Quick thought re: the recent ~Woke 1~ convo - People talk about college students protesting over silly shit, but the media often oversimplifies the story and/or leaves out the more substantial demands of said protests. Here's a thread about an example from my own time as a student...

That fucking war crime N64 is back on the TL again

This is a good example of something that is entirely political (the government dislikes higher ed and foreign people) and has large economic impacts but will get less attention than "woke one" from our pundit class.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 3d ago

There will probably be far fewer foreign students on college campuses nationwide this fall following the Trump administration’s crackdown on international visas. A new report predicts international enrollment will decrease by 9.5 percent this fall.

One neat thing about Angel Eyes: it was going to have a cool witch character with a pet snake, but the developer never finished her! She appears only in some bonus artwork and supplementary materials. sudden-desu.net/entry/touki-...

Tōki Denshō - Disabled Test Options, Unused Strings and a Cut Character

Tōki Denshō - Angel Eyes is an enigmatic fighting game from Tecmo and the second (and last) game on their proprietary Tecmo Motherboard System hardware. It was …

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@ohfivepro.bsky.social · 4d ago

www.famitsu.com/article/2026... If you liked Touki Denshou ANGEL EYES on Arcade Archives then you'll probably like the Touki Denshou ANGEL EYES PS1 port on Console Archives. More of the same with a new Story mode & other console exclusive stuff

currently accepting submissions for black metal songs better than Enter the Eternal Fire, tyvm (extra credit if you've heard the vinyl rip of that and not the crappier-mixed one on Spotify etc.)

Another Vince quote that's stuck with me ever since, when he was asked about the Jimmy Snuka murder case: “Look, I’m in the garbage business. If you think I’m going to be hurt by the revelation that one of my wrestlers is really a violent individual, you’re mistaken.”

Joe Gagne @joegagne.bsky.social · 4d ago

Comics and television writer Mark Evanier recounts a meeting with Vince McMahon. The details aren’t perfect (it was no longer the WWWF when Mr T was there) but Vince’s quote hits like a truck.

i should make a Skinny Puppy megathread on here someday, but for now i'll just say that i'm apparently the only person who likes Mythmaker anymore i think i just have a much higher tolerance for cringe vocals than the average fan, 7/10 tracks have their best post-comeback production

GOOD NEWS! Phase I clinical trial results out of Johns Hopkins show a first-of-its-kind vaccine designed to target common KRAS mutations was safe AND stimulated KRAS-specific T-cell responses in 90% of study participants who were at HIGH risk of developing pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC).

Pancreatic Cancer Vaccine Triggers Immune Response Before Tumors Develop

Phase I results show early promise for a vaccine designed to prevent pancreatic cancer in people at high risk of developing the disease.

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Based on the attract screen, you won't see the name of this 90s arcade game coming...

this is the way

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 5d ago

Major Chinese tech companies recently shut down their popular AI companion services to comply with new regulations that ban the platforms from manipulating emotions or replacing social interactions. Some users are upset, uninstalling apps in protest or trying to train new ones.

everyone keeps abbreviating abdul el-sayed as AES and im like yeah i think neogeo games would want me to have healthcare

One thing i think newer wrestling fans will never believe: how much the internet *hated* Diamond Dallas Page once his push got going Remember, we hadn't heard about how hard he worked or anything back then. We just knew this dude was Bischoff's neighbor and Hall & Nash's buddy

Yeah, the somewhat more subtle kind of antisemitism has had a big surge off the backs of the genocide and the “you should do microtransactions in Call of Duty” guy Remember Occupy Democrats randomly calling ppl “Jewish billionaire” when that had nothing to do with the story?

Biblically Accurate Chaos Anal Usage@haymarketatdawn.bsky.social · last wk.

Thank goodness Abdul El-Sayed won the primary. I am asking my fellow leftists and all progressive Democrats TO STOP FUCKING USING ZIO AND ZOG AND TO STOP USING THE ADJECTIVE "ISRAELI" AS IF IT WAS A SLUR TO THROW. Signed, an exhausted Jewish anarcho-communist

*runs*

Cαrínα ᓚᘏᗢ@carina.delachancla.com · 2w ago

...just thought of a joke meme that's going to take a little work to put together get your tomatoes and pies ready in a day or two

The context i would like to add re Black Michiganders resentment is that up until recently ME/NA folks were classified as white,which meant access to credit and capital that historically visibly Black folks were denied.

The owner class in Detroit's convenience stores and gas stations, and now cannabis aren't Muslim -- they're Chaldeans, Iraqi Christians. Abdul El-Sayed's family is from Egypt. He's Muslim. Different country, different religion. Here's a relevant article. mellonurbanism.harvard.edu/ghetto-groce...

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...

A lower profile MI primary but a great result. McKinney ousted an incumbent! A real shitty one.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · last wk.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donavan McKinney wins Democratic nomination for U.S. House in Michigan's 13th Congressional District.

While there are parallels between Mighty No 9 and Daikatana, to claim Inafune and Romero are similar is just false. Romero is factually a generational creative genius.

We'll always remember you, ya crazy bastard.

ɹǝʞɔǝq uop ɯ,ᴉ@donbecker.org · 2w ago

Per Cauliflower Alley Club, Dory Funk Jr. has passed away at the age of 85. 🤼

Also, just learned 1 800 PAIN put out another album late last year and now i've got this track on loop. Realizing one of the easiest ways to make me like your music is to sample Black preachers lol www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdOC...

1 800 PAIN - LET ME IN (OFFICIAL AUDIO)

YouTube video by 1 800 PAIN

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Been through the busiest 3 weeks i've had in a long-ass time - all in a good way, mind you! It all concluded with my parents watching the Offkai Expo concert archive with me, and they were shocked at the overall talent there. Ellie Minibot was their fav, followed by Roca Rourin & Serafina

we need to view people getting hooked on LLMs as a problem they need help with rather than a moral failing with deserved consequences if we want to move past this historical moment humanely a lot of y'all talk about LLMs with the same rhetoric that moral conservatives use about drugs

god this is even funnier than when they admitted they failed to get their friends to vote for harris scratch a liberal etc. etc.

Punished Dax 🏳️‍⚧️🏴🇵🇸🌲@trillsymbiont.bsky.social · 3w ago

The person behind the “firebomb a Walmart” tweet liberals/radlibs love is just a paid advertiser for gambling now. that’s so fuckin funny man

"How many Tiger Shots do you want in a combo" I WANT ALL OF EM God this combo was such a pain in the ass to pull, SIX FUCKING JUST FRAMES and the Tiger Storm has to be cancelled into right before Tiger Raid does the Flying Kick so you can be in proper range #SFEX3

"Politics, fighting games, and the rise of the guerrilla TO" Reflected on the contrast between GDQ's community and the FGC, and the need for guerrilla TOs to play the deep cuts and indie gems instead of just sticking to the top 40s playlist. Also, a new cat video! www.patreon.com/pattheflip/p...

El-Sayed is super based for running on opposing aid to Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Seriously, more people need to do that.

Travis@someforeignfield.bsky.social · 3w ago

Abdul el-Sayed is the only politician I've heard talk about opposing US military aid to countries like Egypt, an idea which is very much not mainstream. And yet he gets smeared as singling out Israel. Why is that 🤔 One day a regular ass Arab named Jihad is gonna run and it's gonna cause a civil war

Bsky suspended erin for ?? amount of time for likely committing the apparent techbro mod team cardinal sin of being mean about AI shit, so I'm gonna be sharing this here and there for a bit Help her out if you can 💛

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Thrift store find

Stuff like this is why i have very complicated feelings on the whole “disability as identity” concept and *especially* the tendency to just map other marginalized identity politics (using this phrase in its original sense, mind you) onto disability/mental illness

m@keptsimple.bsky.social · 4w ago

there's a pro anorexia community on twitter that will post shit like "i'm sorry but alyssa liu is fat" and when they get called assholes they respond with like "excuse me I have ED which is a DISEASE"