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12 Dec, 9 tweets, 3 min read
(🔒) As a retro gamer, I'm so excited about this new RETRO article, and the essay—free to all to read—that precedes its big reveal: "The Consensus Top 100 Underrated Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) Games of All Time." It's the best curation I've done. retrostack.substack.com/p/the-consensu…
(PS) Some of you may remember the preliminary version of this ranking, which did not *exclude* bestsellers, known consensus critical darlings, PAL- and JP-only releases, homebrews, and archival finds.

I have now made (or am still making) separate curations for those categories.
(PS2) Among the many things I'm doing at RETRO is trying to chronicle the NES Renaissance, the likes of which I don't think gaming—the world's biggest entertainment industry—has ever seen before. If you missed the work RETRO has already done on this, this thread can catch you up.
1/ RETRO: "The Consensus Top 100 Nintendo Entertainment System Games" retrostack.substack.com/p/the-consensu…
2/ RETRO: "The Definitive Top 100: Best Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) Games Never Released in America" retrostack.substack.com/p/the-definiti…
3/ (🔒) RETRO: "The Definitive Top 100: Hardest NES Games" retrostack.substack.com/p/the-definiti…
4/ (🔒) RETRO: "The Definitive Top 100: Best Video Game Consoles" retrostack.substack.com/p/the-definiti…
5/ (🔒) RETRO: "The Definitive Top 100: Worst NES Games" retrostack.substack.com/p/the-definiti…
6/ A small—very small—part of the RETRO mission is to bring curatorial journalism to non-political topics. That said, as RETRO subscribers know, it's also about conventional journalism in music, film, gaming, books, digital culture, comics, toys, and more. retrostack.substack.com

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14 Dec
There’s no way to understand this statement by the Vice Chair of the House January 6 Committee other than that it means the HJ6C *may* refer the likely 2024 GOP presidential candidate for federal criminal charges by DOJ.

That’s huge—even history-altering. cnn.com/videos/politic…
(PS) And it’s impossible to miss that this statement is being made by one of the Republicans who’d almost certainly run for the GOP nomination if Trump’s world—and therefore the GOP party and base as we know it—collapses before 2024.

Liz Cheney’s no dope—she’s just like her dad.
(PS2) As Donald Trump presidential biographer, I first wrote years ago that the Republican Party as we know it may cease to exist by 2030 or even 2025 due to Trump’s actions. If Trump were to be indicted, it could lead to a chain of events that splinters the GOP into two parties.
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13 Dec
Sorry, J.K., but if a self-described trans (alleged) rapist is indeed a trans person, there’s no harm or foul here—the policy just ensures proper recordkeeping. And if the suspect *falsely* claims to be trans, that lie will be used against them at their rape trial. No issue here.
(PS) I can’t even tell what J.K. is getting at. Is she saying a trans person ceases to be so if they commit a rape? Is she saying governments should be empowered to strip people of their identity when/as they even *accuse* someone of a crime? Why do I think even she doesn’t know?
(PS2) Criminal law is one of those areas one must be careful tweeting about if one doesn’t know what the hell one is talking about. J.K. seems to believe that the police are *accepting* that a trans person who has not transitioned lacks a penis if that person identifies as trans.
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13 Dec
(THREAD) This thread includes my thoughts on the lengthy report just issued by the House January 6 Committee—which seeks a congressional referral to DOJ for Contempt of Congress against former GOP congressman and Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows. I hope you'll read on and share.
KEY REPORT POINT #1: Mark Meadows was on the January 2 conference call in which the January 6 plot was hatched—along with Trump, hundreds of state GOP legislators, the leadership of the domestic-terrorist "Stop the Steal" movement, and several other key Trump allies and advisers.
KEY REPORT POINT #2: As discussed at length by PROOF and other media outlets, the White House did indeed use Trumpist stooge and Pentagon plant Kash Patel in the run-up to January 6 and *on* January 6; Meadows was reportedly in "nonstop" contact with Patel as the attack unfolded.
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11 Dec
I didn’t understand how broken video game journalism was and is until I saw this insane tweet by the Ars Technica creative director about WATA Games

Echoes of saying January 6 was just tourism when you cover politics TBH
I’m not trying to get upset about more broken things—I’m already upset about enough broken systems—but the fact that few critics appear to have played the best mobile games and the WATA scandal is understood by almost no one is legit evidence of a collapsed journalistic ecosystem
Dammit, I forgot to teach my journalism students at UNH to immediately block anyone who criticizes you for not doing the job you are paid to do. /s

Below is the tweet the Creative Director of Ars Technica doesn’t want you to see—as it explains why WATA Games can do as it likes.
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11 Dec
(đź”’) NEW at PROOF: "Previously Unreported Insurrection Eve Video Confirms Stop the Steal Plot to Occupy the Capitol Long-Term Beginning on January 6"

There's no longer any serious doubt about what Team Trump's January 6 plan was. This video helps seal it. sethabramson.substack.com/p/new-previous…
1/ Across four extensive reports, PROOF has now established—beyond doubt—that the January 6 insurrectionists planned to storm *and occupy* the Capitol so that the joint session would be postponed long enough for Trump to send new slates of electors to Washington.

And Trump knew.
2/ And I'm not just referring to the paramilitaries at the Capitol on January 6: the Oath Keepers, the Proud Boys, the Three Percenters, the 1st Amendment Praetorians, and so on. The "Occupy the Capitol" plan depended on what Ali Alexander termed *civilian* "boots on the ground."
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10 Dec
A nonwhite woman can become California AG, a US Senator, then Vice President of the US and there’ll always be someone on hand to say she has no idea what she’s doing. Harris isn’t above critique, but let’s have a substantive, incisive, policy-oriented one. wsj.com/articles/kamal…
Trump was POTUS and didn’t read *anything* and his subordinates regularly committed crimes. Harris is VPOTUS—though she only has been for ~10 months—and now we hear she isn’t reading *enough* briefing materials and her subordinates are disgruntled. On some level, give me a break.
It’s columns like these that explain, in not-so-minor part, why Harris has a lower approval rating than a career criminal and serial sexual assailant with a quarter of her intelligence and competence. Columns like these and the attitudes of those who read them and nod their head.
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