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oh yeah, he also made a movie called this is spinal tap the following year. the start of an illustrious career as a film director. who knew

Nintendo’s Genre Innovation Strategy: Thoughts on the Revolution’s new controller I’m still jet lagged from my recent trip overseas, but I managed to stay awake for the new Nintendo controller announcement. I must say that I’m feeling like an excited Japanese school boy waiting …

@danctheduck.bsky.social can't believe this is 20 years old. just came up at work because I caught someone in the cafe casually reading one of your posts on value chains!

The majority of human discourse seems to break down into “it would be bad if this were true so it’s not true” or “it would be good if this were true so it’s true” with a side of “you caused this bad thing to happen by telling me about it”.

Open Social — overreacted The protocol is the API.

i wrote about atproto and why it matters

bsky.app/profile/etcd...

Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. America begins to forget at a geometric rate. It loses self-awareness at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.

screenshot of issue 9 of Gamingredients from 2003. the cover shows KOS-MOS from Xenosaga episode 1, also drawn by Xavier Garcia. the website is designed to look like a cereal box.

oh here we go

Screenshot of issue 10 of Gamingredients from May, 2003 depicting Link from the Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker. The cover lists various articles in the issue and the website is designed to look like a cereal box.

can't find that issue, but here's another one you did

and the context within which she said it was also super relevant

flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."

-- H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu, 1926

The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but someday, the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or [...]

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. [...]

Photo from Blade Runner of Deckard looking at a terminal with a confused expression. A screen capture of a a ReCaptcha with an unchecked checkbox labeled "I'm not a robot" is superimposed.

It's got enough room for me & the whole squad ⚔️

time to write a book about Nintendo's philosophy of fun titled "On the Lack of Desperation and the Moratorium on Dreams"

Queen of Katwe Mira Nair???

Good will hunting bar scene

Of course that’s your contention. You’re a first year Fediverse power-user. You just got finished reading about how Bluesky isn’t decentralized — Christine’s blog post probably — and you’re convinced that AT Protocol is a flash in the pan while ActivityPub is the real hope for the web’s future.

Meanwhile in 1993: "Silicon Valley is famed for its boy-wonder millionaires, but for every one of those people there are a couple dozen others making minimum wage and working in pitiful conditions"

The through-line of the necropolitics this decade is “I can’t breathe.”

Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. America begins to forget at a geometric rate. It loses self-awareness at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.

A screenshot from Metaphor Refantazio. The character Neuras says, "Convenience is important, but one must consider safety and the effects it might have on the world. An engineer who dumps a burden on future generations is no engineer at all."

@vgadvisor.bsky.social

The Town That Went Feral When a group of libertarians set about scrapping their local government, chaos descended. And then the bears moved in.

"Ever-hungry for new frontiers in personal autonomy and market emancipation, human beings have altered the environment with the unintended result of empowering newly ravenous bears" newrepublic.com/article/1596...

"I've discovered his weakness."
"Yes?"
"He cares. He actually cares for these Earth people."
"Like pets?"
"I suppose so."
"Sentimental idiot."

Just realised that "Gene Hackman" is the exact name that Hideo Kojima would give a biochemist

Your avatar is out of space for parameters! Used 326/256 bits. Ask your avatar creator, or the creator of the last prop you've added, if there are any parameters you can remove to make space. This error means that the amount of sync'able features (features that will show up to other people in the same world as you, like states of clothing/body parts/etc) on your av is too high.

VRChat presents us with the cyberpunk dystopia of questions like "which is more important, having a dick or a face?"

groan

EXTRA: The Star-Spangled Daily Fragment of old news article ...the larger the mob, the harder the test. In small areas, before small electorates, a first-rate man occasionally fights his way through, carrying even the mob with him by force of his personality. But when the field is nationwide, and the fight must be waged chiefly at second and third hand, and the force of personality cannot so readily make itself felt, then all the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre - the man who can most easily adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will...

(continued) ...reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

Photo of PS5 home screen displaying Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus: "Nazis rule America. You must spark the second American Revolution. Play Game"