An very good long read by doc, about samurais, their portrayal in medias, historical accuracy and why it all matters.
Truly excellent, even more so if you enjoy(ed) any of _Ghost of Tsushima_ , Kurosawa's movies, _Shogun_ , _The Chrysanthemum and the Sword_ , or Star Trek's Klingons.
Une carte d'électeur avec les 12 scrutins tamponnés à l'arrière.
Est-ce que j'ai 10% de vote en plus sur ma prochaine élection ?
Autour d'une table, Mémé Ciredutemps, Nounou Ogg, le bibliothécaire, Mustrum Ridculle et Rincevent font une partie de Monsieur l'oignon-l'andouille. Gredin et le Bagage sont aussi là
Suzanne, la petite-fille de la Mort, dans ses deux costumes (soit stricte en institutrice, soit en robe et gants noir, en train d'enguirlander à Mort aux Rats qui se tient dans la paume de sa main. Elle a un corbeau à ses pieds.
Aquarelle représentant le commandant Vimaire passant devant Planteur JMTLG, son présentoir à saucisses autour du cou.
Madame Cake. Une petite dame boulotte habillée tout en noir, portant un chapeau noir orné de fruits en cire noirs.
GNU Terry Pratchett
Photography of two Paris subway ad panels for a painting exposition titled "Clair-Obscur" by the Pinault Collection.
Clair-Obscur Exposition 4/3
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Première de couverture de la bande dessinée "Le Travailleur de la Nuit". On y voit Alexandre Jacob habillé en costume noir , deout sur un toit parisien de nuit, regarder le spectateur d'un air sérieux, un pied de biche sur l'épaule.
@RichardMonvoisin Il avait eu le droit à une BD biopic il y a quelques années : _Le Travailleur de la Nuit_ , par Matz et Leonard Chemineau
CAUTION: EVENTS IN CALENDAR ARE SOONER THAN THEY APPEAR
Unattributed meme. A nine-square alignment chart, featuring signs. Going left to right, and then top to bottom: Done with this shit / I have questions : sign riveted into a tree in a forest reads "Your GPS is wrong turn around" Done with this shit / Disturbingly specific: sign reads "128 persons have drowned in this lake. 2 wearing a life jacket. 126 not wearing a life jacket." Done with this shit / Vivid: sign reads "Danger, not only will this kill you it will hurt the whole time you're dying" Ominous / I have questions: sign reads, " if you can read this you're in range" Ominous / Disturbingly specific: sign reads "Warning! Evacuate the island if you hear 8 short blasts" Ominous / Vivid: sign showing a palm tree and three people being chased by flying black circles, reads "Beware falling coconuts" Do not test the gods / I have questions: sign reads, "if elevator does not move do a small jump it should move after" Do not test the gods / Disturbingly specific: sign reads "road may be subject to sudden catastrophic sinkhole collapse" Do not test the gods / vivid: sign crushed by falling rock reads "Falling rock"
Good morning
Stylized drawing of the profile of a leopard in a circle. Around it is written: The Leopards Eating People's Faces Party PROUD MEMBER "it's not like they're going to eat MY face"
Congratulations to Angela Vergara for her rapid promotion as head of the LEPF Party.
When I said that your discord clone doesn’t need e2ee, I got a lot of comments along the lines of “ then how would I use it to organize the revolution!” The answer is: you don’t. If you have more users than can comfortably share a Signal chat and hence want to use discord or something like it […]
Photo d'un spectacle de marionnettes : Guignol avec son bâton s'apprête à taper Gendarme.
[frpol, lol, minint fragile]
#FaitPleurerNunez
Capture d'écran de GTA V où le joueur tue des policiers.
[frpol, lol, minint fragile]
#FaitPleurerNunez
TR-49 feels like a polished Type Help, and I enjoyed it very much.
I love how these new database games, following in the footsteps of Her Story or Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective, feel now less like a #videogames genre and more like a new, different way to write stories.
This is an interior view of an old, abandoned building. Domed roof with benches lining the walls, a bath in the center
🧼 When a spot turns into an unexpected side quest! Finding this old bathhouse house (hammam) in Lebanon had me walking in circles.
Arriving at the approximate location highlighted by my research, I could see nothing but shop stalls in the souk. I threaded my […]
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On a music app I can click "Search" then "Search by album title" then type what I'm looking for, and browse the results. I can also click "Random Albums" and get 20-ish random albums immediately.
So the other day I was looking for a specific album but kept clicking "Random Albums" to try and […]
A tortise or turtle icon on a park sign. The sign is blue. The turtle has 4 lines coming from its head as if to say "Attention!"
The same turtle sign. Now it has three spiked speech bubbles. The 1st reads "Smite you with thunderbolts!", the 2nd "I am your god!!" and the 3rd "Hawks to peck your liver!"
I saw this sign at the park and knew just what to do with it.
#TerryPratchett
@exserv.bsky.social C'est le moment de se faire monter des petites instances peertube à plusieurs.
_The Séance of Blake Manor_ was good, but still harbor the two core issues plaguing detective games:
* stuff your character understands (and solve) before you do and, worse,
* stuff you understand before your character (and then must painfully find the game designer's intended way to solve […]
Oh my god, I did not realise there's another entire #Roottrees game behind the Roottrees game!
Is there a reason why so many creators don't want to sell the android version of their videogame on itch? They could even do it as a separate sell, if money really is the issue?
I profundy hate buying anything on the Google Play Store, but for games I want to play on my phone that's usually the […]
A plastic wrap containing a single yellow ear bud labelled “Stereo to mono converter” Credits: QvasiTech
**$** `ffmpeg -ac 1`
Of course you can also put problems with built-in solutions in ttrpg games, such as puzzle and stuff, but for some reason these often feel bad and clunky and contrived in my games, while they absolutely work in videogames settings.
Musing about comparisons between #ttrpg, and #videogames.
I feel like one interesting difference is that, as a videogame designer, you _have_ to come up with interesting solutions to any problem you present to your players, because no solution can exist outside of what you put in the game […]
So it's appropriate to arrest a world leader if you consider them criminal? You can just go get them? Just asking questions here.
My end-of-year Hidden Gems list is up on PC Gamer! They asked me for 15. I did 30. Somehow, Weird Little Guys and The Apocalypse were a theme.
2025 was terrible in every other regard, but the games? Good.
I also just updated my Steam Curator Page with all the stuff in the feature and a few others.
Pas rancunier pour un sou, je souhaite de tout cœur une bonne année 2026 à Nicolas Sarkozy. 🎉
Et surtout la Santé. 😘
I was recently reminded of this.
A couple decades ago, I wrote a short paper that described how the basic approaches of cryptography and computer security lead to an efficient and practical privilege escalation attack against master-keyed mechanical lock, which I published in IEEE Security and […]
Mario Kart: what? “tutorial”? do you… do you not know how to play Mario Kart? does no-one in your family love you?
Kirby Air Rider: we have prepared a series of 31 videos to explain the basic mechanics, and strongly recommend you peruse them in their entirety before you go off pressing any […]
Screenshot of some strategy game with hex tiles. A giant spider is attacking another unit, missing it. The game UI writes over the unit "Mademoiselle" "Mademoiselle" is French for "Miss", as in "Miss Elisabeth Bennett".
I'm both laughing and crying.
Please, please stop using that crap for translating stuff it's ridiculous.
#videogames #translationFail
A screenshot of an interaction with Oracle Cloud customer service where I ask: "I understand that. So for a reason that I cannot be told my account was terminated without any notice, all of my data deleted, and there is nothing Oracle can do to change this?" Oracle support responds "That is correct."
This is a public service announcement to **never** ever use Oracle
The new book from Sarkozy looks amazing. Can't wait for him to get the FIFA literature prize ⸮
#frpol