ray player. 4K UHD Blu-ray if you can swing it, consoles and PC’s with disc drives count, just get something that will playback discs. If you’re younger and grew up on streaming, please just listen to old people on this one thing: Get a Blu-ray player.

RIP the legendary Drew Struzan (1947-2025) 😩 Even though we were expecting the news any day now, it makes me very sad. What an artist.

so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome Go through these steps to disable it: opus.ing/posts/how-to... #chrome #aibullshit

Super NES or the individual letters. SNES is an abomination.

Learned this lesson the hard way...

People were *big* mad about banning indoor smoking. People were *big* mad about seatbelts being mandatory. People are always gonna be mad about something, if you're not willing to make people mad you're never gonna get shit done.

Buying a company by taking out a massive loan, then making the company you bought responsible for paying off that loan, is so patently evil that it should be beyond illegal. The kind of thing that inspires enlightened societies without corporal punishment to bring back the death penalty as a one-off

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

My most millennial take is that software as a service and anything explicitly browser based that requires an internet connection and does not run off the drive inside my machine is a fucking scam

"if you dont use smart glasses with an always-on AI assistant youre going to fall behind intellectually" i cannot express how little i am concerned about being shown up by people who have paid money to have a simpering computer lie into their ear at all times

I actually had to explain to someone recently that the AI that tells enemies in video games how to react to player inputs is NOT genAI and has existed for literal decades. they genuinely had no idea there was a difference. this shit has poisoned the well so bad.

Gundam X feels like the logical extreme of early UC series. Humanity is near extinct, Newtypes are still exploited, and the fate of all humanity rests on one teenager that grabs a Gundam controller. I adore X's atmosphere so much, both through its visuals and its gloomy soundtrack.

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Gamers really are a special breed. Because I dared to suggest that EarthBound's inventory system could be improved, some rando proclaimed that I'm over exaggerating the issue and that the Mother series isn't for me.

Please god learn the difference between "This isn't good" and "This isn't for me, or something I enjoy"

A lot of video-game publishers spend hundreds of millions of dollars chasing after "realistic graphics" and "massive open-worlds" when what players really want is just a shitload of weird little guys

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

Another one for funsies. The Right Stuf was an amazing company and an important part of the U.S. anime industry and its history. Crunchyroll bought it and of course lied when they said nothing was changing. Everything changed and they ultimately destroyed TRSI for nothing.

I can't purchase Build Divers Re:RISE, the only Gundam series I don't own, on Blu-ray because Crunchyroll let the entire franchise go OOP and now everything from resellers is insanely expensive.

Oh hey, I'm in this. Give it a read and see what I wrote!

A fundamental issue in our society right now is that people are unable to distinguish the difference between being uncomfortable vs unsafe (perpetuated for years by media) Are you among an unfamiliar group of people? Are you in a big city? Are you really unsafe or are you just feeling uncomfortable?

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like