@newsfedora
aka Chris aka Ballz A geriatric millennial who's into mostly old video games and emulation, Uncle Scrooge comics, the Tampa Bay Rays, jazz, and hip-hop. Posting about Haibane Renmei late at night every night for some reason
tariffs happening for no reason and theyre making your life worse, secret police kidnapping people for no reason and making your life worse, firing thousands of government employees for no reason and making your life worse, going to war with iran for no reason and making your life worse
there was also a Stanford study that found that a surge in AI slop by lazy people actually created significantly more work for others who had to decipher and correct it
this "I'm being efficient" (but not really) vibes well with the American obsession with artifice and appearing productive
a detailed coloured illustration of a vast landscape of greenery with a line of red birds flying. the greenery of split by a dark window rier and there is a large tree halfway toward the back of the illustration. at th back, the starry night sky can be seen as well as a sliver of the moon.
secret of mana, player's guide, back, snes (1994) www.mobygames.com/game/6645/se...
Ariel is fantastic, and I'm very much looking forward to seeing this.
here I solved it
started watching haibane renmei yesterday and dude. dude. bro. dawg. homie.
A picture showing a bunch of albums on vinyl by the Japanese jazz-fusion band Casiopea. A lot of their stuff kind of sounds like video game music because they heavily influenced arcade and console composers of the 80s and 90s. Fun fact 1: one of the records in this picture is an American pressing with a new album title and cover art, while the rest are Japanese imports. Fun fact 2: all are early 1980s pressings except for the self-titled album (the race car LP) and Mint Jams. Those are represses from last year, featuring vinyl remastering by Bernie Grundman. Vinyl audiophiles know who that is. Anyways listen to more Casiopea.
This time last year I had zero Casiopea records. How much changes in a year.
Bumper sticker showing Garfield gesturing at Shinji Ikari being his angsty while self sitting in his folding chair. A thought bubble over Garfield reads “Get a load of this guy”
I don’t remember taking this picture
Picture of a man sitting on a couch while a cat rests across his chest and shoulder.
She is — and I can’t stress this enough — baby
A snap of the EMUSA website, the site that I spent the most time on then for downloading roms, with its vaguely Star Trek-alike fond for EMUSA, and a iist of the latest news, along with Top 10, 50 other rom sites.
Plasticman's Emulsation Zone website in the year 2000, with a quite sleek banner and clickable tabs.
The Edge Enu, with a square graphic of Mega Man presenting his arm cannon. The agreements about deleting roms you mistakenly download if ytou don't own the actual game are there above the 'Enter the Edge' hyperlink.
"Got Roms?"
A Wayback look at three of the main ROM websites I frequented in 2000, making careful decisions about what to download on the 4-6kbps internet connection I had access to.
And of course, we all followed through on that agreement to delete the ROMs we downloaded within 24 hours, right?
I still have the bookmark for Emulation Masturbation (it was just another rom site, I swear)
Keep circulating the tapes
holy shit
Damn Fox Trot guy ain’t holding back
republicans have literally made everything worse and harder and more terrible over the course of my entire life and somehow* they keep coming back to power bc of our feckless corporate press and a weak willed opposition 😒
*sob
0 for 16 on legendary encounters good grief Abra has lower run rates than this
I haven’t really touched on it in my nightly #haibaneposting but I do like how this show gained quite a following in the trans community. Given I am cishet that was definitely not my takeaway when I first saw it 20+ years ago, but the message of discovering and accepting who you are really resonates
It really left a mark on me circa 2003 as it helped me overcome a years-long bout of depression. It’s comforting to see its impact on others. I used to think of Haibane Renmei as a coming of age story but it’s really something more profound and spiritual. It’s an awakening. youtu.be/hFM_gLwN_Yk?...
I haven’t really touched on it in my nightly #haibaneposting but I do like how this show gained quite a following in the trans community. Given I am cishet that was definitely not my takeaway when I first saw it 20+ years ago, but the message of discovering and accepting who you are really resonates
haibane renmei was great this week
Docter and many other old timers at Pixar wanted to deal with heavier, more serious issues like grief and emotional regulation, with tons of “therapy speak” in Inside Out, Wall-E, and Up. But when it’s queer themes it’s all “Back off loser, I’m not your therapist. I’m just here to sell popcorn!”
Watching the wife play Pokémon Pokopia and literally it’s been an hour of wandering around barfing water onto dead plants. 9/10 Game of the Year
Shrek has been modded into ‘Resident Evil Requiem’ 🧟♂️
Adam West I GUESS YOU'RE ONLY FAMILIAR WITH THE NEW BATMAN MOVIES. MICHELLE PFEIFFER, HAH.
It was fewer years from the Tim Burton Batman movies to the Adam West 60’s show than it is between this episode of the Simpsons and us today. Just wanted to make you sad! Time is the fire in which we burn!
Watched Haibane Renmei this weekend and was really hit hard lmao. Reki is so beautiful... ☺️ #haibane_renmei #fanart
