Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:

Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says

Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...

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Pokemon - Season 1 Episode 81 - Friend and Foe Alike Frame 1603/2300 Timestamp: 00:15:16.842

"we saw you from across the bar and we like your style"

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日本国内で圧倒的シェアを誇った国民機 NEC PC-98 究極のホビーパソコン パーソナルワークステーション SHARP X68000 動画や音楽に特化したハイパーメディアパソコン FUJITSU FM-TOWNS を買取りました😆 どれもが国産パソコンの名機✨✨ #ハードオフ

An early glimpse of Shenmue in 1999 at the Tokyo Toy Show that year from one of the DOKAN magazine CDROMs. Always happy to discover stuff like this at relatively high quality.

[ #goldensun ] ☀️ happy 25th anniversary!! ☀️

Happy Anniversary to Shining Force III Scenario 1's NA release for the Sega Saturn! 🎂🥳🎉 Only Scenario 1 of the trilogy was officially released outside Japan. Thankfully, fans translated Scenarios 2 and 3, so us English-speaking players can experience the entire saga!

The Quake E1M1 Elevator Waltz

Halo was never good

Shining Force ⚔️

One of my favourite cute mistranslations in the 16-bit era. Sarah says 水臭い, which literally means "(you / it / etc...) stink of water", but is a Japanese phrase you'd usually use when someone close to you is treating you like a stranger and not leaning on you / opening up to you when they need help.

Motoaki Takenouchi: "I'm going to turn a handful of FM and PSG tracks into a whole orchestra." Me: "lmao, Motoaki is on his bullshit again. MT:

Shining Force II OST - Ending

YouTube video by LordNeed “LordNeed” Blast Processing

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This was a really fun one to write, and a fun photo shoot as well! The statue is gorgeous, I'm tempted to go back just to be in its presence again unseen-japan.com/mitsukoshi-t...

Why There's an 11-Meter Goddess Inside This Tokyo Department Store - Unseen Japan

She's impossible to miss. But what, exactly, inspired a sculptor to carve this mysterious figure from a 500-year-old tree?

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The cool thing about MiSTer is it gives you an easy way to play BUG! on an arcade cabinet as the lord intended.

Shopping 'Phantasy Star: Arisa no Bouken' Book

The crew 'Shining The Holy Ark' SEGA Saturn

Some of the original paintings Itsuki Hoshi did for Skies of Arcadia / Eternal Arcadia: xcancel.com/prankstar_ih...

I finally get to play Mutant Rampage: Bodyslam. The game has not one, not two, but THREE defeat cutscenes on each levels, for each continues you lose. I'm astounded at the amount of effort very few people got to see.

i like reading the older persona / atlus interviews because they randomly show you stuff like this, the "commu/slink simulator", a simple app they made in-house to help visualize and plan out the schedule in persona 3

Standup by Sooz Kempner

Beep21 has just published an interview with Yoji Ishii, Hiro and Masaki Kondoh to mark the 40th anniversary of Fantasy Zone. In it, we learn that it was the late Yoko Kobayashi / 小林陽子, character designer for Alex Kidd and Teddy Boy, who designed Opa Opa and most of the other characters in the game.

jnmartin and I are revisiting our port of #MarioKart 64 to the Sega #Dreamcast and are prepping for a rerelease. He's offloaded all audio processing to our SPU and redone the renderer, while I've gone and optimized all of the math and vector routines for BIG FPS GAINZ! #retrogaming #n64 #gamedev

"What's Michael?" is a manga and anime I'd never heard of before playing this game. And while the game may not be particularly good, I sure did have a good time learning about the series along the way. youtu.be/0NfwmczxW7Q

What's Michael? Is it a game based on an '80s cat anime? (PC-88 Paradise)

YouTube video by Basement Brothers

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A very cute picture of Adol playing Ys V on the Super Famicom. I’m almost certain that this was drawn by Minako Iwasaki, who was Ys V's character designer.

This is something very important to me,more than 2 decades searching for it, and finally, I FOUND IT! HOW SATISFYING! February 22,1994, official presentation of Batsugun special ver. (Which was later sold at try in September 1996 for 35,000 yen). I have no words.thanks to @thestacks.ca for the scan

どこ..どこ..どこ..どこ..どこ..どこ..どこ..どこ..どこ..

skies of arcadia definitely has one of the best cast of evil generals in rpgs, they're all fucking freaks

At least i have thousands of games produced before llms became a thing to play

There's a new guide on installing Phantasy Star Online Blue Burst on the Steam Deck / Linux. No Lutris required! ragol.co.uk/guides/ephin...

Ephinea Steam Deck Setup - Ragol.co.uk

Step-by-step guide to running Ephinea PSO on Steam Deck with all action shortcuts and improved camera control.

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oh no what do i do now y'all she cannot be stopped 😱😻💎

色んな32Xの｢スペースハリアー｣。個人的には欧州版が一番カッコいいかな。 #セガ