Neronium

Listening to the @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social

I’ve talked a lot of shit about Bluepoint remakes in the past so lemme make my feelings 100% clear: this is the most bullheaded, insane, dogshit decision Sony has made since they killed Japan Studios. A wealth of incredible technical know-how for their systems being thrown straight in the trash

Sony, when choosing to make either a good decision or a bad one, seems to like choosing the bad option often.

Managed to unlock the final boss area for Nuts and Bolts, but I am getting all the jiggies first before fighting Grunty one last time. Currently at 80 out of 131 Jiggies.

#blutoid #banjokazooie #almostdone

A screenshot of Vyse from Skies of Arcadia traversing the exterior of the Great Silver Shrine - a space station in the planet's orbit. We're on the underside, so everything is completely upside-down.

Oh SEGA, why would you do this to me? 🤢
#Blutoid #SkiesOfArcadia

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

what's happened to more than a few notable banners for online writing is cartoonishly ghoulish. for Escapist, the writing had been on the walls for a bit, but its the latest in a long line.

mastheads keep disappearing, or becoming nightmare traps for writers who need to make ends meet.

Sonic the Hedgehog 1 & 2 are delisting soon on mobile. Currently free to claim:

Sonic 1:
iOS apps.apple.com/us/app/sonic...
Android play.google.com/store/apps/d...

Sonic 2:
iOS apps.apple.com/us/app/sonic...
Android play.google.com/store/apps/d...

Hope the recovery goes well, and the pain is manageable.

My first artwork on Newgrounds!

I am now also on Newgrounds! I'll try to upload on there regularly. #Blutoid #IRavenArt inquisitiveraven.newgrounds.com

Beat Infamous Second Son and am about halfway through Astro Bot now. I've been busy having to watch pets, so I haven't been able to game as much as I'd liked.

Mega Man and Bass, more like Mega Man and BASED!

Hideki Sato, designer of all Sega’s consoles, has died | VGC Sato helmed design for consoles including Mega Drive, Saturn…

I will always consider the Dreamcast one of the best designed consoles of that generation.

RIP good Sir...
#blutoid

Happy birthday!

Forgot the picture, whoops.

Decided to treat myself today for Valentine's Day since I am a lonely sod. Got a new case, a Lian Li V100, and rebuilt my PC. I like how it turned out, too.

#blutoid #Valentine's #pc

It's Valentine's Day. That has nothing to do with this review. Let's blow shit up in the name of Super Earth with my review of Helldivers 2. To my friends and mods that played with me throughout my recording sessions, thank you so much for the laughs.

Link: youtu.be/kMI7zRNw-hI

Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel Discord is "experimenting" with an age authentication vendor whose major investors include Thiel's Founders Fund.

"Impossibly, despite its attempts to pacify the ensuing outcry by issuing a clarification that merely some users will be required to submit to its child detection matrix, Discord has managed to make the rollout of its global age assurance policy seem even grimier."

Hilde the cat approaches a big green gem secured behind a red laser grid. She tries to use her big pencil to erase the lasers, but the lasers burn the eraser. She thinks about it, then uses the pencil to draw a wall socket, with a power cable running from the laser device to the wall socket. She unplugs the plug from the socket and the lasers turn off.

If at first you don't succeed...

Congrats on the new system. Hope you enjoy it! Grab Sonic Unleashed I say, the game was finally Unleashed properly 2 generations later. XD

My best friends I met between 7th and 9th grade and still keep in constant contact with them to this day. Definitely glad our friendship has lasted so long too.

My friend Matt (SGB) is the only one I keep any real contact with. It's not that I left others on bad terms, it's just, everyone went vastly different paths.

Though some I'd rather just pretend I never fucking met lol.

So that snow storm did more damage to my finances than i thought. i can't get groceries at this point. ehh... so
so any out there would be so kind to commission art from me. any help would be appreciated.

I do own that one. Still need to play it.

Still no Ape Escape....one day, one day.

#blutoid

Not mine, so many games on the PS3 I want that still aren't playable save for streaming. D:

Review – Lovish Lovish is a charming throwback to the single-screen arcade games that would have eaten rolls of quarters in the ’80s. Players take control of Sir Soloman, a selfish knight who decides to ditc…

Watch out, it's @cjisbadatlife.bsky.social back after his move with a review of a game that managed to keep his attention. It's Lovish! A throwback to single-screen quarter-munchers.

maxutmost.com/review-lovish/

Age Verification?

This is DRM.

#Blutoid

Tl;dr: The vast majority of adults will never have to interact with our age assurance systems and their experience won't change, because we know Discord and how people use it, so we're designing to respect privacy and deliver a safer experience while minimizing friction for adults. Hey folks – I’ve been on Discord since very early 2016 and actually joined the company in 2017. Safety is one of my areas, so today’s announcement on our blog is something I’ve been pretty involved with. I’ve always cared about Discord's approach to privacy (E2EE for A/V was another of my projects here), so I figured I’d add some more context to today's news. I can say confidently that the vast majority of people will never see age verification. I say this because we launched age assurance in the UK and Australia in 2025, and we have some pretty good data on this now. The idea here is that we can pre-identify most adults based on what we already know (not including your messages!), and that looks to get us pretty far here. No face scans, no IDs, for the vast majority of adults.

And if you are one of the smaller subset of folks that we can't definitively pre-identify, then still, you only have to do it if you're accessing age-restricted servers or channels, or changing certain settings. That's really not most users. (Altho... might be more Redditors, tbh.) Last, I know that there is concern about privacy and data leaks. That's a real concern. The selfie system is built purely client-side, it never leaves your device, and we did that intentionally. That'll work for a bunch of users who aren't pre-identified as adults. But if you do end up in the ID bucket, then yeah, you're right that has some risk. We're doing what we can to minimize this by working with our range of partners (who are different partners than the data leak you read about), and if it's any help, we learned a lot internally from the last issue. But I get if that doesn't necessarily inspire more confidence. Anyway, we’ll be sharing more next month as we get closer to the global roll out about the system, including the technology behind it in March. I honestly wouldn't be happy if we didn't build something good and I am excited about what we’re launching, but please let us know what you think when we share more details. And I really appreciate everybody's feedback here today. We’re definitely reading it!

Discord is already starting to walk things back a little, so people should keep doing what they're doing (cancel Nitro, leave feedback/criticism, direct contact through support tickets/phone/email/etc)

The Japanese dub is still amazing, too. Megaman Volnutt is played by the same actor as Krillin/Luffy, for example. The PSP version of Legends 1 adds analog support. You just have to enable it in the options. The quizzes in 2 as well are interesting cause in the Japanese version, there's more trivia