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Dennis Farrell

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Something Awful writer from 2003-2020. Developing a narrative comedy video game called Harm Other.


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I remember this scene from The Cell. Brutal movie

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Welp, I'm getting Magic cards for the first time in ten years. The new set theme is small animal fantasy world adventures, featuring art by Mouse Guard creator David Petersen

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Headline writer impatiently waiting for the new PM to visit America so they can run Keir Starms The Capitol

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gotcha journalism strikes again

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The PS2 game Bad Boys: Miami Takedown taught me everything I know about taking cover. It worked a treat. I couldn't be happier. My whole left leg is atomized

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Professor X vs Denis Leary (1993)

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How I introduce myself in an icebreaker session

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Critical praise is still rolling in for my show MY BROTHER, THE CAR, at the Los Angeles LGBT Center! Still time left to see the show this Sunday, June 30th at 9 PM! Ring out Pride month with the coolest show in town. Tickets available at the door, or here: www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/108...

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Also happy to hear positive things about the new A Quiet Place. The first two had flaws and some silly ideas but their tone + tension mostly worked from moment to moment, in a way that made me think of Shyamalan

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My main takeaway from last night is that In A Violent Nature was released on streaming and I am going to watch the heck out of that

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Guy on the right's trying to find the "break my neck" tipping point. Lady on the left looks like everyone feels when they have to work at a desk for more than ten minutes

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lol at these examples of GOOD ways to sit on a $1000 chair

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There's a wonderful spy-themed strategy video game called "Invisible, Inc." and you would not believe how many years it took me to realize the title was a pun

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I remember this scene from Cube. Brutal movie

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Elden Ring was so dense at launch that I either need a mind wipe or a few more years to recuperate before checking out the DLC. Have fun out there

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Then again I was twelve, and the current internet isn't as interesting to look at as Bone

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When I feel weird about people staring at phones in public I remind myself that I used to read entire comic books while walking on autopilot behind my family

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Want to feel old? The "Mad World" trailer for the first Gears of War from 2006 is now older than Madworld, the ultraviolent black+white+red Wii game released in 2009

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When life gives you a tv mounted above the candle fireplace, make ladderade

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Buying a 4K tv ten years ago and thinking, "I can't wait to watch channels continue broadcasting in 720p/1080i for a decade, compressed to shit like every overpriced streaming service"

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Somehow I never thought the Game Boy Advance's dim screen was a flaw, even though I had to use it directly under a lamp. I was like, "This thing I play 1 nanometer under lamps is great"

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Microsoft can only regain my trust by adding these lyrics to the Windows startup chime

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the penultimate panel from The Death Of Spider-Man

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Good games are when your cursor turns into a little gauntlet and bad games are when it doesn't.

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Lifelong US Supreme Court seats sort of made sense back when they were instituted because people only lived to the age of 20. Ceilings were also 5 feet 2 inches high, and the top song in the country was Racism Melody

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Childhood pictures of Miyamoto and his design for an elephant-shaped clothes hanger for kids, from the December 31, 1993 issue of Famitsu:

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"One man's crash is another man's pleasure" David Cronenberg please put this on all future releases of the film thank you

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I’ve always approached my writing (etc) on video game history as tracing the steps that led us to where we are now. These days it kinda feels like I’m creating heartwarming documentaries on the childhood of a serial murderer

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It's a thankless job, being the CEO of No Thanks Inc.

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I had one of these. A joystick was shit for most NES games but I loved it because the buttons were big and you could unscrew the balltop, which weighed more than an osmium bowling ball

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So tired of creative people being steamrolled instead of living comfortably and pursuing their art. The game industry, the creators of Space Ghost, comic artists, writers, it never ends.

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People who keep tons of browser tabs open are power users in the same way that people with bedroom floors covered in dirty laundry are power clothes wearers

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Another way to think about this is that every day ChatGPT uses a typical US family’s electrical consumption for 65 _years_. That’s the better part of a lifetime and they’re doing it to make computers less reliable.

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Rejected Men's Wearhouse slogans: "You're gonna look better than you feel, I guarantee it" "I don't even know what suits are, they pour out of the basement hole and I sell them to stem the tide" "Those tiny bones in the jacket lining are for added support"

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we prefer the term “game developer”, thanks

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Look at this postcard they made to promote my Hollywood Fringe show in June! Do you have a countertop, corkboard, or dustbin that you feel could do with livening up? Get in touch!

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The NES game Mighty Bomb Jack contains the only acceptable response to most current events

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The first PC games I ever played were Leisure Suit Larry 6 and Scorched Earth, during a sleepover at a rich friend's house. I distinctly remember hovering the cursor over a boob in this scene and feeling like I was about to be arrested in real life

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Too many games have you punch trees to collect crafting resources. Not enough games haves you punch trees because you are a fucking idiot

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Nope was the last time I was fully swept up in a movie, not anticipating plot beats or making detached observations. Just a kid happily getting tossed around on a theme park ride. That's super rare

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time for Carmack to build a rocket to launch his big brain into the nearest space toilet

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Hot dang, thanks for pointing this out. I love a good detective game more than just about anything

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If the fashion industry put more pockets in women's clothing they wouldn't need to resort to this

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It takes 2,600 quarters to open the Neo Geo Hotel Unit, but after that it's only 800 quarters per game

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Wholly in agreement with this. I particularly wish people would stop spouting apathetic doomer nonsense like “whether you like it or not, it’s here to stay” or “you can’t stop it.” We do have choices. We can have agency over technology. You don’t need to go passive just because these jerks are rich

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Say what you will about Stan Lee, but he summed up the social media experience way back in 1977

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@batman.jaydestro.org reports that the Mets have a driving crooner cam this year at the ballpark, which is beautiful and baffling as a promotion

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