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It has a bit of a weird Mitch Hedberg twang to it somehow. 😆

An edited screenie of a Windows 95/98 installer for Final Fantasy VII's PC version demo, with artwork of Barret glowering from the installer. A polygonal model barret has been photoshopped in with a text box saying "The hard drive's dyin' Cloud! Ain't gonna be enough room lef' for all the programs!"

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November 11, 2025 Song Maureen Thorson It’s nearly Christmas. The bar’s half empty, which also means half full. Even the strangers know each other, the way people do when the righteous are in bed. An older man in a beret sits up front, with an amp and a guitar, and it’s too cold and late for irony. Suddenly, Hotel California. Everyone takes it up, a doxology in two dozen voices. What’s religion but everyone knowing the words? Afterwards, the bartender in cat-eye glasses laughs, says, “You guys bring out the worst in me, which is awesome.” The night fogs like breath on a mirror when we disperse.

today's small prose poem from Maureen Thorson is a marvel, but that first sentence — "It’s nearly Christmas." — just about gave me a panic attack.

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i Wanna be loved by You from this mattress on the floor i can see the tops of telephone poles apartment buildings and trees no birds the 5PM traffic is louder than my television just saw a friend of mine in a commercial singing “I Wanna Be Loved By You” he looked like a banana everyone on my set either looks like a banana or a talking pancake i can’t see the telephone poles anymore everything is blue in here headlights run across the ceiling what is it now, six? it feels like six

Bob Flanagan

There is a parallel universe WWE Universe where Gunther debuts 15 years before he does in this one, in the era of Cryme Tyme and do-rag Vince, and turns Cryme Tyme into a stable where he is known as "Guntha".

There’s a couple of layers of “that’s crazy” here.

Sometimes I glimpse the future in the evenings. It appears like a doe on silencing moss, foraging among pocked leaves, drinking the last light in the pools. It doesn't even raise its head to look at me. I'm not a danger to it, trapped as I am in the purely human.

Sometimes I glimpse the future
in the evenings. It appears
like a doe on silencing moss,

foraging among pocked leaves,
drinking the last light in the pools.

Chase Twichell

Feel like no one is talking about this, but ray tracing mode on Cyberpunk 2077 on base PS5 runs so much smoother than it did a year or two ago.

Using on my current play through. Eminently playable … crazy because wouldn’t use it for more than 10-15 minutes before.

RIM this might be my life, with all its misspellings, an afternoon of wheelchairs, the work bins mixed. missing humboldt park yearnings. so what if it’s true that i wanna live in cheap hotels easy to get, easy to forget surrounded by blue old men, the end spread out and floundering in the present faded ink beneath the skin forearms resting on nothing

surrounded by blue

Lorri Jackson

Common L for Square.

"[P]layers still had to rely on a bit of imagination to fully see the things game developers were trying to depict at the time". A Conan O'Brien bit, 'it's like books are movies that you get to direct in your head!'; old GFX/no voiceover = direct game in your head!

YouTube video by The Whombler WWF Attitude - Hurt Me Please

Somehow this S&M theme featuring a gal whipping her slave is an actual song in WWF Attitude. *Booker T voice* What da hy'ell?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtRz...

The fact that Sonic the Hedgehog and friends is the picture AI chooses for "Freedom Fighters".

I was specifically thinking of the IO Interactive game, but it's funnier when you're *not* thinking about that lol.

IGN launches Gaming Trends platform, shedding light on how mobile, Roblox, and more are reshaping the industry The initial 2025 Gaming Trends report focuses on six key areas, including mobile gaming, user-generated content, and the trend for nostalgia

"93% of Gen Alpha prefer playing on mobile..."

"Millennials and Gen X tend to be loyal to platforms or genres – now, the younger generations tend to be more loyal to specific experiences. They no longer identify as gamers – they identify as players of a specific game."

The internal scream of this CRT is a bit much. 😆

Thinking about this ancient relic of a website that was a very popular Yu-Gi-Oh! destination back in the day, made by a guy named Edo. He also programmed the card game into Visual Basic, which was probably better than any of the official offerings!

www.edo-hrzic.com/archive/Yugi...

Coding a GeoCities ass GeoCities webpage (was surfing Wayback Machine earlier ... one thing lead to another) and I am just like "hell yea, scrollbars" right now.

Favourite books growing up?

Man, depends on when "growing up" ends! Here is a broad spectrum from child to young adult. 😆

Crazy that these aesthetics have somehow become more attractive over time.

Playing through Mass Effect a second time, and all I think when I see that line of light going through the head of a Geth is "astigmatism".

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That and "sandblasted grease monkeys". Wakka let you know he felt. 😆

Think Macromedia Fireworks 8 borked my Windows 11 install so finally have to give up the ghost on it after a very, very long time.

George R.R. Martin said on an episode of Conan that he still uses Wordstar 4.0 on his "writing computer" (as apart from his regular computer). Empathize.

what actor's expression in a movie will stay with you for the rest of your life?

Going with Hans Gruber falling from Nakatomi Plaza.

My Top 10 Games of the 21st Century! Fill out yours on @giantbomb.bsky.social

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Listening to Michael Jackson's "Beat It" and thinking about trochaic meter. #YouMightBeAPoet ...

Drawing a greeting card featuring Muscle Man from Regular Show because that is the last pop culture reference that I have in my arsenal outside of, like, John Wick and pro wrestling, neither of which are good options here.

Out of the spigot / streams a thirsty noncompliance

Diane Seuss, from “Coda”
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