AernaLingus [any]

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Cake day: May 6th, 2022

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  • I actually happened to talk to a neurologist about this today and they didn’t buy Biden as having Parkinson’s (apparently his gait doesn’t match, gait analysis being a key diagnostic indicator of many neurological conditions). They’re also a major lib, so it could be pure cope, but it sounded like a straightforward medical assessment to me and they’re not the type to bullshit me. And for what it’s worth, I just checked and even the doctor they had on Fox News said the same (he speculated it might be vascular dementia).

    I don’t think the specific medical diagnosis matters that much, though. It doesn’t take a neurologist to see that Biden’s not playing with a full deck of cards, and he’s clearly getting worse and not better. And obviously his camp is never going to release results of a cognitive evaluation because it would mean they could no longer lie through their teeth about his fitness for office.



  • There was a period of my life where I practically lived on GameSpot (during the same era when the Big Rigs review came out). I was actually just listening to a podcast today where someone mused that up until around the late 2000s, it was actually pretty feasible for someone to keep up with literally all the major game releases and just consume all available information by reading enough websites and magazines and stuff…I was one of those people.



  • Pikmin is up there for me. Such an odd and charming little game, and one I was able to play with my dad who never showed any interest in vidya before or since. It was too difficult to beat when I was a kid (I got absolutely bodied in The Distant Spring and couldn’t make a fast enough recovery to beat the 30 day timer), but coming back as an adult I really appreciate how refreshing it still feels all these years later. Still need to play Twilight Princess though.

    And I was actually just playing Soul Calibur II yesterday! Link is up there, but Cervantes has gotta be my favorite. I just love how over the top all his lines are (“Come with me to hell!”, “Your soul makes a poor meal!”) and the weight of his attacks, and as someone who sucks ass at fighting games he had a few easy moves I could spam.