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Kevin Bunch (ubersaurus) @atariarchive.org · 2h

New blog post: It's the history of Sega's Head-On and Atari's Dodge 'Em, the original dot-and-maze game that has gotten quite overshadowed by Pac-Man in the years since www.atariarchive.org/blog/dodge-e...

Dodge ‘Em (Dodger Cars) – September 1980, Atari Archive

Atari has once again returned to the pool of arcade conversions for its second of three fall 1980 releases, Dodge 'Em.

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Flashback 64 @flashback64.com · 6h

New to Bluesky? We’ve got a starter pack full of former guests from the show you can follow!

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Pixels and Polyghosts 🔜 PRGE @pixelsandpolygons.net · 6h

For all the new users and new followers:

go.bsky.app/Dk4GNY9

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Alex @alexdz.bsky.social · 12h

"Why do people get upset with remakes? It's not like they replace the originals"

Capcom execs: We replaced the original games, why re-release them?

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Lisa Röstlund @lisarostlund.bsky.social · 16h

We’ve met with Greta Thunberg and others in the flotilla. They describe hours-long scenes of torture and sexual harassment in Israeli captivity. Experts conclude that they have been subjected to serious crimes – Sweden’s foreign minister believes they have themselves to blame.

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Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

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Mom @milph.mom · 18h

SNK’s Century of Humiliation

Fighting-Games Daily @fgcdaily.bsky.social · 23h

📰Film producer, Erik Feig To Lead 'Arena SNK Studios', a new film production banner.

Alongside making Live-action and animation films, TV series, Arena SNK will also produce experiential events internationally.

Around $1 billion has been secured in financing backing for the new venture by the-----

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Lauren Orsini @laurenorsini.bsky.social · 16h

Have you ever looked at P-Bandai and wondered why special editions became such a big deal? New feature up now:

From B-Club to P-Bandai: The History of Special Edition Gunpla - Gunpla 101

Have you ever looked at the online storefront at Premium Bandai (P-Bandai for short) and wondered why special editions became such a big deal? It turns out giant robot fans have been fascinated by shi...

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House of 1000 KaL's @kaly.blackskycomra.de · 16h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZV0... Digging through euro PS1 sports games to get at the gold within

Rushdown (USA) OST

YouTube video by PS1 OST

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Slashley Black 🔪🔪🔪 @darkside-ashley.bsky.social · 19h

every copy of Kid Kool: & The Quest For The Seven Wonder Herbs is personalized

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Gaziter @gaziter.bsky.social · Oct 24

The WinRAR librarian 📚

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House of 1000 KaL's @kaly.blackskycomra.de · 22h

I'm ahead of the curve having, already played the 6 games in the gif. 70 is a mad impressive number.

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St1ka @st1ka.bsky.social · 1d

I am covering EVERY First Person Shooter EVER made in Japan.

From 1985 to 2025, that's over 40 years and 70 games of gaming history.

Link: youtu.be/F80Cl6WzBNo?...

This was without a doubt the most ambitious video I've ever made.

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GDRI @gdri.bsky.social · 23h

This was originally supposed to be published by Sunsoft. Then one of the designers, Richard Robbins, took it with him when he left and started his own company, TNT Games. Then he joined Atari Corp. Robbins was able to license the rights to "Grampa" directly from Al Lewis. bsky.app/profile/ephe...

Ephemeral Enigmas @ephemeralenigmas.bsky.social · 1d

New blog post time!

This week's game is Midnight Mutants, the Atari 7800 swan song with everyone's favorite vampiric Grandpa. It's well worth recognizing its impressive ambition relative to other games on the 7800 and it's also the closest thing to Fester's Quest on there, so take that as you will!

Midnight Mutants

Midnight Mutants is ultimately a game that’s mostly about friction, so if you’re one of those people who likes to brag about how much they enjoy friction on social media, your time has come! Said f…

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SCAREon - Thorgi's Haunted Arcade @thorgisarcade.bsky.social · 23h

They just gave $1 billion to the guy who produced the Borderlands movie.

This is a money laundering scheme isn't it?

Fighting-Games Daily @fgcdaily.bsky.social · 23h

📰Film producer, Erik Feig To Lead 'Arena SNK Studios', a new film production banner.

Alongside making Live-action and animation films, TV series, Arena SNK will also produce experiential events internationally.

Around $1 billion has been secured in financing backing for the new venture by the-----

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House of 1000 KaL's @kaly.blackskycomra.de · 1d

wow this looks great

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

The one good thing about them taking the horny restraints off ChatGPT is that we will never hear from some people again

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 1d

collar gate is the latest instance of a trumped-up non-issue blossoming into a large-scale psychosis event – and possibly the dumbest. it's also the modern internet doing exactly what it was engineered to do

To be honest, I wouldn’t be mentioning this if not for the fact that it’s a microcosm of how online platforms work today: Somebody makes an accusation based on evidence that’s spurious at best, big names with something to gain (viewership or the downfall of a perceived enemy) uncritically boost it, internet sleuths obsessively piece together supporting evidence by amassing context-free clips and ignoring everything that doesn’t match their intended conclusion, and all of the aforementioned parties spread performatively apoplectic videos across Reddit, YouTube, TikTok, Twitter, and wherever else they can sucker in uninitiated normies.

Some version of this happens every week – every day, on a smaller scale – without fail. It accomplishes nothing aside from giving the disaffected masses a brief glimmer of what feels like purpose, but is actually a bloodsucking waste of their precious time on this dying planet. And of course, it provides platforms with sweet, sweet engagement numbers. As a result, platforms will probably never intervene to disrupt this corrosive dynamic, which has broken the general public’s ability to perceive anything resembling objective reality, even as society collapses around them and people like Piker attempt to identify the real reasons why (hint: they don't involve dog collars).

The internet has been like this at least since the Depp v. Heard trial, which wannabe sleuths similarly feasted on in 2022 while getting pretty much every important detail completely wrong. At least back then they were obsessing over something of consequence. Now they’ve taught viewers to regard every trumped-up non-issue they can surface with similar gravity.

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Video Game Art Archive @gameartarchive.bsky.social · 1d

Ideas
'Phantasy Star II'
SEGA Mega Drive

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 1d

Visa and Mastercard have the opportunity to do something really funny.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Foone @foone.bsky.social · 1d

I've been bedridden for the last 10 months for medical reasons, and I'm still about 1000$ behind on being able to pay for my car and storage. I'm sorry to keep asking, but if you could send a couple dollars, it'd really help.

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Support Foone Turing ❤️

Become a supporter of Foone Turing today!

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christa lee @ohpoorpup.bsky.social · 1d

Jesus Christ what a gauntlet. Days and days of hunting. Damaged internal connection on the HuC6270

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 1d

THE DUMBEST ASSHOLE YOU EVER HEARD IN YOUR LIFE: Artificial general intelligence is just around the corner. I’m going to develop it. I’m afraid of it.

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Unlimited Trees @unlimitedtrees.bsky.social · 1d

"america's the wealthiest country" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person in 50000dollars of debt. MonopolyMan Hitler , who lives in a gold mansion and was best friends with epstein is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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ohfivepro.bsky.social @ohfivepro.bsky.social · 1d

In the Metal Slug series, did you know that the male and female characters use different handguns?

Marco and Tarma use the Murder-50AE whilst Eri and Fio use the 1915 Revolver because of its slender design. From an SNK Supporters Club newsletter I posted on the other site years ago

The 1915 Revolver ladies gun, with slender design

double page spread showing various Metal Slug equipment

A screenshot of Metal Slug 3 which shows, in a shock to nobody who has read my post, male & female characters holding different handguns in the game. There is also a fish on the beach. It has no gun, possibly due to a lack of arms & hands

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Baxter @cosmicspooks.bsky.social · 26d

New translation!

The movie that shocked a young Hirokazu Kore-eda and has followed him his entire career...from the director of Dream Island Girl and Utopiano, Shoichiro Sasaki, I'm happy to share English subs for the gentle masterpiece that is "The Flow of a River, the Sound of a Violin"

Enjoy!!

The Flow of a River, the Sound of a Violin (Shoichiro Sasaki, 1981) w/ English Subs

YouTube video by Tsundoku Diving

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