Chris Chapman

Honestly, there are worse things to teach your kids in 2025.

Thanks to ConfirmAccount, these bots are nowhere close to getting edit rights. Most of them don't even get this far; they're blocked by IP or TLD.

But it's surprising how rampant these idiot spambots are. I don't think you could run an open registration wiki today, not without constant moderation.

Hello! My name is Shannon. <br>It is a little about myself: I live in France, my city of Olivet. <br>It's called often Northern or cultural capital of CENTRE. I've married 4 years ago.<br>I have two children - a son (Chong) and the daughter (Susannah). We all like Knapping.

3. Shannon from Olivet in France, the Northern capital of Centre. Her entire family likes Knapping, a word I had to look up. It means smashing rocks apart.

Hello, I'm Meagan, a 19 year old from Prebuch, Austria.<br>My hobbies include (but are not limited to) Fishing, Bird watching and watching Modern Family.

2. Meagan, a teenager from Prebuch who inexplicably has the email address 'sebastiangee'. Like all Austrian gen-alphas, her favourite TV show is Modern Family.

"Hello from Netherlands. I'm glad to be here. “y first name is Manuel. <br>I live in a small city called Maassluis in western Netherlands.<br>I was also born in Maassluis 29 years ago. Married in April year 1999. I'm working at the the office.”

I turned on the bio requirement for new account requests on morguefile.wiki. Which means the spambots are now generating hilarious fake bios.

1. Manuel from the Netherlands (email address: leslieomalley) married at age 3, but after that rocky start in life managed to get a job at the the office.

I GUESS I should post this here or something. You missed out on the creation of this....thing if you missed my stream today. That's very sad for you. For you @ryyudo.bsky.social

The craziest part about the PS1 Japanese port of Transport Tycoon is that it has an optional 3D mode that somehow actually captures the charm of the 2D isometric view, and that is crazy to me.

Join me on my journey from "how am I a games guy who's intimidated to edit his own BIOS" to "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore"

King of the Hill but it’s fighting to stay in the shower the longest

Getting no-scoped in the back of the head when another player hears you shouting "Jason"

going for curry?

A nonsensical procedurally generated storefront from Ubisoft racing game The Crew 2. This one shows a restaurant offering CHICKEN GRILLED COFFEE.

A nonsensical procedurally generated storefront from Ubisoft racing game The Crew 2. This one shows a store offering SHOE, CLEANING, and a killer deal: BUY ONE GET SECOND ONE.

A nonsensical procedurally generated storefront from Ubisoft racing game The Crew 2. This one shows a store called, inexplicably, CIRCULAR DOTS. Is there any other kind of dot?

A nonsensical procedurally generated storefront from Ubisoft racing game The Crew 2. This one shows a motel with the highly unusual rate of $3B.9B.

The Crew 2 is accidentally one of the funniest games ever made because of its procedurally generated storefronts.

"CHICKEN GRILLED COFFEE"
"SHOE"
"BUY ONE GET SECOND ONE"
"CIRCULAR DOTS"
"$3B.9B"

It took years for Nintendo and Charlton Heston to patch up their relationship after the latter concluded that only the CD-ROM format could allow him to fully realise the vision for his latest RPG epic. It would have been a different landscape if the N64 had used discs instead of cartridges.

RIP to Itagaki, whose poisonous (but totally kayfabe) vendetta against Tekken was a relentlessly entertaining thread out of the early 2000s Japan dev news scene. You knew you were in for a treat if you got an interview with him.

Please stop pronouncing ROG (as in Xbox ROG Ally X) as 'rogue'. It's a nickname for Roger and is pronounced 'roj' with a short o.

Tomonobu Itagaki (creator of Ninja Gaiden 2004, Dead or Alive) has passed away according to his Facebook

WHEN THERE’S TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Oh wow. Yes, very clever! Waterfall treasure! No one’s ever done that before. Lazy jackass

WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you

a list of apps pre-installed on the Xbox ROG Ally including Microsoft Teams and Onedrive

LMAOOO WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE NEW XBOX HANDHELD COMES WITH MICROSOFT TEAMS AND ONEDRIVE INSTALLED??? this is the fucking goofiest company in games

A screenshot of the original front page of Data Crystal [https://datacrystal.tcrf.net/w/index.php?title=Data_Crystal&oldid=2]

We're a bit late to the party, but Data Crystal turned 20 years old last month! That's... old.

DC is the sister wiki to TCRF, focused on reverse engineering, datamining, and documentation; stuff useful for ROM hacks and fan translations.

datacrystal.tcrf.net/wiki/Data_Cr...

Bethesda RPG protagonist trying to fuck, but every time they stick it in the game engine detects that two physics objects have intersected and ragdolls them into the ceiling.

The moment @jparish.bsky.social almost broke the timeline by inventing the @minnmax.com podcast a decade too early:

whole thing is a really good read; i screamed out loud when i read this part

Microsoft placing conditions (each of which materially benefits Microsoft) on the delivery of Windows 10 security updates is the literal definition of a protection racket.

The W10-11 transition has put more people on the Linux radicalisation pipeline than everything the FSF has done in its history

Creating security patches and not rolling them out universally is a cartoonishly evil act and makes everyone less safe. Fixing security holes you introduced is your actual job, Microsoft! You don't get to trade them for personal data!

I'm not installing Windows 11, not signing into my PC with a Microsoft account, and not in the European Union, so I guess I'm out of luck with extended support?

Three images showing photographers in a studio, standing around a black curtained area with a projector and a 'Windows' logo etched onto a glass pane. The lower image shows a version of the iconic blue windows background, with blue lasers outlining and passing through an angled Windows logos against a dark background.

Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI.

Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...

spent six hours figuring out how to make this in vanilla Premiere and After Effects to save the $8 a plugin would have cost. the logical conclusion is that I value my free time at less than $1.33/hour

2009: the panel brainstorms names for 1UP's new RPG podcast. They don't mention the one they'll end up using, but two of their suggestions sound kinda familiar for other reasons…

Active Time Babble on archive.org: archive.org/details/ActiveTim...
Or in your podcast app: savestate.site/podcasts/

Bioshock Infinite. Shameless bait-and-switch, I finished it in like 17 hours.