Meatba'al
@vance.bsky.social
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Writer/Irish-born American dumbass. Working (very slowly) on a reference book about the 3DO. Voted funniest man on the northbound Metro Blue Line.
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BBC announcer voice: At 6pm we'll be showing Sex Secrets of the Druids, and at 8 it's the entire panel at QI talking about Brexit and randomly pointing a loaded revolver at each other.
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photo and caption, cd-rom today, magazine (1995) archive.org/details/CDRO...
a photo of charlton heston, holding a shiny cd-rom, his arm resting on top of a monitor that is showing a vague image of himself.
caption:
charlton heston's first interactive epic will be a double disc voyage through the bible.
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The GenZ mind cannot comprehend the I Dream of Jeannie/Bewitched Power Hour. An entire ½hr of Veteran & Submissive Magic Wife Who Leaves When Your Friends Show Up followed by Salaryman & Mischievous Magic Wife Whose Mother Never Leaves

These were The Two Lifestyles. And we used to masturbate to it
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You know the conversations leading to the release of this molester figurine could be copied verbatim into an episode of Always Sunny.
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You see, when a man loves his daughter way past the point of legality...
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HEY WHO WANTS SOME INCEST RAPE MERCH
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Silent Hill 2 Oshi Works Abstract Daddy Figure up for preorder at BBTS ($70.49) buff.ly/ODWaROu
$64.99 Kotobukiya buff.ly/5LreF0T
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4) We do post about the Epstein files but unlike Twitter it's not from a fandom perspective
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I will never look into the story behind this ad because I get to imagine a bunch of white people looked at Japanese marketing and said "Yeah, we got this."
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Watching Nintendo and fans litigate the canon of the Zelda series is what convinced me to stop caring.

Then George Miller invited me to think of the Mad Max movies as different stories about the same guy told by different wasteland bards and that also really helped.
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'canon' is one of the funniest marketing schemes of all time "a corporation paid 6 billion dollars for this series so they get to decide which made up stories REALLY didn't happen."
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This one also causes a red ring of death.

You don't want to experience it.
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Apparently a couple of Nazis (like self-admitted) running a doxxing ring got mass reported, blocked, and Elon personally brought them back within 12 hours.

I've seen recommendations to scrub your Twitter account now if you haven't already.
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Bluesky just got a huge influx of Twitter refugees, apparently.
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I've gone back to collecting mp3s. It's more work but it's worth it
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I can't properly transliterate the half-grudging, half-grunting sound I just made.
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I would probably do the least mature version of that. Robo-hump the space junk into pieces.
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Like actual "Hey I'm a Nazi" guys, from the sound of it
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Musk apparently unbanned two Nazis and there's a big ole doxxing ring run by Nazis now.
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Xbox inherited the 3DO's fan base in Japan.

You're not going crazy; I just wrote that and it's actually a real statement, not a joke.
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That was a hardware generation where the PR was mostly the barely coherent, spittle-crusted screaming of fans.
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Microsoft really handed Sony gems like this.
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It's pretty interesting to consider the niche market Xbox consoles had in places like Japan, where it was the domain of the rare Reverse Weeb.

American games in the 90s had their own section in Japanese stores that was essentially titled "Crap" (Hoge, if I recall properly.)
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This thread is super interesting and I really had no idea about the popularity of XBox being minimal compared to PlayStation and does actually speak to the success of the Microsoft marketing team for convincing us all it was an actual competitor.
johnxuandou.bsky.social
With all the Xbox news there's been a lot of discussion about the inevitable death of Xbox, and in a lot of these discussions both in essay and online, there's a lot of reverence for when Xbox was good, the 360, where they were so powerful they managed to match Sony's worst performing console.
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JD Vance loves edgy jokes but I'm not sure how to make a joke out of the provable fact that he's left gallons of DNA evidence in the old BarcaLounger just inside the entrance of the city dump.
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Our new foster kitten.