Aake Kinnunen
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Aake Kinnunen
@mondostic.bsky.social
Automotive journalist for Moottori magazine, freelance videogamist (rip Pelaaja magazine). Also photography, movies, nonsense etc.
YouTube these days and seeing my own teenage get rolled out to pasture is why this hits me so hard.

Sorry for the rant, just needed to express something outside work for once.
January 2, 2026 at 12:42 PM
to the song. The Cardigans were kinda meh with Lovefool but stunning with the rebellious My Favourite Game video. Jamiroquai moved like liquid in Virtual Insanity video, which was a pretty good tune even to a metalhead.

Maybe it's the fact that most music videos are just lyrics placeholder vids on
January 2, 2026 at 12:42 PM
seemed to be full of killer videos spruced between content from snowboarding and after-ski parties in Europe.

And you'd hear exotic bands and releases. I remember the weekend when Michael Jackson's Scream came out and it was played once an hour for sure. Killer video but took 25 years to warm up
January 2, 2026 at 12:42 PM
was always "just there", and the channel hit it's gold stride just as I was a teen. MTV Data videos, daytime hosts, 3-from-1 and other features kept a window of the wider world open even when growing up in a small town in middle of nowhere, Finland. I especially remember the 2000s, when the winters
January 2, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Well SquareEnix already had a Shinra spinoff company in the US for a while, so at least they went internal.
December 29, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Also makes it half as good as Astro Boy HEYOOOOOO
November 11, 2025 at 12:25 PM
This is a wormhole I'm definitely willing to entertain. Loved Quentin's dry humor style so much. I think I got a tweet reply once from him about The Car's The Star and that's possibly my greatest achievement as a car journalist to date.
November 11, 2025 at 12:22 PM