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ArugulaZ

@ArugulaZ@kbin.social

Gaming enthusiast, writer, artist, and social media ronin. Current denizen of the Dork Web, aka federated media. Doesn't play well with others.

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This son of a bitch has been talking a lot of shit lately. Of course, when he says "this group must be murdered," and "that group must be murdered," he'll have his kill-billy followers do the job for him while he huddles in the corner pissing his pants. At least Richard Spencer, for all his grotesqueness, could take a punch. This... thing can't even do that.

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Pax-turd needs to realize that if he's going to play the "state's rights" angle, that means other states have rights, too, and Texas has no dominion over Washington state. I personally have mixed thoughts about elevating states over federal law... we're the UNITED States, not fifty sovereign countries.

Also, shouldn't this dingus be in jail? I thought he was charged with corruption so egregious even the nee-haw state couldn't ignore it.

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Look, here's the thing. If Amazon Prime wants to charge me three bucks more for ad-free viewing, the scope of the ad-free viewing had better be a whole lot wider than it currently is. There are plenty of shows on Freevee (an Amazon service) that show ads regardless of whether or not you're paying to have ads suppressed. You don't get my three extra dollars a month and STILL get to show me ads. That's not how it workie, Bezos.

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Peak Trump would be him saying "she's not my type," as he's raping her.

Step aside, Spike! Donkey Kong comes to the Vectrex, and in color! (www.youtube.com)

The Vectrex was an impressive system for its time, but despite its ambitions of bringing the arcade experience home, its manufacturer GCE (later Milton Bradley) didn't have the broad access to arcade hits that the competing Atari 5200 and especially the ColecoVision did. If you wanted a Vectrex version of Pac-Man, you had to...

240p Test Suite Ported to... COLECOVISION?? (forums.atariage.com)

There's a diagnostic suite of software for game consoles which tests input lag and screen tearing on your display. This suite first popped up for consoles released at the turn of the century (Dreamcast, specifically), but someone has made a version of this toolkit for... the ColecoVision....

Where is Johnny Turbo?

Lately, not on the Switch. The entire Johnny Turbo's Arcade line, featuring middling emulations of Data East arcade titles, has recently been purged from the eShop. Golem's Retroclassix, also featuring Data East titles like Heavy Barrel and Bad Dudes, has similarly been excised from Nintendo's online store....

The triumphant tragedy of Street Fighter Alpha 3 on Game Boy Advance (www.timeextension.com)

Time Extension recently posted this excellent interview with Cameron Sheppard and Mike Merren, formerly of Crawfish Studios, about its ambitious Game Boy Advance port of Street Fighter Alpha 3, and how it significantly contributed to the downfall of the company. Numerous delays to the game led to Crawfish losing the royalties it...

Super Joe DiMaggio Bros. (www.youtube.com)

A coder named Mairtrus made a conversion of the original Super Mario Bros. for the Sega Genesis, and it's quite faithful to the NES game in most respects. That music, though... it sounds like the cheap synth organ you might hear at a baseball game. Stepping up to the plate... it's a-him, Mario!...

Semi-sweet nothing: Clockwork Aquario

Westone's Clockwork Aquario is the quintessential arcade game... loud, colorful, and unapologetically dumb. Perhaps a little too dumb, considering that it missed arcades entirely and was instead ported to modern game consoles like the Nintendo Switch. While it's great from a preservation standpoint that Clockwork Aquario was...

Why are fighting tournaments always the front for an evil scheme, anyway? (www.youtube.com)

It's not just Street Fighter 2, but a lot of competitors, particularly King of Fighters. You've heard the line from Terry Bogard before, I'm sure... "KOF was just a front for something bad?" Yes, Terry, yes! Just like the last fourteen times! Like the time they were going to resurrect an unstoppable eight-headed serpent from the...

‘Romeo & Juliet’ Play Starring Tom Holland and Francesca Amewaduh-Rivers Faces ‘Barrage of Racial Abuse,’ Producer Says ‘This Must Stop’ (variety.com)

The Jamie Lloyd Company has hit back after its production of Shakespeare’s “Romeo & Juliet” has been the subject of what they call a “barrage of deplorable racial abuse” aimed at an unnamed cast member....

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Honestly, we do see a lot of this casting in the 21st century. A familiar character becomes black, whether it's Annie or The Little Mermaid, and it leaves me ambivalent. However, in the case of Romeo and Juliet, it actually makes sense to have a racial component injected into the story. They are from warring families, correct? Race could be another point of conflict for them.

(Besides, Shakespeare has been famously open to interpretation. Is Shylock a villain, comic relief, or a tragic victim of prejudice in his own time? That's up to the director of the play, or the film.)

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Keep threatening civil war, kill-billies. We're not just going to sit around and let you slaughter us like sheep.

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No, that was just Marjorie Taylor Greene. Easy mistake to make.

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Dude, you're only comparable to Man-Bear-Pig.

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Fruit Stripe gum had the unfortunate distinction of being the most delicious thing you've ever put in your mouth, a total whirlwind of flavor... for five seconds. Then it's just sugar, then shortly after that, it's just nothing. It's like something Willy Wonka would have wished for on a monkey's paw.

Elon Musk's luck has finally run out (www.businessinsider.com)

This is why using Tesla stock to source cash all the time gets hairy. If Tesla shares fall below a certain level, the banks can call in those personal loans — leaving Musk on the hook. And the quickest way for Tesla’s stock to drop off a cliff is for investors to get wind of a big Musk sale. And of course, he needs to make...

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Because he's stubborn, and vain, and also stupid. Losing Twitter to bankruptcy is likely to be one of those great historic failures in consumer tech history, like the IBM PC Jr. and the CueCat from Radio Shack and that Mixer thing from Microsoft. Once the history books are written, it's going to be right there in black and white, without spin from Musk. "Elon Musk ruined this once successful social media platform with one wrongheaded, self-serving decision after another. He's the New Coke of IT." Once it happens, he can't claw it back. History will have judged him, and the verdict is "guilty by reason of being a dumbass."

Elon wants to stave that failure off for as long as possible, but it's gonna happen, mon ami. The longer you wait, the more painful the bruise from your massive tech blunder is gonna get. You can either make this a noble failure, like the ambitious but outrageously expensive 3DO, or it can go down in flames like the Atari Jaguar. Actually, it's probably way too late for Twitter to become a noble failure. Musk could at least make it a less humiliating one.

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America sure is great, isn't it? Except the South.

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