So for fireworks being illegal in city limits I sure still hear fireworks on random holidays

Australia is a magic land where there's a computer called the "Dick Smith Wizzard". And I think that's beautiful

(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne

What does the ABC know that I don't know?

happy 2026 gamers

Final gamedev post of 2025. Some items you pick up in Dungeon Gals will allow a character to take a trip down memory lane, and reflect on the road that led them to where they are now. It's not always a happy road, so it's important to have warnings in place for those who may not expect it.

Jessica got me a Master System flashcart for Christmas; finally time to catch up on all the 8-bit Sonic I’ve missed.

I should *probably* not wade into someone else's mentions to tell someone off for being rude, but... it's tempting sometimes. So tempting.

The Most Mysterious Album In The World

it’s stupid when gamers say gaming is expensive, yet ignore ROM hacks. It’s like saying you’re hungry when there’s a fan translation of Linkle Liver Story on the ground outside

Like for Mr. Sweetness Repost for Mr. Sweetness

With all the emerald dragon hype lately, & idk if i posted this before but one of the developers for Emerald Dragon has a website with a ton of goodies in it (dev documents and the x68000 port included!) quarter-dev.info/index.php?pa... I havent played the game yet but it's very cool to read thru

Aww. I thought we'd already had the last Olivia Jaimes Nancy; nice that she gets to leave off with a goodbye and a note to the new artist. www.gocomics.com/nancy/2025/1...

holy fuck what an intro

Only messed around a little in training mode but I think Daemon Bride might be good? I’m into this

This is unreal. In this month's @romchip.bsky.social: This author was researching "superguns," unofficial devices used to play arcade games at home Sooo they built their own, following the instructions from vintage Japanese electronics magazines from the 80s/90s romchip.org/index.php/ro...

I was going to post Elisabeth Moss talking about how “Fred Armisen’s greatest impression is that of a normal person” but when I looked it up to get the wording right I learned AI has somehow turned it from being a scathing post divorce condemnation to being a really nice complement

I always try and work on one project during my Christmas holidays and this year I decided to take apart a CD-ROM containing a Sailor Moon multimedia application I hope that you can all enjoy my hilarious mess in trying to get content extracted from Shockwave cariad.keigher.ca/2025/12/29/s...

short little sale for the new year! 26% off everything for 2026 on until 3rd January only >:) get yerself something nice slowedmountains.etsy.com

I know references are the lowest form of humour and all that but I absolutely couldn't believe it when a Crosscode NPC quoted, almost verbatim, the closing lines of Garzey's Wing

Wow, it actually came out. I figured it was missing its vague 2025 release date but squeaked in just before the deadline. store.steampowered.com/app/3390980/...

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Hi everyone! I'm glad to announce that the first public beta for my translation of Ys V: Lost Kefin, Kingdom of Sand is now available! You can check it out here: github.com/Kaisaan/lost... Please report any issues in my Discord server! discord.gg/JnqvyDryen

sssSnakin' website (1999) web.archive.org/web/19990225...

Love that Terry’s have cheaped out so much most of the “chocolate” oranges can’t even legally claim to be chocolate anymore

Beyond the Wall of Stars (1992) is one of those weird multimedia experiences tailored-made for me. Ultralow-budget sci-fi interactive multiple-choice book with bonkers plot, water pistols, digitized actors and all that good stuff. It was supposed to be a trilogy but alas, that never happened.

I think my least fave thing about .NET GUI apps becoming popular online is that MS has successfully convinced people who only use Windows that any .NET app is cross-platform. So I run into people who have completely untested Linux/Mac builds, that they swear up and down work, that crash on launch.

The funny thing about seeing bluesky screenshots in the wild is bluesky cloned the twitter UI so closely I literally can't tell if a screenshot is bluesky or twitter unless the full handle got left in so I can tell if it's a domain

I love that this game is always emphasizing how this character speaks heavily English-accented Japanese. I guess because she's a golden retriever, and those are from Scotland. Someone greeted her with ごきげん in hiragana, and she replies with ゴキゲン in katakana. Very cute way of depicting an accent.

⚠️ oh! and! I almost forgot!⚠️ you can wishlist it's solitaire on steam now, if you want! store.steampowered.com/app/3912770/...

Actually the other thing that comes to mind is how I see some tech people criticize the *tone* people use to vent their fear for their own futures while at the same time talking in all sincerity about their programming chatbots having real emotions.

Man, this story. Guy doesn't want to listen to his own friends and would rather spend his time lecturing them on how the chatbot they don't want in their discord is actually alive. www.404media.co/anthropic-ex...

Kinda fascinated the Sphinx search site still calls it an "open source search server" in the banner when the last open source release was in 2016. sphinxsearch.com

yo dawg, i will 100% enforce upon their return.

I'm going to be broke by the new year. I'm disabled and homebound and isolated. I really would appreciate some help. ko-fi.com/jebwrench

Siamese - Tomoko Nakamine https://macthemes.garden/themes/891e6b6b1b54-Siamese

I feel like a lot of posting discourse comes from the fact a lot of people aren't prepared for posting to become a niche activity. I feel like self-styled pundits who only posted in the decade posting actually shifted culture cant deal with it returning to a niche for the post-obsessed

Just made 2 of my old albums free on bandcamp, get them while the free download limit allows if you like dark vaporwave and eccojams and stuff like that you might like it. I made this music between 2012 and 2019ish dafffffodil.bandcamp.com/album/breach...

That’s right, I broke the bank at the Boxing Day sales (spent $1 on a DS stylus) My Nintendogs DS Lite didn’t come with the matching stylus and it turns out the metallic pink ones are hard to find? So I’m glad I happened to stumble into one.

And if that sounds fun, you can already play the first game in the series, where you are writing fanfic on dial-up internet and surviving high school: store.steampowered.com/app/1172800/...

Trust me, you want to play this when it comes out. Spectacularly good.

Likely wrapping up the year on Atari Archive blog posts with Steeplechase. This Sears-exclusive is based on an obscure Atari arcade game from 1975, but uses the paddle controllers to make it more interactive and ultimately more interesting: www.atariarchive.org/blog/steeple...

New blog post! I wrote about Father Christmas, the weirdly barebones Japan-exclusive CD-ROM game based on the British storybook. It's... not very good, so I didn't have much to say, but I *did* find some interesting stuff in here anyway. cdrom.ca/games/2025/1...

Happy 20th anniversary to "Samoyed and teddy bear" on Wikimedia Commons. "This is a picture of my samoyed with a teddy bear. I release all rights to it, it would just be nice if her image could survive forever." commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sa...

Just setting up my Twitter. #myFirstTweet