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Just added to the Video Game Soda Machine Project: a glowing green vending machine from Halo Infinite, added in 2023 as part of the Critical Dewpoint map to promote Mountain Dew's Game Fuel Citrus Cherry. For the record, Critical Dewpoint is an amazing name for a Mountain Dew-themed Halo map.

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Halo Infinite

Halo Infinite and Mountain Dew reunited in 2023 to launch the Critical Dewpoint map, celebrating the return of Halo 3's Game Fuel Citrus Cherry. The map includes this vending machine that dispenses 20...

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Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com · 3h

Another day, another dozen AI-written emails from my university's administration deleted.

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Emmy @emmfoolery.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy October Eve! For Hallozeen this year, I made a 16-page walkthrough for a 36 year-old shareware classic. Primarily out of trash. I have no idea who the target audience is for this, besides me, but here you go! emmfoolery.itch.io/a-hallozeen-... #dosgaming #retrogaming

The opening game screen of Hugo's House of Horrors, by David P. Gray, for MS-DOS. A game released like, two weeks before I was born. Hugo's outside a haunted house! Spooky.

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Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com · 6h

Ooo, nice catch! I've updated both the Control Resonant and the Quantum Break entries. Thank you!

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Ian / Sìne @vonaether.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also: got you you some clearer screenshots of the Sizzle vending machines in Quantum Break. What's that non-Sizzle option on the buttons? Looks like this otherwise-unused texture (meant for the University cafeteria) for "Bright" Bright Falls Spring Water, a nod to Alan Wake.

Jack Joyce standing in front of a Sizzle cola machine.

A closeup look at all the available options on the buttons: the two two are regular, the bottom four are two each of other flavours. The remaining two are for "Bright" water.

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Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com · 12h

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Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @bvigeant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We all love verbs, but often far too unquestioningly. Today @decafjedi.com, @graysond.bsky.social and I reveal our definitive list of top 30 game verbs RANKED on Quest Quest: the adventure game podcast. Listen here or where ever: zencastr.com/z/qDVfMT5A

Maniac Mansion. Dave stands in front of a mansion.

A list of text at the bottom:
Walk to door mat
Push
Pul1
Give

Open
Close
Read

Walk to
Pick
What

UP
is

Unlock
New kid
Use

Turn on
Turn off
Fix

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Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com · 29/09/2026

This week on Quest Quest, @bvigeant.bsky.social and I are joined by @graysond.bsky.social to tackle a deeply important task: ranking the TOP 30 VERBS in adventure gaming history! Join us for a definitive countdown that changes EVERYTHING! Listen here (or anywhere): zencastr.com/z/qDVfMT5A

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Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com · 29/09/2026

I had a professor who got so mad at the class for not doing the assigned reading that he started throwing books at us and told us not to come back until we were ready to learn. After he stormed out, we all agreed to take the next two weeks off. 😁

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Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com · 29/09/2026

I'm really enjoying working on the Video Game Soda Machine Project again. If nothing else, it's given me an excuse to play literally dozens of games I probably never would have played otherwise.

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Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com · 29/09/2026

New at the Video Game Soda Machine Project: a vending machine from The Wreck, a 3D visual novel about memory, family, and a very difficult day in the life of failed screenwriter Junon.

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The Wreck is a 3D visual novel about memory, family, and a very difficult day in the life of failed screenwriter Junon. Meanwhile, this vending machine stocked full of snack and drinks just hangs out ...

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Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com · 29/09/2026

If I had been around in Old West times, I'd like to think I would've been one of the kids who ran into the street to loot the dead body as soon as a gunfight was over.

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Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com · 29/09/2026

What he yelled wasn't entirely applicable to me, so I wasn't exactly victimized by it. I'm just flabbergasted at what a shitty little dude this kid was.

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Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com · 29/09/2026

A school bus just drove by while I was waiting at the crosswalk in front of my office, and some little shit stuck his head out the window and yelled a slur at me. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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grayson @graysond.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Honored to join for what might be the most canonical work of video games criticism to date

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Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com · 29/09/2026

FWIW, this is one of my favorite episodes we've recorded.

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Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com · 29/09/2026

I think I've totaled my car with pizza stink.

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Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com · 29/09/2026

If I had been around in Old West times, I'd like to think I would've been one of the kids who ran into the street to loot the dead body as soon as a gunfight was over.

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Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com · 29/09/2026

That said, I'm going to take anything that a site called "Visual Capitalist" says with a grain of salt.

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Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com · 28/09/2026

An amazing quote from a student's essay on Stardew Valley: "I can escape capitalism, but capitalism cannot escape me."

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Ian / Sìne @vonaether.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@decafjedi.com Control: Resonant brings back both the Limu machines from Alan Wake 2, and also the 1950s-style machines from Control.

Dylan Faden standing in front of a Limu Lime-Lemon soda machine in a gym.

Dylan Faden standing in front of two Limu Lime-Lemon soda machines, lit by internal lights, in a subway.

Dylan Faden standing in front of one of those old fashioned yellow soda machines that looks like a 1950s refrigerator, inside the Oldest House.

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Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com · 28/09/2026

"Spock! — aren't you supposed to be dead?" "I rebooted!" Ah, yes... Star Trek V, the film where Spock famously returns from the dead.

Star Trek V game print advertisement. Source: Game Player's PC Strategy Guide Vol. 3 No. 1 (January-February 1990).

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Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com · 28/09/2026

New at the Video Game Soda Machine Project: I traveled to Deep Space Nine to grab a screenshot of this replimat from Star Trek Online. Normally, I wouldn't consider a replicator a vending machine, but this one accepts credits and dispenses root beer, so... that sounds like a vending machine to me.

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Captain's Log, Stardate 86088.6: After completing the Starfleet tutorial and taking command of the U.S.S. Stalwart, I immediately set a course for Deep Space 9 at maximum warp. Upon arrival, I discove...

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Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com · 28/09/2026

I played a couple hours of Star Trek Online to grab this screenshot, and let me tell you, the Federation tutorial is bananas. In the first hour, a new player will destroy something like 12 Borg ships, including a Borg Cube and a Borg Sphere. Where does a game even go from there to raise the stakes?

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Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com · 28/09/2026

I bet Quark is making a fortune on these.

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Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com · 28/09/2026

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Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com · 28/09/2026

I assume it's meant to reference Kirk's quip to Spock after the Kobayashi Maru scene in Star Trek II: "Aren't you dead?" You know, several movies ago.

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Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com · 28/09/2026

"Spock! — aren't you supposed to be dead?" "I rebooted!" Ah, yes... Star Trek V, the film where Spock famously returns from the dead.

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Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @bvigeant.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I know it's the end of the regular season, a little too late, but each inning at a major league baseball game should have a bespoke little video introducing it like the questions in You Don't Know Jack

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Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com · 16/11/2024

Popeye 3: WrestleCrazy is probably the best wrestling game ever made, because Popeye wrestles the Xenomorph from Alien.

A screenshot from Popeye 3: WrestleCrazy. Popeye is facing off against the Xenomorph from Alien in a wrestling ring.

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Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com · 27/09/2026

Ooo, thank you! I usually don't archive coffee machines on the site, but I appreciate the screenshot!

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Mashfiq Ahmed @mrahmedgaming.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

@decafjedi.com I was playing Mouthwashing and spotted this, does this count as as soda machine?

Screenshot from the video game Mouthwashing of a coffee machine next to a food machine.

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Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com · 21/05/2026

Ken Williams writes about his wife, King's Quest designer and fellow Sierra co-founder, Roberta Williams, and her desire to push the technological envelope. Source: InterAction, Fall 1994.

In a way, Roberta is part of the problem. She is consciously designing products that won't run on three year old computers."

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Ian @hylian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You can find me at the

Thirst station

It’s just a fountain drink dispenser named “thirst station”

Control:Resonant

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Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com · 27/09/2026

Nice try, but you'll never convince me to read anything.

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Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com · 26/09/2026

Agentic AI.

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 23/09/2026

i want to burn every data centre to the ground

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Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com · 25/09/2026

"These guys got problems! Jeff just wants to party. Bernard's flashlight batteries are going dead. Syd and Razor are just trying to start a band. Then on top of it all, Dave's girlfriend Sandy gets kidnapped, and she's being held captive by strange Dr. Fred." — Maniac Mansion print ad, 1987.

Maniac Mansion print advertisement. Source: Compute!'s Gazette Issue 53, Vol. 5, No. 11 (November 1987).

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Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com · 25/09/2026

Ted Lasso feels like it's in the midst of a season that should rightfully drop it off the list completely.

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