Illusion of Time: darkness and light After 1992's excellent Soul Blazer, Quintet followed up with a spiritual successor a year later. Illusion of Time, known as Illusion of Gaia in North America and Gaia Gensouki in... https://moegamer.net/2026/07/20/illusion-of-time-darkness-and-light/

this is literally what @inkle.co's TR-49 was about

there is literally no amount of caveats or careful wording that will protect you from stupidity or bad faith, so you might as well say things straightforwardly and strongly to begin with.

every time you write overly defensively you should remember that you are pursuing a strategy of writing careful sentences specifically for people who demonstrably either won't or can't read them

Excited to hear Splatoon Raiders is good. Looking forward to my copy arriving on Thursday.

#oneaday Day 773: Locked-in tastes I'm increasingly convinced that there comes a point in your life where your tastes -- in every respect -- are just plain "locked", and it becomes very difficult to change... https://imnotdoctorwho.moegamer.net/2026/07/20/oneaday-day-773-locked-in-tastes/

I do care about this

fucking Patreon will not leave me alone about "Quips". I DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOUR STUPID SHORT-FORM CONTENT THING, GO AWAY

Vibe coded shit has become such a huge problem lately and has polluted so many areas related to FPGA, recompilations etc. Nearly every example of this produces broken or poorly performing results. It's happening exactly as I feared.

Here's me just casually writing 1,700 words on why I'll never need to play a MLB The Show game ever again (because Japanese Baseball > American and also eBaseball >>>>> MLB the Show): www.digitallydownloaded.net/2026/07/revi...

Illusion of Time: darkness and light After 1992's excellent Soul Blazer, Quintet followed up with a spiritual successor a year later. Illusion of Time, known as Illusion of Gaia in North America and Gaia Gensouki in... https://moegamer.net/2026/07/20/illusion-of-time-darkness-and-light/

Nah

Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.

No. Next

bit late for @404media.co's feature on AI-generated flyers, but worth sharing nonetheless. This is from that "Retrocade" place that has been AI-ripping @timeextension.com's material (and doubtless other folks' work, too) Avoid!

#oneaday Day 772: The Lovely(-Sounding) Bones I dread to think how much money I have spent on headphones over the years. I never buy particularly pricy ones -- I think the most expensive ones I've bought... https://imnotdoctorwho.moegamer.net/2026/07/19/oneaday-day-772-the-lovely-sounding-bones/

This seems regrettably widespread. There's another site called RetroRefurbs.com who scraped an *entire* site I made and just dumped the posts on their site without even changing them. Hilariously, this included banner images with the branding for my site on them. I reached out and got no response.

spent my evening reinstalling Windows because I think my NVMe drive is dying/dead. FUN WHAT FUN I LOVE GOING ON THE COMPUTER IN 2026

3DO MiSTer core you say

#oneaday Day 771: Anachronistic wonderment A trait I have somehow been able to hold onto over the years -- and which I have no intent of letting go of -- is the ability to be... https://imnotdoctorwho.moegamer.net/2026/07/18/oneaday-day-771-anachronistic-wonderment/

#oneaday Day 770: Motivation: the Sergeant-Major vs the kind voice At therapy today, we were talking a bit about motivation, and how I feel like I've been struggling with it a bit of... https://imnotdoctorwho.moegamer.net/2026/07/17/oneaday-day-770-motivation-the-sergeant-major-vs-the-kind-voice/

Good morning! Here's a video version of my recent Soul Blazer retrospective/review/whatever you want to call it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrlT...

Good morning! Here's a video version of my recent Soul Blazer retrospective/review/whatever you want to call it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrlT...

#oneaday Day 769: Sample CDs and sonicfunkstars I finally got around to doing something I've been meaning to do for ages today: (re)install my myriad CDs of music samples so I can have a play around... https://imnotdoctorwho.moegamer.net/2026/07/16/oneaday-day-769-sample-cds-and-sonicfunkstars/

#oneaday Day 768: Sketchin' I've been meaning to get back to doing stupid little doodles on posts for ages, but have just never... well, to be honest, I just haven't really been bothered to.... https://imnotdoctorwho.moegamer.net/2026/07/15/oneaday-day-768-sketchin/

Fuck Gen Ai store.penny-arcade.com/collections/...

I don't think this will surprise anyone, but it's... good(?) that we know for sure, at least

please someone else post something interesting and funny so @quest64official.bsky.social's Mario goatse goes away from the top of my feed

It's time for a new GAME OF THE MONTH! This month we bring you the excellent 8-bit racer, HERO GP, from @egvroom.bsky.social and @thalamusdigital.bsky.social. Find out more in the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGlq9x3nxLk Or read the blog: https://evercade.co.uk/game-of-the-month-hero-gp/

Soul Blazer: all things bright and beautiful I'm not a religious man, but I do have some enduring memories of my time attending a Church of England primary school. One of those was, presumably as part of... https://moegamer.net/2026/07/14/soul-blazer-all-things-bright-and-beautiful/

This is a very good bit.

Soul Blazer: all things bright and beautiful I'm not a religious man, but I do have some enduring memories of my time attending a Church of England primary school. One of those was, presumably as part of... https://moegamer.net/2026/07/14/soul-blazer-all-things-bright-and-beautiful/

Good news, everyone.

I would correct them to "diarrhoea", but given that we're not currently suffering the explosive shits over here (any more than normal, anyway) I will let them have it

#oneaday Day 767: Why I continue to write in an age of AI I read a good piece earlier that got me thinking: why do I continue to tap out words here, day after day, in an age where those... https://imnotdoctorwho.moegamer.net/2026/07/14/oneaday-day-767-why-i-continue-to-write-in-an-age-of-ai/

Help, my Sega Megadrive is out of control ! It must think it's a Playstation or something. Yes, it's fully synced 60 fps :)

Just posted a piece of writing about AI. Hope you enjoy it. www.patreon.com/matricardo/p... #ai #writing #generativeai #creator #creative #fuckai

Honestly still laughing at this. For YEARS people have told me the killer app, no doubt way that OpenAI would fix its business model would be ads, and it turns out it’s not going to make enough money to pay for a single month of inference spend. Great stuff Sammy! Big applause for the big man

Hey, all! @funfactorpod.com is a biweekly show where two old gamers review old video game magazine reviews—but it's more than that, too. Longtime critics, @tyschalter.com and I connect dots between legacy media and how we talk about and make games today. It's about how the past shapes the present.

Finished Soul Blazer this evening. What a game. And an incredible ending for a SNES game. Will have much to say about this when I do a full writeup soon. (And I recorded my playthrough, too, so I can do a video version of said writeup also!)

#oneaday Day 766: Verify your age There's a meme going around on Bluesky today where you write "verify your age" and then post something in text or image form that you remember from Times Past™. In... https://imnotdoctorwho.moegamer.net/2026/07/13/oneaday-day-766-verify-your-age/

A hidden terribleness about the AI translations of older games that keep popping up lately - in this case Tricolor Crise for the Dreamcast - is the way they knock the wind out of the sails of the people who are trying to actually do it properly. LLM version didn't even use the right character names.

when people ask why I don't really collect for original hardware pre-PS2 any more

アーケード3

Bitmap Books has now sent me multiple emails saying "Are you SURE you're not getting too many emails from us?" I did not have a problem with occasional emails prior to this (I like their stuff and want to know about new releases, offers etc!), and had given no indication I had. Reconsidering.

it is too hot to exist, so I wrote five and a half thousand words on getting "halfway" (and I use that term loosely) through Final Fantasy XI

#oneaday Day 764: Just games There was yet another round of Tedious Discourse™ today over what the word "retro" really means, if anything, when it comes to video games. As always, there were lots of... https://imnotdoctorwho.moegamer.net/2026/07/11/oneaday-day-764-just-games/

it is too hot to exist, so I wrote five and a half thousand words on getting "halfway" (and I use that term loosely) through Final Fantasy XI

Playing Final Fantasy XI for the story: Part 1 – The Zilart Saga I have been meaning to play through Final Fantasy XI's story for literal decades at this point. Ever since I first tried it, shortly... https://moegamer.net/2026/07/11/playing-final-fantasy-xi-for-the-story-part-1-the-zilart-saga/

oh no, are we still arguing over what "retro" is here's a thought: just "games". good game is good game is good game, regardless of when it was made and what it looks like. if you like to play video game, it good video game, whether it looks like Zork, Adventure on Atari 2600, or Horizon Zero Dawn