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Ravi Hiranand @ravi64.com · 31/08/2026

I got referral traffic on ravi64.com from a random tech site so I went to check it out and found the most CURSED AI image I've seen in a while, what the hell is this???

utterly cursed AI slop with impossible fingers and gadgets

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Ravi Hiranand @ravi64.com · 09/07/2026

Bizarre line this from The Guardian considering in Norway’s last World Cup appearance (1998) they beat Brazil 2-1? And they’re famously undefeated against Brazil…

Excerpt from the Guardian with this line highlighted: “In tournaments past the idea Norway could beat Brazil would have seemed implausible”

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Ravi Hiranand @ravi64.com · 04/07/2026

Coming on solely to save penalties, not saving a single penalty and getting a 5/10 anyway is a proper video game review score

Guardian player ratings for Australia: Mat Ryan came on minutes before the penalty shootout and conceded every one he faced. Rating: 5/10

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Ravi Hiranand @ravi64.com · 01/07/2026

Genuine Q, has there ever been a Golden Boot race like this? There's always a couple of random players who catch fire or international specialists like Klose but this is basically just the best players in the world

World Cup golden boot standings, in order: Mbappé, Messi, Haaland, Dembélé and Vinicius

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Ravi Hiranand @ravi64.com · 01/07/2026

Totally unprepared for how small Steam Machine is, damn

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Ravi Hiranand @ravi64.com · 01/07/2026

YOOOOO Steam Machine arrived!!!

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Ravi Hiranand @ravi64.com · 25/06/2026

Yeah about that… 😂

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Ravi Hiranand @ravi64.com · 24/06/2026

How it started / how it's going, England World Cup edition

Headline from Barney Ronay at the Guardian: England finally exorcise the Southgate era and unleash fun football

Another headline from Barney Ronay at the Guardian: England's grizzly Ghana draw exposes limitations of Madueke and Gordon

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Ravi Hiranand @ravi64.com · 23/06/2026

Roberto Martinez is gonna be so damn smug and it's gonna make it even funnier when they lose in the R32 to (checks) oh LMAO

As it stands England vs Portugal in the Round of 32

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Ravi Hiranand @ravi64.com · 23/06/2026

Happy birthday to my favorite console and the one most important to me: I never considered journalism as a career until I started writing about the Nintendo 64.

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Ravi Hiranand @ravi64.com · 17/06/2026

c'mon ESPN, wrong Ronaldo. Messi's level with the one who actually shows up at the World Cup

Push alert from ESPN claiming that Lionel Messi ties Cristiano Ronaldo for second all time on men's World Cup scoring list

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Ravi Hiranand @ravi64.com · 16/06/2026

I don’t think it’s intentional but I love the Los Angeles sign in the World Cup being in the Lakers colors

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Ravi Hiranand @ravi64.com · 22/05/2026

That one is amaaaazing My favorite is this cos Yokohama’s my town

Pokémon manhole cover in Yokohama, Japan featuring a male and female Pikachu in front of the Minato Mirai skyline

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Ravi Hiranand @ravi64.com · 04/05/2026

It’s entirely possible that this license plate is a really old one, or that it means something else. But my headcanon is that I’ve found the biggest DK Rap fan in all of Hong Kong.

Car in Hong Kong with the license plate DK 64

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Ravi Hiranand @ravi64.com · 04/05/2026

I got Switch 2 a day early, my local shop asked me to come back late at night when everyone else was closed. So cool and surreal being there after hours but so great to get it early!!

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Ravi Hiranand @ravi64.com · 30/04/2026

ngl Mikel that’s not a bad Max Payne impression

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta making a strange face

video game character Max Payne’s distinctively-scrunched-up face

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Ravi Hiranand @ravi64.com · 29/04/2026

I was the odd one out here in HK because I liked buying the original WEs — we played them so much it only felt right, you know? They’re in storage so I don’t have them handy for a nice pic but I’ve got these:

A spreadsheet list which says:

Winning Eleven 5
Winning Eleven 5FE
Winning Eleven 6
Winning Eleven 6FE
Winning Eleven 7
Winning Eleven 7 International
Winning Eleven 8
Winning Eleven 8 Liveware Evolution
Winning Eleven 9

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Ravi Hiranand @ravi64.com · 25/03/2026

I know he’s scored so many goals and had so many great moments, but the all time top Mo Salah moment for me will always be scoring the goal against United that triggered the “we’re gonna win the league” chants at Anfield in 2020. Goosebumps just thinking about it. #lfc

Liverpool footballer Mohamed Salah whips off his shirt after scoring the second goal late in a 2-0 win over Manchester United in 2020

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Ravi Hiranand @ravi64.com · 21/03/2026

Tokyo Xtreme Racer has such intense PS1 generation vibes and I mean that in the best possible way

A cinematic screen from Tokyo Xtreme Racer with the Tokyo skyline at night and the words “Countless souls meander the night’s circular route”

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Ravi Hiranand @ravi64.com · 13/03/2026

I have seen a bunch of Crimson Desert trailers and I have no idea wtf is going on there. I can see bits of Dragon Age but also Tears of the Kingdom, Red Dead Redemption and, er, Superman 64???

diving through sky islands in Crimson Desert like Tears of the Kingdom

chasing a train on a trestle bridge in Crimson Desert like Red Dead Redemption

flying through rings in Crimson Desert like Superman 64

Superman 64’s infamous flying through rings section

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Ravi Hiranand @ravi64.com · 10/03/2026

Brie Larson fangirling about being in a Nintendo Direct absolutely rules, best part of the Super Mario Galaxy Movie Direct

Brie Larson looking excited during the Super Mario Galaxy Movie Direct

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Ravi Hiranand @ravi64.com · 09/03/2026

Low-key my biggest pet peeve is UK media like the BBC referring to video games as "computer games"

Headline from BBC story that says "Was new-era F1 really racing or more like a computer game?"

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Ravi Hiranand @ravi64.com · 05/03/2026

#my9games my9games.com/s/499465d01294…

A grid of the author’s nine favorite games: OutRun, Super Mario World, SimCity 2000, GoldenEye 007, Mass Effect 2, TowerFall, Yakuza 0, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Mario Kart 8 DX

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Ravi Hiranand @ravi64.com · 28/02/2026

I really need to stop reading WindowsCentral, but they keep pulling me back in with batshit takes like this. Won’t anyone think of poor, vulnerable Xbox???????

Excerpt from a WindowsCentral article that reads:

“From resisting cross-play in the early days, to securing a litany of deals that kept certain titles off Xbox (a practice maintained to this day), to attempting to block the Activision acquisition, Sony has not exactly shied away from aggressive competitive tactics. Even the now-famous PS4 game-sharing video was a very direct punch to the face of Xbox during a moment when Xbox was vulnerable.”

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Ravi Hiranand @ravi64.com · 19/02/2026

Imagining Andrew seeing the handcuffs and sitting there quietly saying "but it's my birthday"

Screengrab of a tweet from Matthew Stanger in 2014 that says: According to Simon Jordan, when Palace sacked Trevor Francis on this day in 2003, "He just sat there quietly & said 'But it's my birthday'."

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Ravi Hiranand @ravi64.com · 13/02/2026

Hell yeah can’t wait to play this for 10 mins and then stop because I have a headache

Virtual Boy accessory for Nintendo Switch 2

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Ravi Hiranand @ravi64.com · 10/02/2026

wow Slack fuck off let me enjoy message inbox zero for like two seconds come on

A message from Slack when you mark all messages as read: "All caught up. What's next?"

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Ravi Hiranand @ravi64.com · 09/02/2026

Pats haters let's goooo

John C Reilly as Lakers owner Jerry Buss in the TV show Winning Time saying "Fuck Boston"

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Ravi Hiranand @ravi64.com · 06/02/2026

2026 Chinese Super League coming right out with an incredible league table here

League table for the Chinese Super League showing that, with 0 games played, only 7 teams are on 0 points because the other 9 teams have points deductions

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Ravi Hiranand @ravi64.com · 18/01/2026

Have you played Yakuza 3? Hoping they keep Chapter 9 just for the absolute lols

A screenshot from Yakuza 3 with a screen that just says Chapter 9: The Plot

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Ravi Hiranand @ravi64.com · 16/01/2026

I had forgotten what a relic of Covid times Animal Crossing was until I booted up the game again and remembered that my island had a forced temperature check on arrival

A screenshot of the Switch 2 game Animal Crossing showing a makeshift temperature check and face masking station

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Ravi Hiranand @ravi64.com · 12/01/2026

The way the link has displayed here is unintentionally very funny

the link in this post displays as "REAL MADRID - ERROR"

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Ravi Hiranand @ravi64.com · 07/01/2026

Yes, I know what "cum" means in Latin, but y'know, there was no need to use Latin there.

Headline on press release that says "Ha Tsuen Tai Ping Ching Chiu Festival cum Food Carnival"

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Ravi Hiranand @ravi64.com · 05/01/2026

Find someone who loves you like Amorim loves 3-4-3, challenge level: impossible www.telegraph.co.uk/football/202...

Text of an article reads:

The club made the decision before the draw with Leeds United on Sunday, after a meeting between Amorim and Jason Wilcox, the director of football, signalled to the club’s hierarchy that the relationship was unsustainable.

Wilcox had intended the meeting to be a positive look at the evolution of the team but when the system was raised – Amorim’s go-to 3-4-3 formation – the Portuguese coach “blew up”, according to sources.

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Ravi Hiranand @ravi64.com · 17/12/2025

oh my god Hadouken Churros are the coolest thing ever??? soranews24.com/2025/12/17/s...

pixel art of Ryu from Street Fighter doing the Hadouken pose with a churro coming out decorated in blue frosting to simulate a Hadouken

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Ravi Hiranand @ravi64.com · 12/11/2025

yes, I want a GabeCube. might be my first actual (non-handheld) gaming PC!

A black cube which is supposedly Valve's new "desktop" Steam gaming machine

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Ravi Hiranand @ravi64.com · 13/09/2025

did a quadruple-take at this Coventry-Norwich match xG: 4.03-0.13 score: 1-1

Coventry-Norwich stats. The game ended 1-1 but the xG was 4.03-0.13

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Ravi Hiranand @ravi64.com · 10/09/2025

Here's Safari in last year's macOS and this year's. The latter feels really tappable to me.

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Ravi Hiranand @ravi64.com · 03/09/2025

This was the era where Namco made a Japan-only Star Wars game where Darth Vader turns into a giant scorpion so I figured the cover art not looking exactly like Harrison Ford was just a local adaptation and not a sign that it wasn't officially licensed

A screenshot of Luke Skywalker fighting a giant scorpion that originally appeared to be Darth Vader

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Ravi Hiranand @ravi64.com · 27/08/2025

TIL GoldenEye’s remote mines are just Saitek Joystick bases? (Credit: www.reddit.com/r/Thatsabook... )

Comparison of the remote mines used in the film GoldenEye with the Saitek Megagrip III joystick, which looks identical

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Ravi Hiranand @ravi64.com · 22/08/2025

Hi there! I saw this in your document and I'm not sure that this is true? I thought Rare published Perfect Dark and Jet Force Gemini...

Screenshot that says: "Rare never published any games, they were a developer [441]"

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Ravi Hiranand @ravi64.com · 25/07/2025

TIL ortolan is an actual bird and not just Max Rebo's species from Star Wars

A group of Ortolan (Star Wars species) huddling and looking scared

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Ravi Hiranand @ravi64.com · 24/07/2025

Omg the Lego Game Boy comes with a screen insert for the Link/Marin scene in Link’s Awakening!!! Absolutely NEED this

Lego Game Boy with two Lego Game Boy cartridges

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