Rob Caporetto

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Earthion: Shoots for the stars A new Mega Drive game—and it is a Mega Drive game, not a generic “nostalgic ’90s retro revival”—here? Now? And developed by Ancient, no less: the team responsible for everything f…

Earthion makes a few obvious blunders that a developer with Ancient's expertise should have avoided, but on the whole this is an exciting and intense smup:

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Been a hot minute, but here's the slimmed-down 10 Favorites version of the Lynx article, free for all to read on PostGameContent.

Remember, if you want to read the full list of 25, you are but one dollar a month away from this and a bounty of other articles!

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Whilst I've been thinking about my own private doom, it wouldn't be remiss of me to bump this again.

I'd like to think I can be a great part of your team - whether doing Unity code things (I know, I know), or stuff where that experience can cross-over and be helpful.

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Always gotta celebrate those victories. Especially when they come amongst shitty times.

And more importantly: HELL YEAH!

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Whilst I've been thinking about my own private doom, it wouldn't be remiss of me to bump this again.

I'd like to think I can be a great part of your team - whether doing Unity code things (I know, I know), or stuff where that experience can cross-over and be helpful.

🖤

I saw one which was for a “Junior” role which required a bunch of advanced shit, like integrating with payment processors?

I certainly wouldn’t let a junior near that kind of integration work unsupervised.

If it were a venn diagram, it’d likely be a perfect circle.

It sickens me so much - I swear it never sucked this much a decade ago. But like everything else, the rot has certainly set in.

And thanks!

It's funny, the one I can say in scouring job listings is how the corpos all want senior/lead talent, which says they can't be arsed growing it.

Like in the right environment I could pick shit up, but not allowing room for that seems so darn short-sighted.

I'm so tired, so angry, so over it.

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Waking up early with feelings of (personal) doom is totally great.

Fantastic even.

Looking for work in this environment sucks so much. Especially when your experience can't translate easily.

I just hate it. Heaps.

(But I hate the hurdles for govt support even more…)

Not at all.

I do think folks should be mindful of those they're around. If you're tall, maybe make sure you're not obstructing the view of others.

If you're someone who likes to get active and bounce about, make sure you're not pushing others about.

Not unreasonable for adults to be considerate.

2014 was when it was moved to Jeff's Shed. That sign was probably in reference to the Screen Aus funding being canned in that year's budget. 😢

It is the worst. Such a lack of self-awarness that sucks so much. Than and peeps who don't know how to stay in a spot in a crowded floor (ugh).

Not in the mood for shmups? Then try this instead!

"Unfiltered Dreamcast-ness, all clean lines, fun quirks, and the promise of a brighter gaming future."

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Christ. Maybe it really is time we gave up the planet for the dolphins or something.

King’s Field: The shape of things to come My first of so very many deaths came about a minute or two after I started playing, to a skeleton hiding behind an illusory wall that I only noticed because the polygonal “seams” didn&#…

"What if the dungeon was the player’s entire world, everything they could see and touch all that existed?"

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Format famously ran the diaries, which might have produced the "illusion" of something when they ran their review and gave it a 100% score (Issue 38).

(Which in hindsight is fair being one of the inflection points of the C64 market going from mainstream commercial output to hobbyist works...)

Ok, for this #RandomGameSaturday I’ve got… Surging Aura! Very pretty, really need to write about it. One day :S

Holing up a boxed copy of the “Mayhem in Monsterland 25th Anniversary Edition” for the C64. The cover illustration features the titular Mayhem (a yellow, Dino creature with a nose horn, and pink hands/face) popping out of a thing like the opening to the Looney Tunes cartoons, with the title surrounding it.

It’s another Commodore 64 game for #RandomGameSaturday, the 25th Anniversary Edition of “Mayhem in Monsterland”.

Forget the plumbers. Or the Sisters. Or even that Hedgehog, as Mayhem
Is here to save the day and show the C64 is more than capable of offering platforming antics in 1993!

Of course. Specifically firms like OpenAI and Anthropic, but also Microsoft, Google/Alphabet, Meta/FB et al.

Hoping that when the generative stuff dies, it'll allow better breathing room for those other Machine Learning technologies which do lead to neat things!

A great read if you're curious about the first of Raven's pre-Heretic games.

I will not feel Schadenfreude when I see news of the "AI" "industry" getting its comeuppance.

I will relish it. Like a fine meal. Or the tightest of hugs from the dearest of friends.

I hope those fucks go bust, and the "suits" in charge thrown behind bars for such large scale fraud.

Snapshot of my PC showing the capture of my PSP Go’s home screen with “Outrun 2006: Coast to Coast” selected.

Photo of a PSP Go inside its dock with a Dual Shock 3 pad sitting in front of it.

In long overdue sicko plans - finally got a spare PS3 pad to pair up with my PSP Go.

Comfy capture times are a go! *evil cackling laughter*

Taken from Sam Landman on FB but not sure if he is the artist. Graphic saying AI is for losers, reject fascism think for yourself. I can make Art that’s ugly and bad all by myself thank you very much

Dead Take: Could use a reshoot I’m not sure how I got here but I know what I, Chase Lowry, a talented actor currently in one of those lulls where the auditions come but the roles don’t, have to do: rescue my incredib…

Here's a new article for everyone! Dead Take's creepy enough in the moment, but falls apart at the lightest touch:

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Early Access: Killed Until Dead (C64, Apple II, ZX Spectrum) | Rob Caporetto Get more from Rob Caporetto on Patreon

A mysterious video is now up in early access for lovely supporter types!

Regardless of which way you support - either really helps, though I appreciate times are of course hard for everyone.

(But watching 'em without ads early rocks! 😉)

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Currently checking out MakeRoom, key kindly provided by the team at @wholesomegames.com #makeroom twitch.tv/aciddotexe

Reminder: the only number that matters to them is users. Blueberry has seventeen Bs if that makes the metrics go up

Ys IX Monstrum Nox: Burn bright Ah, the goth one. All grand cathedrals, candles, giant red moons, and a drastic Adol redesign that makes him look like he raided a Belmont’s wardrobe before a night out at a My Chemical Roman…

“What if Adol and friends got trapped inside an arena with dinosaurs and had to fight their way out?”

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So... yeah, Tokyo, that was something.

I've got a tonne of stuff coming from my trip but first up is the hands-on preview.