Going on a Bluesky purge while I’m at the beach for a week. Please yell at me if you see me posting before next Sunday. If it happens I reserve the right to change my mind
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Kyle Orland
Профиль VivelySenior Gaming Editor, Ars Technica / The guy who LITERALLY wrote the book on Minesweeper -- https://bossfightbooks.com/products/minesweeper-by-kyle-orland Signal: kyleorl.31
The Blexas dream will never die
Poll Tracker 📊Texas Senate Race (Fox News): Talarico (D) 51% Paxton (R) 48% July 23-27, 2026 www.foxnews.com/official-polls
Imagining an alternate history where Bleem didn't use PlayStation screenshots and Sony didn't have a legal angle to stop them
Phil SalvadorAn example of what Kendra means: In Sony v. Bleem, even though the Bleem emulation project was legal, Sony sued them for copyright infringement for using SCREENSHOTS of PlayStation games. lmao It was never about legal principles, it was just about stopping competition / behavior they didn't like
I probably own a dozen copies of the original Super Mario Bros in various forms
Sophia_Nyx 🏳️⚧️Name physical media you purchased more than once.
This is true, and the critics/journalists that play 100 games a year have trouble really grokking that a whole lot of people just stick with a handful of games/series and keep going back to them, often for years
Mat Piscatella"transforming Game Pass into a bustling indie library could work to both rapidly shrink the costs of running the service, as well as retain more subscribers" IMO the primary reason Game Pass failed to hit its subscriber targets is because the mass market simply does not care to play lots of games.
TFW the display technology gives you free speed lines
DOKI DOKI CRT PIXELSUPER MARIO BROS. NINTENDO 1985 NES
We shouldn't let Musk get away with this kind of rebranding, but also the fact that he feels the need to distance himself from Trump indicates which way the wind is blowing...
The Guardian‘I got carried away’: Elon Musk expresses regret about Doge and wading into Trump’s orbit
Defining memory that established the power of the Internet in my mind for life was downloading a postage stamp sized video of this demo via AOL in the ‘90s
Video Game History FoundationEver wonder what it was like to experience a 3D game for the first time? We dug into our E3 tapes and found footage of the US press getting their first hands-on with Super Mario 64 at E3 1996