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my buddy sent me this from nanning, which is presumably one of china’s most supple and moisturized cities

submitted 59 minutes ago • 22 comments

Every now and again I reflect on our Charlotte's Web GBA game we produced at Backbone. It was an action platform game that had Wilbur leaping around on platforms. We referred to it internally as "Pig of Persia," in honor of Prince of Persia, the game we absurdly based it on.

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Wow: after 15 years, YouTube has taken down the original 'Rick Roll' video due to a "licensing issue," likely due to the acquisition of Astley's record lable. The metadata remains, but if you click through it goes to 'video not found': www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4...

submitted 2 days ago • 497 comments

Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open-source. Developers will be able to download the WSL code and build it from source to help with fixes or features. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/669286/...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

its a mystery

submitted 4 days ago • 29 comments

Spent too much time on this

submitted 4 days ago • 209 comments

I love @larsiusprime.bsky.social‘s WIP ants story so much. www.fortressofdoors.com/tag/ants/

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Exceptionally rude of a game to call me out like this

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

EVERY STEAM PAGE IS A STORY AT LEAST WHEN YOU’RE MAKING A WEIRD NEW TMNT GAME HERE’S HOW WE DID IT FOR TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: TACTICAL TAKEDOWN WHICH YOU SHOULD ALSO WISHLIST AND COMES OUT IN A WEEK AHHHHHH store.steampowered.com/app/3229100/...

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

Stop: making pull requests Start: making pull demands

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

hey can you come back later, i'm defragging my tulip fields

submitted 24 days ago • 28 comments

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Me, a Sinologist: The essay topic is 吾猶及史之闕文也. 1. Exordium: The Sage laments that the virtue of former historians no longer obtains. 2. Propositio thematis: Of old, historians left gaps in texts rather than fill them with baseless hearsay

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finally, alchemy home.cern/news/news/ph...

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

Toby Fox: "Anything outside of the games themselves is non-canon and you shouldn't care about it." Also Toby Fox: "I just wrote and hid a small novella's worth of extra character writing that's PROBABLY canon on a stream event website that has been lying dormant since 2022. No big deal."

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TV murder mysteries: “What a heinous act. The depravity of man on display for the world. It makes you wonder, what are we truly capable of? If my past was different, could I have become such a monster?” Also TV mysteries: “The victim’s name was Johnny Cashew.”

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Okay you know what: dudes absolutely rock www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/h...

submitted 19 days ago • 8 comments

Apparently Yuji Horii confirmed a Chrono Trigger remake during an interview at Comicon Naples. He then said through translator "You have heard nothing" after apparently realizing what just happened www.reddit.com/r/chronotrig... www.reddit.com/r/dragonques...

submitted 19 days ago • 34 comments

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

submitted 37 days ago • 218 comments