“From people I’ve spoken with at multiple platforms, they’re just suddenly told, ‘Starting next week, you won’t be able to use our [payment] services anymore.’ And it’s not even communicated by Visa or Mastercard directly, it’s passed down indirectly" automaton-media.com/en/news/cred...

Blight Town was the best part of Dark Souls.

this time im getting around to it before october

referring to metroidvanias as "hollowslop" to simultaneously piss off people who like metroidvanias, people who like hollow knight, people who want a better genre name for "metroidvania", people who are sick of the word slop being misused, and gradius fans who want to see more checkpoint recoveries

I know everyone's playing Silksong, but today has been a great day to just vibe to Deadzone Rogue.

Joined a meeting because my boss wanted to talk about the work I've been doing. LOL JK LMAO, IT WAS BAIT, I GOT LAID OFF

What I want to know is this. These payment processors, *why* do they care? They make their money on transaction fees. Why do they care what purchases generate the transaction fees for them? They are literally leaving money on the table, and that’s something their shareholders should disapprove of.

this is nightmarish and should alarm you no matter what your opinions on pornography are

Not to drag this out anymore, but just to be clear: the problem with numbered console generations is that they're not *useful*. The numberings aren't descriptive, and the groupings are arbitrary and US-centric. That's why people who study game history don't use them

I have just been introduced to Bootleg Rayquaza and this is now one of my favorite things ever

Tsuneki Ikeda of CAVE on the value of hard games shmuplations.com/ikeda

"Bluesky is dying" Oh yeah? Then explain why this GIF always does numbers.

McDonalds Japan is currently making Salamander bosses out of burgers, so yeah, I guess we can love the app for a little while

People saying Trump is dying or possibly dead, but I for one would urge caution, because it is quite possible a second healtbar will appear as he enters his second phase and a gargantuan centipede will burst forth from his torso, so be careful of his new sweep attacks and toxic buildup from bites.

I have to admit, I think I don't dislike Qt. (For a GUI library, "relatively inoffensive" is high praise!) Sure, I had to do the mandatory period of wrapping my head around what it expects from the engineer, but now that I have, everything kinda tends to just work with only moderate ugliness?

the coveted animal crossing-ass car.🐇🐰

OutRun GB update: 🌴 - Release Date is MONDAY! - Download the game for Game Boy Color and Analogue Pocket for Free. #pixelart #indiedev #gameboy #gbstudio #retrogaming

And now available for everyone: TOUHOU SOCCER TOUHOU SOCCER TOUHOU SOCCER TOUHOU SOCCER TOUHOU SOCCER TOUHOU SOCCER kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2025/08/29/t...

I know this looks bad but if the destructor for the main window only dumps core because of `free(): invalid pointer` on exit, is it REALLY a crash? ⁠(⁠⇀⁠‸⁠↼?⁠)⁠ᕗ Thank you for playing ${REDACTED_INTERNAL_TOOL_NAME}!

It's getting harder and harder to deny that AGI is a near certainty. This kind of rapid expansion, this level of investment and infrastructural shift, this amount of *risk* - it doesn't happen without astronomical reward. The other day I saw a big barn, which can only mean one thing: giant horses

Crunchyroll started as a piracy website that would steal the work of fansub groups and lock it behind paywalls, which caused Fansub groups to literally encode messages during the "Brought to you in part by these sponsors" segments, warning viewers that if you paid for the subs, you got scammed

Wait, are tigers orange cats, too?

Putting this here because it needs to be preserved

Sam Altman is the sort of person who would purposely let Asian Carp into the Great Lakes because he didn't get any bites when fishing.

I had an epiphany that, in terms of cultural impact, the internet in the wake of the MLshit bubble has become the worst possible digital superfund site and the people responsible will NEVER face any justice for what they've done.

Yuuku preserved Mushihimesama Gaiden (虫姫さま外伝), a keitai-exclusive spinoff of CAVE's #Mushihimesama series! You walk around and throw bombs at enemies, which is a departure from CAVE's usual bullet hell shooters.

this whole thread has me feeling absolutely insane Yoko Shimomura did not leave Capcom because of credit issues. You can go read where she was interviewed about the game in 1991, Gamest vol. 62 she was instantly famous for her music and that’s how she was able to join Square Enix on a whim

Goddamn, the ending to Gunbuster gets me every time.

this came to me in a dream

Wanna see the best "back to top" webpage functionality I've ever seen? Go here, scroll to bottom, click button. city-the-animation.com/bddvd/

*sigh* I was having a lot of fun, too...

If you've ever played Mega Man X3 this'll be the funniest thing you'll see today.

"games should teach you how to play by playing, you should never need to look at a manual or instructions" incorrect; explode

Can't pick one, but I'm always thinking about UFO: Enemy Unknown, Armed Police Batrider, and Puzzle & Dragons.

game genres are so fuzzy and confusing...what's an Action Adventure game?? what do you actually do in an RPG?? to fix this, i got together with loads of my lovely friends to create a much more descriptive classification system. all games can be neatly placed into the New Genres

it goes further: Yu Suzuki had a oh-shit-the-boss-is-here button installed on his devkits that'd corrupt the screen and make the game look visibly "unfinished", in order to keep his boss from trying to force the game out the door ASAP shmuplations.com/afterburner/

maybe this is just me, but I can scarcely imagine anything more damaging to a *credit card company's brand* than "you are not allowed to use the credit card to buy this normal, legal thing that you want to buy"

i've written an article on how the group that went after itchio/steam's payment processors used the most morally objectionable content they could find to target queer and adult media and how they are definitely part of the religious right: mimidoshima.neocities.org/main/posts/2...

It's still so damn funny to me that playboy bunnies in three genders are part of Unicode because a bunch of the emoji glyph choices were built on the bedrock of SoftBank's feature phone character set.

>Needed some music >Couldn’t find phone (I can never find my phone >PSP, MY BELOVED >Find phone >Don’t care because PSP, MY BELOVED ~❤️

Hey y'all! I just had to remove my horror novel from itch to avoid a permanent and irreversible ban, so UHHH idk where that leaves me but it's definitely building my desire to leave the platform entirely

The thing I'm having the most trouble understanding is why a tiny group of fascist lunatics has so much pull with a duopoly on the scale of Visa/MasterCard. If the processors are so big they could cut Valve and Itch and not even notice, then what's their incentive for listening to Collective Shout?

📢 ISO of Devs Affected by Itch 📢 If your game got: • Deindexed • Removed • Payouts turned off Especially if you make Adult &/or LGBTQ+ #IndieGame or #VisualNovel, I want to talk to you. 🗣️ Please reply below with how you were affected. This is for a #Journalism piece. 🔁 RTs Appreciated 🔁

Syd Mead (1933-2019) was born 92 years ago today. "I've called science fiction 'reality ahead of schedule.'" Notably known for his work on Blade Runner, Star Trek TMP, 2010, TRON or Aliens, Syd was a formidable designer who massively influenced contemporary artists.

A very special project I've been excited about just went up on the Steam store! Fantasy Maiden Wars—a turn-based strategy game that acts as a retelling of the early Windows Touhou games with some creative liberties and reordering. More thoughts below. 🧵 store.steampowered.com/app/3575980

I super miss being able to buy a normal-ass DIN head unit and put it in my car. "Infotainment" is a four-letter word.