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Marc Normandin
@marcnormandin.bsky.social
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Newsletters on retro video games and sports labor, regular at Endless Mode (née Paste Games) and Baseball Prospectus. Editor at FOX Sports. he/him https://retroxp.beehiiv.com https://marcnormandin.com https://www.endlessmode.com/author/marc-normandin
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Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 2d
Doing something a little different this morning at @retroxp.bsky.social: there *is* a 3D Sonic the Hedgehog game on the Sega Saturn, but instead of a traditional platformer, it's a racer. @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com has all the details on this game that showed off the Saturn's power.
Guest Feature: Sonic R
Super Sonic racing... on foot!
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Mike Petriello @mikepetriello.bsky.social · 1h
Shockingly good pitching advice from this home trend magazine
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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 1d
"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gondor," i holler as i overturn my uncle's funeral pyre and turn the 4th Age of Man into the 4th Age of Shit
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Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 2h
Kelce could be the second of those things, being a pro athlete and all, but I'm guessing he kicked the first habit by now if he ever had it
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Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 2h
still don't know if that was a good plan or a bad one but maybe I'll know after another 20 years of it
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Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 2h
it's Endless Mode column day for me, and also everyone's favorite multidisciplinary writing day, where I cover baseball and video games and where they intersect in one piece. And by favorite I mean some people don't take sports or video games seriously enough and yet I decided to focus on both.
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Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 2h
"livestream birth on Twitch" no, with a very intentional absence of thank you
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Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️, but spooky 🦇 @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 14h
Calling Ragnacenty/Soliel/Crusader of Centy a Zelda clone does the genre upending pro-monster tale that's actually playing out in here a grave disservice.

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Ragnacenty: Cute animal friends! Adorable derring-do! The casual slaughter of helpless innocents!
Ragnacenty (AKA: “Crusader of Centy” (US), AKA: “Soleil” (EU)) is often referred to as a Zelda clone, a mislabelling that has stood the test of time largely due to a weird l…
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Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 3h
Shadow Labyrinth sequel is going to get weird
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小島秀夫 @hideokojima.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp · 3h
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Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 3h
I am probably overly fixated on the whole "clone" thing in general, just trying to contextualize it and also explain where it went too far/caused people to miss out on what was really going on with a game.
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Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 4h
laughing at this "Zelda clone" approach here because I took a similar one for my Crusader of Centy piece, not realizing you also had
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Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 4h
yeah, it seems down regardless of what you're looking for, direct or general or hashtag
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Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 4h
Pikmin game seems unlikely with that kind of teaser. Movie for Pikmin also unlikely, they're not going to go from Mario to Zelda to Pikmin there. Pikmin TV show? Pikmin TV show.
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Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 4h
it's incredible that this is "they never considered the most obvious and guaranteed outcome" and yet people are still like yeah these guys are geniuses, we need them
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 4h
Marc, that dude also had a "DUMP HERE 62" shirt in his hands that he changed into! He was so committed to manifesting this and then Cal Raleigh signed a bat for him after the game.
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Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 4h
lmao
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phylan @phylan.website · 4h
[national guardsman smashing a protestor's face with the butt of his rifle] I hate doing this. I could be running a food bank rn 😔😔
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Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 4h
I missed Cal Raleigh's dinger last night and didn't realize until now that he hit it to a guy wearing a shirt that said "DUMP HERE 61" on it, how can you not be romantic about baseball?
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Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 4h
Get ready for battle, baby
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Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 5h
There's something to the relative rawness of the two earlier ones, but yeah Badmotorfinger is an all-timer from start to finish
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 7h
the Godzilla toilet paper holder would fix me
Japanese magazine ad for a wall mounted toilet paper holder shaped like Godzilla
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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 2d
OPENAI LAWYER: so how does this sound. 'user x' pays us $3 to generate a video of elsa suffocating him with her ass. from that, you will receive a princely 50¢

DISNEY LAWYER: i am going to shoot you with a gun
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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 2d
i think we are going to find out at some point these guys invented cocaine 2 and have been on it all along
Buried in Altman's post is the real story: "People are generating much more than we expected per user," using massive compute resources on content that's often being generated for very small audiences (it is, after all, a social media app). OpenAl will "have to somehow make money for video generation," Altman wrote. Translation: Sora is burning through compute costs with no offsetting revenue. Altman floated a potential solution: "We are going to try sharing some of this revenue with rightsholders who want their characters generated by users." The idea-perhaps similar to You Tube's ad-monetization program for videos that include copyrighted material -would give studios a financial incentive to opt in. "The exact model will take some trial and error to figure out," Altman acknowledged, "but we plan to start very soon."
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 17h
vlad guerrero jr is the product of a 30+ year project to concentrate an entire planet's psychic resentment against the yankees into the form of a single human
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Grant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social · 17h
similar genre
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 18h
not sure i’m a fan of players wearing jerseys with their name on the back. everyone can see it but you. i guess if you forget your name you’re just out of luck out there, huh
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ohfivepro.bsky.social @ohfivepro.bsky.social · 21h
The Hudson Bee wishes to thank everyone who has passed through in the last few days, basked in his hat wearing glory & helped to share him around the world, thus adding a spot of bee shaped happiness to all who have witnessed him🫡
The Hudson Bee, hat in hand as he takes a bow or possibly even a curtsey. We shall never know for sure and it is of no consequence anyway. He may do as he pleases
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