You’re banning kids from the internet but beaming psychosis-creating, suicide-coaching, wrong-60%-of-the-time autocomplete robots that cause cognitive atrophy directly at them

if they can offer free AI training they could offer free media literacy training too. i know which of those would do more for the public good

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

So I've been playing with Linux (specifically Fedora with KDE) for about 6 weeks now and it's been... fine. But with a few issues. I have used Linux in the past but the fact that I can easily customise KDE to behave similarly to how I like Windows is very welcome after being burned by GNOME.

If the rooms don't have jaguar print bedding I'll be very disappointed.

Absolutely nuts that anyone could look at this and be like, yeah that's a series we should essentially let lie dead/dormant/fallow for 20 years and counting

Labour are the party of working people, remember...

typical ai use case

this is genuinely incredible

This is neat stuff: concept designs for the Namco NegCon one of my favourite PS1 controllers. (ours pictured right) The top one is more recognisable as the final product, albeit boxier, but wow, look at that bottom on: placed on some kind of stand with pivoting(?) grips.

I was today years old when I discovered there was an official Xbox 360 version of the Peugeot 206. #weirdcarbs #xbox360

Hahaha no way, I refuse to believe this is real. Microsoft have completely lost the plot.

Rare picture taken from Princes Street without a bus or tram in the way.

Nothing like odd railway disruption to bring out people who've seemingly never used a train or bought a ticket before.

I hope 2026 is kind to us all

My reading was *very* stop-start this year and I didn't read as much as I'd like, but I did at least keep track of what I read so here are my five favourite.

First time I've ever won an endurance race, but full credit to my team mate for a mega double stint to start the race and put me in a position where I just needed to not fuck up for 80 minutes.

if i had a nickel for every dating sim/racing game hybrid on the sega saturn i would have at least two which isn't a lot but its weird there is two, possibly more of them

Clay letters from ancient Mesopotamia are alive with idiom, sayings, and everyday language that I love. Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.

Very hyped by this news, Grand Prix 4 is still remarkably good so making it accessible is a great thing.

All the hits for the PlayStatis2 in 16-Bit Sensation: Metal Gay Solid, .pack, and Kingdom to Heart. There may be a Silent Building, too. Fake/close-enough game titles are one of the things I always dearly love to see 😌

Podcast: The Car. Listener @campbell64.bsky.social crossed The Back Page with iRacing. The results? Cursed yet magnificent.

made me mad it wasn't actually 2 kb so i spent an hour compressing the fuck out of it

Good riddance, DRS. You ruin racing. #F1 #AbuDhabiGP #RaceFans

It was straightforward in the end but no denying that Lando Norris is a deserving champion having been thereabouts almost all year. Some brave moves in traffic, when he couldn't afford to damage the car, made it safe in the end.

Happy final ever race for DRS day. I have been waiting 15 years for this moment. #F1 #AbuDhabiGP

Trying out Linux properly for the first time in years (just in cast Window 11 goes off the abyss) and wtf KDE created their own version of Apple-style device connectivity over local networks and it just... works!? It still feels a bit involved for end-users but desktop Linux has got a LOT better.

This game has a hell of a lot to answer for, being one of the first video games I ever played and getting me into both Formula 1 and racing games generally.

0-60: probably Can fit a sofa in the back: definitely

Today is the 17th anniversary of 428: Shibuya Scramble, a highly acclaimed entry in Chunsoft's sound novel series and one of my all-time favorite novel games. I love it so much I made a whole dang documentary about Chunsoft and their sound novels: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9BT...

Tired: 'Die Hard' is a Christmas movie. Wired: 'Shenmue' is a Christmas video game.

"If you hate GenAI you're going to have to stop playing new games when they all start using it" My brother in Christ, my backlog is literally thousands of games long. I have lifetimes worth of earlier titles to play, & I will gladly do that instead of boiling the oceans for a new CoD or whatever

Really nice test of a low poly Ridge Racer running in full 3D on the GBA. From Gustavo Valiente's RR project: gvaliente.itch.io/rr-project

Reading The Phantom Tollbooth as a child instilled a love of language and wordplay (and dreadful puns) that persists to this day. It's a reminder that language isn't just about communicating words and phrases, you can have so much fun with it.

Mia Wallace & Gromit As requested by Paul Savage

dating sim but you have to manage a racing team and split your time and money between financing the team, driving, car modifications, dates. Characters would be rival racers, pit gal etc. If you don't train hard enough you won't have the stats to win a championship how embarassing

I've relapsed hard into Balatro. Please pray for me at this time.

please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you

if you see this, QRT with a game that released the year you were born

I was inspired by this post to replace the CMOS battery in my PS2 and THREE HOURS LATER I've managed to put it back together with everything working. I think it can just stay in Y2k when this battery runs out.

Absolutely love this post. Another example why we need to study history from the bottom up, not necessarily top down.

Such an easy thing to flex about when you have nothing to be ashamed of. 🍻

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

So the first Drift-Out had real cars without licenses, so we got such gems as the Subaro Legagy, the Mitsuboshi Galent, and the BWM W3. The later games had licenses and there was no more hilarity. OR SO I THOUGHT! Because this new re-release of the game lost the licenses and we get this gold… (1/)

Forever thinking about the Irn Bru Dreamcast I saw at Retro Games at the Barras.

Thanks for the suggestions. Obviously I had to mock up a cover as if they actually released a soundtrack album.

the fact that so many people frame autism as “a problem that needs to be solved” is a constant reminder that being “not normal” isn’t acceptable to a large amount of the world. it’s the same reason there’s a trans panic right now too. they think people are defective

Experimental post: The Inevitable March of Time From the moment of this post, Super Mario Bros. is now closer to World War II than it is to the present day.