José Carlos | 🇵🇷 Translator

Japanese desu – The Japanese copula The verb です (desu) is the Japanese word for “to be.” Like all Japanese verbs, です (desu) is placed at the end of the clause it belongs to. If the sentence with です (desu) is made up of a single clause, ...

I wrote a short discussion of how to use Japanese です (desu), the Japanese copula, from simple sentences to more complex ones.

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The first Obsolete Sony monthly digital magazine is dropping for free next week.

Not surprising but still disappointing

Screenshot of a post from me in which I shared a gif of the harbor in Demonschool with the ferry docked, in which the ferry bobs up and down and it generally looks chill with lights in the rails, brown wood, and a calm vibe. The text says "I want demonschool to be finished AND I want to live there"

Post from the Necrosoft account saying "hello this is us. Please buy our "persona like."" And it's quote tweeting a post about how game devs have to reductively call out our game's similarity to another, when really we have thousands of influences.

A steam wishlist chart is depicted during the period of these two posts where you see the numbers going up across the week where we posted these two things.

There has been some debate over whether bluesky is good for game promotion or whether actual consumers are here. As a test, last week we did two posts with mid-level performance - one from the company account, one from mine - and got ~900 wishlists. There was no other promo elsewhere. Pretty solid.

G-Fan Game Chara-Graph – Volume 3 – August 2006 has been scanned by @detchibe.bsky.social in 600DPI. Enjoy! www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2025/01/g...

Don Doko Don by Taito for the Nintendo Famicom has been scanned in high resolution. Enjoy! www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2025/01/d...

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The YouTube front page really takes me back.

Hey #gamedev / #indiedev, just a reminder that you can now add Bluesky to your Steam Pages for social links.

Highly recommended you do so as more and more places like Reddit ban X links and people continually leave the platform, including those of us in games media who check Steam upcoming releases

Designed 35 years ago, still cooler than most gadgets today.

Friendly reminder that there's a SEGA arcade racer about driving an Ambulance that also lets you play as two people pulling a stretcher at 100 MPH

VR mirrors are crazy complex, and Godot has limitations which make them even harder to do, but if you're stubborn enough, you can make it happen! I did it by using the old trick of "just make a whole-ass mirror world" with smart clipping.
#GodotEngine #gamedev

No, I don't need a bloody copilot for this document, thank you.

Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.

The cover of Scanlines issue 27 with Lina Inverse, snapped from the PC-98 game

A snippet of our Star Trek Academy for SNES feature

A snippet of the contents page

A snippet of our Slayers for PC-98 feature

Okay! The first 2025 issue of our digi-zine, Between the Scanlines, is rolling out after a wee bit of a delay!

Issue 27 is now available on Itch and packed with passionate tales of lands fantastical and transmitted from the Final Frontier.

betweenthescanlines.itch.io/issue-twenty...

When you dd into the wrong disk.

I'd like to be able to grep anything I read.

The cover of an issue of Japan's Dreamcast Magazine with their orange swirl dreamcast-headed mascot dancing away in an orange dress and sporting cool white spiked black wristlets.

The funkiest Dreamcast Magazine - with Casko-chan!

This is such a cool cover. 💜

Captain Falcon, made for a melee collab hosted by @raivnn8 on twitter

CAPTAIN FALCON

Introducing the SuperStation one. An open-source PS1 FPGA gaming console that supports original games, memory cards, and controllers. Load games from a disk or a backup. Region free. Supports all MiSTer FPGA cores, including N64 & Sega Saturn.

Learn more: retroremake.co

It's really eye-opening seeing the stats graphed like this.

It's the lyrics spelling out N-E-S-T-L-E that really get me.

A man dressed as a beat-up skateboarder with an eyeball for a head.

Another costume I have never, ever seen before: the Neversoft mascot character from Tony Hawk 3

Lettering manga be like:

fairly benign to localize main story content -> a dozen pages of flattened handwritten author doodles featuring hells and horrors beyond comprehension

The random capitalization of the links at the bottom really sells the early Internet vibes.

Hot Topic website in 1999

Hot Topic website in 1999

#WebDesignHistory

Primal Stories will have a variety of Creatures . Follow for more! #Creatures #Concept Art #GameArt

#EastCoastKin
#Scape #CityScape
#Photography
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The whole vibe is so good. Can't wait

Looking forward to the launch.

Good things come to those who wait - the Video Game History Foundation Digital Library launches on January 30th, 2025. (We'll tell you all about it then!)