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Matt Chandronait

@talkingorange

Part of AREA 5 (area5.tv), a host on RebelFM rebelfm.libsyn.com . Tetris Forever was nominated for a BAFTA! I guess that means I can put “BAFTA Nominated” in my profile now? He/Him

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Even when it was released, hardly anyone was clearing maniac mansion in 4 hours without help. This was the kind of game you’d stop playing for the day when you got stuck and let your subconscious come up with possible solutions to whatever you were stuck on that you'd then try next time you played.

06.03.2026 12:45 👍 27 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0

Sometimes people think it’s strange that I have a 42” monitor that I sit desk-distance away from, but IYKYK.

06.03.2026 15:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It's not as stark as Russia being overthrown by the oligarchs in the 90s, but this is yet another chart showing how Reagan's policies set in motion the wreck of the United States.

06.03.2026 14:19 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell. Here's how. | Video Game History Foundation We've stopped a persistent copyright troll who was trying to impede our work. Here's everything we learned—and how we beat them.

BREAKING: We've freed Cookie.

Following an investigation by VGHF, Ukie and Web Capio have suspended DMCA takedowns for Cookie's Bustle on behalf of Graceware, SL.

More info:

03.03.2026 17:57 👍 6250 🔁 3152 💬 81 📌 307

The only one doing this Gilded Age 2.0 thing correctly.
Them robber barons were also funding hella arts, sciences, and letters. The ones today just rob.

02.03.2026 22:31 👍 264 🔁 37 💬 1 📌 1

I also find every single AI-auto-reply to be a complete fail. Sure glad we’re burning up the planet for this garbage.

02.03.2026 21:09 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If I went with the purple-underline suggestions gmail keeps trying to foist on me my recipients would think I’m having a stroke.

02.03.2026 21:08 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
02.03.2026 19:11 👍 2644 🔁 358 💬 60 📌 11
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Global News’ Ben Mulroney Shared a Video of Airstrikes. The Footage is Actually from a Video Game. The host of Global News’ West Block gets lost in a misinformation-driven fog of war as American and Israeli forces strike Iran

resets "days since arma 3 footage has been presented as real" sign back to 0 pressprogress.ca/global-news-...

02.03.2026 16:28 👍 120 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 2
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Inside Anthropic’s Killer-Robot Dispute With the Pentagon New details on precisely where the lines were drawn

The Department of Defense is buying up our data and seeking to use powerful AI systems to amass information about our private lives without a warrant.

That's the definition of Big Brother surveillance, and it’s unconstitutional.

02.03.2026 16:09 👍 336 🔁 139 💬 8 📌 2

Got damn! I need to listen to this again :). Didn’t realize I’d recommended it to you, but sounds like something I’d do ;)

28.02.2026 21:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Child, 4, arrived alone for heart surgery. His doctor became his mom. “I think he is alive today because of Amy and Ryan stepping up to the plate and taking him in,” said Jason Cole, True’s cardiologist.

Forget the asshole in the White House, this is real America and it’s joyful! ❤️
Gift link.

27.02.2026 07:47 👍 1710 🔁 386 💬 36 📌 19

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

27.02.2026 21:06 👍 19199 🔁 4334 💬 1075 📌 170

Sir Flavor of House Flav showing what real leadership looks like.

25.02.2026 16:28 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Love it when the “Time is Money” crowd follow it up by “but not for those people.”

24.02.2026 16:53 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump throws a temper tantrum after tariff loss The battle over the tariffs began on day one of the president's second term when he signed an executive order that let him impose a wide range of tariffs on virtually every U.S. trading partner.

The battle over the tariffs began on day one of the president's second term when he signed an executive order that let him impose a wide range of tariffs on virtually every U.S. trading partner. n.pr/46MxLgs

21.02.2026 16:07 👍 423 🔁 81 💬 37 📌 21

Jason!! 🤣🤣🤣

19.02.2026 16:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Screenshot of a CNN segment shared by Acyn. A split-screen shows commentator Lydia Moynihan on the left and Kevin O’Leary on the right during a heated exchange. The chyron reads, “Obama: Dems need to avoid scolding and ‘virtue-signaling.’” The post quotes O’Leary referencing China and concentration camps, and McGowan responding about West Virginia.

Screenshot of a CNN segment shared by Acyn. A split-screen shows commentator Lydia Moynihan on the left and Kevin O’Leary on the right during a heated exchange. The chyron reads, “Obama: Dems need to avoid scolding and ‘virtue-signaling.’” The post quotes O’Leary referencing China and concentration camps, and McGowan responding about West Virginia.

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

17.02.2026 21:00 👍 36721 🔁 11199 💬 1005 📌 378

These people have never even been to a public library have they?

19.02.2026 16:34 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

I can still feel the Burnout Paradise controller rumbling in my hands.

18.02.2026 17:03 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sesame Street was critical to those of us in poorer, rural communities. It connected us to this huge world, showed us that the kids in the big cities were just like us but in different circumstances, and beautiful moments like this connected us to our shared humanity. RIP Reverend.

17.02.2026 16:31 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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A love letter to the rhythm game communities that helped me find myself It was in the arcade around DDR machines that I first met people like me — kids picked on for being "weirdos," for being neurodivergent, for being queer.

this essay about the importance of in-person gaming communities (DDR specifically, but it pertains to a lot of similar fandoms) is really lovely imo www.mothership.blog/love-letter-...

17.02.2026 15:43 👍 239 🔁 70 💬 6 📌 5

Yuuup. At least if they’d died like Boromir you could say they went out heroically.

14.02.2026 02:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Basically the whole battle where Optimus dies and the auto bots are almost totally ineffective.

Also, I never liked Rodimus Prime. Though him opening the Matrix was a pretty awesome moment.

14.02.2026 02:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

These are concentration camps and its our duty as citizens to ensure these things don't get built.

14.02.2026 00:28 👍 5251 🔁 2044 💬 59 📌 19

I love about 80% of this movie.

14.02.2026 02:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
We’re Sorry About Optimus Prime | The Transformers: The Movie (1986) 40th Anniversary
We’re Sorry About Optimus Prime | The Transformers: The Movie (1986) 40th Anniversary YouTube video by Hasbro Pulse

I feel (very effectively) targeted.

14.02.2026 02:18 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Surprise -- our next game is out TOMORROW! We're celebrating the landmark release of the original Rayman with some surprising new features. Really excited for you to see what the team's done with this one.

12.02.2026 22:40 👍 230 🔁 41 💬 20 📌 0

TIL! I thought it was about “length of the word.” Dunno where I got that idea but it’s stuck with me my whole life.

If only there was some kind of job for this. Like an editor, but who works on copy?

I dunno just spitballing here.

10.02.2026 16:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

arts criticism and appreciation dies in darkness too, it turns out

09.02.2026 22:14 👍 20 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0