Phil Salvador

@philsalv.bsky.social

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Library Director @ Video Game History Foundation. Tea, birds, and weird old stuff. Maxis history expert, as seen on TV. ☕🐦📚 he/him

Four boxes of Yorkshire tea sticky toffee flavor, totaling 160 bags.
E3 booth for Cyberdillo.
The new issue of ROMchip! With articles!
A cardboard standee of Garrus Vakarian, 5-time winner of World's Sexiest Man.
A Mass Effect ride at a theme park.
An alleged review quote for the movie The Room, describing it as "...with the passion of Tennessee Williams," attributed to nobody in particular.
A fake award, with laurels, for "Expected 2026 Most Relaxing Game." Five stars.
Italian Meatball Pringles.
wow!! normal bed, Sonic!!!
Developer Updates. April 17, 2013. "Hey everyone, we’ve taken the veil off of for our latest game. I’m sorry to say it’s not Don’t Piss Your Pants, but we think it’s just as cool. Our newest game is called Rogue Legacy, a procedurally-generated “Rogue-Lite” with an in-depth heritage system. We’re super proud of it, but right now we need your help to get it on Steam. If you’ve enjoyed the games we’ve made in the past, it would mean the world to us if you could visit the page below, and give [...]"
A copy of Nintendo Power #1.
A messy office space. A plush Garfield is face-down on the ground.
In a burning city, Sephiroth declares, "Eggs do not lay eggs. it was the goose that created value."
It's Pupu!
Garak from Deep Space Nine, smiling. He doesn't know anything about senators who suddenly die. He is just a tailor.
A still of Borf from Space Ace, as recorded with a camcorder at a trade show.
Matthew McConaughey smoking with his eyes bugged out.
A poster of Xena, warrior princess reading a scroll. "Vanquish ignorance. Read. Xena for America's Libraries."
A mug of some indiscernible brown liquid.
A mug with the logo for the Deep Time Unit from The Journeyman Project.
The ending of Vs. Super Mario Bros. "Peace is paved / with kingdom saved / Hurrah to Mario / Our only hero / This ends your trip / of a long friendship."
A perfectly caramel mug of tea.
“Ebay should be worth – and will be worth – a lot more money,” Cohen told the Wall Street Journal. “I’m thinking about turning eBay into something worth hundreds of billions of dollars,” Cohen said, adding: “It could be a legit competitor to Amazon.”
The tea is called Pizza Power. It is a tisane.
The hallway of an old-fashioned hotel. The hallway abruptly cuts off and drops into nothingness. Beyond the hallway is a massive expanse of sky. Suspended within the sky is some kind of ancient Greek temple that looks like it was ripped out of the earth with chunks of the ground still in tact. The temple is topped off with a massive stonework Sierpinski triangle fractal.
A payphone on the wall of an old-timey diner. However, the room is abruptly cut in half. The other half of the room is a massive empty expanse of the sky, like the world suddenly stopped.
Moonchild is playing at the UC Theater on July 29th.
A long, tube-like geometric hallway lit by two enormous globe lights. There is a dark passageway at the end.
A billboard for some tech startup called Odoo. Their slogan is "Switch to Odoo."
One long giant spiraling strip of potato.
During this study, we also discovered that the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita digital stores had experienced such a degradation in service quality that they were effectively unusable. Even though these legacy digital storefronts remain online, digital games for these platforms are practically unavailable due to serious technical issues. The PS3 and Vita stores are a major source of game reissues. According to lists compiled by fans, between both platforms, a total of 266 PlayStation 1 games, 104 PlayStation 2 games, and around 304 PlayStation Portable (PSP) games119 were made available in North America as of April 2023, in addition to remastered versions of individual titles, such as God of War II HD and Killzone HD on the PS3. In response to public outcry, Sony committed to keeping the PS3 and Vita storefronts open indefinitely in 2021. However, the Video Game History Foundation staff and volunteers found that we could not access the stores using a new PlayStation Network (PSN) account, which instead returned an error message. According to posts on Reddit discussion groups for PlayStation users, the issue appears to be related to new security measures enabled for PSN accounts starting in 2016, which are not supported on the PS3 or Vita. As a result, the platforms have been experiencing prolonged network issues. We discussed these issues with Video Game History Foundation community members, who noted that this problem has been ongoing for months or perhaps years, with no sign that these aging legacy PSN services will be (or can be) updated to resolve it. While Sony has not acknowledged these network issues, we consider the widespread experiences of players to be valuable and trustworthy for understanding this situation. Sony does not offer a solution to this problem or inform users that their security settings may affect access to network services. We were only able to access the PS3 and Vita stores by using a [...]
The box for some kind of Macintosh game called MOUSE STAMPEDE.
A game (possibly Twisted Metal 2?) being projected onto the side of the Hotel Figueroa in Downtown LA to promote PlayStation.
A banner for Spokane Hoopfest.
Fuck's Quest II is the #11 game of the week.
100% completion in Fuck's Quest II.
Klax-branded cigarettes.
A clay teapot and tea cup, filled with oolong.
FLIM SPRINGFIELD
News article from August 6, 2025: "Grand Theft Auto VI Price Expected To Hit $100, Says Analyst Michael Pachter"
The cover of "The Game Player's Guide to Nintendo." The word Nintendo takes up about one-fifth of the cover. This issue also has a sticker slapped on the cover that says "Not affiliated with Nintendo of America."
This month's Skittle of the month goes to Phoebe in World of Warcraft.
Some kind of AI-generated squiggly blob that is meant to be a chicken but is not a chicken that exists on this earth.
"Categories we think you'll like" on Twitch. The two top categories are Retro (6k viewers) and Fuck's Quest II (0 viewers).
Reelism 2 Turbo: Expansion Pack #1
The cover art for Columns III, which inexplicably has a dude with a receding hairline hanging out on a pile of gems.
A DDR-style rhythm game played on guitar strings.
A Windows 11 popup. "Summer blockbuster quiz: What's notable about the 2020 remake of Disney's Mulan? Take the quiz." The thumbnail is a great white shark, inexplicably.
An achievement called "master of speed." The icon is a photograph of a cat screaming.
A maze with a snake-like pixel character navigating through it.
"DARK SECRET: fuck's Arch Nemesis once went on vacation to a country car world was at war with, so fuck was able to go to that country and legally kill him."
In a desert environment. A woman named Apples says: "wow fuck is that u? i bet u came all the way up here to find me. U are such a asshole, that is such a asshole-style thing to do."
"there is currently a 100000 ton block of titanium on the other side of this door. u can not open it today."