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Let's drink Pocari Sweat

food & drink

Let's drink Pocari Sweat

Recording podcasts and drinking a Japanese sports drink at 11 pm on a Tuesday evening

29 Oct 2024
Caption: "iMod Diaries" with photo of iPod running Rockbox operating system

Day Soda

iMod Diaries #3: Rocking with Rockbox

A deep dive into an alternative software stack

lock-1 24 Oct 2024
Screenshot from Tricky Madness showing a big air trick in a forest

games

Tricky Madness channels the spirit of SSX

Developer Nathan Dearth wants to bring “simple, arcade-y fun” back to the snowboarding genre

17 Oct 2024
An iPod without a face plate and the caption "iMod Diaries."

Day Soda

iMod Diaries #2: A classic rebuild

Featuring a classic mistake

lock-1 03 Oct 2024
The Clementoni Talking Motorbike on a purple background.

mailbag

What is this motorbike singing to me?

And more reasonable questions about a talking motorcycle

24 Sep 2024
The "Movies Fantasy League" logo from Vulture.

film & tv

Join Night Water in Vulture’s Movie Fantasy League

Taking our Oscar Ballot to the next level

lock-1 20 Sep 2024
A photoshopped image of an iPod inside of a diary, with the caption "iMod Diaries".

Day Soda

iMod Diaries #1: A classic shopping list

Building a new iPod, brick by brick

lock-1 19 Sep 2024
A well-planned ancient city in Memoriapolis, with multiple large cultural buildings surrounded by housing.

games

Two Early Access city-builders with a twist

Memoriapolis and The Wandering Village take city-builders into parts unknown

17 Sep 2024
It’s time to bring back the iPod

nostalgia

It’s time to bring back the iPod

1000 songs in your pocket

10 Sep 2024
The Myth of "Consensual" Smoking meme

hot water takes

Hot Water Takes: Smoking in pub gardens

It's open season on cigarette smokers in Britain

04 Sep 2024
A copy of Colm Tóibín's "Long Island" on a desk along with an Air Mail letter.

Day Soda

A depressing surprise in your mailbox

Plus: the Brooklyn to Long Island pipeline

lock-1 29 Aug 2024
Screenshot from Bloom's "chill" mode, parodying "Lofi girl" on YouTube.

games

RNG Party Games is in bloom

Checking in with the Playdate game developers two years later

13 Aug 2024
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A late night, idiosyncratic niche culture newsletter. As refreshing as a glass of cold water at 3 a.m.