It's been up a long time but found a 2 hour audio interview of him from 1987; he mentions how he has friends send him copies of NFL on NBC broadcasts; imagining him being into Merlin Olsen's winding narratives; he also praises the lighting and editing in Michelob ads; so cool

The only thing I have found useful with Google Lens is that I am finally playing an old TurboGrafx RPG I read about in an Electronic Gaming Monthly in 1992. I will probably try it again with a Playstation 2 RPG that came out in 2005.

I have a very narrow, grim "optimism" that we won't see a massive AI bailout; these guys will eat other much more quickly than the previous generation--Sacks said this a couple weeks ago; they were offing each other during the SVB crisis too.

This happened to my neighbor but it was MLS on Apple and Loot

The patriotic appeal angle mostly is reflective of NextGen and "high brow" press praise ahead of launch--a focus on an American company taking on Sony, Sega, and Nintendo--and my experience in retail; was definitely the middle-aged guy console

this falls on the sweetspot of your pay schedule allowing you to go all out; too early or too late and you're in debtland; avoid Geminis, cancers, and leos unless you have a trustfund

Console gaming then also had a bunch of people who didn't want PC games on their system

Based on polling this still holds though I am embarrassed by it

Honestly seeing how balkanization is happening wish they did have the entire industry there right now

My son wants to play a Pokemon game and I am just out of age range to grow up with it. He wants Sword because a neighbor has it but would Z-A be a better route?

Still close to a 50-50 split with high income folks; kind of interesting

The day after BBB was passed my father-in-law and I got into it and my mother-in-law's excuse for their voting record was that "like you're born Catholic, you're born Republican or Democrat."

He would've loved Chavez

No friends to give him rides

I don't think Nascar was as popular at any point outside of 02-07 and fans were still mad because a Midwesterner (Jeff Gordon) dominated; we did get Metal Gear Solid 2 and The Strokes though; also, if any institution still feels like '02 it's Walmart, which was hated for wiping out the lumpens

Saw a tweet kind of comparing 2025 Trump Country Cultural ascendancy with 2005 Bush Country Cultural ascendancy the just the other day. '05 just ahead of collapse

A fellow dad told me the Saudi Wealth Fund owns SNK/Neo Geo properties. They should stick to that route

Always dreamed of being headhunted by a booster to write Marcus Smart's comp papers but alas...

Can't even balkanize because of nuclear weapons