I haven't played Magic The Gathering since the first half of my teen years, but I've been seeing a lot of posts about it recently and it really is reinforcing the 'everything is funko pops now' vibe
The internet evolved so rapidly that so much stuff that looks really old turns out to just be only kinda old, and you can see a funny name like Doug Beeferman and instead of being from an old-timey bygone era, you can find out immediately that he has a Bluesky account
Pre social media people used to make websites for Dougs to hang out with Dougs! Same for Shirlenes, Geoffreys, Susan Parkers... I dug up a bunch of them on the wayback machine (thread!!!)
Learning about the deranged Japanese game show that put a naked man into an apartment with nothing but a bunch of magazines, forcing him to live only on what he could win via mail-in sweepstakes competitions
Seeing this ad this morning filled me with nostalgia for Bushido Blade and sent me down an eBay rabbit hole, and I'm unearthing all sorts of PS1 era games that sound completely made up
Democrats and a federal union argue that Trump administration language posted on federal agency websites and some emails blaming a shutdown on the "Radical Left Democrats" violates a 1939 federal law.
I once did some audit work at a place that had sick leave that vested upon termination (resignation, retirement etc). A union-adjacent organisation, so I guess join your union folks
