This is one of my favorite primary sources in our library: a contemporary review of E.T. for Atari 2600 in the rare newsletter The Logical Gamer.
Their review is basically "It's meh, but jeez Atari sure sank a lot into P&A for this game. This seems bad?"
archive.gamehistory.org/item/f2f37ee...
It's very important we start saying Diddy Kong's full legal name.
In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
This is still one of my favourite things I've ever written, and makes me look like a cool trendsetting type, what with it coming out just before King's Field-likes started getting popular.
This whole time, that meme was actually from Jak & Daxter
Nice little independent central bank you got right there. Would be a shame if something happened to it.
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction: 17,500 Entries on All Things Sci-Fi Are Now Free Online
Almost at 300 reviews on Steam! I wonder how close we can get before the end of the year... π€
If you've played our game, consider dropping us a review, it helps a lot! And if you haven't, maybe the warm DS vibes of this trailer will convince you check it out:
Just realized the Met has an enormous library of stuff you can download for free on the parent page of this one
www.metmuseum.org/met-publicat...
![Out of gratitude for running the only racially integrated theater troupe in the region and due to the Roberts's financial difficulties,[1] Coretta King paid the Roberts's hospital bill when Julia was born.[2][3][4]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreihw426fkofgukvotynsvrxyuckqasqq7lb6klth3lbtqyaot4ljhi)
Out of gratitude for running the only racially integrated theater troupe in the region and due to the Roberts's financial difficulties,[1] Coretta King paid the Roberts's hospital bill when Julia was born.[2][3][4]
it's a good day to revisit my favorite sentence from the article on julia roberts
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GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen could make $35 Billion in stock options, but whether or not he gets paid will be based entirely on the company's performance.
Apparently closing around 390 stores will help GameStop meet those goals. https://t.co/bunyvP7wyD
via the article for the album "a thousand suns"
imagine if you took all the city's meat and put it in a freezer
An add for a law firm reads,βWhether youβre in the theater or being questioned by police, MJM Law Office reminds you to stay quiet.β
Iβll never get tired of this ad at our local indie theater π
A hand holding a 3ds with a digital study of an Anders Zorn painting on it. It's cropped in on a lady's face and a bit messy but recognizable as an attempt at the painting seen blurry in the background.
Did a study in the most embarrassing way possible today
#art #3ds #artacademy #slam #zorn #masterstudy
Fantastic video looking at just how much stuff is coming out on Steam even during a 'dead' period.
There's so much good stuff lurking in there but you need to have *skills* and TOOLS to dig through the garbage. Being able to filter it effectively is a big deal.
BREAKING: Judge enters TRO blocking feds from interfering with or arresting peaceful protesters in Minnesota. Judge Kate Menendez, Biden appointee. Order: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
I love this picture so much so im reposting it
#pixelart #art #γγγη΅΅ #γγ―γ»γ«γ’γΌγ
NEW: Public records I obtained from Washington state offer an alternate look at the mass layoffs in the games industry
With each letter sent by Microsoft, Sony, WB, Amazon to notify the state of a mass cut was a long list of roles eliminated.
A stark accounting
www.gamefile.news/p/video-game...
I called the Herr's Product Quality Concerns line and reached a nice lady. She listened to my whole little saga.
She waited, then said, "I bet you believe they're made from real potatoes now!"
I may never recover.
"Directing The Beatles: Rock Band is the hardest thing I've ever done in my life."
Today, we celebrate the 25th anniversary of @wikipedia.org, which for a quarter of a century has been collaboratively built by unpaid strangers on the internet.
Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"
Last week, I got a corrections request for a story I didn't write, on a publication I don't write for. It sent me down a very strange rabbit hole involving a mysterious content publisher. There's a lot I don't understand, but here's what I know:
aftermath.site/nicole-carpe...
Minneapolis City Council unanimously passed a resolution asking Gov. Walz to enact a statewide eviction moratorium.
Resolution text:
lims.minneapolismn.gov/Download/Fil...
San Diego Comic-Con will no longer allow AI 'art' to be displayed at their event
"Material created by AI either partially or wholly, is not allowed in the art show"
This follows backlash from artists after SDCC initially indicated AI-generated work would be permitted
All You Need Is Kill
All You Need Is Kill (Jan. 16, in theater)
"By far the most apparent change in Akimotoβs adaptation of the story is that it follows Rita rather than Keiji, a first for the series."
Director Kenichiro Akimoto: "When I was put in charge of the animation, I wanted to approach it as a challenge to..."
imagine how many of these stories we havent heard yet because people fear what it would do to their careers
