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Promotional image of the Game Tank, an open source, 8-bit console

Text: "Hacks, Game Tanks, and Japanese Flip Phones: HBGC at PRGE 2025"

Thanks to @gametank.zone for talking to me about the Game Tank, a very cool project to create a new, open source, 8-bit, retro-style console. Listen to my interviews with him and others at PRGE for @hbgameclub.bsky.social right here: bit.ly/hbgc-prge-2025

My kids enjoyed Tron: Ares so much we went back to see it in 3D again. This time they even insisted on a souvenir popcorn bucket.

Haters are dumb, this movie is good

When you like the album but your kids are mildly disturbed by the cover

Tron: Ares: I went in with *very* low expectations. Got a big, mostly dumb action movie with great visuals, a killer soundtrack, and none of the pseudo philosophical Matrix bullshit that weighed down the second movie. It’s a good time! B+

I’ll never quit Reddit

Text: “Listening to Ezra Klein right now.” Response: “We are way better than Ezra Klein”

When you try to convince your childhood friend to finally listen to your damn podcast for the first time ever

*ahem*

Vinyl record of Green Day’s “American Idiot” playing on a turntable

Happy 4th of July, Americans!

Awww man I forgot to post my favorite tabloid headline for Father’s Day

I am traveling for work and having a drink in the hotel rooftop bar and holy shit I just realized this is a *rotating* restaurant. I swear to god I thought I was high

Subscriber here! 👋 This issue features an excellent in-depth comparison between the Analogue Pocket, ModRetro Chromatic, and the FunnyPlaying FPGBC. Very interesting (and useful) for fans of Game Boy FPGA consoles!

"And raccoons, let me tell ya. Put 'em in a crock pot until they get soft enough to take the bones out, then dump a bottle of BBQ sauce in there. Next thing you know you got some damn good sandwiches."

She also says muskrats are good to barbecue, which is the *second* most Southeast Missouri shit I've ever heard

I just found out someone I know put herself through cosmetology school by trapping muskrats and selling the pelts, and for the record I just want to say that is the most Southeast Missouri shit I have ever heard

Just published an excellent interview on our podcast. Worth a listen for anyone curious about game design, even if retro / homebrew aren’t necessarily your thing

Screenshot of a music app playing Sunday Morning from the album The Velvet Underground and Nico (1967)

It’s taken about three decades to get there but I have finally started to appreciate the banana album

On the question “which of Elon Musk’s many children eventually grows up to be the misanthropic mad scientist who kills us all?” my money is on Grok

Two Casio digital watches on a black car dashboard

I’ve been trying to figure out why there’s this textured area in the middle of my car’s dashboard. I’ve concluded it’s a place for charging your solar powered Casio watches

Photo of the album cover for the Go-Go’s “Beauty and the Beat”

I picked this up for my wife for $12 yesterday in the used record bin. Holy shit, this album is great

Spock from Star Trek

Explaining to my kids that Easter is a story about sacrifice, death, and resurrection

Yay, my favorite RIKI cart

Three panel comic titled “Different” from webcomicname.com. In the first panel, the character says “I want things to be different” while standing in a clean, orderly room. In the second panel, the character is destroying the room with a baseball bat. The last panel shows the character standing among the destruction, saying “oh no.”

This was a lot of fun to watch. Tons of great chiptune music coming out of the #nesdev community right now.

Cheers!

Every FAFO begets a new FAFO. An endless, self-consuming, tragically stupid Ouroboros of fucking around and finding out

And also some sweet new drink coasters, if you’re into that 🍺

@doodleworldgame.bsky.social My son is coming with me to MGC. He specifically asked if “Doodle World Guy” would be there. He is a fan 😆

Feels like we're finally entering the "FAFO" stage of the Trump Era.

I don't know what I was expecting