Ripperley
@ripperley.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 Ripley | 🏳️⚧️ She/Her | 💀 31
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Born in Yorkshire, England 🌹
Based in Aberdeen, Scotland 🏴
My brain is completely poisoned by too much internet and too many bad video games.
linktr.ee/Ripperley
Born in Yorkshire, England 🌹
Based in Aberdeen, Scotland 🏴
My brain is completely poisoned by too much internet and too many bad video games.
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Ripperley
@ripperley.bsky.social
· Oct 20
If, for some reason or another, you want to hear more of what I think about various different video games, I write little reviews up for just about everything I play these days over on Backloggd:
www.backloggd.com/u/Ripperley/...
Fair warning that I have very questionable taste and opinions.
www.backloggd.com/u/Ripperley/...
Fair warning that I have very questionable taste and opinions.
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Phil Spencer was visited by three Christmas ghosts who subsequently convinced him the true meaning of “shareholder value.”
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December 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Phil Spencer was visited by three Christmas ghosts who subsequently convinced him the true meaning of “shareholder value.”
paletteswap.site/dif...
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trans rights are human rights bsky.app/profile/jess...
December 21, 2025 at 7:29 AM
trans rights are human rights bsky.app/profile/jess...
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One of my favorite things with mobile garbage like this is seeing the game buckle under its own weight and hitch every few seconds as it struggles to load in another pop-up
Here’s a “I didn’t play for a week and now the Christmas event stuff started and every recurring revenue system reset requiring a new pop up” version that is somehow twice as long
December 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
One of my favorite things with mobile garbage like this is seeing the game buckle under its own weight and hitch every few seconds as it struggles to load in another pop-up
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King's Field (PS1) (1994)
1/2
1/2
September 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
King's Field (PS1) (1994)
1/2
1/2
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 developer Sandfall Interactive is finding itself in hot water over its use of AI generated assets in developing the game.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses a GOTY award over use of gen AI
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 developer Sandfall Interactive is finding itself in hot water over its use of AI generated assets in developing the game.
www.polygon.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 developer Sandfall Interactive is finding itself in hot water over its use of AI generated assets in developing the game.
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besides the obvious near-term concrete win here (congratulations Blue Prince, new winner of GOTY) I appreciate this also hopefully makes ultra clear to newer teams that even if their work was as well received as Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, AI'll make it ineligible or get an asterisk in awards shows
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 developer Sandfall Interactive is finding itself in hot water over its use of AI generated assets in developing the game.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses a GOTY award over use of gen AI
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 developer Sandfall Interactive is finding itself in hot water over its use of AI generated assets in developing the game.
www.polygon.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:41 PM
besides the obvious near-term concrete win here (congratulations Blue Prince, new winner of GOTY) I appreciate this also hopefully makes ultra clear to newer teams that even if their work was as well received as Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, AI'll make it ineligible or get an asterisk in awards shows
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I like video games because they allow me to act out my wildest power fantasies
December 18, 2025 at 4:07 AM
I like video games because they allow me to act out my wildest power fantasies
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What a mess. This is turning into a financial white elephant for all three local authorities.
They were repeatedly warned by myself and others about this project. Instead of listening, every party involved dismissed the concerns we put to them.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
They were repeatedly warned by myself and others about this project. Instead of listening, every party involved dismissed the concerns we put to them.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Aberdeen's £150m incinerator closes for second time in six months
No exact timescale is given for when the facility - which is used by three councils - will reopen.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 8:41 PM
What a mess. This is turning into a financial white elephant for all three local authorities.
They were repeatedly warned by myself and others about this project. Instead of listening, every party involved dismissed the concerns we put to them.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
They were repeatedly warned by myself and others about this project. Instead of listening, every party involved dismissed the concerns we put to them.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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It's genuinely depressing that we had an entire industry of mid-high budget short films that basically just don't exist anymore
Lyric videos are cool, but they don't fill the void
Lyric videos are cool, but they don't fill the void
Making the year-end lists was a lot easier when music videos still existed
December 17, 2025 at 11:05 PM
It's genuinely depressing that we had an entire industry of mid-high budget short films that basically just don't exist anymore
Lyric videos are cool, but they don't fill the void
Lyric videos are cool, but they don't fill the void
Still no HDR support in Firefox by the way. HDR video support was added to Chrome 7 years ago.
I will do anything I can to avoid and refuse using Chromium based browsers and supporting Google's monopoly but jfc, the only other option couldn't try harder to make worse decisions and kill itself.
I will do anything I can to avoid and refuse using Chromium based browsers and supporting Google's monopoly but jfc, the only other option couldn't try harder to make worse decisions and kill itself.
December 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Still no HDR support in Firefox by the way. HDR video support was added to Chrome 7 years ago.
I will do anything I can to avoid and refuse using Chromium based browsers and supporting Google's monopoly but jfc, the only other option couldn't try harder to make worse decisions and kill itself.
I will do anything I can to avoid and refuse using Chromium based browsers and supporting Google's monopoly but jfc, the only other option couldn't try harder to make worse decisions and kill itself.
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It is beyond frustrating to me that the only alternative to Chromium is currently doing its best to try shoot itself in the foot.
I've been using Firefox for most of my life, and to see a fumble like this when they're already on their backfoot is disappointing.
Just switched to WaterFox instead.
I've been using Firefox for most of my life, and to see a fumble like this when they're already on their backfoot is disappointing.
Just switched to WaterFox instead.
December 17, 2025 at 9:10 AM
It is beyond frustrating to me that the only alternative to Chromium is currently doing its best to try shoot itself in the foot.
I've been using Firefox for most of my life, and to see a fumble like this when they're already on their backfoot is disappointing.
Just switched to WaterFox instead.
I've been using Firefox for most of my life, and to see a fumble like this when they're already on their backfoot is disappointing.
Just switched to WaterFox instead.
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I wonder what the end goal of all this is. Like if Firefox dies, that's basically the end of all of its forks like Waterfox, Librewolf, Zen, etc too.
Firefox is already not in a good state rn in terms of usage (Edge has twice the share of Firefox)
Firefox is already not in a good state rn in terms of usage (Edge has twice the share of Firefox)
December 17, 2025 at 10:32 AM
I wonder what the end goal of all this is. Like if Firefox dies, that's basically the end of all of its forks like Waterfox, Librewolf, Zen, etc too.
Firefox is already not in a good state rn in terms of usage (Edge has twice the share of Firefox)
Firefox is already not in a good state rn in terms of usage (Edge has twice the share of Firefox)
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So the guy himself is saying they arent really even seeing productivity gains? He said they are just using AI because they are afraid of being left behind. He is inviting this public scorn by repeating techbro talking points for no benefit at all. The mind of a CEO is fascinating.
If I had known the two paragraphs about genAI in my article today would be so controversial, I would have expanded them a bit! Here's a rough transcript of the relevant portion of my interview with Swen Vincke, so everyone has all the context. (Full article here: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...)
December 17, 2025 at 12:16 AM
So the guy himself is saying they arent really even seeing productivity gains? He said they are just using AI because they are afraid of being left behind. He is inviting this public scorn by repeating techbro talking points for no benefit at all. The mind of a CEO is fascinating.
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The thing that makes me insane about this and Vincke’s comments is why would you trust AI to make a reference? They’re notoriously bad at doing that and produce banal results! Go buy some art books, they’re great. How is it empowering concept artists to have them not do that?
December 16, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The thing that makes me insane about this and Vincke’s comments is why would you trust AI to make a reference? They’re notoriously bad at doing that and produce banal results! Go buy some art books, they’re great. How is it empowering concept artists to have them not do that?
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"we USE ai, but our game wont CONTAIN it" is a clarification that no one has ever cared about & now CEOs are using it as a wedge to get their foot in the door as a part of a long term plan into normalizing AI, just like how 'it's just placeholder' was used with E33. dont cede even an inch of ground
December 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
"we USE ai, but our game wont CONTAIN it" is a clarification that no one has ever cared about & now CEOs are using it as a wedge to get their foot in the door as a part of a long term plan into normalizing AI, just like how 'it's just placeholder' was used with E33. dont cede even an inch of ground
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Our first big Christmas update is with an amazing recovery of the final build of Resident Evil on Gameboy Color. Hotgen's impressive conversion that got canned. This is much closer to completion, and seems completable too. Lots to discover!
www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/12/resi...
www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/12/resi...
December 17, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Our first big Christmas update is with an amazing recovery of the final build of Resident Evil on Gameboy Color. Hotgen's impressive conversion that got canned. This is much closer to completion, and seems completable too. Lots to discover!
www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/12/resi...
www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/12/resi...
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Google removed "don't be evil" from their vocabulary years ago, but now I know they meant it.
December 16, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Google removed "don't be evil" from their vocabulary years ago, but now I know they meant it.
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You see, when things were simple, available, affordable and convenient, pirating went down.
But now things are complicated, not available, pricy and super confusing so pirating is on the rise again.
Even show creators say "just pirate my series" because either it's the ONLY option or they're pissed.
But now things are complicated, not available, pricy and super confusing so pirating is on the rise again.
Even show creators say "just pirate my series" because either it's the ONLY option or they're pissed.
Pirating media isn't cool. It's theft. If you want more of what you consume...pay for it. If you don't want to pay online providers, buy physical media or go to a library.
not to come off as all "i'm cool cuz i steal" but this is actually a good encapsulation of why i pirate so much media. do i want to pay for something and still get spam and ads? or do i want to connect my computer to some guy in brazil's computer so i can get the movie i want for free no catch
December 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
You see, when things were simple, available, affordable and convenient, pirating went down.
But now things are complicated, not available, pricy and super confusing so pirating is on the rise again.
Even show creators say "just pirate my series" because either it's the ONLY option or they're pissed.
But now things are complicated, not available, pricy and super confusing so pirating is on the rise again.
Even show creators say "just pirate my series" because either it's the ONLY option or they're pissed.
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That's the really fucked up part: OpenAI is really obviously a company whose entire future is a big fat "How soon and how bad does it fall?" but in the mean time they're doing their level best to absolutely fuck anyone with a more stable business.
December 15, 2025 at 11:34 PM
That's the really fucked up part: OpenAI is really obviously a company whose entire future is a big fat "How soon and how bad does it fall?" but in the mean time they're doing their level best to absolutely fuck anyone with a more stable business.
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Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
December 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
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From the frontlines of the ongoing strike at Vue Cinema in Glasgow city centre.
@unitetheunion.bsky.social
@unitetheunion.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 6:20 PM
From the frontlines of the ongoing strike at Vue Cinema in Glasgow city centre.
@unitetheunion.bsky.social
@unitetheunion.bsky.social
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Early Access and the way they managed their community across all their updates helped humanize that team in ways that only helped Baldur’s Gate 3, weird for the studio to be so willing to throw all that goodwill away.
I think it's nice when concept art shows the evolution of people's creative processes instead of a prompt, but what do I know
December 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Early Access and the way they managed their community across all their updates helped humanize that team in ways that only helped Baldur’s Gate 3, weird for the studio to be so willing to throw all that goodwill away.