Watching someone absolutely swamp a developer chat with their "AI did this and it doesn't quite work" wall of text over and over, getting help from human devs to solve a problem, for days, and like, what the fuck are you even doing? Not developing any actual skills, that's for sure. FFS.

I love bsky but it sure does seem like the bsky team and devs have cracked. Too much pressure or true colours, I dunno, but they no longer seem aligned with my thinking about anything at all. Half formed post, may delete. 🤪

I haven't had an iPhone since the 3GS, but Apple then was a fucking nightmare of services that barely worked. iTunes was an abomination. It's no better now. I cannot get Apple to take my money for Apple TV in any functional capacity. It flat out fails with Paypal, and 1/

It seems the thieving grifter pieces of human filth at "superhuman" are using my work without my consent to create AI editors based on me. The world isn't terrible enough, we also have to deal with people just stealing our work to burn resources and enrich themselves in a brand new way? Fuck off

Anyways.

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

Well, I finally updated Chthonic Masonry with an entire bunch of new stuff. mrmotarius.itch.io/chthonic Also over at my Ko-Fi :) ko-fi.com/Post/Chthoni...

I've had two Wico rotary joysticks (Ikari Warriors et al) for decades and never understood why it had 2 of 12 directions with extra components. Tonight I finally beat my head against it until I figured it out. It's now on the GameSX wiki: Everything you never asked about the Wico rotary joystick.

So, how's that AI translation coming along, eh? Here's Musk's dumbfuck AI mis-translating Raiden Fighters to R-Type Final. Now let's get it to build rockets! Worst fucking timeline ever.

Writing up everything there is to know about the old Hori Fighting Stick V3, a PS3-era stick (also released for the Xbox) that's a good size and easily modifiable.

The process that led to the Holocaust didn't start with killing people. First it made them non-people. Then it killed them.

Tapping the sign

Repost w/ fixed link: I've finished my universal autofire circuit It's a simple thing but I couldn't find anything that did this specific thing for this specific application, so I learned some shit and put it together on my own. It should work on any system that grounds buttons to activate them.

Cash out begins

@kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com wrote about Squaresoft's Internal Section recently, and it's a great read. It reminded me that I wrote about it too. The 2004 original is lost, but the resurrected version is still up. nfgworld.com/internal-sec...

40 years of Zelda, eh? Bah, humbug. My first Zelda was the GameBoy version, where early in the game you had to recognize that the powder - which looks like a WWI bomb and turns enemies into food - is also used to light fires in dark caves. 1/

I'm cheerfully working my way through a Sega CDX recap and <sniff> burning plastic? Why? Where? Why? Oh. Welp, FML. 🪦 Anyone got a CDX front plate going spare?

I saw Lord of the Lost last night, first show of their first Australian tour. What a fucking fantastic show. I could hardly stop smiling the whole night. Met the band, met a bunch of great people in the line before the show. They played so many of my favourite songs! <swoons>

I found a few boxes of Cisco Cereal that I'd always meant to scan, because it was delicious and I liked the boxes (and the unusual flavours). It seems to be long out of production, and I miss it. These are Strawberry, Melon and Hotcake flavours. Best corn flakes ever.

I've been playing the 2003 Gamecube Star Soldier remake for more than 20 years and only yesterday learned a bunch of things about it that the manual clearly explained. Anyway, the internet doesn't give this game enough love, so I wrote up the game's rules, and the important bits from the manual.

The reason I started scanning stuff today: I wanted to play Star Soldier on Gamecube, but my controller adaptor was missing some buttons. So I tried to find the manual online, or at least a controller guide, but neither seems to exist!? So I scanned the GameCube manual. ^__^

I've been doing a bit of scanning today. Here's four Neo Geo Pocket games, which is about half of all the game I have left for that system. I love the NGPC, but most of the games were awkward fighters or needed a linked system to really enjoy. On their own, Puzzle Link and Magical Drop are tops.

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"

Very cool MiSTer news today - Tutankham core by Rodimus was released! A great game from Konami. It works wonderfully on my Irken JAMMA Expander, using DV -> RGB on my 15kHz arcade monitor.

My simple website on my beefy webserver on the local network is slow to respond because the AI assholes are crawling it en masse. So I blocked a half dozen user agents and it looks like they immediate switched to different ones and kept on going. Fuck AI. Fuck all of it. I'm so tired.

I spent way too long writing up docs for arcade cabinets I don't even own. Please enjoy the pinouts and part numbers for the wiring in Konami's Windy and Windy 2 cabinets! gamesx.com/wiki/doku.ph... gamesx.com/wiki/doku.ph...

loot does not drop upon defeating me. the developers didn't expect anyone to attack me, i am so vulnerable, and only trying to help. why did you raise your sword? for material gain? i would give you anything i have if you had only asked. i did not ask to be in this game, i did not ask to have 6hp.

I think more games should have this kind of art.

Ys on the TurboGrafx CD was mind blowing when it came out. The music and animation were incredible. It remains to this day one of the only RPGs I've enjoyed. This is a great, bite sized look at three different English translations of the game, for SMS, PC and TGCD.

wow that’s so sad Alexa play tick tock by Kesha

You've only known for better than 20 years that supporting Adobe is going to bite you in the ass. I'm sorry your ass hurts but solve the issue.

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

A thread wherein I lose my fucking mind trying to send a video game system to an American ebay buyer. Ebay won't let me use their postage system because it's an American buyer, so I'm off to Australia Post, who won't take it without a Customs Declaration because of the value. 1/

I've got important shit to do, so I spent two days learning KiCad instead. I designed a small drop-in PCB for a specific revision of Hori's Fighting Stick V3, allowing the use of Waveshare's RP2040-Zero running the GP2040 controller firmware. Download here.

I reckon I've done and said a lot of dumb and hurtful things in my past, but I don't think I am that guy now and I strive not to be. I absolutely encourage course corrections: if you find dumb shit in my past or present, point it out to me. And if you were ever on the receiving end, I'm sorry.

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This ship came from Oakland

The Sega CD was a waste of time but the hardware was gorgeous, no doubt.

More of this vibe in 2026 please. =D

I predict failure: cybernews.com/tech/europe-... Social media you need ID to sign up for? That's not going to fly.

If you're into building your own arcade controls, I've recently reviewed some buttons and a stick from Punk Workshop: The PWS V2 Buttons are great! The PWS Joystick (Silicone Edition) is fine, but deeply weird!

Absolutely this. The first years of Dilbert were fantastic. Scott Adams dug his own grave and leapt into it, for sure. Good riddance. But for a while Dilbert was really good stuff.

Charlie the Unicorn. ..... i miss the old internet. Doodle request from my fine patrons - patreon.com/collectedcur...

いちごの日だったらしいので

Maybe your timeline needs Bean. Here she is, sound asleep.

Reopening of my shop 🎺 Fusion MVS to AES converters, ESL Blasters and most NeoGeo reproduction chips are back in stock furrtek.org/shop/ Everything original and designed on my own with love and tears as always, no resale or dropshipping crap !