"cozy game" is not a video game genre, it's a marketing buzzword. Don't change my mind.

Sharing this video by Not Malcom because I care about other creators. If you accept game keys, sponsorships, payments, etc. to play / talk about a product you need to make that relationship clear to your audience. Failing to do so could result in legal consequences. www.youtube.com/watch?v=l84V...

The people who run the AI slop news site retroshell, also sell gaming T-shirts on playerclothing.com. They claim that "each tee is the result of almost 10 years of development." Here's their mission statement. Let's take a look at the tees.

Selon jeuxvideo.com, contenu concis, efficace et percutants = anecdote vieille de 10 ans, pas mise à jour, régurgitée avec des erreurs et illustrations 100% IA (mention spé à l'image de PCB qui met la sauvegarde dans la ROM). Tout pour faire des vues... www.youtube.com/shorts/4tCm3...

Recruiter: Describe yourself in 5 words.

Fuck the cruise ship industry.

Co-founder of Graveyard Keeper dev Lazy Bear Games regularly posts AI art & asks for help with AI gen code Going as far as feeding his own games art into the slop machine The game itself is from 2018 so it predates the stuff, but they announced a sequel & I expect it to be full of AI-gen slop

Wikipedia articles about matcha tea in EN and FR. One focuses more on Japan and the other on China. It goes to show that multiple sources are always better than one and learning multiple languages offers invaluable advantages. This is not about green tea.

The last warrior of the 90s console war is crashing out again, about a game they don't own and have never played. For someone who comments under every YouTube video about the SNES and laments the lack of new releases, he couldn't be bothered to buy it... inceptionalnews.wordpress.com/2024/04/08/m...

While I agree with the sentiment, how is it a "random bush"? It's the only bush on the entire map that's clearly blocking a path. A very suspicious looking bush if you ask me. I think it's very good and very intentional level design, that's the opposite of random.

The Buffy subreddit is fascinating. It's just like the series, an interesting blend of comedy, horror and drama.

Feel free to widely share this curated easy to understand #Satellaview knowledge that I just posted on my blog. I didn't want to overscope it but I spent a lot of time explaining a curated list of games for those who have no idea what the Satellaview is. luigiblood.neocities.org/blog/2026-01...

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Looking up Mega Drive games, I just stumbled onto a content farm channel called Retro Pocket. The thumbnails, the scripts, the audio, the descriptions, all of it is AI generated. 1000 videos in exactly 2 years. The few non-bot comments are eating this like it's their last meal. We're so cooked.

YouTube channel BrewSolves is still doing the James Somerton method of turning old books into videos. On top of barely paraphrasing the book and the FBI report, I noted 3 errors in 3 min. Also, on-screen quotes and b-roll footage add no value to the story. Just read Wikipedia or the fucking book.

Trsoect me as Angel or Else

Live your life without an audience.

1/ Oriental Pearl made a video in 2022 calling out the "language gurus" of YouTube. She and her guest make good points I listed here. She also emphasizes multiple times the exploitative nature of making money from a "position of power" (being a big YouTuber) with false claims.

"This page may contain affiliate links" actually means "all the links are affiliate links and nobody in our staff has read the FTC regulations on affiliate marketing which is why this message is buried at the bottom of the page in a tiny font and a color that only bees can see."

In 2005, I wrote an article called "Inventing Akromiya" about how the government of Uzbekistan made up a group called Akromiya to justify a massacre of civilian protesters. Twenty years later, the US is more like Uzbekistan, and I wrote "Inventing Antifa": sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/inventing-...

For all you LinkedIn Users The GenAI setting is turn on as default. www.linkedin.com/mypreference...

Most of the so-called "apolitical" content creators are straight white men. Go figure!

After a year of work I've finally released my adventure game. It's called Maura and Ash, and it's designed for MS-DOS. You can download it or play it in the browser right now! moralrecordings.itch.io/mauraash #msdos #pointandclick #adventuregame

PC gamers when they don't have an ashtray:

Like Cowboy Bebop? Did you know there was a PS2 game only released in Japan? Did you know I released a full English translation of it that you can play now? Check it out here: github.com/SONICMAN69/B...

"Uneducated positivity towards maliciously bad video games that steal assets and graphics from other games or artists, that the developer sells for profit" youtu.be/_dQCdJFiWgo

You shouldn't preorder games. That was true more than 10 years ago and it's still true today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf5U...

The ending for Secret of the Four Winds also uses stolen assets: Last Blade - Moriya stage and Last Blade 2 - Graveyard stage. The foreground trees are from Far East of Eden: Kabuki Klash (Hudson, 1995) and the cityscape from a random gif from at least 2017.

More stolen assets by Kay Magazine for their game Metal Dragon:

Apparently, this developer has a history of lifting existing assets. Here are some examples from his previous game:

This is why you cannot trust YouTubers and publishers in the retrogaming space. This 2025 megadrive game presented as "better than most snes game" has assets traced over existing sprites (Wild Guns and Shinobi III) and AI-generated backgrounds. Garbage game, garbage company, garbage shill youtuber.

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

There is a pro-consumer rights movement for gaming right now called #StopKillingGames. It is currently try to pass an initiative to ensure that games that you pay for cannot be rendered completely unplayable after being sold to you, please consider supporting it.

How long before the first google result is a link to letmegooglethat.com?

This YouTube channel is uploading video game soundtracks directly taken from Zophar's Domain without any modification.

Your average Quora answer about Japanese grammar.

So I've played Itadaki Street 2 and found a problem with the RNG. krokodyl.github.io/post/2025/05...

The Super Famicom game Itadaki Street 2 has a mini-game of Bingo. Looking at the RNG code, I found a flaw in the draw algorithm. One of these four bingo cards is significantly better and one is significantly worse than the others. Can you guess which ones and why?

Has anyone ever translated Itadaki Street 2 for Super Famicom? dragonquest.fandom.com/wiki/Itadaki...

One cookie is 100% of a cookie. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

America Oudan Ultra Quiz for SNES got translated! Be sure to read the article too, really fascinating stuff about the TV quiz show

So you think you know Japanese culture? krokodyl.github.io/post/2025/05...

Here's a short follow up on the Retro-bit's stolen fan translations: krokodyl.github.io/post/2025/03...

FOUND! We dumped BS F-Zero Grand Prix 2 Week 1! Probably one of the most major finds we did in a while. BS F-Zero Deluxe has also been updated to version 1.1 to include the original data from this one! superfamicom.org/blog/2025/03... #Satellaview #FZERO

To #Satellaview owners: What's the serial number under yours? #SFC #SNES Mine is BS10766828 (potentially implying 76682nd unit)

Okay, sorry, one last update concerning the case of Gleylancer's translation and plagiarism with Retro-Bit's "translator" for the sake of response from the publisher of the Switch version: bsky.app/profile/rata...

Now retrobit's translator is accusing MIJET of having stolen the font engine code from another game (which he conveniently doesn't name). This man is a pathological liar.