James Wraith 🩻

Spooky time is approaching fast! Why not have an Iron Crypticle party :D 4 knights can team up in local co-op for some arcade action, its like a mashup of Smash TV + Gauntlet with loads of snacks and powerups to collect in a Bubble Bobble stylee 70% SALE store.steampowered.com/app/548680/I...

My team, when I come back to the office after a week off:

D. Bohdan faithfully ported Glider 4.0 (a Mac game I wrote & released back in 1990) to run in your browser. (It's the first port I am aware of that also brings along the Room Editor.) Try it out! If you find issues, let him know. dbohdan.github.io/glider/ #vintagemac #Mac #vintagegaming

Shout out to this thing you can do in games with a fixed jump arc

My team, when I come back to the office after a week off:

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Peter Watts is some excellent sci-fi. The Rifters trilogy is jarring and excellent. Blindsight is also an excellent exploration of consciousness and intelligence. I need to check this series out!

LEGO Daft Punk! I'm such an easy mark. youtu.be/t5rwOE3zpc8?...

Atari is ending support for its 2021 VCS console. The company promises to keep it working by releasing an OS update that removes any reliance on a server, as well as a Homebrew App which lets players continue making and installing games. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/atari-i...

I've made 6 open-source @godotengine.org projects perfect for as a base for your first or next game. Completely human-made and easy to understand code & comments. All visuals and sounds included, CC0! kenney.nl/starter-kits

You think we'd launch a new game without a giveaway to go with it?! You know us better than that. So does ASUS because they're letting us give away a *brand new laptop* to celebrate the launch of Tenebris Somnia! RT + Follow + Enter to win a ROG Zephyrus G14 NOW 👇

That CA number being just '4' is pretty funny (and scary), but this PHP vulnerability is bonkers bad. I'm shutting my webserver down until the patch drops. It's not that important to me right now...

It turns out Jolly Ranchers are strongly fluorescent under UV illumination. Bottom image taken with visible light Top image taken with 395 nm UV flashlight www.aiweirdness.com/jolly-ranche...

Do you use PHP in any app facing the 'Net? There are some very serious RCE vulnerabilities in versions 5 & newer, very likely to be exploited, soon. CERT-EU; if you can't patch, remove it from the Internet: cert.europa.eu/publications... #infosec #cybersecurity #CVE-2026-109618 #CVE-2026-109619

This is one of my favorite sequences in animation, period. So hauntingly sublime.

Day 16 if OCTO-ber is the gloomy octopus (Octopus tetricus)! These octopuses became famous as the citizens of two octopus "cities." Read more in OCTOPUS X www.amazon.com/Octopus-Disc... PC: Sylke Rohrlach/Wikimedia Commons @princetonupress.bsky.social @octonation.bsky.social #octopus

I'm making some fried eggs for breakfast. My sleep-addled brain thought "yeah you can totally flip this over using just the pan." Somehow I managed to flip the yolk out of one of the eggs and onto the stovetop. 🤦🏻‍♂️

It finally got cold here and we turned on our furnace but it kept cutting out super early. Furnace tech came today and found a spider living in an important tube. Furnace is now fine. Stupid problem, but at least it was a free fix. And seasonally appropriate! 🕷️🕸️

Basically every time a server room shows up in a movie/TV show it has this whirring and chirping noise that "sounds computery". Not to me. To me it is *exactly* the sound of the stepper motor hard drive in the IBM 286 I had growing up 30 years ago. I love it, but it takes me out of it every time.

Juniper does not understand how to watch TV.

@alexjaffe.bsky.social @esper.bsky.social You two I am listening to the Question Hole-a-rama and it is so much fun. I salute you both - excellent show.

our new zine is here! "How to Spend Ten Years Repairing a Computer and Why You Should Too". first 50 emails with the subject line "Zine, please" to mediaarchaeology+zine@proton.me will get a copy (sorry, U.S. only to keep costs down). print-ready version of the zine at archive.org/details/lisa...

What can you say? This was the definite winner they will never top. Also one of the best things I've seen at any PRGE #PRGE #PRGE2026

"An open-world roguelike RPG where magic comes from cheesemaking." Why did I not think of this first!

I'm generally trying not to post too much political stuff because the world is bad enough and my voice is minimal/I'm preaching to the choir. I fear that this article is correct. Anyone expecting a huge Dem win should temper their expectations. Don't get complacent: www.reuters.com/world/us/six...

The most fun thing ever to randomly see

every oncall shift at my job is like

We're getting WING COMMANDER FMVs, gang!!! Jim Vessella found over 600 source tapes in the EA archives and have been restoring them

I wrote a post explaining exactly why the Dreamcast will prompt you for the date/time even with a healthy battery, which has puzzled many of us for years! It's not your battery: the Dreamcast's hidden 30-day clock check dreamcast-talk.com/forum/viewto...

Day 10 of OCTO-ber: The Caribbean #reef octopus (Octopus briareus) is a master of reef #camouflage lives in shallow warm reefs, mesmerizing #divers. Read more in Octopus X www.amazon.com/dp/164283440... PC: Alessandro Dona/ Wikimedia Commons @princetonupress.bsky.social #books #naturebooks

HOW DARE

@pitohui.org I just finished the Onimusha Draw Game. I may be very late but I believe the proper name for the recent Onimusha is Gonimusha.

To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

@brandon.insertcredit.com Thanks for recommending T-Ride! What an interesting album. I'm into it. Do you know Blue Murder? Their first album is also like Peak Hair Metal: First track: youtu.be/YyCa4wCFMUY?...

Also: 💀 Skull lights! 💀

I love our Halloween wreath so much.

MELT, a lost 1997 PC game featuring Iron Maiden's Eddie, has been recovered! We're releasing a build for the first time, along with source code and an updated version for modern PCs. We also speak to developer Paul Tebbutt. Thanks to Tamaracade for their earlier research.

I discovered Retronauts early on, in 2007. I couldn't believe that other people liked old games as much as I did! It was instantly enthralling. I couldn't wait for each new episode (which I listened to on a PSP!). It's still one of my very favorite podcasts. Happy 20th Retronauts!