I WAS going to stream this afternoon, but holly shit! I've been tired today. I spent the whole day in bed more or less. I needed that.
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Bloke who likes East Asian politics and older videogames. Very tired. From UK but lives in Japan.
I swear that half the "Don't do this thing in Japan" videos that keep popping up are part of some psyop or are an inside joke on a forum somewhere. "In Japan, never hand money directly to a shop assistant as it is rude." I guess every single person in my town is rude then.
Old geezer tells his sons "I bet you can't break these sticks!" One son says "I bet I can!" He breaks the sticks. The director then artfully whispers "everything is sad forever" for the next two hours.
Noah Antwiler@thespoonyone.bsky.social · 3d agoMake your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: An ape picks up a bone. Then an astronaut's computer crashes and he goes to bed.
A great reminder that all you will ever need is an RX 580 or a GTX 1660 super, just because everything that came afterwards were the enablers of evil. And yes, I do realise that as someone who has multiple systems where an RX 6500 XT is the lowest card I'm a hypocrite.
The new DLSS images remind me of why I tend to stick to stuff that is made to look 20 to 30 years old.
Me talking to my family in the UK, talking about how it is 30 degrees there as well as it being 30 degrees in Japan with a boatload of moisture in the air to boot.
Josh Sawyer@jesawyer.bsky.social · 4d agoeveryone in socal rn
Not to try and curse things, but the last time I saw this many beloved folks die in a short time period was late 2015 and early 2016. Shortly afterwards Trump 1.0 and Brexit happened.
RetroArch is a psyop, a false flag to convince people that emulators are difficult to use, unintuitive, and maintained by unfriendly people uninterested in making anything better.
Part of me is interested for nostalgia reasons, especially for Tower Assault. Part of me is paranoid due to how much old Amiga stuff has been touched by the cursed finger of AI lately.
Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · last wk.Alien Breed 35th Anniversary Collection Release Trailer (PS5/Xbox Series/Switch/PC in Sept) www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yBR... www.gematsu.com/2026/08/alie...
No Stream it seems this week. Less because I don't want to. More because I forgot and I feel burnt out by work this week. Anyhow, more Caesar's Revenge next week.
This weekend in games: Twisted Tower - Not bad, but not exactly my cup of tea. I'm not a big Bioshock fan. MeoWGun - Kinda fun Y2K feeling FPS. Not world changing, but has the sauce. Cicadamata - My face has been melted off due to extreme style. Can see this getting really good.
Opp? Small earthquake. Always interesting when I notice a smaller, sub 4 Richter scale one. Usually just sitting down (because I sure as hell am not noticing one standing and walking) and then thinking "what's that?" and then looking around at things that can sway and notice the extent.
I think Doom The Dark Ages is getting the Final Fantasy IX effect ongoing: On release people said it was the worst of the series and was a step down. Then, when more folks played it, they came to appreciate it for what it is as opposed to what they expected.
David Szymanski@duskdev.bsky.social · 2w agoFinally beat Dark Ages after exactly 253 final bosses Phenomenal game overall. Excited to get to the DLC but I'm going to play a few other things first (like Control)
One emerging annoying thing I've seen with Japanese right wing rumors I've seen repeatedly of late: "Foreigners in Japan who have been working here for years are now retiring and taking tax payers money for pensions." Bitch, we ARE tax payers. I pay into the pension each month!
Counter point to the AI: It's James Pond. No matter what you do, with real people or AI, James Pond was European poor man's platformer. You can't ruin something that came out burnt.
Gematsu@gematsu.com · 2w agoThe James Pond Legacy: The Pond Is Not Enough announced for Switch 2 System 3 has announced The James Pond Legacy: The Pond Is Not Enough, a collection that brings together 12 versions of four… http://www.gematsu.com/2026/08/the-james-pond-legacy-the-pond-is-not-enough-announced-for-switch-2
Sad, but eventually inevitable considering how the industry around people like him moved. I always saw him as a non-grifter version of Peter Molyneux. Ambitious, but grounded.
Shacknews@shacknews.com · 2w agoWarren Spector announces his retirement from game development
I've been sort of predicting this would happen for a couple of years now. Trump seems to not understand the actual American need for things like this. There is a strongman image, but if you understand anything about power projection and global defence, this is an utterly backward move.
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2w agoNEWS: Trump says he has ordered Pete Hegseth to “substantially reduce” joint U.S.-South Korea military exercises, citing his relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Trump says he is helping North Korea because South Korea refused to join his failed war against Iran.
My last day of the summer break. I should take it easy. "Today, I shall climb a local mountain." So I did.
The whiplash I'm getting from the weather here is kinda extreme. One minute it's pissing it down with horrendous storms. Then it looks like the attached picture. Then horrid storms again a couple of hours later.
Every time I see unhinged statements from tech CEOs, I just read them in a very New York accent and envision them to look like the following figures:
Silent Hill, like Resident Evil, has the dubbing in English while the subtitles are Japanese. It's interesting while playing to compare the two on the fly. It's the old 'localisation vs translation' debate, but with localisation in motion before your eyes and ears. Very good I'd say.
Yearly march to the Ofuna mall for a look at the HardOff. Less because it is a good store, more because I like the walk.