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Krokodyl
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Translating SNES games.
Learning SNES dev.
https://krokodyl.github.io/
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Krokodyl @krokodyl.bsky.social · 10d
Live your life without an audience.
"I was born in 1990 and I was sort of raised in America when it was a cult of self-expression, and I was just taught, you know: express myself and have things to say and everyone will care about them. And I think everyone was taught that, and most of us found out that no one gives a shit what we think...They say it’s the ‘me’ generation. It’s not. The arrogance is taught or it was cultivated. It’s self-conscious. That’s what it is, it’s conscious of self. Social media is just the market’s answer to a generation that demanded to perform, so the market said “Here, perform everything, to each other, all the time for no other reason.” It’s prison, it’s horrific. It’s performer and audience melded together. What do we want more than to lie in bed at the end of the day and just watch our lives as a satisfied audience member? I know very little about anything, but I do know this: that if you can live your life without an audience, you should do it." - Bo Burnham
krokodyl.bsky.social
Live your life without an audience.
"I was born in 1990 and I was sort of raised in America when it was a cult of self-expression, and I was just taught, you know: express myself and have things to say and everyone will care about them. And I think everyone was taught that, and most of us found out that no one gives a shit what we think...They say it’s the ‘me’ generation. It’s not. The arrogance is taught or it was cultivated. It’s self-conscious. That’s what it is, it’s conscious of self. Social media is just the market’s answer to a generation that demanded to perform, so the market said “Here, perform everything, to each other, all the time for no other reason.” It’s prison, it’s horrific. It’s performer and audience melded together. What do we want more than to lie in bed at the end of the day and just watch our lives as a satisfied audience member? I know very little about anything, but I do know this: that if you can live your life without an audience, you should do it." - Bo Burnham
October 31, 2025 at 9:58 PM
krokodyl.bsky.social
1/ Oriental Pearl made a video in 2022 calling out the "language gurus" of YouTube. She and her guest make good points I listed here. She also emphasizes multiple times the exploitative nature of making money from a "position of power" (being a big YouTuber) with false claims.
YouTube thumbnail for https://youtu.be/6zZfv55Joeg - clickbait - silencing people who call out your false claims - predatory tactics - making bank with marketing preying on people's insecurities - cult-like personality - censoring comments - "I like hearing the voices that disagree with me"
October 26, 2025 at 10:33 PM
krokodyl.bsky.social
"This page may contain affiliate links" actually means "all the links are affiliate links and nobody in our staff has read the FTC regulations on affiliate marketing which is why this message is buried at the bottom of the page in a tiny font and a color that only bees can see."
October 26, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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quangdx.com
For all you LinkedIn Users
The GenAI setting is turn on as default.

www.linkedin.com/mypreference...
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
krokodyl.bsky.social
Most of the so-called "apolitical" content creators are straight white men. Go figure!
September 19, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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moralrecordings.bsky.social
After a year of work I've finally released my adventure game. It's called Maura and Ash, and it's designed for MS-DOS. You can download it or play it in the browser right now!
moralrecordings.itch.io/mauraash
#msdos #pointandclick #adventuregame
Person wearing blue coveralls standing in the cockpit of a spaceship, watching a meteor pass the window. There is a blue inventory bar at the bottom of the screen.
September 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
krokodyl.bsky.social
PC gamers when they don't have an ashtray:
August 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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sonicman69.bsky.social
Like Cowboy Bebop? Did you know there was a PS2 game only released in Japan? Did you know I released a full English translation of it that you can play now? Check it out here: github.com/SONICMAN69/B...
GitHub - SONICMAN69/Bebop-PS2-English: A full (fanmade) English translation for Cowboy Bebop - Tsuioku no Serenade for the PlayStation 2
A full (fanmade) English translation for Cowboy Bebop - Tsuioku no Serenade for the PlayStation 2 - SONICMAN69/Bebop-PS2-English
github.com
August 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
krokodyl.bsky.social
"Uneducated positivity towards maliciously bad video games that steal assets and graphics from other games or artists, that the developer sells for profit"
youtu.be/_dQCdJFiWgo
They're ruining new Mega Drive games
YouTube video by Goati_
youtu.be
August 4, 2025 at 6:38 PM
krokodyl.bsky.social
You shouldn't preorder games. That was true more than 10 years ago and it's still true today.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf5U...
Should you preorder videogames?
YouTube video by TotalBiscuit
www.youtube.com
August 3, 2025 at 9:19 PM
krokodyl.bsky.social
The ending for Secret of the Four Winds also uses stolen assets: Last Blade - Moriya stage and Last Blade 2 - Graveyard stage.
The foreground trees are from Far East of Eden: Kabuki Klash (Hudson, 1995) and the cityscape from a random gif from at least 2017.
July 31, 2025 at 4:40 PM
krokodyl.bsky.social
More stolen assets by Kay Magazine for their game Metal Dragon:
ikaridc.bsky.social IkariDC @ikaridc.bsky.social · Jul 31
Kai Magazine did this since starting as a hobbyist on the MSX scene decades ago. Here’s another one I found. Also, on @goatistream.bsky.social stream for their latest game, chat found the ending traced backgrounds from Last Blade 1 & 2.
July 31, 2025 at 3:07 PM
krokodyl.bsky.social
Apparently, this developer has a history of lifting existing assets. Here are some examples from his previous game:
krokodyl.bsky.social Krokodyl @krokodyl.bsky.social · Jul 27
This is why you cannot trust YouTubers and publishers in the retrogaming space. This 2025 megadrive game presented as "better than most snes game" has assets traced over existing sprites (Wild Guns and Shinobi III) and AI-generated backgrounds. Garbage game, garbage company, garbage shill youtuber.
July 30, 2025 at 12:17 PM
krokodyl.bsky.social
This is why you cannot trust YouTubers and publishers in the retrogaming space. This 2025 megadrive game presented as "better than most snes game" has assets traced over existing sprites (Wild Guns and Shinobi III) and AI-generated backgrounds. Garbage game, garbage company, garbage shill youtuber.
July 27, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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July 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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ashleylynch.bsky.social
WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.

Stop using WeTransfer.
July 14, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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uesp.net
There is a pro-consumer rights movement for gaming right now called #StopKillingGames. It is currently try to pass an initiative to ensure that games that you pay for cannot be rendered completely unplayable after being sold to you, please consider supporting it.
July 2, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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How long before the first google result is a link to letmegooglethat.com?
June 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
krokodyl.bsky.social
This YouTube channel is uploading video game soundtracks directly taken from Zophar's Domain without any modification.
June 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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huxleymorgan.bsky.social
Black and white image of Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, smoking a cigarette. "The world is not divided between east and west. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same."
June 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
krokodyl.bsky.social
Your average Quora answer about Japanese grammar.
June 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
krokodyl.bsky.social
So I've played Itadaki Street 2 and found a problem with the RNG.
krokodyl.github.io/post/2025/05...
Bingo odds for an odd bingo - This is a blog.
The bingo in Itadaki Street 2 is not fair
krokodyl.github.io
May 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
krokodyl.bsky.social
The Super Famicom game Itadaki Street 2 has a mini-game of Bingo. Looking at the RNG code, I found a flaw in the draw algorithm. One of these four bingo cards is significantly better and one is significantly worse than the others. Can you guess which ones and why?
May 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
krokodyl.bsky.social
Has anyone ever translated Itadaki Street 2 for Super Famicom?

dragonquest.fandom.com/wiki/Itadaki...
Itadaki Street 2
Itadaki Street 2, fully Itadaki Street 2: Neon Sign wa Bara Iro ni (いただきストリート2 〜ネオンサインはバラ色に〜, loosely translated as Fortune Street 2: Neon signs are rosy), is the second entry in the Fortune Street se...
dragonquest.fandom.com
May 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM