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Screenshot of what's apparently supposed to be a "git flow" chart from Microsoft learning materials. It's full of bizarre spelling errors and fucked up diagram elements that make it pretty clear the thing was AI generated.

oh.... my god??

actual chart from learn.microsoft.com/en-us/traini... btw

Tags you've applied to this product: Arcade Puzzle

Let's start a campaign to add the tag "Arcade Puzzle" to games like Tetris, Lumines, Puyo Puyo, Petal Crash, etc on Steam. These games get lumped in with great but completely different genres of puzzle games like Portal and sadly sidelined. Steam users have the power to carve out this niche!

YouTube video by DidYouKnowGaming Gunpei Yokoi's Life Story: The Man Who Made Nintendo

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Gunpei Yokoi's Life Story: The Man Who Made Nintendo

Today DYKG looks at the one of Nintendo's most important figures:

youtu.be/uLznLtgcqXI

I know I'm fighting a massive losing battle against this piece of misinformation because it seems so entrenched but every time I see "console games just download from the internet now anyway" I get kinda mad because it just isn't true.

70% of physical PS4/5 games install fine with no internet.

Statement from Nintendo: Statement from Nintendo: Pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 in the U.S. will not start April 9, 2025 in order to assess the potential impact of tariffs and evolving market conditions. Nintendo will update timing at a later date. The launch date of June 5, 2025 is unchanged.

For today's pro-train content, I'll direct you to this blurb on Amtrak's official website that encourages you to bring CRTs on the train to play Melee.

Whenever I tune into a tournament, it's always striking when I see the @ handles shown for players and commentators, where the viewer is supposed to just know it's Twitter.

Feels odd that it's still the normalized default for the community.

“You are not the only hero…”

Celebrate the classic Dreamcast MMORPG Phantasy Star Online with this brand-new merch collection!

Slay the Spire is out there for mobile, I'm pretty sure. So that's a nice option.

It's Okay to Code on Nights and Weekends | Tejas Kumar Rethinking the balance between coding passion, life, and maintaining healthy boundaries.

I’ve been coding since I was 8 years old. I often code on nights and weekends and I just… love it.

I also have had a hard time feeling wrong for doing so because I keep hearing about work/life balance from folks and how I shouldn’t.

I wrote a blog post about this tension.

tej.as/blog/coding-...

You can call posts here "tweets" if you want to. Tweeting doesn't have to be something that was only proprietary to Twitter, which doesn't even exist anymore as a brand anyway. Tweeting can be the act of sharing bit-sized and possibly psychotic musings on a platform like this.

Ninten-Drawer drop rn 🤫

Sounds like a glowing endorsement to me

Want to know something those guys on those other sites don’t know? I’m doing a Ninten-Drawer GIVEAWAY exclusively on BlueSky! THREE winners will be selected to win a Ninten-drawer each. Winners will be randomly selected 12/1/2024

You know the deal by now. Like, follow and reskeeeeeeet!

Worth emphasizing the importance if you see too much simplicity being traded off for other things, imo.

I've seen very little, if any, evidence of it. Wish they would!

Just thinking out loud:

It should not be possible to patent game mechanics or designs

It's an absurd idea on it's face. Akin to patenting and owning a certain camera motion in films, or a way of formatting text in a poem, or a brushstroke, or a panel layout for comics

PlayStation’s Astro Bot Is a Model for the Video-Game Industry The critically acclaimed game, set to be a breakout hit, was made by a team of only 60 people

The secrets behind Astro Bot's success include a small team, a reasonable scope, and people who have worked together for years. It's a model for the video game industry.

For this week's column, I spoke to the director of 2024's best-reviewed game: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Twitter post from @publisherwswkly that reads "BREAKING: The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the long-running, closely watched copyright case over the scanning and lending of print library books. Full story to follow."

The fear of piracy, much like modern copyright law, is a cudgel that giant corporations swing around to cling to the barest semblance of control. Damning our collective history in the process.

The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom ESRB description

Redbox Owner Chicken Soup For the Soul Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection from the sign-of-the-times dept. Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, the parent of DVD rental operator Redbox, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after months of financial struggles and piling unpaid bills. The Associated Press

If you gave me infinite guesses on who owns those Redbox DVD rentals I wouldn’t have gotten it

Nintendo Direct confirmed for tomorrow A Nintendo Direct is on the way! Watch the livestream starting at 7:00 a.m. PT on 6/18 for around 40 minutes focused on Nintendo Switch games coming in the second half of 2024. There will be no…

Nintendo Direct confirmed for tomorrow mynintendonews.com/2024/06/17/n...

Gotcha Force for the GameCube, main menu

oh my god

When Online Content Disappears A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible.

Why is The Wayback Machine so important for preserving our digital culture? According to new analysis from Pew Research Center:
❌ 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible
❌ 23% of news webpages contain at least one broken link
🔗 www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...

Slay the Spire 2 Officially Announced, Won't be in Unity - IGN During Wednesday's Triple-I Initiative showcase, Mega Critic revealed Slay the Spire 2, the sequel to the wildly popular rogulite deckbuilder. It will enter early access in 2025.

Officially #MadeWithGodot 🎉

www.ign.com/articles/sla...

Every time I get a message from a website saying "We’re changing our terms and conditions" I automatically read it in Darth Vader's voice with "Pray I do not alter it any further" appended. Which is appropriate really.

I get that feeling on and off too. For me, it's helpful to focus on the fact that there's always low hanging fruit.

Goal of fluency ranges from 'yeah, maybe', to 'impossible, never' based on day, but I can always learn one more word or phrase or Kanji today.

Help me make the Internet a better place: old magazines review... Currently, if you want to look at a review score any old magazine gave to an old game, there's no place on the Internet to quickly find that info. You'd have to search through old magazine scans...

I started a google spreadsheet listing old magazine review scores.
If you want to contribute, just find the scores section in the mag scan of your choosing and add it to the sheet here:
tinyurl.com/bdew43wz

More details in this Famiboards thread:
tinyurl.com/mve3hey7