Pete Davison
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Manuals and digital @evercade.co.uk. Ex-GamePro, USgamer, Rice Digital. Games words: https://moegamer.net Daily ramblings: https://imnotdoctorwho.moegamer.net Videos: https://youtube.com/@ThisIsPete I have played Atari today. GenAI sucks. he/him, autistic
not finished Terranigma yet, but it's been interesting to see the cycle of SOUL BLAZER: "All life is precious, even that which sins" ILLUSION OF TIME: "The world deserves a chance at redemption" TERRANIGMA: "Human beings are the fucking worst. Just the absolute pits. Why did you bring them back"
Yes. Yes I could. Very easily. In fact, I'm doing it right now.
Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 19h agoGuys like this don’t realize that they are the freak
#oneaday Day 788: Visco does what Nintencon't... or something As a pleasant perk of my job, I get copies of all the Evercade cartridges ahead of when they actually release. Consequently, I... https://imnotdoctorwho.moegamer.net/2026/08/04/oneaday-day-788-visco-does-what-nintencont-or-something/
#oneaday Day 788: Visco does what Nintencon't... or something
As a pleasant perk of my job, I get copies of all the Evercade cartridges ahead of when they actually release. Consequently, I have been enjoying the two upcoming Visco Arcade collections for a little while now, and, shush, come over here where no-one will overhear -- I think they're my favourite carts this year....
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#oneaday Day 787: Friendfreeslop I read an interesting piece earlier on the phenomenon of "friendslop". This is a term I'm not overly fond of, but it serves a purpose as there appears to be... https://imnotdoctorwho.moegamer.net/2026/08/03/oneaday-day-787-friendfreeslop/
#oneaday Day 787: Friendfreeslop
I read an interesting piece earlier on the phenomenon of "friendslop". This is a term I'm not overly fond of, but it serves a purpose as there appears to be a somewhat amorphous if commonly agreed sort-of definition. The piece explores how despite appearances, "friendslop" is something that continues to drive a bit of a...
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@aguaspoints.bsky.social reads friendslop through the lens of Wark's Gamer Theory and finds new nadirs of alienation in the form aguaspoints.com/2026/08/03/f...
Friendslop = Friendless<<Slop>> Or: Will We Ever Lock Eyes When We Play Again?
Friendslop is the Ghost of Play’s Past. It is the Ghost of Play’s Present. It is the Ghost of Play Never to Come. Only without any humanist intent.
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the fact the Pitfall image in this post is fake (no versions of the game have numerals that look like that, to my knowledge -- Intellivision is closest but it's not that) is bugging me more than it probably should
☀️🌸idspispopd🥀🌙@bhaalspawn.bsky.social · 2d agoDoom 3 (2004) is now as old as Pitfall (1982) was when Doom 3 was released.
you're not fooling me with all this Big Walk talk, last time everyone was this gushingly positive about something it was Blue Prince and fuck everything about that game
#oneaday Day 786: Lunchtime games I apparently completely forgot to write anything yesterday. To be fair, I was mildly hungover and thus didn't really want to do much other than play Terranigma, which I made... https://imnotdoctorwho.moegamer.net/2026/08/03/oneaday-day-786-lunchtime-games/
#oneaday Day 786: Lunchtime games
I apparently completely forgot to write anything yesterday. To be fair, I was mildly hungover and thus didn't really want to do much other than play Terranigma, which I made some excellent progress on. I think I'm coming towards the end of that game, so I'll have more to write about it over on MoeGamer...
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ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil
#oneaday Day 785: Portioning the blame I had a roll of Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles yesterday. While looking up the nutritional information to add it to my calorie-tracking app -- I may have been having a little... https://imnotdoctorwho.moegamer.net/2026/08/01/oneaday-day-785-portioning-the-blame/
#oneaday Day 785: Portioning the blame
I had a roll of Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles yesterday. While looking up the nutritional information to add it to my calorie-tracking app -- I may have been having a little treat, but I was keeping within my daily calories -- I discovered that the tube felt the need to inform me that "1 portion" is...
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Please push back against this as hard as you can. Many, including myself, depend on Twitch to survive, remain independent, and is often the only job we can have. There is no where else to really go. If you are in the UK however, and there is no full opt out. File a GDPR report, as it’s a violation.
Zach Bussey 🍁@zachbussey.tos.gg · 5d agoTwitch and Amazon are apparently planning to use streams to train Generative AI. Multiple sources tell me it will be announced in the coming months, despite some internal friction against it. Creators may be able to opt out of some training data.
STOP. HOLDING. YOUR. LAVALIER. MIC. BETWEEN. YOUR. FUCKING. FINGERTIPS. LIKE. A. DAINTY. LITTLE. TEACUP.
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...
there's a guy in the Aftermath comments arguing that Horse Armour -- and everything that subsequently led to -- wasn't that bad because "you can just not buy it", and I think that's enough Internet for today
I'm so tired man. When does this age of everything being horseshit end
Cool. Cool Cool Cool (very not cool)
Zach Bussey 🍁@zachbussey.tos.gg · 5d agoTwitch and Amazon are apparently planning to use streams to train Generative AI. Multiple sources tell me it will be announced in the coming months, despite some internal friction against it. Creators may be able to opt out of some training data.
Splatoon Raiders: thank cod it’s not a roguelike I'm sure it was exceedingly tempting for the team behind Splatoon Raiders to make the game into a roguelike. After all, the very design of the game arguably lends... https://moegamer.net/2026/07/31/splatoon-raiders-thank-cod-its-not-a-roguelike/
Splatoon Raiders: thank cod it’s not a roguelike
I'm sure it was exceedingly tempting for the team behind Splatoon Raiders to make the game into a roguelike. After all, the very design of the game arguably lends itself particularly well to what we today understand as "the roguelike formula"... even if that has, over the years, somewhat diverged from the original meaning of...
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#oneaday Day 784: Playing a dead game People in Steam reviews like to declare a game "dead" when the author of said game hasn't updated it for more than about two weeks, but we all know that's... https://imnotdoctorwho.moegamer.net/2026/07/31/oneaday-day-784-playing-a-dead-game/
#oneaday Day 784: Playing a dead game
People in Steam reviews like to declare a game "dead" when the author of said game hasn't updated it for more than about two weeks, but we all know that's just entitled little shits who don't understand that sometimes a creative work is actually finished. However, there absolutely are "dead" games out there, by varying...
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This feature does not need "guardrails". It needs to be incinerated. Possibly along with the person who thought it was a good idea to "roll it out" in the first place.
404 Media@404media.co · 5d agoUPDATE: After the publication of this piece, Google sent 404 Media a statement saying it was “rolling back this feature in Google Earth while we work on implementing stronger guardrails.” www.404media.co/google-earth...
The fact that ai art and writing programs are built on stolen work really seems to be fading from the discussion even amongst artists and writers, which is a bit shit.
no, *you* have bought Xenoblade Chronicles three times now (in my defence, I don't have the 3DS version)
LinkedIn training their users to do unpaid outsourced data work to label AI slop posts to train an AI model to discriminate between what AI generated posts humans perceive as AI slop, which will raise the quality of AI slop to be more undetectable in order to help users “connect with real people”.
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 6d agoUpdated with comment from LinkedIn executive. The button will help train LinkedIn's models for identifying AI slop www.404media.co/linkedin-int...
I, too, like to engage with people by completely ignoring what they are saying
VGC@videogameschronicle.com · 5d ago"We’re going to cautiously move this forward" - Sony says it hears the PlayStation disc backlash but will continue its plans. CFO Lin Tao said its focus was on trying to "engage the gamers" in "the future digital ecosystem". www.videogameschronicle.com/news/were-go...
Pfew, finally got this out. Since Uma Musume is bringing up whether or not gacha is the most harmful game genre again, I wanted to talk about a dystopian trend that's popped up lately, which no one is talking about. Not all dark patterns are literal. Sharing is caring 👇 medium.com/@daavpuke/th...
The Dystopia of Cozy Games
Is a game still cozy if the premise is to distract you from a dying world?
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#oneaday Day 783: Nothing compares 2U When you are attempting to better yourself -- particularly if you know said process is going to be a long, drawn-out affair -- I have learned, over the years, that... https://imnotdoctorwho.moegamer.net/2026/07/30/oneaday-day-783-nothing-compares-2u/
#oneaday Day 783: Nothing compares 2U
When you are attempting to better yourself -- particularly if you know said process is going to be a long, drawn-out affair -- I have learned, over the years, that one of the worst things I can do is compare myself to others. This may not be universally true -- hence my use of "I"...
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This is a good piece on Vampire Survivors that pretty much mirrors where I've ended up feeling about this kind of game. Bonus points for the linked piece that absolutely fucking detests Blue Prince, too, which is *also* where I ended up. These games are for someone, but it's not me.
Mathew Kumar@mathewkumar.com · last wk.Unlocked! Belatedly, I look at Vampire Survivors, and lament that everything is gambling now, even when the only thing you're wasting is your time:
