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Wes Fenlon @wes.readonlymemo.com · Nov 12

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♥️ Pinball, pizza, travel

💁 Like a million people know me for WASDing wrong my whole life

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Read Only Memo

Videogame emulation news and exclusive interviews, from the aesthetics of razor sharp scanlines to the wild technical challenges of making yesterday's games run on tomorrow's hardware.

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Wes Fenlon @wes.readonlymemo.com · 4h

Man, still probably the best run of cover designs in gaming mag history. RIP Itagaki

Wes Fenlon @wes.readonlymemo.com · 4h

well maybe Windows 12 will be a banger

The Spiderman meme where he's talking to the pterodactyl scientist villain, but with the text replaced with quotes from Microsoft. Pterodactyl says: "The vision that we have is: let’s rewrite the entire operating system around AI, and build essentially what becomes
truly the AI PC... The magic unlock with Copilot Voice and Copilot Vision is the ease of interaction. Using the new wake word, “Hey Copilot,” getting something done is as easy as just asking for it." The first part of that quote comes from Tom Warren at The Verge. The second part comes from the Windows blog.

Spiderman (who uses his computer like the rest of us) says: "Every time you make a version of Windows with less bullshit in it, people love it! Can’t you just let us use the Start menu?"

To which Pterodactyl replies: "But I don’t want to make a version of Windows with less bullshit in it. I want you to scream at the computer."

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Wes Fenlon @wes.readonlymemo.com · 1d

I only used this site once a couple years ago, but they were personally hands-on and made good stuff, seemed very much like a real human small business and all that.

Home Page - Sticker Ninja

Sticker Ninja is your friendly sticker print shop!! We produces high quality vinyl stickers that are waterproof, UV resistant, and don't fade! Turning your art into stickers since 2011 :)

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Aura @aurahack.ca · 1d

whole thing is a really good read; i screamed out loud when i read this part

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Wes Fenlon @wes.readonlymemo.com · 1d

Old graphics drivers by any chance?

Wes Fenlon @wes.readonlymemo.com · 2d

It's the 25th anniversary and you could be Fieri adjacent, how could you pass that up

Wes Fenlon @wes.readonlymemo.com · 2d

You NEED to do this

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 2d

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We are live! Welcome to Design Room, a new independent games media site.

• We specialize in oral histories like the Final Fantasy 7 and Street Fighter 2 ones I (@mattleone.bsky.social) did at Polygon
• Our first big story is on Shadow of the Colossus: bit.ly/4hjwz8n
• See more: designroom.site

Design Room

Video game oral histories

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Wes Fenlon @wes.readonlymemo.com · 3d

Hope it's helpful! And if you wanna know what to play after that 100 hour RPG, Jody also played and ranked all -- I mean ALL -- the 40K games (unless any have come out in the last 3 months).

Every Warhammer 40,000 game, ranked

We played them all to determine which games about space marines, space orks, tech-priests and tyranids are worth your time.

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Onion Games @oniongames.bsky.social · 3d

Recently, @wes.readonlymemo.com sat down with our Head Boss Onion Kimura-san to talk about #StrayChildren and all things Onion, and the first of those articles is online now at @pcgamer.com!

www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/af...

After learning his cult '90s RPG influenced Undertale, this Japanese developer finally got 'the courage' to make another RPG decades later thanks to Toby Fox

Yoshiro Kimura's new game Stray Children is a spiritual successor to Moon: Remix RPG, but it has more than a little in common with Undertale.

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Wes Fenlon @wes.readonlymemo.com · 3d

One of the many big Warhammer heads on our team assembled this a few years ago!

The best Warhammer 40,000 novels

There is no time for peace. No respite, no forgiveness. There is only READING THE BEST 40K BOOKS.

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Wes Fenlon @wes.readonlymemo.com · 4d

These people make me so insane I have to go reread this Defector piece that pierces straight to the hollowness within them

Toward A Theory Of Kevin Roose | Defector

“You can’t be a serious critic,” New York Times technology reporter Kevin Roose wrote on Tuesday, on Bluesky, about artificial intelligence, “if you’re in denial about how useful it is.” Narrowly, in ...

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Wes Fenlon @wes.readonlymemo.com · 4d

Next time you're out here for SFist, pay a visit to Gao in the Sunset for their egg coffee (and food)! maps.app.goo.gl/f1Ni8FQtMSoe...

Or if you find yourself in Orange County for some reason:
1. Sorry
2. Go to Nep Cafe maps.app.goo.gl/42jMmmpZFCEk...

Wes Fenlon @wes.readonlymemo.com · 4d

The year is 2036. Arc System Works has just added a 19th Goku to Dragon Ball FighterZ.

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Justin W @uhhjustinwagner.bsky.social · 5d

I wrote about Bubsy for a major videogame journalism outlet, so there goes the first and last item on my bucket list

www.pcgamer.com/games/action...

I tried the Bubsy 4D demo, and it spits on the series legacy by actually being pretty good

The washed-up platforming mascot is back. Again.

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Wes Fenlon @wes.readonlymemo.com · 4d

It's like internationally regulated and shit. Annoying. I hope they make .memo someday so I can get readonly.memo!

Actually .emo would also work lol

Wes Fenlon @wes.readonlymemo.com · 5d

He strikes again

Back at it again at Krispy Kreme Vine

YouTube video by MelissaDelBye

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Wes Fenlon @wes.readonlymemo.com · 5d

wow these guys should be famous

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🔱 Matt Ufford 🔱 @mattufford.bsky.social · 6d

certain people are put on Earth for a reason, and @albertburneko.bsky.social is here to tear down dumbasses (gift link) defector.com/breaking-som...

Breaking: Some Guy Now Aware Of Most Revered Country Artist Who Ever Lived | Defector

Rare indeed is the headline-and-dek combo worth noticing, or caring about. In many publications, these aren’t even written by the same person who wrote the actual blog; at any rate they’re many hundre...

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Wes Fenlon @wes.readonlymemo.com · 6d

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) End Credits (Showtime 2 2024)

YouTube video by EndCreditsFan Forever

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Wes Fenlon @wes.readonlymemo.com · 6d

I mean...

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Ending scene of Transformers 1

YouTube video by Bargo

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Hope Corrigan @hopecorr.bsky.social · 6d

My first time at GCAP was really enlightening. @jesawyer.bsky.social keynote was especially so, here were some of my takeaways.

www.pcgamer.com/games/baldur...

RPG devs stopped making games like Baldur's Gate 'because retailers told us no one wanted to buy them', says New Vegas and Pillars of Eternity director Josh Sawyer

The Infinity Engine wasn't quite so infinite, in the end.

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Wes Fenlon @wes.readonlymemo.com · 6d

This is a great take on it: defector.com/taylor-swift...

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

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Wes Fenlon @wes.readonlymemo.com · 7d

the poster for drag me to hell cause that's where I wanna be

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Jeremy Parish, imperial aerosol kid @jparish.bsky.social · 7d

Remember how I kept talking about the Metroidvania book I had in the works, and then it kinda dropped off the radar? I didn't lose interest. I was just working with a Legit Major Publisher (Dark Horse!) on turning it into the pilot release for a Press Run team-up: www.gamespot.com/articles/exp...

Explore The Origins Of Metroidvania In This New Retro Gaming Book

This new book will explore the history of the enduring metroidvania genre in video games.

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