Ravi Hiranand
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Hong Kong born and raised. Spent 20+ years covering tech and games and news for CNN, Rest of World, IGN. Liverpool fan. Addicted to video games. Huge Nintendo 64 nerd. Sign up for my free weekly newsletter: ravi64.com (Avatar by @wrenegade.bsky.social)
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The secret tricks behind Nintendo Direct
A veteran TV producer explains exactly what makes Nintendo's event so engaging.
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It’s always struck me how much BETTER Nintendo is at presenting their live broadcasts. Xbox Showcase and PS State of Play are so dull in comparison. And hey, since I know TV, I thought it was worth exploring why. ravi64.com/secret-trick...
There are other reasons not to play Solar Crown — it has all the aesthetic charm of a Web3 game — but if you’re wondering how accurate its Hong Kong setting is, well, it isn’t: ravi64.com/virtual-hong...
February 17, 2026 at 5:30 PM
There are other reasons not to play Solar Crown — it has all the aesthetic charm of a Web3 game — but if you’re wondering how accurate its Hong Kong setting is, well, it isn’t: ravi64.com/virtual-hong...
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In Donkey Kong 64, the Giant Spider miniboss can only be fought once. Modifying the game to fight it a second time makes it unceremoniously explode. While this appears to be a glitch, examining the code reveals it was actually deliberately added for the developers' own amusement.
February 17, 2026 at 5:15 PM
In Donkey Kong 64, the Giant Spider miniboss can only be fought once. Modifying the game to fight it a second time makes it unceremoniously explode. While this appears to be a glitch, examining the code reveals it was actually deliberately added for the developers' own amusement.
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The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.
I understand framing the AI bubble RAM supply crisis in terms of stuff like video game consoles because nerds can conceptualize that but the framing does really undersell the sheer magnitude of how it's going to fuck up everything that even touches a computer.
February 16, 2026 at 9:54 PM
The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.
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This is particularly hilarious given all the AI boosterism around "it will let people without the technical skills realize the beauty of their ideas"
AI filmmaking is completely unserious.
You've got people with $30k begging the internet for ideas by next week because they have nothing of their own to say, it's just slop for the sake of slop. Embarrassing state of affairs.
You've got people with $30k begging the internet for ideas by next week because they have nothing of their own to say, it's just slop for the sake of slop. Embarrassing state of affairs.
February 17, 2026 at 5:02 PM
This is particularly hilarious given all the AI boosterism around "it will let people without the technical skills realize the beauty of their ideas"
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I know this makes me an extremist but I think our baby concentration camps should be abolished.
‘His life is in danger,’ U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro said about newborn Juan Nicolás. The child fell ill after spending almost a month — or half his life — in a San Antonio-area family detention facility.
Two-month-old baby 'choking on his own vomit' while detained in Dilley
'His life is in danger,' U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro said about newborn Juan Nicolás. The child fell ill after spending almost a month — or half his life — in a San Antonio-area family detention facility...
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February 17, 2026 at 4:11 AM
I know this makes me an extremist but I think our baby concentration camps should be abolished.
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Colbert: “Let’s just call this what it is: Trump’s administration wants to silence anyone who says anything bad about Trump on TV because all Trump does is watch TV. He’s like a toddler with too much screen time. He gets cranky and then drops a load in his diaper.”
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Colbert Doesn’t Give an FCC About Calling Out CBS
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February 17, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Colbert: “Let’s just call this what it is: Trump’s administration wants to silence anyone who says anything bad about Trump on TV because all Trump does is watch TV. He’s like a toddler with too much screen time. He gets cranky and then drops a load in his diaper.”
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Yooooo what? Triforce in Dolphin? Hell yeah.
GameCube & Wii Emulator Dolphin Adds Support For Triforce Arcade Platform From Namco, Nintendo, & Sega.
GameCube & Wii Emulator Dolphin Adds Support For Triforce Arcade Platform From Namco, Nintendo, & Sega
"This is the culmination of over a decade of work"
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February 17, 2026 at 10:54 AM
Yooooo what? Triforce in Dolphin? Hell yeah.
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anyone who speaks or listens. for a living knows the difference between rhetorically clearing your throat and incoherence, and that in a conversational setting, the first is not just unremarkable but normal, but I guess we’re in for another round of “look at this vapid girl”
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 8:24 PM
anyone who speaks or listens. for a living knows the difference between rhetorically clearing your throat and incoherence, and that in a conversational setting, the first is not just unremarkable but normal, but I guess we’re in for another round of “look at this vapid girl”
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I do t even know how to explain this, but I’m watching clips of early game of thrones with a Chinese voiceover and as Martell and the mountain fight, it just starts talking about how the mountain is taller than Yao Ming
February 17, 2026 at 7:09 AM
I do t even know how to explain this, but I’m watching clips of early game of thrones with a Chinese voiceover and as Martell and the mountain fight, it just starts talking about how the mountain is taller than Yao Ming
I bought one and I fully agree tbh
February 17, 2026 at 8:04 AM
I bought one and I fully agree tbh
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Captain Tsubasa come to life 😂
February 14, 2026 at 10:33 AM
Captain Tsubasa come to life 😂
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With more people getting the opportunity to play Metal Gear Solid 4, it means more people will understand one of my favorite posts online
February 14, 2026 at 5:04 AM
With more people getting the opportunity to play Metal Gear Solid 4, it means more people will understand one of my favorite posts online
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It is hard to explain just how good Trent Alexander-Arnold was at Liverpool (this is last season)
February 14, 2026 at 12:42 PM
It is hard to explain just how good Trent Alexander-Arnold was at Liverpool (this is last season)
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get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship
February 13, 2026 at 10:28 PM
get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship
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welp at least we’re living through the Star Wars prequels and not Star Trek Into Darkness
February 13, 2026 at 3:20 PM
welp at least we’re living through the Star Wars prequels and not Star Trek Into Darkness
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The only way the final line would be better is it ended with the words “and she cannot scream”
February 13, 2026 at 3:25 PM
The only way the final line would be better is it ended with the words “and she cannot scream”
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It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.
February 13, 2026 at 4:48 AM
It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.
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Decayed Guardian, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017)
February 13, 2026 at 3:35 AM
Decayed Guardian, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017)
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In a dysfunctional team that’s massively struggled with patterns of play and fluidity. In a first season at a new club in a new league.
Wirtz is world class. He was when we signed him and that’s not changing anytime soon.
Wirtz is world class. He was when we signed him and that’s not changing anytime soon.
February 13, 2026 at 10:07 AM
In a dysfunctional team that’s massively struggled with patterns of play and fluidity. In a first season at a new club in a new league.
Wirtz is world class. He was when we signed him and that’s not changing anytime soon.
Wirtz is world class. He was when we signed him and that’s not changing anytime soon.
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Check out my man @chriskohler.net winning a DICE award for the Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection
February 13, 2026 at 5:53 AM
Check out my man @chriskohler.net winning a DICE award for the Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection
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That’s true but in reality it’s a bit less surprising when you realize how much of MGS1 is just like almost a remake of MSX Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake.
February 13, 2026 at 3:51 AM
That’s true but in reality it’s a bit less surprising when you realize how much of MGS1 is just like almost a remake of MSX Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake.