Robin Clarke

I've been running gdcparties.com for a few years now. Some shitty company BlueberryAI decided they'd just take all the source code for the work I've done and reskin it, advertising it as their own. Jokes on them...it was still linked to my events spreadsheet, and now their website looks like this 😉

Some… interesting… content from KFC Singapore to advertise their selection of dipping sauces 😬
#PowerRangers #SuperSentai #スーパー戦隊

NINTENDO OF AMERICA v. SCOTT BISSENT, KRISTI NOEM, JAMIESON GREER, RODNEY SCOTT & HOWARD LUTNICK / Legal Complaint / Nintendo of America / 2026

wait no this is actually incredible youraislopbores.me

Happy birthday to Betty Boo. Here's a reminder of the time she rapped with Public Enemy in the McDonalds at Shepherd's Bush back in 1987 (look out for the unimpressed manager!)

being able to get a glass of whiskey at the barber shop has got to feel really good if you're stupid as fuck

Apes

Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …

Dear Shabana,

Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

An important academic update

Halal Truck Mr. Beast

Eldest boy has taken to sending me messages and emails sporadically that look normal but when opened are just Halal Truck Mr. Beast

Amusing to see Doctorow doing the whole "Ugh I won't accept Bluesky's T&Cs" thing when he was fine pumping free content into a white supremacist's disinformation network until this week

I am overjoyed to see that this picture is still exactly where I left it on the internet and nobody has noticed.

I remember making a document in the computer labs at university titled List of the Best Games Ever and everyone immediately shouting suggestions, anyway hope everyone gets it out of their systems soon

Every bsky staff member keeps talking about how the goal is Nice Social Media but then the second they're even remotely pushed back against for something shitty, and they immediately crash out for multiple days crying about their subhuman userbase.

A theory: Bloom County (1980-1989) didn't survive into posterity like other 1980s strip comics because it ended just before scanners became cheap. I've zero clue if it was any good or not - I've exclusively experienced it through weird nerds' hand-drawn interpretations.

Wow interesting! you can find out more here
nogamesforgenocide.com

A picture of Wario64 posting the active user counts of Slay the Spire 2 and Marathon

Can we not do this weird shit please

If there was an equivalent service for publishers to negotiate distribution rights with retailers that would really be something. Whoever develops that standard has the best shot at challenging Steam's monopoly.

Pitchify launches new service to connect developers and publishers Pitch Direct service seeks to tackle disparities in the pitching process

I've no idea if this will reach critical mass, but potentially very interesting for devs looking to pitch to publishers. Reminds me a bit of the old FlashGameLicense marketplace. www.gamesindustry.biz/pitchify-lau...

Macbook Neo is big news for people who assume Wintel laptops still cost $1500+ and break as often as Macs I guess

I am absolutely certain you can buy a laptop with a decent sized screen, a useable amount of RAM and a real CPU/GPU for less than £/$599

From the same saloon bar playbook as "why can't I buy this f2p game outright for $10"? Because keeping a game available in the unfavourable iOS/Android ecosystems is an ongoing cost for devs.

Loads of developers *did* start filling this niche when the trend of deceptive ads emerged, then loads of the games making these ads added these game modes as minigames to skirt rules about deceptive ads. Which would be evident if you clicked them, you didn't, ergo, you would not actually pay. QED

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(It's bananas to think Stanshall was in his late 40s when he made this?? He seemed to instantly become an ancient wizard some time in the early 1970s.)

Vivian Stanshall on 'The Innes Book of Records' (HD) YouTube video by Adrian Loone

Any excuse to post this again, remembering Vivian Stanshall who died today in 1995. youtu.be/vIUU78LJxAI

Vivian Stanshall & bIG Grunt perform "11 Mustachioed Daughters" on Marty Amok YouTube video by Sagan

31 years today since Vivian Stanshall died aged just 51. Lots to enjoy in this post-Bonzos TV appearance...

Citroën 2CV6 “Picasso Citroën”
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I didn't want to make this post but unfortunately my hand has been forced. Sentona Games told me this week, after ignoring me for two months, that they will not be paying me the $24,000 deferred…... I didn't want to make this post but unfortunately my hand has been forced. Sentona Games told me this week, after ignoring me for two months, that they will not be paying me the $24,000 deferred paym...

If you're in the game industry and use LinkedIn, please do me a favor and share my post about Sentona Games screwing me out of money I'm owed. Thank you

One of the most ingenious gags in The Larry Sanders Show is two characters having one of the show's stock sitcom conversations (Larry asking his producer Artie to solve a problem for him) where the problem being raised is that they keep having the same stock conversation

1 Inquiry for New York Times Good afternoon, My name is [REDACTED] and l am a reporter for the New York Times. I am researching how much money the Palestinian diaspora community has sent to support Gazan families since the war in Gaza began. Does your team track this figure? I really appreciate it. With gratitude, [REDACTED]

Palestine Diaspora Movement Hello [REDACTED] We do not collaborate with The New York Times. Your email asks about money sent to Gazan families "since the war in Gaza began." Let us first correct the premise. This is not a war. It is a genocide. Calling it a war is part of the problem. It obscures the reality of a colonized people being massacred by a military machine backed by the United States and defended, sanitized, and rhetorically softened by institutions like yours. The New York Times has spent far too long parroting Zionist propaganda and laundering Israeli state narratives while Palestinians bury their dead. That kind of coverage does not merely misinform. It helps create the political climate in which Palestinian slaughter becomes explainable, defensible, and forgettable. So no, we will not be sharing any figures, internal data, or community information with a paper that has so thoroughly damaged its credibility on Palestine. Quite frankly, we would rather chew jeans than help The New York Times extract from our community while continuing to fail it. Do not contact us again for this purpose, The Palestine Diaspora Movement Team

“Quite frankly, we would rather chew jeans than help The New York Times extract from our community while continuing to fail it”

lmaooo GET EM

Opening panels of Drakes On A Plane, a comic strip featuring Sir Francis Drake, Charlie Drake and Nick Drake. On a plane.

The world is in a perilous state. But there's a new issue of Viz on sale today, and while that may not particularly alleviate geopolitical tensions, at least it probably won't make them very much worse