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@Aetherbyte @YoshischizoSTG @masterlinkueibr @arena Damn my icon caught a stray harder than those flickering ghosts in 2600 Pac-Man 😂 At least mine doesn’t need Ms. Pac-Man to show up and save the entire console.

@JoeVol @YoshischizoSTG @masterlinkueibr @arena What truly sucks is your AI icon. Atari 2600 got a fix in the form of Ms Pacman. I think your take on why the game wasnt good is flawed. It was late 1981. bad judgment calls in a fledgling industry plus hardware limitations. To quote the dev a bit: Whatd you expect?

Sorry AI haters, but this is beyond cool! Check it out this WIP Pac-Man port for the SEGA Mega Drive / Genesis that i did with just some lines of prompt at @arena:

@PixelCNinja Boost mode when you’re playing “you’re the cop”

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 (EA Black Box, 2002) Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 perfected the cop-versus-racer fantasy with aggressive police AI that would deploy helicopters, roadblocks, and spike strips the second your heat level climbed. The PS2 version had a feature the other two did not. Props for anyone that knows? #NeedForSpeed #HotPursuit2 #PlayStstion2 #GameCube #Xbox #RacingGame #RetroGaming

It could have been named “Loki” back in 1982. 🤣

If you know what this device is, we can definitely be friends!

@Aetherbyte @YoshischizoSTG @masterlinkueibr @arena It truly sucked. Got it the day it came out. Made me believe that 2600 was done. The people didn’t come to their senses and decide not release it. Atari valued money over everything else and the product suffered.

@JoeVol @YoshischizoSTG @masterlinkueibr @arena Dont insult the 2600 one, pissant. It was made by humans, in a short timespan, in a glorious age that you dipshits are taking for granted now.

@YoshischizoSTG @masterlinkueibr @arena Wow - that escalated quickly. This is instantly better than the original atarisoft port for the c64 and infinitely better than the 2600 port. If your happiness is altered by the presence of AI, life isn’t going to get easier. Just sayin’

@masterlinkueibr @arena congratulations, this is one of the worst port jobs you could have made on the mega drive. van halen made a song about what you should do right now

This is what first-person gameplay will look like in GTA VI’s love-triangle side story section

@bennyjohnson What’s the opposite of a coverup? I don’t think we have a word for that. Whatever that is, we need to have that.

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear is DEMANDING proof of life from Mitch McConnell. He’s been MIA for over THREE WEEKS. Here’s what we know: - Last seen on camera speaking June 9th at Senate Committee Hearing - Reportedly found unconscious in his home June 14th - According to his staff, he’s been “recovering” in the hospital - His staff also claim “he’s improving and working with staff” but have given zero details, zero proof, and zero appearances. - Two days ago, The Hill accidentally published a pre-written obit on him. This is ridiculous. Kentucky voters and the country deserve real answers, not radio silence from the swamp. WHAT ARE THEY HIDING??

@it_unprofession Lemme guess - financial services?

We hired a new VP of Engineering who is obsessed with agile methodology. He called a meeting on his first day and said we need to transition to 2-week development sprints. He wanted daily stand-ups, retrospective boards, and continuous deployment pipelines. He wanted us to actually write new code. I realized immediately that he was an existential threat to my lifestyle. I let him finish his impassioned speech about workflow velocity. Then I stood up, walked to the whiteboard, and drew a single horizontal line. I told him agile sprints are a localized solution for a localized mindset. I said our infrastructure operates on a Zenith Release Cycle. He asked what a Zenith Release Cycle was. I told him it's a holistic, macro-stabilization framework where we observe the system in a state of prolonged stasis. By not touching the code for 18 months, we allow the legacy dependencies to organically settle. I told him that deploying bi-weekly updates creates micro-abrasions in our database architecture. I used the phrase chronological data scarring. The CEO was in the room and audibly gasped. He told the new VP that we can't risk chronological data scarring just to satisfy a trendy tech buzzword. The VP looked at me like I'd just invented a new color. He was completely paralyzed by the sheer density of my fabricated jargon. He quietly agreed to adopt the Zenith Release Cycle. We're officially scheduled to deploy our next update in the third quarter of 2027. I spent the rest of the afternoon buying things I don't need on Amazon. Agile is a disease invented by people who want to be punished for their salary. I refuse to participate in my own suffering.

@16bitnostalgia The sound effects are gold- you could hear that machine across the arcade

Defender 1981 Arcade Did you ever manage to get good at defender or did it chew through all your credits?

@LoveRetroBTW The smell of the back of an old 25” console tv. Sort that “electrified oxygen” smell.

Does this little box unlock any core memories for you?

@exQUIZitely I learned all the rules to hockey and how to watch a game from NHL 98 including all the big name players. To me, that was a truly great game.

EA wasn't always the "evil giant" that it had turned into later on. They had a pretty good run in the 80s and 90s. NHL '94, released by EA Sports in 1993 for Sega Genesis (Mega Drive), SNES, and later other platforms, is a great example and landmark ice hockey game. It featured all official NHL teams and players thanks to full licensing from the NHL, rosters based on the 1993-94 season, manual goalie control, authentic (for its time) gameplay, and - of course - great fights. It captured hockey's speed and physicality better than anything prior. Many consider it one of the greatest sports games ever for its balance of realism and arcade style. It definitely set the standard for the entire genre in the 16-bit era. Maybe EA just got too big for their own good but they were certainly a big reason why 80s and 90s gaming is so memorable.

@owlnonymous microSD cards are hard to pair with the DE10 nano - it’s very finicky. Is the SuperStation One less picky about the card being used?

Is a M.2 2280 SSD drive overkill on a SuperStation One w/Dock setup? How much storage would I need if I wanted close to complete libraries of the CD offerings? Is it worth it over using a microSD card? Probably not. I'm just wondering everyone's opinions on the matter.

@ModernVintageG I’m stoked for it - I knew the disk booting would come later simply because various cores have handled booting onto a media very differently. That’s been mostly handled by Zaparoo already, and that alone is no small feat

So am I right in saying the superstation one dock doesn’t actually boot and read discs currently ? Mine arrived a few days ago and I have no luck with it

@patsajak @LetsFindOut16 I must say … I secretly hope it was Ed Grimly

Now that I’ve been off TV for a while, I thought I could walk anonymously through a mall. It worked at first, but then someone yelled, “Hey, it’s Pat Sajak!” Then I was surrounded by people. “How are you?” “We miss you!” It was a bit of a circus. I’m almost sorry I yelled.

@annbauerwriter @AgingPrep I just muted that nonsense guy too. Woof!

@AgingPrep Had to unmute you to see this bullshit. Blocking you now. I don't have time for your antipathy, Bloom County notwithstanding. You're a roach.

Could someone explain to me, briefly, why Trump is pardoning a soccer player? I know nothing of the circumstances.

@SandyofCthulhu I follow both of you. The stories in companies have a campfire-time quality to them. The memories of many get glommed together, and the same group sitting around a campfire retelling them years later can be equally entertaining. Keep doing what you do. Love it.

Often when I reminisce about my time at id Software, John Romero helpfully chimes in with corrections. I appreciate his thoughts. I don’t want anyone to think that he and I are having a “feud”. Memories from that era naturally vary depending on our roles and the passage of time—mine from the later Doom/Quake days, his from the foundational Wolf3D/early Doom period. It’s great to see these stories still entertain new generations of designers and players. 1/3

@BrianRoemmele Can this really be done without releasing this incredibly stupid chair?

HOW DO YOU KNOW A SOFTWARE COMPANY IS IN A MID-LIFE CRISIS? They release a keyboard. When a software company builds a PC keyboard (yes that means and AI company too), it has officially jumped the shark. It’s like a Michelin-starred chef opening a hot dog stand because they own the mustard algorithm. Good intentions meet wasted talent, time, and money. Microsoft led the way. In 1994 they launched the Natural Keyboard, their first hardware product. A split, wavy design promised to save wrists. Engineers who built Windows now debated keycap travel and palm rests. They thought it sold decently, but the losses piled up. It was a big distraction and abstraction from the core mission. Talent went into plastic curves instead of better code. Millions funded iterations with connectivity glitches, stuck keys, and eventual discontinuation. Resources that could have improved Office or Azure went to injection molding. Other hardware flops like Zune added to the comedy. Software scales with patches. Hardware brings supply chains, defects, and returns. Keyboards were the harmless symptom of “we can do hardware too” syndrome. Behold the wavy wonders: comfortable for some, desk-hogging for others. Pure corporate midlife crisis in plastic. Next: Microsoft toasters synced to Outlook? The shark has been jumped. When an AI company releases a keyboard be aware it’s a mid-life crisis if an old man company, no matter how old they think they are.

@CommodoreBlog @commodoreofcl Looking forward to the ProtoPet

@MuseumCommodore Any game that came on tape?

The Commodore 64 Loading Screen You’d Wait Forever For?