Going on 10 years of having a vivid dream about getting one of the owls from Fez tattooed on my wrist... Maybe some day.

Hopefully it continues to work, my kid loves playing that demo. Guess I get to enshrine my PS5 next to my PT-bearing PS4 for all time once the next generation comes around.

This, weirdly, reminded me of bob’s game. Some edgy highminded nonsense used as a smokescreen to mystify and justify some bland deception. I spose it probably feels better than flatly accepting that you scuttled your own credibility and status.

However long it takes... The combo of Ito’s visuals and Colin Stetson’s music gives me goosebumps just from the trailers, seeing it all in motion is overwhelmingly exciting.

Yes, there is a dramatic blustering moment where he bounces someone. The whole bizarre hyper masculinity throughout is... It’s like whomever saw the original with the chairman’s self assuredness thought “what if this but everyone was an asshole.” I did a little research, it shot well before 9/11 (Late June 2001) but…

Totally. Probably because it plays like a Tim and Eric interpretation of a cooking show (well, without the Pitzmans mustard). Top to bottom there is not a single creative decision in it that is not delightfully misguided.

That was specifically being an asshole because of substance abuse problems so, my guess is the implication is that was not the context with this director.

This article somewhat undersells how spectacularly, transcendently awful both episodes of Iron Chef USA are. I have for years fantasized about doing a minute by minute tweet along because the density of hilarious awfulness is awe inspiring. If you decide to watch it (which I highly recommend) here are some random…

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Less now than when I sent it. I think one had sold for 1.2k or something at the time? Now it’s maybe 4 or 500? I haven’t paid much attention, I just wanted to preserve it. Nice return on a modest amount of money paid five years ago regardless but really I just like having a sealed, preserved, first party misprint late…

Way less now if ebay is to be believed. It was hovering decently above 1k at the time but has dropped a decent amount for commensurate condition. That wasn’t really my motivation though, I just wanted to preserve a weird thing I happened to own.

The nominal amount on their site: $85. Mine was not valuable enough for the surcharge to kick in, but yes, for the big ticket items that’s absolutely a valid concern. Mostly I just wanted to properly preserve a weird thing I had rather than be anxious that I’d somehow mistreat it. I also have sealed copies of Devil’s…

About 2 or 3 weeks before the Jobst video dropped I was cleaning my office and realized I bought a copy of Breath of the Wild on Wii U and completely forgot about it. Turns out it was the first edition misprint, so I thought “Hey, I should get this sealed and graded” because why not it’s an oddity. Then I looked up…

Simplicity is good. My 5 year old, who adores cars and pretty much exclusively plays arcade and sim racers (Burnout Paradise, Forza, Grid, Cruisin’, that sort of stuff) has never really understood how to play a character action game. As soon as the Kirby demo came out, boom, suddenly controlling a character in 3d…

I mean I guess when your niche thing becomes a super ultra certifiable mass market phenomenon (I mean, again, but more acutely this time) you gotta keep the gate somehow.

Whew, thank god no one will be besmirching the good name of a family that tried to start a franchise of private prisons in Israel, is building settlements on the West Bank, and who is otherwise enmeshed in one of the dirtiest, unnecessary businesses on the books.

Absolutely this. During the last developer panic in my area neighbors were canvassing the area telling us how affordable housing would fuck up our water table... It was novel at least, I’ll give them that.

Pro-tip if these dipshits ever come knocking at your door: Play super dumb. The longer you play dumb, the more…

Pro-tip: Do not under any circumstances play 12 Minutes. It is profoundly, head clutchingly bad. The single joy I wrought from it was doing a loop where I did everything comically wrong, but even that was kind of mean spirited and unpleasant. Doesn’t matter if it’s free, I played it for free, it was not worth it.…

Wordle is charming and fun and a reminder of times past and I don’t hate this because it is incredibly shrewd to take the money before this burns out (which... arguably... it kind of already has?). Like the core charm is its quaint free-ness, the second there is even an iota of additional friction (which they will…

I feel like this is sort of conflating two sentiments. Being personally capable of upgrading hardware is pretty orthogonal to being restricted from doing so by the manufacturer, or in other words, I don’t think there’s a strong correlation between technical ability and exclusively choosing vendors who allow you to…