"In addition to projecting blasts of concussive force, Nebulon could also do the Lindy Hop at a competitive level."
Greg A.@garaujo1.bsky.social · 2h agoUpdated OHOTMU but with dance skills listed instead of much the characters can lift.
Andrew Otis Weiss
@thatweissguy.bsky.social
The Spirit of '92 incarnate. Hippie ideals, punk attitude, and a grunge wardrobe. REMINDER: I don’t fucking work for you.
Greg A.@garaujo1.bsky.social · 2h ago"I'm waiting to see if it's real or just AI." - the Kid to her boyfriend about a game she saw on Steam
One new org which absolutely *must* be investigated when we turn a corner from the current bullshit is Axios, which has morphed into Spy Magazine Presents Der Stürmer.
Halo Xbox recomp added to the collection of old school FPS source ports, remakes, and modernization builds.
"If you say it's me, I will drag your immortal soul to the darkest pits of hell to agonize for all eternity. Hee hee. BUY FRENCH'S MUSTARD!"
Discontinued Foods!@discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 11h agoWho is the most genuinely insufferable food mascot of all time?
“What if we made an entire industry speculatively propping up the stock market while generating massive debt loads out of Dermot Fictel?”
Had to convoy behind Maura to the muffler place in North Reading and the drive there was causing serious Dr. Manhattan quantum fugues. “It’s 1979…1982…1985…1988…1989…1996…2011…2025….2026…yadda yadda yadda.” Lot of entanglement with my past selves along that stretch.
“It’s 3D chess!” I scream ignoring the mountains of evidence that the parties involved would even need to play 3D chess to achieve an outcome even if they actually had the brain cells to play such a game.
39 years since I watched the TNG premiere with my pal Damian, and we both shrugged when it was over. Huh.
I regret not having a recording of my mother speaking. Not for sentimental reasons but because she had a really strange accent. Army base English with touches of Michigan UP, Alabama, and West Texas laid over Boston English.
In my fifth-grade class, there was a book on one of the shelves in the back about various historic disasters, and I was obsessed with it. Couldn't remember the title, only that it was a coffee table jobber and had lurid chapter titles in big block text. Finally found a scan yesterday.
Dude who studies the history of the Top 40 format here: It is *absolutely* possible to miss a high charting song in the wild, ESPECIALLY so in the age of the algorithm and radio audiences siloed off and radio nowhere near as ubiquitous a part of life as it used to be.
It is weird when I watch or read something about the Titanic's facilities and services which treat them as well-established entities even though the ship sunk five days into its maiden voyage. "It was a place where passengers would play music and hold dances..." Well for less than a week, right?
I'm well and truly sick of the "Rural America is REAL America" narrative pushed even by some left-adjacent sufferers of, I dunno, "cosmopolitan guilt."
played through the arcade version of House of the Dead 3, so that's one checked off my Spooky Month to-do list early
"'Orange Order can wait weeks,' claims DUP leader" considering the average age of the members, they probably can't
Chihiro game impressions, one week in: OutRun 2: It's OutRun 2 (a good thing) House of the Dead 3: It's House of the Dead 3 (a good thing) Ollie King: Flashy, stylish but a big step down from Top Skater and Air Trix Ghost Squad: Fun, but the card progression stuff is a mess in practice
I sensed it but not enough to articulate at the time, but the "poptimism" trend always struck me as being less about bringing down elitist barriers and more about inverting them. Going from "Oh, you don't listen to Bartok? Tsk tsk" to "YOU MUST KNOW THIS TAYLOR SWIFT JAM, YOU ASSHOLE."
I'll listen to your shit cultural flag song if you listen to mine.
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The ironic thing is that I *did* get exposed to a lot of the “country goes mainstream” explosion stuff in the early 1990s, and what I took away from it is “wow is this a load of paint by numbers pandering to stereotypes about rural folks.”
K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë@keithpille.bsky.social · 3d agoAs always, when people get weirdly prescriptive about shit like this, it’s helpful to ask yourself what you’d have to do to satisfy them. Spend an hour every week listening to every different radio station your car gets to make sure you’re in touch with a broad cultural spectrum?
She Steyr my Harquebus til my Wakle Skade (extremely correct buzzer, confetti, the mayor’s office inviting me to receive the key to the city, things of this nature)
The Emotion Engine@emotion-engine.bsky.social · 3d agoJust look at these names and try not to feel something.
Found a 1991 MTV doc about Gen X before it fully became a brand, and despite the typical demo fluffing it answered the question of "why are they like this?" 35 years ago. Spoiler: Because they are the opposite of a monolithic block and just weakly connected by a few cultural touchstones.
"I am an evil mutant queen bee sent to mate with you and destroy humanity." ... ... sorry, humanity, but you had a good run
