Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

butt slam!!!, screenshot, dos (1989) https://mobygames.com/game/dos/butt-slam/screenshots/gameShotId,273748/

I co-wrote a cookbook for depressed people and other folks with zero spoons, only knives. It's not meant to be gourmet cooking so much as a survival guide for late stage capitalism. And you can get it for free!
https://traumbooks.itch.io/the-sad-bastard-cookbook

Patreon changed its billing from California to Dublin for this month. So a lot of banks rejected the transactions as possible fraud.

This would be recoverable ... except that Patreon’s systems automatically wiped all users with a bounced transaction!

there is no news writeup yet, but start at this twitter thread:
https://twitter.com/JasonKPargin/status/1686783605551382530
https://archive.is/RgMCt

IF YOU SPONSOR SOMEONE ON PATREON: go in and check your transactions for August, and re-send them if they bounced. The “retry” link is located in your billing history.

Patreon are being vague and trying to play it down. We *assume* they are trying to un-bugger their screwup.

Also, payments via Payoneer have been disabled for now, so that'll be me personally. arse.

The existence of "Mike Judge" implies that "Judge" is a not-uncommon last name. So somewhere in the USA is there a Judge Judge

Here, I made you a Slack emoji for when you're talking about GenAI

Please do not gaze upon my works and despair! I worked really hard on them

The game is packed with references to world food… from Vietnamese rice pancakes (Banh xeo) to Italian mushroom sauce for pasta (Boscaiola) to Turkish stuffed aubergines (Imam bayildi) to Welsh leek soup (Cawl cennin).

As with everything else in the game, the localisation team did a fantastic job digging up this stuff. Some of these dishes don't even have a Wikipedia entry.

One example here. I'd never heard of Ema Datshi before. In game, it's described as a cheese and hot chilli pepper dish from the Azim Steppe.

In reality, it's from Bhutan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ema_datshi

#FFXIV

I’ve had such an education in the exotic foods of the world by looking up the names of #FFXIV food items on Wikipedia.

Voxel Doom 2 is OUT! Stellar job! Links below / Voxel Doom 2 está en la calle! Un trabajo estelar.
Moddb link: https://www.moddb.com/mods/voxel-doom-ii
Gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlqiysdGbRI

Do you remember SUN JDS (Java Desktop System)? It was a beautifully modified version of GNOME 2. Even a Live CD based on Morphix was available.

Sadly, the internet (even archive.org) has forgotten mostly everything about it. If you still have a copy of the JDS Live CD, please contact me, and I am going to build an IceWM theme based on the design.

Additional screenshots can be found here: https://web.archive.org/web/20140705002919/http://hup.hu/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=7328

#Linux #Morphix #Java #SUN #GNOME #IceWM #JDS #Retro #Retrocomputing

If anyone out there can tell me the source of this image of Miyamoto and Takeda posing with their Sheriff game, so I can try to track down a better scan, I will be so grateful.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1421490/Rise_of_the_Triad_Ludicrous_Edition/

Rise of the Triad: Ludicrous Edition is out!

buy now and you, too, can wonder how the hell i ended up in the credits to an actual real videogame

and here also a similar thing, but now also inverting it about a circle in this fixed frame

This is an Xbox 360. No, really. An ad-hoc dev kit version based around PowerMac G5s.

A photo from a disgruntled Xbox dev who was annoyed that even as late as May of 2005, they still didn't have any actual proper 360s to work with.

#retrocomputing #xbox #retrogaming #gamedev

Second Reality by Future Crew is now 30 years old. It was released at the second Assembly party in Finland (which about 1500 people attended) and it became the definite #DOS demo of its day, putting the PC firmly on the #demoscene map! The people behind it went on to found 3dMark, Bugbear and Remedy.