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Retro gamer. Occasional ROM hacker & pixel artist. Transformers, TMNT, & anime fan. Author of the Super Mario Bros DX ROM hack and Super Game Boy 2: Vaporwave Edition.
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Some light viewing for Star Wars Day: youtu.be/vqnjzVX8EKA...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

submitted 28 days ago • 117 comments

You Can Now Play A Previously Lost Mega Man Legends Title In English For The First Time. (Image: @Cargodin) (Repost)

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

When console gaming's first female protag showed up in Wabbit, unrelated female-led arcade and computer games nearly showed up the same month. Oct 1982 came this close to being a trifecta, but the latter two were cancelled. The arcade game, Mrs. Dynamite, is still shrouded in mysteries. 🧵 (thread)

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

Delisted Doom (and Wolf3D) games have been saved!

submitted 48 days ago • 7 comments

Guy stealing from me: You have to wonder about the motives of the people who noticed me stealing from you. What do they have to gain Me: Wow good point

submitted 87 days ago • 10 comments

Street Fighter/World Heroes comic by MAD Sawashige, from a 1994 Comic Gamest compilation.

submitted 90 days ago • 2 comments

The takeover of Twitter was a preview of what we're all living with now and a stark example of why you can't let any one person have too much money: they go insane and make themselves everybody's problem

submitted 95 days ago • 582 comments

Wonderful about.usps.com/newsroom/ser...

submitted 95 days ago • 11 comments

It cannot be understated how devastating the removal of the de minimis exemption will be for small USA business, especially in the maker communities. It will be a death blow to many. The USPS is not equipped to handle 4 million small value packages per day suddenly becoming subject to tariffs.

submitted 95 days ago • 2 comments

Saw this coming. https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025/02/trumps-tariffs-have-changed-everything-for-makers-of-essential-retro-gaming-gear

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 95 days ago • 767 comments

an unelected billionaire storming into US agencies, installing his unqualified and unapproved lackeys, purging civil servants, seizing access to sensitive data and payments, unilaterally eliminating federal agencies: fine identifying the lackeys: illegal

submitted 96 days ago • 241 comments

(me watching burglars break all the windows and climb into my house) “Just give it time. They might cut their hand on the glass.”

submitted 96 days ago • 129 comments

submitted 98 days ago • 49 comments

if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools

submitted 102 days ago • 925 comments

Made an Internet Archive list of all the Famicom games I've scanned in high resolution over the years and sorted them by published date which is kinda fun to look through. If you have any games complete in good shape that I lack you'd be willing to loan please dm me :) archive.org/details/@rev...

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

A Black woman named Aliyah was struggling to find work. So, she catfished herself and made a fake profile on LinkedIn named "Emily." Emily had the same qualifications as Aliyah but received 57.9% of interview invites while Aliyah received 8.9% This is what we mean when we say racism is systemic.

submitted 105 days ago • 74 comments

Looks Like Yuzo Koshiro's Earthion Isn't Far From Release. (Image: @yuzokoshiro)

submitted 107 days ago • 1 comment

My unpopular hot take is that if--IF--the 2020 election really had been stolen, J6 would've been an appropriate response--the only appropriate response to the end of democracy. We need to remember that in four years if it happens for real.

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

My setup! 🥰

submitted 108 days ago • 20 comments

The Artist Behind F-Zero's Legendary Japanese Cover Has Passed Away. (Repost)

submitted 108 days ago • 1 comment

Free speech absolutists

submitted 108 days ago • 1462 comments

My friend posted a video on RedNote about how much his last doctor appointment cost him. A Chinese guy replied “I understand Cyberpunk 2077 now”

submitted 109 days ago • 14 comments

Y'all remember the Wolfenstein games? No reason, just curious.

submitted 110 days ago • 263 comments