happy birthday samus! i wrote about metroid's 40th anniversary for the guardian

Metroid at 40: happy birthday to Samus Aran, gaming’s greatest badass and my personal heroine

Being a woman who loves video games has often felt lonely, like being on a hostile planet – but Metroid’s female space hunter has been with me all the way

theguardian.com

It's finally out :') I can finally sleep :')

opossumcarrion@carrion.0xpossum.dev · 3d ago

Demake86 is a tiny, unforgiving, and legally-distinct homage to the original 1986 Metroid, developed over two years using absolutely no AI. Happy 40th, Samus! Play Demake86 for free in your browser: opossumcarrion.itch.io/demake86 #metroidvania #indiegaming #godot #gaming #noai #samus #metroid

I had iOS 18 installed on an older iPhone. I got a prompt to install an iOS 18.7.8 update on my iPhone 13 Mini, and I ended up with iOS 26 installed instead. It is an understatement to say I'm very upset with Apple as a company.

Blood, sweat, and artificial tears. Because if your tearducts haven't run dry, are you REALLY working hard?

PS, I will be away from the internet for most of August 7th through August 10th! :-)

I've poured blood, sweat, and tears into Demake86. This has been a labor of love that I've worked on for years. Inspired by Minitroid, Environmental Station Alpha, AM2R, and KOLM, and Metroid. If you also love Metroid, please check it out. Demake86 will release for free on August 6th.

opossumcarrion@carrion.0xpossum.dev · 4d ago

My free and legally-distinct fangame / homage / remake of the original NES Metroid is about to release on August 6th! DEMAKE86 is a challenging adventure confined to an 8^6 pixel meteoroid, which can beat in one sitting. More details here: carrion.0xpossum.dev/demake86/ #metroidvania #gamedev

Super Metroid was the first game I'd ever seen, and I started programming around the age of 7 because I wanted to make a Metroid game. It's silly, but the whole course of my life has been guided by thinking Samus from Metroid is very cool. I'm about to fulfill a childhood dream, that's awesome

spruce spring stream

Transition is like doing this but thousands and thousands of times.

Re-reading Virgil Dupras' two intro essays for his Collapse OS project hits quite a bit harder in 2026 than it already did in back in 2021 when I first encountered the project, also because so many developments and political vision failures over these last 5 years have only been accelerating us […]

Campaign Evolved local coop is a bust :\ - Huge input lag on Series S - Saves lost on update - Starting multiplayer campaign flow is broken and requires restarting a few times to get it to work Really disappointing waste of $50

AP using a photo of Trump asleep in front of the POTUS symbol for their headline yeah

“It was annoying,” the person arrested for clapping at a data center meeting told 404 Media. “My wife was on the way up to the podium. The time for my wife's speech hadn't even been reset yet.” www.404media.co/clapping-is-...

“Clapping Is a First Amendment Right:” An Interview With the Person Arrested for Clapping at a Data Center Meeting

"I have a right to speak. I'm here to speak. I have a right to clap, and if you want me out, you're going to have to drag me out."

404media.co

Reddit deprecated r/all, and seems to be throwing 429 responses to users on the original Reddit. RIP

It really is apparent Campaign Evolved was rushed. Esp. the cutscenes. The OG had janky animations, weird deliveries, and and things that didn't entirely "fit together". But the revamped edition does, in a way that doesn't mesh with the incredibly high-fidelity rendering.

They're really going to get away with pretending Mcconnell is alive and not brain dead. August 3rd is just a few days away. Jesus

in addition to what everyone else has been saying, if this were the extent wealth contributed to political empowerment, we would live in an unrecognizably more equitable political system

Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 2w ago

Very cool that Shopify’s CEO thinks the poor should have far less of a vote than the rich. Still worth that ad read money, folks?

this is my proposed redesign of the trans flag. the four small stars represent the four genders (man, woman, femboy, & tomboy) while the big star represents chasers, who out community would be nothing without.

I wish there was just one serious no-jokes place on the internet. I think jokes serve a utility for the ability to noncommittally suggest ideas, or to distance yourself from things you said in earnest but found to be socially embarrassing. But I think that is sometimes bad, given where that lead us.

One of the worst things about LLMs (other than expertise using them being expected by every employer in my field) is that one can only generate useful text with one if your inputs are like messages addressing a person. It requires a debasing one-person roleplay session, geeze

extremely normal guy voice: I cloned myself so I can become my own blood boy.

what i was looking for: docs.rs/diesel/lates... what the Google AI Overview gave me instead: instructions on how to commit a federal crime

Idk.

the people rejected her doctrine

new drink pepsi bouillon

(exercising at 7:15 am) this is orwellian. i love it

When you've defeated the cone they put you in the Hannibal Lector

mulch mcconnell

After 17 years of marketing Android as an open platform, Google is mandating developer registration for all apps. Independent developers, open-source contributors, and alternative stores like F-Droid face an uncertain future. @keepandroidopen.bsky.social keepandroidopen.org