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Marc Normandin

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Newsletters on retro video games and sports labor, regular at Endless Mode (née Paste Games) and Baseball Prospectus. Editor at FOX Sports. he/him https://retroxp.beehiiv.com https://marcnormandin.com https://www.endlessmode.com/author/marc-normandin

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Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 2d

Mamorukun ReCurse! is yet another revived G.Rev shoot 'em up, one with an excellent central mechanic, the mastery of which allows you to flit between scoring- and survival-focused play at will. It's also far more widely available than its previous iterations, and is the definitive edition, to boot.

Past meets present: Mamorukun ReCurse!

Another G.Rev shooter gets a (very welcome) modern update and re-release.

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Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 1m

sure there are scolds, but the "I left twitter but not substack" thing at this point suggests "twitter got annoying to use" as the most significant problem with it

Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 25m

look how they massacred my pixel art and kerning

Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 27m

ow ow ow ow

Jon Cartwright @jon.gvg.io · 3h

Just captured some Grandia 1, here it is compared to the remaster

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 1h

not to repeat the obvious but: if they are doing this to one of the most famous Western activists alive, imagine what they are doing to the people whose names we will never know

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 1h

Greta is an immensely impressive human being and despite her well-intentioned downplaying of her experience what she endured was torture. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

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Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 42m

yeah, the Trails in the Sky remake was advertised as being twice as big and having 80 hours of game or whatever, but I completed every side quest and the whole thing took me 40 hours. There's fast-forward and animation skips and such, it's fine. It's not 13 behemoths!

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Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 45m

that's the part of a baseball glove where there is a hole in the glove and the back of the hand is seen through it, it's not meant to be that hand gesture

Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 2h

Wow, again

Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 14d

It's Wednesday, you know what that means: my column day at @endlessmode.bsky.social.

Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 4h

Don't think there's really anything to say!

Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 5h

An ongoing one I guess given how the thread is still up

Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 5h

We all saw PCU we knew the score even as kids

Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 5h

Opened up Twitter for work purposes (my 15 minutes or so of torture each weekday morning) and was immediately served someone going after Sarah Langs in the For You tab. That is not for me bud what is going on over there

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 5h

Oh, you think this grimy, amoral social climber doesn't deserve a prestige journalism job that should go to someone who isn't dead inside instead? Guess what, you did a slut shaming. You did a sexism. You need to log off and Do The Work.

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 5h

Everyone in my feed is shitting on Nuzzi. Meanwhile, the other person in the saga is now destroying the medical community and endangering public health.

But let’s slut shame Nuzzi.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 17h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

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Boris Face/Off @scratchbomb.bsky.social · 6h

“year in exile” like she’d been sent to Elba, staring at the beach waiting for a rescue that might never come, instead of just keeping a low profile because she was sexting with a sentient catcher’s mitt

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 17h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

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Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 8h

[chanting] Valkyrie

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Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 8h

long appreciated that the initial point of Kirby was to be something more approachable in a genre that was, at the time, trying to kill you. This is that ethos at its simplest, but it still has its obvious charms decades later.

Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️, but spooky 🦇 @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 11h

Everyone can now read this fresh piece on Kirby's debut adventure!

"The hero of this game is an endearing-yet-useless sweetheart."

kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2025/10/15/k...

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 11h

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 17h

Independent of this statement, a good way of describing a huge chunk of the internet is “rapists running content and bot farms to make their pet issues seem more important”, that’s basically half the traffic on X at this point.

Peter Fobian @peterfobian.bsky.social · 17h

Notably the 3 people leading the charge on this are a guy who spends all his time trying to sue and deplatform pro-palestinian creators and 2 rapists who all run content farms of out of context clips but y'know maybe this time it's not a cynical attempt to get rid of their self-proclaimed #1 op.

Aftermath @aftermath.site · 18h

I can't believe we're still talking about this

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 19h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 1d

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 19h

@socialistboat.dad you know what you have to do

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Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 23h

incredible how the Times just sucks shit at everything

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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 1d

this is the most like a mike tyson's punch out guy i have ever seen anyone look

Brewers outfielder Sal Frelick making an intense face as he prepares to throw the ball

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Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 1d

Feeling pretty lucky that the protein powder I use is one listed as safe for how often I have it, and also that I've just avoided anything that has Added Protein to stick to like, Greek yogurt and cottage cheese that just has that because it's Greek yogurt and cottage cheese.

Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 1d

The Patagonia thing has never stopped being bonkers to me. She not only lived in Maine, she lived in FREEPORT

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Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 1d

I have Tolkien's now and was excited to dive in even before seeing this

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats to all the people who have postured as intelligent and morally righteous for years but decided that they couldn’t take a stand against genocide or decided to justify and cheer on the massacre of a people for whatever reason. Now they can go back to playing the intellectual in peace.

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