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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 50m

That’s Dead Space completed.

On to Dead Space 2!

Then Silent Hill, Dead of the Brain 1&2, and House of the Dead 1 through 4.

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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 2h

a bunch of spotty Ballard fan art school students who had access to a Minimoog and a harpsichord > some metalheads on the make for Siouxsie clones who drive around in a hearse

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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 2h

Listening to the 90s GOTHIC ROCK comp and thinking how I liked the music better as a patchwork genre of postpunk bands who rejected the label, instead of the later groups who leaned into it in terms of look *and* sound.

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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 3h

Trying to stay in the Spooky Month lane, but all the 1989 nostalgia fodder is pulling me in other directions.

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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 3h

All the parties are either praying for some physics0defyling miracle and/or time to get clear of the blast radius.

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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 3h

It requires massive expensive tech with a short effective lifespan, tons of support infrastructure which costs a fuckton, doesn't exist, and takes ages to build.

All for things to get even costlier in the future.

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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 3h

The silver lining to "AI will do this thing" bullshit is that even the things it *can* do cost the firms $2.50 to 4 for ever dollar spent by an end user, providing they're even paying for it to begin with.

There's no pathway towards cost reductions, either. If anything, it's the opposite.

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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 3h

There's not a lot I play on the Atari ST because most of the best games are also on Amiga which is easier to emulate, but the suite of classic trackball/dial-to mouse arcadeAtari arcade games with Gauntlet/Marble Madness type graphical updates are alone worth the hassle.

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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 5h

*looks at menu* I’ll have a #2, please.

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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 5h

“Congrats, you arrived at a take MTV’s short lived movie program hit on 36 years ago!”

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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 5h

I started college in the fall of 1990.

It was gelled mullets, big hair with the curled bangs, and hi-top fades. Acid wash and Benetton and b-boy/flygirl gear with Africana motifs.

By fall of 1992, that shit was like dinosaurs after the meteor.

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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 5h

Shit like this, positioned as the Style That's Coming before grunge and gangsta rap aesthetics yanked the arc of history into another direction.

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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 5h

Think: Madchester, the acid house scene, New Jack Swing, 90210 and the Buffy movie and the attached visual trappings.

Even early phase Simpson fandom intersects with that sphere.

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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 5h

The other thing about the rush to jumpstart the 90s that fascinates me is that it led to a short-lived 1990s "popcult pocket universe" where the Next Big Thing tag got slapped on a lot of shit before the actual contours of the 90s as later perceived became clear.

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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 6h

I don't have an answer but do have a weird flash of buried memory that something like this did exist besides the Big Book.

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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 6h

One of the episodes of MTV Rewind had an add for this spin-off of Who's the Boss I'd completely wiped from memory.

And that cast? WTF.

Living Dolls - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 7h

my headspace, when a rando pontificates their inner monologue in a reply:

Scarlett O'hara .. Frankly my dear I don't give a damn.

YouTube video by docludi2

youtu.be

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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 9h

And in 11, there's "Oh, so all my pinned shit is just going to randomly pull a Sue Storm after coming out of a lock screen state? Groovy."

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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 9h

Tux cats are The Best.

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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 9h

I’m not even talking cheese that broke big such as “We Built This City” or “We Didn’t Start the Fire” because I accept that aline qualifies them.

I’m talking about power ballads from d-tier metal bands ranking above “Stray Cat Strut.”

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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 9h

Cosigned.

I already have a host of conflicting whisperers weighing in on shit inside my skull. Even if I had room for more and was looking to recruit, I would not hold open auditions here.

K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 9h

disclaimer, sigh: look, if I know you, I'm interested to hear your response, and I might discuss it or I might quietly nod and agree or disagree respectfully. If I do not know you, I am not doing any fucking homework you try to assign me here

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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 9h

I love these countdowns because the bias towards what audiences at the time actually cared about is hilarious in hindsight.

So of course the countdown leant heavily on stuff from 1987 to 1989, even if it it meant elevating now forgotten garbage over what now would be considered classics.

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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 9h

Even though I have a differently sourced version of MTV’s 100 Greatest Videos of the 80s from 1989 covering 97 to 1, I’m keeping this new one covering 80 to 16 because it has a different airdate and ads, and is slightly better quality.

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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 10h

Flu and COVID vaxxed another year, because RFK Jr can eat shit.

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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 11h

On the flip side, one of the first things Maura and I talked about besides anime was our mutual love of The Go-Go's.

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