E.T.

Yes really. I played it all the time as a kid and didn’t think it was any more difficult or abstract than the rest of the 2600’s catalogue. Granted, we kept the manual, which made a huge difference in understanding and enjoying its bizarre logic, but still. I had no idea it was so hated until at least a decade later.

FYI, you linked the same video twice.

Kinda. The website was inactive for a few years there, and only recently started updating again. The author was focusing on Patreon, which was reportedly porn of the VGCats characters.

He confirmed the joycons are not hall effect, but didn’t specify whether the pro controller is.

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I guess people didn’t get your reference: https://xkcd.com/936/

You need to hit Enter twice (or put 2 spaces at the end of each entry), otherwise your newlines get ignored and your list runs together in one giant paragraph.

“Till” and “until” are separate words despite having the same meaning. This meaning of “till” is actually the older word.

“Comic of the Apes”, though their site seems to be down.

I think it’s because they’re quoting her use of the word. But I agree it’s almost indistinguishable from scare quotes when used around a single word like that.

FYI you can trim 80% of that. https://www.amazon.com/LEXiBOOK-Educational-Activities-Mathematics-Dactylography/dp/B0B6HKB3JF/ Amazon sure loves its tracking data.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn02w01xr2jo

It was both countries, sadly.

A variant of Eat hot chip and lie.

I have that exact video paused right now. So detailed and fascinating. I love that he added moments of speedrunners hitting many of them.

https://nitter.net/WilliamShatner/status/1169024084375678977

Seems it’s a promo for season 2 of TOS and the show’s new timeslot on Fridays. The lettering is a nod to Laugh-In, and the whole timeslot shuffle is a long story.

Also I see Google has completely given up on quotation marks around phrases. So that’s fun.

Glad I’m not the only one. It looked like an extra forearm got jammed into the steering wheel. I found a clearer version but still can’t tell what’s behind the air freshener.

Star Trek DS9: Crossroads of Time on Super Nintendo.

My favorite memory of it was from the first day: a friend telling me I couldn’t use the same phaser twice against Borg drones. I was confident they wouldn’t put a detail like like that in a game. Not two seconds later, the very next drone blocked my phaser. (Clearly one of Trek’s ongoing lessons in the arrogance of man. Ahem.)

Seems silly looking back to think game devs wouldn’t care as much (or more!) as I did about Star Trek to add in ideas like that.

The intel was “someone’s targeting ex-Starfleet officers”. The dialogue then suggests Starfleet command put together the list of former officers. They didn’t necessarily pull those names from the intel.

Monster Hunter World

So like Ocelot in Metal Gear Solid? (Until they retconned it, anyway.)