I thought I had gotten numb to the rage at the voters who got us here but turns out needlessly invading Venezuela flips that switch back on tenfold. And all the useless congressional Republicans half this country keeps electing who will sit on their ass. Goodnight to Kamala voters, ONLY.

This still goes hard: youtu.be/-1V6sbrTYLY?...

F U, 70hz VGA, for making me need to keep my CRT around to accurately see the refresh

HAPPY NEW YEAR! (Flushes 2025 down the toilet)

Finally. The only day you can be posting this

star wars and star trek fans are weak "boohoo our franchise isn't good anymore". there's never been a good tron movie and it rules

Wii isn’t retro cuz it still feels like the future Related: I’m still so happy that Prime 4 supports motion controls. It can decalibrate though and the Wii does not.

Always happy when there’s a new AqualungsGameReview :)

Four games that defined my 2025. Prime 4 because I waited for it all year and I’ve played it a good chunk these last few weeks.

“I made this whole indie game myself without ai” you say as you use someone else’s engine that is like 9000000x more manhours than you put in on your project. Game engines are a skill and an art, too, you know. And there’s a beauty to them.

Shockingly, I have started sorting my games into some sort of order, here’s a #RandomGameSaturday entry from the Psygnosis crate.

Post a random game from your collection, here on Saturday. This week, the number generator has selected the 1990 cyberpunk shooter Download/Down Load, a genuinely very good (and hard) game with some memorable game over screens #randomgamesaturday

Today for #RandomGameSaturday it’s PN03 for GameCube, one of the Capcom Five releases along with RE4 and Viewtiful Joe. It’s an awesome, unorthodox score attack game which is slightly let down by a padded length. I also love how nonchalant the main character is. One of my favorite Cube games.

Raycast voxel landscape engines tend to be one height map and one texture map (tiled or otherwise). But is there one that instead of a texture map that has a texture # map? For example, you could have a 16 color one where each color refers to a different texture.

Great example of pseudo 3d technique in the 70s. I am guessing this is an analog effect.

Finding cool stuff at the parents’

FANTASY/BOCFIRGN.GIF

What is the #Commodore64 game with the most complex disk copy protection or format?

Doing some quick refactoring 😅

I felt about Prime 3 the way a lot of the haters feel about 4 right now. It had like Halo dudes all over the first part and they’re central to the plot. But after I really gave it a shot on its own terms, almost 20 years later, it turned out to be really cool. Every Prime has its own thing.

I think Prime 4 is great so far. It’s probably better than 3 already. I still need to finish 2, but so far I’m thinking it might end up 1 > 2 > 4 > 3

Zaphod’s just this guy, y’know?

oh no I used AI generated stone textures for my DOS game forgive me but the granite generator from 1997 does not talk I could not know

I went back and forth between a loading screen a few times and then it stuck there for about 3 minutes :D At first I thought it was an homage to Prime 1’s bug which is the same. Dunno why it took so long. Maybe I got it to dump some enormous cache 🤷

Speaking of Open World, is Metroid 4 really open world if you can’t summon the bike in super weird places and totally break everything?

Open world games are *already* slop

Somehow the mall arcade never seemed to get shmups, aside from early on when they had Xevious. They’d get run n guns though. My shmup love was solidified on Amiga instead, with games like Sidewinder and Battle Squadron.

I wonder what the rate is of STEM grads falling for wellness scams vs. other disciplines.

The dotcom era was 25 years ago. iPhone launch was 18. This means there are now adults whose only “big tech hype cycle” memory is crypto/NFTs. This is why many draw a connection between AI and crypto as scam bubbles. They missed the hype cycles that were also real, disruptive, and world-changing

"Your Favorite Game Dev Is Probably Using AI" not MY favorite game dev, they're all defunct

When you see someone with Alzheimer’s/strokes it reinforces the idea that we’re just a bag of neurons because you see the person losing pieces of themselves. I don’t know what the spark is that makes us experience this all as an integrated experience/free will, but what makes us “us” is physical.

Is Threads all hit-and-run propaganda bots or what?

Walker is a very cool shooter by DMA Design (Lemmings, GTA) that unfortunately doesn’t quite reach its potential and is overly long. But it’s got a heavy dark atmosphere, unique setting, all kinds of radio chatter, and gleeful destruction. An indie game based on this concept could be amazing.

My favorite Daytona USA iteration. I got the 360 one and was initially stoked that it was the first port that was completely faithful to the arcade, but I found myself missing so much from Daytona 2001. It’ll always be weird though that we never got the Daytona 2 or Super GT tracks in it.

I miss custom game engines, and I miss videogame music made in actual music formats by turbonerds.

Either Prime 4 isn’t too hand holdy or you play too many Metroidvanias because I’m finding it more difficult than 3 at least

Doing this for Sega systems I owed: SMS: Sonic 1 Gen: Thunderforce 3 SCD: Sonic CD 32x: Virtua Racing Sat: RayForce DC: Under Defeat GG: Shinobi 2 unless GG Aleste III counts!

Keeping the 2600 going this #RandomGameSaturday is Aardvark, the best iteration on the Anteater/Oil’s Well theme and a somewhat recent homebrew by @nanochess.bsky.social. It has a great scoring system and animation in addition to the solid gameplay of its inspiration.

Fc: Super C Sfc: SMK N64: SF Rush or Waverace GC: Metroid Prime or FZGX Wii: Mario Galaxy 2, runner up Ghost Squad :) Gb: Operation C GBA: WarioWare DS: Rhythm Heaven 3DS: Kid Icarus Uprising Switch: MK8 from hours spent :)

Some fun old school demoscene coding this afternoon on the #GameBoy 💾 #screenshotsaturday #pixelart

My friends from Bitbeamcannon are creating a brand new Sega Megadrive game. I am creating music for it together with Amiga veteran Allister Brimble Their Kickstarter ends in 2 days and there's a demo of the main theme as well as one of Allister's ingame tunes! :) www.kickstarter.com/projects/bit...

winter sale time! slipstream is 30% off

There’s an orchestrated campaign to pretend antisemitism only exists at the extremes. It’s not just the extremes. It’s pervasive and we see it online and in real life on a daily basis. It has profound consequences in terms of violence. We must call it out and never normalize it.

From The Atlantic:

I don’t go for antisemitism dressed up in language to make it palatable for the left. I’m so done. If someone winds up blocked by me it’s probably that. Zero tolerance now. Not my fault you got bamboozled by Nazis; go be a pseudointellectual somewhere else.

James Caan is so cool

Happy Hanukkah x 1 חג אורים שמח Never let them steal your joy.

ORIGIN.ANS, 1992-09-16 from synchro.net (FTP)

I'm sorry but any time you say that Israel's actions are "making" people antisemitic I just hear all the chuds from twenty years ago who swore that it was only because of 9/11 that they were now raging Islamophobes