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This concept is often hard for devs to grasp too, not just players. I put it as "the joy of doing" vs. "the joy of being".

Why does some grind or hard challenge feel joyful in game A, but a chore in game B? You enjoy *existing* in game A. The "thing to do" serves that joy.

Pet the dog. Enjoy being

Two federal judges say use of AI led to errors in US court rulings By Sara Merken October 23, 202510:29 PM GMT+2Updated October 23, 2025

The type of person that checks chatbot outputs before using them in a critical function is also the type of person who's never going to be using a chatbot in the first place.

We have no idea how catastrophic the chatbot-driven info collapse is going to be

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

my favorite Mario side hustle; he should revisit this

November 14th: A Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands by the Perimeter Fence and Screams for Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing

happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands by the Perimeter Fence and Screams for Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day

I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha

Still need more baseball?

We found a CD in our archives containing dozens of unused voice lines from MLB Slugfest 20-03 rejected by the MLB. Here's some of our favorites.

a lot of effort and success has gone into getting people to think of laws like math or physics, something that simply happens because it does, and thus applies to everything the same way gravity does

a lot of people are realizing too late, or not even really processing, that laws are all made up

"Attempting to play digital .WAV file."

The portent to trans-dimensional cascade failures unlike anything else seen before: HALF-LIFE.

my playable mario party costume was a hit at game dev halloween

"And on... and on... and Ariston."

The theme tune from the Game Boy version of Data East and Ocean's Robocop game (also featured in the home computer versions) that was famously used in a washing machine TV commercial.

one of my favorite things is when the subject of a piece threatens a journalist and the journalist responds by casually printing everything very matter of factly

Released 44 years ago
"Nazi Punks Fuck Off", the fifth and most important single by the Dead Kennedys

Dead Kennedys - Nazi Punks Fuck Off (In Studio)

#punk #punks #punkrock #DeadKennedys #nazipunksfuckoff #history #punkrockhistory

Lil blue guy

Idle-RPG auto-battler management desktop-game 'Berserk B.I.T.S' launches on November 20.

From the creators of Berserk Boy. Co-published by Among Us-developer InnerSloth.

Steam page: store.steampowered.com/app/2348540

#indiegames #steam #indiegame

I entirely forgot that I made this anti-ASMR video (Sound warning headphones users)

Rhythm Doggo on Steam You wanted to play a video game and just got transformed into a dog! Rhythm Doggo is a classic platform adventure where you play as a dog and make music on the way. Can you go back to your human form?

Announcing that Rhythm Doggo has a steam page now! It'd be super helpful if you wishlist it!

store.steampowered.com/app/4090240/...

Key art by @1neila1.bsky.social

I think about this a lot.

addendum: based on the advice of the linked reddit thread I think I was able to simply remove the entire gaming bar by opening a Powershell and entering:

Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay | Remove-AppxPackage

www.reddit.com/r/microsoft/...

I like how you can ask, "Use CBC News sources" and it'll produce a bunch of quotes and stats sourced to CBC News. None of it is real, but it'll still give it to you! 🤦‍♂️

Oh my GOD.

Another REALLY cool Jumpman detail - the goal of each stage is to collect all the bombs (red circles).

You can still collect them while tumbling during your death, and if you get the last one while dying, it finishes the stage and you don't lose a life!

The timestamp'd stage shows this too

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YouTube video by LongplayArchive Longplay of Jumpman

IMHO C64 Jumpman from 1983 was one of the best for this, as the player collided with the terrain on the way down.

Video's timestamped at one such death
youtu.be/fGMYAIBP1uY?...

20 years ago, Shadow of the Colossus - ワンダと巨像 - was released. This game changed me forever

I just wish to capture the feeling of wonder and dread that was playing this game

Interview from the Titan submarine investigation. The witness name is blacked out. The first line is "Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

Great moments in redaction history.

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...

"Debate is a way to find truth" is the worst, most wrongest lesson I learned in 2000s era internet forums and some motherfuckers never caught on and just kept going with it.

And I'm saying this as the person who would usually win. Being a better, funnier bully didn't make me right.

Windows 10 support ends today, but here's how to get an extra year for free Thanks to Extended Security Updates, you don't have to make the switch to Windows 11 just yet.

Reminder for people sticking with Windows 10 that you might be able to get a one year extension on security updates:

www.engadget.com/computing/wi...

I've never been an artist and will likely never take the time for the necessary practice, but I love following this account just because it gets me to SEE things I never noticed before