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manspyder.bsky.social
Charmingly irregular. People say I'm funny, but usually I just chat nonsense & hope for the best. I write & edit gaming videos & retrospectives for @RetroHutch.com. I like cats. https://youtube.com/@themanspyder
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You can tell Bloodborne emulation’s really coming along because the discord has moved on from videos of the vanilla game in 4k60 to stuff like this

Using my aircon for the first time this year tonight. I expect to use at least 42% of the National Grid's power over the course of the summer. I might have to set up a JustGiving account to help me afford to survive in this heat-trap flat.

A highlight from the (excellent) new Ben Affleck Criterion Closet vid.

ok, for no reason but just because I think it's neat here's a thread of famous people with old gaming hardware or old computers. big 90s and Y2K vibes. Let's start with Shakira, Halle Berry and Bjork using a desktop computer

Religion is proper mental. If I turned up at work declaring I wasn't going to eat cheese anymore because a space wizard named Dave told me not to, I'd probably be sectioned.

The Plucky Squire PS5 Does it play offline? Yes Does it require a download? Yes Dear @devolverdigital.com, we sadly need a reprint, like you have done for previous titles. This one has a game-breaking progression blocker that can come at several points of chapter 7.

Never forget x

New records, yaaay!

truly iconic that machine games has made a legacy for themselves as the “we make games where you punch Nazis in the face a lot” studio, i love that for them

Christ, that is grim.

if a guy says theyre CIA and they want you to DM every girl you ever jacked off to and apologize, Its a scam. Just ruined my life. Thank you

My girlfriend is a professional cellist. Her cello is over 300 years old, and I'm pretty sure in an emergency situation, she'd prioritise it's safety over mine. I'm strangely OK with this.

Told elderly neighbour my son was a big fan of Minecraft. She looked horrified. Very awkward conversation followed as I claimed it was all good fun and helped develop children's creativity, until it became apparent she thought I'd said Mein Kampf.

CHOOSE SAUSAGE

Marathon man

In a drunken moment my girlfriend told me she fantasised about having a "cock sandwich" one day. At our next meet I bought along a loaf of bread and as things hotted up I moved the conversation to her fantasy. I quickly realised my misunderstanding and never mentioned it again.

"Do it for Jean, Logan."

Cats "helping" in dioramas at the Latvian Railway Museum. A thread. In the telegraph room, telling the operator she's doing it wrong. /1

So, happy 55th anniversary to perhaps the finest of all newspaper headlines mulberryhall.medium.com/odd-this-day...

Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:

Ziff Davis - owner of IGN, Eurogamer, GIBiz, Nintendo Life, and more - is suing OpenAI, in one of the biggest landmark cases against AI copyright theft yet. (Read more: NYTimes)

CHANNEL ADVERT: Take an upsetting ride on the misery bus of nostalgia via the patchwork quilt of satire, naughty editing and hardcore jungle that becomes whatever the fuck I've now started doing. It's RoseTintedSpectrum and it's different now, but it's still me: www.youtube.com/@RoseTintedS...

there's a local kebab place whose website claims to have a PDF of the menu, but when you open the PDF it's just a single photo of a kebab and chips

What they call pedants (people who can’t resist correcting you’re spelling and grammer) in five different countries…. 5. Comma fucker (Finland) 4. Little dot shitter (Switzerland) 3. Whittler of woodchips (Norway) 2. Counter of peas (Germany) 1. Sodomizer of flies (France)

Choose your weapon.

This year, shrinkflation has produced easter eggs that look like they were mastered in the wrong aspect ratio. This thing is half as thick as it is wide.

Devastating look. Tons of third party games opting for game-key cards instead of physical releases in Japan (pic via Gematsu). No ownership, no preservation, no customer choice. One can only hope that this will receive resounding backlash from players. Don't let this stand!

🚨 Important thread! Please share🚨 A vital research resource that many of us have used, the BBC Written Archives, is proposing to seriously restrict access to materials.

folks formerly of volition have made a massive donation to the strong national museum of play to preserve the studio's history, and this should absolutely be the new standard

Yakuza 0 Director's Cut up for pre-order on Amazon. Excuse us, RGG Studios / @sega-west.bsky.social, but this is not the physical version you were promising yesterday. This is a glorified download code bound to become e-waste. Massive disappointment!

“How bad should I make the logo, boss?” “If it’s even symmetrical I won’t pay.”

unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

There are moments.

Man Complaining About NPCs Bares Striking Resemblance to Oblivion NPCs hard-drive.net/hd/video-gam...

I'll just leave this absolute banger here. #ParadiseKiller @nostoppingepoch.bsky.social

No surprise here, sadly. Collector's Edition for Ghost of Yotei will be a box full of clutter without the actual game in it.