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Oh my god, I thought I might be the only person in the world to ever play 10S. That's a game that goes to fascinating places and trusts the player enough to reveal *none* of it in the opening section.

I might actually be an abolitionist on this one, or at least close to it. This isn't fun gambling, a flutter on the ponies. It's tweaked, optimised, dark patterned to hell and back to *make* you addicted. I've never met a dealer as dedicated to harming their customers as the gambling industry.

If we didn't invent phone gambling, we've certainly fucking perfected it. Sports betting is nothing, Vegas wishes it had the spread and variety that's available to the everyday phone user here

Gambling is, IMO, obscenely normalised here in the UK. We were on a family-friendly caravan holiday recently and the entertainment complex had a dedicated little gambling area set aside (the main bar also had plenty of slot machines).

I heard there was a handy clasp
That helps rock climbers with their grasp
Of ropes, and makes your keyring look much keener
It saves on space, it opens in,
And closes with a subtle spring,
The humble and the trusty
Carabiner

That oughta do it lads

I know @bsittler.bsky.social does a lot of archival quality tape preservation, not sure if that covers Electron but tagging in case

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Seconding Hou Hou Mei and Salt & Fire. I can't vouch for it personally but a colleague swears by Love Dosa lovedosa.co.uk

Had a look on ZenMarket and the situation on Japanese sites isn't much better. Cheapest I can see is this listing on Yahoo Auctions but at £33 with five bids already I suspect it'll go considerably higher zenmarket.jp/en/auction.a...

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I don't do Reddit really so can't respond direct, but I wonder if the OP might have either a local or an industry-specific credit union that could help? Member-owned cooperatives usually with a specific mission rather than just profit maximisation www.findyourcreditunion.co.uk

The problem with “virtue signaling” as a rhetorical framework was always that it pressed you not toward deeper and more sincere acts of virtue, but away from goodness as a goal at all.

In my opinion it’s time to retire the Nobel prizes for fields where most of the important discoveries have already been made, like physics, and add prizes for newer fields where substantial innovations occur every year, like speedrunning

YouTube video by Hit Save! From Comic Books to Game Boy: Ben Jelter's Journey into Handcrafted Gaming

Today we share a fantastic deep dive into the story of @jeltron.bsky.social, comic book artist and game creator.
Ben's work focuses on handcrafted experiences that prioritize player agency, realism, and emotional impact.

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I think I missed a key point in my first reply. It's not just that it's empty, it's that it demands and creates an enforced emptiness wherever it gains a foothold

Not always a Mieville fan, but something he nailed in *The Last Days of New Paris*. One of the many horrors of fascism is that it is aesthetically empty.

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Open for work!

Unfortunately, I just found out that all funding and grants for my 2025 projects are canceled.

Would love the opportunity to continue the musical journey started with #Ultros. Comfortable with #GameMusic #GameAudio. Retweets appreciated linktr.ee/ratvader

Oh, Traveller's Tales! Yeah other than that it's Google time for me

Rare you've already mentioned, the other immediately obvious ones to me are DMA Design/Rockstar and Lionhead. Rather embarrassingly I'm drawing a blank on the big players in the 80s/90s microcomputer era except the blindingly obvious Acornsoft (although more publisher than studio there I guess)

UK. Did think it was weird!

I mean obviously I click every link that's presented to me without asking any questions, regardless of how unexpected the context might be. How else am I going to find out what it's linking to? Could be something cool! I am very good at computers.

@cstross.bsky.social I can't find reference to it anywhere so either I've discovered a cool Easter egg or Amazon are up to something. Is it intentional that the Kindle edition of The Labyrinth Index contains a hyperlink to v3.globalgamejam.org/2018/games/c... ?

Keeping the Dream Alive: Twenty-Two Years of Free Online Gaming with XLink Kai Earlier this summer we sat down with CrunchBite, the third-generation developer and current project lead behind XLink Kai, the remarkable tunneling service that has been connecting console gamers acro...

Our latest podcast episode is up! Earlier this summer Hit Save director @jonasrosland.bsky.social sat down CrunchBite, current project lead on the #XLinkKai tunneling program, and got the story behind one of gaming's most enduring community-driven projects dedicated to connecting gamers worldwide.

This Saturday, @sean.tcgs.co and @mat.tcgs.co (along with members of our wonderful Discord community) are running the Tatton 5k & 10k to raise money for @specialeffect.org.uk!

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Happy 23rd birthday to Syberia, the 2002 Adventure Game of the Year developed by Benoît Sokal and the team at @microidsoff.bsky.social! To celebrate the occasion, we've just added the PC GOTY edition to our archive! archive.hitsave.org/ark:/78322/6...

I believe we can follow the Unreal Tournament fast fragging tiers for guidance here:

Double Woke
Multi Woke
Ultra Woke
MONSTER WOKE

Hard to Be a God sits right up there with Inland Empire and Holy Motors in my canon of films that changed the way I think about the medium and that I'm extremely glad I will never actually have to watch again

Concept art for the Old Monk from Demon's Souls

Up in the @hitsave.org archive today: Panzer Dragoon Orta, PaRappa the Rapper, Perfect Dark Zero, Perfect World International, Pikmin 1-3, Pokken Tournament, Okami, and Demon's Souls, enjoy!
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Like 40 mins of viewing time on a 5 min video as I repeatedly rewind and rewatch each step