Last weekend I was in the final stages of selling my house and there was too much stuff to do to really relax. This weekend I'm not doing a dang thing, I'm gonna sit back and watch SGDQ or maybe the Olympics or something and play video games.
Anyone who attempts one of those HUGE "every Pokémon from gen __" patterns is braver than any cop
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I love the shine in the windows, that's a fun look.
An opera singer and avant-garde music composer who made a song out of comic book sound effects.
Less strange, she also did an operatic cover of The Beatles' Ticket to Ride. I'm pretty sure my ironic love of this has crossed over into completely unironic genuine love.
Hell yeah Giant Crying Baby Con 2024
I can't even tell you how many Snarfs I've met.
I get Max for free with my phone, Hoopla free from the library, and my sister lets me use her Disney+ account. The only streaming service I pay for is PBS Passport.
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs - This is one of my favorite podcasts, but I'm going to warn you it's not for everybody. The creator of this show, Andrew Hickey, is THOROUGH. A great example is the most reason episode about Hey Jude. Either you will love the concept of a 3.5-hour episode where 80% of the podcast is not about the song but rather the circumstances and lives of The Beatles, Yoko Ono, and the late 1960s music scene leading up to the creation of Hey Jude, or you will be furious that so much of the episode is about stuff that isn't the song.
The way things are going with TinyBuild, anything's possible. They just had some major layoffs last week.
Sometime during the pandemic I bought a basic woodcarving kit on a whim, tried to follow along with Doug Linker's beginner wizard tutorial, but got discouraged and put everything into the closet when my wizard turned out lousy.
Today was such a pretty day that I figured I should try again. Wizard #2 turned out much better.
Usually it meant finding websites with similar interests and banding together. You might form a webring, or trade banners with an affiliate site, or have community-voted top 100 lists, etc.
In 2000 I had a website about the then-current animated series X-Men Evolution, and I remember getting emails from other people who ran X-Men Evolution fansites and we would link back to each other. Eventually enough X-Men Evolution websites sprung up that one of those Top 100 list pages* sprung up to rank all of us. Clicking on my banner would result in a vote for me. I don't think I was ever the #1 page, but I remember being in the top 5-10.
*if you have no idea what I'm talking about or are too young to remember these, they were EVERYWHERE in the early 2000s for many different subjects and fandoms. I don't really miss the era of the Top 100 lists, because they could be easily gamed just like SEO (emulation sites were notorious for this). But I spent many hours of my teenage summer vacations finding a subject matter I liked, like Pokémon, and just going down the list and exploring.
I have such a weird love for Pac-Man and ET. I know they're complete trash (ET way more so than Pac-Man), but I just can't help but love them. If someone asked me what the best 2600 games are, I would probably rattle off Yar's Revenge, Pitfall, Kaboom, etc. But if someone asked me what my favorite 2600 games are, ET and Pac-Man would totally be on the list.
Pretty similar outcome!