Leon looks at a barrel splashed with yellow paint (nudging players to interact with it) in a screenshot from the Resident Evil 4 remake

Could be any number of games, really

Is…? Is tha- no. No, I’ve decided I don’t recognize that character.

Vaguely recall ramping up some slider labeled “debris,” is that why my neighborhood runs at like 8 fps?

Photo of a storm drain with its grate spattered with orange paint

Should I jump down this storm drain? Feels like I’m supposed to jump down this storm drain.

Looks like it’s riffing on Obey Giant? Needs thicker font in that case.

If you see this, quote with a picture of you in glasses

Biblically accurate body horror et cetera

You could go with Butch Balsamic, and now you’re an alliterative Marvel character

a cartoon of a robot eating grapes with hulu written on the bottom Alt: A GIF of Hedonismbot from Futurama eating grapes

Can’t picture Caesar Obesity as anything other then Hedonismbot

Could have also gone with “Child-Free Ranch.” (It doesn’t outright say they need to be in a specific order, and I enjoy many dressings.)

Clever!

Screenshot of a tweet from Noah Kinsey @thenoahkinsey “Your stripper name is your favorite salad dressing and the thing about you that most disappoints your parents”

Make it rain for Caesar Obesity!

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Also, while Eddington’s thing is arguably “this is what COVID was like on the news,” LSS is the only depiction I’ve seen of more relatable aspects, like trying to work through shaky Zoom meetings or leaving an event after finding out it’s indoors.

Long Story Short (2025, Netflix) and Eddington might be the only things I’ve seen that depict COVID and behavior during lockdowns, with the former also making it clear that a character died from it.

a close up of an older woman eating a tomato . Alt: John Noble as Denethor eats a tomato in the Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003) and it is the nastiest shit you’ve ever seen

All right, but who gets to be Denethor?

Yes, the Grink was there. I'm getting to that. He was on that island with me. And I wouldn't be alive to tell my story without him.

I mean it’s down there with some of the worst budget dubs of the ‘90s and ‘00s. I kinda thought we were past that era of anime. This golden age of at-least-middling voice acting has made me too soft.

Is this is part of some elaborate plot to get people saying “subs not dubs” again?

I stopped watching, did they finally erect the front porch?

I have long wrestled with the question “is the movie racist if it’s not actually depicting a Chinese person, but instead something posing as a bad Chinese stereotype in order to trick yokels?” (Almost certainly 100% yes)

He’s mad at us because @lecinenerd.bsky.social clipped his overlong dewclaw and I did nothing to stop her.

A chihuahua mix named Steve lies on a cushion with his legs tucked out of sight, looking like some kind of caterpillar or worm while drooping his head and gazing balefully at the viewer.

Doggerpillar

Dr Venture saying SPANAKOPEDIA!

what a beautiful thing

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There have been two times when Venture Bros. has made me think “This was made for me! It’s reading my thoughts! I am the center of the universe!” The first was when Hunter Gathers showed up. The second was when I saw this skeet.

It’s got a few cheap, hard-to-avoid pit deaths, and for some reason resets its checkpoints once you reach a boss (meaning that if you die, you have to restart the whole level, where if you’d died just before the boss, you’d just have to replay the last section), but otherwise yeah, it’s pretty easy

Screenshot from the ending of Ninja Gaiden II (NES) showing a huge sunset, with Ryu and his CIA-agent girlfriend Irene standing on a rocky mound in the foreground, looking out at it. Why did they climb up there? Were they like “we’ll see it better from up here!”? It dominates the entire horizon! You can’t not see it!

Much shorter than I remembered, too.

Screenshot of Ninja Gaiden II (NES) showing ninja Ryu Hayabusa followed by a red-costumes clone of himself.

Also forgot how essential and constant those little red clone guys who follow you around/duplicate your attacks are. They’re sort of like Castlevania’s whip upgrades, with how often you get them. That’s weird, right? It seems kinda weird. More platformers should give you little Options, IMO.

Screenshot of an icy level from Ninja Gaiden II (NES)

Screenshot of a stage in Ninja Gaiden II (NES) where there are huge chunks of rubble obscuring parts of the level.

Just played through Ninja Gaiden II (NES/NSO), and man, I forgot how many gimmick levels there are in this. Slippery ice level! Level where water or wind currents push you in different directions! Level where ruins obscure your view! Level where birds are jerks! (Actually that’s every level.)

(Except they might misunderstand and just rattle off the titles of each movie)

“What are the official names of the Star Wars that the nine mainline movies depict” could be a fun one