well this cover is worth any price

this kind of makes sense bc BT is an import product there and i feel that stuff always gets marked up for jp. and the marked up again to toss it back to us. 😅

I actually have some odd, not jp, but old, BT stuff I could dig out if you'd like. Not trying to sell on ya, friend priced, etc.

ya, that i get. i am pro-pro-pro physical media, and they are against it for the exact opposite reason, it creates wealth for us and not for them.

the japanese video game to japanese paper pipeline can be brutal.

are they expensive in japan?

japan sellers on ebay price things at outrageous prices, i mean like $120 for a magazine you can get from yahoojapan for ~$20-40

If you use AI to create a text, you're not a "writer", your an "editor (of a shitty writer)"

If you use AI to create a text, you're not a "writer", your an "editor (of a shitty writer)"

na, this thing will be busted open and all games will be $0 in 20 years

2026 is 2006

I get it. I just think 15 has this meme-y-ness to it, "fight for fifteen", etc. it's catchy and memorable and it's been around & people have heard about it. & we really have to crush it with some better plan before they say "yes" & then "we gave you what you wanted".

Now I’m just a backwoods small town hyperchicken, but it seems to me that if a company is big enough to existentially threaten the government then you don’t actually have a functioning government anymore.

we need to stop talking about the $15 min wage bc that figure is 2011, & we need to talk about the $25 min wage with automatic yearly increase. I think the more we chase $15 the more we undercut ourselves for a figure they're probably glad we're chasing.

the last app game i tried was pokemon tcg, & the app was pretty good, but, everything was molasses slow. eventually i realised all these transitions/delays/animations only existed to keep me in the app, seconds at a time, so some user engagement metric ticks. ""analytics"".

& here's the thing, the payout structure defines the format.

Like how the VHS era dictated movies be under 120m (& if you get them to 90 that's 25% less tape to buy).

If this is successful, you'll see games built to steal time.

Take care & get well

you don't want to enable JS, click to confirm you're human, and, answer two SAT questions before you can see lyrics to a mountain goats song?

gadgadsgame go to the polls.

keep this, looks great. how can i join your webring?

any idea how well this would handle the android apk of clone hero? I've had that game give me issues on devices, maybe bc it isn't very optimised? just wondering in case you know.

i hadn't seen it in action until this clip, I have a very old android clamshell, this looks like what I wanted that to do, & might fill gaps the analouge pocket just can't (ps1/2/p)

this handheld looks great. I don't know why N left the handheld market.

Am I alone in wishing to be out of here?

You should probably stop listening to whoever sold this idea because this is abysmal comprehension of audience.

damn, that’s crazy

anyway

but, i think this is part of the imagine. accepting your car's engine is fucking dead and thinking about life walking, cycling, building a new car.

but, i do believe the current system IS locked. like, jammed. just from understanding the difficulty large change would take without discarding the system. i wish things were better yesterday, & i just can't see how the fed hasn't run course.

i agree. i think that's why talk/thought of separating is so taboo. bc the more we talk about it, imagine it, conceptualise how it would work, the closer we get to it being reality which they (govt) do not want.

i feel ""we"" need to realise we're a collection of 4-6 countries in a miserable roommate situation. i don't think anything can change until we address reality.

i understand, but also feel there's a disconnect in how we think of identity&nationality. idk if I think the govt is "evil", it's more that govt is a system & the forces able to turn the dials ($$$) are unredeemable scumbags. i can't see any way this system changes for the better. it's locked.

For those interested in preservation - Krugman here has been tirelessly dumping games basically nobody knows about, especially previously undumped eroge and adjacent games on PC98. He buys and repairs moldy discs to make it financially viable. It's a lot of work, so check out his stuff!

a bunch of punks standing in a group, one with a skull jacket, a couple bare chested, facing off with haggar, diagonal strap across chest, holding a pipe(?), pointing with his other hand. they are on a train.

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