Brandon Sweet

Consider the lilies of the field. They hustle not, neither do they grind

When my daughter thinks she's gonna watch Bluey but its 6:24pm April 1st 2026

Gen X breathes a collective sigh of relief.

@cpayneonaplane See also: the retro video game market.

A history of the CD market, in one image

@ClassicGIJoe Played it just a couple of days ago!

G.I. Joe: Cobra Strike for the Atari 2600 from 1983. Who played it?

@firozera I would love to see some similar research done on underground rave promoters in the late 1990s/early 2000s when the real money first started pouring in.

Back when I did event management, one of my jobs was to research failed fandom/hobby-events and find out what went wrong. These honestly fascinate me, especially since I ran events for kids for years on just a skeleton crew and a few thousand dollars. It's wild just how easily you can see the thought process of the organisers be summed up as: "Just how little can we get away with giving the attendees vs how much we can fleece off them". The fact they can't even fill up the space they rented because they expected thousands more people to fall for it is crazy too.

Me when I'm watching an episode of Thunderbirds and I hear a character say "keep this frequency clear."

girl invited me over tonight but i had to leave because i didn’t bring a hex-shaped crank to open the door to her place. never dating somebody from raccoon city ever again🤦‍♂️

@LoveRetroBTW I scored one for free at my workplace about 20 years ago - a console and 8 games in a milk crate someone found collecting dust in a closet.

Did you ever own a TurboGrafx-16 back around its original release… pick one up later… or never have one at all?

New York Times promoting a homemade matzoh recipe that isn't kosher for passover is definitely on the nose

@Empty_America As a teen in the 90s, the only reason I knew about Kate Bush was because of that Utah Saints track.

The Smiths didn't used to be a major band, mostly listened to by low-rider Chicanos for some reason. Jennifer Connelly was sort of a B+ celb in the 90s. Few Americans knew who Kate Bush in the 80s, she wasn't even on MTV much if at all. Retroactive Celebrity.

Imagine the Raccoon City Police Dept has a fire drill and they all get stuck outside bc someone forgot to grab the medallion in the treasure chest in the basement for the back door

Trees are good

Gotta be the venetians stealing st mark’s relics from Alexandria

you scroll down far enough on a playstation store sale and you start seeing games from parallel realities

pulling up a gamefaqs guide for a game from 2004

@dantemendes The Commodore 64 version of this is one of my earliest gaming memories.

Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom (Sega, 1982). Also known as ZOOM 909, an arcade shooter which had very advanced pseudo-3D visuals for 1982. It influenced Sega's own Space Harrier 3 years later, which in turn influenced Nintendo's Star Fox 11 years later. Many home ports, such as C64, Atari VCS and Atari 8-bit didn't feature the "trench run" stage. MSX, SG-1000 and ColecoVision retained it (where it's called ZOOM 909 and it's actually a more fair game without the surprise enemies from behind).

Inserting one thing into a second thing, and then docking the second thing with a third thing is my preferred technological aesthetic.

There’s like maybe a maximum of 8 jobs where I understand what the job is. Shopkeeper. Farmer. Teacher of some kind. Priest. Novelist. Journalist. Private detective. Chef. That’s it. What is a data engineer. I don’t know.