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Designer, developer, left brain creative who notices too many things and plays too many vintage video games and owns too many CRTs. https://blog.joshnichols.com
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Did some #thrift shopping today. Added a node to my wi-fi (yellow tags were 75% off!), Gamboy Advance history book, nice HDMI cable (can always use those), and a Dexter blu-ray. Also found a Chick Tract comic on the ground. Haven’t seen one of those in ages. In the trash it went!

While in STL, I hit up my fav comic store with the $5 bin and bought a bunch of stuff that looked cool!

Why do I fuss with games rather than just play them?? (Took forever figuring out how to connect that 8bitdo controller to the Switch!) Anyway, Persona 5 Royal on the Switch 2 looks sharper, but still runs at 30fps. Steam Deck looks and performs a lot better. (That OLED screen helps too 😍)

This is the correct energy.

Fun fact, it was never lowered to blue or green. This ran from 2002-2011 and would get covered by the news

secrets of game UI designers they DON'T want you to know

Bought this Star Wars Bootleg on a whim. Had Venmo money and the site took that as payment. They’re just burned blue-rays, but play fine. Love the look of the video!

Gamer’s we’re moving away from this mentality in 2025. We don’t need official timelines. Sometimes things can just happen. Imagine your grandpa consulting a diagram to figure out when the Three Stooges worked as chimney sweeps versus working at the lumberyard.

If I worked for Penguin I would try to figure out a way to make custom meme covers of Penguin Classics.

We may be witnessing the most globally embarrassing thing ever to happen to the United States.

No Kings protest got a turnout!

These news notifications look like a “bad timeline” parody in a time-travel movie.

Walz announces that Rep. Melissa Hortman is dead as a result of a "politically motivated assassination"

Hey, Goodwill! $15? Sure. 👍

"ICE can end" Seen in San Francisco, California during the ongoing anti-ICE revolt.

Oh yeah. Can’t wait! youtu.be/PsOmrb9k7Pc...

This is what the How to Train Your Dragon remake should look like.

Finished Neir Automata and got another major ending. I still don’t like this game and I hear I need to get 2 more play throughs to see the true ending? I don’t get this game, it had some amazing moments, but I wish I had my 35+ hours playing it back. Yuck.

That’s a hell of a day at the movies.

Her experience is a queer experience either way. The angry comments on YouTube show why she is sad about it. She knew her "fans" would feel betrayed. It reinforces why bi people don't feel welcome in queer spaces if they aren't dating the correct gender. www.out.com/fletcher-boy

If you finish the DLC in Lies of P before finishing the main game, it changes dialog. Such attention to detail! Here’s one big change: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tvi...

Looks like the developers are looking into the difficulty of the expansion. Every patch to this game has been carefully considered and there were noticeable quality of life updates since I last played. I’m sure they will polish this game to perfection. www.ign.com/articles/lie...

Lies of P: Overture is done! Game of the year for me so far. An incredible addition to a brilliant game. Love the story and how it ended. My NG+ character was getting wrecked, so I lowered the difficulty, but it was still hard as nails to finish. Can’t wait for the sequel.

I couldn't NOT do this.

Already tired of seeing the words “chromatic aberration.”

Remember: When speeding past Leather Daddy King Koopa on your way to victory, be sure to offer him a very warm, welcoming “So long, gay Bowser!” this Pride Month.

Windows Vista is back! Focus? Is that a question? Lol. This is less legible. 

New Creeper single and an album announcement! 🧛🏼 youtu.be/stE5YD2fZaU...

When I was like 21 I independently figured out that MENS RIGHTS ACTIVIST is an anagram of STRAIGHTNESS VICTIM and thats probably the only day my brain really worked

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

This guy consistently posts songs with incredible lyrics mere hours after events unfurl. This was a good one.

Pride, New York, June of 1990

The prophecy was foretold

Dementium: The Ward finally went on sale! www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...