Brian Rhodes

Extra Life | Change Kids' Health, Change the Future I'm raising funds with #EXTRALIFE for kids treated at my Children's Miracle Network Hospitals! I need your help to reach my fundraising goal. Please donate today to change kids' health.

Hey Bluesky pals! It's been a while! I'm playing video games for 24 hours tomorrow in support of @extralife4kids.bsky.social. Exclusively retro games this year (with a couple of HD remakes thrown in), check it out and thanks for your support!

www.extra-life.org/participants...

Whoa.

I don't know if this is exactly what you're referring to or not, but I feel like the reality depicted by daytime TV and (some) 24-hour news networks is radically different from the reality in which I live.

My primary duty as a father is to finish all of the half-eaten pieces of fruit left around our house daily.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

USB-C charger with brand name of "Ainope"

AI, nope.

Play By Play - Ultima Online Back Once Again to...Make Progress for a Change?

I wrote a new blog! Yes, it's about Ultima Online again, but this time, I may have finally found direction and purpose for my aimless characters. This 28-year old MMO still has my attention, at least when I have some attention to spare!

www.badenoughdudes.com/2025/09/play...

Spider-Man on the Genesis has the best continue screen I've ever seen in a video game.

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

This is still one of the best 90s gaming magazine ads ever.

Ah, Optoman. My arch-nemesis.

I love this take. Are we really enjoying our games, or just checking them off a list? It can be tough to really slow down and enjoy something when life is busy, but taking my time with games often results in some of my best memories.

I’m Starting To Worry This Industry Has No Respect For The People Who Work In It Once your stock options were fully vested, did you sell off all the shares in your humanity?

I wrote this column and I'll just say that the original headline was much meaner. The piece itself, though, is still very angry and very mean, I assure you.

I’ll Never Play Your Favorite Video Game, and That’s Okay Chances are, you’ll never play mine, either, and that’s also okay.

I wrote a new blog post! Not my usual fare—this is not a discussion about a particular game, but more of a philosophical exploration. It's true, I probably won't play your favorite video game, but it's not because I don't want to.

www.badenoughdudes.com/2025/07/ill-...

Why Blog? Yes, the march of A.I. changes the calculus enough to push me (back) into blogging, even if the blog itself is somewhat frivolous and unambitious. I simply think it is a worthy cause to champion th…

(2/2) Even when it's messy (what's a blog launch without a good personal ramble?), even when it's unpolished, I want to champion your personal creativity... and participate in my own ways, too.

Introducing: Cozyscroll.

Why Blog?

cozyscroll.wordpress.com/2025/07/09/w...

My kids have started bringing me my phone when I don't have it with me. That sucks. I have to do better.

Thousands of years of innovation and the fingernail is still the single best cleaning implement in existence.

Pauline: A History of Nintendo’s First Leading Lady — Thrilling Tales of Old Video Games And how she waited more nearly forty years to become a playable character.

1. Nintendo kept trying to make Pauline a playable character back in the day
2. The idea of Pauline being a singer goes back to Famicon era
3. She might pre-date both Donkey Kong and Mario.

www.thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/blog/pauline...

I know we have a lot of problems but idk how you can watch a video like this and not feel a little patriotic

We bought bear mace once and then couldn't fly home with it, so we left it at a friend's apartment in California, and I hope he still has it.

Well, did you know?

Rad. Happy birthday!

My brother and I have been playing this lately on Switch Online. We DON'T quite have the rolling and running down—we're bad.

I told you we’d be back

A ha ha ha YESSSSSSSS

Play by Play - Star Wars: Rebellion Strikes Back I was but the learner; now I am the master.

I'm back with one more blog post about Star Wars: Rebellion. Did I bring freedom to the galaxy? Was Han Solo able to calm an angry mob? And I lost HOW MANY planets to natural disasters?! Check it out, and thanks for reading!

www.badenoughdudes.com/2025/06/star...

Write up on how to make word balloons, by NOTED educator and philanthropist, David J. Kellett

At Alaska Comics Camp, a pal asked me to write up a guide to hand-lettering/hand-drawing word balloons. Here it is, in case it’s helpful!

All Robot Masters based on songs with the word Man in the title

The public alpha of the XWVM project is really great. The gameplay is really smooth and the HD graphics are really amazing. Check moddb.com/mods/xwvm

#xwing #starwars #lucasarts #pcgaming #spacesim #retrogaming #retrogames #retrogamer #dosgaming #dosgames #msdos

Has anybody made Progressive Mega Man? In which the powers Mega Man gains in the first game would carry over to Mega Man 2, and Mega Man 2 powers would then carry over to Mega Man 3, and so on? That could be fun and crazy, right?