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Joe Fourhman @fourhman.com · 4h

This young lady caused me to trip down the stairs last week. But we’re cool now.

May, a black/gray tabby, relaxing on a couch.

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Joe Fourhman @fourhman.com · 24/09/2026

Walmart’s holiday toy catalog has no Xbox anything in it.

The only spread in the 2026 Walmart toy catalog with video games in it. The left page is all Nintendo Switch 2, and the right page is divided into four sections: Nex Playground, PS5, Meta Quest, and a chair. No prices are listed for anything.

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Joe Fourhman @fourhman.com · 22/09/2026

jeez, they’re even making peanuts out of plants these days

Close up of a can of peanuts with “plant-based protein” on it.

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Joe Fourhman @fourhman.com · 20/09/2026

Feels like the glory days of the CW again.

A paused episode of Stuart Whatever with Jay Garrick standing against a giant ice ball, and just so happens the pause ad is for Lanterns.

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Joe Fourhman @fourhman.com · 16/09/2026

Boy, you don’t see this often. #boardgames

Update from a recent Van Ryder Games’ Final Girl release
“
Due to the tariffs being ruled unconstitutional, we are refunding the tariff surcharge fees on this project for all USA backers.
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Joe Fourhman @fourhman.com · 13/09/2026

Today, in NYC, in 2012, the dream of the Wii U was alive.

Nintendo Wii U event in NYC. Rented event space full of demo kiosks and couches.

Wii U demo with comfy chairs and blue lighting

Wii U demo event with a ton of people. An on-cam interview is happening

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Joe Fourhman @fourhman.com · 12/09/2026

So you know how Nintendo used to change the eShop to red to celebrate Mario or whatever

The PlayStation app icon, which is usually blue, appears to be Wolverine Yellow.

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Joe Fourhman @fourhman.com · 10/09/2026

oh man, KJ Apa doing the same hand-on-mouth thing in the "should I take this job" scene as Jimmy Stewart does during "I'm at the end of my rope" scene in It's a Wonderful Life

still from trailer for "Jimmy" where KJ Apa plays Jimmy Stewart

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Joe Fourhman @fourhman.com · 09/09/2026

They took one of the most difficult co-ops and made it a legacy game. We finally won the first chapter of Regicide Legacy on game five. #boardgames

Regicide Legacy board game. The hand is simple numbered and suited cards.

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Joe Fourhman @fourhman.com · 07/09/2026

I have no special interest in this being a Legally Distinct Predator (I really wish Final Girl would do less franchise-nostalgia-baiting,) but the enemy boss hidden movement thing in this one is really good. #boardgames

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Joe Fourhman @fourhman.com · 06/09/2026

Least effort ad post he’s ever done.

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Joe Fourhman @fourhman.com · 03/09/2026

Why it’s only the Futuristic Arena Sports Simulation Game from the creator of Glider.

For Macintesh
PARARENA
FUTURISTIC ARENA SPORTS SIMULATION GAME
The announcer's voice booms against the stadium's backdrop of black night and sparkling stars. Two armored opponents, this time a man and an extremely dangerous woman, swoop threateningly close to each other on hoverboards and then face each other for battle.
A ball is launched into the stadium's playing
field, a parabolic dish perched somewhere in outer space. The crowd's screams
INSTANT REPLAY
become wild with anticipation and the most exciting, sports simulation game of the millennium—Pararena 2.0—begins.
Game players compete against one of six computer opponents, or if you choose, against one human opponent on an Apple Talk® network. The idea is to score period. Scoop up and shoot the ball into your goal-easier said than done. Your opponent will be blocking, attacking, grunting and trying to knock you into deep
space. Just
Challenge your opponent in the parabolic stadium. Instant replay feature allows
the icons below
let 'em try!!!
you to replay the score and see just how to score again or defend.
Fully expect to lose hours to challenging fun, increasing skills, and Pararena-itis! Start with large-sized, easy goals. Battle your way past Simple George, with his slow, tank-like strategy. Don't get cocky-Miss
* Hutomoticanu Bring up Inis Uiolog
Teak is waiting for you! Think you've got it licked? Ha! Try again with
Choose your opponent carefully! They smaller-sized goals. It's a whole new game.
are a tough bunch.
Vintage John Calhoun! Calhoun, author of Glider 4.0 (Macworld Game Hall
of Fame Award Winner, has done it again. Pararena 2.0 is steeped in Calhoun's tradition of attention to detail, from the unique sounds (the players' armor clinking, the roar of the crowd, stadium vendors hawking peanuts) to the physics of the hoverboards gliding over the stadium dish. Still, the greatest of the Calhoun tradition, is ENDLESS FUN!
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THE WIZARDWORKS GROUP
MINNEAPOLIS, MIN 55447
Macintosh is a…

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Joe Fourhman @fourhman.com · 03/09/2026

Have to go through these and decide what to do with them. Pretty sure the actual games are somewhere else.

Box of old Mac game boxes, including various After Darks and Sim games.

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Joe Fourhman @fourhman.com · 02/09/2026

Here’s a good find. Several issues of the Odyssey2 fan club magazine, and a bunch of advertising flyers.

Five issues of the fan club magazine for the Odyssey2, featuring some very hip 1980s tech scene art. This console had a vision, that’s for sure.

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Joe Fourhman @fourhman.com · 30/08/2026

Going to solo Doubt is Our Product by playing both sides myself. #boardgames

Doubt is Our Product board game arranged in starting setup. The b&w cards and mat of the Company vs the blue and purple elements of the Movement. I made some help cards and some token organizers.

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Joe Fourhman @fourhman.com · 29/08/2026

We had a basement flood many years ago that destroyed what I thought was all of my Game Boy boxes. Turns out a select few were stashed in the attic.

A dozen or so Game Boy boxes. Several licensed games like Batman Return of the Joker and Jungle Book, but also some oddballs like Dr Franken and Avenging Spirit.

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Joe Fourhman @fourhman.com · 25/08/2026

Delete all people from Stage Tour immediately and start again.

Apparently a guitar player character from the upcoming Stage Tour. Looks like the humansona of first draft movie Sonic the Hedgehog.

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Joe Fourhman @fourhman.com · 19/08/2026

The board gamers’ stupid fascination with Kallax furniture means that every new big game comes in a cube box that is a pain in the ass to get stuff out of.

The Giant Cube of Horror on the Orient Express.

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Joe Fourhman @fourhman.com · 16/08/2026

Pretty good gag, where after 40 minutes of setting up, you turn the rulebook page and are greeted with “what is going on here?” #boardgames

Horror on the Orient Express board game, set up for one player, which is taking up an entire dining room table.

Page 16 of the rulebook, with a section sub-head “WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?”

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Joe Fourhman @fourhman.com · 15/08/2026

Played a bunch of Decko. Good stuff. #boardgames

Decko board game. A poker game where you change and customize your deck and Jokers have wild abilities. What does that sound like.

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Joe Fourhman @fourhman.com · 13/08/2026

Some day I’m going to get one of those doohickeys that lets you use these things on a TV newer than 1989.

An Odyssey 500 and Odyssey2, in boxes, in great condition.

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Joe Fourhman @fourhman.com · 11/08/2026

Every time I walk past these boxes, I wonder if I should get stickers of the new (old) DC logo and update them.

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Joe Fourhman @fourhman.com · 11/08/2026

now only one property needs to sign off to make this officially an earth 616 event

Pizzazz from February 1978, featuring C-3PO, Captain America, Dr Strange and Linda Ronstadt

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Joe Fourhman @fourhman.com · 09/08/2026

How about a perfect park build in Lands of Amazement. #boardgames

ButtonShy’s Lands of Amazement solo card game. The contiguous shape created by layering cards matches the goal shape card, and all of the required portfolio icons are present.

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Joe Fourhman @fourhman.com · 07/08/2026

Can’t browse an issue of Comic Shop News without being utterly flummoxed by something. Paragraphs about a new MaryJane book, but no mention of what it’s called or when it’s out. And no pay off on the famous quote either.

There is a sentence in comics history that has been quoted, parodied and celebrated for nearly sixty years, and it belongs entirely to one character. When Mary Jane Watson finally stepped out from behind that famous flower bouquet in Amazing Spider-Man #42, she didn't just make an entrance, she rewrote what a supporting character could mean. She's been Peter Parker's great love, his wife, his almost-wife (thanks, Me-phisto), his anchor and his heartbreak ever since.
Marvel is giving her a solo special she's arguably deserved for decades.
This issue puts Mary Jane front and center, not as a supporting player orbiting Peter's drama, but as the lead in her own story with her own stakes.
The title itself is a wink at that legendary first line, and the book leans fully into MJ's full history without being weighed down by it.
and we're so glad to see his name on a current comic.
The entire creative team treats MJ as the fully-formed, fiercely independent character she has always been at her best, the actress, the survivor, the
J.M. DeMatteis brings a writer's
woman who always knew what she was
sensitivity to characters who feel real
signing up for.
under pressure. His long history with the Spider-Man corner of the Marvel universe means he understands exactly what makes Mary Jane tick,
If you've ever felt like MJ deserved mor than a subplot, this is the book you've been waiting for. Pick it up.

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Joe Fourhman @fourhman.com · 06/08/2026

Completed solo challenge #3 of JISOGI. Here’s my anime studio and the four shows we created. Ended the game at max points, with no money (no debt either), but good merchandise deals and a little hype. #boardgames

Some cards from the board game JISOGI. Five cards represent the staff of an anime studio. Four larger cards represent anime trends, each with three tiles on them that explain the setting, plot and twist for each show.

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Joe Fourhman @fourhman.com · 01/08/2026

Need to put a stop to people thinking it’s ok to share AI slop images just because they agree with the message. (Unrelated photo of Snoopy attached.)

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Joe Fourhman @fourhman.com · 28/07/2026

Was it, at long last, the genociding?

Screenshot of an Atlantic article titled “How Netanyahu Lost America.”

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Joe Fourhman @fourhman.com · 25/07/2026

Relevant to some of your interests

Art store with art on the windows of Banjo Freddy’s or whatever

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Joe Fourhman @fourhman.com · 25/07/2026

The redemption of Superboy Prime by turning him into Ambush Bug has been wild.

Superboy Prime - a “real world” character that knows he is in a comic book - is running from unseen assailants and remarking that he hopes he is not caught by prolific writer (not of this book) Tom King.

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Joe Fourhman @fourhman.com · 25/07/2026

My AirBNB has the usual decor: generic landscape paintings, framed instructions on how to handle recycling, and several issues of Punisher War Journal.

Top of a shelving unit with several bagged issues of Punisher War Journal.

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Joe Fourhman @fourhman.com · 24/07/2026

Hitting up the local scene.

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Joe Fourhman @fourhman.com · 20/07/2026

"Buddy, you're telling me this cat shoots energy from his EYES??!?!"

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Joe Fourhman @fourhman.com · 16/07/2026

Found these guys hiding in an old board game box.

Set of toys from 1988 or so. Judge Doom (w/vulture), Smartass weasel (Smart Guy when merchandised), Roger Rabbit and Eddie Valiant (with handcuffs)

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Joe Fourhman @fourhman.com · 15/07/2026

Two pics from the end of Arkeis. Fun game, but an absolute mess on the table. Desperately needs a card/token organizer system for play, not just for storage. Or one heck of a big table. #boardgames