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Achievement Unlocked - This Free Service Has Changed The Way I Play Retro Games In 2026.

YouTube video by Pringles U.S. Pringles | Big Game 2026 Commercial | "Pringleleo" Extended Cut

Oh dear god, she's learned alchemy (anime edition)

A 2 panel sketch disgram of a 1 meter tall pod. in the second panel, an oval section pops off and a demonic little face with short tentacles flies out, crudely drawn.

My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.

No new pictures, where are you mentally?

Chappel Roan coming to Fortnite and a beet delivery to my house? Time to break out one of the best images I’ve ever made in my life.

I'm betting (and hoping) that recent, widening worker unionization efforts in the industry will be a good first step towards breaking a lot of this junk, even if won't be enough on its own.

Top three alt rock tracks from nineties, please!

oomf: *likes my tweet*

Me: Oh thank God they still like me

50-gamerpoint Xbox achievement for "Plays Well with Others" in Fortnite's PvE mode "Save the World", earned for successfully completing one thousand Play With Others missions (née mentor roulettes*). Achieved on 1/31/2026 and screencapped on mobile from the Xbox app. * not really, but it amuses me every time I make the comparison

Four down, one to go.

Hopefully the last remaining won't take as long to complete as this one did. (To be fair, I fell off this wagon exaggeratedly hard since last summer.)

I heard the Nintendo Wii crash noise in a YouTube video I watched today, and my brain, as usual, said "Hey, you want to make something silly?" #VideoEdits #YTPMV

Well, soon we can also have a quick chill with our quick bite of Netflix branded visual entertainment

Quibi. They're going to make Quibis. Why do I keep being forced to bring this subject up?? This world is cursed.

To be fair, that happened because I was having trouble with my eyesight going between a phone screen (for a walkthrough) and the TV, a problem I've only just started to resolve and which affects a lot more than just these old JRPGs.

That said, I really should get back to playing them...

So on the one hand, I feel really good now about not picking up Death Stranding at its all-time low (on Xbox) in the holiday sale.

On the other, I'm starting to feel a bad way about getting the Pixel Remasters, playing through the first game immediately, and then dropping off them through now.

Clearly we need all that data center heat exhaust to melt the sidewalks, duh.

(This is literally climate change. I should stop talking.)

There's probably a very good reason I don't write about much any longer if it's not meaningless shitposting claptrap. I have little energy left as is than to be frustrated on main with the remnant.

That said, I probably should have eaten more than one passable meal in the last, uh, measure of time.

Wikipedia inks AI deals with Microsoft, Meta and Perplexity as it marks 25th birthday Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia written by volunteers, is embracing artificial intelligence to mark its 25th anniversary.

And then of course there's this madness, speaking of where the world's going. At least the foundation is getting a cut for what's being scraped to hell and back anyway, right?

New gatekeepers, same as the old gatekeepers, moving on to the next and after, until we're all out of tail to eat.

I could elaborate any which way with this but there's little point and tl;dr it sure is swell being in poverty-restricting academic debt for a degree I didn't finish and shouldn't have started in the first place, all for a world where the dissemination of information ended up like it did regardless.

Whenever I see that adage, I invariably think back to every viscous or remotely judgmental argument I faced in decades past about the supposed failures of new media, Wikipedia, and its mission particularly with respect to entrenched academic practices, and, man. I get pensive.

I am observing behaviors from the Heated Rivalry fandom that make the Spanish Inquisition look like a friendly door-to-door signature collecting operation

First skeet of 2026 coming in hot, on cap no god, looking for grooooooouuuuuuup

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If pork roll is the Wario of offal varieties, scrapple is absolutely its deliciously questionable Waluigi.

ain't this that communist video game no one shuts up about

such Hubris

I already miss them dearly.

Probably as good a time as any to mention that I plan on making a mastodon account soon, as soon as I decipher those arcane creation instruction runes and decide what cabal to apply to and finish any of the dozen other tasks I have on my plate (sigh).

Since Polygon is leaving it out of the headline: Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to put money into the pocket of a bigot who uses her wealth to further the genocide of trans people through lawsuits and legislation. Every 'free' game gives money directly to JKR, and they are complicit.

Genuinely surprised that there aren't multiple Brands in the replies discussing the subject matter unprompted while working their marketing magic

I want to see Firehouse Subs talking to Sun Microsystems about stream quality

I don't understand.