This is the pattern with the Cookie's Bustle troll. They abuse free/cheap legal resources to make spurious takedowns, and then never follow up, because they have no legitimate claim. If you push back even a grain of sand, you will never hear from them again

Reading @metallicaisrad.bsky.social's new book about Guitar Hero and Rock Band and apparently the games "doubled the world's need for drumsticks"

not to be glib but a lot of discussions about AI will be solved very quick if you just become communist

Very telling that the Guardian Weekly article showing teenagers' reactions to Australia's social media ban have a bunch of healthy kids saying "Annoying but no biggie, I can wait two years" and one very disabled one saying "welp there goes my entire world."

What if we were both on the moon... and one of us killed the other with a rock 😳

one of my favorite interactions I've ever had is when a Japanese guy in like his 40s, asked me, with a slightly bewildered tone "where do you even hear about this shit? even Japanese people don't know this" in regards to me talking about some old untranslated game the world is vast! many games!

Important to note that the reason RAM is more expensive isn't because OpenAI is ransacking store shelves and buying all the retail stock. They aren't using those. Instead "AI" companies dumped an insane amount of money on RAM manufacturers to tie up their production lines with parts "AI" needs.

automaton-media.com/en/news/japa... Wild story, a font service was bought out by a US company and now they are absolutely dogshit and it'll particularly heavily affect JP games, especially service titles.

A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees. I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?

Worth noting this was before the Payment Processor nonsense, so this is the normal dev-hating Valve actions. Same shit that dings VNs for years.

Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...

Feels like it should be bigger news that a journalist known for being loud about her investigations into banks/payment processors appears to be getting financially stonewalled by the entire industry unaminously right now.

Anyway I hadn't heard anyone talking about this, so I guess I'm gonna talk about it. Spread the word if you're thinking about doing an nsfw KS project, Stripe apparently might pull your funding at literally any step of the process, with zero warning!

Because SE's QA people are probably not in a position to defend themselves and their jobs in public, I want to spell out some of what it is they specifically do for us localizers, because nothing I've written here is rhetorical. SE QA acts as a final check on our work after translation and editing.

I'm seeing reports that "rude" is one of the labels that defaults not just to "warn" but to "hide", which is bonkers. Be sure to go through the immediately visible labels, the ones where you have to click the "Bluesky moderation" labeler, _and_ the special "adult content" checkbox.

Well, it took a while for me to get around to it, but I finally called MasterCard about the itch.io situation rather than just emailing them ...aaaaand it turns out they just redirect me to my bank's "lost card" service, even if I choose an option that has nothing to do with lost cards. Great

One month out from the under-16s ban and almost all of the users caught up in the Discord data breach caused by age assurance appeals were based in Australia, OAIC has finally confirmed. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

New article on ★ daiz.moe ★ Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason daiz.moe/crunchyroll-... A ton of research and effort went into this one. This is the article to read to get to the bottom of Crunchyroll's subtitle changes! Replies here will show up as comments (eventually)

As a huge New York Style Hot Dog fan for years, felt compelled to recreate the poster in a high resolution and managed to find the original photo used in the texture Many thanks to folks from VGPC for help with identifying blobs, especially Prominos and TBemme bekoha.github.io/yakuza/New%2...

love when someone you're campaigning against is like "yeah, it's working"

In light of the PSF's recent loss of an NSF grant and attendant funding shortfall, I will be matching donations up to $5000. Send me your receipts. Very happy if you've already donated for similar reasons but the point is to motivate *new* donations so be sure the timestamp is after this toot 😉.

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1. A federal judge has just ruled in favor of 16 states and schools that refuse to comply with Trumps trans ban demand. The administration is threatening to pull tens of millions in federal sex ed funding. Now, they will be blocked. Subscribe to support my journalism.

This is "debanking", and its a problem that has plagued sex workers for decades. It isnt right when its targetting sex workers and its not right when its targetting game devs and creators either. Give paypros and your givt reps your grievances and demand that debanking of adult content stop

The ‘Transit’ gender clinic in Spain has a 3 WEEK waiting list! 😳😳😳 It covers a population of 8 million, (equivalent to the population of Scotland & Wales combined, or 1/7th of the population of England) It has a total of 43 staff, a majority of whom are part-time, working 6-7 hours per week!

This is a warning to every artists and clients using PayPal: Leave the note blank or send invoices. Apparently even saying "commission" makes them trigger happy. #SaveSpeech #StopPaypros And continue the pressure by calling PayPal. Helpful link here: anti-censorship-campaign.carrd.co#phonescript

You need to be signed into a Microsoft account to get the free Windows 10 security updates in the EU??? Guess I'll be scrambling to install Linux this weekend, because I did not know this before www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/wi...

the Rock Band 4 Rivals Expansion has been delisted on the Xbox store it is still available to claim (for free) on PlayStation, both SIEA and SIEE - *claim it* if you have any intention of playing, it's required for online play, the Rivals Hub as well as the Rockudrama campaign

*to the tune of Super Sonic Racing* everybody's running in the 90s / it's a new way that I like to be / when you're running in the 90s / come on baby run to me

just a reminder that bandcamp friday is tomorrow & streaming services are interrupting music streams with ai generated shit, flooding the database with artists that don't exist in any way other than profiting the platform owners so instead of paying a monthly fee, buy an album or two each month ok

Rock Band 4 will delist on October 5, 2025 - "the original licenses for the core soundtrack are expiring" DLC are delisting too www.resetera.com/threads/rock... Rock Band 4 Rivals Bundle is $9.99: US PSN store.playstation.com/en-us/produc... Xbox www.xbox.com/en-us/games/...

In today's payment processor news: Digital manga service Manga Planet is shutting down, citing "various circumstances" with "recent restrictions from payment processors" being the only explicitly mentioned cause. Besides regular manga, MP also hosts 18+ BL content under its Futekiya brand. #paypro

Chrome's adblock dying has really just shown how bad ads have gotten now huh This appeared and fullscreened my window, hid my cursor, for clicking on a youtube download link lol old people are just not built to handle this

A quick way of checking if a floating-point number is normal: 1. Shift the bits left by one 2. Use a CLS (count leading sign bits) instruction 3. If the result is greater than or equal to the number of exponent bits, the number is non-normal (zero, denormal, NaN or infinity)

Paypros censorship is already limiting what kind of art can be made. Customers want to buy it, and developers want to make it, but Mastercard and Visa say NO to adult art made for an adult audience

it's an absolute miracle that GameFAQs is allowed to look like this in 2025 and hasn't been shitted up by a ton of graphics or annoying sidebars. keep in mind: this is with no adblock!

You might see several artists mad about the bluesky policy update banning non-con, even artists who do not make that kind of material, and wonder why it's such a problem. If that's you, here is a quick breakdown: 🧵

social media saves the life of so many trans kids; I do think these websites are bad, they need to be regulated, but I also think any regulations like these in the current regimes, UK and US, are designed to strengthen the idea that kids are not independent actors but the property of their parents

I only ever see cis people talking about this 🙃

the fact that the entire world must deal with the United States having a temper tantrum over smut is ridiculous

The police will call you about photos you post to private chats. They will do this almost immediately, it seems www.kenklippenstein.com/p/charlie-ki...

(1080 Snowboarding if it took place in 2017) likes are now florps. likes are only now florps. homosexuality

Sega Accused Of Using Police To Recover Nintendo Dev Kits It Had "Negligently Disposed Of".

Until this week, it's been impossible to play the games of the 1993 Pioneer LaserActive without one of the vanishingly rare, disintegrating consoles. Here's the story of the guy who's been trying to fix that for years -- and all the hardware and software he had to build to make it possible.

This is scary as hell, but for news coverage? This is a GIFT. "You can be banned for *buying* Game of Thrones." Send emails to journalists and news sites and communities you're a part of and talk about the dangers here. People are going to care about this a lot more when it's not just creators.

This is a big threat to the touchHLE project and all emulators and software preservation projects on Android more generally. Please do what you can to push back against this, while you still can.

So do you lot want another horror story from the six-year road to the Online Safety Act and how much *worse* it could have been? Here's one from way back in 2019. 🧵

friendly reminder that if you bought hogwarts legacy you directly contributed to the legal fund that created this ruling

In Missouri prisons, people can purchase some Nintendo Game Boy Advance titles on their Securus tablets. Last year, Byron wrote about how Harvest Moon took over his facility: "About a week after the game was made available, it was the only thing you heard many prisoners here talking about."

VILE: Exhumed, which was banned very shortly before its scheduled Steam release, has been released for free online, including on Github and the Internet Archive. Cara's statement, per the IA page: