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John Walker
rebotherer
Seeker of indie secrets, needlessly beautiful, purveyor of www.buried-treasure.org.

I learned this off the internet, but I can still get my kid (now 15 YO) to talk about his school day by starting with, Read more

/r/startrek and the other associated Star Trek subs have also gone private. I salute them for standing up to reddit in the only way they can. Read more

I disagree with basically everything John Walker writes on this site, and the one time he has a take I agree with the comments are roasting him for it. You couldn’t pay me to sit through a GTA clone, you can barely get me to sit through GTA, so SR1+2 did absolutely nothing for me. 3 raised an eyebrow, and I was all Read more

Two of my favorite reactions to the reveal were:

- “They don’t look like criminals” What exactly are criminals supposed to look like? Please elaborate.

- “Typical Woke, SJW, 2021 BS” Yeah, totally different from anything in Saints Row’s past

For those that have not given saints row a chance because it either looked like a GTA clone or felt like its humor too much, hear me out: Read more

Can this guy just go away already?  I mean no Disrespect.  Literally.
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“I really disagree with Sakurai on this. There is nothing I like more than when people put words in my mouth.” Read more

Hahaha. I’m sorry! I have nothing but respect for Higinbotham’s work (I even took a date to see his desk on display at a Smithsonian in DC). The video is well worth your time, I promise! Even at the end the narrator says “When someone asks what the first videogame was, it’s easier to say ‘I don’t know, probably Pong Read more

If this isn’t an Easter egg in the next Fallout game, I’m going to be dissapointed. Read more

Democrats bungling a slam dunk is par for the course. They’re the only party that’s too weak to get what they want as both a majority and minority. Republicans (unfortunately) never seem to have this problem, and I’ve grown confident over the years that this is by design.

I recently found my DS lite, which somehow still had a charge after 10 years, along with an M3 card loaded with games. The first thing I booted up was Zookeeper. Read more

The original Copyright Act limited the duration to a maximum of 28 years (two 14 year terms if the author was still alive after the first term). The object was to encourage people to put in the time and work needed to create something knowing they could exclusively profit off of it for a period of time. But many Read more

I am level 40, have all gold or above badges and I have under 25% Pokemon pop out on the first shake still. There seems to be no point to the badges at all. Literally get a CP89 Pikachu with a yellow ring and runs away after the ball doesn’t even shake once. And just like the OP, my capture rate for 5star raids is 50% Read more

The only particularly good thing about these post-accountability apologies is how damning they are for Blizzard's case. Read more

thank you for being the illuminati that controls my career, john. can’t wait to see you at the next place, too Read more