Beauty and the Altered Beast

@badbirdkc / badbirdkc.tumblr.com

Funny pictures, cool photos, scans of old video game magazine and other stuff

Does anyone use Tumblr anymore? I haven't been active in years. Out of the 100+ accounts I followed, only ten or so are still active. Anyway, here's an Alien holding a Magic Snake.

Nice system you got there, Tumblr...

Flagged Content

LOL. A bunch of my old content was flagged by the new filter, or whatever. I’d say maybe two or three images was suspect. I know there was no actual nudity, but on a couple, due to shadows and/or the black and white photography, were a bit iffy. Most had straight up, no questionable nudity at all and were actually pictures of fully clothed women.  I appealed most of them, if only to make someone actually look at them.  I guess we’ll see what happens.

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Man, I haven’t logged in here in a long time.  I forgot about half the shit I follow.  I also forgot how not-fun it is to scroll endlessly and then lose your place and have the page throw you back to the top.  I also forgot about how porn will just randomly pop up between posts about classic video games and 70s retro artwork, but at least you can make comments now.

So I just hooked up my original Xbox for the first time in about nine years.  Not only did it fire up just fine, but all my game saves are still intact.  Even though the original Xbox had a fairly short life span, I got a ton of enjoyment out of it.  In fact, I would rank the Xbox as my second favorite console of all time, right behind the Sega Genesis.

2016 marks the fifteenth anniversary of the Xbox.  Last year, the Xbox 360 got a lot of attention for its tenth anniversary; hopefully the original gets a little love this year.

PS - I always preferred the big, fat, original controller.  We called it “The Watermellon.“

So I just watched the He Man and She Ra Christmas Special tonight for the first time since it aired on TV 30 years ago(!).  It’s not any good, but fun for a nostalgia trip.  But let’s get one thing clear: This is a She Ra special that guest stars He Man and friends.  I’m guessing this was when they were pushing real hard to make She Ra a thing.  No Teela, no Battle Cat, but a whole lot of Swift the rainbow Pegasus and stupid robot people.