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GuillaumefromRFN
@guillaumenwr.bsky.social
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One of the hosts of Radio Free Nintendo, a podcast about video games. Which is what I'm mostly here to talk about, but not exclusively.
I don't have expectations of you following back if you're not overly involved in video games!
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GuillaumefromRFN @guillaumenwr.bsky.social · Sep 22
Please look at this sleepy boy
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Part of this week’s newsletter was inspired by the post below. Was there a way to show the distance between normal Americans and the super wealthy?
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November 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
guillaumenwr.bsky.social
The Running Man was very enjoyable. Not much more to say about it. See it if you like King, Wright or Powell I guess.
November 15, 2025 at 11:00 PM
guillaumenwr.bsky.social
I remember this embarrassing column by IGN's Nintendo-editor-turned-editor-at-large fawning over Uncharted 2's hollywood-ness. I wonder if he's happy now.
www.ign.com/articles/200...
November 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
guillaumenwr.bsky.social
Sometimes I think EGM did fatal damage to Metroid by declaring Super Metroid Best Game of All Time in 2003. It calcified its status as the ideal all other Metroid games are judged. Deviations from the formula are a sin.
IGN's Beyond preview talks about it having crossed "a sacred line".
guillaumenwr.bsky.social GuillaumefromRFN @guillaumenwr.bsky.social · 1d
I fully agree the franchise should die if no one at Nintendo really cares to make a new one, but I can't say that's the case here and that Beyond has nothing to offer.
I let go of being a Metroid purist some years after Hunters. The franchise can't just be a string of remixed Super Metroids.
November 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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ashleybardhan.bsky.social
the new metroid prime is like alice in wonderland, i think 🐰 i spent my time with it in a fantasy forest, but not alone…

www.gamesradar.com/games/metroi...
After 18 years, Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is a surprisingly magical return to Nintendo’s legendary series, and I’m all in on psychic abilities and the power of friendship
Hands-on | My 80 minutes blasting away on the Nintendo Switch 2 left me feeling one thing: good for her
www.gamesradar.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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antlervel.vet
I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha
November 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
guillaumenwr.bsky.social
Is there really no supercut of Joe Pesci's scenes in Lethal Weapon 3 that I can play on a loop while playing playing Metroid Prime Remastered?
I want to get a feel for what Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is like.
The poster for Lethal Weapon 3 featuring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover posing back to back, holding their guns. Joe Pesci's bleached head can be scene between their shoulders trying to get some of the spotlight. As if to highlight how annoying and spotlight-seeking he's being, Gibson's and Glover's names look like part of the poster, but it looks like someone wrote in "and Joe Pesci" with a sharpie.
November 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
guillaumenwr.bsky.social
Don’t want to alarm anyone, but @davidwain.bsky.social ‘s The Ten Commandments is on Tubi in Canada.
I’ve never seen it beyond the first half of the cat scan machine scene.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=njCC...
Cat scan story - The Ten
YouTube video by David Wain
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November 14, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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strikerobi.bsky.social
If UbiSoft puts themselves up for sale, their potential buyers would be wise to wait at least two months before purchasing so they can buy the company at 50% off.
zhugeex.com Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 2d
Ubisoft just postponed its earnings report and halted the trading of its shares. Unclear why at this point but could indicate a major announcement related to the company.
November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
guillaumenwr.bsky.social
About to return DK Bananza to the library and I'm not sure what it is about EDP Tokyo's free camera platformers but just like Mario Odyssey, this game fails to give me that dopamine hit.
There's either not enough friction getting most bananas, or a kind of irritating challenge that I don't enjoy.
November 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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innes.bsky.social
"The mainstream understanding of AI is as an interefering piece of shit which doesn't work" pt II

www.askamanager.org/2025/11/the-...
10. The baby announcement At the end of a meeting, a colleague asked their boss to stay on the line for a couple of minutes. The colleague then confidentially shared the great news that they were expecting a baby, and they and their boss talked about a few next steps to plan for parental leave. The AI notetaker then sent out notes to everyone who had attended the meeting with the headline, “Colleague Is Having a Baby.” 19. The equipment I recently saw a ~$50,000 piece of industrial equipment damaged and taken out of commission for about a month because Google AI search told a worker that the tightening torque of a screw was 50 ft*lb instead of 50 in*lb. This resulted in them over-tightening the screw by a factor of 12, which unfortunately didn’t strip the threaded hole (which would have been a smaller problem) but instead warped a bearing assembly that required a full rebuild at considerable difficulty and expense. The kicker is that the correct torque value was clearly printed in the service manual that is stored in the machine. 1. The fake initiative Our execs usually send out a hype email right before the annual employee morale survey, emphasizing wins from the past year, basically trying to put people in a positive frame of mind. Last year’s included the announcement of a major new program we knew employees really wanted. But it was a bit surprising, because it fell in an area my team was responsible for, and we were out of the loop, despite advocating strenuously for this over the years. So I went to the exec to a) convey enthusiasm for his newfound dedication to launching this program and b) ask what support he needed from my team/get us involved again. It turned out the program wasn’t launching at all; he had just asked AI to edit the email to make it sound more exciting and appealing, and it had done so by … launching my initiative. 16. The scam We work with a lot of small businesses just starting up, and as a result are asked to recommend professional services often. Knowing this, a client passed on a discreet warning about the bookkeeping firm we’d recommended to them. They had issues with their accounting software, Quickbooks, and called for help. It was right when Google started providing AI summaries for everything, and apparently their account rep pulled the phone number for Quickbooks’ support out of the AI summary, rather than off the website. You can probably guess where this is going. The number wasn’t legit, but instead put him in contact with a scammer who’d managed astroturf their way into the AI summary. The account rep gave the scammer full access to our client’s accounting software before he realized his error. Our client didn’t share a lot of details about the damages — I got the sense that they were saying very little because they were planning legal action — but they wanted to let us know so we wouldn’t recommend them again.
November 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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strikerobi.bsky.social
I showed Guillaume's mock-up to a friend and he instantly called it the "GabeCube"
guillaumenwr.bsky.social GuillaumefromRFN @guillaumenwr.bsky.social · 3d
Alright, fixing it for you Valve, but it's the last time.
The newly-announced Steambox, but with an expertly ms-painted-in handle on the back.
November 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
guillaumenwr.bsky.social
Alright, fixing it for you Valve, but it's the last time.
The newly-announced Steambox, but with an expertly ms-painted-in handle on the back.
November 12, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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nickcapozzoli.bsky.social
You laugh, but in the husband's defense, he'd had a rough day. Earlier his friend David Brooks had taken him to a gourmet sandwich shop
sambiddle.com Sam Biddle @sambiddle.com · 4d
I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here
November 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
guillaumenwr.bsky.social
Q - "Now stop messing around and pay attention, Double-Oh Seven. This here may look like an ordinary iPhone, but this app here lets you access different universes similar to our own yet different: there could be one in which you are married, for instance, or another where you even went to space!"
willardfoxton.bsky.social Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 4d
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”

Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:

“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."

radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
guillaumenwr.bsky.social
Collision on the first day of snow at my very accident-prone street corner. Pickup truck (now long gone after exchanging info) hit this guy who’s been stuck here for an hour.
Tow truck finally arrived as I was posting.
A small car covered in snow stuck on the left lane, a cop car parked behind it. The tow truck has finally arrived. It is still clearly snowing heavily.
November 11, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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hownottodraw.bsky.social
I'm performatively liminal, which means I'm standing on a cliff going "OOOOH MAYBE I'LL JUMP, MAYBE I'M A REPRESENTATION OF CROSSING A THRESHOLD THAT CANNOT BE UNCROSSED, OOOOOOH"
hollynielsen.bsky.social Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social · 5d
Has “performative” become the new “liminal” in that it’s a term that is very useful but its misuse on social media is rendering it difficult to use
November 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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radiofreenintendo.bsky.social
The execution has failed ART
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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radiofreenintendo.bsky.social
THIS WEEK: A lot of Bananza, a little Z to A, some Arcade Archives GROWL, Luigi's Mansion, & @mrdiamondj.bsky.social report on the now-useful PlayStation Portal.

Also: Itagaki's legacy and game's we've ruined.

It's Episode 951: Unleashing Tingle Upon Hyrule
nintendoworldreport.com/rfn/73174/ep...
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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ladyemily.nebula.tv
Screenshot from Zeta Gundam in which Quattro Bagina says, “Isn't there any way to send all politicians to outer space?”
November 10, 2025 at 9:16 AM
guillaumenwr.bsky.social
Longlegs is just a collection of iconic scenes from classic thrillers in a movie that makes no effort to earn them, eh?
November 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
guillaumenwr.bsky.social
Cure - Took me some time after the credits to process. What a bleak movie.
CGS2 - These movies are fun. Frenetic action, great practical effects. I need to watch more Jacky Cheung movies.
The Wailing - I feel I'm missing the point of this one. Heavy Rain-ass twist.
#LetterboxFriday #LastFourWatched
Recent Letterboxd activity: Cure (1997), A Chinese Ghost Story (1990), The Wailing (2016), Evil Does Not Exist (2016)
November 7, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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iiotenki.bsky.social
Because SE's QA people are probably not in a position to defend themselves and their jobs in public, I want to spell out some of what it is they specifically do for us localizers, because nothing I've written here is rhetorical. SE QA acts as a final check on our work after translation and editing.
iiotenki.bsky.social Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 9d
You don't need me to tell you this is yet more good money being burned after bad. But as someone who's worked with that QA team, I'll say they're unsung heroes who truly play a huge role in maintaining SE's reputation for high quality locs and to attempt to replace them with AI is deeply insulting.
eurogamer.bsky.social Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 9d
Square Enix wants 70% of its QA work to be handled by generative AI by the end of 2027, in partnership with the University of Tokyo's Matsuo-Iwasawa Laboratory. https://bit.ly/4qKdyQR
November 6, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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smoothdunk2.bsky.social
buying into AI
3 panel comic Panel 1: Blue Guy and Pink Guy. Pink Guy: Ai will change EVERYTHING. Just give me a Shitload of money Blue Guy: okey Panel 2: Blue Guy hands over a massive stack of cash and says “How will it change everything?” Panel 3: Pink Guy is running away as fast as he can with the money. He says “It’s a secret”
August 19, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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jtsknight92.bsky.social
Hey I wrote a chapter for this book. You can back it on Kickstarter and hold my words within your hands. (Along with the words of a variety of other folks)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/nin...
NESBOOK: The Unofficial NES Companion
An unofficial coffee table companion to the NES hardware and software, with bespoke artwork and photography
www.kickstarter.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM