A sweet translator’s note on Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey.

Incredible payoff

games have been huge success. thats why we're firing every one who makes games. also we are going to make it so players can no longer buy games

Letter in today's Times by climate scientist Sir Brian Hoskins: "The discourse around net-zero is increasingly decoupled from…science and our changing weather. "Net-zero is not an arbitrary slogan, rather it is dictated by the laws of physics."

James Burrows 1940-2026 RIP

of course! sadly, everyone was incorrect.

jesus fucking christ

i like this article on japanese wikipedia (autotranslated in my browser)

V much enjoyed this passage from Hisham Matar’s ‘My Friends’ which reminded me of a long and happy youth spent just walking into stuff with enough confidence that nobody ever stopped me.

4 years ago in the Telltale Games Alumni FB group, Michael Parsons was asking if anyone had advice for helping his 15 year old son Kane achieve his dreams of being a filmmaker. Turned out alright.

It’s all kicking off in Richmond.

Bring back whatever this is instead of the score system. 😂

A great bit from Rich on a first-hand experience of seeing exactly how those vultures at Roblox go after younger gamers, both taking them for a ride and (arguably as bad) poisoning their general relationship with games as a medium. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

I'm going to start signing off emails with "fasten your seatbelts lolly lickers". youtu.be/VISjbPrHixI

This is an astrology app

I bought a copy of Dr Kawashima's Brain Training for my forthcoming feature on charity shop video games. It was £1 in Oxfam. These were the people who left saved games on the cart

"hinge.com" (1999) had info about hinges, and "threads.com" (mid 2000s) sold spools of threads! web.archive.org/web/19990208... web.archive.org/web/20070708...

"openai.com" was once the personal homepage of a guy named glenn (2001), and "tiktok.com" was the quaint shared homepage of a couple as their relationship progressed from dating to married with a baby (2000). THREAD!!!

Please please please go to the Che Guevara Wikipedia page and click the top source in Archival Media, then read the comments to that YouTube video. I'm not sure how or why this has happened but it's bizarre en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Gue...

Prime with ads. Just how Kubrick intended.

I am absolutely shite at recognising when someone is flirting with me. Like, comically bad at it. My mates would mock me about it. But something happened today that made me so happy. 1/?

Some incredible stuff here. Folk horror Mrs Tiggywinkle. Gary Glitter doing some actual paedoing. A terrifically intricate game loosely Star Wars / Queen Victoria themed testing how many mistakes each kid would make playing Bach on the violin.

It's wild how many hours I've spent in VR, and how many different VR games I've played, and yet fucking about in front of a mirror in L.A. Noire remains the absolute pinnacle of my experience with the technology.

Can't get over how well this single image condenses the experience of playing a Hideo Kojima game.

Dramatic scenes at BBC Breakfast.

Upsettingly good.

Love this

Saw V + A, Science + Nat. Hist. Museums, Tower Bridge, Tower of London, National Theatre, National Gallery, Tate, Buck. Palace, Nigel Lawson, Changing of the Guard, George Benson at Wembley, Harrods, Parliament, Petticoat Lane, Piccadilly Circus, and a farce involving 4 vicars in their long-johns.

Amaze amaze amaze.

down in a tube station at midnight

Jacked action hero with goon in headlock, in raspy yet firm voice:

@karthupial.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/case...

when you have that one totally annoying neighbor

In this house we remain completely obsessed

Mesmerised by these photographs by D Stuart of the ruins of Butlin’s in Filey. cambridge-photographer.co.uk/butlins-filey

1970s bank robbery kit by Mattel

we finally reached the end of this calendar event i accidentally made 12 years ago

This is a meatspace rendering bug.

Not staged, we had this happen with our rental car last year while on vacation. I hope it’s a trend and not just one person.

Guys being Dudes

Was a temp at Currys 2009. They had three screens showing Harry Potter. Composite, Scart and HDMI. Underneath was Basic, Silver and Gold HDMI cables. Mis-selling at its finest.

@wiilassie.bsky.social @bitoclass.uk Hey, nice to meet you both after 17 years of an extremely tenuous parasocial relationship! Hope you enjoyed Josie.

Just looking through some old comics and found a mail order advert for Small Prophets

just had a zoom call with tom niinan, tom nuunan and tom naanan, always tragic to lose one of our own, especially such a talented one.

I found the old 35mm slide for the cover for Neuromancer and had it scanned in for your pleasure. Enjoy!

mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

i often think about this review