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We need a skateboardarra thread! Aside from our own Mikey"Ripquist"456 being a member of the raddest currently existing American crew, Fancy Lad (they coined the term "avant gnar" which is the highest level of thing that a thing can be in my opinion), it's my very favorite spectator sport overall, and I don't even skate. Rodney Mullen will probably be my forever-favorite (which, if he didn't also seem like such a cool guy would probably be too easy an answer):

Load us up with skate vids, opinions, board pics, etc!

Here's your annual reminder of a fun Shizz fact: Streifig and I share the same birthday! It's a little thing that always warms my heart to reflect on every year. Mikhail, I love you, and THESHIZZ I love all of you too! Celebrate by telling me of a good bday memory you have from any point in your own life.

For me, it has to be my 17th birthday, because my sister (who is only about a year younger than me) threw me a surprise party and organized to have a bunch of my friends over to our house. It was a big deal for two reasons: 1) my sister and I almost *never* got along at this point in our lives, and I genuinely thought she absolutely hated me, and 2) most of these friends had never been to our neighborhood at all because it was a pretty ratty place and any one of their houses was a nicer spot for a hang. But on this day it seemed like the *perfect* place for a hang and we had an awesome time. It was one of the last times I remember truly feeling like a "kid" in any sort of carefree way.

The song in this intro has been one of my favorite vgm tunes of all time for a while now, but I had never played the game and I just stumbled upon this upload recently from a fan translation. Holy shit! It got me pumped as hell! And curious about other totally badass intros of the 16-bit era, from otherwise any style of game or console (or arcade board or Japanese computer or whatever).