have you tried babushka's glitch dungeon?

the fyp algorithm mystifies me so idk why i got this post in my tl but it did unironically remind me i forgot to add bay leaves to my stew. thank you simons quest

MegaMan Zero 4 is so fucking good but I really wish it didn't feel so dumbed down mechanically. I prefer how Zero 3 plays but if Zero 4 developed 3's systems even further I genuinely think it would be my favorite game of all time

where else are people going these days. mastodon continues to be kinda eh. is tumblr coming back

it's gonna be a little sad when this site inevitably starts selling out and dies shortly after but. actually come to think of it probably it wont be that sad

the healing potion sprite from castlevania, symphony of the night. it looks like a glass pitcher with a gold handle and contains some blue liquid

i always liked that the potion from symphony of the night is like a full-on pitcher. do you think alucard carries around little glasses or does he just chug directly from the spout

but hey at least it was a little harder for them to directly damage society a couple years ago

genuinely there have been multiple times i've had to stop myself mid-rant irl lately when i'm about to address the "realization" everyone i've ever worked with was an irredeemable sellout and i remember in that moment there was nothing new to be realized about that fact

it's so surreal seeing conversation shift uncritically to "actually yeah maybe i would pay ai companies in the same way i pay for internet or electricity" in real time. software engineering is so fucked and it's software engineers' own fault

is this parallax? i would kill to see it in motion

been reflecting on this sort of thing a lot lately and like. i think a big part of this is just that art direction and art are actually completely different skillsets. undertale kicks ass at legibility in a way most games with extremely good art couldn't if they wanted to

but ofc for something as nicely boxed-up as a uxn interpreter i could believe regalloc choices are more local. but still, not something i in principle like to see happen in a compiler impl

i'm thinking from the perspective of not just performance on a set of tests, but that subtle regalloc bugs are responsible for a ton of security bugs in practice, and often they are not caught by tests. something that can probabilistically fail in that regard is really worrying

i have like, formative experience nostalgia for it. i think it's still good for anyone but, maybe not as much of a slam dunk for a new player in 2026 as i'd expect? but you should still play it if you like metroidvanias, it's free and only takes a few hours

(while of course basically giving claude free advertising space in the process)

...and i don't want to dogpile, but is it cool? uxn is a project that exists for the love of computing if i've ever seen one, and it sounds like matt is aware of this incongruity in the post!! such a shame to subject it to the same productivity-obsessed mindset of "well this had to get done somehow"

"claude did great with this assembly backend" but also "claude didn't understand which registers to use and arbitrarily clobbered eax a bunch in ways a human had to fix later". cool it worked but this is a VM engineer's nightmare?

cave story is immaculate a perfect game its the reason i do the things i do but there is that one room in sand zone with all the parrots and you just gotta ask what was he cooking

like two or three of them are heartfelt genuine expressions of love for the game and in five years the person who made it will end up finding their own creative voice and publish some visual novels on itch. the rest are sponsored by rocket money

glad cave story came out in 2004 and not 2024 otherwise we'd have two hundred 10-20 minute highly monetizable videos about it titled "the doctor was NOT acting alone (the mahin theory)"

american century of humiliation began when nobody bought the zenbook fold in 2022

angry at this not for geopolitical reasons but because it dares to suggest that the foldable laptop form factor does anything other than suck complete ass

i don't mean this in any way as like, a re-rebuttal. the quoted article is not wrong about anything. just kind of a lot of whiplash

within like a minute of seeing this post i scrolled a little on the modded mc subreddit to find out that someone made another girl potion/programmer socks/trans people can double jump mod and people are making forcefem "jokes" in the comments. i'm so tired

metroidbrainia alignment chart came to me in a vision

it is a picture like the other #my9games pictures but this one has the sylvie game "cat planet" on it 9 times

#my9games

like man. what a way to throw away your credibility. whenever this happens i'm always thinking, i hope you guys are at least getting a kickback from amazon or something. imagine spending your evening shilling ai for free

i dont imagine anyone with critical thinking skills still looks at rust as having a particularly good or principled community but it's still disappointing to see steve klabnik use his platform to reply guy for the bluesky staff and butthurtedly shill ai

me when someone makes a good point abOut something

seeing a lot of people posting about how you don't have to give anthropic credit for standing up to trump and not a lot of people addressing the far greater moral dilemma of whether you have to give trump credit for taking down anthropic