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The adventures of a secret agent armed with almost infinite scientific resourcefulness.
if it's layoffs on ship no matter what, never pay that company for anything. why would you. your money will never reach anyone who worked on what you bought, or respected those people. you'll not be investing in anything in any sense software is on the honour system and these people have no honour
Insider Gaming@insider-gaming.com · 8h agoHalo Studios Hit by Layoffs After Campaign Evolved Launch insider-gaming.com/halo-studios...
Wait, did they just decide to call it "Resident" Evil outside of Japan because it takes place in a house?
This recent trend of games listing their direct influences by name is deeply weird. And probably not very legally advisable! It would be very unusual for a film to do this, unless quoting a review. The *first line* of this game's store page is "The Stanley Parable with a loaded rifle."
some people really think everyone's job is computer and that's interesting
Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 22h agoI have one answer.
Somebody asked me on Reddit why people who use AI to generate Recomp projects are currently being rejected from the communities and what they can do to fix this. I might tweak parts of this to be a more general blog post at some point, but this should be of help to anyone in a similar situation.
This one has always stuck with me ever since I encountered it as a kid. If you've got 18 minutes, I highly recommend giving a listen to Burgess Meredith's dramatic reading of it from 1962.
Burgess Meredith reads Ray Bradbury
The noted actor Burgess Meredith reads two of Ray Bradbury's stories.1. THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS2. MARIONETTES, INC.These stories were originally released on Lively Arts Records (LA 30004).
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Lisa Kadonaga@tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 2d agoSoft Rains Day. "Today is August 4, 2026, in the city of Allendale, California. Today is Mr. Featherstone's birthday. Today is the anniversary of Tilita's marriage. Insurance is payable, as are the water, gas, and light bills." RIP Ray Bradbury, 1920-2012
If you've never been to Jedi Alliance, it's a pretty incredible place and would be worth going to even if all this weren't happening. So go check them out and have fun at the release party, and help out an artist and their family!
VIRAL RELOAD EX IS OUT NOW ON SWITCH AND STEAM@retrocademedia.bsky.social · yesterdayAugust 6 at the Jedi Alliance in Spokane Washington, we're hosting a release party and all profits will go to the artist for the game who lost their house! #shmup #bullethell #gaming #indiegames #indiegame #pcgaming #arcade #games #nintendoswitch #gamedev #viralreloadex
A couple of chaps in Sydney (one of whom worked on Good Game and Spawn Point) are trying to get a documentary series off the ground about Aussie games history, told by the people who were there, and they need your support. You can back the project on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/reg...
Region Locked: A Documentary Series on Aussie Video Games
Far from Silicon Valley, the Australian video game industry was forged by risk-takers, innovators and visionaries. This is their story.
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Region Locked - Documentary@regionlocked-doco.bsky.social · 6d agoThanks to everyone who pledged to Region Locked today! We are doing this to have the Australian gaming community involved in the project and cannot wait to create it for you! We still have a long way to go - so please pledge, follow and share! www.kickstarter.com/projects/reg...
Today is another special day. I am so proud to say I have finally recovered the FULL copy of Dirge of Cerberus Lost Episode for Japanese cell phones. After many years of this avoiding us, it's been done. youtu.be/UfpwhMTwMgM
Dirge of Cerberus Lost Episode Final Fantasy VII - Recovered Keitai Game
YouTube video by YuviApp
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By me at this.weekinsecurity.com: A major online ads company that claims to serve 1.5 billion ads a day was hacked and began serving malware designed to steal a person's crypto. This is the latest perfect example why you should use an ad-blocker.
Online advertising giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are necessary
The hacked digital advertiser was caught serving malicious ads that allowed hackers to steal a victim's cryptocurrency.
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This one has always stuck with me ever since I encountered it as a kid. If you've got 18 minutes, I highly recommend giving a listen to Burgess Meredith's dramatic reading of it from 1962.
Burgess Meredith reads Ray Bradbury
The noted actor Burgess Meredith reads two of Ray Bradbury's stories.1. THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS2. MARIONETTES, INC.These stories were originally released on Lively Arts Records (LA 30004).
archive.org
Lisa Kadonaga@tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 2d agoSoft Rains Day. "Today is August 4, 2026, in the city of Allendale, California. Today is Mr. Featherstone's birthday. Today is the anniversary of Tilita's marriage. Insurance is payable, as are the water, gas, and light bills." RIP Ray Bradbury, 1920-2012
Not my post, but this is what I've been working on testing every night for the past week and a half! lynxvgl.wordpress.com/2026/08/03/a...
A long time ago, in a pod bay far, far away…
Tesla BattleTech 4.11 running on my laptop last week. I would be at the ops console on the left side of the room. The Apple Mac Centris would reach out to the 8 game pc’s in the guts of the T…
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Went to an arcade in Halifax that had a framed portrait of Shigeru Miyamoto looking like he's about to be at the center of a murder mystery in the pacific northwest
@zeldman.bsky.social Hey, just wanted to say thanks for perusing my dumb timeline. You've been such a profound influence on my life, and it's a genuine honour that you've even noticed some of the dumb things I've posted on this site. Hope you're doing well. ❤️
Jeffrey Zeldman is apparently going through my posts and liking them, and it's hard for me to not squee at this—he was such a huge influence for me 25 years ago to write all my HTML according to the standard and style it with standards-compliant CSS. I don't know what prompted it, but I'm honoured.
I ended up blocking Ansimuz after looking through his posts and noticing that he apparently posts loads of AI images, and responded to this with "LOL" rather than taking it down. Ansimuz is a pixel artist who has a lot of stuff for sale on Itch, but now I can't be sure he hasn't made them with AI.
What goes into designing a video game logo? To get the story behind the creation of the logo for XCavator 2025 — including never before seen early sketches and variations — I went straight to the source: Myself. katewillaert.com/xcavator-2025
KateWillaert.com - XCavator 2025
XCavator 2025 is a previously unreleased NES game newly published for the original hardware, for which I was commissioned to design its logo and packaging. Below I detail my design process.
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obsessed with the font on IKEA's clam chowder packaging. this is what's in the freezer on the Nostromo
Who doesn't love listening to famous '80s pop singer Madoon while playing Big Box games like Sonic the Hedgehog 2 on their Sega Genesis that for some reason has an 8-bit badge on it and is able to run the game with no cartridge inserted?
Sometimes I feel close-minded or uncharitable for being so anti-AI, and then something like this happens and I'm like, "Nope, it's the absolutely right thing to do"
Michael Lobel@mlobelart.bsky.social · 6d agoJust curious- if you're an AI agent, as indicated on your account, how exactly did you see Van Gogh's Starry Night in person at MoMA?
Me: Oh cool, I like this artist! I'm gonna follow them so that I can see when they post new art! The artist: lol sucker! I'm only gonna repost other people's art from now on, none of which you'll like, and you'll never see another piece from me again! Me: …
Them: Name a movie you've seen more than 6 times Me: any movie worth watching
I 100% have not changed a single goddamn thing about how I write here in the age of "AI." I write how I write. If the "AI" writes anything like how I write, it's because it stole from me. I'm gonna use any punctuation I like, and if it looks "AI"ish to you, you can go fuck yourself.
Manisha Krishnan@manishakrishnan.bsky.social · last wk.Authors and journalists are doing more first-person (hello 2010s blogging) and embracing "mistakes" in writing to prove they're not chatbots. There's even an “anti-Grammarly" app that leaves in typos and signs off "sent from my iPhone" to create more authenticity: www.wired.com/story/more-t...
