Alex Darby // darbotron 🛹

Flip Satan Retro gaming shenanigans by one of those awful video game journalists. Sometimes helpful, often nonsense.

Maybe now is the time to start doing retro nonsense in video form. Maybe if you give this a follow, things will pop up. youtube.com/@flipsatan?s...

“How dare you speak ill of Microsoft I love Xbox!”

If you actually loved Xbox you’d be speaking ill of Microsoft too, you nipple.

assuming you're on windows you can use winget in the command line for meat stuff these days. SO much better than trying to find download links...

The BBC are really going out of their way to not call these The Peter Files.

If anyone is willing the share the following, I would be so grateful!

We just launched Piece by Piece on Steam 🎉🎉

It's a cozy repair shop sim, you play a woodland fox who inherits his grandfather's store. You fix up items with your hammer and paintbrush 🔨🖌️🦊

store.steampowered.com/app/3179050/...

a screenshot of a web browser with the text 'Sandy Balls Holiday Village'

Presented without comment.

“Super Mario was based on an Italian man I saw die in an accident on a construction site. I thought to myself, ‘What if that man had been killed by a gorilla, rather than negligence?’ - Shigeru Miyamoto

Happy Mario day!

TOMORROW!!

i cannot emphasise enough how much i love this approach

It was only after I'd been in the industry for 14 years that people started to hit on the idea of cutting stuff instead of crunching; and let's face it it's still not a ubiquitous approach!

From mandatory ID cards to arresting pensioners for holding up cardboard signs to cosy deals with US tech spy firms:

It's good to see lawyers pushing back on their increasingly authoritarian Govenrment.

We must protect jury trials.

Oh yeah, of course. How silly of me.

Only a fucking idiot would try to solve NPCs with AI.

The standard "nothing new to say, repeat last thing forever" NPC trope isn't a limitation, it's a _mechanic_ that lets you know you've got all their info & that it's time to move on...

also: the most blatant Cinderella set up of all time?

Brilliant of Reform to get the right "things that are wrong with Britain" choice:

- toxic populism
- Brexit
- housing
- tax exiles
- tax exiles owning the media
- lack of racial justice
- lack of inward investment
- graduate debt
- poor public infrastructure
- not enough flags to wank with.

To be fair once we aimed to be a 7/10 game but we ended up winning a BAFTA so aim for the stars sometimes you accidentally hit the moon?

Highest of fives!

These look like a "What to wear to visit a National Trust property when they're filming Antiques Roadshow there and one of the Lesser Royals is attending" feature from Country Life Magazine!!

Weird, right?

I feel like it's crufts' history? i.e. something people with country estates would have organised / attended?

A quick google tells me that The Kennel Club which runs crufts has a private member's club in Mayfair, which fits...

Maybe this can be your next long-form deep dive essay?

Will we be forced to salute them all?

Maybe a supervised pledge of allegiance every morning in your workplace, too?

Daily mass meetings where we are expected to shout "Heil Nigel", and non-participants quietly disappear?

An illegal war by USA & Israel, propped up by missions from UK air bases.

Supported by Nigel Farage.

Over 1000 civilians dead & now the threat of global economic fallout. Trump's disaster makes us all less safe, less secure - and we will remember those who backed it.

FEAR IS THE MINDKILLER INTENSIFIES

actualol

"Why is the Save button in Excel depicted as a vending machine with a purchased drink can at the bottom? this question is currently being discussed by young Japanese people on a forum" And then a picture of a 3.5inch floppy disk. You bastards.

This is just vindictive.

Ravenous (1999) Ravenous (1999)

hahaha! omfg. same!

specifically this movie with a soundtrack by Damon from Blur songs like it's played on egg slicers:

m.imdb.com/title/tt0129...

fucking love my egg slicer. I like to play weird twangy music on the wires.

spent the night playing CS 1.6 at a LAN party for a friend's birthday and its crazy we solved the multiplayer FPS in 2000, and then decided to spend the next 26 years making them worse in every way imaginable

You're good! I acknowledge the existence of no sequels or spin-offs.

Happy Corporations Having No Meaningfully Helpful Policies But Making A Post Once A Year Saying “look we have women” Day!

don't miss: headers, bizarre issues caused by project compilation set up, other programmers (ab)using weird edge-casey language features to prove how clever they are.

I'll always love C++ deep down though 😅