The weather in Japan has been spectacular and the view of Mt Fuji has been unusually clear all weekend. Everyone with nice car or bike has hit the roads. 1/2

BRITISH POWER OUTLET: A literal brick on a string. Fool-proof and heavy GERMAN POWER OUTLET: Yes, you *can* plug it in upside down and reverse the polarity, but no German ever would AMERICAN POWER OUTLET: A fork you shove in the wall JAPANESE POWER OUTLET: the American one but worse, somehow

The internet is good actually

Japan - the time has come! After years of seeing your passion and your endless support from afar, POWERWOLF will finally perform in Japan for the very first time as we headline FULL METAL JAPAN in Yokohama on October 25, 2026! More: tinyurl.com/pwfmjapan

I love Japan. If I'm one minute late for the bus there's a 50% chance I missed it.

Saw a pair of foreigners chatting up a street maid in Akihabara today, while they walked to her workplace. When they asked her "do you like anime?" I cringed so hard I think the whole street felt it. But you go, you nerds. If you can't do it in Akiba then where can you?

Another great artist worth a follow and possibly your support.

This comic is a riot. It knows the tropes and it leans in hard. Give it a read if you haven't already.

You get four strikes before a suspension, but this counts as four strikes, so you get one strike. Comedy team running this site.

Using the Japanese government's e-registration site for an upcoming visit, and the captchas they threw at me are baffling. I can't solve either of these, can you? The animal one I've solved several ways, the letters one I can't figure out at all. If the goal is to discourage visitors... 😬

2017 Suzuki GSX-R600 + Half Dragon Girl #art #furry #dragon #bikergirl #motorcycle #vehicle #commission #skeb

Looking for an amazing artist to follow? Here's one!

If this time travel experiment works, I should be able to go from here and now and reappea—

Why does everyone on the bsky team sound like a smug asshole all the time?

Made some progress today on the monitor I fried a while back. The input switching chips I replaced have re-introduced RGB inputs to the system, yay!! But the sync line I accidentally put 5V through is toast. There are some very odd sync problems happening for both RGB & S-video inputs. =(

You ever have one of those productive days where you get so much shit done you're not even sure who you are anymore? First one I've had in YEARS, today. Not sure how I feel about it.

Whether or not the two things are actually correlated, it is incredibly funny that Bluesky started experiencing near daily tech fuck ups right after the team started bragging about using vibe coding

Some bipedal robot running a marathon faster than a human is in the news, and I can't figure out why. Oh wow, a machine faster than a human. Like, my car? Like a lot of lawnmowers? Who fucking cares, it's not 1850.

I love the look of the new white Neo Geo system, I'd love to have one. But I have several OG Neo systems already, which I never ever play. I might as well download a photo of the white system and set $500 on fire, the result is the same.

I have the same problem with AI. If we keep ignoring The Atrocities so that we can get the shiny things, then yeah we're gonna keep getting The Atrocities. Fuck's sake, grow a backbone.

Making AI art is like instead of going out for an evening with friends, talking, and doing the really nice meal followed by dessert and then lazing about in a park nearby swearing at bats - you just press a button and suddenly you're so full you could burst and have rabies.

OK that Street Fighter trailer looks fucking awesome. I was grinning by the end of it. It knows what it is and it leans into it. Great vibes. ^__^

I keep removing myself from communities I enjoy because management turns out to be assholes. I ain't got time for asshole admins. I'll have to leave my own IRC channel soon, probably. Have you met me? What a dick I turned out to be. =(

Hi! I'm an illustrator who draws cool and cute characters and their relationship with vehicles. Recently I've also been drawing everyday scenes. Available for commissions and freelance projects. Portfolio: necosuke.tumblr.com #PortfolioDay

Oh shit. Substack are the Kik guys? Holy shit. We're talking Roblox level predatory shit on that app. Oh my goodness that's nutso. They're bad people fr

I ordered a cheap class-D amp from aliexpress and installed it in my arcade cabinet, supplying it with 12V power from the existing Sega power supply. More volts would be louder, but 12V delivers a reasonable max volume for this Astro City cabinet. They're ~$12 AUD, shipped, which is insane.

User on my forum has an X68000 computer with an unusual capacitor. It's huge, and it seems to be a factory-installed component.

Interview: "You're Always Facing The Risk Of It Coming To An End" - M2 Co., Ltd.'s Naoki Horii On Creating Retro Perfection. (Repost)

Here's my cat, Bean.

SCREAMING THIS FROM THE FUCKING ROOFTOPS

Wait, they didn't even land on the moon? How is that a lunar mission? If you don't touch it, you're just doing space travel! It's not a Mars mission if you don't land on Mars! You can orbit stuff here at home! Touch the thing or fuck off! It's just space travel! Fuck!

Me, to a company rep in the phone just now: "I'm sorry, your name is...?" "Binary." "...Binary?" "That's right." Momentary pause while I recalibrate everything I know about names. "That's so cool!"

The phrase 'from the river to the sea' is illegal. You can't be pro-palestine without being anti-jew. So a protestor made a sign "From the sea to the river" and cops got all up in his face because similar phrases "could be outlawed" and I just feel like words don't have mean anything anymore?

I got accused of mansplaining today, when some mutuals surfaced a post by a stranger who posted about something very much within my sphere of expertise. I posted what I thought was an encouraging paragraph about how I handle these things, carefully wording everything to not seem like I was 1/

CQB is good people, and good gear. 👍

if you don’t like the process of writing then don’t be a fucking writer, it’s not that complicated

Surveillance is a one-way ratchet toward authoritarianism. Yes, even by private companies. Even when people “consent.” Even when the company gives you “free” stuff, or let you stand in a shorter line, or make your life more convenient somehow.

Retro-console developers often ask questions about how to do something on a console, or whether there is a library function to accomplish it. They often wonder how the original authors developed on these consoles, expecting some development kit and stacks of documentation to exist, not yet found.

The hate directed towards @gamingalexandria.bsky.social over their use of AI tools is absolutely unhinged. I hate AI as much as the next person, probably more. But that hatred doesn't make me deliberately ignore the facts and twist their words. Motherfuckers gotta settle the fuck down, JFC.

part of an essay i am writing

Buncha dudes hoarding AI porn before Sora goes down typing "big booty latina three tits suck toes race car" into their computers while sobbing and screaming

Oh hey yes - if you're looking for something a little different in the current Steam sale, you might find my curator page handy! 100+ games listed, covering everything from adorable indie bug catching to Touhou SRPGs, Japanese phone titles, and more! store.steampowered.com/curator/4570...

lol I had not watched the entire 3 hour Nvidia keynote so I missed this bit with Jensen talking about doing AI shit with Palantir(!!!) with "Nvidia ♥️ Palantir" in 100 pt font on the screen behind him

I designed a new joystick knob and came here to share the news on the same day that @retrofrog.bsky.social launched his, and I ain't the type to take the wind out of anyone else's sails. But that was a while back and now I invite you to gaze upon my knob! Preorders opening soon. ^__^

Artists, If sales are down, signups are down, etc. Please remember that that it isn’t just you. Things are scary right now. it is a time where people are starting to hunker down. It’s not a personal failing, it doesn’t mean your art is bad. Things are tough right now.

I had to take really aggressive steps last night to protect my server from the relentless AI bot assault. If you use AI, this is on you. Your acceptance of this shit is ruining everything. Fuck AI, fuck the AI grifters, the financial bullshit, the lies, the slop. Fuck all of it.

This.

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.