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Thanks for injecting me with 500 cursed Black Knight Ultra Greatswords Getting hacked on memory lane for Dark Souls 2's 12th anniversary.

I have a new piece up at @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social — it’s about when I got hacked in Dark Souls 2, used hacker tools to unhack myself, and then talked to my hacker years later

11.03.2026 21:02 👍 184 🔁 36 💬 5 📌 1
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This bit in the From Russia With Love game made me laugh out loud. You've got a fairly grounded, low key fight based on the one in the movie, then the most video game looking fucker of all time slides into frame.

02.03.2026 20:44 👍 10195 🔁 2830 💬 27 📌 141

7-0? You know, I’m actually a bit of an Italian myself

11.03.2026 02:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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おはようございます!
🎂✨✨✨✨🎂
おかげさまで
ファルコム45周年
🎊✨✨✨✨🎊

09.03.2026 00:13 👍 176 🔁 81 💬 6 📌 10

not to disseminate descriptions of the events without express written consent but there has been some great baseball on today

08.03.2026 05:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
unreadable App Store promo tile with black text on a black background

unreadable App Store promo tile with black text on a black background

Yeah man, ship it. Who gives a shit

07.03.2026 17:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A Beekeeper's Guide to Game Design — Holly Gramazio i. Bees can distinguish many different colours. They watch for arrows drawn in violet so deep That we would call it ultra; They readily note the polarisation of light. Why not take advantage of this...

I still think about this piece all the time www.hollygramazio.net/blog/2015/2/...

07.03.2026 16:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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What Is the First Nintendo Crossover? — Thrilling Tales of Old Video Games The search for the first instance of one Nintendo product referencing another.

Revel in Nintendo nostalgia as I attempt to track down the first instance of Nintendo crossing over one franchise with another.

06.03.2026 03:57 👍 79 🔁 25 💬 1 📌 0

If you were going to make a Pyst-like parody of the Persona games, I think a good replacement for the the gun-to-the-head Evoker move would be eating one of those desiccant packs of silica gel

06.03.2026 04:53 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Honestly, the rot is so deep that I don't know if walking Liquid Glass back would be enough. Even their app icons are dogshit now! I installed the new OSes on launch and I'm still finding new things to hate

06.03.2026 01:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I saw some bad UI and for the first time I thought "ugh, this looks like something Apple would design"

06.03.2026 01:34 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

don't be surprised if some of your favorite baseball stars wind up playing major league baseball this season. i guarantee you that this very minute, big-league teams are beating feet all across the country – and beyond – as they look to fill their rosters with the very best ballplayers they can get

05.03.2026 19:11 👍 975 🔁 86 💬 34 📌 1
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Shigeru Miyamoto x Shigesato Itoi – 1989 Interview - shmuplations.com This lengthy interview captures a high-level meeting of the minds between Shigesato Itoi, Shigeru Miyamoto, and author Seiko Itou.

Today we have an amazing interview from 1989 with Shigeru Miyamoto and Shigesato Itoi. Conducted shortly after the release of Mother, it's full of deep musings about realism, creative exhaustion, the moral panic over kids & gaming, and prescient visions of the future. shmuplations.com/itoimiyamoto/

02.03.2026 22:46 👍 526 🔁 223 💬 6 📌 21

I’ve been playing this and fair warning: it is truly astounding how much game there is before the big robots happen

01.03.2026 23:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I am the wrong flavor of nerd for this 😭

01.03.2026 02:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Great Wave off Kanagawa - Wikipedia

is that...maybe the most in the world? It seems to be the most listed on Wikipedia here, but maybe the list isn't complete or there's some private collector who has even more en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gre...

28.02.2026 23:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

damn the MFA in Boston has SEVEN Great Wave prints collections.mfa.org/search/Objec...

28.02.2026 23:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
wet flower

wet flower

27.02.2026 15:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

samusclone was short for samantha ursula sclone

24.02.2026 18:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If Xenoblade Chronicles X were a Mitch Hedberg quote, it would be "rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something"

21.02.2026 17:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Classic nor'easter on the way for later Sunday evening into Monday. Heavily impacted Monday and into early Tuesday. Power outages part of this as well as coastal flooding. Spring will arrive and always does.

21.02.2026 10:45 👍 101 🔁 21 💬 4 📌 13

Nintendo should just raise those Pokemon prices a little bit right now while no one is paying attention

20.02.2026 20:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Baseball tomorrow 😌

20.02.2026 03:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

documenting some OOP architectural problems in my code in a text file called "class struggle"

19.02.2026 18:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

and they keep arriving at a friendly location, getting outfitted with ponies and supplies, and then losing everything!

16.02.2026 02:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

(to be honest I'm not generally a huge spoiler-care-abouter but still)

16.02.2026 01:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What a weird feeling to be caught up on Trails games. Literally have never been in this position before. I can just open any wiki, any interview. I am invincible

16.02.2026 01:54 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Bilbo came at it before it could disappear and stuck it with his sword right in the eyes. Then it went mad and leaped and danced and flung out its legs in horrible jerks, until he killed it with another stroke; and then he fell down and remembered nothing more for a long while.

Bilbo came at it before it could disappear and stuck it with his sword right in the eyes. Then it went mad and leaped and danced and flung out its legs in horrible jerks, until he killed it with another stroke; and then he fell down and remembered nothing more for a long while.

Quite suddenly Dori, now at the back again carrying Bilbo, was grabbed from behind in the dark. He shouted and fell; and the hobbit rolled off his shoulders into the black-ness, bumped his head on hard rock, and remembered nothing more.

Quite suddenly Dori, now at the back again carrying Bilbo, was grabbed from behind in the dark. He shouted and fell; and the hobbit rolled off his shoulders into the black-ness, bumped his head on hard rock, and remembered nothing more.

"The Eagles!" cried Bilbo once more, but at that moment a stone hurtling from above smote heavily on his helm, and he fell with a crash and knew no more.

"The Eagles!" cried Bilbo once more, but at that moment a stone hurtling from above smote heavily on his helm, and he fell with a crash and knew no more.

something I noticed for the first time rereading The Hobbit along with Shelved by Genre: this dude LOVES to hit his head and remember nothing more

15.02.2026 16:52 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It was the Rock Band characters

12.02.2026 05:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Still feels weird to give someone directions in Boston even though I guess I’ve lived more of my life around here now than anywhere else

11.02.2026 23:38 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0