Aaron Giles

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In the Japanese PC-88 port of Ultima 3: Exodus by Pony Canyon, if you try to Talk/Transact (T key) to an enemy monster, they literally say "FUCK YOU!!" in English. Hilarious, and apparently nobody has discovered or posted about this before online in English or Japanese

This is the deep dive into the Phantom Menace podracer scene you didn't know you needed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ2n...

From the Archives (21 Sep, 2026): The Untidy Legacy of Loom “Talkie” — “The most controversial (yet most ubiquitous) version of Loom straddles the ambiguous line between embracing a technological transition and succumbing to it. In this article, we discuss the origin, ...”

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

There are actual good and responsible uses of AI, lest you think I'm just a total hater. I do wish we'd focus on that rather than all of the other bullshit.

The rush to accuse, without anything approaching due diligence, artists of using "AI," should be treated with contempt. An artist gets their work *ripped off* to train a plagiarism machine, which then shits out inferior versions of that work, so then you accuse the artist of using "AI"? Fuck you.

This was quite the journey. Even though I only lightly touched sportsball cards (I was into movie trading cards, still have a bunch in an old shoebox), the experimental approach to figuring out what it takes to complete a set speaks to my childhood collecting bug. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr8u...

"mind-boggling" is doing a lot of work here

The wife and I both still call it Kinko's and will always call it Kinko's. Like Twitter, rebranding something so entrenched is a dumb idea.

Wife: Unlike SOME PEOPLE, I'm going to wind down and go to bed. Me: What, you don't find System of a Down calming after midnight? (Incidentally, SoaD totally holds up after all these years. I remain grateful that we got 5 amazing albums from this amazing band, even if I've always wished for more.)

With the A.I. companies buying up all of the computer storage these days, I'd like to offer up the solution we used in the 1980's to double our storage for free. You are welcome. #old

The film Meta removed from Instagram… bsky.app/profile/roel...

LOL saw this randomly and it reminded me that I used to love this song as a kid and even owned the 12". Did not realize at the time that the included remix was by Art of Noise! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFsF...

Back in the day I wrote a little program that generated a shuffled list of CDs to play, since my collection was so huge. These days all those discs are ripped, but I still prefer playing full albums. So I just did a 'dir /s/b' on my collection and pasted it into an online shuffler and voilà!

@ronscompvids.bsky.social showing off DREAMM, a bespoke emulator for LucasArts/LucasFilm and Lucas Learning games, on a Macintosh TV! dreamm.aarongiles.com

😂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=skLA...

In 1980, Intel introduced the 8087 floating-point coprocessor chip. Plugging this chip into your IBM PC made math 100 times faster, good for CAD and spreadsheets. I opened up the chip to reverse-engineer exactly how it does complicated calculations. Let's take a look inside...

if you won’t listen to me, maybe you’ll listen to @lillywachowski.bsky.social because if you actually care about trans people you gotta drop Harry Potter

Lockard's story is incredible. He appeared on a 1987 "Computer Chronicles" to discuss turning his Mahjong Solitaire game into Activision's "Shanghai." www.computerchronicles.blog/computer-chr...

This is pretty slick, though I'm surprised there were really so few issues. I suppose it was monthly, so I guess 277 make sense. Thanks to the search was able to find the two issues where I was namedropped. :)

Trey Parker & Matt Stone announce that ‘SOUTH PARK’ will be renamed to ‘SOUTH AMERICA’. “Inspired by the bravery & patriotism of Apple & Google, we are changing the name of South Park to SOUTH AMERICA. We especially want to thank our parent company Paramount -- a Skydance Capitulation.”

The Battle of Olympus remake is so cute!!! I didn't realize that it was basically made by two people who ended up marrying each other! It looks like this remaster is meant to also be their last game development project, ending where they began.

Man, shit like this is genuinely hurting my soul. youtu.be/N5YDkQ6oFcE

Well, this is the weirdest thing I've seen all year. This was a race against bipedal robots but someone used a video filter to make them resemble humans. As you do. 😂 That's enough internet for today.

Losing my mind at the "CRT filter" for this new release of Manic Miner that was just announced

Nothing tops the euphoria of a great concert like sitting in your car for 90 minutes inching through traffic because the venue's surrounding infrastructure is completely incapable of handling it. And then driving 50 minutes to your house since it's in the boonies to begin with. 🙄

This was kind of fun to figure out. I feel like I must have at least passed through Minnesota and/or Virginia but can't prove it, so they stay "never been". Everything else is pretty solid in my recollection.

OLD and GOOG thread: A few months ago Lucile Gomez contacted me because she was interested in a typeface based on her handwriting. She has no twitter but you can follow at Instagram (lucilegomez). And in this image you can see in black its handwriting and in red the font I made. So, a thread 1/X

Neat. January 2027, eh? #blueeyesamurai www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oCx...

Siskos

An absolutely massive update to martypc.net Now you can choose to emulate four different systems, from the IBM 5150 to the Tandy 1000. On the PC you can now can choose from a number of video cards all the way up to VGA. And oh yeah, Adlib (OPL2) syntheis. #retrocomputing #emulation #martypc