Today marks the 15th anniversary to Great PSN Outage of 2011, which started on April 20th and went on to last for over three weeks.

It was a wild time. I was a GameStop third-key then, and it got ugly FAST. Lots of angry customers, more than a few PS3 trades toward X360. Not fun.

@viciousshadi.bsky.social still got the only power strip that matters aaaaaaaay

"Are you fucking going to play as Rugal again?" asked a voice when I reached the Neo Geo MVS machine. "I absolutely, 100 percent, am not going to play as Rugal again," I promised, punching the buttons to select Rugal, which I had memorized.

Trust me when I can say "We can tell."

Was in a "what was that noise?/someone about to try and kill me"
Situation and

Peewee jumped in my lap when I had the goggles/headphones on and shit 🤣

Wow almost peed my pants playing resident evil 4 in vr 🤣 this is wild af lol

"Slashback 2026 Recap: Rainy Vibes J-Rock Mix to Mash and Chill To"

Slashback 2026 was a blast! Wrote about my time at @slashback.bsky.social this weekend, with some musings on what makes the vibes special. Many thanks and congrats to the crew for another great year!
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Breaking:

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota county investigates ICE arrest of Hmong American man as a potential case of kidnapping and false imprisonment.

"Grok....you see me alchemizin these muddafuckas?"

"Arturo...if there was any trace of them left...I would be able to verify the results"

"That's why I fuck with you grok"

🤣

Some people have a really strong relationship that is simply unbreakable. No matter what

they defend each other when times are good and when times are bad. Always able to exchange ideas freely with zero fear and work together to shatter all barrier and myths.

Arturo and GROK are-

@tranquilblue.bsky.social I wasn't familiar w the writer so hell yeah thanks for the heads up.

*hold up*

On the upside we can sign up for a Webcam session with a hot babe lol

"Fandom deserves to be taken seriously" I actually can't think of anything more desperately in need of being taken LESS seriously.

@mechamacgyver.bsky.social even a mf like Gordon gecko be like "gold up...teach me that shit" 🤣

Animorphs*

You could put him in anamorphs

and it would be part of a national conversation lol

He is that good lmao

I haven't seen it in ages but dude is a human snake lol. The way he maneuvers and fucks w people. Confidence man indeed w no barriers to what he was down to do lol

The whole thing just in ruins aside to his material gains. Dan day make everything so heavy

Maaaan. The end of there will be blood when he just in the bowling alley as part of his empire. Heavy material.

#fgcCHEFS channel has been compromised to a severe degree.

Niiice. That would put gary 1-4 from what I seen lol

He felt no pain among the fire🤣

@victorelowe.bsky.social also among the variety of movies I've seen recently w Gary busey.

I'm not certain he has ever won a fight in a movie lol.

Imagine my surprise not too long ago being a fan of him and Gary busey

And forgetting they were both the villians in that movie all together lol.

Typing stuff on apple products in general has gotta be way up there in shitty experiences. Anything else you just type what you are typing fr lol

Watching a friend play dark souls and I was thinking about the fashion of the player character like

"Who would wear pouches with all that?"

I'll tell you who.

A pad player. Pad players with they pouches one way or another lol. You see it once

and then your eyes are just open from then on

Me driving home knowing there won't be a second date but at least now she knows who Char Aznable is [ryan gosling in Drive image]