lamenes, website, excerpt (2001 - 2002) lamenes.myrmid.com

Or Xemu plus Steam Deck/another handheld?

email should work like a free to play game. at the start of the day you get 10 free email points. when you’ve used them up it costs £1 per email and the recipient gets half of the money.

On Nvidia's $100bn investment in OpenAI: There's quite a bit of trust in this being a hype train, a bubble, something falsely propped up. What happens if that turns out not to be true, or at bare minimum, the corporations and/or their leadership aren't the ones left holding the bag?

The reasons they did *not* approve games are fascinating. They strongly disapproved Diablo II, not just for the violence, but because it depicted man being able to defeat Satan without the intervention of Christ (the only time this argument has ever been made in the history of game criticism)

I recently became fascinated with the Dove Foundation, a non-profit that, once upon a time ~25 years ago, reviewed video games based on their suitability for Christian families Here is, as far as I can tell, a complete list of all 77 games that received the Dove Seal of Approval

I will literally pull out all my hair if I'm forced to play third-person action-adventure games without a controller. WASD is a carpal tunnel-inducing nightmare. I bought a Switch Pro Controller for the gyro aiming in my Steam version of Horizon Zero Dawn just to offset the loss of mouse aiming.

"The West Virginia & Regional History Center (WVRHC) at West Virginia University Libraries invites applications for grants to fund research using WVRHC collections. This year, the WVRHC has allocated $7,500 for grants, with individual awards up to $1,500."

It's easy to repost bad news about higher education and forget good news. Check out my alma mater, where President Brad Smith continues his impressive leadership, here making education more economically accessible:

It remains so bewildering why we as a country let entirely unexperienced non-experts who have no real knowledge of the sector run the country’s universities for million+ salaries.

“Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’." Perish the thought... www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...

Way to remind me Medabots were a thing. The deepest, darkest recesses of my childhood memory.

Pumpkin spice grift season has arrived.

SMALL SOLDIERS

Targeting the gamer spaces about ten years too late and for the wrong reasons.

A perfect example of why this doesn't need to be the top of every Google search. It's still showing this answer. That being said, were the top results of Google searches ever truly reliable? Are the stakes for this type of fault greater than embarrassing yourself in a Reddit argument?

"Those things are proof positive the Three have gentle souls and kindly hearts." --Tel Varano, discussing Bantam Guars

Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research invites authors to submit papers for issue 1/2026. Research into any and all aspects of science fiction, fantasy, and other speculative genres is welcome from a range of disciplines. DL 31 Dec 2025: fafnir.journal.fi/about/submis...

Issue 16 for the International Journal of Role-playing is out. This special issue focuses on Consent and Analog Role-playing Games. Susan Haarman joined the editorial team to lead this publication. journals.uu.se/IJRP/issue/v...

The class this semester that's making me think the most and hardest is this art history seminar, "Critical Frameworks of Contemporary Art." While it wasn't my first option, it's ended up being infinitely more interesting than my first option would've been.

Kayelin wants to get a Rogue costume together for Halloween parties, but I don't have nice-looking Gambit costume money or costume-making talents. So I guess it's back to the drawing board for me? I've been a generic TNG era command division officer for a few years now. It's time for something new.

I love this analytical take on video game categorization from Antoine Mayerowitz and Julie Belzanne: hushcrasher.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o... Instead of trying to vibe-intuit the definition of an "indie" game, the authors analyzed the data from the perspective of game size and credits length

Every reply to this is acting as though the journalist committed a cardinal sin by calling The Fifth Element "underrated." I think I'll give it another watch instead.

"Real Sound: Kaze no Regret is an adventure audio game . . . released for the Sega Saturn in July 1997 . . . designed to provide equal access to sighted and blind players alike." Um...that's actually super sick? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_So...

samurai shodown, screenshot, sega cd (1995) www.mobygames.com/game/7255/sa...

Imagining the impossibility of this in certain fields and the unimportance of it in others. In departments where >50% of the staff is conservative, will there be a balancing act the other direction too? Of course not.

My favorite part of having a cat is the late night ER visit. She's fine. Certain things are just worrying until you get an all-clear from a professional.

Everything is going to be OK #Windows <alienmelon> が、スペシャルプロモーションで50%OFFの117円になりました。9/20(土)2:00まで。 store.steampowered.com/app/76...

i wrote something about This Place for @404media.co. please read it, and then log off. 💗

lately when i’m feeling hopeless i just think of the Katamari cat wearing scuba gear. if she can survive in an inhospitable environment then so can i

Also getting Ridge Racer-type vibes:

How did Animal Crossing: New Horizons come to mean so much to so many? Travel back in time with me, five long years back, to the early days of ACNH and the Covid pandemic

Anyone who uses WinRAR and maybe isn't aware, there was a critical vulnerability discovered two months ago that has been exploited by both Russian-aligned and Russian-targeting groups. WinRAR doesn't auto-update. You'll have to manually update it by downloading the most recent version.

UCF, my alma mater, was one of the several universities nationwide, including HBCUs in FL, that received racist threats today. This one apparently referring to the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in NC.

machine head, comic strip (1983) archive.org/details/soft...

castle ragoona, screenshot, trs-80 coco (1984) www.mobygames.com/game/182337/...

Stuck in a vicious cycle of "I need to log out for my sanity" and "I need to stay logged in to be informed."

JAMES POND 2 CODENAME ROBOCOD

Vulcan, WV spotted in the wild.

CFP: 7th Annual Themed Experience and Attractions Academic Society (TEAAS) Symposium Due Friday, September 12, 2025 Symposium: Friday, November 21, 2025 Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, Florida USA teaacademicsociety.org/call-for-pro...

The potential Anthropic settlement is being treated as a victory and I'm not sure why. As a settlement, this won't create legal precedent. The judge, like others, found the training of LLMs on books as falling within the scope of fair use akin to Google Books's transformative use.

Game history researchers are going to have a field day with this collection, especially if they're interested in hardware and game production circa 1989–1994

What with the way things are going with Discord as of late and the TeamSpeak 6 beta coming out, my brother decided to partially migrate over and start hosting a server over there. I made my way over today too. So weird being back to square one.

I've never agreed with what I feel is this recent trend of "the player is always right" in TTRPG communities. Why was there no trust in the DM? Wasn't this a "one last hurrah," so did mechanical possessions really matter that much? This has never been my kind of table from either side I've been on.

Looking forward to digging into this new collection Why the Magic Matters Discovering Disney as a Laboratory for Learning Alexis Franzese & Jill Peterfeso #DisneyStudies www.bloomsbury.com/us/why-the-m...

This was the peak era of social gaming: Empire Earth: The Art of Conquest and Diablo II (original Battle.net) lobbies, making lifelong friends while chopping magic trees in RuneScape, the City of Heroes community...

The CFP for the Appalachian Studies Conference officially went out this week. Dr. Lassiter reached out to the Drinko team today. We're now planning a panel possibly bringing together some of the folks we interviewed for the "New Generation Change Agents in Appalachia" project. Look out for it!