taking a trip down memory lane looking at my itchio analytics: on the 12th of december 2024, shortly after doomworld's cacowards premiered that year, a user i'd had previous negative interactions with gave 1-star ratings to both doom mods i'd put on itch.
that'd be the year "Weasel Presents: Terrorists" won a Missed Cacoward. i suspect the reviewer just hated being reminded that i existed. ...i'm kind of surprised they only did that to my doom mods and not the card game or the VN pitch demo.
pointless fact: the famicom disk system internally stores a year in the imperial era system. disk writer kiosks continued to use the showa era even after it ended; we are now past showa 100, so disk writer kiosks would no longer be correct, if there were any left https://www.nesdev.org/wiki/FDS_disk_format#Date_format
Ever wanted a PicoGUS or PicoMEM but for PCMCIA? yyzkevin's PicoPCMCIA adds modern WiFi networking, Sound Blaster, GUS, CD-ROM, and storage to any computer with a PCMCIA slot. He's getting closer to launch and is now taking deposits for the first run of cards. https://www.yyzkevin.com/picopcmcia/
Both the Sound Blaster and CD-ROM emulation on the PicoGUS originally came from this ambitious project so it's awesome seeing it get close to done!
good morning. last night i dreamed about a lot of things, including some bizarre new star trek spin-offs about Data being in places where Data should not be, but the most that I remember was that I was attempting to make French bread pizzas in a toaster oven through the whole thing, and kept getting the sauce everywhere and dropping the bread on the ground.
https://wildweasel.itch.io/set-the-controls - a couple of days ago I had the opportunity to join a 2-hour MegaZeux game jam, which I haven't done in a very long time. In those 2 hours I produced this short narrative game.
Past couple of days i've been enjoying a few PC ports of N64 games:
- Perfect Dark: https://github.com/fgsfdsfgs/perfect_dark
- Majora's Mask: https://github.com/Zelda64Recomp/Zelda64Recomp
- Super Mario 64 (now with coop!): https://sm64coopdx.com
What these all have in common is that they're reverse engineered "place your ROM in a subdir and we'll handle the rest" ports with great modern PC game options/menus and other such amenities. Super nice! The way it should be done.
Tiny channel with just a handful of videos at the moment, but the way she explains grammar points is so well done that I want to share it with others who are interested in learning Japanese.
A lot of the time youβre just given a couple of examples and told βhave at themβ without having a deeper understanding of how the nuances actually work.
Learning the actual reasons behind the various usages instead of getting a basic translation which doesnβt even work in many cases is so much more helpful.
45Γ45 Connections: an appropriately deranged game to end 2025 https://thomaswc.com/2025.html
speaking of which:
I had some mastodon bots on the now-dead botsin.space. Can anyone suggest anywhere else I could put some daily-to-hourly mastodon bots, either plain text or with (small) images?
Do you remember using Microsoft Comic Chat? To this day Mermaid Liz apparently still does! Her website http://mermeliz.com is a large archive, tribute, and memorial to the program and it's community. It archives many addons/characters.
#retrocomputing
Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Cat Samurai Blanket. That fish lived without honor and died a coward's death. His death will be celebrated for generations.
https://collabs.shop/ydramj
Someone on Bluesky was daring people to "name 50 good indie games you bought that came out this year" - well, I can't afford new games, so instead, here's 50 good (and slightly less good) games I played this year regardless of when they came out.
https://netizen.club/~wildweasel/blaugh/posts/2025-12-20-50-Good-Games-I-Played-in-2025.html
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