Daryl Surat
@darylsurat
I'm an engineer, podcaster, and Otaku USA Magazine contributor driven insane from pop culture overload and isolation. It makes me scream a lot with my fingers.
At long last, I can own the main thing I associate Jim Brown with doing and can have that pulsating toe in 4K HDR. I would post a GIF or silent MP4 so that you could share in the majesty, but there are tone-mapping considerations. I suppose it also includes the BluRay. I still always take the stairs
[Simpsons Comic Book Shop Guy voice] Oh, Black Lagoon’s out of PRINT and no longer streaming, you say?
Most of the color scheme variants are whatever, but a few were sick as Hell. This isn’t mine—it’s Gerald’s, as he got one of the last ones—but the pink and black Bret Hart style Wing Zero Custom was particularly sweet. There was also a white and gold Epyon and like a Hatsune Miku color scheme thing.
Happy ten year anniversary to "Pokemon GO to the polls!": a line so thoroughly lame that for this past decade it has encapsulated the ethos of Democratic Party consultants who get paid considerable sums of money to come up with utterly garbage lines and takes which yield the opposite intended effect
The Ghost in the Shell carries on the hallowed traditions of its esteemed predecessors. In this way, we shall never forget
I’ve been saying this [to myself] for a while so I’m glad someone has formally put it forward: that the modern conservative understanding of and viewpoint on literally everything boils down to how it’s depicted in porno www.liberalcurrents.com/the-interrac... this is it, the grand unification theory
The easiest metric is to look on any given streaming service's "most popular" page. Netflix for instance: most people just watch The Office & Friends. CR's Popular tab shows things in ranked order. At the moment, I don't think anything in the top 15 is NOT catalog. Usually some simulcasts are there:
Like, it's the start of a new season in Marvel Rivals, and this time every character has been overhauled. I don't want to queue Ranked when nobody knows what to do. In Quick Play, I can pick characters I'd never play "for keeps" with, and...I mean, are you seeing the bullshit Hela gets away with now
I have to interrupt my string of hating on the dead hypocritical bigot Lindsey Graham with some other mirthful developments, because I just saw this video of Russian troops training to use a YakB-12.7 rotary machine gun (that's meant to be mounted onto a Mi-24 helicopter) with results that spark joy
Just-posted photo of the Virtua Fighter Crossroads mocap actors. Guy on the left in that Ip Man wing chun stance suggests a new character but the "new fighting game character who uses Wing Chun" character design crown currently belongs to Leroy Smith, The Blackest Man on Earth (besides Super Dragon)
Sorry, gotta go, my ride is here. We used to be a nation where you could work as a janitor and own a whip of this caliber
The honorables from other years are a smattering of atrocities mixed in with a lot of people angry about WCW. It's interesting to see how year after year people were increasingly irate over the WCW 1-900 hotline and being baited time and again by Mean Gene's "a smart mark is still a mark" TV pitches
A reminder--once again--that Dave does not actually cast a ballot himself. Readers vote on the awards, and there is no set nomination list. What this means is that wrestling fans in 1992 thought this was the most dire thing. The real joke is when you look at the runners-up. Racism? Not as big a deal
The new Darktide class is really fun and leveling it up to 30 went by pretty fast. But even once you're matched with other level 30s, the cat herding simulator aspect never ends. Upon review, you can see me repeatedly panic and flail about in confusion, but I still barely survive and save everybody
A criticism of Amazon Prime Video is that a lof their exclusive anime titles go by unnoticed; you're not told. But The Ghost in the Shell is prominently featured! Number one! Don't know if I'd click it over "My Sex Doll" or "Jailbait Babysitter" but--what do you mean it's tailored to me personally?!
This is what makes videogame publishers insist that they must have their own Roblox live service ecosystem (it’s not really a set game). In 2025, these were the most played franchises. Of these, two are annualized releases and only one was new (Marvel, due to Rivals). Everything else is 6+ years old
It’s being pointed out that AAA gaming is something akin to the MCU in that it’s a thing millennials were invested in but Gen Z is largely uninterested in. Only 10%-13% of total game time has gone to new releases in the last few years, as most of Gen Z sticks to live services that are 5-6+ years old
Move over, CoD mines; it’s time for the Todd mines! Looks like the plan for the remnants of the various gutted Microsoft game studios is to make Elder Scrolls and Fallout come out faster. For surely if it takes two people 9 months to make a baby, 100 people can make a baby in a FRACTION of the time!
The final boss would have to be the original master, for the only way to prevail is by facing the ultimate challenge that is the one who embodied The Challenge
Looks like the Sony PR team has begun its consent manufacturing operation among the media in the past 24 hours. I wonder how many other gaming outlets and influencers this week will also happen to put up posts/articles/videos declaring that eliminating physical media from consoles is good, actually?
I feel like the memes have spread farther than the actual people I know who play the game
I mostly play games on PC. Years ago, I created a Singapore PSN account so that I could buy the English-language Super Robot Wars games & DLC. So when I read www.playstation.com/en-gb/legal/... and saw they'll shut off your account after 3 years of inactivity, I realized at some point I WILL forget:
Happy 80th birthday, Bolo. Watch out for electrical wires and circuit breaker boxes.
I get annoyed at the Marvel Rivals "throw darts at 1 of the 6 balloons to win a skin" events, of which there are now 4 running, because I'd always get it on the very last one which means I spent $24 I never would've. But the fine print shows it's not 1 in 6 like the graphics suggest. It's gacha odds
The number one selling thing now on the biggest PC gaming platform, Steam, is people buying currency for the F2P game Marvel Rivals. This is in part because of the 1992 Marvel Swimsuit Special Captain America outfit. His colossal penis twinkles in the MVP animation. NetEase better not patch a thing.
I get that Anime Expo is big. The pictures of the crowds and lines guarantee that I will never, ever attend it. But am I to understand that they run their major panels in the goddamned Staples Center?! The thing that seats like 20,000 people? I'm still not used to a Jojo's panel requiring a ballroom