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Genuine jumpscare RAM (sale?!?!?!,) prices
A screenshot of a Black Friday quote-unquote deals email from Micro Center. 32GB of RAM from Crucial has a sale price of $292.99, base price $359.99. 64GB of RAM from TeamGroup has a sale, emphasis sale, price of $689.99, unbelievable base price of $799.99. That’s American dollars folks. 32GB of G.Skill RAM has a sale price of $249.99, base price $399.99. There’s also a Lian Li case on sale for the normal price of $124.99.
November 26, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Terrible weekend but I did play some Air Riders. Weird and chaotic and confusing so naturally I like it.
Flower petals drift in a beautiful blue sky. Kirby on the Warp Star machine, looking back at the player and waving as a huge fiery explosion occurs in the background. Text in the top right reads, “Success! You defeated a faraway foe!” A screen from the road trip mode in Kirby Air Riders. Rick the hamster is on screen with boxy pink car to his right. A screen full of sweets — doughnuts, lollipops, square cookies, circle cookies, wrapped candies, twisty things. Text in the top right reads, “New paths may open up depending on the friends you've encountered!”
November 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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I’d like to have the 3DS home menu as the main way to emulate and run 3DS games on the Thor, but in practice it’s a little annoying / inefficient. Plus if you want to play games from different regions you have to have two emulators set up…it looks super cool, though.
A Japanese 3DS home menu on the Ayn Thor. The menu theme is Snoopy and friends from Peanuts. A U.S. 3DS home menu on the Ayn Thor. Picross e6 is onscreen in present form. The menu theme is the Animal Crossing falling leaves one.
November 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Wanna play games but I have a migraine. Life is cruel
Arino from Game Center CX crossing his arms in an X and saying, “I give up!”
November 23, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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#randomgamesaturday nice deal from my last trip to the lgs!
Dark Souls 2 for the Xbox 360. Cost $14.99 used.
November 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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🔫😄🔫 (KILLER this weekend hopefully!)
A Better Tomorrow, Hard Boiled, Infernal Affairs, Predator: Badlands
November 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Aaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!
Kirby Air Riders!
November 20, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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A nice treat to come home to today!
An Ayn Thor box on a blue and orange quilt.
November 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Post the last four games you played (don’t sleep on evil egg)
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky for PC Evil Egg for PC Q-Up for PC Fantasy Maiden Wars for PC
November 15, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Aaaaand just finished Ys Origin over my lunch break! A bit less story forward than Earthbound, let’s say 😅 but a nice action game that goes down quite smoothly!
A screenshot from Ys Origin. A large green tree stands under a dark sky before a line of cliffs. In the background on the right there is a tall, skinny tower. A picture of Dalles from Ys Origin. Dalles is a man with long, white hair, red eyes, and a large four-bladed scepter with a big red oval jewel at the top. He’s wearing a red, black, and blue outfit with a wide black collar and gold trim. The text box reads, “Dalles: I lead the Darklings in their noble pursuits.” A screenshot from Ys Origin. A young woman runs up a sort of floating staircase in a cavernous, darkened room. The landings are lit with purple light. You can see further down the room; there are more lights and staircases and rings of light below. A screenshot from Ys Origin. Two women with white hair sit slumped holding a large blue sphere. A group of people look on.
November 6, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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I finished Earthbound on Tuesday!!! Wooooo! What a fantastic game.
A screenshot from Earthbound. Ness, Paula, Jeff, and Poo stand facing a cave wall spotted in dots of light. Some of the dots form words: “I’ll be…” A screenshot from Earthbound. A black and white bedroom with a crib in the middle. The crib is shinier and a bit more defined than the rest of the room. The text box reads, “rich or famous… but I want him to be a thoughtful, strong boy.” A screenshot from Earthbound. Ness stands in a purple lake before a horned, golden, sparkling statue. The lake has three pointy pink and green rocks sticking up out of it in a triangle. A screenshot from Earthbound. Gerardo Montague, Dr. Andonuts, Apple Kid, and five Mr. Saturns stand next to the Phase Distorter in Saturn Valley. The text box reads, “and they all started praying for the safety of Ness and his friends.)”
November 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Ideal Hallowe’en afternoon
A black dog with a white splotch on his muzzle watches a fire in a fireplace.
October 31, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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A THRILLING package from Alligator’s Mouth in England came yesterday!! Can’t wait to crack into the Harrison, but I’m going to have to reread all of His Dark Materials before I get to Rose Field 😅
A stack of four books on top of bright orange fabric. Two are Philip Pullman’s Rose Field, and the two on top are paperback copies of M. John Harrison’s The Course of the Heart.
October 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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A topical Kirby Air Ride for #randomgamesaturday! I got this from a non-gamer friend I was visiting last week — I’ve never had a GameCube so I had no idea the discs were so small and cute 😮😮
Kirby Air Ride for the GameCube.
October 26, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Too many games to play!!!
A screenshot from Hollow Knight: Silksong. Hornet holds her Needle straight up in front of her while absorbing the white soul energy from a sphere-headed spidery creature behind her. A screenshot from Ball x Pit. A warrior shoots pinballs at an encroaching horde of square monsters. Greenish experience cubes litter the field. A screenshot from Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles. Ramza and Delita sit on a rocky hilltop, whistling with blades of grass. A screenshot from Ys Origin. A huge cylindrical tower rises towards the dark cloudy sky.
October 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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The season begins!!!
A fire in a freshly cleaned fireplace.
October 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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A skull from Devil’s Crush for the TurboGrafx-16. It has glassy, spherical red eyes. You can see the last three digits of the score, 500, above it.
October 24, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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The only good millionaire is a gummillionaire?
A pile of ship-shaped gummies. The text reads, “This isn't something you have to constantly pay attention to, but I hope you aim to become a gummillionaire.”
October 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Losing it
A menu showing 24 ship-shaped gummies. The text reads, “By pressing the + Button, you can observe the gummies.”
October 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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The Sicko looking in a window saying, “Yes…Ha Ha Ha…YES!”
October 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Found some wild Concord grapes growing in my train station parking lot! What luck!
Several clusters of beautiful spherical Concord grapes.
October 1, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
So far, so Capital, volume one. Then there is our own unpaid labor of interpretation and optimization. When we grade an AI-generated essay, we accord it a kind of dignity. When we press a chatbot to fine-tune its answers or sift its sources, we serve the machine. With every click and prompt, every system-tweaking inch we give to the spectral author, we help underwrite AI profits (or at least the next round of equity funding; no major Al product has yet come close to actually making money). As we train our sights on what weoppose, let's recall the costs of surrender. When we use generative AI, we consent to the appropriation of our intellectual property by data scrapers. We stuff the pockets of oligarchs with even more money. We abet the acceleration of a social media gyre that everyone admits is making life worse. We accept the further degradation of an already degraded educational system. We agree that we would rather deplete our natural resources than make our own art or think our own thoughts. We dig ourselves deeper into crises that have been made worse by technology, from the erosion of electoral democracy to the intensification of climate change. We condone platforms that not only urge children to commit suicide, they instruct them on how to tie the noose. We hand over our autonomy, at the very moment of emerging American fascism.
October 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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A certain retailer delivered my copy early so I’ve been enjoying some #finalfantasytactics!
A screenshot from Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles. A woman confronts a man on a chocobo behind a chapel. The man is saying, “I think not. If you feel wronged, blame yourself or the Father.”
September 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Horrible room.
A screenshot from Hollow Knight: Silksong. Hornet stands on a ledge facing a pit full of evil cogs. A grappling ring on a rail is above the pit.
September 29, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Needed a game to play for when I get too frustrated with Silksong…enter #YS ORIGIN! I love the way Falcon games from this era look!
10 fantasy-looking characters stand in a round room. Two angel ladies with pale blue hair talking to a young woman kneeling on the ground in front of them. Text box reads, Goddess Reah: Promise that you'll follow through with your training and become a Holy Knight. And that you’ll protect us with all your heart. A young woman stands on a dais. The room is lit by torches and a reddish light. On the altar in front of her lies a glowing red sword with a rectangular blade. A ghost floats above the sword. A sort of giant goblin automaton thing in its death throes. It’s standing in a big pool of lava.
September 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM