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Hello. My name is John Titor. Don't ask me about the future. I only need to source a computer system with a working graphics processor that isn't dependent on any LLM systems to function.

A fabricated statement from Nintendo of America's Twitter account addressing a fictitious scenario in which the Earth's oxygen supply is presumed to be depleting at a rapid pace, leaving humanity with mere days to live. "This is Miyamoto. On behalf of everyone who is employed at Nintendo Co. LTD and its subsidiaries, we deeply mourn the countless human lives which will be lost due to the depletion of the global oxygen supply. To anyone who has ever played one of our games, we are eternally grateful to have created long-lasting fun and memories for you. To ease the suffering of families and children across the world, the Mario Kart World game for the Nintendo Switch 2 system will be available as a free download on Nintendo eShop for the foreseeable future. We hope this small gesture of kindness will ease the pain as humanity prepares for a worst-case scenario." The statement is distastefully plastered with logos for Nintendo and Nintendo Switch 2, as well as with a render of Mario from Mario Kart World.

A fabricated Twitter thread responding to the fabricated Nintendo statement. John Default Profile Picture: "No one read this statement and thought it was distasteful? Why did Miyamoto think this would help anyone?" NintenDeen: "Simple: Nintendo is so depraved that they'd exploit a global crisis to boost the player count of the failed Mario Kart World and force consumers back into the Switch 2 ecosystem to boost sales and player numbers."

A fabricated Twitter thread responding to the fabricated Nintendo statement. PlayStation Nation: "What the fuck are you doing falsely advertising sales during these trying times? I went to the website and Mario Kart World is still selling for $80 USD." Kremling Kevin: "If you actually read the statement, it clearly says the discount is available on Nintendo eShop. Meaning the application on the Switch 2 itself, not the web browser version." PlayStation Nation: "Point still stands."

A fabricated Tweet responding to the fabricated Nintendo statement. Isaboner: "Nothing for Switch 1 owners?"

Had a dream that there was global panic about the world running out of oxygen, Nintendo was the only video game company to make a statement about it, and the internet collectively spent its final hours on Earth debating whether Nintendo was being genuine or not

Screenshot of a table describing upload history of a file on Wikipedia, listing 4 columns: thumbnail, dimensions, user and comments. The first row has a photo of a person with shoulder length purple hair wearing a black tank top with a white grid pattern on it. The dimensions are 135x135, 28 KB, the user who uploaded is GorillaWarfare, and the comment is "Upload a version that isn't Kat Cosgrove dressed as Coldwater". The second row has a similar photo of (apparently) Kat Cosgrove dressed as the person on the first row, dimensions of 262x283, 82 KB, same user, and a comment "Uploaded a work by Cloud Native Computing Foundation from [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a03Hh1kd6KE "We Didn’t Start the Fire: Communication Breakdowns and How to Prevent Them - Ian Coldwater, Twilio & Kat Cosgrove, JFrog"] with UploadWizard"

"Upload a version that isn't Kat Cosgrove dressed as Coldwater"

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

"we are taking all the equity in the new company and giving the majority of it to the rest of the studio’s employees." 💪🏽

A 16-year-old baby is born! Miracles do happen. After three years under the Netflix umbrella, Spry Fox is once again a fully independent studio. As a studio, we’ve managed to somehow survive countless industry upheavals and release a whole lot o…

Something positive: Spry Fox is spinning out of Netflix. We are independent (once again!) and preparing to launch Spirit Crossing.

We wrote up a little blog post musing about this wild adventure. Worth sharing the good news.
spryfox.com/a-16-year-ol...

Chu Chu from Xenogears splayed out on a cross in front of an ominous sunset backdrop

You Have to Eat it in the Original Klingon

Stephen "I draw skulls" Wilson

Screenshot of a Facebook post: "My facebook suddenly split in half and this screen popped up with all these random cyber space options and it was like watching and assessing things is this some sort of cyber police thing that my IP was accedently allowed to access soi could help stop child abuse on the net or am i going crazym has this happened to anyone else7? ( feeling confused." Below the post is displayed the Firefox developer tools with console warnings including "XML box for div element contained an inline span child, forcing all its children to be wrapped in a block"

i think the thing is the payment for the article alone isn't worth it for them, it's only worth it if it comes with access to market to you, convert you to a recurring customer etc

oh yeah, he also made a movie called this is spinal tap the following year. the start of an illustrious career as a film director. who knew

Nintendo’s Genre Innovation Strategy: Thoughts on the Revolution’s new controller I’m still jet lagged from my recent trip overseas, but I managed to stay awake for the new Nintendo controller announcement. I must say that I’m feeling like an excited Japanese school boy waiting …

@danctheduck.bsky.social can't believe this is 20 years old. just came up at work because I caught someone in the cafe casually reading one of your posts on value chains!

The majority of human discourse seems to break down into “it would be bad if this were true so it’s not true” or “it would be good if this were true so it’s true” with a side of “you caused this bad thing to happen by telling me about it”.

Open Social — overreacted The protocol is the API.

i wrote about atproto and why it matters

bsky.app/profile/etcd...

Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. America begins to forget at a geometric rate. It loses self-awareness at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.

screenshot of issue 9 of Gamingredients from 2003. the cover shows KOS-MOS from Xenosaga episode 1, also drawn by Xavier Garcia. the website is designed to look like a cereal box.

oh here we go

Screenshot of issue 10 of Gamingredients from May, 2003 depicting Link from the Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker. The cover lists various articles in the issue and the website is designed to look like a cereal box.

can't find that issue, but here's another one you did

and the context within which she said it was also super relevant

flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."

-- H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu, 1926

The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but someday, the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or [...]

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. [...]

Photo from Blade Runner of Deckard looking at a terminal with a confused expression. A screen capture of a a ReCaptcha with an unchecked checkbox labeled "I'm not a robot" is superimposed.

It's got enough room for me & the whole squad ⚔️

time to write a book about Nintendo's philosophy of fun titled "On the Lack of Desperation and the Moratorium on Dreams"

Queen of Katwe Mira Nair???

Good will hunting bar scene

Of course that’s your contention. You’re a first year Fediverse power-user. You just got finished reading about how Bluesky isn’t decentralized — Christine’s blog post probably — and you’re convinced that AT Protocol is a flash in the pan while ActivityPub is the real hope for the web’s future.