I know I'm a broken record on this by now, but Skies of Arcadia continues to be a stone-cold *masterpiece*, a quarter-century after its release. I can't think of another game this old that I would recommend with no caveats. The fact Sega haven't re-released it on modern hardware is incomprehensible.

...horrifying message without context, thank you

Great pre-loved Tarot reading. Really looking forward to the rest of 1993

yikes

Mistakenly thought Dragon Quest 7 was out today, which made for a very disappointing lunch break.

I'm very, very, *very* gradually making my way through The City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky, and cannot stop viewing it through the lens of "this is the best Blades in the Dark campaign of all time".

Reminder that "jaywalking" was literally made up by american car manufacturers to shift the blame for accidents from drivers to pedestrians. "Jay" was a slang term meaning "idiot" or "rube".

This makes me think of the forthcoming TRACE ELEMENTS, a collection of non fiction essays by @adapalmer.bsky.social and @bluejo.bsky.social where they talk about genre expectations in one of the essays...

I'm gonna become the first guy to walk out of family court sentenced to death

It's not that girls are weapons, actually. It's that weapons, as objects coveted by men who view the possession and conspicuous use of them as intrinsically demonstrative of their masculinity, are a type of woman.

Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do.

the primary blocker to UBI is the puritan belief that humanity is so sinful and depraved that it should not be permitted personhood unless it becomes 'civilised' that's how liberal social policy ended up asserting that helping people would harm them but hurting people would help them

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

It is beyond weird to play Skies of Arcadia on original hardware and not hear the disc drive spin up before every random encounter. Next up, I'm thinking about replacing the fan—and maybe the clock battery, if I can get a soldering iron.

Post a GIF of your favourite videogame.

january 30th: a partially formed mr. blobby stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before disappearing

NO MEANING

Another stone-cold banger from Carter Vail www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mcvd...

was asked to draw this for a book sketch. went a little above and beyond my usual doodle

Crazy how the guy who made his career stealing from Satoshi Kon loves using AI, who could have seen this coming

When I was translating Kon Satoshi, in order to understand him better I spent time reading his personal blog. I'll never forget him writing "They say what Aronofsky is doing is an "homage." I know my English isn't great, but I don't understand the difference between "homage" and being "ripped off."

reminds me of a friend who explained why recent years have felt so weird to so many millennials here and it’s because “we went into the pandemic young people and came out of it old”

The entire thesis of this (excellent) article is encapsulated in this sentence: "When it comes to assessing videogames, AI cannot outwrite me; it cannot even burn the roof of its mouth on mashed potato." Still worth reading the whole thing, obvs. www.jank.cool/why-im-not-w...

I do wish we could report about countries like China like they’re modern, sophisticated (if authoritarian) places rather than something you’d do in the compendium for a JRPG. “The Empire of the Jade Dragon 🐉 has an obscure and many-faceted bureaucracy run under the auspices of the Protocol Deity”

The people removed are from the oil tanker Marinera/Bella-1, which has been moored off Scotland since Jan 7. The captain is a Georgian national, idk about the other guy. Combined with the attempted incursion by ICE on the Ecuadoran consulate in Minneapolis yesterday? I'm getting nervous

there's an option where anthropic kills openai and they take Microsoft with them

I don't know enough about the devs to know if it's a deliberate omission or just a coincidence, but the fact that Made in Abyss isn't noted as an influence on The Eternal Ruins seems very unusual to me, given the art style, tone and central concept. www.kickstarter.com/projects/myt...

Ok, yes, absolutely, but can we pause for a moment to appreciate what an absolute baller Garak was? Such an incredible character.

i resent my tax money being used for this trash, to prop up tech bros.

This plan for free AI training is mind boggling to me. Even if putting aside some of my concerns around widepsread consumer GenAI use, if we have resources to provide free tech/web focused training to adults, there's a basic floor of skills we can look at before teaching folk to give OpenAI business

Free? You couldn't pay me to use a generative LLM.

sometimes I wish patreons etc. had a paid tier that was, like, access to all the bonus stuff but without the discord. Please god, I don't need to be in another fucking discord

Happy belated "Large Boulder the Size of a Small Boulder" Day to all who celebrate.

bars

Maybe I'm being pedantic, but I don't think you should be allowed to call your delivery service "Tracked 48" unless you're going to actually deliver it within 48 hours. "Two to three business days" is up to 120 hours, over a weekend! That's two and a half times 48!

If Bilbo had Chat GPT

The baseline demand should be complete dismantling and prosecutions from the ground up. Not a single dollar more for any of those jackbooted thugs or the cowards calling the shots.

NYT less insightful than a 9 year old 4chan post

The same way gravity is a theory

How many legs does the elephant have? At first glance, the answer maybe be obvious - but look a little closer, and this fiendish illusion reveals itself. (HD reupload)

Umberto Eco was talking about this being a foundational element of fascism back when Putin was still working in the St Petersburg Mayor's Office. There are, actually, some bad things that didn't originate in Russia/the USSR.

hey everybody lifelong tech expert here > "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps

Once again tapping my sign: ICE exist in the UK 🚨 They have had arrest powers since 2000. This government - not a hypothetical future one - is working harder than ever before to raid homes and businesses.

not my work, but it's truly impressive that he's hit every single bullet point

you don't become a martyr because you were a saint, you become a saint because you were martyred

WE HAVE MOUNTAINS OF ICE TO MELT

Doesn’t it make you crazy? Doesn’t it turn your blood to fucking gasoline?