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Greg @firsthour.net · 08/09/2026

Trying to work out the difference between these two radio options when unsubscribing. I even took a logic course in college

Option 1: Unsubscribe from all promotional emails for Broadway Across America.
Option 2: Unsubscirbe from all Broadway Across America promotional emails.

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Greg @firsthour.net · 03/09/2026

This is an insane price for the Final Fantasy VII Remake trilogy on Steam!! $15 for Remake and Rebirth? WOW

$70 for Final Fantasy VII Revelation
$8.25 for Rebirth
$6.75 for Remake Intergrade

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Greg @firsthour.net · 31/08/2026

Just watched The Invite from Olivia Wilde and I think it's the best directed film of the year, she's also tremendously great acting in it too

The Invite poster with Seth Rogan, Olivia Wilde, Penelope Cruz, and Edward Norton.

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Greg @firsthour.net · 29/08/2026

@jesawyer.bsky.social I feel like I should have notified you about this Toyota Hiace that was available in my turn a few years ago in Wisconsin

Red heavily modified(?) Toyota Hiace with sirens for sale

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Greg @firsthour.net · 19/08/2026

This is the greatest character on The Bear and I can't believe it took almost five complete seasons to introduce him. Yes, chef. Chef! CHUFFF!!

Screenshot of The Bear of Mr Mitchell reporting for duty

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Greg @firsthour.net · 19/08/2026

The world of Satisfactory is a very dangerous place but also has respawning if you die. Of course there are innumerable ways to die: radiation, monsters, falling, etc. It would be very cool though and would keep me busy.

Screenshot of Satisfactory from a tall height looking down on an extensive coal power plant factory.

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Greg @firsthour.net · 02/08/2026

Last night we watched Swing Girls, incredible movie! Great slapstick and music!

Swing Girls poster featuring a Japanese school girl jumping in the air with a used saxophone.

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Greg @firsthour.net · 30/07/2026

Epic added another step to grabbing a free game asking you to download the launcher if you don't have it installed (which I don't on my laptop), and the download was blocked by Windows

Windows detected Trojan:Win32/Pomal!rfn in Epic Games Installer.

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Greg @firsthour.net · 29/07/2026

Would @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social approve of The Odyssey episode of Wishbone we just watched??

Wishbone the dog as Odysseus in the Wishbone episode of The Odyssey called Homer Sweet Homer.

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Greg @firsthour.net · 22/07/2026

I didn't realize that Super Mario Odyssey was such a straight retelling of the source material where Bowser plays a suitor to marry Peach while Mario is away on his ship encountering monsters

Bowser as a suitor ready for his wedding with Peach

Robert Pattinson as Antinous in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey

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Greg @firsthour.net · 22/07/2026

I don't think Sony should get rid of physical games!

Stack of PS4 games:
Persona 5 Strikers
Batman Arkham Knight
Hitman 3
Divinity Original Sin 2
Persona 5 Royal
Last Guardian
Yakuza Kiwami
Like a Dragon
Metal Gear Solid 5
Final Fantasy XV
Shadow of War Mordor Middle Earth
Spider-Man
Spider-Man Miles Morales
Hitman 2
Unchartered Lost Legacy
Yakuza 0
Mass Effect Andromeda
Detroit Become Human
Disco Elysium
Jedi Fallen Order Star Wars
Final Fantasy VII Remake
Horizon Zero Dawn
Titanfall 2
Shenmue 1+2
Assassin's Creed Origins
Uncharted Nathan Drake Collection
Uncharted 4
Nier Automata
Witcher 3

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Greg @firsthour.net · 07/07/2026

Got an Ayn Thor and connected Game Native to is then synced my Steam, GOG, Epic, and Amazon accounts. Absolutely crazy how in theory these games will play. @celestegame.bsky.social played amazing and Esoteric Ebb crashed pretty quick. Either way excited to work on my backlog with this device

Game Native android app on the Ayn Thor showing a few games on Steam.

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Greg @firsthour.net · 02/07/2026

Show me a cool physical game

Shenmue cardboard box for Sega Dreamcast

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Greg @firsthour.net · 26/06/2026

Hey this Mamdani guy is pretty cool and has good opinions.

Results to political quiz aligns with Zohran Mamdani.

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Greg @firsthour.net · 24/06/2026

Watching Jane Campion's HOLY SMOKE and there's this talky scene with Harvey Keitel where a character walks into frame with his back to the camera offering pizza, and then turns around and he's got a broken nose with blood all over his shirt from running into a pole at the end of the previous scene

Harvey Keitel and Fabio with blood all over his shirt and a broken nose in Jane Campion's movie Holy Smoke.

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Greg @firsthour.net · 15/06/2026

100% in Mina the Hollower from @yachtclubgames.bsky.social! Over 30 hours of great gaming

100% completion save info screen in Mina the Hollower.

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Greg @firsthour.net · 14/06/2026

Watched Jane Campion's An Angel at My Table and while an impressive biopic, I LOVED the casting as the character aged up

Real life poet Janet Frame portrayed at three different ages by three red-headed actresses. Teenager Karen Fergusson, child Alexia Keogh, and adult Kerry Fox.

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Greg @firsthour.net · 14/06/2026

Classic storytelling structure and trope in book 8 of Dungeon Crawler Carl A Parade of Horribles, no spoilers

Samantha looked around the room suspiciously. "Ooohh, I get it. You're doing that thing where you're being all secret about the plan and not telling anybody because of people know about it ahead of time, then it fails, but if you keep it a big secret before it happens, then you know it works. I'm doing that, too."

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Greg @firsthour.net · 12/06/2026

Here's the key chart, kind of amazing Remake cost even more than Rebirth but I'm sure some of that went into the early aborted attempts along with building the infrastructure for the whole trilogy

Chart showing FF7 Remake cost 209 billion yen, Rebirth 185b, Forspoken 137b, FF16 91b, Dragon's Dogma 2 105b, and Monster Hunter Rise 28b

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Greg @firsthour.net · 12/06/2026

The "sorry to jet" line used to be so cutting and dismissive! The delivery was incredible.

On the left, Fox McCloud in Star Fox 64 saying "Sorry to jet, but I'm in a hurry!" On the right, Fox in Star Fox for Switch 2 saying "Sorry to jet, but we've got places to be."

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Greg @firsthour.net · 11/06/2026

2000 day streak in Duolingo!

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Greg @firsthour.net · 05/06/2026

Easy to soft lock in Mina the Hollower if you approach this stage in the last level from the left side

Tile flipping stage in Mina the Hollower

Stuck in Mina between large unflipped tile and grass

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Greg @firsthour.net · 01/06/2026

Added my "100% Human Made - No AI Used" pledge to the footer of my site firsthour.net

footer of site reads "Copyright 2026 Greg Noe - 100% Human Made - No AI Used"

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Greg @firsthour.net · 29/05/2026

Mina the Hollower has a full screen jump scare of a monster face that I found by burrowing around in complete darkness, I don't know why it's in the game but it's kinda funny in a 2004 sort of way

Jump scare monster face in Mina the Hollower

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Greg @firsthour.net · 27/05/2026

I bought a complete boxed set of Harvest Moon for the Super Famicom because of this post lol

Box, manual, and cartridge for Harvest Moon for the Super Famicom

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Greg @firsthour.net · 27/05/2026

Dragon Quest XII is getting Metroid Prime 4'd

"but due to a reshuffle of the team and a restart of development, it's going to be a bit longer till it's in your hands."

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Greg @firsthour.net · 20/05/2026

Quote with a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap

Blue Giant anime cast playing piano, saxophone, and drums.

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Greg @firsthour.net · 14/05/2026

Having a cake in Mouthwashing on my birthday, what a joyful game!

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Greg @firsthour.net · 04/05/2026

Uhhh I have a new second favorite John Carpenter movie I guess

Starman poster starring Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen

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Greg @firsthour.net · 01/05/2026

Does it work from my phone?

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Greg @firsthour.net · 30/04/2026

Well it's supposed to be my box art of Wonder Project J2 let me try again

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Greg @firsthour.net · 30/04/2026

First game I ever imported. I think I played it once.

Wonder Project J2 for the Nintendo 64 box

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Greg @firsthour.net · 14/04/2026

Tornado sirens in the middle of the night along with a giant downed limb next door that briefly caught on fire from the power lines it caught on

Giant limb near a street with power lines caught in it. Red lighting from fire trucks.

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Greg @firsthour.net · 03/04/2026

He's got the Hunger & Thirst

Amanda Seyfried in Testament of Ann Lee holding her hands out.

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Greg @firsthour.net · 17/03/2026

Snowblowing today after the blizzard

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Greg @firsthour.net · 17/03/2026

Theory from Reddit that it was a miscalculated bet from Rachel Dratch

Same wager? Does 9101 have meaning?

I had the same question hopefully someone knows. Google seemed to fail me.

Someone else in the thread said it was to cover Katie’s amount. Makes sense now lol

It's the other way around. 9101 is what Katie needed to cover Rachel's max bet. That's what the other commenter was saying.

I think Rachel betting 9101 was a mistake. She was probably trying to do the math and got flipped around and bet Katie's cover amount instead. So not actually a coincidence despite appearances.

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Greg @firsthour.net · 10/03/2026

Had to pick this glass up when I saw it in a random store a few months ago

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Greg @firsthour.net · 04/03/2026

Was the Salesforce Albert Einstein drawn by Akira Toriyama? Goku ass hair

Salesforce Albert Einstein with spiky hair like Goku drawn by Toriyama.

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Greg @firsthour.net · 02/03/2026

Started watching the Norwegian Wood film adaptation last night from 2010 and it has Shigesato Itoi in it!

Shigesato Itoi from the Japanese film Norwegian Wood.

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Greg @firsthour.net · 22/02/2026

Just saw the Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Golden Saucer scene with Yuffie for the first time where she shoots energy blasts and it's the cutest thing ever

Yuffie laughing after shooting Cloud with an energy blast in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

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Greg @firsthour.net · 12/02/2026

Been playing 100 Line Last Defense Academy and this is a hilarious game, on like day 82 and the writing is localization is incredible

Kurara says "if you had nyotaimori sushi on her feverish naked body, the heat would slowly warm the sashimi and deepen the unami..."

Kurara says "I'm not going to let you use Nozomi as a hot plate! Get out of here, you pervert freak!"

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Greg @firsthour.net · 09/02/2026

Stardew Valley turns 10 in a few weeks, I wonder if I was the game's first fan?

Tweet from @firsthour on September 5, 2012:
Decent looking Harvest Moon clone on Steam Greenlight: Stardew Valley. I will definitely keep an eye on this

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Greg @firsthour.net · 09/02/2026

My review also has my screenshot of the game that is evergreen

Ayame to Harue in Paranormasight: "Then you know that cops are just the worst people, right!?"

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Greg @firsthour.net · 02/02/2026

Watched Hirokazu Kore-eda's AFTER LIFE last night for the first time in six years, instantly went into my @letterboxd.social favorites (replacing SHOPLIFTERS, sorry boss). Honestly he's our greatest living director

AFTER LIFE cover of five people standing in an empty field

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