There's also an ad for a car dealership that I would've assumed was the inspiration for the First CityWide Change Bank sketch, except it came five years after the sketch aired.
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There's also an ad for a car dealership that I would've assumed was the inspiration for the First CityWide Change Bank sketch, except it came five years after the sketch aired.
And now I have a properly synced copy of the January 22, 1993 of Friday Night Videos with guest host Patty Smyth and a TV spot for Children of the Corn II.
Taught myself how to do audio editing and synching in Shotcut, so now I can fix some of these VHS archive recordings with issues.
Fine. You forced my cliched hand. youtu.be/VdOkQ6THDVw?...
via Lil Bro back in June…
youtu.be/stngGiMrn5U?...
Scraggly was a real sweetheart but tough as nails.
The late Scraggly Man had FIV and was a Maine Coon with gorilla arms, and I still have scars from trying to pill him over a decade ago.
Star Master and Star Raiders, then Afterburner for me.
"I'm angry Jimmy Kimmel was taken off the air because of online dipshits who don't understand context...and I will show it by being obnoxious to a stranger online because I can't grasp context!"
I'm thrilled the archive exists and can't fault (too much) the original taper for having his own tastes. The "war on terror" stuff *is* historically significant. But sweet providence does there seem to be a LOT of it dropping lately.
Another in an apparently endless series of waves of post-9/11 2001 content on the VHS archive. Sigh.
"Your appointment to get cornrows has been made with the dude covered in blood for February 30th, 1764."
The last massive expansion of progressive policy happened under a Dem president who was an out-and-out vicious bully.
My barber's site has: - pick a type of cut - pick your barber - pick your day/time It takes less than 5 minutes and I would not trust a jumped up form of autocomplete to make any of these choices correctly.
The first two BG games are like Castlevania: SOTN, where they were so overstuffed with neat little extras and easter eggs that you could replay them every year for two decades and find new things each time. I don’t think we’ll ever see their like again.
I still have my black death one.
Should've made the price info look like this:
September Sidekicks, Partners, and Super-pets Firehawk Occasional Partner of Firestorm Created by Gerry Conway and Pat Broderick (1982) #SeptSidekicks #ProjectDaare #DailyDrawing
*ssssshhhhhhhhhhh* don't give the game away 😜
These corporate fuckfaces did the math and decided irritating everyone else was more cost effective than irritating the right. Time to start showing them the error of their ways.
Boycott Disney. Especially since they are banking big on Tron: Ares. Let it wither at the box office.
There was nothing worth my attention there. 🫤
Eighteen hours of Valentines Day 1999 VHS material, and I'll be very annoyed if there isn't *something* worth my attention in there.
Wrote a damn essay when Disney+ asked me why I was cancelling. I guarantee their lifecycle marketing team is running analysis on everyone's reasons for canceling, so don't be afraid to say exactly what made you walk away.
Less local programming and small scale syndication, more infomercials, etc.
It started under Reagan, but that was an extinction level event. And one I see the evidence of as I go through the 90s VHS transfers.
Telecom deregulation has been a disaster on so many levels.
Considering a pending merger deal was in the eaves for both of these firings/cancellations, I think it’s way past time to dismantle these massive media combines into smaller entities and restore limitations on the number of stations any single one can own.
The washout/burnout rate in the first two years would make air traffic controllers do a double take.
Can't wait for it to tell techbros to drive their Cybertrucks off cliffs or into active volcanoes as a shortcut.
That said, the opening credits are the type of thing that would make a bunch of my mutuals swoon with pure bliss.
Watching PROBE (1972), the pilot movie to the TV series SEARCH. A super-spy thing about agents with hi-tech live feeds to their handlers, which sounds cool but mostly gives the show and excuse to save cash by spending a fuckton of screentime in a computer room set with folks talking to screens.
At least in Alien, they were working stiffs dealing with an unknown that changed rapidly in a very short span of time. I can forgive them for not considering a nasty space tapeworm might mature into an eight foot tall killing machine.
You'd think the lesson of Cracker Barrel putting off a needed and pretty standard for the biz brand refresh because of chud outrage, only to have its stock tank when it turns out the chuds had no intention of putting their money where their outrage was would show why appeasement is a bad call.
John Mulaney has played around with it.
Only the NBC shows are safe, the same way SNL is safe, not in what they can get away with content-wise but they are less shows subject to the usual gravitational forces than institutions which have a good deal of slack on the business side.
And if the current admin just, y’know, *happens* to interpret it as a bribe-slash-kissing-of-the ring, well, they DO have that corporate deal which needs gov’t approval pending.
The combines aren’t going to pull something that gives returns within currently mandated margins, and this feels like sacrificing something they were already looking for an off ramp for.
The other thing I keep contemplating is how Conan said when he changed up the format, then sunsetted his show that society has kinda outpaced late night talk shows. Not only are there a bunch of them, but the monoculture they mined has been evaporating for half a century.
Yatagarasu: Enter the Eastward The most recent iteration of a doujin attempt to square the circle between SF3 Third Strike and SNK's best work. It's a bit dated under the hood, but the character designs and animations are pretty sweet.
Yeah, I was telling Maura earlier, a lot of safe seatwarmers are going to find their inner Bernies when they come withing a point of losing a primary to a outright Dem Soc activist.
I think the counterforce being stirred up will be well beyond the Dems establishment and GOP's control, the way things are going. They're operating from a starting point of "over half the country despises you" and keep doubling downward.
If the Dems has a spine, they should make it clear every one of these deals done to grease the rails for a pending merger or other deal will be investigated as a bribe of the gravest order when the wheel turns, with maximum sanctions pursued.
Never let them walk it back. Make them grovel on their bellies as the mark of eternal shame burns into their souls until the devil comes to claim them.
Every one of these cowardly shits when the Mad King finally falls and his works are cast down into the dust.
All of the very serious thinkers who fall for “debate me” right wing losers remind me about how it’s actually way easier to fool smart people at 3 card monte. They know the game is rigged, and they think that knowledge will help them beat it, when the truth is, there’s no chance to win.
Every few years someone gets the itch to relaunch it, but nothing has come from it except a single issue in 2017.
If I had the motivation, I would clearly label all the images I clipped from 20th Century magazines, and create an online directory. Only be useful for pre2k references, but still…
September 17, 1985 prime time viewing options. Pick your poison...
Tired: OpenAI Wired: Open a fajita place.
I say this as someone who owns the Saturn, PS1, and PS2 iterations of Baroque, plays the translated Saturn one at least once a month, and has a desktop shortcut to Baroque Shooting: The actual game is...kinda shit, but with a cool vibe?
Centrists Dems: This is our plan for the future and everyone must submit to it. Reality:
announcing my new think tank
Sweet potatoes/yams. I wasn't thrilled about them as a kid, but ate them because the adults would say "You were born in North Carolina! You should love them!" which is incredibly bizarre now that I reflect upon it.
I've been re-reading it the past week to get psyched up for my October playthroughs!
September Sidekicks, Partners, and Super-pets Toro Sidekick of the Human Torch (Jim Hammond) Created by Carl Burgos (1940) #SeptSidekicks #ProjectDaare #DailyDrawing
Today's finds: - two syndicated episodes of Night Flight from 1992 - the March 14, 1993 episode of 120 Minutes (the day after my 21st birthday!)
They’ve recovered, and this morning I woke up to find Henri curled up beside me, purring loudly.
A $100 shot is much, much cheaper than a week in an ICU.
The kittens are grumpy and exhausted from the vet visit. Perfectly understandable but I’d gotten used to their impishly adorable behavior.
He has risen.
Heavy Metal Parking Lot (1986)
Solid Lancer (1993, PC-98): The Starblade we have at home, with a bit of a Silpheed vibe going on. Decent arcade rail-shooting action with a haunting chiptune soundtrack.
I wish I’d dived into it during vacation, when I had the free time to power through it.
I can’t tell if it’s just that game or how I feel about large open world games now, but I can lose myself in Mad Max during the first day or so, but can’t work up the interest in going back to my save afterwards.
Ad from the September 9, 1983 episode of Friday Night Videos.
the guy next to him doing the fash-fashion thing of looking like he's mobbed up even though his dad was a podiatrist in Des Moines
The one bit of theology from my Pilgrim ancestors I truly took to heart is “every person is their own church.”
My ancestors left England to cross an ocean and live in a remote place full of swamps, with shitty summers *and* winters, and despite the grottiness of that move and their ideology, I’m of that tradition of “fuck your bullshit, I will create my own promised land.”
It's going to have to make the leap from exclusively software rendering (i.e. able to support shaders and upscaling) before I seriously consider migrating from Mednafen. A Dolphin/Duckstation model UI would help, too.
Yeah, it's not contagious or progressive. We just have to be mindful about leaping up/down and having clear run paths...because she certainly isn't. He propensity for high speed collisions was what made us suspect something was up.
So there *is* a per game save toggle buried at the bottom of the system options page, which is handy. I haven't had a chance to see how that would work with multi-disc games or Shining Force III yet, and still haven't figured out how the simulated RAM cart save function works.
It’s sad but also enhances her aura as a truly bizarre cuddle kitten.
Miss Velvet has a mild case of Wobbly Cat Syndrome, which we suspected but has been confirmed.
tfw you realize the "Marble Zone" you were promised was just Altered Beast's sloppy seconds
Goodbye, Robert Redford.
Keep thinking of a Sega retrogaming YT thing I follow where the hosts pointed out how "fandom" has somehow become more about the bits fans hate than about the bits they love. It was a about the new Shinobi game and Sonic fandom but applies to so much more.
September Sidekicks, Partners, and Super-pets Bucky Barnes Sidekick of Captain America Created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby (1941) #SeptSidekicks #ProjectDaare #DailyDrawing
Blast Processing was a real thing in which the Genesis' graphics processor could theoretically be continuously 'blasted' with a data stream even as the CRT display rendered things. I say theoretically because THE FUNCTION WAS NEVER USED IN A RETAIL GAME despite the marketing folks embracing it.
BLAST PROCESSING FOREVER! (January 1993)
A far cry from the ride to the Vet’s office.
“I understand you are my physician, no?”
then play some Space Invaders while listening to Gary Numan's Pleasure Principle LP
1993, baby!
Yep, and Tonya Harding!
thinking of INDECENT PROPOSAL and the era of topics where every late night host and comedian would squeeze them into a tattered rag for material that film, the Bobbitt case, the blue dress, Viagra...
Shaking my head sadly as I scroll through the SMB Remastered character mods and notice how there are multiple entries for unfunny meme characters yet not a single Princess Daisy.
I’m really impressed with Ymir’s development but not keen about the decision to do a 1:1 mirror of the Saturn’s original data storage. Redream made the same mistake with the Dreamcast’s VMUs, and it’s an annoying relic that should have alternatives.
January 3, 1993.
APEX THAT GUY ENERGY
