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i had no idea one of the greatest horror games ever was getting remade, and then it just shows up at my doorstep like this?

what's interesting is that my kid is obsessed with a PBS Kids show about this exact topic, and Al Roker is the meteorologist in the cartoon.

I was just talking about the minigame where you wipe bugs off the windshield by typing them away. They don't make them like this anymore!

we went from no M's to too many M's

I was digitizing my anime collection and would stumble on random discs from shows. Imagine buying a brand new show, getting 2 episodes and forgetting it ever existed.

Haibanei Renmai is one. picked it up because it was from Lain creator. never seen it all, have no clue what it's about

did Cards Against Humanity always own Clickhole?

Screenshot of an obviously AI generated book. Native American Stories for Kids: Bedtime Legends and Folktales That Keep Indigenous Wisdom Alive Paperback – June 29, 2025 by Rose Evelyn

More terrible AI slop. The images feature a figure being sung out of a hardcover book and a Native woman with hawk wings and a fabric tunic.

AI slop is everywhere on Amazon, but especially in children's books. I was looking for something else when this popped up in the sponsored books. 1/

horripilant is already my game of the year

How Albert Einstein Used His Fame to Denounce American Racism The world-renowned physicist was never one to just stick to the science

As early as 1931, while still in Germany, Albert Einstein spoke against American racism.

"It must be pointed out … that the exclusion of the colored population from active civil rights by the common practices is a slap in the face of the Constitution of the nation."
- Albert Einstein, 1946
#History

still can't stop thinking about that tingus goose

this story had the stink of the tarbutton family name on it. just a miserable, awful family that continues to prioritize wealth above all else.

both sparta and sandersville have been choked to death by this family.

but these old streaming and download sites forced you to engage with the art. choosing to download a song required a sense of commitment. yes, i will spend 15 minutes to download one song because i liked it that much. and then it went onto a CD of songs you collected. each mix became unique

i look at spotify through this lens, and it feels so lifeless. just more and more songs. the recommendations just building off of themselves until you're caught in a spiral of the familiar because the app wants to integrate itself into every facet of your life. sending music to the background

i downloaded thousands of songs on my 56k dialup internet. a 3MB song would take 15 minutes. i lived in 15-minute increments before i could listen to the new song and then go start downloading the next one. day in and day out

not just that, you could just keep scrolling through the charts, finding deep deep deep cuts of artists just making a couple of songs and never doing anything else. it all felt genuine. i loved emailing people who made songs i liked just to say "that song kicked ass."

it was a massive ecosystem of artists posting selections of their work that you could download and stream (assuming they did this on their own of course). it was so different from napster. you saw bands moving up "most downloaded" charts. but also, those charts felt endless

the internet is still a place for good. removing yourself from the algorithms is the answer. i always think back on music discovery, especially in the early 00's.

mp3.com will always be the how i tell people about music on the internet. if you know how it worked in like 2000 and 2001 then you know.

this is beautiful.

and is this a promo for sting? gary larson? Waldenbooks?

Because of that I have had no desire to touch it again

Thanks! I'll have to dig in deeper

I have a Wii with those ports! What's the benefit to soft-modding that one in particular? I have so many consoles that just collect dust.

i bought the freak show goose game on steam, and wow. master tingus creates some adorably heinous art.

it is so disturbing and yet soothing? the dissonance of the experience is what's most troubling.

Nat King Cole and the Cost of the “Cool Pose” by Mark Anthony Neal In his classic study, psychologist Richard Majors (with Janet Mancini Billson) writes, “Cool Pose is a distinctive coping mechanism that…

"There is, perhaps, no better example of the stakes of “keeping cool” than the case of Nat King Cole, who...was a most visible avatar of “Black” Cool and respectability. Cole’s death at age 45 in 1965, is biggest cautionary tale for the cost of his public unflappability."

Frame #4193 from 60sE63 weight and see

layoffs are so cruel. we all know this so well, but still.

GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

A lot of our political discourse would be easier if we didn't extend good faith to people who would never extend it back.

never thought a Georgia rep would say this, but hell yeah

if it was 1998 we'd have a flash game where elon musk is wearing his children as body armor and they flash every time they take damage until they fall off