any of these websites demands I send my photo ID to some shady site that's just gonna get broken into, that's the day i stop using that site

Ebay, 2026: Item sells for $5 Ebay charges buyer $19 for discounted shipping, but won't ship to USA. I pay $23, AusPost's rate. Ebay takes $4 cut, which includes a % of shipping (!!) Ebay doesn't collect the tariff, so I pay $1.50 more Total loss: $5 ish Ebay: Why are you dissatisfied?

gamesx.com will be 30 years old next year. Originally launched as a digital front for my game store, it almost immediately became the home of all the game tech stuff I was tinkering with. The old web: no ads, no tracking. Still here! How should I celebrate it next year? 🤔

So where's a good place to sell the cool game trinkets and utilities I design? I just sold a five dollar item on ebay that - between the tariffs, shipping charges, packaging and fees, ended up with a negative profit of like two bucks. Any suggestions are welcomed!

For a very long time Chris has been making tutorials for game devs who can't art on their own. He makes it easy to create stuff, and he was doing it long before AI was a thing. Check out his stuff, learn to do it yerself, gain kudos _and_ plaudits!

you yes YOU should play more arcade games because they will make you feel exactly like this

The only time I miss my LaserActive system is when I see the cool things people like Zaxour are making for it. What a weird, beautiful machine.

I wrote up the experience of the first concert I went to, when Lord of the Lost came to Australia in Feb this year. It was amazing. The band are incredible and the fans are wonderful people. I also wrote about that time I mis-heard Metallica on a school trip and was traumatized. ^__^

Smashed three car windows already to save dogs from the heat. Haven’t found any yet but I’m not giving up.

I have a low bar for what 'art' is. To me, art comes from the choices made. Smashing paint on canvas is art, because someone chose to do that. The rudest hammer is art when it was decided to eschew filigree and a fine handle. But, still, AI isn't art even if you told it what to do.

I never liked Sonic the Hedgehog, as a game. I hated the movement, the slow acceleration, the inability to walk up hills, the reliance on memorization and repeated plays to do the one thing the game wanted you to do: Go fast. 1/

I made a switch for doing a 180° flip on my arcade monitor. I think it looks good! I think the logic is sound! I think I really don't want to fry the chassis when I plug it in and turn it on! But that's what I'm about to do!

i for one have full confidence in the trump administration's ability to adequately refit a plane donated by a foreign government into a highly secure mobile command center for the united states executive, following their unquestionably successful renovation of A Large Pool of Water

Going through my old Japanese art books looking for pages to cut out and put on the panel of my Hori Alpha joystick. But then I think maybe there's a way that doesn't require destroying my books to get pretty pictures. But then I think "fast and easy! ✂" But then

Only 4 more days to put your game into the game industry hardship fund! Please add your games (and TTRPGs are okay too) so we can make some money for out of work game devs! Do it over the weekend! itch.io/jam/game-ind...

This is beautiful, wow.

For every game dev considering giving up because you used AI and copped a lot of shit for it: Good. Do it. Quit. Or, you know, build something yourself. Make something. Use your brain. I believe in you! Then you'll only cop hate from capital G gamers, steam forums, Twitter... 😬 Still. Fuck AI.

My father had a stroke recently. His recovery progress is good, and educational. Sitting in with his speech therapy session now, watching his brain rewire in realtime is FASCINATING. The brain is amazing.

Someone asked me what my favourite part of being a photographer is, and a few minutes later my favourite part happened. The story, and the photo.

Lolol You're very, very wrong. We all are.

"I told the machine to do the thing but I don't know if it is correct and I didn't bother to check" is a hell of a fucking way to live. Fuck AI, and goddamn we need to have some words with the people who use. It.

daaaamn london

I recently whipped up a guide to modifying Hori's 2019 Fighting Stick. It's a rather excellent little stick out of the box, but it also invites you tinker.

Some interesting developments in the FPGA space lately. Capcom's CPS3, IGS' PGM and Psikyo's SH2 games have dropped in the last 24 hours, and the last few weeks have been full of treats too. But I struggle to care. I love watching developers fight to fix weird bugs, and 1/

Recently stumbled across a Japanese group called Muque, and I'm surprised how much I like some of their stuff. Three songs in particular really rub my synapses the right way. In the video linked here I'm really struck by how talented they are. I don't like J-pop as a rule, but this is great.

I finally finished my guide to joystick mech wiring. If you're working on an arcade joystick, it might come in handy!

Seems reasonable to me the-decoder.com/landmark-ger...

If you have one of Hori's excellent Alpha joysticks you might want to modify it, because that's fun to do. But throwing a Seimitsu mech in there requires a mount plate that doesn't exist. So I made one!

Lots has already been said about this, and it's all true. No one cared enough to pay an artist, no one cared enough to check it. It's just so fucking sad.

This game is so good!

草薙素子 / GHOST IN THE SHELL

AI bubble gonna pop and motherfuckers gonna have to summarize the last three lines of their chat with their old meat brain.

Since I'm the the one who wrote the article, I looked back into the code. For the two desert stages (Trick Trap Track / Whirlwind Break), if you cleared the round before it (Space Walker / Magician's Escape) with 1.0 seconds or less on the clock, the camel will appear. tcrf.net/Cameltry_(Ar...

This is real btw

lmao how do they think any part of this is supposed to work? this is SO DUMB. 3D printers don’t work like this!!!

I'm Kim, a fantasy illustrator looking for work/commissions. So if you want a banger mage come to me~! Portfolio: www.kstramat.com Email: [email protected] Bi-Monthly Newsletter: www.kstramat.com/newsletter Support me: patreon.com/kstramat or ko-fi.com/kstramat

Apparently it was @ubisoft.com bsky.app/profile/wawa...

Listen up designers: Girls crave them big pockets

So either bsky breaks things for a lot of people by labelling accounts as 'adult', or people can self-label, and either way I lose because Australia is stupid and bsky is stupid and I'm not sending my ID to a third party for the inevitable data breach, and so I'm cut off. Thanks, prudes. 🙁

To all my friends in the LGBTQIA+ community, know this: I don't need a specific month to love and support you. You are there, and you are loved 24/7, 365. No ifs, no buts.

This notification just popped up on my PC and I do not like it. I use chrome like four times a year ( @vivaldi.com FTW ) and AI is none of the things promiosed in this screenshot. Do not want. Go away. Ew.

I don't generally dig J-pop, most of it sounds the same to my barbarian ears. Vintage X and B'z are awesome, but most of the rest fails to light me up. This track from Muque is really nice, however, and as of today I'm enjoying it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_l3...

Special note for anyone in Australia or other jurisdictions where they've made your life miserable for no reason: If bsky is blocking your adult content and you don't want to give the internet your ID, try deck.blue. You'll get your DMs back too!

I can't believe how few views this has gotten. What a banger of a track! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOfV... I do wish the topic was something, anything, else, but wow. Beverly has a voice that activates all my synapses at once.

First batch of NFG Heavy Industries Arcade Knobs is about to get shipped out! Check out @cqbarcade.bsky.social soon, if you want one. They're the exclusive source in Australia, and the only one for the world so far! And, gasp! Prototypes!? 🤯

Now you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.) isaiprofitable.com

Random: Here's Why SNES Shooter Phalanx Had That Weird Banjo Guy On Its Cover www.nintendolife.com/news/2017/11... (via @nintendolife.com)

Fuck TERFs. Right into the sea.