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Site News: Why We Won't Be Covering ModRetro Products Moving Forward.
Site News: Why We Won't Be Covering ModRetro Products Moving Forward
The 'Anduril Chromatic' is the final straw
www.timeextension.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Site News: Why We Won't Be Covering ModRetro Products Moving Forward.
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this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
December 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM
this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
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Hot take, but I think if you have an audience, you are responsible for that audience because they're a reflection of you.
If folks are in your spaces harassing other people, especially on your behalf, and you choose to do nothing about it, you're letting everyone know that's acceptable to you.
If folks are in your spaces harassing other people, especially on your behalf, and you choose to do nothing about it, you're letting everyone know that's acceptable to you.
December 14, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Hot take, but I think if you have an audience, you are responsible for that audience because they're a reflection of you.
If folks are in your spaces harassing other people, especially on your behalf, and you choose to do nothing about it, you're letting everyone know that's acceptable to you.
If folks are in your spaces harassing other people, especially on your behalf, and you choose to do nothing about it, you're letting everyone know that's acceptable to you.
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Neopets Magazine Issue #1 (2003)
December 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Neopets Magazine Issue #1 (2003)
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I face my computer, reciting the Canticle of the Start Menu. It responds "Understood, applying update." and renews my Game Pass for a decade. Fearfully, I hum the Hymn of Undoing. My OneDrive is made public and posted to Teams for all to mock. I begin to cry. Another month of Game Pass is added.
This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...
Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it
Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.
www.theverge.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I face my computer, reciting the Canticle of the Start Menu. It responds "Understood, applying update." and renews my Game Pass for a decade. Fearfully, I hum the Hymn of Undoing. My OneDrive is made public and posted to Teams for all to mock. I begin to cry. Another month of Game Pass is added.
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"you are taking in the human centipede of content from the very end of the line" is such a good way of describing AI
October 7, 2025 at 3:14 AM
"you are taking in the human centipede of content from the very end of the line" is such a good way of describing AI
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Eventually you have to accept that no matter how many different notebooks you buy, they won’t make you a better writer. For that, you need to spend a lot of money on the right pen.
November 20, 2024 at 6:01 PM
Eventually you have to accept that no matter how many different notebooks you buy, they won’t make you a better writer. For that, you need to spend a lot of money on the right pen.
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my message for the AI developers of the world
August 8, 2025 at 6:45 AM
my message for the AI developers of the world
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Poco is an absolutely darling point-and-click adventure that deserves so much more attention. Gorgeous animations, beautiful painted backgrounds, and a charming yet unexpectedly somber story. It's free on Steam and only takes 1-2 hours to beat. Do check it out ♥️
August 1, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Poco is an absolutely darling point-and-click adventure that deserves so much more attention. Gorgeous animations, beautiful painted backgrounds, and a charming yet unexpectedly somber story. It's free on Steam and only takes 1-2 hours to beat. Do check it out ♥️
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Had a lot of thoughts in my mind this week with the Steam & itchio bans and a book review I've received, so I've decided to write a little article on transgressive games:
felipepepe.medium.com/super-columb...
felipepepe.medium.com/super-columb...
Super Columbine Massacre RPG! — 20 years later, are the limits are still winning?
A few days ago someone left a very angry review of The CRPG Book, criticizing me for featuring Super Columbine Massacre RPG!:
felipepepe.medium.com
July 26, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Had a lot of thoughts in my mind this week with the Steam & itchio bans and a book review I've received, so I've decided to write a little article on transgressive games:
felipepepe.medium.com/super-columb...
felipepepe.medium.com/super-columb...
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Small Stories for Sleepless Nights (Fun Project/Amuse, Mac, 1993)
July 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Small Stories for Sleepless Nights (Fun Project/Amuse, Mac, 1993)
‘Friendslop’ Isn’t Real, But People Love Posting About It Anyway - aftermath.site/friendslop-p...
'Friendslop' Isn't Real, But People Love Posting About It Anyway - Aftermath
As the term "friendslop" spread on social media I started to realize that the term, said genuinely, had never actually existed at all.
aftermath.site
July 20, 2025 at 9:15 PM
‘Friendslop’ Isn’t Real, But People Love Posting About It Anyway - aftermath.site/friendslop-p...
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July 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Features are now designed solely to look good on the quarterly OKR report of demented silicon valley managers... AI translation usage is up 3,000% percent, they just had to force it on all users, with no option to turn it off!! Genius, promote this lunatic and ask the next one to push it to 5,000%!!
July 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Features are now designed solely to look good on the quarterly OKR report of demented silicon valley managers... AI translation usage is up 3,000% percent, they just had to force it on all users, with no option to turn it off!! Genius, promote this lunatic and ask the next one to push it to 5,000%!!
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When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.
June 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.
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XKCD had a great strip on this that everyone in the retro space should take to heart.
![[Caption above the panel:]
I try not to make fun of people for admitting they don't know things.
[Caption right below said caption:]
Because for each thing "everyone knows" by the time they're adults, every day there are, on average, 10,000 people in the US hearing about it for the first time.
[A list of equations.]
Fraction who have heard of it at birth = 0%
Fraction who have heard of it by 30 ≈ 100%
US birth rate ≈ 4,000,000/year
Number hearing about it for the first time ≈ 10,000/day
[Caption above the next panel:]
If I make fun of people, I train them not to tell me when they have those moments.
And I miss out on the fun.
[Megan is standing. Cueball is walking, with his palm out.]
Megan: "Diet Coke and Mentos thing"? What's that?
Cueball: Oh man! Come on, we're going to the grocery store.
Megan: Why?
Cueball: You're one of today's lucky 10,000.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ryrau24iqzrzst2tdl63a3cl/bafkreidjbu2qaxa7xj7mt3l3xsujoz534rdbgyktwdvtdmeonpfovulvsu@jpeg)
June 16, 2025 at 2:12 PM
XKCD had a great strip on this that everyone in the retro space should take to heart.
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Whenever I see "AI ethics concerns" it's always crap like "should Claude have a social security number?!" and not "should OpenAI all be in jail for marketing ChatGPT like it's your friend and designing it to prioritize continuous engagement above all else?"
Oh yeah, Blake Lemoine basically got addicted to talking to the chatbot, personified it, then asked it a bunch of existential questions, to which it regurgitated mashups of 2001 and I, Robot.
2009's MMO addiction is going to look like peanuts compared to the wave of chatbot addiction that's coming.
2009's MMO addiction is going to look like peanuts compared to the wave of chatbot addiction that's coming.
May 31, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Whenever I see "AI ethics concerns" it's always crap like "should Claude have a social security number?!" and not "should OpenAI all be in jail for marketing ChatGPT like it's your friend and designing it to prioritize continuous engagement above all else?"
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"The nature of forgeries, a subject on which I may boast of some small expertise, is to fool the least discerning, not the most; it is to convince the general public that true greatness never existed, that imitation is reality, that shoddiness is quality. It is an assault on pleasure itself."
May 23, 2025 at 2:16 AM
"The nature of forgeries, a subject on which I may boast of some small expertise, is to fool the least discerning, not the most; it is to convince the general public that true greatness never existed, that imitation is reality, that shoddiness is quality. It is an assault on pleasure itself."
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