Good evening, Shacknews, it's night time, which means it's time for Evening Reading. Let's officially close out our day of posting. Please take a look.
In case you missed it at Shacknews:
- A Bit of Foolishness: An Oral History of Age of Empires
- Pro Strats: X-COM (1994) strategy guide author David Ellis on QA and writing guides
- Bet on Black: How Microsoft and Xbox Changed Pop Culture, Part 1
- Introducing Shacknews Reader for RSS feeds
- Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2 review: Welcome back to The 9 Club, bro
- Disco Elysium review: Drunk on ambrosia
- Half-Life: Alyx review - Your time comes around again
And now... Other Stuff From The Internet!!!
Pet chair
I built a chair for needy pets that always want to sit next to you. pic.twitter.com/loTmxmsnQ5
— Simone Giertz (@SimoneGiertz) March 30, 2021
Pet chair for the Chair Pet?
Going to need more people to match my energy
accidentally bumped into a guy and was like “oh my god im so sorry!” and he was just like “it’s fine.”
— Dana Donnelly (@danadonly) March 30, 2021
WHAT????!?!?? it’s FINE!? Sir, please match my tone! i need an “oh my god no worries at all!” or im gonna feel like shit
Apologise profusely when you bump into someone.
American Psycho v2
this critique of business cards is prob the funniest thing I’ve ever seen pic.twitter.com/si0CnIR7MK
— Trung Phan 🇨🇦 (@TrungTPhan) March 30, 2021
Never seen someone so excited to talk about business cards.
Long patch notes are long
So those #Cyberpunk2077 patch updates... pic.twitter.com/inAQCKCIpA
— Isaiah Colbert (656/1008🏴☠️) (@EyeZehUhh) March 29, 2021
Did you read them all?
King of the Hill screens
— King of the Hill Screens (@kothscreens) March 30, 2021
Pretty sure this is the episode where Hank has a sandwich at a new BBQ joint and has to sit at a big share table.
Pirate!
I dunno who made this but it’s work of fucking art 😂🏴☠️ pic.twitter.com/xVcqwfjTJS
— A’tuin Sneezed (@damethelog) March 29, 2021
He's out lookin' for booty!
Headbutt!
— tokyo cyborg (@tokyocyb0rg) March 30, 2021
And bow.
Not work safe
Not safe for work. pic.twitter.com/6p29Ri16Tw
— KevKev (@Der_Kevin) March 30, 2021
This work is very not safe.
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Here's a photo of Rad having a good sleep. I do wonder how this could possibly be comfortable for him, but he loves smooshing his face.

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Sam Chandler posted a new article, Evening Reading - April 2, 2021