every mushroom foraging guidebook: This is Woodland Pot Roast, a tasty little mushroom that adds a delightful flavour to soups and stews. Note that it is often mistaken for Satan’s Fistula, a mushroom that erases the last 9 generations of your family from God’s ledgers.

The C64GS Charity Raffle is now live to support The Befriending Scheme. Prizes: 1st: Custom C64GS bundle 2nd: Multi Retro DRAM Tester 3rd: DestestMax Cartridge Tickets are £5 each, or a bundle of 5 entries for £20. Entry link: gvwhl.com/XFKUX

friendly reminder: bird feeders are major disease vectors for birds which can spread diseases across species. such diseases can easily wipe out 60% of a species population in a season. you want to support birds? create bird friendly environments where insects and other food sources can thrive.

Road Fighter won the SMS Power coding competition! Thanks again to Chirinea for teaming up. There were a lot of great entries this year. Now we have to think of something for next year. #mastersystem #homebrew

oh great now where am I supposed to get my world’s biggest condoms

Currently sitting in the new house after my first night of sleeping here. Waiting on Virgin to arrive and set up my internet and looking around at all the stuff that needs putting away. So obviously I'm writing about doing it rather than actually doing it.

You know what, Audible, I think I'm gonna pass.

Virgin Media: We're all set to install the broadband at your new address on the 22nd Also Virgin Media: We've disconnected the broadband at your current address today. We saw no need to tell you this would be happening. Sigh

pal just mentioned having to buy tails for his wedding and I asked if the bride would be dressed as Knuckles, suspect I'll be riding that high for 12-24 hours

If you're going to have a chatbot on your website, please don't make it talk like this.

That's a wild set of options, YouGov. Also "select all that apply".. just in case I released a documentary, performed for 500k people and ran a thousand miles in the same weekend.

Game devs, plz tell me how "pausing the game" works in your game? Is it weird? Is it simple? Is it janky? I'm curious how such a common feature--the ability to pause and check your settings, etc--actually works & what happens when players hit pause! Reply / DM / email me at - [email protected]

I should quote this to my doctor when he tells me to lose weight. As a 50-year-old, I'm well below the average weight :)

When it comes to hardware, I'm not the best, but I was able to get my greaseweazle set up and running and tried it out by writing an Amiga ADF file... and it worked!

Found a ROM cartridge on eBay that does impressions.

From the article: "Meta has said its smart glasses have an LED light that activates whenever someone captures content. Meta argues this light makes it clear the device is recording." Really not the point. People aren't consenting to becoming content for someone else.

I may be overthinking this ad, but if had these love hearts individually, the first is creepy and the second makes no sense.

This Nokia tape recorder that just arrived could certainly never be classed as a slimline model.

This morning is about testing light guns. It'll probably take me more time to set up each console than actually test the guns.

I am a citizen of Iceland and let me assure you that we are not terrified of the future because of “authoritarian gender ideology”. What scares us is transphobes, ultra right wing ideologies, the manosphere, fascism, MAGA, oligarchs, techno fascists, ecological collapse and climate change.

I like it when I buy a game and it has stuff like this in it... the dedication of home-made maps. :) I wonder if anyone would actually guess the game from the map though... it's for the SNES if that helps.

Our remake of Road Fighter for SEGA Master System/Mark III is now available to play. Download for free below. www.smspower.org/Homebrew/Roa... #mastersystem #homebrew

Certainly a varied line-up

Been testing a few C64 tapes today. Although Chiller wasn't seen as the best of games, the Spectrum version was one of the first games I bought for it, so I'll always have fond memories of it. I don't remember the spectrum version coming with these extra bits though.

"works but missing joystick"

(browsing AliExpress) Oh, even Jesus has his own personal Jesus

Reach PLC celebrating Mother's Day in the only way they know how.

Not sure I've seen a single game need so much damn tape (it didn't load anyway)

Kovacs just can't keep himself out of prison.

I've just had an amazing idea

Couple more tape players arrived today. The Bell & Howell model is a beast and weighs in at 2kg. It also has a button layout that is going to take some getting used to.

This is the equivalent of a Japanese programmer calling an American baseball player Bobson Dugnutt.

Amstrad Wonder Boy loading screen features a boy, wondering.

Glad it's not just me that can't forget their ICQ number. Mine was 2934300 and I've not needed to know that in so long now.

We're going to be doing 80s tech in todays world on @b3ta.com this week

Keep getting Instagram ads on moving to Dubai. Er, I think I'll pass, fellas.

Reinstalled PGA Tour 2K1 only to find that because 2k have turned the servers off, I can't even play single player career mode offline anymore. God, I hate modern sports game franchises.

Just bought Gunship for the ZX Spectrum, but it seems I'm a little late to claim my free frisbee. #zxspectrum

Aside from the AI slop like the butchers not having a door and a phone box for short people, these people are nostalgic about things that still exist. Literally round the corner from me, there's a butchers, chip shop and pub.. but there's also a kebab shop and a chinese. Variety is a good thing!

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Today's challenge: Packaging up probably the largest single order I've had in terms of number of items. All spectrum games and these are just the single-case ones.. now to dig out the big-box ones next.

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

This is who runs this account

Just put an offer in on a house and already feel the anxiety kicking in. I'm not used to this grown-up stuff.

Me: *absolutely knocking it out of the park* Them: that actually belongs in the park

Liz Truss waiting patiently by her phone for Reform to ring, not realising it's actually a penguin biscuit