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Oh thank goodness, I definitely have some distant early childhood memories of being a Mister Salty enthusiast and I need to pick these up

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 11h

I love that someone who nobody wants to hear from while he is alive is thinking about making everyone else talk from beyond the grave

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 13h

You know what, that piano lick is actually kind of great, but belongs in an unexpected like dirgey cover by a grizzled bluesman, not...wow...whatever was going on here.

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 13h

Seeing that they gave the new Wolverine game the same score I am thinking you are onto something

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 14h

I see you discussed Pumpkin Delights which yes are my favorite Little Debbie Thing but now I wonder what the original Face Food they made was This bear goes with the face better than the pumpkin theming does honestly

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Well yeah, Republicans will cry that the news is unfair and biased and hurting their feelings if they report on the end of democracy

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

15 years ago I would not have understood how he could be dumb given his occasionally hilarious and witty rhymes. Then I met a very dumb person in Seattle who was also somehow occasionally witty and hilarious and discovered that it IS possible. Just really, really weird

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

In a sense I am proud of him for immediately reminding us that the Saudis run WWE and WWE runs TNA

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I am having fun using my extensive critical literature training to try to figure out what this could even be At the very least making sure you make your recipes with the closest thing to indigenous locovore ingredients possible and making sure you do not give it a new Wellness Influencer Name(tm)

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Wait so if that was an April Fools' Joke, what was the actual thing that created random video games that came out around the same era? Games By Angelina? Was that a prank too? I see the webpage is still up and they were still seemingly updating it until the late 2010s

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Oh man I am just excited to see that the Alien Language Gibberish has come so far since Knights of the Old Republic that now it is customized per scene

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Fascists lose the ability to take responsibility around the time they decide to become fascists

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The world was such a different place then that this was a solid 50% of why I had a crush on her at the time OMG PRETTY LADY INTERNET???

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It does give me some hope that no amount of money can actually solve this problem as it freely co-mingles things that were once mostly true about me with things that are not at all true about me, presumably thanks to how often I only used Amazon to buy gifts (in the pre-end-of-America-era)

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sounds like it was written by an idiot who does not know what the words being used mean, so yeah, this reads completely accurately for the current group of incompetent white supremacists cosplaying a government

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I just want you to know I rarely feel like anything relating to things I like is accurate, but as a They Might Be Giants fan for 30 years who is also lifelong straightedge that really does seem to explain my friends who got into Ween and how I never understood the appeal

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

When Rush and Primus toured together the one Bass Guitar Guy I knew was exactly as excited as you might imagine

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

AFTER & BEFORE VS. BEFORE & AFTER

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This comic probably will only get funnier until the last person who immediately recognizes any of those three names dies

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

People like him feel personally targeted and stand proudly with their groups whenever someone criticizes them, but when one of their group is a monster then the group affiliation is suddenly irrelevant. When someone of ANOTHER group is bad though oh BOY is everyone in that group bad too

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Never thought about the "presenting as the most evil person alive while being hilarious and goofy" shared between those two perhaps having a regional origin. Or the "showing everyone else how it is done while being like 'aw, it's nothing'" about it

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Why would Cinnamon Toast Crunch deceive you?

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Seeing Chris Hero devastated was rough. I have no idea about their relationship but they were both around forever so I imagine there was no shortage of understanding between them

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I will be excited to learn more about this game given every time I have tried to play it over the decade+ I have owned it the tutorial screens just keep popping up and restarting me at the beginning of the level. This has happened on four computers, Windows Vista, 7, 10, and 11. Who made this game

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Listening to that interview 10+ years ago honestly taught me how profound an impact impostor syndrome can have on even people who are somewhat objectively the best in the world at what they do.

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

100%, I think about that huge grin and laugh pretty frequently. It captured a dynamic so many people undoubtedly know well from their own lives. Bert and Ernie in a wrestling ring [laudatory]

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Human Revolution boss fights were rudely unlike the rest of the game (though even in the unpatched early versions you could use non-lethal until the bosses died) but I had some success in Cyberpunk 2077 ignoring the "only" paths. Usually scaling buildings with high-jump legs of course

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh no, I AM just lazy No wonder the medication did nothing

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What you are describing is being friends with/living in MAGA country and fortunately I do not, so I have zero exposure to random country music. As I said elsewhere, this is 2026, we do not still work in environments with random radios on in the background, you have to seek out new music to find it

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yeah that was a fun vibe for 2019 (not that Danhausen was 2019 but you know what I mean), build up the show by having a constant stream of "oh wow what is this person's deal?!" curiosity viewers. But now AEW is "best wrestling, fuck you" so yeah we can put that to bed

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I somehow missed this entirely despite watching the show I loved Wardlow but honestly even his first terribly-timed injury destroyed his momentum seemingly forever. I do think he could be a viable part of a new Beef Team though

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Danhausen did a great job hiding in the background for a year as it turns out

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yep; the fuck exactly should I have heard this song? The only exposure I would have to genres I actively dislike would be, like, a grocery store? Maybe a crappy industrial-chic-vibe brewpub? We do not have jobs with radios playing in the background in 2026, this is an intentionally bullshit take

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Before I remembered to turn off the chat I saw someone screaming in all caps that Worlds Collide put AEW's attendance numbers to shame I looked into it and the other guys failed to sell out a venue with a few thousand more seats. Damn, AEW is utterly owned and this proves they are dead

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I always think "and robots are strong" is my favorite part but then "I don't even know why the scientists make them" always sneaks up on me

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I ... I do not know how to explain this but this instantly turned Pentiment into the Andy Griffith Show in my mind "Aint Bea we'd jus love to have some of yore famous pickled München cabbage"

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I worked for US Citizenship & Immigration Services for years and I never handled extraordinary ability visas but I definitely heard of a few cases where someone was almost rejected until a supervisor with more understanding of the issue was like "um this is [VERY FAMOUS FRENCH SINGER] yes he counts"

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Everyone needs to know the opinion of A Man Who Actively Avoids Television!!! Fortunately here I am No memory of how I ended up watching Fleabag but it really was pretty good. Key & Peele is also generationally fantastic. Beyond that ... Lost but no Walking Dead? Bullshit, same great-then-dead.

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I see the mystery has probably been solved BUT: Someone I dated briefly in the past once posted like "omg shout out to all the other T Girls from back in the day!" and I was like "...did I not know that about you?" but it was somehow related to a group that specialized in this? youtu.be/2e6ABjPmpa8

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Beryozka: The Dance That Makes Women Float #talent

YouTube video by Top Talent Official

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

High five! I am kind of excited that my opsec has succeeded so well that they cannot tell if I, a middle-aged man, am 18 yet

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The same idiot who rolled out the unique name policy is the one behind age verification, so he is probably also behind slowly turning it into a gambling site

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I watched every episode early in the pandemic because it felt like the right time (and they were free to watch, obviously) and, like Plenty of them hold up astoundingly well, but this one goes so far beyond that. It is only going to get more relevant until it comes true

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Devastated as a child when I learned it was not a single girl I thought someone else finally had Too Many Names like I did

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I basically knew nothing about 70s music as my parents were too old to have gotten into it and I was not old enough to know pre-80s music, and I have to say Supertramp is one of the few non-disco bands from that era that actually impressed me. Must be because their harmonicas were recorded so well

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

EXPEDITION AMAZON, BABY It seemed so incredibly complex compared to everything I had played previously that it probably marked a permanent reduction in how much I could enjoy mindless action games. Suddenly if there were no logistics to manage I was less invested youtu.be/McvLR0rxDb0?...

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Expedition Amazon for the Apple II

YouTube video by Highretrogamelord

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The answer is PROBABLY WASTELAND, BUT the thing is, that was one of TWO games that simultaneously (I do not know which one I watched an older kid playing at the Normal Library first) introduced me to the idea of ~modern-day CRPGs, a genre that basically defines what I like about gaming writ large:

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Granted it is one of my several uh ... almae matres, but yeah to me Champaign and even moreso Urbana is the Platonic ideal of what a university community should look like.

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The disappearance of frozen pudding needs to be studied

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Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

For the second time in four? years my closest Oktoberfest was rained out and is not being rescheduled Maybe not a big deal for people who go for the beer, but as someone who only truly enjoys a bratwurst if simultaneously hearing the Chicken Dance played by an oom-pah band it has been devastating

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