Chappell Ellison
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Software and content person. Writer only when there's a deadline. Video game and ttrpg nerd. Design history obsessed.
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What is the lifespan of software? What if you make software that's silly and full of whimsy? Will people remember it? Anyway, here's a video someone recently posted of “Good Luck, Babe!” by Chappell Roan performed through the composer feature in Mario Paint, a game released on Super Nintendo in 1992
An incredible hail mary of a final sentence
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December 8, 2025 at 11:10 PM
An incredible hail mary of a final sentence
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uh ok??
IMAX CEO Rich Gelfond says Greta Gerwig’s ‘NARNIA’ film will be a “cultural event” that is “going to change the world”
“This is not your mother’s or your grandmother‘s Narnia”
“This is not your mother’s or your grandmother‘s Narnia”
December 7, 2025 at 10:05 PM
uh ok??
Just learned that the Olympics are in 2 months???
December 6, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Just learned that the Olympics are in 2 months???
In what is now the only way I'll ever use AI, I asked it to tell me where I'd come up to in this photo as a 5'0" person, knowing that Jacob Elordi is 6'6" and Guillermo del Toro is 5'10". I will never recover from this
December 6, 2025 at 12:00 AM
In what is now the only way I'll ever use AI, I asked it to tell me where I'd come up to in this photo as a 5'0" person, knowing that Jacob Elordi is 6'6" and Guillermo del Toro is 5'10". I will never recover from this
Now that Netflix is buying WB, should the inevitable Stranger Things x Lord of the Rings crossover be called 'Stranger Rings' or 'Lord of the Things'
December 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Now that Netflix is buying WB, should the inevitable Stranger Things x Lord of the Rings crossover be called 'Stranger Rings' or 'Lord of the Things'
Do NOT mention hyrule to me or I will immediately want to go back there
December 5, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Do NOT mention hyrule to me or I will immediately want to go back there
I think we've gotten too far away from the clarity we found through Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's Crossroads
December 5, 2025 at 4:27 AM
I think we've gotten too far away from the clarity we found through Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's Crossroads
A cold day in December and hearing the file select theme from Mario 64 is about the closest I can get to time travel
December 5, 2025 at 4:18 AM
A cold day in December and hearing the file select theme from Mario 64 is about the closest I can get to time travel
Don't know what to get your dad for Christmas? Give him something he'll love: have him answer this question about his hardest, absolute worst challenges in his life, but in the form of a poem, handwritten in organic ink. We'll bind it in a digital journal for $29.99/mo (+$5 imported bamboo frame)
December 4, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Don't know what to get your dad for Christmas? Give him something he'll love: have him answer this question about his hardest, absolute worst challenges in his life, but in the form of a poem, handwritten in organic ink. We'll bind it in a digital journal for $29.99/mo (+$5 imported bamboo frame)
I will tell you one thing, I would never get up from This
December 3, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I will tell you one thing, I would never get up from This
I'm still incredibly curious how anyone measures productivity
Anthropic's employees self-report using Claude in 60% of work and achieving a 50% productivity boost, often using it for debugging and code understanding, more (Anthropic)
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December 3, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I'm still incredibly curious how anyone measures productivity
Sometimes I can't get over how much the past 5 years of modern life has made me crave regression. I just want a Macintosh Quadra, Photoshop 3.0, a cherry coke, and to be left alone
December 2, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Sometimes I can't get over how much the past 5 years of modern life has made me crave regression. I just want a Macintosh Quadra, Photoshop 3.0, a cherry coke, and to be left alone
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It's Giving Tuesday at the VGHF! We've had an incredible 2025, but we need your help to make sure we can continue doing our charitable work in 2026 and beyond. We just launched our annual Winter Fundraiser campaign, please give if you're able (and share this post!). http://gamehistory.org/donate
December 2, 2025 at 2:31 PM
It's Giving Tuesday at the VGHF! We've had an incredible 2025, but we need your help to make sure we can continue doing our charitable work in 2026 and beyond. We just launched our annual Winter Fundraiser campaign, please give if you're able (and share this post!). http://gamehistory.org/donate
Wickedtouille was... ..um, ok? Yeesh. I don't have many nice things to say. And my god the lack of lighting in that movie is unreal. There are scenes where you can barely see faces.
December 1, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Wickedtouille was... ..um, ok? Yeesh. I don't have many nice things to say. And my god the lack of lighting in that movie is unreal. There are scenes where you can barely see faces.
Being around family isn't always easy but tonight the plan is to watch MASH followed by Sense and Sensibility and as the sole Gemini representation I could not be more delighted
November 29, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Being around family isn't always easy but tonight the plan is to watch MASH followed by Sense and Sensibility and as the sole Gemini representation I could not be more delighted
This is irl that scene from Airplane and I'm delighted
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 8:50 PM
This is irl that scene from Airplane and I'm delighted
Hey gang, I know this is hard to believe but Now You See Me 3 was not a good film
November 29, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Hey gang, I know this is hard to believe but Now You See Me 3 was not a good film
Frankenstein was a bit on-the-nose, I'd like to see Guillermo del Toro do the Nutcracker. You know he's make Clara have a thing for the rat king
November 26, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Frankenstein was a bit on-the-nose, I'd like to see Guillermo del Toro do the Nutcracker. You know he's make Clara have a thing for the rat king
An absolutely perfect sequence of slides on the Esquire Instagram account
November 26, 2025 at 4:48 AM
An absolutely perfect sequence of slides on the Esquire Instagram account
Every day, you have a certain number of "I'm not going to let this bother me tickets" and you are never quite sure when you're about to run out until it's too late
November 25, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Every day, you have a certain number of "I'm not going to let this bother me tickets" and you are never quite sure when you're about to run out until it's too late
Pleased to announce that Google Photos is my therapist now
November 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Pleased to announce that Google Photos is my therapist now
Reminder that this is the time of year when your local fire department's social media game is at its peak
November 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Reminder that this is the time of year when your local fire department's social media game is at its peak
Sometimes I run across something on Tumblr that I have to bring back here because I know at least one of you besides me will adore it
November 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Sometimes I run across something on Tumblr that I have to bring back here because I know at least one of you besides me will adore it
me watching my own hand lock up my house with my house keys: wait what if I accidentally left my house keys inside
November 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
me watching my own hand lock up my house with my house keys: wait what if I accidentally left my house keys inside