ben burbank

back in oakland for the first time in a lot of years and it’s making me feel stuff

can’t remember was this before or after I kept pressing the whiskey button at the theatre like an experiment rat

Whoah Sword World getting officially released in English is great! Their player-to-npc conversion thing has always been rad and it's insane it never ended up in an official d&d sourcebook.

If you haven't channel surfed bad computer games from 35 years ago on your gigantic flatscreen using a wireless keyboard and mouse I highly recommend that you do something else instead

lol about to do the same, which is why I packed a minipc and tiny monitor and no keyboard instead.

forcing myself to use an on-screen keyboard will strongly discourage me from turning it into Bad Screen

celebrated the zelda birthday by playing through about half of the link‘s awakening remake on switch 2 (which has a perfect framerate and looks great on there, unlike the chug fest on switch 1).

I don’t love the remake the same as playing on the original gameboy but it’s still a wonderful treat.

it doesn't have to be this way

spent the morning reinstalling all my motherboard drivers one at a time after a windows update last night broke some of them (bluetooth, audio, my ram timings???), and I still never got bluetooth back so I just plugged in a dongle

I'm particularly upset at personal computer today

played a game of sevens tonight, three of my vikings were killed before the end of my first turn. sports!

a bunch of different creative industries experiencing a constantly perilous decade(s) is just heartbreaking and terrible

find decency and joy where you can

keep your friends close, and help them when they need it

charli xenoblade chronicles x

yep should work fine, assuming you're using a normal (i.e. not jank made from loose wires) USB power brick.

tbh I've also always been fascinated with farsight studios which has been in and out of weird hardware / unlicensed carts / etc our whole lives

was going through my xenoblade screens and continually saying “this shit rocks”

THIS IS NOT A DRILL

YOU CAN GET EVERY DISCWORLD TOME ON EBOOK FOR LESS THAN THE COST OF A SUBWAY FOOTLONG COMBO.

USUALLY GETTING EVERY SINGLE BOOK LEGALLY IS LIKE 400+

NOT.

A.

DRILL.

www.humblebundle.com/books/terry-...

"Is there a technology the left is excited about?"

Yes.

For my birthday in september 2004 I went to gamestop and got burnout 3, katamary damacry, and gradius v, all of which came out like a week apart. Three all-timer all-caps VIDEO GAMES.

it has stayed in my top 10 list since release. Before it came out my buddies and I played THE DEMO for like 30 hours. And this ran on the ps2????????????

10. Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2025) 🎥

this is the funniest movie I've ever seen holy shit

a promotional image of the mcdonalds changeable character "KURTIS THE DIVINE" who is basically just an agumon with burgers on his head

KURTIS THE DIVINE against a black backdrop

a cropped screenshot of KURTIS THE DIVINE from an animated changeables commercial

one of the mcdonalds changeable happy meal toys is a burger grill that transforms into a burger grill with a digimon sort of halfway sticking out of it and it's name is "KURTIS THE DIVINE"

[midwest jingle voice] save big money at monado (pronounced “menardo”)

been playing xenoblade assuming that the vile mechon are all have the little ai✨ button

i did not say i "fear" the reaper dude, i just said i think it's annoying that there's a reaper

early congrats on the oscar for this post

Displaying Team USA Olympic figure skater Ilia Malnin on a CRT brings out a lot of the artist-intended details that get lost with pure pixels, this is why so many of us retain vintage hardware

was always partial to ‘a’

forgot I got that doll in me

there isn’t and last time I tried to FFWD then in an emulator I had stability issues, but I’ll stick to the 300-ish hours of *Blade for now

so thankful weeb is legal on the west coast

all the xenoblade games arranged on my dining room table, ready to be consumed by me or to consume me, whichever comes first

yeah I’m thinking I’m back (I also have gears and saga in the garage but don’t want to risk my backwards compatible ps3 laser on them discs)

fwiw I’ve played about 20 hours of chronicles on wii and 6-ish of X on wiiu, always liked the that wii time so kept picking up every sequel / remake