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Senior AI Reporter, Ars Technica. Tech Historian. Bylines Fast Company / The Atlantic / Retronauts. http://www.benjedwards.com Founder http://Vintagecomputing.com

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Bonus points for anything that is not a JRPG

While I respect the genre, is not one of my favorites. I like games I can play in bite-sized sessions if possible

04.08.2025 13:17 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

thanks

04.08.2025 12:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

thanks

04.08.2025 12:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

thanks I'll check it out

04.08.2025 12:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Some kind of stored up energy that comes from good solitaire performance

04.08.2025 12:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I started playing Pocket Card Jockey yesterday and it is indeed great

04.08.2025 10:44 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Photo of Nintendo 3DS

Photo of Nintendo 3DS

What are the most underrated Nintendo 3DS games? Cartridge or eShop

02.08.2025 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 18

Honestly, if I won the lottery, I would be half-tempted to disappear for a year just to fart around with these and all the Marathon mods I never had time to play back in the day

03.08.2025 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 64    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
A meme image featuring a white and light brown husky making a very silly and un flattering face. The husky overlays a retro 90s design. Overlaying the image in various colors is text that reads β€œi LOVE EATING GARBAGE IT MAKES ME PUKE (which I also love to eat, too)

A meme image featuring a white and light brown husky making a very silly and un flattering face. The husky overlays a retro 90s design. Overlaying the image in various colors is text that reads β€œi LOVE EATING GARBAGE IT MAKES ME PUKE (which I also love to eat, too)

03.08.2025 01:09 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Awesome tip thanks

03.08.2025 11:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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You need to learn about Piksters, the flossing brush every tech toolkit needs. Coated wire (no shorts!), cleanable, re-usable, long-lasting. Get a mixed-pack from your chemist. 0s & 1s are good for twirling greebles out of a USB-C socket, 2 & 3 for Lightning, 5 for USB-A & HDMI. Get some!

03.08.2025 03:53 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I leave a tiny plug in my port to prevent lint build up. Something like this: a.co/d/g7TxEEK

03.08.2025 02:37 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Very good idea

03.08.2025 03:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Which version should I play first? You say 3DS is best?

02.08.2025 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I was just looking at that yesterday! Two votes so far, gonna check it out

02.08.2025 19:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The pain continues with USB-C iPhones. Yesterday I cleaned the lint out of my iPhone 16 charging port and it seemed like never-ending quantity. Toothpick works best, or shut down (to prevent shorts) and gently use a tiny paperclip

02.08.2025 19:07 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

Lint in the port is so frustrating! I once wrote a how-to about this: www.howtogeek.com/774301/how-t...

02.08.2025 19:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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DEC PDP-1 at the Computer History Museum. #vcfwest

02.08.2025 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Photo of Nintendo 3DS

Photo of Nintendo 3DS

What are the most underrated Nintendo 3DS games? Cartridge or eShop

02.08.2025 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 18

Perfect

02.08.2025 19:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

02.08.2025 12:47 β€” πŸ‘ 242    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 16

Amazing!

02.08.2025 00:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Ted Nelson (on Zoom) talking with Lee Felsenstein

Ted Nelson (on Zoom) talking with Lee Felsenstein

I’m at the Vintage Computer Festival’s amazing Homebrew Computer Club session. Ted Nelson is zooming in and talking with moderator Lee Felsenstein.

01.08.2025 23:54 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

OU
CH

02.08.2025 00:00 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of Human Cannonball for the Atari 2600, with doomed guy flying through the air

Screenshot of Human Cannonball for the Atari 2600, with doomed guy flying through the air

Doomed guy hit the ground and it says "OU CH"

Doomed guy hit the ground and it says "OU CH"

This guy was my hero

01.08.2025 23:57 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Circus Atari

Circus Atari

Circus Atari

Circus Atari

Super Circus Atari

Super Circus Atari

I sometimes wonder why many in my generation are really weird and then I am reminded that we grew up playing a game that launched clowns into the air to pop balloons until said clowns inevitably fell to their deaths on the ground. #Atari

01.08.2025 23:50 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Restocked & Ready for Steam!

The @Spirit-halloween.bksy.social Exclusive version of Haunted: Halloween '86 is now available on Steam (also includes original version) and the NES cartridge has been restocked on Spirit's site.

01.08.2025 22:09 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
β€œClaude Code has become the go-to choice for coders everywhere, and so it was no surprise to learn OpenAI's own technical staff were also using our coding tools ahead of the launch of GPT-5,” Anthropic spokesperson Christopher Nulty said in a statement to WIRED. β€œUnfortunately, this is a direct violation of our terms of service.”

According to Anthropic’s commercial terms of service, customers are barred from using the service to β€œbuild a competing product or service, including to train competing AI models” or β€œreverse engineer or duplicate” the services. This change in OpenAI’s access to Claude comes as the ChatGPT-maker is reportedly preparing to release a new AI model, GPT-5, which is rumored to be better at coding.

β€œClaude Code has become the go-to choice for coders everywhere, and so it was no surprise to learn OpenAI's own technical staff were also using our coding tools ahead of the launch of GPT-5,” Anthropic spokesperson Christopher Nulty said in a statement to WIRED. β€œUnfortunately, this is a direct violation of our terms of service.” According to Anthropic’s commercial terms of service, customers are barred from using the service to β€œbuild a competing product or service, including to train competing AI models” or β€œreverse engineer or duplicate” the services. This change in OpenAI’s access to Claude comes as the ChatGPT-maker is reportedly preparing to release a new AI model, GPT-5, which is rumored to be better at coding.

Scoop: Anthropic revoked OpenAI’s API access to its models on Tuesday, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell WIRED. OpenAI was informed that its access was cut off due to violating the terms of service. www.wired.com/story/anthro...

01.08.2025 22:16 β€” πŸ‘ 135    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 3
Screenshot of retro-looking CGI house on Reddit

Screenshot of retro-looking CGI house on Reddit

Screenshot of retro-looking CGI house on Reddit

Screenshot of retro-looking CGI house on Reddit

This is how I plan to retire. Just me and my wife in our CGI forest house, farming Platonic solids

01.08.2025 22:16 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

And they are tiny, so the information in there is very compressed!

01.08.2025 22:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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