My hobby: Goofy album covers that tell you immediately the music within will kick ass.

The Hi Fi Rush physical edition is finally real. And as promised it's coming via the scumbags at Limited Run. And even if I wanted to avoid giving scalper scumbags money by giving LRG scumbags money, pre-orders were during con prep week so I missed the whole thing. MODERN GAMING IS GREAT

Cunts

As far as I can tell, conventions are a place where I work non stop and miss all the fun, then go to bed instead of spending time with my friends, and try to sleep while drunks blast the most bitch-basic music in the world without variation for three straight hours. Why do I do this again?

DRG fanboys: "Nothing has changed with spawn rates in season 6, you're just a scrub, thou shalt not critique the things we enjoy." Me, watching my solo haz 4 lunch break run spawn its fourth bulk detonator: ".....Sure."

So how many hours are we giving the spineless money drones at Anthropic to back down on the one principle they've ever demonstrated?

At least *some* of the voters in the UK still have any fucking sense at all, and don't blindly do what the blatantly biased media tell them to.

Minecraft's enchanting system being just a slot machine is already aggravating enough, but when you finally get the one you want and it adds incompatible bullshit... Fire Aspect goes on swords, Protection goes on armour, efficiency goes on tools. What is this shit?

I guess the only value Microsoft sees in the Xbox brand any more is as AI training data for ICE recruitment posters. But then I genuinely believe that the 360's meathead culture helped lay the groundwork for neo-fascism.

What the fuck is Sony's problem this generation? You had a winning strategy. Everyone loved it. You were printing cash. Then you went all-in on greed over games, and it was a disaster, so now the studios you forced to do it have to close? How did you fuck the PS5 up this badly?

Spend a month fucking about not booking my vacation, Confuzzled sells out, another trip home without seeing my friends. Useless ADHD bullshit. I'm doing great, how's you?

Shit, i somehow missed the High Court ruling that no, *obviously* Palestine Action protesters are not terrorists, you fucking dick. Fuck you, Starmer. Fuck every Red Tory.

Got Project Restoration installed on my N3DS, gonna take another run at Majora's Mask. The 3DS remasters are so good I don't see any reason to ever play the carts again TBH. Better controls, frame rate and camera, a 3D effect that actually works, a...completely identical soundscape...

Found a file format in Daggerfall that was decoded but not documented, so I have a new wiki account ;-) Honestly it's nice to be able to contribute something back, no matter how small, considering how much of the community's existing work I'm cribbing for my own project.

Whelp, time to go be alone in public.

get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship

Soooooooo who's taking bets on what crime he did this time that he's running away from? Weird how immigration is always fine if you're a white guy leaving, ain't it?

Alright, let's see what these Cyberstan missions are like. Oh, I lost because I got stuck on a hitbox at the extraction point. And then the Pelican killed me. Helldivers 2: If it worked, you'd be concerned.

I guess going all-in on live services failed so now Sony's going in hard on nostalgia instead. Their show had remastered Legacy of Kain, remastered Rayman, remakes of God of War (what), Remastered Metal Gear, a God of War prequel to the prequel's prequel (no seriously, ACTUALLY though)....

In the wake of a massive confirmation that the tech industry’s run by deranged pedophiles, not a single tech platform should have the balls to start demanding ID and enacting invasive policies. Yet they continue. They’re the ones being outed as dangerous and we’re the ones being regulated.

Trying to get coding search results in the age of AI.

Mock the Week is back! I had no idea until an *extremely legal copy* appeared on my horizon. It's honestly kinda weird how completely unchanged it is.

So, where are we all going instead of Discord? Like fuck I'm ever going to be compliant with mass surveillance systems operated by monsters.

Decided to try Helldivers 2 after a year away. Not one single bug has been fixed, there's even some new ones. Still no equipment loadouts, got stuck in a rock inside 5 seconds, I've died twice to my mouse losing window capture, strategems still bounce constantly, got stuck on terminals...

Yesterday I was full of anxiety, stayed up too late yet again trying to down out my brain. It responded with three hours of vivid, horrifying nightmares, followed by an absolute refusal to go back to sleep and get an adequate amount of rest. How are you supposed to live a life like that?

Going to actually book tickets for Confuzzled this year rather than fucking it up and assuming I can buy day tickets at-con like I do with Canadian cons. Can't do all 5 days - which are the "best" days to attend?

There's a Value Village near me that always gets the most interesting electronics. (Same place I found my PC Engine Duo.) Today I saw an Apple II, a rack mount CD setup and.... Two aircraft transponders?

You know it's a cold night when your littlest cat marches along the bed, paws at the covers by your head and screams until you lift them for her to get in.

God people are so gullible over this Iron Lung bullshit. No, nobody's "suppressing the YouTuber". No, Hollywood aren't "mad". He's not even the tenth YouTuber to make a movie. The movie is on the charts you're claiming it isn't on. You're being advertised to.

I do still sometimes get Imposter Syndrome at work, but then I open up the Android code we outsourced and I can't possibly feel like I'm inferior to other people getting paid for this shit. Open one fragment in the IDE, CPU spins up so hard my music starts lagging. Every line edit chugs. Lunacy.

Whelp, principles are making me quit a job again. Every large corpo's run by ghouls, I'm hardly naive, but there's always a line. Anyone need a really good coder in the Langley area? Makes quality code and understands what he's doing, refuses to use AI to preserve both of those.

Maybe it's because I'm coming back into Minecraft after 5-10 years, but something feels off. I'm having fun playing, but after several long play sessions I haven't actually made a mine, because I haven't needed to. The proc-gen feels far too generous compared to my memory of it. Examples:

Denmark: (Quite literally.) "Fuck off." Canada: "In our very professional and polite opinion, fuck off." EU: "We've unanimously voted that you should fuck off." Starmer: "Well I'm not sure I don't know about that I can't be certain special relationship bleedle burble blee."

Canada's obsession with beef borders on fucking weird. The hot dogs are beef, the sausage rolls are beef, the fucking pork pies are beef! Trying to buy pork mince, I'm in the pork section, and it's fucking beef.

Starmer continues to be the spineless weasel he was put in place to be, UK slides ever closer to joining the ranks of the fascists. A country absolutely determined, steadfastly stubbornly set on never, ever getting better.

I've never used N64 Tremor Paks much because the combo packs were more convenient. TIL they addressed this in a "pro" version with an external memory card slot. Which naturally leads to an opportunity for shenanigans. LOOK UPON MY VIBES AND TREMBLE, YE MORTAL FOOLS

hey train perverts wanna see the shinkansen cloaca

Seriously these fuckers ruin the hobby so much. "They're sealed, and therefore they're expensive." It's fucking MLB: The Show, FFS. Everywhere I go there's this grasping bullshit from wankers who haven't the slightest interest in gaming beyond what they can scrape out of it.

FFXIV Devs: "hey we are making this really cool strategy board so you can do all your raid planning in real time!" Players: "OMG THATS GOING TO BE SO COOL FOR PF AND STUFF!" Also players:

When you're such a grifting shithead, blatantly flipping random games you don't understand from thrift stores for too much money, that you don't know Xplosiv is the name of a defunct budget PC publisher, and not the game you're selling.....

I don't think I have to tell my friends this but never EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER give these fuckers your medical records.

Uninstall two flatpaks, save 30GB of space. *Sigh* Remember when Linux packages were efficient?

Today fucking sucked. But the light gun station is up. So I know exactly what to do about my mood.

*Innocent whistling*

If I were to make one "hot take" video game essay to the nobody that would listen, it would be a comparison of Horizon 1 and 2, to show how an obsession with map size/game length over quality and writing ruins games.

I have a feeling I'm not going to be finishing Cyberpunk 2077. It's not bad, but it's not blowing me away either, and it's honestly just too damn big. At some point open world games just got too big to maintain their quality and I'd quite like them to shrink again thanks.

magical

Shockingly, Starmer remains the spineless Tory coward you were warned about when you wanted to "get rid of the Tories". www.bbc.com/news/article...

Of course the fascist supports the fascism. That's hardly news. I just wish Canadians would pay some fucking attention to our own Conservatives and their ties to the international fascist movement. Stop pretending they're normal, we're in danger.