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Jan 20 12 tweets 11 min read
(🔓) RETRO UNLOCKED: The RETRO Top 250 NES Homebrews

This is the largest, most comprehensive assessment of video gaming’s fastest-growing retro subculture ever done.

That said, it’s a dynamic work-in-progress still seeking—and taking seriously—all input. retrostack.substack.com/p/the-retro-to…
1/ The purpose of this research is to honor the art of some of the most talented creators working in America today. They’ve revitalized and expanded upon the historic influence of (IMO) the greatest video game console in history—the console that made modern video gaming possible.
2/ I hope any gamers who read the above article—not to mention the #nesdev and #nesmaker folks who have made the NES homebrew scene run for years and years and years—will RETWEET it, as America really deserves to discover this absolutely fascinating new ecosystem of 8-bit gaming.
5/ Tags re: the RETRO Top 250 is up! @MichiganYeti @homecompmuseum @PixelAmbacht @wrytersview

I hope those tagged in this thread will consider sending this article on (it is free!) to your friends in the retro gaming world. You undoubtedly know 1000 times more people than I do!
6/ In creating this report, I not only played hundreds of homebrews but spoke with countless devs and spent countless hours watching reports, livestreams, and interviews focused on the NES homebrew scene. It’s a scene so big that it’s almost impossible to ever be an expert in it.
7/ This ranking is dynamic—meaning it’ll be updated and change over time in ways both small and profound. This is just its beginning. One of the things I’ve learned over the months I worked on this is that the scene is expanding *so fast* that *no one* has a handle on it anymore.
8/ That’s not a knock on anyone—not even close! There are gurus out there who know a ton about this scene; in relative terms I’m 100% a newcomer. But what’s happened in the last 3 years has clearly outstripped anyone’s ability to say they fully comprehend this sphere of activity.
9/ There were times I found absolutely extraordinary games that I had never—not even *once*—seen an American gamer talk about. Some were from Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, or Japan, but others were from American devs simply working below the radar *or* who left the scene long ago.
10/ I realize this will take a lot of time for folks to work through, as it’s the product of months of research and that shows. The good news: I’ve optimized it for reading on *either* desktop or phone, so it should be pretty easy to navigate once you understand how it’s set up.
UPDATES/ So many updates have already been made, e.g.:

💢 A new Special Citations section
💢 A new Special Thanks section
💢 A new Dedication section
💢 Edits to images, links, and attributions
💢 Additions to the Games to Be Reviewed shortlist

Many thanks to all those helping!

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BARI WEISS:

“It’s a pandemic of bureaucracy! It’s not real anymore!”

COVID-19:

I KILLED FOUR THOUSAND AMERICANS *YESTERDAY*
PS/ It’s hard to fully underscore how nonsensical what she’s saying is. Yes—we discovered that cloth masks aren’t as effective as had once been hoped. So what the hell do you take from that? When we mask up, we need to wear N95 masks. What does she take from it? No masks anymore!
PS2/ She lies in saying we were told getting vaccinated would preclude infection. No—we were told vaccination would lead to less serious illness. That’s *just* what happened. So what should we do? Get vaccinated and boosted! What does she think we should do? Nothing, apparently!
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Jan 21
I never worked a terrorism case but this sounds like a terroristic threat? Can anyone with expertise in this chime in? She uses the future tense, gives a time and place, says she'll be armed, indicates what her political goal is...I mean I'm not saying I know—I'm honestly asking.
(PS) She also says her weapons will not just be "loaded" but "ready [to be fired]." I'm *pretty* sure law enforcement needs to make contact with her ASAP if they haven't already. Anyway, I'm tweeting this out to see if I'm missing something, and if not to give it more attention.
(PS2) Um, I'm sorry, but, in response to the article below... just *no*. I don't think you can say what this person said; have the school board *go your way* (negating your threat); and then apologize and have it be okay. This needs to be looked into ASAP. whsv.com/2022/01/21/off…
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Jan 21
This is so short-sighted on the part of MLB. I agree with the Rays that the “sister city” idea—a defiantly metamodern one—is likely to be the future of professional sports. But we may be a few decades off from that, and no one really expects MLB to be a trailblazer in *anything*.
IOW the internet has changed our notion of space/time irretrievably. In a way we never did before, we understand that two seemingly contradictory concepts can occupy the same space. I think it’ll ultimately be seen as a “throwback” to view sports teams as tied to *only* one city.
Consider: if a pro sports team played just *one game* in your city of 100,000 each year—but *without fail*—don't you think your city would start to think of that team as being “yours” as well as others’? Suddenly fandom is disseminated/diffused in a way that elevates *everybody*.
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Jan 19
(RETRO) NES homebrew fans! Coming soon to RETRO is a project that’s taken me many months. It features:

💢 500 NES homebrews
💢 12 genre rankings and an overall ranking
💢 Hundreds of links to devs and studios
💢 Gameplay videos and reviews

Stay tuned to retrostack.substack.com! Image
(PS) This is a dynamic ranking that will be updated over time, and includes honorable mentions, special citations, watchlists, a section on the most exciting never-to-be-released games, and much more. It’s time the NES homebrew scene got the attention and celebration it deserves!
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Jan 17
(🔐) ICYMI: The new PROOF report on Sen. Chuck Grassley has gone viral.

It contains info on Grassley’s role in the events of Insurrection Eve that most Americans haven’t seen.

“The Coming Collapse of Trump’s January 6 Conspiracy, Part 4: Chuck Grassley”: sethabramson.substack.com/p/new-the-comi…
(PS) Right now I’m working on a shocking follow-up to this article. By “shocking” I mean that it’s literally full of things that I didn’t previously know and am shocked by. Its focus will be not just on Grassley and—critically—his staff, but also on Clarence Thomas’s wife Ginni.
(PS2) I want to add how thrilled I am at how large the PROOF community is getting. The comment sections are so vibrant—with new leads offered and great comments like this: “Grassley’s statement could’ve been the exact reason Pence didn’t get in the Secret Service car [on 1/6].”
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(🔐) NEW: PROOF readers have been asking for this report for a long time—and rightly so.

On January 6, 2021, Sen. Grassley was third in line to the presidency—and is a more important witness than Kevin McCarthy.

I hope you’ll subscribe, read and RETWEET. sethabramson.substack.com/p/new-the-comi…
1/ Americans already know the information House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy would testify to before the House January 6 Committee (though to be clear, PROOF still believes he must be subpoenaed and deposed).

We know what he’ll say because he’s said it publicly at least twice.
2/ CNN reports McCarthy revealed the content of his January 6 call with Trump both in a January 12, 2021 radio interview *and* in a transcribed GOP caucus meeting—and we also have testimony from another Republican rep, who McCarthy described the call to shortly after it happened.
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