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ArugulaZ

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Gaming enthusiast, writer, artist, and social media ronin. Current denizen of the Dork Web, aka federated media. Doesn't play well with others.

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She could tell it was Verizon's fault because the stalker kept calling her, asking, 'Can you hear me now?"

Conservative commentators and right-wing Christian media deny climate change by claiming God controls the weather (www.mediamatters.org)

Conservative pundits and right-wing Christian media figures have rejected the scientific consensus that human activity is fueling the warming climate and exacerbating extreme weather events, instead claiming that God controls the weather and attributing natural disasters to “demonic attack,” biblical prophecy, or a supposed...

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God clearly isn't doing a very good job.

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Compile did this like a million years ago in Zanac.

https://64.media.tumblr.com/a39cf9072d54b83f4d31f2b20cf525c4/tumblr_mslnpg9cGx1qbw2q1o1_1280.jpg

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Good! Because I've got a filthy imagination.

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Fire photon torpedoes!

Erased, Extinguished, Expired: The End of E3 (www.nintendolife.com)

Alas, the long-running Electronic Entertainment Expo, a convention created especially for the video game industry, is no more. Started in 1995, E3 gave publishers and developers a chance to show off their latest releases and works in progress, without fear of being eclipsed by the more general purpose technology featured at the...

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Glad to see SOMEONE in the world takes this sort of thing seriously.

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You're not motivated to pay them fair wages either, so hey.

Go have a charged lemonade on me, Cue Ball. In fact, have three... I think that's the lethal dose.

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That just sounds like an even scarier prehistoric version of Donald Trump. "Unga bunga! Me Make Poland great again!"

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Remember when Domino's Pizza admitted that their pizza was shit, and that they'd work really hard to make it less shit? How'd that work out for them?

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Shoot ink on paper. That's all you need to do. Don't give me a built in screen, or onerous firmware, or any of that nonsense.

Minter comes alive in Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story, coming for numerous game systems (www.youtube.com)

Digital Eclipse is on fire lately! The creators of Atari 50 and Karateka Gold are now setting their sights on cult game designer Jeff Minter, who made dozens of twitchy arcade-style titles for home computers like the VIC-20 and Atari ST....

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It's especially great when they do something that's completely off the walls crazy. Michael Dorn played a screaming dwarf in the Billy and Mandy episode "Here There Be Dwarves," who went mad after centuries of mushroom farming and exacted his revenge by invading the Keebler elves' hollow tree. Then R. Lee Ermey pops up to censor the carnage and the dwarves and elves compromise by making mushroom cookies, and Billy does karaoke. That show was so delightfully warped and random sometimes.

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"Your Seamen have all died." What are you, my urologist?

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I can't wait for Commander Data's Greatest Love Songs collection. He sings with such soullessness!

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That might work... if I hadn't already switched over to Firefox! Charade you are, Google asswipes!

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I'm not against streaming per se, but I do tend to buy DVDs as back ups, because they're so cheap and readily available. I don't particularly give a damn about resolution... a good television show in 480p is still a good television show.

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Lately, I'd get hypothermia.

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Yeah, Sony isn't a favorite of mine either. They've always had this Trumpian sense of arrogance and narcissism in the video game industry that's never failed to annoy me. It was kind of fun to watch them flail a bit with the PS3, which lost them a lot of ground against the Xbox 360 due to its mammoth price. Felt like the early 90s console wars all over again.

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This one was heartbreaking. I was a big Google fan from the moment I discovered them in 2002. They've done a fantastic job of pissing away all that goodwill in recent years.

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Anything poisoned by the hand of Elon Musk. I loved Twitter ten years ago... now it's a toy for a vain, self-consumed fool, a stupid child allowed to play with power tools. I deleted my accounts months ago and studiously avoid visiting the site, or any links leading to that site. It fills my mouth with bile just thinking about what it's become.

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They're not so much "autism speaks" as "we speak FOR the autistic because the autistic can't be trusted to speak for themselves." A more honest name would be "International Karens Inconvenienced by Autistic Children."

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Autism is bolted into my personality; it's part of who I am as a person. I take great offense at the notion that I should be cured of being me.

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Patreon, too.

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Ferris Bueller is a creepy manipulative sociopath send post

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(sighs, takes chain whip and cross-shaped boomerang out of his closet)

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I'm convinced that when he left his Comedy Central show and went to Africa to get back in touch with his roots, he was bitten by a radioactive Thurston Howell.

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In the case of Dave Chappelle, it's a lot less than people expected.

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I know how to handle this! Hannibal Buress to the bur-rescue!

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The name checks out

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You either die a hero or live long enough to become... Dave Chappelle.

Who was that other guy with the bowl haircut who was Mitch Hedberg Lite? I was hoping he'd stick around for a while, but the last time I saw him in anything, he was the polar bear in Three Bare Bears.

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As a fan of game shows, I have a great admiration for Wayne Brady. He's genuinely good at being a master of ceremonies... unlike some other improv comedians who got game shows. Drew Carey. Cough. Cough.

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He probably reads Dilbert, too.

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Eddie Murphy needs to rough him up and throw him into a piano again.

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It has its moments. Mostly it's an allegory about the difficulties immigrants face when assimilating into American culture.

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You Young Republican types are so incredibly worthless. "Tolerant left! Tolerant left! Rawk! Polly want a cracker!" My cockatiel gives me more scintillating conversation.

Some of us aren't that left-wing (although you suit, tie, and white hood types couldn't possibly comprehend that), and we're certainly not tolerant of your dumb asses. The only shred of "tolerance" I'm showing you right now is mandated by the rules of this magazine. If the rules weren't there, I'd tell you to change your name to Mike Pence and do what comes naturally to a seditionist. (Hypothetically, of course.)

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"I don't have any proof, but I want it real bad, so I've got to be right."

Oh no! Here comes Tokio! (www.timeextension.com)

Coming soon to a Nintendo Switch or PS4 near you, whether you like it or not! It's the Taito arcade title Tokio, a decidedly lackluster shoot 'em up from 1986. Tokio plays like a halfway point between Capcom's 1942 and Nichibutsu's Terra Cresta, with your biplane flying over the Japanese cityscape, blasting formations of stealth...

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He probably agonized more about what he'd eat for lunch that day.

Where is Johnny Turbo? (kbin.social)

Lately, not on the Switch. The entire Johnny Turbo's Arcade line, featuring middling emulations of Data East arcade titles, has recently been purged from the eShop. Golem's Retroclassix, also featuring Data East titles like Heavy Barrel and Bad Dudes, has similarly been excised from Nintendo's online store....

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I wished for the bare minimum of decency, and Elon the Nazi sympathizer failed to deliver. If I wanted a social network full of right-wing nutjobs, I would have just signed up with Truth or Gab. Maybe you'd be more comfortable there, though.

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...cry.

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Pro-Nazi content. In other words, Elon's own posts.

Younger users of Lemmy: Did you ever love a game that you just really sucked at?

So I was watching a few youtubes and remembered how the vast majority (of like the ten) nes games me and my sister had were hard as all hell. I loved to play Little Nemo and Street Fighter 2010 but I am pretty sure I never made it past the third level of either. Let alone infamously hard games like The Lion King....

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Young? How young? Because I'm older than most video game consoles...

The french fried fever dream of McDonald's Treasureland Adventure (cohost.org)

Here's a Cohost post I made paying tribute to McDonald's Treasureland Adventure. It's the kind of game that could only exist in 1993, back when McDonald's wasn't ashamed to be tacky and weird, and when Treasure was hungry enough for work that they'd take on a nutty project like this. It's not the best Treasure title on the Sega...

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"He reviewed the McDonald's game for Genesis but didn't mention the slime at all! What a freaking poser!"

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