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Did the US Football team lose because: a) they don't love jesus enough? a) prayed to the wrong jesus? c) don't love america enough? d) they don't play well in a communist city?

Some folks are asking me about my Levelling The Playing Field newsletter, what kind of things you can expect to receive - free subscribers get a free article on the 3rd monday of the month, paid subscribers get an additional "Ask Rami" column on the 1st monday of the month. Examples? Sure!

I do not have beef with our women so I will be there.

Belgium is now emoting on USMNT.

it is with enormous pleasure i can now announce: get in the bin, USMNT, where you belong

The 90-minute cheese when they're already up is crazy.

Last time the US had this much trouble breaking through a defense it was the Straight of Hormuz.

Hey You Pikachu came out two weeks before Ocarina of Time.

posts like this are the only reason I’m on social media

UNDERGROUNDED (Switch) up for preorder on Amazon ($29.99) amzn.to/4aAte2O VGP buff.ly/kXwHETX #ad

STG Summer. Let's dodge bullets together.

If they didnt get that idt they are getting anything else tonight

Trump is calling FIFA rn but they're not picking up.

Every town destroyed by Silent Hill: What if we just prayed to a cult a little bit, as a treat

DDG says men who watch ‘Love Island’ alone are “gay”: “I think it's gay to watch 'Love Island' by yourself. If you're a n**** and you're watching 'Love Island' solo, you might be bisexual."

Football floppers are too dramatic for their own good. Scuff a guy's shoe and he's on the floor making the Ivan the Terrible & his Son face. Pro wrestlers bump more convincingly.

It's crazy how England always sings this after a world cup win, but everyone has their traditions I guess

sorry but this is objectively the funniest way this whole situation could have happened (soccer)

when that man gets involved, the mojo gets disrupted. exhibit A: game 3 of the 2026 NBA Finals.

Oooof. Really rotten defending there left the goalie high and dry, but then he had a tragic case of goalkeeper second touch-itus.

HOLY SHIT HE FUCKED THAT UP.

I do feel like we can definitively call this the bubble pop that ended the last, er, two decades? Like most of the industry existed in a bubble, AAA was maybe always a bubble, etc. Which does seem like a solid analog to the 1970s crash.

Thinking again about how wonderful Belgium is.

😍

I do think "a billion people playing Xbox" is a ridiculous thing to say, but Microsoft likely considers "Xbox" to be all the game brands. They own candy crush (110,000 monthly users), and Minecraft (220,000 monthly users). You could say that's 1/3 of the way there if you're a Microsoft exec.

it must feel soooooo good to be that ball

Chicken Shop Date’s Amelia shares throwback selfie with Charli xcx.

Mexico losing was so devastating it almost feels too soon to even watch soccer because I'm like damn THEY were playing soccer when they lost.

Mario Kart World free roam playlists (Super Mario World/Land/Land 2/Land 3) added to Nintendo Music SMW: music.nintendo.com/en-US/playli... SML: music.nintendo.com/en-US/playli... SML2: music.nintendo.com/en-US/playli... Wario Land: SML3 music.nintendo.com/en-US/playli...

The #Tetris99 55th MAXIMUS CUP event will run from July 10 at 12am PT to July 13 at 11:59pm PT! Once you’ve accumulated a total of 100 event points, a new theme will unlock, featuring art, music, and Tetrimino designs inspired by #StarFox!

Robert Pattinson confirms he's started filming 'The Batman 2' 🦇 "I was shooting this morning" (via ET Now)

if any of the AI hyperscalars were serious they'd be buying up places like Id and locking them in monsatic cloisters to produce pristine training set data, but they're all morons

I guess everyone else already had the idea to buy IMAX tickets for The Odyssey huh

been seeing a lot of root beer posting on the tl lately, which inspired me to just walk over to 7-11 and get stuff for a float

Insatiably hungry for Garlic and Jill Sandwiches: T-Virus Wario. 📖: Nintendo World #56 (Brazil), 2003.

Mm hmm

XBOX CEO Asha Sharma says some parts of the company had 14 layers of management They will be reduced to no more than 5 layers — and in some cases, just 3 "That complexity has slowed decisions, blurred accountability, & made it harder to deliver for players. As we reset XBOX, we will simplify [it]"

I have tried the new Kodak film. It is fine. Thank you Sidney Sweeney. Kodak Verita 200 Nikon n80 #filmphotography

USMNT had a lot of momentum towards the end of the first half but it didnt result in a goal so hopefully that momentum was lost to the break.

what the actual fuck

Pringles unveil limited-edition hot dog buns with different flavors.

I cannot and will not acknowledge Konami are in any way, shape, or form back until they bring the Goemon collection to the West.

Brutal Legend is $2.99 on Steam buff.ly/zd01nsC Deck verified also on Game Pass Premium

This isn’t even the hater in me some of these steals Belgium is getting are nasty. Just taking the ball back like

also me whenever Tillman is mentioned

Cornerpond is $1.94 on Steam buff.ly/LNfkYIZ

Youtube I can't do this anymore please

Okay now do it again

One of the GDQ commentators keeps using the term “autoscroller” wrong and it’s a good lesson in how communities use a word so often that eventually people just pick up what they think it means through context and create new meanings for it.

As a Nigerian-American, I'm obligated to root for my Nigerian-American brother Folarin Balogun, thems the rules

Crazy how both Belgium goals have been so close to the goal. Yall letting these boys walk it in.

Beautiful shot from my worst enemy.

On @allplay.bsky.social `s Kickstarter tomorrow, a band new game illustrated by me :) www.kickstarter.com/projects/boa...

On @allplay.bsky.social`s Kickstarter tomorrow, a band new game illustrated by me :)

James Wood hitting that Grand Slam is the best thing to happen to DC in weeks.

Fellow authors: without any context, what's the first line of your current WIP? "The afterlife begins with an unskippable cutscene."

The Wizard Collector's Edition Blu-ray is $13.79 on Amazon amzn.to/2ObRg9a #ad also known as the Super Mario Bros. 3 Nintendo Direct. also has reversible cover art

A tasty matchup today, Belgian Fries and Waffles vs jambalaya and corn dogs... gotta go with corn dogs and cajun food.

Why did Dest let that 50/50 ball just drop in the box? Lmao

This is the first time I’ve smiled since Mexico was eliminated.

I won't be watching any more World Cup, but since the match would have started, I will say that the only fair outcome is a Belgium win. I feel bad for Balogun unwillingly becoming the name of FIFA corruption for what might be decades. Football has a long memory.

I won't be watching any more World Cup, but since the match would have started, I will say that the only fair outcome is a Belgium win. I feel bad for Balogun unwillingly becoming the name of FIFA corruption for what might be decades. Football has a long history.

KAMUI flashes some fantastically wordy sci-fi phrases onscreen in-between enemy waves.

Ariana Grande’s Brighter Days Foundation will support Black Voters Matter, Southern Fried Queer Pride, and SPARK for her Atlanta show of the ‘eternal sunshine’ tour.

THE OPTICAL FILE CABINET (Source.)

The Midnight Walk is $14.99 on Steam buff.ly/uPNCSVP GOG buff.ly/oQVEdsT #ad $19.79 US eShop buff.ly/aEGu5Mw Deck playable

time to settle down and watch the ℭ𝔬𝔯𝔯𝔲𝔭𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫 𝔅𝔬𝔴𝔩! 😬

Travis Scott reveals how he was cast in ‘THE ODYSSEY’. “Nolan had this crazy idea and I’m down to rock with however you wanna do it.” (Source: Deadline)

Firewatch is $3.99 on GOG buff.ly/wMw1jXp #ad Steam buff.ly/IK78pwT also on Game Pass Premium

describing my homeowners association policies to chatgpt and then telling it to pretend to be mitch mcconnel and determine the best way to ratfuck the hoa board in his honor

1 hour left to enter the giveaway

Big O… Big O… Big O! Flash Gordon energy for the intro and globs of Batman: The Animated Series, vintage toku, and homages to Giant Robo for the episodes. One of the Toonami staples when I first watched it. 📀: / Otaku Última Generación 14, 2000

I'm still in touch with the network of people getting laid off in waves in my time in IT tech.

Indiana Jones (1981)

Every game with parkour tries to make your character look as cool as possible while they’re doing fast running shit and Mario Odyssey posits what if you looked like a big bag of stupid

Not surprised but impressed as always with how much more I understand a Kenpo technique after teaching it. Part of a tech wasn't working for them. Realized it was because they weren't doing one move in the tech the right way.

Marvel TV boss Brad Winderbaum wants to do 10 seasons of ‘X-Men '97’ (via POC Culture)

PlayStation hasn't posted in over 5 days on Twitter (X) 🎮 • Their longest span of not tweeting in years • The post announcing they're ending physical game production currently has 8 approved Community Notes

I think it great that decades of business school and corporate trainings beat SMART goals into everyone's heads only for the 2020s to come around where tech people just say whatever.

If a woodchuck could chuck wood how much wood also Dionysus tribute for the bounty is coming

Had to delete my post over people crying “AI art” 😂 Embarrassing for them really, because it was fan art, hand drawn, and I watched it being made. The one time it wasn’t AI and you still got it wrong. Should be ashamed. Apologise to the artist.

Emmy Rossum will appear on ‘Call Her Daddy’ this Wednesday.

Obsidian is losing around 25% of the studio to Xbox layoffs ➡️ kotaku.com/avowed-the-o...

We are playing Idols of Ash and it's awesome so far! store.steampowered.com/app/4450800/...

we found martin, he's alive

Rihanna uplifts a fan battling cancer after she described herself as “terrible” without her wig: “This is what I like to see […] Anytime you meet anybody, don’t do that sh*t. You’re fire just like that.”

God, it looks like a LOT of Accessibility specialists were hit by today's layoffs at Xbox, inclusing some of their most senior accessibility folks. This feels like a REALLY bad sign for accessibility at Xbox going forward. A huge amount of skilled talent being thrown out as part of this "shake up".

Nicki Minaj shares new post of Donald Trump: “#WhiteHouseBarbie with her favorite President of all time”

Police Story/Police Story 2 - The Criterion Collection Blu-ray is $24.98 on Amazon amzn.to/2FGRX7C B&N buff.ly/QUZokp4 #ad

it's so dumb that all the software has llm/chatbot integration now because it's such a dumb thing to do it's completely insensible to have it in almost all software pipeline; even if you *want* to use it it should be used to produce a reliable expert system/deterministic corpus like please ffs lol

Nevermind Hina'll be on time! See you in 30!

Join me in a half hour! I'll be joined by Ecto, and slightly later HinaBobina (she'll be a little late) and we're going to the Occult Crescent in FF14 to grind those relics! See you at twitch.tv/patstaresat and youtube.com/patstaresat/live !