Dan Bruno

What Is the First Nintendo Crossover? — Thrilling Tales of Old Video Games The search for the first instance of one Nintendo product referencing another.

Revel in Nintendo nostalgia as I attempt to track down the first instance of Nintendo crossing over one franchise with another.

If you were going to make a Pyst-like parody of the Persona games, I think a good replacement for the the gun-to-the-head Evoker move would be eating one of those desiccant packs of silica gel

Honestly, the rot is so deep that I don't know if walking Liquid Glass back would be enough. Even their app icons are dogshit now! I installed the new OSes on launch and I'm still finding new things to hate

I saw some bad UI and for the first time I thought "ugh, this looks like something Apple would design"

don't be surprised if some of your favorite baseball stars wind up playing major league baseball this season. i guarantee you that this very minute, big-league teams are beating feet all across the country – and beyond – as they look to fill their rosters with the very best ballplayers they can get

Shigeru Miyamoto x Shigesato Itoi – 1989 Interview - shmuplations.com This lengthy interview captures a high-level meeting of the minds between Shigesato Itoi, Shigeru Miyamoto, and author Seiko Itou.

Today we have an amazing interview from 1989 with Shigeru Miyamoto and Shigesato Itoi. Conducted shortly after the release of Mother, it's full of deep musings about realism, creative exhaustion, the moral panic over kids & gaming, and prescient visions of the future. shmuplations.com/itoimiyamoto/

I’ve been playing this and fair warning: it is truly astounding how much game there is before the big robots happen

I am the wrong flavor of nerd for this 😭

The Great Wave off Kanagawa - Wikipedia

is that...maybe the most in the world? It seems to be the most listed on Wikipedia here, but maybe the list isn't complete or there's some private collector who has even more en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gre...

damn the MFA in Boston has SEVEN Great Wave prints collections.mfa.org/search/Objec...

wet flower

samusclone was short for samantha ursula sclone

If Xenoblade Chronicles X were a Mitch Hedberg quote, it would be "rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something"

Classic nor'easter on the way for later Sunday evening into Monday. Heavily impacted Monday and into early Tuesday. Power outages part of this as well as coastal flooding. Spring will arrive and always does.

Nintendo should just raise those Pokemon prices a little bit right now while no one is paying attention

Baseball tomorrow 😌

documenting some OOP architectural problems in my code in a text file called "class struggle"

and they keep arriving at a friendly location, getting outfitted with ponies and supplies, and then losing everything!

(to be honest I'm not generally a huge spoiler-care-abouter but still)

What a weird feeling to be caught up on Trails games. Literally have never been in this position before. I can just open any wiki, any interview. I am invincible

Bilbo came at it before it could disappear and stuck it with his sword right in the eyes. Then it went mad and leaped and danced and flung out its legs in horrible jerks, until he killed it with another stroke; and then he fell down and remembered nothing more for a long while.

Quite suddenly Dori, now at the back again carrying Bilbo, was grabbed from behind in the dark. He shouted and fell; and the hobbit rolled off his shoulders into the black-ness, bumped his head on hard rock, and remembered nothing more.

"The Eagles!" cried Bilbo once more, but at that moment a stone hurtling from above smote heavily on his helm, and he fell with a crash and knew no more.

something I noticed for the first time rereading The Hobbit along with Shelved by Genre: this dude LOVES to hit his head and remember nothing more

It was the Rock Band characters

Still feels weird to give someone directions in Boston even though I guess I’ve lived more of my life around here now than anywhere else

I went to every XOXO (!) and this talk was one of the defining moments imo

“Ideas and sincerity are the stuff of all appealing content. That's true for games, amusement parks, fashion, paintings, movies, music, dancing, hair design, sports, comedy …”

I once had a dream where games media wasn't allowed to say Kingdom Hearts anymore so they had to use weird euphemisms, the way ads say "the big game" for the Super Bowl. "The latest crossover Disney hit" and so on

Was not expecting the sidescroller stuff in Kyoto Xanadu but I’m into it!

I don't really want to go to GDC but I wouldn't mind going to Super Duper

Yikes. Glad you’re finally free!

six?? 😱