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Phil Salvador

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Library Director @ Video Game History Foundation. Tea, birds, and weird old stuff. Maxis history expert, as seen on TV. ☕🐦📚 he/him

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 5h

The early episodes are fun because Mike is seeing how much he can get away with, and Mo is somewhat nervous and taken aback by the chaos

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 5h

But to answer your question, it is extremely fun and maybe the best Nick game show. Mike O'Malley is a hurricane of a human being, and the events are for the most part actually pretty fun

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 5h

Shockingly, the entire series plus Global Guts is on various streaming services! Watched through my family's Paramount subscription but may be elsewhere

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 6h

Lafufu Fighters

Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 6h

How many Labubus total do you think TSA has had to confiscate for some reason

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 7h

Remembering the most brutal cataloging note I've ever had to make

Due to a litany of errors, omissions, and contradictions, the issue numbering system for Q64 is incomprehensible. As such, volume numbers have been omitted from this collection, and the issues are referred to by their seasonal publishing dates instead.

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 9h

Need to see photos!

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 10h

He is an unreal host. Mo seems taken aback by him sometimes

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 10h

Who can forget the NUCLEAR FLYING CRYSTALS

Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 10h

Nickelodeon Guts is a great show because 90% of the games are like soccer or dodgeball, and then the other 10% are "recumbent bicycle race through a post-apocalyptic landscape"

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 21h

I don't know what this means but it popped in my head, please use this however you see fit

Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 21h

Stigmata the Hedgehog

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 1d

I went in 2016 and got the "cauliflower steak," which ended up being a thick slice of uncooked cauliflower

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 1d

Founding Farmers was one of the first restaurants to do the farm-to-table trend, and they sure did capitalize on it! It was always packed, to the point where business didn't decline when the quality got worse. And thus we get this 0-star review

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 1d

In honor of Tom Sietsema's retirement, please revisit his legendary 0-star review of Founding Farmers

Founding Farmers review: Zero stars for the mega-popular D.C. eatery

NO STARS | The schtick is admirable; the cooking isn’t. Thank goodness for the bar.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 1d

If they'd held out a little longer, they would have been able to capitalize on the stomp clap hey era of restaurants

Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 1d

When I went to the Myst convention in 2019 I made sure we stopped at Chili's and got the sizzlin fajitas

Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 1d

In that case, the Bad Gamer Movie I would recommend for you is Nintendo Quest, followed by the sequel Nintendo 64 Quest, which is 6 HOURS LONG and is probably 80% padding

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 1d

I think a lot things that could've been Youtube videos turn into Tubi documentaries for the prestige of making a capital-f Film, for the same reason that things that could've been blog posts turn into books

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 1d

It's too late!!!

Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 2d

I fully expected him to talk about this *great* little store he knows called Super Potato

Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 2d

Would you believe that the person who said it is a white guy who moved to Japan and brags about how living in Japan means he can buy armloads of games for cheap

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 2d

I just searched for "tendi" until I found a gif that matched the experience of watching this movie

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 2d

A Letterboxd review said this movie was "like you've been cornered at your highschool reunion by a recently divorced dad who is very insistent on telling you about his new hobby," which is pretty accurate

Anyway, don't watch Rarity: Retro Video Game Collecting in the Modern Era!

Rarity: Retro Video Game Collecting in the Modern Era (2021)

As retro-game collecting becomes more and more popular, these interviews explore its evolution, game oddities, rarities, and various collections.

tubitv.com

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 2d

And the movie just... stops. There is no ending. In the middle of an interview with a collector about how much their collection is worth, SMASH CUT to the credits. It's like they ran out of footage

Krusty the Clown, looking surprised with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth.

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