The first episode is live! I dig into the mission of the show, talk about the security vulnerabilities that hit last week, give an update on my switch to Linux, and take some listener Qs.

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Welcome to Take Control of Your Tech0:00/38621× Welcome to the first episode of Take Control of Your Tech! On this episode, Will explains why this show exists, shares what you need to know about the ...

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Wake up babe, new AI-free '90s Falcom translation just dropped

ParanoiaDragon@paranoiadragon.bsky.social · 13h ago

Legend of Xanadu PC Engine CD English translation patch! gitlab.com/legend-of-xa... Here's a wiki with a manual for the game gitlab.com/legend-of-xa... #PCEngine #TurboGrafx #TurboDuo #NEC #HudsonSoft #Falcom

This week Labyrinth of Cinema jumps into possibly the greatest film in the "Yakuza Revenge Tale Becomes Chill Road Movie" micro-genre. Joining @lowercasejai.bsky.social and I once again is the absolute legend @cosmicspooks.bsky.social. Links in the reply!

So here you go ... Thank you again to my friends at both BioWare and EA. To even dream in your sandbox was a privilege. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBO8...

My Mass Effect 5 Early Musical Drafts

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Sometimes you pick an album from your music library you've listened to hundreds of times over the last 20 years and sometimes the cursor lands on "Crammle Aboon the Gees" by Worm Ridge which you have no memory of and are kinda scared to try to pronounce out loud and that's a good Friday

THE CURSE IS COMING ON HALLOWEEN! 🎃 I'm elated to announce the upcoming release of our English patch for "Ningyo no rakuin": "The Curse of Ogaeritō". Out on Oct, 31st! An amazing work with @vervalkon.bsky.social @laytonloztew.bsky.social and Whowasphone404 #retrogaming #ps1 #fantranslation

Verneri Kontto@vervalkon.bsky.social · 5d ago

Our fan translation for Ningyo no Rakuin (人魚の烙印) is done. Patch scheduled for release on October 31, 2026 We'll drop some translated marketing materials every 2 days just to tease you. Get hype! Thanks to the wonderful team @chaputranslations.bsky.social @laytonloztew.bsky.social & whowasphone404

For our next big story, @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social talks to Simogo about one of 2024's best games. (Available now for paid subscribers, next week for all.)

Lorelei and the Laser Eyes: An oral history

Just a couple of years post-release, we round up the team behind Simogo's puzzle masterpiece to look back at its five-year development process.

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To honor one of the studios that defined PC gaming, we've republished more than 20 articles about BioWare today. The pcgamer.com homepage is dedicated to interviews, retrospectives, and making-ofs about some of the best RPGs of all time.

Do you remember ONE SPECIFIC moment in a BioWare game that put you on the path to working in the games industry? If you can, I want to hear about it and I may even want to put it into a story on pcgamerdotcom. Hit up my email lauren@pcgamer

Part of my literal job is to fly out to physical game studios to rescue and recover historical materials that might be endangered and put them in a permanent archive. @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social is a 501(c)3 publicly funded to do that, my DMs are open, and I'm free for the next couple weeks...

NEW in our digital archive: Explore a golden age of gaming with the Colin Williamson photography collection, featuring over 300 photos from game events and culture in 2000s Japan. 📸🗾 https://gamehistory.org/williamson-photos/

Today's featured post: 📖 Qliphah in Providence’s Shadow and the Weird New JRPG by Ogre Run https://ogrerun.com/2026/10/06/qliphah-in-providences-shadow-and-the-weird-new-jrpg/

In the Japanese PC-88 port of Ultima 3: Exodus by Pony Canyon, if you try to Talk/Transact (T key) to an enemy monster, they literally say "FUCK YOU!!" in English. Hilarious, and apparently nobody has discovered or posted about this before online in English or Japanese

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Heads up: We're launching a new collection in our digital archive later this week! Sign up for our newsletter to be the first to learn about it.

It's a very nice Friday! How would you like to personally make my day and also get a book full of stories and photographs that reflect a life well lived?

Wes Fenlon@wes.readonlymemo.com · 4mo ago

Something a bit more personal than usual: For the last 10 years my dad has been struggling with a version of ALS, a terrible neuromuscular disease. He's kept up his spirits by making photo books chronicling his life as a photographer+traveler. I'm helping sell them now to pay for nursing care:

Ah hello! Was it you who rang the Bell of Awakening?

Gregk Foley@gregk.co.uk · 2w ago

Obsessed with Damascus goats lately. They look like they were created by H. R. Giger. They both looks and sound stupid as hell. An utter catastrophe of an animal. I love them.

Please ignore the MTL release of Meremanoid that came out today. We have had a hearty band at work (Chapu, Popi, Mr. Nobody, Misty, Shentok and I) working hard on an all-human patch. Fully playable in English, in it final editing pass now. Popi provided these screencaps today. More news later.

Chapu@chaputranslations.bsky.social · 8mo ago

So, "Schrödinger no neko" isn't up your alley? How about a fully 3D JRPG about an amnesiac siren? This is "Shinkai densetsu Meremanoid". Already hacked the thing, got a half-width font, script dumped, the whole kit and caboodle. Ping me if you know Japanese and want to translate it!

Goddamn she cut the Scaramucci any% record in half. That's real skill

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2w ago

I swear at least 30 AI slop fan translations have come out in the week and a half since I last sat down to write @readonlymemo.com, christ

You ever try to do a classy diagonal cut on a sandwich but lazily assume you're too competent to fuck it up and then end up with a really awkward ugly like, 63% - 37% sandwich halves situation. I haven't. Bet that would be embarrassing though.

I wolde smyte my lord out on thre piches. Slider withoute. He feleth as he were drenchid. Curveball in the erthe, of cours he chaseth it. Ladybird y-souk, sle thy-self. And bang 97 withinne corner. Thou art out. Thou were alweyes out. Thou hast be out sith the day that thou were born.

Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦@kfduggan.bsky.social · 2w ago

Not a bad baseball stance. From the 14th-century Le Roman de la Rose.

I'll add this: r/decomps is one of the most toxic communities the past few months. Any posts that raise some issues with how AI has negatively impacted the space turn into excessive derogatory comments that the moderation team do nothing to limit.

Taka@takarikka.github.io · 2w ago

with the sunsetting of decomp.dev, people really need to come to terms with just how much damage vibecoders have done to our community and OSS in general. encounter is a fellow dusklight dev and friend, and seeing people treat him as replaceable in the scene is upsetting.

Sharp observations in here. Who's going to pull a @morganpark.bsky.social and play the entirety of the original and the new game back-to-back to put them in conversation for their review?

MICHAEL HIGHAM@brazyazn.bsky.social · 2w ago

the clarity of thought and extrapolation of little things into bigger ideas @loganjplant.bsky.social brings to his Ocarina remake preview got me like...damn www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoqe...

We're a year-old today! To celebrate, we're making five changes to the site — and dropping the price of our most popular paid subscription tier.

Design Room is turning 1 and we're lowering prices

To celebrate our first anniversary, we're making five changes to the site — and dropping the price of our most popular paid subscription tier.

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It's my great pleasure to give a long overdue progress update on our fully human-translated and human-coded English patch for the legendary Tokimeki Memorial 2!

Devastating news today. Richard “Levelord” Gray was such a great guy. Like many of our friends, I wish I could have hung out with him again. He was full of life, a gentle soul, and an excellent level designer. He was called “Levelord” for a reason.

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One day, as Runkel was being pushed across the street in her perambulator, she was overcome by such despair over her wretched life that she wanted nothing...

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Proud to announce that we're working on an English patch for Takara's "Schrödinger no neko" on PS1! A team effort with @cadensia.eurosky.social and @superretropolygons.bsky.social No release date yet, stay tuned for updates, and enjoy the trailer for now! ✨ youtu.be/HOoSvz7-oIs #FanTranslation #PS1

Schrödinger's Cat - English Patch Announcement!

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An Open Letter To The People Writing Lengthy Posts About 'Why I'm Going Back to Twitter' dansinker.com/posts/2026-1...