@marcnormandin
Newsletters on retro video games and sports labor, regular at The A.V Club and Baseball Prospectus. Editor at FOX Sports. he/him https://retroxp.beehiiv.com https://marcnormandin.com https://www.avclub.com/author/marc-normandin
Slurs Filled a Chat Created by a Republican Party Official in Florida After the secretary of the Miami-Dade County Republican Party created the chat for college students, it devolved into slurs against Black and Jewish people.
damn it’s crazy how the slurs filled the chat all by themselves. couldn’t be helped i’m sure. chats are always devolving of their own accord
Can't believe I have to put down Resident Evil Requiem for four days because I'm going to watch an entire conference tournament in person instead. Pretty good 40th birthday month in theory there, before even accounting for "one of my kids is coming with me because she's also a basketball sicko"
Can he at least swing the bat with both hands and make it look like he's trying
Woof
Joined up with @tomhaberstroh.bsky.social + Ben Rohrbach for a quick Y! Sports roundtable on Jayson Tatum's impending return, less than 10 months removed from a ruptured Achilles: yhoo.it/3P1gava
"Kennedy Blair scored 30 points" and "Michigan State lost" are somehow both true
Ethan Winters is the guy who says "this is the worst part" before he pulls out the pizza from the oven bare handed
"One of the finer, more refreshingly creative RPGs of the 2010s, Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE imbues its showbiz fantasy with remarkable diegetic texture. In the vein of the Persona series, dungeons give physical shape to psychological phenomena and power structures: Consider the level that explores the relationship between photographers and their subjects, with vaguely Escherian architecture that evokes the disorienting effect of being captured on camera. Then there’s combat: While party members in turn-based RPGs often strike nonsensically flashy poses during and after battles – who are they stunting for? – our crew here hams it up with professional purpose as fights unfold beneath bright lights and before a voracious audience. When characters execute cross-team combos they call out the name of the next companion in the queue, as though introducing a guest on a track. And worry not: Every attack in a chain nets you cash or an item. All labor is rewarded generously, each worker spared alienation. That’s praxis."
really happy to share my first piece for Unwinnable, looking back on Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE for its 10th anniversary. a game whose absurd premise and world (complimentary) take root thanks to a surprising commitment to diegesis
unwinnable.com/2026/03/05/t...
She led the conference in all three categories lol
Watching UMaine against UNH in the America East semi, and boy I don't know what this team is going to do after Adrianna Smith is done. They said she's the only player in the country averaging 20/10/4. She's 33/15/4 today with 5 minutes left.
Show was fine, Baldwin sucks, leave it dead
I haven't looked into it but yeah that was my initial guess. We've had (it feels like) way more players coming in younger
A screenshot of results for the Google search "Oklahoma women's basketball coach" that shows the coach's name (Jennie Baranczyk) as a result, but also the first two "People also ask" are related to whether or not she's married.
Listen I'm just trying to remember her name but I see other people searching have different intentions
he really is the GOAT at saying shit like this
who gets to fly in the government fuck plane now
K-State got its first lead of the game against Texas Tech 37:21 in after a 15-0 run and ESPN+ responded with shock by blacking out
Tatum back???
None of those people are reading anything besides what their chatbot says to them
Hey I thought this went without saying but my Ko-fi articles/images aren't for reposting in whole or in part. If it's not on my public site, it's not public. FFS I ~feed/clothe myself and my family~ with Ko-fi sub money, please don't take that away from me.
Strack has more than half of Kentucky's points late in the third. Kentucky is still winning.
Burger CEO should be a kind of guy (gender neutral) who looks like they spent years working the grill and eating burgers, that ultimately, they believe that burgers are life.
This game has been great if you're looking for some midday tourney ball
Ball knower
Our “we’re not grifters btw” post has many people asking questions answered by our “we’re not grifters btw” post
Clara Strack scored 13 in the first quarter against Georgia and Kentucky is only up by 4. I can't tell if this is good news or bad news.
Politicians love AI because it lets the guy who was openly bragging about targeting civilians bomb a school then blame a computer for it
The transition from "Unravel" to "Dying to Forget" on Poppy's new record isn't quite as jarring [complimentary] as the mid-album one from last time out, but man it's still killer
You can’t move my Overton window if I slam the thing shut on your stupid little grubby incel fingers
He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.
That's where I am, is that even if I grant That's Not Who He Is, who he is seems to be a guy with shit-ass judgment