In AI Pokemon news, Opus 4.5 started playing Pokemon Red and is a big improvement, being the first Claude model to complete Viridian Forest and Mt Moon efficiently via actually properly tracking what it tried and sticking to a plan - despite its very minimal harness. twitch.tv/claudeplaysp...

TIL that what we called "lightnode SRM" in OoT ( docs.google.com/document/d/1... ) is an exact match of a classic libc exploit ( ir0nstone.gitbook.io/notes/binexp... )

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if you also feel the need to reread - or want to experience it for the first time - here you go

After "film trilogy that dropped a critical plot point exclusively via timed Fortnite event" and "video game series whose story only makes sense if you're aware of the events of a canon pachinko machine", I feel like there are whole frontiers of user-hostile narrative design waiting to be explored.

Easy choice if you're a deer deciding where to buy a house

Oreoboros

The "The Curse" guy??

Has anyone considered that all of those guys named James Bond existed but it's a total coincidence and none of them know because each one's existence is a top secret that the others aren't cleared to know about. Management is freaking out but can't say anything that would give it away

This 2003 Gamefaqs guide for Illbleed has A Lot going on

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”

New "hyperspace levels" that go beyond 100... Maybe this is the real reason you can't tradeback mons from Z-A to previous games?

Picard: there ARE FOUR GUYS! FOUR

This is tremendous content but jegus fuck

utterly baffled by that at bat but WE TAKE THOSE

Daulton Varsho saves at least one run and possibly many more, what a fucking catch

how wonderful to have a section of your source code which is fully legible sprite data

I'm so mad that this was actually just Saruman what the fuck this was supposed to be an off-brand wizard

Out of all the things that could recreate the manic energy of following Blaseball almost entirely through Internet Posts, I was not expecting actual baseball.

the ball game (singular)

Live footage of me falling for one of the funniest things this game has done

Quick takes on pricing: - inflation exists - it's really weird that digital and physical games are priced the same, right? like you would absolutely not expect that to be the case

From the _very_ beginning they have been trying to make dungeon makers in Zelda, and in doing so they always end up making good stuff that is NOT a dungeon maker Because making a dungeon maker is a cursed and unsolvable problem

a kirby...credit card?

Legitimately the funniest "bug" I've seen in a game in a cool minute, doubly so because it feels on the nose with what some of the NPCs are saying lmao

was looking at bulbapedia for legends z-a and HUH (insaneintherain/the guy who did a 100 track sinnoh jazz fan album)

I think I actually kinda love how PLZA put a bunch of parkour in despite having a movement engine that is not remotely built for platforming. Ends up feeling like sequence breaking even when you're just doing the actual intended gameplay?

At the 12 second mark, that camera operator called an audible and just said "fuck it, the lane is clear, no tripping hazards, I'm winning a Sports Emmy for cinematography right now"

Good lord police you're looking for someone who robbed an art museum the guy is RIGHT THERE

The eye exam is the perfect game design. That big E is a great tutorial that teaches you the basic mechanic. But it doesn't baby you and quickly gets hard as they introduce the small and blurry enemies.

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

today's coworker had kindergarteners watch 15 minutes of kingdom hearts cutscenes bc she typed in "toy story 3 full movie". she cleaned the entire classroom with no reaction to sora being on the tv and only switched it once she was done. which was also right after the word 'xehanort' was said

A new video is out now, covering one of Nintendo's most dangerous oversights; a remote code execution exploit within Animal Crossing: New Leaf. Special thanks to @pretendo.network for their help with this video! Hope you find it interesting! 🧱

did you know LLMs use weird/unintelligible language in their reasoning trace? yes? maybe? well this post dives deep into almost every theory of why that is absolutely fascinating

boy does it ever

I used to get mad when people misused "decimated" to refer to things that weren't 1/10th destroyed, but I've given it some thought and now I've done a complete 360 on it

I don't think they should be allowed to do that

Would be fucked up if you looked at your baby and it said 1/50 over their head, implying a pikmin is intending to abscond with them

In terms of what's actually happening here, there's no writeup in English, but it seems closely related to this TAS: tasvideos.org/7170S Basically, FF2 RNG is seeded from uninitialized ram, and it *seems* Dr Mario is used just because the value it leaves there manips a rare battle and drop.

After some discussion on this topic, we were able to figure out how to make boo blocks actually stay still as they spawn. This way, their disguise ACTUALLY works - a bit crazy that we've been designing levels with them where this isn't the case for 25 years! #smw #romhacking

so, one of my favorite bugs in SMW has to be the way Boos work. basically, when they spawn in, their initial direction isn't initialized properly so they always face right, causing them to "turn" to face Mario on-spawn particularly noteworthy because makes Boo Blocks misalign and become obvious

finally, some Good Code crates.io/crates/fibon...

I try to mostly follow people on LinkedIn who are unafraid to shitpost on main

I found a speedrun category where you have to film yourself going to mcdonalds right before the final boss. yes, it's a playstation game, no it's not a sonic

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