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How to Conquer Mob Mentality, How to Buy Happiness, and All the Other Ways to Outsmart Yourself
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Thursday, 29 May 2025
quote [ No timer, no score, no gravity. ]
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Tuesday, 20 May 2025
quote [ You play Barry, a disillusioned hitman who has grown tired of his day job, and dreams of becoming an interior decorator. ]
This is great fun but needs a big screen to spot the people.
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Friday, 9 May 2025
quote [ Many games and movies are held within the Collection Chamber's vault, unseen by modern means. It's time for them to be released. ]
This is a modern take on abandonware, compiling overlooked games with patches to work on current machines. Very diligent, very interesting, oftentimes quite bizarre findings. Via the Virtualmoose blog roundup.
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Thursday, 8 May 2025
quote [ despite it trying to appeal to some of the more hardcore Satanic Panic, esoteric goetian mysticism angle with a touch of Mortal Kombat graphics, it doesn?t really go as hard as you?d hope it would. ]
Ok, first, this is a fun game that works well with controllers and gets continued support over multiple platforms + a sequel.
Second: opinions over this are a bit divided ? as this lengthy in-depth criticism (quote source, on a free version, no less) illustrates. Other players are putting in 100s of hours. The photosensivity warning should be taken serious though.
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Monday, 5 May 2025
quote [ Polygon, one of the last video game outlets with a reputation for long form reporting and feature writing, was sold to Valnet
[?] On the same day, Giant Bomb exploded, shedding staff and pausing content production pending a "strategic reset". [?] It is harder than ever to make a video games website successful - although, it must be said, corporate owners are as craven and shortsighted as they've always been. ] Ow, ow, ow. Rock-Paper-Shotgun's "Sunday Papers" column has been often linked by me. This edition is a harsh ride through shuttering outlets and the site's own struggle. Also, Valnet.
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Saturday, 3 May 2025
quote [ As the NES nears the 40th anniversary of its U.S. release, the homebrew scene around it is still putting out some killer games. ]
Get hold of the Nintendo Entertainment System
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Friday, 2 May 2025
quote [ Being a Japanese organisation, the GPS is held hostage by antiquated and draconian Japanese laws.
[?] The tragedy is that the GPS has done so much to preserve Japan's cultural history. It helped a Kyoto kimono factory when its antiquated computers needed repairing. It built on the pioneering work of others to improve methods of preserving LaserDiscs, and wanted to share it with others. There have been a lot of news stories about preserving Japanese mobile phone games, and the GPS has been involved. ] Interesting doc on Japanese retrocomputing archive running out of cash due to complicated national laws and fan expectations even while receiving government funding.
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Thursday, 1 May 2025
quote [ QR codes can store up to 3KB of text and binary data. For context:
- This paragraph, until now is 0.4KB ] To be honest, I had a hard time playing this, but putting raycasting, browser gzipping and generation seeds in a self-running QR code is already a cool example.
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Tuesday, 29 April 2025
quote [ Our initial fundraising goal is $20,000 USD. This amount will help Crips for eSims for Gaza replenish their budget and better meet future needs. With your help, we hope to meet and exceed this number! ]
Another Gaza support games bundle on itch.io. There are also 2 smaller ones mainly featuring TTRPGs, one for Trans Rights and a Catalan one for disaster support in Valencia.
Thumb is New Old Stock.
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Saturday, 26 April 2025
quote [ You're leaving for a trip! Pack all your items into a suitcase. ]
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Funny thing is: The original version of Tetris as devised by Alexey Pajitnov would not feature falling blocks either; that came only on the PC port through ? Vadim Gerasimov?
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