Andrew Elmore 💽

thank you!!

It was cool, Too Me, at the time!
It was exciting, because even by 2005, Tony Hawk 2x already felt nostalgic because of how intensely Early Xbox its menus and stuff are.

Hey, I shouldn't have generalized!
But yeah man, it's hideous!

They probably *could* have done something with blinx? But I think those games are entirely too damn weird to be mascot mass appeal material. They're like, spiritually akin to Artdink PS1 games.

I dunno, I think it was kinda just a video game, and the character happened to have extreme sega genesis energy. I don't recall any marketing push for blinx whatsoever. I bought it cause I saw it on the shelf at EB and went "that looks weird". No one I knew had heard of it either.

I got the impression as an xbox-having kid that they were trying really hard to play catch up, like they were speed running a 20 year brand development in 5.

Waves of new design languages applied consistently once, and never again. Demo disc menus, XSN branding, controllers, 1st party key art style

this also applies to @harris.zone, but just like. In general.

YOU ARE NOT ABSOLVED OF YOUR SINS, HARRIS!!

Mother put her hands over her face and completely disappeared. This degenerate nihilistic storytelling is killing our culture. Oh! But wait! Mother has returned! This redemptive hopeful storytelling is leading us to utopia!

In this case it was pundits remarking flippantly on the populations of surrounding areas; Iraq, Gaza, Kuwait, Egypt, et al—everyone caught in the splash radius. But you're absolutely right, it's a dehumanization machine for all of west Asians in general. Arabs, Persians/Fars, Kurds, Turks, everyone.

Right people, share this post around!
I’ll select someone in the next 24 hours and gift them the album on Bandcamp.

Let’s go! Share, share, share!
Celebrate real music, say no to AI slop!

They're playin the hits

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Watching all the big important serious media people spin up the old Arab Dehumanizer 2000 machine again in real time is cracking my brain like an egg. I can't take this shit, man.

Woah, sehr toll! Glückwunsch!

I've been trying so hard to get into it but the actual moment to moment is just doing nothing for me :(

Shadow Labyrinth (2025, Bandai Namco)

uhhhhhhhhh
I heard you like

R4: Ridge Racer Type 4

Statistically there's probably at least one person out there who hasn't heard this yet, right?

#BandcampFriday

Premier Modridge, by Modridge 12 track album

We have an album out! Listen here, buy here, pre-order the snazzy vinyl. I hope folk like it, I'm going to be obnoxiously loud about this for a bit modridge.bandcamp.com/album/premie...

BERTIS DOWNS

caboose wants brians YouTube video by drougezio 117

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CAYCE 😭

thank you!!

Huh! I'll pick your brain next time we chat, this runs counter to what I heard pre-release but as a result I stopped paying much attention to it lol

I could not be happier to hear that, I'm so glad 😭

😭🙏 thank you so much!!

Sorry for all the bandcamp posting I am Very Very Poor

uhhhhhhhhh
I heard you like

R4: Ridge Racer Type 4

Statistically there's probably at least one person out there who hasn't heard this yet, right?

#BandcampFriday

🚨🚨 N E W M U S I C ! ! 🚨🚨

I took the projects that weren't coming together in time for Wavebeam last year, and fleshed them out into something that I think you might actually enjoy listening to!

Happy #BandcampFriday!

ALSO!!!! @pnwpotato.bsky.social has been working on some extremely good music for a while now. I've been helping with mixing/mastering and light production but they've been making fantastic downtempo electronic music and while I'm obviously biased I do strongly recommend it.