ROBOTIC OPERATING BUDDY! That’s our little R.O.B the Robot and and his robot series of games. Join @georgebanks.bsky.social @jon.gvg.io and @nantenjex.bsky.social as we resurrect this forgotten peripheral, Gyromite and Stack Up too. I mean, if the virtual boy can return… youtu.be/-oyp-_QLd3o?...

the thing about asking for a worker owned anything on the web is that the pitch has to account for the fact that the website is going to - innately - be slower to add features, slower to respond to issues, have financial struggles, etc

and it turns out - bsky is self-evident proof of this - that most people would rather just use the site run by venture capital, no matter how much anyone says "venture capital is gonna turn it to shit eventually"

when I was defending itch I heard from a lot of - frankly to my shock - other queers who were like "it's a platform, platforms are the enemy" and until we're able to distinguish _as users_ the ways in which worker owned services aren't your enemy and deserve grace, we won't be seeing very many

drunk dialling Bowser and demanding he come over to watch NorthernLion with me knowing he cant decline

it really says a fucking lot about the culture we have that the famously fraudulent elevator pitch for genAI is "we figured out how to do chattel slavery again in a way no one is allowed to be mad about"

bowser phone he'll visit anyone you tell him to

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your core users are people who have already demonstrated a willingness to abandon a more popular social media site for another, in the most part for disliking the politics of the people who run it. write this on a big whiteboard somewhere in the office

Didn't know Linus was chill like that, damn

Sorry is this really where we're at now

Today is @pikabata.bsky.social's birthday!! Pika is one of my absolute best friends in the whole entire world. My life and heart is so full of love for you and I will forever treasure our friendship. Go wish him a super happy birthday!!!

Happy #playdate end of season 2! If you're looking for more things to crank down, I've just released Yonderu! DoujinSoft, a #comic reader for the console that makes it compatible with...WarioWare DIY on the Nintendo DS? You can find it on Itch at the link down below. difegue.itch.io/yonderu-douj...

How were these both completely distinct games from different studios, released like a year apart from one another

why does this have massive "iPad kid" energy

LMAOOOO actually tabbed into the stats screen in MCC for once and it was telling me I'd somehow played 168 hours in Combat Evolved alone. I think it might be my favourite one.

Small update thread because I feel bad not keeping folks in the know when I have the power to do so. I prefer way more to just kinda get on than to give excuses, but this kinda only scratches the surface. It's been a baaaaaaddddd month for me folks.

huge news but the fight isn't over as they're still maintaining a relationship with the IDF outside of this service being pulled, but this is legitimate living proof that the BDS boycotts get results

This is just... unprecedented. I'm sorry if this sounds pessimistic in any way but I really am just in awe that this happened. Tech companies dont just pull out of military contracts like this. This decision is going to echo out loud. It won't wash the blood of Microsoft's hands, but... this is huge

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Toby Fox: My goal with these days wasn't to show you a new hidden truth you will never be able to access - my goal is to remind you that you have always been able to go if you just hold the key of asking what's there #undertale

"mutuals do this" and it's just a picture of a guy staring into middle-distance and smiling at nothing

Really bummed that I keep seeing the suggestion that everyone should just move to private discords/telegrams/islands over social media. What a great way to fracture the community at large and have a bunch of cliques based around arbitrary rules and hierarchies.

Nearly went off on one about something completely inconsequential but saved myself at the last minute. 😌 Do not underestimate the value of putting something in a private doc for yourself before putting it anywhere else LMAO

It is fascinating jumping back into the "guy rambling over FPS footage" genre for the first time since like 2017. They're basically the exact same except now every sometimes the guy mentions having a kid or something. Very often the game they're playing hasn't even changed.

Giving Shadow Labyrinth another go there. Hmm. Hmmmmmm.

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board: It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible https://theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997/

man they really didn't give a shit about that guy. as soon as it was clear they couldn't use his death to launch a purge they started to treat it like a nothingburger

Incredible: The Virtual Boy has stayed the same price since 1996

A cartoonishly transparent double-standard. Every single day is like this.

I am sat here with a monster premiere to edit but determined to get it out there sooner rather than later!! I expected an easier time but the curse of not doing this for over two months is having ENTIRELY TOO MUCH TO SAY after that...

People 100% burying the lede that Labo VR mode still works on Breath of the Wild Switch 2 Edition. Crossing everything this whole thing SOMEHOW just works as it did. I literally kept my original Switch just to play VR stuff lol

Something tells me this is a good time to mention I've published a lil' research on the development of the Nintendo Virtual Boy and its many cancelled games on my Patreon (which I forgot to share) some months ago? In case you want to support a troubled historian? www.patreon.com/thegenesistemple

The picture of the Kirk assassin is turning out very different than those initial reports. Nothing about “trans” ideology at all on the bullets.

WHAT A FUCKING SURPRISE!!!!!!

The most boring people ever in the comments here. Re-open the schools!!

Incredible. The sheer amount of effort going into this. Hardware. Licensed games. They finally got all the handwritten letters i wrote

as someone who owns an honest-to-god virtual boy, and every single nintendo labo kit, i don't wanna hear a FUCKING WORD. this announcement was made for me and me alone

Do you get what this is like for trans women? We are being subject to attempts to exterminate us from public life, and we cannot so much as FIGHT BACK without institutions from all walks of life coming down and pinning our arms for our enemies to pummel. No space, no grace, we are given NOTHING.

oh no is the right wing demanding crackdowns, martial law, and masked secret policemen disappearing you or shaking you down for papers? all because of this specific incident!

In 2014, Anita Sarkeesian canceled an event at Utah State after a credible assassination threat because the school’s response was that Utah allows guns on college campuses. People have warned about this kind of violence for years. But they weren’t the people the powers at be wanted to protect.

okay this seems like a good moment for this: do you guys think video games are art

Legit had a dream last night that Nintendo gave this big speech during a Direct about creative inspiration and how game design is an iterative process, and then ended "with that in mind, please take a look at this next announcement" and it was fucking PALWORLD on Switch

that croc sales tweet that gets used as a discourse thing every few month is funny because sales is a horrible way to measure game worth and quality and also OP was just mad people like banjo kazooie in smash specifically. it was all just smash discourse

This is what all games should be, especially Ristar

I recently talked to a guy who thinks AI won / is inevitable, who doesn't understand why anti-AI people get so mad about it (handwaves off energy, copyright, jobs) also doesn't see users clog up human review that used to work screenshots are from 2023 and 2024 this has gotten worse across the board

when i was a bit younger i talked to someone who had just played Home Alone 2 for sega megadrive and insisted, genuinely, that it was superior to all mega man games. i was glued to their every word. i think people with weird ass opinions like this must be cherished.