“Mission accomplished… Congratulations!”

Well, shit. Good for them! This is a long way from [insert reference to That Reddit Thread here].

yes, the studio recording of IWYTWM came out a year earlier.
On Live At Budokan, side 2 starts with IWYTWM, and then you immediately hear “This next one…” as they introduce their brand new song Surrender.

yeah but performing it right after I Want You To Want Me? It would be very “new vibe” if they recorded it in North America. (assuming that was an accurate performance order and not rearranged in post)

but the audience at Budokan? They’re going absolutely bonkers the entire time. It’s so great.

Ultima IV - Quest of the Avatar (C64)

boardgame strategy meets head-to-head combat. Absolutely solid game.

now we’re talking

the Plympton vibes are strong with this one.

Our mall arcade had no windows, thankfully. The original location was about the width of a British-style pub, with about 12-15 video games down one wall: Pac-Man, Tempest, and even Boot Hill (yes I am not kidding, that old thing) and about 12-15 pinball machines down the other wall (Xenon, Haunted House, they even had one from the '60’s that spent more time out of order than in service). The arcade did so well they moved to a larger space, still with no windows. It had dim lighting, a black light or 2, and patterned carpeting. There was a juke box with 45rpm singles. Kids played Erotic City by Prince until one of the straightedge kids narced and their parents had the managers pull the record from the machine. I played Time Pilot for ages. I played Time Pilot '84 for about as long. Joust, and Crystal Castles, and Gauntlet. The arcade did so well that they expanded into an adjacent space which used to be a tiny hair salon. I remember when Super Pac Man showed up, and Reactor (with the awesome music in the attract screen), and when we first got Karate Champ and Kung-Fu Master, and Star Wars, and that BIG sit-in Star Trek cabinet. Above all, I was obsessed with Dragon’s Lair, and I finally beat it in that very arcade, with only one person watching, well over a year later. I think that arcade lasted into the 1990’s, pretty sure there was a Neo-Geo machine in there the last time I checked it out. I sure remember standing outside the doors after it went out of business.

Those were the days.

for this short film, the end-credit music is a ukelele cover of “Grand Finale” from 2112, with a soothing voice saying “We have assumed control… We have assumed control…”

a bit of an extreme reaction to a hedge AND a fence, but I’ll allow it.

yeah I don’t even joke about hurting my knees.
People will laugh when someone gets kicked in the balls, but seeing someone fall onto their knees is all pain and no schadenfreude.

because talent is involved in trying to draw him
but no talent is involved in trying to be him

Dads are the best

in their minds they already *had *planned obsolescence, until emulation took it away from them.

So glad they patched this one. Everyone should get a chance to play this game; it still holds up.

lucky for us, we aren’t running out of jumps.

(movie trailer music starts) in a world… where online commenters… don’t read articles… ONE HERO… challenges EVERYONE… to do the unTHINKable… (movie trailer music stops)

How night and day work above the Arctic Circle.

Movies and TV and stories talk about how there’s 6 months of daylight and 6 months of darkness. That does not fucking happen. This is still part of storytelling to this day (I’m looking at you, Sweet Tooth season 3).

Days get stupidly long in the summer, and there’s a while where the sun really doesn’t go down. in the Winter days get stupidly short, and there’s a while where it doesn’t really come up all that much. But it’s not 6 months of one and 6 months of the other.

(edited for clarity)