M68040 [they/them]

Unlimited locker stuffings upon the constitutional originalists

So Long, Astoria.

For anyone who actually wants a sequel for some reason, Konami made a NES game that’s pretty solid.

To-do: Start talking down to American evangelicals the way they do practitioners in other religions, particularly indigenous ones

Nice thing about not really giving a shit what happens to me or anyone else is that all this, then, has effectively zero consequences. A maximally inflammatory strategy for dealing with these people, then, becomes desirable. (Pissing them off as hard as humanly possible is all i’ve really wanted all along anyhow. The grand worldbuilding projects and philosophical pablum are all just kind of a front to get by in a society that usually expects you to have some deep reason for these things, and “I have a 20 year grudge with the right that i fully intend to be what dictates the direction the rest of my life takes” doesn’t usually pass muster as a motivation under those circumstances anyhow.)

Somehow the idea of socialist Ben Shapiro is less funny than the idea of socialist Donald Trump.

Things no political theorist has ever accounted for: The “There are one to several men who espouse your ideas arguing with me on the internet and they are so singularly irritating they make me repulsed by said ideas on a fundamental level” factor

I hate to say it but ever since getting banned from twitter a third time I think I’ve actually unironically logged out a little. Or maybe it’s the six day work weeks making my spare time much more scarce and much more valuable, making me choose to do things that piss me off on purpose less

I always hate when people say “well, you’re just jealous”. Yes, I am insanely fucking jealous, I will always be insanely fucking jealous, no I don’t care if that’s right or wrong. The fuck are they gonna do, stop me?

Rahm Emanuel vexes me by continuing to live.

Yeah I’ve just kind of felt like shit for one reason or another for most of my life to this point. The 2000s sucked

Enjoying an ice cold Baikal Cola, the American classic

Assigned System/370 Operator At Birth

I can’t blame them for not understanding the significance of human communications infrastructure, but I wish they wouldn’t set up camp in poorly tended mailboxes. Granted, ants are worse about this by some distance. (I’ve also had to deal with small birds while delivering)

All things considered, though, they’re cool if you give them an appropriate berth

Seibu Kaihatsu’s Dynamite Duke (1989), a pretty novel hybrid Cabal-like/Beat-'em-up with a lot of love put into it. The arcade version’s got a pretty slick art direction, the environmental destruction vfx rock, and the animation’s pretty slick. The whole thing’s got that passion project charm to it. Unfortunately, Cabal clones were only really in vogue in that late '80s/early '90s space, and the beat 'em up gameplay isn’t fleshed out or consistently applied enough to be satisfying in a post-Final Fight, post-Streets of Rage world. I’d like to see something like it, but there’s no way to bring Duke into the world of modern game design practices without drastic reformulation at a minimum.

Notably, Seibu had really high hopes for Duke, being a passion project and a intended magnum opus. Unfortunately, lukewarm reception brought in poor returns, the company slipped into dire straits, and they were forced to make something simpler and lower stakes as a hail mary. That title - a simple, Toaplan-esque shooter nobody had any real faith in - turned out to be Raiden, which would become a darling in arcades, pushing 17,000 units solds worldwide in the first year after release, and becoming the fifth highest grosser on the Japanese market in 1991. (Beating out some offerings from much bigger players like Konami)

It’s like they’re trying to destroy everyone’s trust in them. Can’t even toe the whole “Villain with good publicity” line effectively.

I miss Wesley Willis.

Watching that in my high school electronics class was a early radicalizing moment

Imagine where we’d be if this stuff was allowed to mature in the 2000s alone

The think tank ghouls are the worst. If I had it in my ability to just wipe the Heritage Foundation, Focus on The Family, and all those other consortiums of reaction from the earth…

In a weird way, the development of advanced communications and coordination technology has only made it harder for anything to change in a significant way .

If blocking ads means they lose out, then i’m fine with them losing out