Alexander Bevier

Hideo Kojima goes to the ballgame

Of course games are art! They come in steel boxes!

Taking notes during every step of your ghibli adventure.

I attended the Burbank Media industry job fair yesterday, where no one was hiring. At the job fair. The fair for jobs.

Loose layers of bright colors with a cool pink and white embroidered cassock. Like a high contrast painting stepped off the page and into real life!

Went to the Jack Kirby exhibit at the Skirball yesterday and I am still flipping out at these costumes Mr. Kirby designed for a UCSC Shakespeare production in the seventies. Getting to see it in person. We should all dress like this.

The person who invented the video game joystick has disappeared, they down right up and left.

Must be E3 then? But I distinctly remember us meeting at a JPAG meetup at the Sheraton!

Funny how time and memory works.

First time? I feel like we met at PAX West?

Because the original gig harbor location because a parking lot or something?

Long held that the dream job would be game show host.

YouTube video by Erasure Erasure - Always (Official 4k Video)

Riding my robot unicorn into battle
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Brb blacking out for a bit.

just had the shocking revelation that Super Mario 64 has the same plot setup as Silent Hill

lol

Keith David sitting at a switch 2 display and smiling warmly at the camera like he's having a good time

Jason Alexander looking to camera like a cornered animal as he plays a display model Nintendo GameCube.

nice argument, unfortunately i have already depicted myself as Switch 2 Keith David and you as Gamecube Jason Alexander

goombella from paper mario the thousand year door, book in "hand" tattling on your ass

"I asked chatGPT" "I asked Grok"

yeah well i asked goombella and her tattle log says you're a bitch

There was going to be a Spice Girls anime, but they cancelled it. We were fucking ROBBED.

Very interested as someone who got started in that general window!

DK Bananza is a superb videogame, damn. Proves my thesis that the Mario team is the true carrier of the Deus Ex torch. The scale, verticality, the THREE DIMENSIONALITY of this game is so far beyond everyone else. I have no idea how their toolkit looks, how they MAKE these things???

I know that we all like goofin' on the 1967 Spider-Man cartoon because everything is off-model and the animation is so stilted, but look at this gorgeous art from "The Origin of Spider-Man," the first episode where Ralph Bakshi took over as director:

Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.

some days

I might’ve missed some steps, but here’s a fun Seattle thing this week:

A street artist made a mosaic of a rat saint titled Hot Rat Summer. It got painted over. People got upset. Rules changed and it was restored.

And today someone dressed as St Rat just spoke to city council in character. lol.

I think a lot about how when Casablanca was filmed, nobody knew who would win WW2.

finale crowd shot from SGDQ2025

🏁TIME🏁#SGDQ2025 has raised a total amount of $2,436,614 for @doctorswithoutborders.org!!

Thank you to everyone who made this marathon possible, and to all of you for your amazing generosity & support. 💙

See you at #AGDQ2026!!!

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Undersigned as well

I've read 100s of Shigeru Miyamoto interviews; this one is a top five, easy.

A long Iwata, Miyamoto, and Itoi (Earthbound creator) discussion on the nature of creativity, how to cultivate it as a leader, artistic aesthetic, how to collaborate creatively

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In July 1937, Charlie Chaplin and Groucho Marx arrived at the Beverly Hills Tennis Club. The occasion was the opening of a new clubhouse, and an America vs England pro-celebrity doubles match in which Chaplin and Fred Perry were to play Marx and Ellsworth Vines. Chaplin, grimly serious about his tennis, saw Marx step on court with 12 rackets and a suitcase, and inquired what was in it. Groucho asked in turn what was in Chaplin’s. Chaplin said he didn’t have one. “No suitcase?” Marx replied. “What kind of tennis player are you?” Chaplin fumed that he hadn’t come here to be a straight man but it was already too late. After a few haphazard games, Groucho sat down on court, opened the suitcase, and unpacked a picnic lunch.

Legend.

Reminder: Atari didn't collapse in 1983-84 because their games were bad. It was because they had such unrealistic projections that even their top-selling titles were considered flops

Atari executives peddled the "people hated the games" story to deflect blame for their mismanagement