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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Tariffs making your game consoles too expensive? Thankfully this problem was solved years ago. Simply set up a factory to manufacture the Sega Master System in your country
April 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Tariffs making your game consoles too expensive? Thankfully this problem was solved years ago. Simply set up a factory to manufacture the Sega Master System in your country
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If you're interested in Romancing Saga 2, Akitoshi Kawazu gave a long interview about it, with many photos of design documents and sketches drawn by Tomomi Kobayashi.
news.denfaminicogamer.jp/projectbook/...
news.denfaminicogamer.jp/projectbook/...
なにが、人を「ロマンシング」させるのか？『ロマサガ2』当時の企画書とキャラ設定画から迫る、河津秋敏がRPGに生み出した「ロマン」の正体とは【ゲームの企画書】
サガ特有の苛烈さも、ロマンシングの源。「飽きたと言われるくらいなら、諦められる方がいい」
news.denfaminicogamer.jp
March 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM
If you're interested in Romancing Saga 2, Akitoshi Kawazu gave a long interview about it, with many photos of design documents and sketches drawn by Tomomi Kobayashi.
news.denfaminicogamer.jp/projectbook/...
news.denfaminicogamer.jp/projectbook/...
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Holy shit. This is *the* gold-standard measurement of atmospheric CO2 -- the one in all the charts.
The Trump administration is planning to cancel its lease at a government laboratory in Hawaii, a site where scientists support key observations of surging greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, according to a list obtained by Democratic members of Congress and shared with The Post.
Trump moves to close facility that helps track planet-warming pollution
The lab is connected to the Mauna Loa Observatory, where scientists gather data to produce the Keeling Curve, a chart on the daily status of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Holy shit. This is *the* gold-standard measurement of atmospheric CO2 -- the one in all the charts.
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richard garriott, game development work station (1985) archive.org/details/logi...
February 2, 2025 at 12:49 PM
richard garriott, game development work station (1985) archive.org/details/logi...
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time to boycott Shopify
CEO of Canada’s 2nd biggest company defends Trump’s tariff demands, slams Trudeau for not stopping trade war
nypost.com/2025/02/02/u...
nypost.com/2025/02/02/u...
CEO of Canada’s 2nd biggest company defends Trump’s tariff demands, slams Trudeau for not stopping trade war
“These are things that every Canadian wants its government to do, too. These are not crazy demands, even if they came from an unpopular source,” Tobi Lutke, who co-founded Shopify, said…
nypost.com
February 2, 2025 at 5:33 PM
time to boycott Shopify
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The insurrectionists have seized power. They are purging their enemies.
Does the broader public have a sense of how extraordinary this moment is?
Does the broader public have a sense of how extraordinary this moment is?
Fired Jan. 6 prosecutors were told they were terminated "based upon your actions in the prosecution of persons relating to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021," and cited Trump calling it a "grave national injustice."
February 1, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The insurrectionists have seized power. They are purging their enemies.
Does the broader public have a sense of how extraordinary this moment is?
Does the broader public have a sense of how extraordinary this moment is?
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4.) The original high-res, uncompressed audio recordings of Ultima VII's Guardian shit-talking the player.
January 31, 2025 at 2:24 AM
4.) The original high-res, uncompressed audio recordings of Ultima VII's Guardian shit-talking the player.
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vladikcomper on the SGDK discord has created an amazing and ridiculous mod for Sonic the Hedgehog (MD) in which quality degrades to different resolutions/numbers of colors unless you fill your blast processing meter up. It works real time in wide screen in a smaller rom size than the original game.
January 27, 2025 at 11:52 PM
vladikcomper on the SGDK discord has created an amazing and ridiculous mod for Sonic the Hedgehog (MD) in which quality degrades to different resolutions/numbers of colors unless you fill your blast processing meter up. It works real time in wide screen in a smaller rom size than the original game.
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La cultura que nos rodea es cada vez más similar, nuestra visión de la realidad más estrecha y nuestros gustos son cada vez más parecidos, ¿a qué se debe? Al ascenso de la cultura algorítmica y al poder de las plataformas digitales en nuestra vida. Sobre esto escribo hoy: presura.es/cultura-algo...
La cultura algorítmica y el aplastamiento del gusto - Presura
¿Cómo ha cambiado nuestro gusto la cultura algorítmica? ¿Cómo condiciona aquello que vemos y leemos el algoritmo?
presura.es
January 20, 2025 at 10:35 AM
La cultura que nos rodea es cada vez más similar, nuestra visión de la realidad más estrecha y nuestros gustos son cada vez más parecidos, ¿a qué se debe? Al ascenso de la cultura algorítmica y al poder de las plataformas digitales en nuestra vida. Sobre esto escribo hoy: presura.es/cultura-algo...
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Good things come to those who wait - the Video Game History Foundation Digital Library launches on January 30th, 2025. (We'll tell you all about it then!)
January 23, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Good things come to those who wait - the Video Game History Foundation Digital Library launches on January 30th, 2025. (We'll tell you all about it then!)
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wii shop wednesday don't fail us now we need u more than ever
January 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
wii shop wednesday don't fail us now we need u more than ever
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The “- of the killer series” by Stephen “thecatamites” Gillmurphy.
thecatamites.itch.io/anthology-of...
thecatamites.itch.io/anthology-of...
January 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The “- of the killer series” by Stephen “thecatamites” Gillmurphy.
thecatamites.itch.io/anthology-of...
thecatamites.itch.io/anthology-of...
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Trump declaring an "energy emergency," aggregating more powers to himself so as to ram through unnecessary & deadly fossil-fuel development, is all the more infuriating becuz the Dems have refused to declare a climate emergency, leaving the space wide open for occupation by authoritarian interests.
January 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Trump declaring an "energy emergency," aggregating more powers to himself so as to ram through unnecessary & deadly fossil-fuel development, is all the more infuriating becuz the Dems have refused to declare a climate emergency, leaving the space wide open for occupation by authoritarian interests.
Alpha Centauri...only more relevant with each year.
January 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Alpha Centauri...only more relevant with each year.
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Here's why it would be a mistake to do anything that resists fascists, By Some Fascist
January 19, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Here's why it would be a mistake to do anything that resists fascists, By Some Fascist
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It's out!
Cyclopean: The Great Abyss is now available in Early Access on Steam. #CRPG #DungeonCrawler #EarlyAccess
store.steampowered.com/app/2958790/...
Cyclopean: The Great Abyss is now available in Early Access on Steam. #CRPG #DungeonCrawler #EarlyAccess
store.steampowered.com/app/2958790/...
Cyclopean: The Great Abyss on Steam
Cyclopean: The Great Abyss is a small scale, monochromatic CRPG in the style of Ultima, that takes place in the underworld of H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands.
store.steampowered.com
January 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
It's out!
Cyclopean: The Great Abyss is now available in Early Access on Steam. #CRPG #DungeonCrawler #EarlyAccess
store.steampowered.com/app/2958790/...
Cyclopean: The Great Abyss is now available in Early Access on Steam. #CRPG #DungeonCrawler #EarlyAccess
store.steampowered.com/app/2958790/...
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If there's anything I hope young creatives take from David Lynch, it's to reject the modern IP-driven impulse to explicitly explain and cleanly categorize the logic behind every single event and decision inside and outside of a story at least some of the time.
January 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
If there's anything I hope young creatives take from David Lynch, it's to reject the modern IP-driven impulse to explicitly explain and cleanly categorize the logic behind every single event and decision inside and outside of a story at least some of the time.
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I wrote this post about the illusion that indie is a 'superior development style' about a week ago and waffled on whether or not it was still relevant enough to post. Aftermath putting up a podcast on the same topic today convinced me to finally shove it out the door.
auratriolo.com/blog/2025/01...
auratriolo.com/blog/2025/01...
January 15, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I wrote this post about the illusion that indie is a 'superior development style' about a week ago and waffled on whether or not it was still relevant enough to post. Aftermath putting up a podcast on the same topic today convinced me to finally shove it out the door.
auratriolo.com/blog/2025/01...
auratriolo.com/blog/2025/01...
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New project!
The Visible Zorker: a toy which lets you explore Zork 1 *and* the source code that makes it go. An exercise in making software transparent.
eblong.com/infocom/visi...
A post about how and why I did this:
blog.zarfhome.com/2025/01/the-...
Enjoy!
The Visible Zorker: a toy which lets you explore Zork 1 *and* the source code that makes it go. An exercise in making software transparent.
eblong.com/infocom/visi...
A post about how and why I did this:
blog.zarfhome.com/2025/01/the-...
Enjoy!
The Visible Zorker
Here's a little something I've been working on: The Visible Zorker! This screenshot has spoilers for Zork 1. This whole project is spoilers for Zork 1. That's the point. Really, go give it a shot. It'...
blog.zarfhome.com
January 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
New project!
The Visible Zorker: a toy which lets you explore Zork 1 *and* the source code that makes it go. An exercise in making software transparent.
eblong.com/infocom/visi...
A post about how and why I did this:
blog.zarfhome.com/2025/01/the-...
Enjoy!
The Visible Zorker: a toy which lets you explore Zork 1 *and* the source code that makes it go. An exercise in making software transparent.
eblong.com/infocom/visi...
A post about how and why I did this:
blog.zarfhome.com/2025/01/the-...
Enjoy!
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ATTENTION: I am starting a charity bundle to benefit victims of the Southern California wildfires. Game (and other) makers, please submit your projects so we can do some good. There is a call for submissions of projects through the 18th, please share widely! FAQ below:
itch.io/jam/californ...
itch.io/jam/californ...
January 12, 2025 at 9:37 PM
ATTENTION: I am starting a charity bundle to benefit victims of the Southern California wildfires. Game (and other) makers, please submit your projects so we can do some good. There is a call for submissions of projects through the 18th, please share widely! FAQ below:
itch.io/jam/californ...
itch.io/jam/californ...
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What we found was one of the very worst examples of workplace abuse in the history of this industry. That may sound hyperbolic. I really don't think it is.
Here's our investigation:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR9H...
(5/7)
Here's our investigation:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR9H...
(5/7)
January 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
What we found was one of the very worst examples of workplace abuse in the history of this industry. That may sound hyperbolic. I really don't think it is.
Here's our investigation:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR9H...
(5/7)
Here's our investigation:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR9H...
(5/7)
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it's past time for a lot of people, esp in the left media commentary sphere, to give up on this idea of speaking to a broader audience that never seems to actually materialize and operate within the people who actually care and engage with what you do.
January 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
it's past time for a lot of people, esp in the left media commentary sphere, to give up on this idea of speaking to a broader audience that never seems to actually materialize and operate within the people who actually care and engage with what you do.
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A big challenge for games history for the next 10 years will be decentering both the "Indie Darling" histories and AAA console histories, as consoles (hopefully) become less relevant and we realize conversations shouldn't be dominated by which indie or AAA game sold 5,000,000 copies
Here we go, something I've been drafting for a long, long time: how the US-centric approach to video games and their history / culture basically gaslights us who come from other realities:
felipepepe.medium.com/the-gentrifi...
AKA, why LAN Houses, PokéTibia & Bomba Patch rule.
felipepepe.medium.com/the-gentrifi...
AKA, why LAN Houses, PokéTibia & Bomba Patch rule.
The Gentrification of Video Game History
We’re not all suburban kids who got a Nintendo 64 for Christmas
felipepepe.medium.com
January 6, 2025 at 4:50 AM
A big challenge for games history for the next 10 years will be decentering both the "Indie Darling" histories and AAA console histories, as consoles (hopefully) become less relevant and we realize conversations shouldn't be dominated by which indie or AAA game sold 5,000,000 copies