Drew Mackie
@drewgmackie.bsky.social
“Make way for Superman!” said Superman as he punched everyone at the Coffee Bean. He/him. Los Angeles. Dog. Mustache. Gayest Episode Ever: https://gayestepisodeever.com Thrilling Tales of Old Video Games: https://thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com
An insane video game-related Lost Media find has quietly popped up on YouTube. Two episodes of "Say Powww!", a 1979 game show about video games that only aired in some markets. People in studio and over the phone played Intellivision (!!) games. Predates Starcade!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=29tJ...
In one of our longest recordings yet, we were joined by @jonathanbwelch.bsky.social to tackle the Cheers finale, in which Diane Chambers is finally (briefly) given the gay co-conspirator she's always deserved. Only two episodes left! www.gayestepisodeever.com/episodes/dia... "Muffin! Come back!"
Not me (also am I a bear?) but it is interesting to see guys who helped me come around to essentially GLP-1 themselves into a lower weight class. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/s... (Also yes, hitting big guy content hard this morning, I realize. Will get back to video games, I promise.)
I have a specific agenda about ol’ Freddy Dukes and it is that is he is a hot man who deserves better from all of us
I… am grateful to encounter this Marvel character for the first time
Christian_S@chrise1701.bsky.social · 2d ago#xspoilers yeah Flamequake was fun. But Skipping Stone could ruin me.
Remake Grease as a slasher movie, complete with animated intro, keep all the songs but extraneous characters get picked off one by one. Finale is Sandy and Danny fighting the killer in the funhouse. They hit the killer with the flying car. (the killer is Jan, obviously)
Shigeru Miyamoto has said he was stoked to get a specifically Japanese thing (the tanuki) into SMB3. Fittingly, the noise for activating this power-up was repurposed from the enemy spawn noise in a Japanese-themed Nintendo title, Mysterious Castle Murasame. thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/m5#70
The instruction manual did not lie! It's just that the dream machine is never fully explained in SMB2 proper. The answer, as with all things, lies in Doki Doki Panic. www.thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/blog/dream-m...
The Dream Machine Hiding in Super Mario Bros. 2 — Thrilling Tales of Old Video Games
It’s alluded to in the game’s manual, but you have to look to Doki Doki Panic to understand what it is.
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It sucks when someone gets mad / blocks me when I was being nice. The real me always wants to be like “You stupid fucking goober, I will drive to your ugly turd house and make you eat your keyboard if you ever comment without clicking the link. This is why no one follows you. Die in pieces.”
Hi. I got yelled at for encouraging someone to click the link and read the article I’d linked to. He accused me of wanting people to think I was cool and smart and then blocked me.
Drew Mackie@drewgmackie.bsky.social · 3d agoWell, I literally did a huge post explaining the logic behind how these decisions got made. I would encourage you to click the link.
There is no Raccoon Mario in the Japanese SMB3. He's しっぽマリオ — Tail Mario, a lesser version of the "full" tanuki transformation. SMB3j does not mention racoons... except that all versions have a striped tail, which tanuki (real or mythical) do not have. thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/m5#69
Do people know that when an IG post is like “don’t skip” you’re not going to like go to jail if you do, in fact, skip
But if there’s one piece of media that really tripped me up, it’s the Paul Rudd movie Object of My Affection, where he goes on a date with an older guy who’s into leather and who is sexually forward and (worst of all?) has a mustache, and we’re made to think that this is a gay nightmare.
Random confession: I thought I didn’t like sex as much as other guys until my late 30s, when I finally realized that I’d not realized I was into bigger guys. It turns out I was just hooking up with the wrong body type, because it was easier to come out as gay than it was to admit I liked big guys.
A scene from MTV’s Downtown I think about a lot is when Mecca and Chaka found those guys cruising in Central Park
The instruction manual did not lie! It's just that the dream machine is never fully explained in SMB2 proper. The answer, as with all things, lies in Doki Doki Panic. www.thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/blog/dream-m...
The Dream Machine Hiding in Super Mario Bros. 2 — Thrilling Tales of Old Video Games
It’s alluded to in the game’s manual, but you have to look to Doki Doki Panic to understand what it is.
thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com
Dry Bones is a biblical reference. It's also a musical one, because of the song "Dem Bones," but that song, in its original version, is a reference to Ezekiel 37:1-14, "The Valley of Dry Bones," in which Ezekiel has a vision of skeletons reanimating. more: thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/m5#67
Leaving the Eagle. Not totally sure what the event was, but I’d never seen so many women there in the decade-plus I’d been going there. It was really great. I miss having women in queer social spaces!
I wanna use this to go on a bit of a rant, I was going to blog about this, but no one reads blogs, so here's a thread about how I use AI and how I understand his "dopamine" comment. And how I think A LOT of you are in an anti-AI bubble and you just don't understand how prevalent this is becoming.
Kotaku@kotaku.com · 5d agoYouTuber Hank Green Admits He Has Unhealthy Relationship With AI After Facing Backlash Over Recent Video 'The level of dopamine I've been getting from interacting with LLMs is not healthy for me,' said Green
It almost never serves my self-interest, but I just can’t help myself from asking people what they meant to accomplish by making that comment.
is it worth noting Zelda Fitzgerald in here somewhere, as the namesake of the series? (tho from how Miyamoto tells it, they were hardly "inspired" by anything Fitzgerald or his wife did, he just heard the name and liked it) www.thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/blog/legend-...
Was the Legend of Zelda Actually Named After Its Heroine? — Thrilling Tales of Old Video Games
Why the princess of Hyrule may not technically be the series’ title character.
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Yes, I will be doing a podcast project after Gayest Episode Ever concludes. Yes, it will be about video games.
Drew Mackie@drewgmackie.bsky.social · 6d agoThere will be one, and before the end of the year. It will be very different from GEE (and from @talksimpsonspod.bsky.social, which we ripped off) but there will be eps where I have guests. And @feitclub.bsky.social and will be on, if xe accepts.
It is just occurring to me now that as far as associations with something that slips in unbidden and unnoticed, Trojan is a really weird name for a condom brand.
The result when you hit the “oops all fatales” switch
Old Hollywood@theoldhollywood.bsky.social · last wk.Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner in a publicity still for The Killers (1946)
Okay, so here's a whole fucking dramatic thing. Years ago, my childhood friend got married. I was not invited, but the rest of my family was. I did not know about the wedding until the bride's mother tagged my family members on Facebook as having attended the wedding. I was very hurt by this...
