August

@PeterMooreUSA There are people like Jerry Jones involved in all this, and they have zero respect or romanticism about anything. Every aspect of our country is dominated by ruthless money grubbing. It’s not a happy thought but it is the truth. Fans are just paying customers and nothing more.

It got me thinking…who is this World Cup actually for? In 1994, I was able to take my family to matches here in the United States. It wasn’t a luxury decision, it was something that felt within reach, and that mattered because that’s how the game grows and that’s how memories are made. I was living in Boston working for Reebok at the time, and so we were able to go to so many games at Foxborough as well as in New York City. In full disclosure, my work also allowed me to travel to games on the West Coast, including the final. While that was not the best shop window for The Beautiful Game it was stunning to see the Rose Bowl fulled to the brim with 94,000 fans. Now fast forward to 2026. Imagine a young family here in America today. Mum, dad, two kids who love the game. They sit down and look at the cost of attending just one match…tickets, travel, maybe a night or two in a hotel…and they pause. Not because they don’t love the game enough, it’s because they simply can’t justify it. in my 45 years living here in the US and being involved in the game at so many different levels, I’ve never seen its popularity spike like it is today. Gen Z has fully embraced the game, Welcome to Wrexham has laid bare the passion and the joy it can ignite in a previously beleaguered community, and we are spoiled for the choice of just about every major game in the world brought to us by streaming channels fighting for their place in broadcasting live sports. Or think about a supporter from abroad. Someone who has followed their national team their entire life. For many, this isn’t just a trip, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime pilgrimage. Between ticket pricing, travel costs, and uncertainty around access, that dream starts to slip out of reach. That’s the part that sits uneasily with me. The World Cup has always been more than a tournament. It’s been a gathering of people, cultures, stories. A place where the game feels like it belongs to everyone. If too many of those people are left watching from afar, we lose something that can’t be measured in revenue. It becomes a made-for-tv spectacle like the Super Bowl, and then we lose the soul of it… And once that starts to go, it’s very hard to get back.

@80s_channel Invest in Apple, and Nintendo, and go watch kids play in the neighborhood. Play D&D with the OGs. Go see bands like Heart and Journey or David Bowie and Michael Jackson live. Watch lots of baseball, 80s baseball was the best. I’d bet on every World Series the rest of the decade

Adults are allowed to have fun. Play games. Read books. Watch anime. Build collections. If that bothers you… grow up.

If your favorite college football team is different from your favorite college basketball team, nobody respects you.

@GenePark As an elder millennial I often think about how being a musician was demonetized, and rock fell off the map. I know so many great 80s born musicians that no one will ever know because it’s the post Napster and post Spotify shitshow now. Social engineering destroyed Americana

facebook is probably the most successful product made by a millennial, which says a lot

@Dongurihou Castlevania III: Draculas Curse, Final Fantasy VI, Mega Man 2 and 3

親愛なるアメリカのフォロワー様たちへ このポストが見えているのなら、 好きな日本のテレビゲームを教えてほしいです！ ちょっと知ってみたい……

@UberFacts These sorts of statistics are always useless without context, mobile games are not games for example. And I don’t consider fortnight, Roblox or other forever games to be games. + the call of duty and madden casuals are gamers but they don’t contribute or fund the industry really.

The average U.S. gamer is 36-years-old

アメリカの皆さん、私はアメリカが大好きな日本人の女性です。現在はなぜかイギリスに住んでいます。 ところで皆さんにどうしてもお伝えしておきたいことがあります。 日本とアメリカはかつて戦争をしました。 しかし、戦後の日本では占領軍としてやってきたアメリカ人を大歓迎しました。 なぜ敵だってアメリカ人をそんなに歓迎したかわかるでしょうか。 それは日本に来たアメリカ軍の人々が日本人に対して大変親切であったからです。 例えば私の祖母は夫フィリピンで亡くしているのですが、アメリカ軍のやっていたPXで雇われてまだ小さかった叔母を養うことができました。 当時の日本は戦争未亡人に対する扱いが大変厳しく、祖母は仕事を見つけることができませんでした。 しかし、そこでシングルマザーの祖母をすぐに雇ってくれたのがアメリカの軍の人々だったのです。 そして彼らは祖母にたくさんの食べ物を送りました。 クリスマスにはケーキや豪華な缶詰をくれたのです。 祖母は生涯そのような親切さを忘れることがありませんでした。 ですから、私がアメリカに留学することに大変賛成していました。 そして日本人は戦争はしていたのではありますが、アメリカがもたらした民主主義や自由者を歓迎しました。 それは多くの日本人が求めていたものだったからです。 そして、アメリカの人々は日本を民主化し、占領においても日本人を一生懸命助けてくれました。 日本人は戦争はしましたが、そのような恩は忘れないのです。 そのような経験があったために、日本人のアメリカ人に対する考え方は大変前向きです。 そして日本人はアメリカ人の明るさや正義感があるところが大好きです。 我々日本人はアメリカの人々が思うよりもずっとシンプルで素直なのです。 我々は言葉の裏を読んだり、行間を読むような事はしません。 他の歴史が長い国の人々は、そんな我々のことを単純で騙しやすいと言うふうに言いますが、私たちは狡猾なことをやるのが嫌いなのです。 そして私たちはアメリカ人も似たような性質を持っていると言うことを感じています。 だから私たちはアメリカ人が好きなのです。

Duke fans are finally experiencing the sorts of moments that every other fan base has experienced their whole lives.

lol. The 2020s are awful. The PS5 launched in 2020 and in 2026 is nearly double its launch price. we are all supposed to be just chugging away with all this inflation. Why is this inflation never ending? It’s not the corona virus at all anymore, it’s AI, consumers can’t compete.

Legendary X-Men writer Chris Claremont and artist Robert Gill reveal Gambit’s final adventure before joining the X-Men in ‘Gambit: Wanted,’ a five-issue retro series coming this July! Cover: Leinil Francis Yu

I used to wonder how old people could be so chill about dying but I’ve lived long enough now I think I’m starting to get it. Everything just gets progressively weirder and dumber until you’re finally like “Ok, Jesus, take me home before it gets even stupider.”

Give these guys an Oscar.

If you're not with the White Sox when they're 0-1 then don't come crawling back when they're 16-65 at the halfway point.

Let pitchers hit again.

Baseball fans are going to love this account

It only takes ONE bad experience in your life to slip into addiction. ONE. Deatħ, breakup, failure, unemployment, sickness, etc. So while y'all tweeting in your perfect little homes judging others who are trying to overcome addiction and sadness, remember that can be you tomorrow

Major League Baseball is aired in the morning for Japan. So technically they eat breakfast with it being on television. Here’s their #openingday commercial. No hyperbole, when I say this, it might be greater than any US MLB commercial I’ve seen. Well done and worth the watch for any baseball fan.

@hamptonism Eric Barone and Toby Fox prove this isn’t a rule.

People don’t realize isolation is your one way ticket to the permanent underclass.

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