apparently the first ever free game on steam was a 2004 flash game called Codename: Gordon-- whose development started and ended before the release of half-life 2. it is no longer available on the store front but its appdata is hardcoded into the steam database and is still accessible
No one gives a rat's rear end about this
Objection!
#DCComics has announced their line-up of #Superman titles for July 2026, highlighting major storylines and emphasizing the Super-Family’s central role in cosmic and time-bending conflicts, alongside new collected editions.
Read the full article here:
supermansupersite.com/DC_Announces...
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The #OrpheumTheatre in Phoenix, AZ will present a special screening of #SupermanTheMovie on Sunday, June 14th at 2:30PM (MST).
Read the full article here:
www.supermansupersite.com/Orpheum_Thea...
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The Super Mario World theme is inspired by the 1963 song "Green Green". Nintendo planned a cheeky reference to this on the Satellaview by playing Green Green with the SMW soundfont, but this went unused, possibly due to the legal consequences of acknowledging the inspiration.
Born 30th March 1930, actor John Astin. Sadly, the majority of the original cast of "The Addams Family" are no longer with us, but, happily John is still around. John Astin played Gomez Addams in the show from 1964 to 1966. He is 96 today. #JohnAstin #Gomez
‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ has two end-credit scenes 🍿
Charlie Day wants to make a ‘Luigi’s Mansion’ spinoff movie 🟢
“It’s such a fun game”
“If they do it, I’m in”
(via Screenrant)
Doctor Aphra made her first appearance on this day 11 years ago
Past me vs present me
Character of the Day: Zorii Bliss
Happens to me too
Kalshi, the prediction-market platform, said it enforced its insider-trading rules after a user, who made a series of curiously accurate trades on the outcomes of the streaming show “MrBeast,” turned out to be one of the show’s employees.
"People younger than me enjoying and talking about a system I don't like is stupid. Yeah that's the ticket."
The first look at Kane Parsons’ ‘Backrooms’ movie releases tomorrow
In theaters on May 29
She's the reason why a majority of Simpsons and Spongebob merchandise have Matt Groening and Stephen Hillenburg's names included
RIP
Keep going! Let Discord know we don’t want this! Hit them where it hurts the most: unsubscribing Nitro
Tl;dr: The vast majority of adults will never have to interact with our age assurance systems and their experience won't change, because we know Discord and how people use it, so we're designing to respect privacy and deliver a safer experience while minimizing friction for adults. Hey folks – I’ve been on Discord since very early 2016 and actually joined the company in 2017. Safety is one of my areas, so today’s announcement on our blog is something I’ve been pretty involved with. I’ve always cared about Discord's approach to privacy (E2EE for A/V was another of my projects here), so I figured I’d add some more context to today's news. I can say confidently that the vast majority of people will never see age verification. I say this because we launched age assurance in the UK and Australia in 2025, and we have some pretty good data on this now. The idea here is that we can pre-identify most adults based on what we already know (not including your messages!), and that looks to get us pretty far here. No face scans, no IDs, for the vast majority of adults.
And if you are one of the smaller subset of folks that we can't definitively pre-identify, then still, you only have to do it if you're accessing age-restricted servers or channels, or changing certain settings. That's really not most users. (Altho... might be more Redditors, tbh.) Last, I know that there is concern about privacy and data leaks. That's a real concern. The selfie system is built purely client-side, it never leaves your device, and we did that intentionally. That'll work for a bunch of users who aren't pre-identified as adults. But if you do end up in the ID bucket, then yeah, you're right that has some risk. We're doing what we can to minimize this by working with our range of partners (who are different partners than the data leak you read about), and if it's any help, we learned a lot internally from the last issue. But I get if that doesn't necessarily inspire more confidence. Anyway, we’ll be sharing more next month as we get closer to the global roll out about the system, including the technology behind it in March. I honestly wouldn't be happy if we didn't build something good and I am excited about what we’re launching, but please let us know what you think when we share more details. And I really appreciate everybody's feedback here today. We’re definitely reading it!
Discord is already starting to walk things back a little, so people should keep doing what they're doing (cancel Nitro, leave feedback/criticism, direct contact through support tickets/phone/email/etc)
I FOUND THE MARIO KNIFE!
I have finally negotiated the purchase of the rare officially licensed Super Mario World Knife. Once I receive it, I will test on stream just how dangerous an official Mario item can be. Thank you so much to my supporters for making this possible!
it's really sad this kit never gets reprinted
Happy birthday to the legendary Warwick Davis! Davis has played an incredible 14 Star Wars characters:
• Wicket
• Wald
• Weazel
• Yoda
• Tatooine street trader
• Wollivan
• Weeteef Cyu-Bee
• Rukh
• Wodibin
• Kedpin Shoklop
• DD-BD
• W1-EG5
• WG-22
• Wizzich Mozzer
#DidYouKnow that February 3rd is recognized as #NationalDoggyDateNight?
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The kiosk demo of Mario Kart DS contained "Flesh Trucks" due to a spelling error. While the error was fixed in the final version, looking at the preview image for GCN Mushroom Bridge very closely shows that the truck still has an L. As such, the memory of the Flesh Truck remains.
Today's my birthday. Yay.
