One weird thing about Wikipedia's sourcing policy, for someone who studied history, is it insists secondary sources are better than primary. Seeing something in footage or reading a direct interview is treated as inferior to someone else describing it - the opposite of the study of history.

Well, pancakes

How did I miss that there's an enhanced edition of NES Jaws out? It seems like it's an expanded and elaborated version of the original game (the original is also included here). What a cool idea store.steampowered.com/app/3977380/...

The dream: to one day live somewhere where none of the immediate neighbours constantly use power tools every single day

Almost forgot about pancake day AGAIN! The question is whether I can avoid forgetting again in the next two days...

'Fish and chips' in Welsh is 'psygod a sglodion' and it just does not roll off the tongue

We are live!

The best description I've read of what LLMs do is: they show you an example of what the thing you're asking about might look like. If you ask AI to give you financial analytics, what you're really asking is "what might analytics look like?" So it just throws a random example together.

"This appears to be a long document," Adobe Acrobat Reader just bleated at me, wiping drool from its chin. "Use AI to read it for you!" How long was it? 8 pages. EIGHT. And mostly charts/tables, not much text. Yeah, far too long to read, that. 8 pages. 🙄

I'm too early in the game to judge it, but I will say that fully scripted and cinematic 'tense'/'dramatic' moments are less tense and dramatic than letting stuff just happen through play

You're in the wrong zombie game, Bill! I know it's a long time since the last Left 4 Dead but you can't just wander into other games

Inspired by the idea of 'Jill Valentine's Day' I'm starting up the Resident Evil 3 remake shortly 😁

It's horrifying to think that fantastic shows from the 00s (like Battlestar Galactica, Dexter, Breaking Bad) are now the age that stuff from the 70s was when I was an adolsecent in the 90s. Good grief.

I know it's been 20+ years but "No more Mr Nice Gaius!" might still be the greatest piece of writing in TV history. I cried laughing for several solid minutes.

This looks interesting store.steampowered.com/app/3080050/...

For #RandomGameSaturday this week, we drew the only Ace Attorney game I've played: Justice for All I remember the novelty of yelling "objection" into my DS wearing off pretty quickly while living in shared house...

#ruinsOfCalaworm final demo build will hit @itch.io servers later tonight. Overall, the game is a wrap! Yay! Here's the accompanying devLog entry where I am commemorating my achievement (I probably should do these more often - writing devLogs, not celebrating myself, that is🤔). #roguelike #indieGame

I was considering playing the 2018 remake of Secret of Mana, just to see what it's like, but I hear it's extremely buggy. Can anyone I e-know vouch?

Recently I've been playing Xenosensory, the latest game by the Boneraiser Minions folks. It's good! A different type of game from Boneraiser, and much smaller, but hits that 'simple but addictive' target. I've liked everything I've played that's by these people.

I was considering playing the 2018 remake of Secret of Mana, just to see what it's like, but I hear it's extremely buggy. Can anyone I e-know vouch?

Hello fellow linguists! I'm putting out this post to see if there are any JP to EN freelance translators who are interested on working on a relatively small Japanese game. Please leave a comment in this post or send me a message, and I can assist in getting you connected.

Been polishing up my presentation on the storytelling technique we use in Forbidden Solitaire & HSH for the 'Games About Games Microtalks' at GDC! 🥳💀 If you happen to be attending GDC, consider popping by on March 10 from 3-4 pm! Deets below! 👇 schedule.gdconf.com/session/game...

Well, @rat707.bsky.social rants about all the important topics www.twitch.tv/rat707/clip/...

It has officially rained every day in the UK in 2026

Worms theme in my head www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgjt...

I've been saying for years that Discord is just a worse version of the kind of forums that were big 20 years ago. It'd be pretty funny if Discord's insistence on this face/ID scanning thing pushes everyone back to forums.

My biggest gripe about Road to Empress so far is that, while some choices can be made based on logic and paying attention, others are arbitrary. A lot of "This seems like it should be a good choic-- Oh, guess not."

Reminds me of my favourite sports conversation, as follows. Random stranger: Did you see the match last night? Me: No... RS: Why not? Me: ...I...just don't really like football. *seconds of silence* RS, contemplatively: Neither do I. I don't know why I watch it.

I started Road to Empress yesterday, and it's very pretty (I don't mean graphics, it's an FMV game)

Here's a new article for all Ko-fi supporters! The Chaos Engine is a fascinating slice of the early '90s UK gaming scene; accomplished and confident and either unaware or unbothered by the fact the rest of the gaming world was happily moving on without it: ko-fi.com/post/The-Cha...

Well

So... Don't play that squirrel horror game I mentioned before. It has homophobic slurs in it. Get the fuck out of here.

#RandomGameSaturday gives us Fallout: New Vegas I know many people prefer this to Fallout 3, but with 3 being my first Fallout this one felt crowded. I missed the desolation and loneliness of 3. Still good though.

When live-action footage meets CGI mecha in Old Tokyo - now the battleground for televised 'Scoot' battles. 📺: Phantom Crash, Genki, 2002 (Xbox)

Tempting store.steampowered.com/app/3973060/...

Tempting store.steampowered.com/app/3973060/...

Apparently everyone's talking about Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass lately

Takeaway dansak for dinner 🤯

Might play Night Signal after work. I've been meaning to get to it

Glanced at the time - 3:11pm Worked for about an hour. Glanced at the time - 3:28pm What the fuck

I have very little experience of FMV games so I picked up Road to Empress store.steampowered.com/app/3478050/...

Woke up with this in my head www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKKR...

We’re so excited to announce our Story-Rich Showcase! Our official showcase runs during the Summer Game Showcase 2026 timeframe, dedicated entirely to story-rich indie games with first looks, reveals, trailers, release dates, and dev-led storytelling 💝 More details soon! 🚶storyrich.games

And we're going to release it on floppy 💾 bsky.app/profile/huey...

Probably the best version of Into the Thick of It I've ever heard www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3GU...

Stuff happening in my life at the moment that's making it hard to focus on playing a game, so I decided to try one that doesn't have story or characters. I picked up Sektori

One of the most senior people at my employer called me and I greeted them by my own name, if anyone's wondering how my day is going

When you're susceptible to insomnia, all kinds of things can cause you to be unable to sleep. Stress, anxiety, too light, too dark, too cold, too warm, sadness, happiness, having Madonna's 'Material Girl' stuck in your head, or my personal favourite: being tired(!)

Tempted to get an RG Nano purely to play Pico-8 games on. I lament that Pico-8 isn't a physical console, and the RG Nano feels like the appropriate size to fill that niche