Brendan Sinclair

There are very few people in a position to do crucial work and I hope they feel a moral obligation to do it rather than let it fall to people who are less well-situated and would be taking on much bigger risks to do it.

I appreciated the Leland Yee reference, thanks.

I'll just note that the first Assassin's Creed game was set during the Crusades and made in the years after 9/11 during a couple U.S.-led wars in the Middle East.

Only the power of CD-ROM technology can offer thrills like this.

If they were really serious about those AR glasses, they would change the company name to Auggie.

Definitely one to ponder.

Believe me, I am aware of the job situation.

I'm not a big fan of mystery boxes either, but they have less control over the experience so they can't engineer compulsion loops the same way. Neither is really great, but I don't think they're quite as close a parallel as it might seem at first glance.

Two patent drawings showing a person's hands holding a banana sideways. The second image has a PlayStation X button superimposed over one end of the banana and a triangle on the other end.

The banana patent, for those who missed it. US application 20210031110:

US patent application number 2025/0295987 shows an orb sitting on a base. The orb has a slot down the left side of it and a line across the middle. There's an X logo where the slot and line intersect, a square logo elsewhere along the line, and a triangle logo at the very top. The image is labelled "Fig. 1"

Sony already applied for a patent on a literal banana controller, and now it's looking for one on a motion-sensing orb. I love this kind of stuff.

Kind of stunning how a foundational part of the modern video game industry is being banned for kids in major markets and it's getting minimal attention internationally.

Dudes rock.

Decent reflection of the industry over the past three years though.

Cover art for the Super Nintendo game Mecarobot Golf

We did come close once.

Am I the only one who initially read this as referring to an artificial intelligence bot trained on Michaels' work?

Oh right, I forgot about the museum! That's cool that they're creating new things for it like this.

Nintendo seems to have a renewed interest in light guns as well, although this one seems to be for location-based entertainment like the Nintendo areas at Universal theme parks.

"Zoolander says he has a multitude of 'looks,' but they are in fact the same look."

The mysterious absence of Lilo has me going back and forth about which one they put in the tin.

Mega Yarn Yoshi amiibo in a box. A picture on the side of the box shows a hand holding it under the arms.

Sorry, sorry. Forgot this guy.

Image of Detective Pikachu amiibo next to the normal Pikachu amiibo. It appears a little more than twice as tall.

Largest?

U.S. patent application 2025/0285645 showing a pulldown menu letting users select a game, platform, lesson, and target age group for creating new educational content. This user has selected the Xbox game A Way Out for a teaching colours lesson. The lesson plan says "This lesson teaches basic colours to children in the age group of 0-4." There is a button asking "Any mature content?" that appears to have the "yes" option highlighted.

Here's a patent applicant who imagines using the M-rated game where you torture a guy with a nail gun and blowtorch as a way to teach basic colours to children in the age group of 0-4.

Don't worry, a little retrobright will clean those right up.

US patent application 2025/0281828, dated Sep. 11, 2025, showing a cutaway of a pistol with some diagrams inside

Interesting, Sony just applied for a patent on a haptic feedback system for a gun accessory. Sounds a bit like the old Time Crisis arcade guns that would give a kick of recoil when you pulled the trigger.

Crying shame they don't have access to Longo's or Sobey's store brands...

Screencapture of Rebekah's "magnum opus" Pizza Hut light fixture tweet, with the "favourites" number 666 and lit up because I had just favourited it.

Auspicious and unintentional favorite.

Grateful to my follows that nobody has posted gruesome video footage into my feed today. Basically a 0% chance that happens with an algorithmic feed.

Can babies be tokenized? A crypto experiment to solve the population crisis - ChainCatcher The subject of the transaction is never the baby itself, but rather the value prediction of its growth trajectory.

I did not expect @writnelson.bsky.social would get to market Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator with a "ripped from today's headlines" angle.
www.chaincatcher.com/en/article/2...

Waiting for Gobot