Merve

A man holds a bottle of ketchup labelled "ETHYLENE" in his left hand and a bottle of catsup labelled "ETHENE" in his right hand.

Pictured: IUPAC has a gun to your head.

Laughing my ass off at this (complimentary)

Change one letter, ruin a candy.

Sharties

Periodic reminder that Gamergate was a specific anti-feminist movement, not a convenient shorthand for anything vaguely right-coded related to gaming.

Lee Carvallo

Mario [triple jumps off a cliff]:

A sign declaring "All birds protected by law" with some kind of bird hotline phone number.

ALL 👏 BIRDS 👏 PROTECTED 👏 BY 👏 LAW 👏

Obviously it tastes like the sarcophagus where you put it.

This isn't a fully-developed thought, but I think part of the reason Twitch's reaction to Emiru's assault has been so much more casual than fans' reactions is that Twitch perceives its viewership to be a lot more socially maladjusted than they actually are.

I know this is in the running for worst album cover of all time, but I promise you that the songs themselves do rule.

You have to say “Republic of Gamers” in full every time.

This sounds like the ketchup soda of documentaries.

Need to post more dik

Inori Misono from Digimon Story Time Stranger: “Oh—I'm fine. But I have no idea what's going on.”

Big mood

Hiroko from Digimon Story Time Stranger lies on the ground unconscious while Inori hovers over her. Minervamon remarks, “We should leave her here. We can't have her fainting every two seconds.”

Every JRPG needs a character who is The Worst™. Digimon Story Time Stranger knows how satisfying it is to dunk on that character.

Spec Ops: The Line deserves to be remembered as more than just a critique of Call of Duty (if it even is that). If your games criticism starts from the premise that gamers need to be taught lessons, you are inevitably going to limit your conception of what games can say and accomplish.

“While these mechanisms were often used to bypass Microsoft account setup, they also inadvertently skip critical setup screens, potentially causing users to exit OOBE with a device that is not fully configured for use.” Sister, that's a *you* problem. Your company built the OS that way!

Microsoft wants to make “I should be able to set up a computer without Internet access or an online account” sound like the complaint of a crackpot instead of a perfectly reasonable demand.

Screenshot of LinkedIn post from Yellowknife Mayor describing the costs and consequences of trucks having gotten so much bigger. In the link, he explains the backlash he received for his post.

This is good —the Mayor of Yellowknife NWT in Canada’s far north weighs in on “Car Bloat” (truck bloat actually) and its many big costs & consequences (thanks @davidzipper.bsky.social for heads-up). And like most who dare tell the truth about that, he’s taking flack.
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Ben Wyatt-ass post

Video Game Diary: August 2025 Another diary in just under the wire. In this month’s entry, I talk about Dear Me, I Was…, Donkey Kong Bananza, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (finally finished!), and Strange Jigsaws.

Forgot to post this when I put it up, but here's my August 2025 video game diary.

hey wait everybody I have an idea what if we instead do none of this

This one took me a second to decipher, lol

Episode #114: A Tale of Two Egmonts Merve and The Kappa have a wide-ranging discussion on Destiny 2 expansions, Donkey Kong Bananza, adult content and payment processors, and how the AI bubble is affecting the gaming industry. [Recor…

A new episode of the AVoCADo GamesCast is here! In this one there's Destiny chat, Donkey Kong discussion, and a detailed look at how the AI bubble is affecting tech and entertainment companies.

Lune and Verso from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 are speaking to each other. Lune says, "Feet? Really?"

This is a wild thing for Lune of all people to say.

From the franchise that brought you rubber bullets, introducing... rubber rockets!

Bent. Amanda Peet and David Walton as leads. J.B. Smoove and a young Joey King. Jesse Plemons before he was married to Kirsten Dunst.

Eat some uncooked pasta to balance it out.