Matt Weinberger

I tried to do the 2016 trend and I couldn’t because I apparently only have ten photos in my camera roll from that year and four of them are copies of this:

I almost let my birthday pass without asking for my regular annual wish: Can everybody please just chill and be normal for like 10 minutes.

Everyone is commenting on how muted the Switch 2 launch has been, but it’s because nobody knows how to react to a non-insane Nintendo console. The Nintendo of 2012 would have been like, “the Switch is a huge hit, let’s follow it up with a VR headset you have to crank by hand.”

They already did that one.

Man, Andor is so good, they should make shows about the other Boolean operators. NOTPARENS: A STAR WARS STORY

My parents finally mailed me the Japanese Sega Saturn that I stashed there something like 20 years ago, so let me know if you want to come over and play such as Virtua Cop 1 and 2, Christmas NiGHTS, or Fighters Megamix (the fighting game where you can play as a Daytona USA car).

Real innovation would have been to offer the cartridges in a variety of disgusting flavors, for additional user choice.

This is why I have never understood a sentence I myself have written

Did you try the sauce?

Tapping out on Marvel Rivals. I'm enjoying it a lot, but the learning curve required to get actually good at it is more time than I'm willing to invest.

No.

The reason none of you had any of this on your 2024 bingo cards is because I got there early and took all the good ones. I had everything on there. Everything. I have won seventeen blenders, six toasters, and a dinner cruise for myself and three guests.

Not to mention that those stories have a way of retroactively “fixing” some of the goofier story elements in the movies.

My least consequential but most strongly-held opinion is that one of the most underrated flaws of the new Star Wars trilogy is that Last Jedi picks up immediately after Force Awakens. It means there’s no room for a Shadows of the Empire- or Clone Wars-style story to expand the universe at that time.

Comic book people: While deep cleaning our closets, I dug up a bunch of shortboxes, mostly stuff from 2012-2015 or so, assorted Marvel/DC/Image. Short of going through and pricing every single issue and/or Goodwilling the whole shebang, is there a humane way to deal with it?

Many people are floating.

If San Francisco is submerged by this tsunami, which tech leader do we think is going to step up as Andrew Ryan

Hand washable. Which is fine, cuz the only dishwasher we have has two thumbs and is this guy.

Yes, and it has presets for different types of drinks AND a timer for steeping tea.

Oh no.

I got a smart mug with an app for my birthday and I'm disgusting myself with how much I love it. I GET A PUSH ALERT WHEN MY TEA IS THE RIGHT TEMPERATURE COME ON.

Got jumpscared by an in-game cameo from Photorealistic Young Bill Clinton, is this common in these games

I’m not really a Call of Duty guy, but I’m playing the new one since it’s on Game Pass and I’m finding it really silly!

This is a GRITTY, INTENSE game about WAR, but make sure you explore to find MONEY so you can make your HOUSE REALLY NICE for all your soldier FRIENDS

This guy I went to college with has sent me the same Facebook message on my birthday every year for probably 15 years now. We never talk otherwise. It might be my most consistent friendship.

(Please forgive me for ghosting him in 2020, there was a lot going on.)

Thank you!

This is what I’m talking about! This is it, precisely.

My birthday wish this year is the same as it is every year: For everyone to please be chill and normal for like ten minutes at least.

I have been nominated as America's guy you text when you watch a Marvel movie and don't recognize who a character is so you want their whole backstory. Honor and a privilege.

Humiliating on several levels.

Finally finished Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, an absolutely lovely game that makes for a perfect companion piece to Tears of the Kingdom, like Link’s Awakening to Link to the Past.