Virtual Balboa

Virtual Balboa

@virtualbalboa.bsky.social

Fighting games. Old games. Weird movies and music. Webcomic "Do I Smell Like Drugs?"

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It took me decades to realize that the people saying it's unhealthy to be petty, vindictive and hold a grudge are the people benefitting from your complacency. Fuck Em!

I’m glad that Apple TV didn’t require talentless celebrities to take center stage over the F1 race in Singapore, but I’m worried those cutaways during the race were a slippery slope towards the F1 broadcast morphing into a talentless celebrity publicity show. #f1 #formula1

Just started watching the F1 replay and the chaos of the formation lap. I hope all this software nonsense is being caused by stupid ass AI that multiple teams shouldn’t have been using in the first place. #f1 #formula1

Damnit!! There’s an AI produced fan translation of Shadowrun for the sega cd. Pretty sure that means all instances of drek, wiz and chummer are going to be replaced with antisemitism hate speech and child porn.

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I've got some good news about Shadowrun Mega/Sega CD and fan English translations: another one is in the works with some chops behind it in knowing Japanese and the world and lingo of Shadowrun. I reached out to the person that someone in my post yesterday mentioned had already been doing one.

I have two weeks left at my current job. They have been giving Adobe software to people that have never used any graphic software before, trying to distribute my job to others. It's going as well as you would expect. It's actually pretty funny to watch!

Do people realize nobody is forcing them to buy a video game they don’t want to buy? I’ve successfully not bought a Dragon Ball game or a FIFA game every year for the 47 years I’ve been alive and I’m fine. I didn’t want to buy either, so I didn’t buy them. Nothing bad happened.

Kabuki inspired anime more than I could have realized. The poses, the oversized props and weapons, the head movements, the character design. I went down a YouTube rabbit hole trying to learn about Kabuki and my mind was blown!

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Microsoft slashed thousands of job this week. Every problem the company is facing is of their own design. Per usual idiot management got made bad choices, got paid millions to fail and us peasants get stuck picking up the pieces.

The filthy casuals we used to ridicule in the 2000’s & 2010’s? They were keeping the games industry healthy, not us hardcores. Folk buying a random game at Walmart based on the cover kept designers employed and funded B tier games. Now all those players are on mobile, not consoles or PC.

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i've seen too many good video game opinions today, time for some bad ones what is your take that will have you like this?

For shits and giggles I tried the new Concept to Vector tutorial in Illustrator. All I did was click the "Next" button when asked, and Adobes shit AI spit out a bunch of garbled nonsense. They can't even get their new feature demos to work right.

Once I was forced to forgo paying a utility bill because I was required to buy a wedding gift for folk I’d never met. The couple said they were so “broke” they were CONSIDERING giving up their Tokyo apartment, because they just didn’t to to Japan much anymore. EAT MY FUCKING SHIT FILLED ASS!!!!

Starting the first full Apple TV Formula 1 replay. I’m fully expecting Apple to cut away from the race for minutes at a time to inject a bunch of crying grandmothers and celebrity interviews.

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Seems like Nokia has fallen on even harder times, licensing out its IP to dogs, smh

How long until some anonymous troll in Minnesota starts calling ICE with false tips, leading to ICE agents ransacking the houses of Trump supporters. I mean, warrantless entry and all. Just like SAWTing, some innocent people will be hurt or killed.