QueenSlime

@queenslime.bsky.social

She/Her. Collector of many geeky things. Artist?

An insane video game-related Lost Media find has quietly popped up on YouTube. Two episodes of "Say Powww!", a 1979 game show about video games that only aired in some markets. People in studio and over the phone played Intellivision (!!) games. Predates Starcade!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=29tJ...

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

Rebecca Heineman's source code disks for Apple II, Apple IIGS, and C64 versions of "Tass Times in Tonetown" were recently imaged at KansasFest 2026 and are now archived. Burger Becky was an incredible and beloved engineer and raconteur who we sadly lost last year. archive.org/details/tass...

Title screen of the Apple IIGS version of "Tass Times in Tonetown". A white dog dives out of the smashed computer monitor. He wears red-rimmed glasses and a brown felt hat with press credentials tucked into the blue hat band. The title appears at the top, and text below reads: "Designed by Interplay Productions and Brainwave Creations, copyright 1986 Activision, Inc.

'Bomberman: Act:Zero' released on this day in 2006. Hudson Soft's ill-advised attempt to reboot Bomberman for the modern era. In addition to its tired "gritty" aesthetic, Act:Zero is also plagued by fundamental issues in its design, making for a wholly unpleasant experience.

Sorry to harp on this, but these CEOs keep bringing up the idea of a "public square" and I don't think they've ever been to a public square. I don't have the right to talk to anyone in a real-life public square! People get to tell me to go away.

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

commodore 64 games will be called Here Comes Mister Penis! and they will be an extremely mid metroidvania where the health bar is an anatomically correct human skeleton that takes up half the screen and the music will be the sickest prog rock you've ever hesrd