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high-end VHS player “no signal” screen but for 10 hours

if your preservation project for an obscure console is dismissing part of the system’s library for entirely puritanical reasons, it’s not a very good project

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never not sad that the one person who seems to have come up with an approach to dumping LaserActive games refuses to share his technique, and has stated that an entire segment of the console’s library is something he has no interest in enabling the preservation of

we will very likely drink from whatever vessel capitalism decides is cheap and good enough to impose on us

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“would you drink from a bottle made of algae?” mate we drink from bottles made of petrochemicals fucking constantly and you didn’t get a choice or a 30-second fluff video on twitter about it

impressed with how often Breath of the Wild is willing to lean on its ambient soundscape, only bringing in some musical cues in at particular moments

please enjoy my upcoming Mega CD game, “Negative Zero”

we’ve been blessed with visitors at the beach today!!!

Borrowed a friend’s copy of Breath of the Wild, and so far it’s making me feel like Shigeru Miyamoto just got around to playing Snake Eater and then got *really* obsessed with it

“Well,” said Elizabeth, loading her PPK, “sometimes one has to do one’s dirty work for oneself”

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where is the spy thriller starring the queen as played by Helen Mirren

will I *ever* get used to Nintendo’s shoulder button labelling scheme?

it is somehow completely in-character that npm seemingly just broke installs for people using yarn last thing on a friday evening, pacific time

simmering take: Turbolinks is bad please don’t use it

fucking crying here because Cucumber is once-trendy bullshit

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I have a line which says “When I successfully run `bundle exec rake test`”

It is failing

It will not show me the output from the command

I cannot find where the “When I [wildcard] run” Cucumber step is defined

What the goddamned fuck am I meant to do now exactly?

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I complain a lot about Ruby being a language which makes meaning and context difficult to discover but Cucumber uh, really takes the damn cake and smothers it in a language entirely defined at runtime using regexes??????

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