Looks like it's back up. It was down, though.

Ranking the top 101 Nintendo games: No. 32, Mother 3 Thank Nintendo for developing this lovely, thoughtful game, but they aren't the reason you can play it in English.

I didn't write a big thing for Mother 3's anniversary, because I already wrote a big thing for Mother 3 years back. Everything within still applies. One of the best bits of storytelling Nintendo has ever done. A tale of loneliness, selfishness, greed, and the destructiveness of capitalism's cycles.

It's four different people, all in different stages of transforming into four different Hulks.

Among their many great games, they also made the best Star Trek pinball table.

PROFESSOR X: The Xavier Institute has the highest safety standards for our students.

ME: Chuck, three of your students were maimed in a “danger room” (what the fuck!) and one was stabbed by a drunk teacher with claw hands. As your lawyer: not great!

PROFESSOR X: …I’m going to jail.

ME: Oh yeah.

I’ve always wanted to hold a small pinball tournament where the only rule was that you’re not allowed to move Meatloaf.

They Killed Fritz!!

The Little Probe That Could: Why Voyager 1 Matters, and Why NASA Just Switched Part of It Off This week, NASA announced it had shut down one of that spacecraft's remaining science instruments — not because the mission has failed, but to keep it alive a little longer.

The engineers keeping these probes going have got to be some of the cleverest in the world.

Amazon Luna Removing Paid Games And Offering No Refunds You have until June 10 to enjoy the games you purchased on the cloud streaming service

This is why I buy my games and burn them on discs. This is why physical editions are getting more popular.
kotaku.com/amazons-luna...

I sure hope they meant Magnavox…

What game is that? It's kinda giving me Faxanadu vibes.

A flatscreen display on a "smart" water fountain, demanding to be reconnected to the internet.

In 1999, I was playing a decker in Shadowrun, and tried to distract a guard by hacking a water fountain to overflow, and my GM said "why would a water fountain be on the network? That's fucking stupid. No you can't try."

Well it's 2026 and I just want you to know, Phil, that I FUCKING CALLED IT!

So much more useful than some dumb AI bot account.

How was this not in a bunch of '80s direct-to-video movies?

Not everything that breaks is technically the fault of vibe coding but the kind of culture that would foster vibe coding is the kind that produces a lot of shit that breaks.

Jury finds Live Nation, Ticketmaster had anti-competitive monopoly over big concert venues | CBC News A jury has found that concert giant Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary had a harmful monopoly over big concert venues, dealing the company a loss in a lawsuit over claims brought by dozens of...

Bad news for T'Pol's husband. Good news for everyone else.

Read the hell out of those when I was a kid

3 vertical panels. Panel 1 labeled 2014 - me with short hair in front of a CRT with Shenmue on it and a Dreamcast, SNES and N64 in front of it. Me saying "I love collecting retro game stuff! I'm gonna play ALL the games!" Panel 2 labeled 2019 - me with slightly longer hair, more consoles in front of the TV, with static on the screen. Me saying "These old systems needs a lot of maintenance. I have to get better at electronics repair. Panel 3 labeled 2024 - even more systems on the CRT, but me with my current long hair sitting at a table with my back to them, soldering a circuit board, my custom PICO-8, my handmade Vectrex controller, my "Game Man" I made by consolising a GBA on the table and me saying "...remember when I used to play games?"

Since it feels like all I've been doing for the last 3 weeks has been repairing my game collection, today's #throwbackthursday is the little comic strip I made about this EXACT situation two years ago!

#retrogaming #retrocollecting #art #comic #diy #repair #funny #tbt

I'm gonna have to check it out!

Holy shit

A pop-up window in Delve, an ascii-based roguelike game. The text describes a magic item, "Shoes of sneaking" with the text "Someday, when vocabulary technology is advanced enough, society will simply call these 'sneakers'. But we aren't there yet.

why yes I do laugh at my own jokes

#delve #roguelikedev

A screencap of a WhatsApp message reading, "I ended up on a balloon fetishist fandom wiki while researching terminology for a bluesky post about Heathcliff"

The essence of sci-fi is beaming a sentence like this back to the 1920s, and watching the people of that time try to work out what it could mean from first principles.

Results of a geophysical survey of a hillfort interior showing roundhouses, pits, ditches and roads as darker signals, the encircling ramparts depicted in red

Happy #HillfortsWednesday 🥳

Here's our magnetometry survey of Maiden Castle, Dorset’s very own mega-hillfort

Zoom in (you know you want to) to see the outline of Iron Age roundhouses, pits, ditches and roads, a Neolithic enclosure and a bank barrow 👍

© Dave Stewart 2014 / Bournemouth University

The mic rulah
The old schoolah
You wanna trip? I'll bring it to ya

Yesssssss!! haha

Ring of Red? (I'm in the middle of the ocean so can't pop in to the stream to find out! 😭)

Oh he does not look happy. (I'm guessing he's on painkillers?) How old is he?

ALF! I still have them, too!

I hadn't heard of OpenMenu before this post and now I think I'm going to have to try it! Thank you!