Joe D.
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Off the cuff, I'm gonna say the Genesis port of Altered Beast. A friend and I played it on a *rented* Genesis, and not only did 16-BITS OF RAW MEGA POWER make us feel powerful, the difficulty of that port is tuned down so much that at age 7, we could beat it.
Sophia_Nyx 🏳️⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 22h agoName the first videogame that made you feel truly powerful.
Dexter Holland of The Offspring helped cure AIDS, a thing we still don't really talk about for some reason.
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 20h agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
Fuck the Kingdom, fuck Jared Kushner, fuck EA, and fuck you if you keep buying EA games after today. (It is now morally correct to pirate EA software.)
EA Has Officially Been Sold, And What Comes Next Could Be Painful
It's a done deal. But what happens next?
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I'm disillusioned to all fuck but I still believe in voting if you're able.
USA Today op-ed really trying to out-NYT the NYT when it comes to platforming dipshits this week. I also never use ICE agents, or bombs, or tanks, or Flock cameras. But this idiot would never phrase that as "subsidizing bombs they may never even use."
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
So... I didn't want to say because I wasn't positive if it was genAI or just bad CGI made by a person not getting paid enough, but yeah, it shows and looks like shit.
Every Film Now@everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 2d agoEli Roth's 'ICE CREAM MAN' features AI-generated sequences. #IceCreamMan #EliRoth
Since today is the day Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set, here is Nazim Tulyahodzhayev's excellent animated adaptation of the story. It's just 10 minutes long; watch it on your coffee break.
Watch: There Will Come Soft Rains (1984) | The Rediscovered Soviet Animated Warning
YouTube video by Trailer HQ
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Get Smart was one of my favorite TV shows when I was like 10.
woke stifler@yelix.bsky.social · yesterdaythe popularity of Nick @ Nite was really funny because you’d be in high school in 2008 with friends who were longtime fans of The Golden Girls
The party currently operating concentration camps with a health secretary who's regularly talked about "health camps" says the hypothetical health-based concentration camps that didn't happen six years ago are bad.
Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · yesterdayThese guys are freaking out over their own imaginations again.
It’ll be interesting to learn, on the other side of the AI crash, which AAA studios had actually built dependencies on generative AI into their processes, and which were bullshitting.
Do we think Cameron chose August 4th *because* of There Will Come Soft Rains (also a story about nuclear destruction)?
CineCalendar@cinecalendar.bsky.social · yesterday
It's baffling to me that people haven't completely written off the former Busted Open Radio, since they're now the radio version of WWE Magazine.
Trevor Dame@trevordame.bsky.social · 2d agoComps/gifts/priority treatment are things media should reject whenever possible. Sometimes it isn't possible, and you manage those cases as honestly as you can. To instead treat these perks as an expectation, part of a trade between you and what you cover, is beyond embarrassing.
My favorite Bradbury. Highly recommend listening to Burgess Meredith read it.
Ray Bradbury - "There Will Come Soft Rains". Read by Burgess Meredith, 1962
YouTube video by sedonaz
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Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterdayToday, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
Hot take: part of what makes SOTN good is that there are like 18 ways to just break the fuck out of it with the right load out. Also, if you want it to be harder, use the luck code. It makes the opening sections *considerably* harder.
Andrew Otis Weiss@thatweissguy.bsky.social · yesterdayThe PS1 SOTN recomp has kicked up all the inane arguments about how the game was “too easy.” Yeah, the balance will break if you happen to get a 1-in-1000 drop from an enemy found in one area of the Inverted Castle or grind for an absurd amount of gold to buy the unlimited uses device. Oh no.
I just got out of a free mystery movie that turned out to be ICE Cream Man, and I really am kinda bummed that the movie is going to be dismissed because Eli Roth is a zionist. Because the movie is a pile of dog shit, and we should really be able to accept it on its own terms.
I'm loathe to agree with Trump, but one of those orgs gave us the John Peel show and one did not.
PatriotTakes 🇺🇸@patriottakes.bsky.social · 2d agoThe official White House Rapid Response account posted Trump saying he likes BBC better.
This is amazingly pathetic in that it doesn't even gesture at what I assume must be a world of great, positive impacts that the lamestream media just hasn't told us about, because they hate America so much. Literally not ONE concrete example. Not. One.
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USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 5d agoOpinion: The most powerful sword the left wields against Trump and is omission. Selective silence. Hide the positives, and the American people never hear them.
It’s pretty funny how whenever Nintendo has the most successful console, everyone just kinda pretends it doesn’t count as a real video game system.
IGN@ign.com · 5d agoThe $500 console is dead. Even after the RAM crisis ends, the era of affordable gaming hardware is gone for good. https://bit.ly/3ROAvpc
Listen... This is how you get Kane. Do you want another Kane?! DO YOU?!
MercuryCDX@mercurycdx.bsky.social · 2d agoThey should just do it. Introduce Dean Ambrose, its just some other guy, and then all the fans can be like "this is just like Fake Razor and Diesel, they're paying homage to one of the greatest angles in WWE history, they're making moments, they're telling stories"
When you see an old friend for the first time in years:
DOKI DOKI CRT PIXEL@crtpixel.bsky.social · 4mo agoDOUBLE DRAGON TECHNOS JAPAN 1988 NES
Doing the "old man sits by his car" thing today at the "festival" my hometown does every year. Saw a cute little food truck for a local creamery, and... got close enough to see their banner was AI slop. What a fuckin' bummer.
If we're just literally getting Nuremburg defenses, clearly we need Nuremberg trials.
Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · 3d agoan immigration lawyer working on some of these Haitian cases today says an ICE officer told them, re: the ankle monitors: “We’re following our orders.” Direct quote Hm
NAME IT "LYDIA," COWARDS.
Phil Plait@philplait.bsky.social · 6d agoAstronomers have almost certainly directly seen a smaller (but still massive!) companion star to Betelgeuse, making Big B a binary system! This is A Big Deal, and premium subscribers to my newsletter can read all about it: badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/astronomer... 🔭 🧪
The IRL version of "they removed her vagina bones!" These dorks are so insufferable.
Playboy@playboy.com · 6d agoWhat are the incel men up to over on X? Focussing on a quirk of women’s bodies most of us have never even thought about before now. Our take? "Making women mad and getting likes from fellow incels is all they have going for them." Read now: www.playboy.com/read/sex/the...
Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Get Your Ass To Mars
Alt: Arnold Schwarzenegger as Hauser saying "You're me" in a recording to Quaid (also Arnold Schwarzenegger) in Total Recall
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Canadian Tokusatsu Donald@rangerdonald.bsky.social · 6d agoFilm you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
