Kaze no Notam has been translated into English and it's all thanks to the wonderful proud nation of Brazil

romhackplaza.org/translations...

Just days after Trump returned to the White House, Instagram is censoring abortion content. This is what Aid Access' account looks like right now - posts about how to get abortion medication has been blurred out.

Today sucked. Get you some games for free and relax. Here's ~150 picks and another 50 on the second tab waiting for details.

The first chart here are SARS-CoV-2 wastewater levels from 2022 to present prior to baseline normalization

The second chart is the same thing but just for 2024

The third is a (predicted) chart for 2025 assuming wastewater levels in 2025 are similar to 2024

Much less scary, eh?

That's the intent

Cookie's Bustle feat @sebmal.bsky.social twitch.tv/retropals

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.

The Famicom catalog is complete. It's time to start a new cataloging project and it's the Famicom's rival system: the PC Engine. It's a game system built on spite for Nintendo that became the rival platform.

youtu.be/E6tJxcPIrHI

Special shoutout to Eno, my favorite neuro-divergent icon from the game, going from left-field references that'd make me pause and laugh before translating her lines for friends to hyper-specific knowledge of the Stanford Prison Experiments a Japanese middle schooler probably wouldn't normally know

Former #Cohost folks: If there are posts of yours you want to remain available past 2024-12-31, go to the page in the next day or two while cohost.org is still there, copy the URL, and look it up in the Wayback Machine: web.archive.org If it's not been archived then it will offer to save it for you.

Good news, the picture is now clear enough to read QR codes (though may still require the user to sync it up themselves, which would be fun for ARG puzzles!)

Bad news for this example...

I kid you not, @itch.io has been taken down by Funko of "Funko Pop" because they use some trash "AI Powered" Brand Protection Software called Brand Shield that created some bogus Phishing report to our registrar, iwantmyname, who ignored our response and just disabled the domain

If sharing AI generated "art" is bad because it's (amongst other things) just grabbing things actual people have spent time/skill creating and then spewing it out w/o credit or compensation then ~maybe~ that same thought should apply to "aesthetic" accounts w/other people's photos/screenshots too?

⚠️ One of the most important revelations I've ever had on social networks, please read and share if appropriate. Alt text included. I've been blessed to have had a big platform for a long time. I get to see these things.

Storytime.

In 2005, my mom died from cancer, but the real cause was the actions taken by an insurance company 12 years earlier. What happened to her was evil, hard to identify or fight, and hidden from the public by legal mechanisms. Because of that, I have no idea how often it has happened.

Happy Friday! Our latest batch of Dave Lowe disks are all pertaining to the audio from Charles Cecil's cult classic, Beneath a Steel Sky.

Included are source quality instrument samples, audio source code, and more! archive.org/details/@dav...

the real news today is not Election Day, it's that someone finally figured out what that fucking song is www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1nQ...

Final Fantasy VII Snowboarding was a mobile port of the original minigame in #FFVII. It was released in Japan in 2008, and recently preserved a few months ago. Can you get a better score than me? It's not that hard to do haha.

Love this story. Collector had found a strange, unknown Atari game, and tracks it down to its programmer - who reveals it was a one-off present she had made for a relative. Some fun stories about early game dev in general, like having to work within 128 bytes(!) of RAM.

medium.com/@atarispot/t...

The recent patch of Princess Crown was done with old resources and no communication with its original patchers.

"The code and the script that this person used as a base are both wildly obsolete."
"We have not shared our most up-to-date work with the public."

www.segasaturnshiro.com/2024/10/26/o...