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Zombies Ate My Neighbors is still one of the most gloriously unhinged games ever made.
A few fun facts:
• It started as a random side project. Designer Mike Ebert was just messing around with a graphics engine and made a “save people from monsters” demo inspired by Robotron and Smash TV… and somehow it became a full LucasArts game.
• The original name was just “Monsters.” Other rejected titles included “Return of the Teenage Son of the Bride of a Zombie, Part 2.”
• They only planned ~36 levels. Then the Konami deal took forever to finalize, so the team just kept making more. That’s how the SNES version ended up with 55 levels.
• There’s a secret flamethrower hidden in the SNES version that almost nobody finds. The designer later admitted he wished they hadn’t buried it so deep.
• After beating the game you unlock a bonus level set inside the actual LucasArts offices. George Lucas is standing at the front door telling you to get back to work. Steve Purcell (Sam & Max) is there dressed as Indiana Jones. And the Purple Tentacle from Day of the Tentacle is running around as one of the monsters.
• Nintendo made them change the blood on the game-over screen to purple goo. In Europe they renamed the whole game just “Zombies” and swapped the chainsaw maniac’s chainsaw for an axe.
• Your weapons include a holy-water squirt gun, soda-can grenades, tomatoes, popsicles, a weed whacker, silverware (especially deadly against werewolves), and potions that turn you into a giant invincible purple monster.
Pure 16-bit chaos. Absolute cult classic.
Wolverine was an absolute disaster. I love how everyone that defended this corpo trash isn't talking about it anymore. Almost as if it was all smoke and mirrors...
Sony spent $300M on Wolverine. It sold 2.4M copies in 50 days. Spider-Man 2 did more in 24 hours. The fans warned them. They didn't listen.
God Wills It.
I am happy to report that my son is now home safe. He was discharged last evening from the hospital. Everyone's support on here really helped uplift me during my darkest hour, so I just want to thank everyone for being so kind, and I look forward to getting back to the grind of my work in the next few days.
Amazon spent a billion dollars on Tolkien and still can't figure out why the fans are mad. Now the showrunner just said it out loud. Patrick McKay told SFX the audience doesn't get to dictate the show: "We would be bad at our job if we didn't care somewhat what people think of it. That doesn't mean that they're suddenly in charge."
Sure. Technically true. But here's the thing nobody in that room wants to say: the fans are the only reason the show exists at all. This is the same crew that called critics "patently evil" back in 2022, paused reviews when the scores got ugly, and watched the audience score sit at 38% while the critics clapped at 84%. A billion dollars, two seasons, and the takeaway is "shut up and watch."
Fine. That's the deal they're offering. But fans don't run the show. They run the remote. And the remote has an off button. Season 3 is in production. We'll see who's still there when it airs.
Epic just turned every chest in Fortnite into a slot machine, and they won't even tell you the odds.
The Pirate Token dropped November 1 with the One Piece Treasure Hunters event. It's hidden in chests, it unlocks basically the whole item shop for two weeks, and Epic has never published the drop rate. Players are guessing 1 in 700,000. Kids are grinding hundreds of chests and getting nothing. Tokens were already listed on eBay for nine, ten grand before Epic warned everyone it's a scam. Player count jumped 80 percent the day the event went live, and Epic's only answer is "everyone has an equal opportunity." Equal opportunity to what? To waste your whole weekend pulling a lever?
This is the same company already getting sued by a minor's guardian over llama loot boxes addicting kids. They learned nothing except how to hide the casino better. No money changes hands to open a chest, so technically it's not gambling. Technically. Tell that to the kid who opened four hundred chests and got nothing, or the parents watching their kid chase a pixel like it's a jackpot.
If a real casino ran an unlisted-odds slot machine aimed at children, we'd call it a crime and shut it down by lunch. Epic calls it retention. I call it what it is: a kids' casino. Post the odds, Epic. Or admit you won't, because you know exactly what they'd show.
If you're trying to be a creator on X, you should read this. I'm changing a few things because of it.
X AI ALGORITHM UPDATE 🚨
X updated their open source algorithm yesterday and the early likes matter even more now. Small accounts should focus on: writing posts people hit like on and read till the end (so write to be read)
tl;dr:
- X's open source code got new scores on Nov 5, the first change in 3 weeks
- likes: 0.66 → 0.708 (highest yet)
- time spent on a post: 0.006 → 0.0075
- tapping into a post: 0.3 → 0.274
- opening a video: 0.02 → 0
- new rule: AI replies may get flagged under big accounts as "llm slop" and may not reach the person's notifications
lesson learned: a tap isn't the win anymore. Someone staying and liking is.
full details:
- The new numbers
Up: likes 0.66 → 0.708, time spent on a post 0.006 → 0.0075, shares 2 → 2.118.
Down: tapping into a post 0.3 → 0.274, staying 10+ seconds after a tap 0.4 → 0.385, opening a video 0.02 → 0.
"Not interested" got a bit harsher, -52.27 → -53.07.
Copy link, replies, quotes, DM shares and follows didn't move.
X didn't explain any of this. It's just what the code says now.
(I check the open source algo daily with Claude and share updates with you)
- Look at where this has gone in a month
In early October a like was worth 0.5. Now it's 0.708.
Time spent was 0.004. Now it's 0.0075, nearly double.
A tap was 0.3 and it's going down.
Every change points the same way. X keeps paying more for people who stay.
- Why that matters if you're small
My read: you can't win on big numbers, but you can win on the people who do see your post. If they stay and like it, that counts for more today than it did last week. And those early likes also decide which new post gets the extra push.
- Video and your profile
X also switched on two new guesses in its ranking: how long someone keeps watching after they open a video, and how long they spend on a profile after tapping it.
I can't tell you what those are worth. The only file that lists them is out of date, so I won't guess a number.
My read: opening a video dropped to 0 the same day because X cares more about people who keep watching. So make the first seconds count, and make your profile worth sticking around on.
- A new rule for replies under big accounts
X runs an AI check on replies under accounts with over 250K followers. Flagged replies can get a label that lasts 14 to 30 days. One of the flags is literally called "llm slop" (AI slop, as I read it).
That part isn't new. This is: X's rules now say a labeled reply or mention doesn't reach the person's notifications unless they follow you.
Grey badge accounts and accounts X rates as highly credible skip this label. Small accounts get no such pass.
I can see the rule, I can't see if every notification goes through it yet. Either way, write your own replies.
- What didn't change
Your new posts still get their extra push in the first 2 hours and first 200 views, and they still don't get cut first.
Here's a recap of what you should be doing:
- likes just hit 0.708, the most they've ever been worth
- each second someone spends on your post is worth 25% more than last week
- staying 10+ seconds after a tap earns 0.385 on top of the tap
- reply in your own words, under big accounts especially
- make your profile worth a visit, X now guesses how long people spend there
- for video, hold attention early, just getting the open now scores 0
- being read to the end also helps X find you new readers
- originals from accounts below 50K can jump to around spot 16
- early viewers liking it is what wins that lift
- your first 2 hours and 200 views are the window, so publish when your people are online
- the biggest single number is still 20, for someone copying your link
- quotes, DM shares and replies earn 5 apiece
- back and forth between mutuals is worth 20, so follow back your regulars
- strangers only get shown your originals
- the 1st like and the 32nd like each open another route to new people
- a second post of yours in the same feed drops to 62%, so make one count
- the video lists want clips over 10 seconds
- +4 when a post is likely to earn you a new follower
- your pinned post can affect the whole account, so take a look at it
What you should NOT be doing:
- pasting AI replies under big accounts, "llm slop" is a real flag at X
- copy-paste replies, a duplicate label means they never get notified
- chasing the tap, it's down to 0.274 and falling
- off-topic posts, one likely "not interested" costs -53.07
- a video that only gets opened earns nothing for the open
- publishing at 3am burns your 2 hour window
- relying on replies and reposts to reach new people, they stay with your followers
- getting an insult label, non-followers won't see that post at all
- low quality and misinfo labels bring a warning, and non-followers can't like or share
- adult media in 3 of your last 5 posts gets the whole account labeled
- X rechecks videos for hidden content at 64 and 512 likes
- piling your replies under a big account's post can sink your own score
- one label on the account and non-followers stop seeing you
- a link to a badly rated site in your pinned post risks a 7 day label
- reusing your own wording word for word risks the copypasta flag
- pairing a low quality link with tags of strangers looks like spam to X
- engagement bait gets labeled no matter how big you are
- posting several in a row, they fight each other for the same feed
- hashtag stuffing does nothing
- counting on bookmarks, they're worth 0
- expecting For You to show a post past 48 hours
I'm about to start posting crazy AI music on Rumble, and elsewhere. Not AI slop. It's gonna be well-crafted and hardcore, deathcore, punk, metalcore, prog metal focus. Very much Christian-focused also.
Leftists think they've won, but politics don't matter anymore. We've all realized it's all fake. It's about to get much worse for them.
NEW: Cash App has severed ties with the 'I've Had It' Podcast after hosts Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan laughed uncontrollably at the thought of digging up Charlie Kirk's corpse and killing him again.
Cash App says they are no longer a sponsor of the show.
Just 20 minutes before the women cracked up at the thought of assassinating Charlie Kirk again, Welch had read an ad for Cash App.
Surprising anyone would want to sponsor this show in the first place.