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I want to post about weird video games and all this fucking fascism keeps happening

submitted 22 hours ago • 14 comments

In a better world, this would end with a cut-n-dry lawsuit that holds the DHS liable for assault as an unreasonable response to free speech. Instead, this admin is daring every citizen to put themselves in a position of being assaulted with impunity for merely existing. I'm sickened anew.

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

I love BuyNothing as much as the next person but I have questions about this sextet giveaway

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

For those who've followed my Intellivision Amico coverage, should I buy and review this trifecta of upcoming Switch games on June 19? I can't believe they're launching as a simul-trio... and under the moniker Happy Home Games? lol (if this post makes no sense to you, you're better off...)

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

what is the recommended method of cleaning the Switch 2's cheap plastic screen panel? mine already has a weird streak that won't wipe off.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

man we could've had Sonic the Hedgehog and Boomer the Bottom

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

The only way this gets undone—and it's entirely doable—is if BuyNothing and other major local-group collectives bail on FB en masse and switch platforms in response. Solnit's pull among certain online audiences could make it happen. I'm already getting texts from distraught friends.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Just saw the Brian Wilson news. I urge anyone who has never really sat with Pet Sounds to do so today if possible, or even the restored version of SMiLE from 2011. As something completely different, enjoy this gem from the legendary, underappreciated rock band Hogpig out of Denton, TX.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

two takeaways from my newest Switch 2 article: 1) Switch 2 desperately needs a 3DS-like "native" resolution toggle. Hold a button, start a game, and it plays in original 720p. Without that, some handheld games just ain't it. 2) Older game publishers have a very limited time window to strike...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Hi, I'm in @gamesradarplus.bsky.social today, diving into the confusing but also interesting world of Switch 1 games as played on Switch 2.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

a video game so good, it doesn't *need* a digital download code

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

hi from the REAL summer games fest... the NW Pinball & Arcade Show in Tacoma, WA

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

wake up to these big brown eyes

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

My 16yo nephew is in town and got to watch The Phoenician Scheme while sitting next to Vern at SIFF-arama tonight. All 16-year-olds should be so lucky. (Also, I very much agree with V's take.)

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

you're not playing Mario Kart World correctly until you add local players AND a webcam my nephew, seen here gloating about his come-from-behind victory tonight, after we each taunted the other every time our faces appeared mid-race

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

question for folks with a Nintendo Switch 2 and old GameCube controllers: can you get your GC USB adapter working? mine worked fine on NS1 when I last tested over a year ago, and now I can't connect any of my old GC gamepads on either NS1 or NS2. if Nintendo killed support for these, grhgrhghrh

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

summer emergency SNL episode tomorrow, plz

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

"Make the customer whole" is enough of a tone-deaf phrase in a puncture-related fiasco to make me assume ChatGPT was used to craft the statement. Like, you're gonna make them whole after putting holes in the devices they bought? C'mon. (Also, everyone, STOP LEANING ON GENERATIVE TEXT.)

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

currently my least favorite thing about Nintendo Switch 2 is that when I switch from its dock input to any other input on my TV, my sound bar emits a half-second white noise scream like something out of a Japanese horror film. every single time. bug? or feature?

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

gosh golly gee, Mario Kart World is nice

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

40 mins down, and I'm pretty sure not even 40 ppl in my line have paid for a Switch 2 and moved through. I assume Best Buy has switched to those old, thin-paper, ca-chunk credit card dealies

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

if anybody sees this and finds me in the interminably long "give us money for a Switch 2" queue outside Northgate's Best Buy, I will freestyle rap for you loudly

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments