John Linneman
@dark1x.bsky.social
Video Editor + Senior Staff Writer for Digital Foundry and creator of DF Retro! Open to contract work! 日本語ＯＫ
I really miss my good friend and colleague Alex...Gamescom will be emptier without him, that's for sure. Here's hoping for the best - back pain sucks.
Has anyone tried using an AI agent to destroy other AI agents and take down data centers yet? 🤔
While Mark from CGR wasn’t able to make it to the party, I had to celebrate the return of Truxton. It’s good.
Digital Foundry@digitalfoundry.bsky.social · 3d agoTruxton Extreme! The classic vertically scrolling shooter is reborn for modern hardware and... it's fantastic. Check it out: youtu.be/dEdrcD45rQk
Ohhhh Shadow Warrior...there's so many things like that in this game
I have a real issue with the misrepresentation I see regarding performance characteristics of older hardware. Everyone seems to have put on rose tinted glasses when discussing this topic and regularly misreprsent how things actually were. This is why showcasing vintage hardware is so important!
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Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 7d ago"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...
Any language learners had their native speech influenced by the it? People noted that I end sentences with “right?” a lot lately but it’s not intentional. I realized I spend a lot of time speaking with Japanese friends and that sort of softening of language is something you do a lot in Japanese.
If anything, seeing what's happening in this scene now sorta cements, in my mind, that my focus on original hardware and classic games is the best for my own enjoyment. The FGPA, emulation and decomp scene is becoming such a mess.
John Linneman@dark1x.bsky.social · last wk.It really sucks when someone you were following for their work in the retro scene turns out to be big on AI and using it in all their projects. That instantly kills any and all interest in anything they ever make.
It also sucks when you want to discuss something interesting and people come out cursing and acting wildly aggressive for no reason. What the hell is wrong with modern discourse? It feels like everyone is on edge and ready to pounce on others in the most aggressive possible way. Really sucks.
It really sucks when someone you were following for their work in the retro scene turns out to be big on AI and using it in all their projects. That instantly kills any and all interest in anything they ever make.
Got this weird little CRT. Gotta use this in a video at some point. It’s very tiny but so interesting.
The more things change, the more they stay the same… またアメリカが中東で戦争を始めたんだ I couldn’t tell you why I loaded up July on Sega Dreamcast but hey
Really pleased to discover that the DF Retro Super Show is actually doing quite well! I really appreciate everyone checking out the podcast as it's something I had wanted to do for years. I also need to do more proper DFR episodes, though, I know!
And this is THE biggest issue right now - one with an unknown solution. Forever games like Roblox, Minecraft and the like have ensured that very few people actually give anything else a try. We have more games than ever but a tiny percentage will ever give them a shot.
Hammer Kirby@hammerkirby.bsky.social · 2w agoAnd yet despite all that choice, most ppl nowadays who play games just play the same 2 live service games over and over
It’s kind of wild to consider that there were more than 21,000 games released on Steam in 2025 while only 1200 games ever released on PlayStation 1 in North America. 717 Super NES games released in the US. Just fascinating to think about.
It's interesting how, anecdotally amongst friends, the Sony announcement has killed their interest in buying anything for PlayStation 5 completely. Like, they just totally dropped it. Even folks that do not participate in online discourse. I'll be curious if this has any real impact in the long term
Vibe coded shit has become such a huge problem lately and has polluted so many areas related to FPGA, recompilations etc. Nearly every example of this produces broken or poorly performing results. It's happening exactly as I feared.
JezMM@jezmm.bsky.social · 3w agoSiiiigh vibe-coded recomps have come for my beloved Mischief Makers next. There's only one video up of it which doesn't show any of the 3D scenery stages, but the 3D rocks in the intro have broken textures. Emulation used to have that problem decades ago but it emulates perfect these days.
Adding a PC98 CEREB to my setup and it’s a curious machine with some noticeable differences compared to a normal IBM PC. Note how the Win 98 boot screen is high res unlike the lower res screen you normally would see.
