I’ve somehow never played Kirby Super Star, even though I was a kid during the SNES era and now own a SNES Mini, which I won in a raffle and never actually hooked up. It’s not even like I never knew it was highly regarded. It’s not even like I don’t enjoy Kirby games. I loved Kirby’s Dreamland and Kirby’s Adventure,…

I like Thai curry. I wonder how badly they botched that one.

It feels absolutely surreal that I got to go to AGDQ 2020, an event with thousands of attendees spread across the ground floor of a hotel, went to Universal Studios with friends I know from the Internet, ate out at a dozen local restaurants crowded with my fellow geeks, and saw only 3 people wearing masks the entire…

I’ll only be excited if you can lock the butler in the freezer.

... which is, coincidentally, the perfect time of night for a delicious bowl of Hanch.

I was far less cautious and don’t regret it. I bought Reel Big Fish’s Turn the Radio Off! on the strength of “Sell Out” and have been following them for 20+ years. I’m sure I bought some stinkers that I’m just not remembering, but even some less-remembered one-hit wonders like Jimmie’s Chicken Shack and American Hi-Fi…

They’re really moving away from that “portmanteaus that you can easily figure on your own” thing.

Separated at birth?

“yes and if you don’t think that you’re wrong.”

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I think the people who spent $5 to add 10 seconds to the clock watch this stuff. I’m not among them, and I’m similarly not into sports, reality TV, or superhero movies, but, like... my not being interested in these things doesn’t delegitimize others who want to watch them.

I think the preferred term these days is EDMking.

In the medical field, I’m still physically driving to work every day and interacting face-to-face with co-workers and patients. The work is more stressful, and now the grocery store feels like Black Friday every day. While I still eyeball ingredients on everything when cooking, there’s a level of precision and…

It was dumb and hilarious in a way that was way too real. I laughed. I sighed. I posted an angry comment on a tweet about ice cream.

I haven’t had any shortage of games to scratch my job itch lately, but looking over my most recent RPG playthroughs, they’ve largely included Dragon Warrior/Quest games and Steam remakes of Final Fantasy games, with Final Fantasy XIII being next up on my slow project to re-100% the series and Disgaea 1 waiting in the…

My alcoholic roommate was getting stir-crazy staying at home while I was at work after the bar he worked at closed. He’s a social animal, so on like day 2 of lockdown, he was already getting stir-crazy and started staying with another friend who was also not working, and when a room opened up at that house, he paid me…

I speedrun a 1995 point-and-click called Shivers. It’s a great game, but it never became as well-known as Sierra On-Line’s other stuff like King’s Quest or Space Quest or Leisure Suit Larry. They made a sequel, but it didn’t capture the same magic, and both games largely fell into obscurity.

I’ve watched a couple people slogging through this on Twitch, I’ve seen plenty of SGnG casual playthroughs and speedruns, and I have a tiny, tiny bit of experience playing the NES Ghosts ‘n’ Goblins. I love watching people make progress, but playing the series is just not my thing.

I played a lot of Dance Dance Revolution in my late teens to early 20s. On a couple days at the arcade, I met a girl who played and talked to the rest of us nerds about the game, about the arcade, about the soft pretzels they had there, and then quickly changed the subject to buying CutCo knives.

Absolutely. I had season 1 on for background noise while I was boxing up my things to move, but by the end of season 2 I was giving every episode my full attention and sometimes rewatching episodes I’d just finished because I felt like I’d missed some important details that might affect the story going forward.