In a world of [the entire AAA game industry], be a Capcom
You’d hardly know it from the [gestures broadly at everything] but it actually is still possible for a video game company to have a good year in 2026! And that...
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The color of television, tuned to a dead channel
Over the weekend, Apple dropped a new teaser for its upcoming TV series adaptation of Neuromancer, and you guys… [YouTube embed] To say I’m excited would be an understatement. My...
Big Chungus
This is Big Chungus. Big Chungus is an 18 TB WD easystore external hard drive, which I’ve connected to my old Mac Mini and am currently using as my Jellyfin...
Mapo tofu deserves its own post
I have a new religion, and its name is mapo tofu.
Tell me your opinion’s worthless without actually telling me
So many #taeks, so little time. From Kotaku: ““Rockstar, I think, is charging way too little for this game… they should be charging, like, $200 for this.”” ““GTA VI is,...
Good Internet Archives: Pokémon Vietnamese Crystal
Morning! Today, we’re going to look back at one of my absolute favorite bits of internet from my late-college days: [YouTube embed] Imagine stumbling home with your college roommates and...
It may not be a Steam Machine, but...
…it more than works for me. And it didn’t cost me a thousand doll hairs, either. With the unfortunately-timed actual Steam Machine looking less and less like “a thing I’ll...
Today in journalism
With questions persisting over the health of the elderly tortoise that represents Kentucky in the U.S. Senate, purported doers of journalism, CNN, did what I guess equates to their version...
What are we even doing here, internet?
Found myself with some downtime the other evening and opened up a new tab in Internet Explorer Edge, which is the default web browser on our work computers for some reason. If you’re not familiar — and why would you be? — Edge does this really neat and awesome1 thing where opening a new tab takes you to this enormous, never-ending hellscape of, just… utter slop.
Owning things
Here’s a picture of my video game collection. And here are some of my film and TV collection. And finally, our bookcases! I like having this stuff. When I want...
A eulogy for Cabo Verde
[YouTube embed] Cabo Verde’s fairy tale run at the 2026 World Cup finally came to an end last night, after a 3-2 loss to international heavyweights Argentina. It was a...
Sunset bike tours in Granada just hit differently
Couldn’t recommend more highly if I tried. Temperature’s a bit rough right now — as is apparently the case throughout, uhh… the entirety of Europe right now — but man,...
Champions! ❤️🤍❤️🤍❤️
On Sunday, after defeating Crystal Palace on the road by a score of 1-2 in the final match of the season, Arsenal were crowned champions of the English Premier League....
Wait... did Lumibricks just absolutely eat LEGO’s lunch?
Kinda! As you may already know I’ve kinda gotten the shits of the LEGO company’s raging boner for licensed-IP models. So a few weeks back, I decided to take a...
Sometimes you just feel like a ride
I’m a bit late getting to this post. Oh well. In any case, it was, just… absurdly gorgeous out on May 4. Like, 70ish degrees, mostly sunny, and with just...
How is anything about Archspire even possible, guys?
A few weeks ago, Canadian technical death metal mutationists Archspire released their fifth full-length album, Too Fast to Die. It’s great!
I can’t put down Kotaro Isaka’s ‘Three Assassins’
I’ve been making a point to read more fiction this year, after several years of predominantly non-fiction consumption. And without tooting my own horn too much, I think I’m off...
No video game song goes as hard as the “Golden Sun” battle theme
[YouTube embed] Man, I just wanna fuck someone up with a sword so badly listening to this thing. Wait. This is Golden Sun we’re talking about. Let me try again....
Tompa forever 🤘
[YouTube embed] Last Friday, Swedish melodic death metal legends At the Gates released their eighth (and final?) studio album, The Ghost of a Future Dead. It’s the band’s final record...
Can’t think of the last time I was this excited over a movie trailer
And barely even 40 seconds of one, at that! In any case, the first teaser for Toho Studios’ upcoming kaiju romp, Godzilla Minus Zero, dropped on Tuesday during CinemaCon in Las Vegas, and you guys? My body has not been this ready in a long time.
Pretty sure this is the most savage line I’ve ever seen in a review
After months of breathless hype, superlatives, and online chatter, the video game world finally got its hands on Crimson Desert this week. The internet, as you might expect, has not been normal about it.
Did… did someone tell Ebere Eze he was playing against Tottenham?
[YouTube embed] I’m gonna go with a strong “maybe” on that. The 36th-minute golazo gave Arsenal the advantage against Spurs Bayer Leverkusen in their Round of 16 draw in the...
Jack Gardiner’s “Kintsugi” is a jazz fusion masterpiece
There’s something incredible about hearing an artist really come into their own. That’s exactly what’s happened with Jack Gardiner on his debut full-length, Kintsugi. It’s an absolutely terrific record, and you really need to hear it. Check it out below:
Good Internet Archives: Spilly’s Recipes
Had a not-at-all profound realization the other day: I really, really miss how many cool distractions there used to be on the internet.
The goddamn Descendents, y’all
That’s it. That’s the post.