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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 18h

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is.

Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.

Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.

an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 20h

Sometimes I hear this song with some sort of person singing it and I think "you're messing it all up."

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 30/09/2026

Look at these kids react to the protagonist - this is the kind of thing that, if it is at all reflective of the game itself, is gonna sell me all the way through

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 29/09/2026

You go to the store and all you can find is garbage like this. And they tell me they only got one copy of grand theft auto? Come on!

I'm holding the saturn cases for battle garegga, blast wknd, hyper duel, and batsugun in front of shelves of other saturn games.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 28/09/2026

Proboards just updated their terms of service for their forum software, essentially saying "you give us the right to use anything you post to train LLMs, and we can also disclose and sell your personal information, fuck you." One of the worst of these I've ever seen. www.proboards.com/tos

15. USER CONTENT

"User Content" is any content, materials or information, not including Personal Information (as defined in ProBoards' Privacy Policy), that You upload or post to, or transmit, display, perform or distribute by means of, the Website, whether in connection with Your use of Services or otherwise. To clarify, You maintain full ownership of all your User Content posted to ProBoards. Because You own Your User Content, under the law, ProBoards requires a license from You before it can allow the User Content to be posted on the Website. For these reasons, the following provision is a necessary part of this Agreement:

YOU HEREBY GRANT THE PROBOARDS PARTIES A PERPETUAL, FULLY PAID-UP, WORLDWIDE, SUBLICENSABLE, IRREVOCABLE, ASSIGNABLE LICENSE TO COPY, DISTRIBUTE, TRANSMIT, PUBLICLY DISPLAY OR PERFORM, EDIT, TRANSLATE, REFORMAT, ADAPT, PREPARE DERIVATIVE WORKS OF AND OTHERWISE USE USER CONTENT (INCLUDING FOR LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING BY US AND/OR OUR PARTNERS) IN CONNECTION WITH THE OPERATION OF THE WEBSITE, SERVICES OR ANY OTHER SIMILAR OR RELATED BUSINESS, IN ANY MEDIUM NOW EXISTING OR LATER DEVISED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION IN ADVERTISING AND PUBLICITY. YOU FURTHER AGREE THAT THE PROBOARDS PARTIES MAY PUBLISH OR OTHERWISE DISCLOSE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION IN CONNECTION WITH THEIR EXERCISE OF THE LICENSE GRANTED UNDER THIS SECTION. YOU AGREE TO WAIVE, AND HEREBY WAIVE, ANY CLAIMS ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO THE EXERCISE BY THE PROBOARDS PARTIES OF THE RIGHTS GRANTED UNDER THIS SECTION, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY CLAIMS RELATING TO YOUR RIGHTS OF PERSONAL PRIVACY AND PUBLICITY. YOU ALSO AGREE THAT THE PROBOARDS PARTIES MAY REMOVE METADATA ASSOCIATED WITH YOUR USER CONTENT, AND YOU IRREVOCABLY WAIVE ANY CLAIMS AND ASSERTIONS OF MORAL RIGHTS OR ATTRIBUTION WITH RESPECT TO YOUR USER CONTENT. YOU WILL NOT BE COMPENSATED FOR ANY EXERCISE OF THE LICENSE GRANTED UNDER THIS SECTION.

You hereby represent and warrant that You own all ri…

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 28/09/2026

Forgot I took a photo of the good sonic ice cream grafitti in the neighborhood

Spray painted block letters in teal and yellow say LE CH with a melty sonic ice cream pop in the middle, to possibly spell leach, with a pink ice cream cone to the right. The sonic pop has green gumball eyes and is dripping in various places.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 26/09/2026

According to the Wikipedia page (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_El...) there was a contest in which you could win a trip to the Daytona 500 - I suspect the jacket may be a consolation prize for that, especially since it's made in USA which is quite rare. but the entry form is blurry and I can't confirm!

A very pixelated contest form stating you can win a trip to the daytona 500. All the details are garbled visually.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 26/09/2026

A small mystery: I found this jacket in Japan, but I can't figure out it's exact provenance. It appears to commemorate konami's Bill Elliott's NASCAR from 1992 on the nes, which was the first ever licensed NASCAR game. but I can't find evidence of the jacket existing. So what/when is it from?

Close up of the tag, the only interesting piece of info is that it's made in USA.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 25/09/2026

Here's another. It's more conventional, but you can see why the main composer (Akihito Okawa) went into making synthesizer sounds after this.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 25/09/2026

BTW this game has a fantastic fusion soundtrack, for fans of casiopea, t-square, masayoshi takanaka, etc

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 23/09/2026

They'll let you buy as much D as you can afford in there. Me, I'd rather go across the street and get a pizzer

The menu for pizzeria citraba. They for some reason just spell it "pizzer," which they also do on the box! The pizza is mediocre but it's better than going to the D-PIT

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 22/09/2026

Martial plarts Martial plarts... Martial... Plarts

A sign for a "martial plarts" gym. It says "with nature. With plants. With martial arts." weirdly it is an mma gym

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 18/09/2026

The line to get inside now goes around the corner. Truly a monument to planning failure

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 17/09/2026

I'm really impressed that - as bad as the Tokyo Game Show registration process always is - they set aside some time each year to make sure it gets worse. Sincerely, a guy who's been a line for 30 minutes that he still can't see the end of.

A huge line of people spanning about three lanes of a freeway in width, and receding toward who knows what conclusion, because it is not visible from where I am

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 16/09/2026

Pretty decent selection of beta anime tapes at mandarake in nakano. Cc @animevidmuseum.bsky.social

Beta tapes for derty pair (a double set), wanna-be's, project a-ko, patlabor, and mujigen hunter fandora are lined up on a shelf at mandarake

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 14/09/2026

Super embarrassing to have Unseen's CEO asking musk to check out her game (while also spelling his name wrong in the comic). I've heard some worrying stuff about Unseen's leadership and this does not negate it.

Ikumi Nakamura publicly tweets:

Hello @elonmusk 👋
A bit nervous to ask this publicly, but—
we’re hosting a small experimental closed event for KEMURI at our UNSEEN studio in Tokyo during TGS.
If you’re around, I’d love to invite you.
I also have something I’d like to talk with you about regarding UNSEEN.
Can we talk in DM? 🙂

A comic from the post, which is called "tesla mask" (U being mistaken for A is a common Japanese English error.

In the first panel, ikumi is getting seated at the game awards. She says "oh, I know the guy next to me from somewhere, what's his name. Um... Mmm"

In the second panel she's seated next to Elon Musk and says "Ah! A you tesla musk-san right?"

In the third panel musk says "hello" and she says "thank you"

In the fourth panel it's a sketch of a photo of them at the game awards with tears added down her face. The caption says "no, sir. He is Elon Musk-san"

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 13/09/2026

Casiopea was pretty good - sorry for the terrible video, I was not close!

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 12/09/2026

We went to videotheque, a great movie rental store which also sells quite a few things. Got the full first run of Columbo. I dunno if this person works there but their bumper sticker game is strong. Recommended if you're on the east side of LA!

A white crown Victoria has a bunch of bumper stickers on it, including "follow me to videotheque" "bi on board, please hit on me" "proud parent of a VHS collection" "quit honkin' I'm too horny to think" and "honk if you're haunted"

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 12/09/2026

If you're looking for VCDs in 2026 you can still find them in Monterey Park. I love browsing stores that just never got rid of whatever they had 30 years ago.

Stacks of Chinese language DVDs are visible on shelves below a bunch of vcds, including the sixth sense

Here's what I got. Three DVDs, including Hong Kong Bronx and Naked soldier, 4 canto pop cds, and 2 vcds including FIST POWER and another one I've never heard of.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 12/09/2026

2nd Loop arcade in Torrance is a really nice 90s-style arcade with dozens of candy cabs in a small space and a nice community vibe. $5 for 30 mins of play (or you can pay as you go)

Several candy cabs are lined up with red cushioned stools in front of them on a black and white checkered floor and pale blue lighting. CvS2 is visible on the closest screen.

More arcade machines, with a driving seat in the foreground (for wangan midnight tune 3)

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 09/09/2026

Don't forget to check out the pet stores when it gets closer to Halloween

A wolfy brown and tan Chihuahua lays on her side atop a blue blanket inside an enclosed dog bed that is basically bloody vampire teeth. Imagine a mimic treasure chest but the white teeth have bloody fangs, the interior is red, and the exterior is black.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 09/09/2026

AI could never match the power of this ad for soup dumplings at Kang Kang Food Court

On an storefront window a giant, 7 foot high lit sign depicts an Asian woman biting into a soup dumpling. A whole bunch of brown juice is disgustingly spurting out the other side of the dumpling so it kind of looks like she's throwing up through it. There's also a regular looking ad for beef noodle stew, which is just a picture of beef noodle stew in a red bowl with some black chopsticks laid across.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 08/09/2026

Album and single downloads, like from bandcamp, were even lower than cds, which is a surprise.

Among other stats, you can see that single downloads fell to $49.1m and album downloads fell to $53.8m

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 08/09/2026

Since most articles seem to omit it, the number cds rose to was $171m, while vinyl rose to $544m. Still a combined lower number than even ad supported streaming revenue, but still cool to see. Full report here: www.riaa.com/reports/2026...

An info graphic from the riaa shows all music revenue rose to $6b, with paid subscriptions accounting for $3.4b of that. Vinyl rose to $544m, cds rose over 50% to $171m, but streaming was srkll the majority.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 07/09/2026

This was in a store full of cats and cat-related products called Catnip Coalition. Pretty good.

A sleeping ball of orange and white tabby kitten sleeps contendedly in a leopard print cat tower.

A shirt that says "I'm from the streets of lasagnales" with an illustration of Garfield pointing to the LA cityscape

Two orange tabby kittens stare out a shop window very intensely, from atop a kitty litter box.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 02/09/2026

Maybe you're smarter than I am but I was not prepared for the origin of this Tom Sizemore vehicle

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/09/2026

lots of good art in Taipei around that time period lol

A shirt on a mannequin of mario nailed to a cross as jesus christ in blue overalls, with a crown of thorns, and nails the color of his gold buttons in his hands and feet. he is smiling though his face is beaten up.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 29/08/2026

Overall quite stylish for a 1996 cyberpunk effort, even if the actual play is pretty pedestrian.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 29/08/2026

Though Atari's marketing for the Jaguar was all buster, most haven't seen the best looking 3D game on the console as it came out 4 years after its death. Check out Skyhammer, by Rebellion.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 26/08/2026

Like I don't KNOW that he improvised his lines, but they're peak Curry in many places, so it feels like it.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 26/08/2026

If you are looking for an under-seen but perfectly unhinged Tim Curry performance check out the (Nickelodeon!) made for TV teen post apocalyptic movie Doom Runners.

The back of the box. The tag line of the film is "dark. Polluted. Dangerous." Tim Curry is there wearing what looks like a low budget stillsuit from the David lynch Dune.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 25/08/2026

I tried to be optimistic! I stand by this bit.

"One thing I'd like to impress upon everyone out there: No matter what's going on in the world, collective action still works."

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 23/08/2026

The sub version is cheaper but today I decided to treat myself

It's grated parmesan from trader Joe's, seen from the top, looking at the big white and red label. It costs $5.99. For some reason the label says GRATED PARMESAN (DOM).

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 23/08/2026

BTW whenever you find four sealed tapwave zodiac games at the record store, don't forget to check whether your console has grown weird mold all over the rubber bits

I'm holding four sealed tapwave zodiac games. They are about tbe size of a dvd case despite just holding SD cards. I have GTS racing challenge, Tony hawk vs pro skater 3, z-pak adventure, and Tiger team apache vs hind.

Holding my tapwave zodiac whuch looks nice from the front. It's like if you held a palm pilot horizontally. It has an analog stick on the left, four buttons on the right, and a leather shield over the screen.

The zodiac is seen from the side now. All the rubber is covered with small white growths.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 21/08/2026

Colin Jost is a good game show host in my opinion (volume up)

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 19/08/2026

@videogamebeach.bsky.social BTW in case you haven't gotten these, there are beaches is basically every EDF, and there's a fake (but I think it still counts) in simple series 63, the suieitaikai

I'm holding the suiei taikai for Ps2. A bunch of polygonal ladies in bikinis are kind of hovering over a pool that's in a different perspective from them.

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