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Casio’s Crystal G-Shock Is the Most Expensive Ever Made
The flagship model, and by far the most expensive, is the $80,000 MRG-D5000, the first-ever retail G-Shock with an outer case and bezel hewn entirely from blue sapphire crystal.
I like G-Shocks, but this is a little excessive 👀
Clever database, but can it run Doom?
“Can it run Doom?” now applies to databases, as the author of DOOMQL has released a far more visually accurate port.
Google Wants to Send Data Centers to Space
In space, these energy monsters can take full advantage of the sun. The near-constant sunlight there can provide up to eight times more solar power than on Earth, according to the statement.
Seems like a much better place than Earth.
Cobalt: I Put Bluesky on a Wii U
Cobalt didn’t start with a product brief or a market analysis. I wasn’t trying to solve an important problem. I looked at a Wii U and thought it would be funny if Bluesky ran on it, then I started building it.
Down for the cause. It’s like the more useful version of running Doom on an iPod.
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others.
I’m not religious, so I don’t tend to care what the Pope has to say most of the time, but I agree with him here. At least when it comes to art. I might snap if I see another generic AI flyer for a company outing.
Coding, on the other hand…
Former Rockstar dev believes Grand Theft Auto VI on Switch 2 wouldn’t ‘even make sense’
Does it make sense for you to go out of your way to probably have the risk of delivering a subpar experience because it does not run exactly the same and so on while you know that anybody will buy a PS5 to get your game?”
As someone whose favorite console is the Switch, I agree. Nintendo has always been my favorite game company, but even Minecraft is virtually unplayable on Switch. I’m assuming it runs a little better on Switch 2, but GTA VI is a behemoth compared to anything Nintendo has ever put out.
Fark.com is the only website I use with no dark mode so it’s my default flashlight when the led is too bright
Finished playing Ori and the Will of the Wisps a couple days ago. Hands down one of the top five metroidvanias I’ve ever played. The characters are cute and the storyline is excellent. I needed a new side scroller so I got the Axiom Verge 1 & 2 bundle on sale through the Switch store just now.
Curious about changedetection.io with Reddit dropping rss feeds soon. Set up an instance on Pikapods to tool around with. I only watch a couple of the feeds in Miniflux anyway. Luckily, it looks like I’ll still be able to use Narwahl:
Narwhal is thankfully not going anywhere! Reddit reached out to me today to let me know that Narwhal will not be affected. This could of course change years down the road, but I hope that Reddit will continue to offer some form of an API that Narwhal can use.
ModRetro Partners With OpenAI To Help “You” Make… AI Retro Games?
Most people, especially retro gamers, do not want to buy or experience AI-generated games that steal from the very creatives that make retro gaming so damn good. We want to experience new, remarkable games, made by humans who have genuine passion for game development, and I am disappointed to see ModRetro put so much marketing and effort into promoting a tool/partnership that goes against their very core demographic’s values.
ModRetro founder/owner Palmer Luckey is already pretty much the Alex Karp of retro gaming, so this isn’t that surprising.
1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops
A zero-account browser chat room mimicking mid-90s online services. The state runs on Upstash Redis and is shared across three different frontends (React/Vite deployed on Vercel): * The standalone chat interface (https://lolchat.rip) * A Windows 95 simulator (https://56k.rip) * A Mac System 7 simulator (https://dialup.rip) Users dialing in from the Mac desktop and users on the Win95 machine end up in the exact same rooms talking to each other.
Hits all those nostalgic early web buttons, right down to the dial-up modem sound when you’re connecting.
The Weirdest Game I’ve Ever Made
Broken Files is now available (for free)! This game is a series of personal firsts. It has voice acting. It has a character, and she does dialog to you. It seems like the sort of thing that would feel at home on itch.io, so it’s there too. And it contains no code, so it runs on everything – in fact, it doesn’t run at all.
This is so cool! It’s an ARG-style puzzle where you have to edit hex codes using clues in a .zip you download from her site. I know that might sound a little sketchy, but she’s the dev behind the ad blocker I use, Wipr 2, and she also uploaded the game to itch.io, so I trust it. I won’t spoil anything, but I will say I made it to the shrine and learned a bit about hex editing in the process.
Worth noting: it’s not an impossibly complicated Cicada 3301 level ARG, so don’t overthink it!
Audiobooks make stories available to people who are driving, working, visually impaired, dyslexic, exhausted, or who take in spoken information better. Calling them “not real readers” doesn’t protect literature. It turns enjoying books into a purity contest.
I feel dumb a lot of the time when I admit I read something via audiobook, but I really shouldn’t. My attention span is shit so I usually get sidetracked when I try to sit down and crack a book. I do love my Kindle, and I’ve been reading a lot on it lately, but I’ve got a backlog on Libro I need to tend to.
Non-detection at traffic lights in the United States
Traffic lights that do not service traffic due to non-detection may not meet the federal legal definition adopted by most states for a traffic control signal, which is any device “by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and permitted to proceed”.
Did not know this was a thing. The abomination of a stoplight that leads to my street does this sometimes. I’m running the fucker the next time it misses my little car.
I Can’t Imagine Being This Desperate for Attention
I recently got shared a post from a friend about this blogger revealing they were the mastermind behind some shitpost ragebait blog that a collective 5ish people gave a fuck about (didn’t stop him from thinking he’s “talk of the town”), hell I hadn’t even heard of this blog before. But golly gee does this yutz want you to know it was him all along like some unaired Scooby-Doo villain.
I won’t post the actual blog either, but I’m 100% sure I just came across this same person on Bear Blog lmao. Big this guy energy at 0:32.
I’ll Keep Writing Like Me, Thanks
In the ’90s, I used
—and…in HTML to produce em dashes and ellipses, respectively. In the early 2000s, I happened upon the Alt + keypad shortcuts for entering all sorts of characters in Windows.
I love how easy it is to type an em dash and ellipses on an iPhone keyboard. You could even just set a text replacement rule for two hyphens or three periods. I did that for the interrobang — when I type an exclamation point and a question mark it bangs out one of these bad boys ‽
Ed Sheeran’s Concerts at Gillette Stadium Cancelled Due to Severe Weather Forecast
“The decision was made with the safety of fans, staff and everyone involved in the shows as the top priority. Refunds are available now at the point of purchase. Ticketholders who purchased through Ticketmaster will be automatically refunded.”
You can’t make this stuff up lol imagine if he simply would’ve had a spine. The outcome would’ve been the same either way, but at least his reputation would still be intact.
Just realized I never paused my Libro.fm subscription when I thought I did, so now I have nine credits sitting in my account. I guess I should find a few audiobooks to listen to.
The Turning: How Fall Color Moves Across North America
Fall is my absolute favorite time of year. I’m not sweating 24/7, the bugs are going away and, most importantly, it’s spooky season. This site gives you a cool visual timeline of the changing colors across North America this time of year.
I vibe coded a little thing that shows links from my RSS feed and ranks them with a really basic algorithm based on things I up/down vote and how long it’s been since they were posted: 100links.org.
It’s just my personal RSS feed for the most part but I thought it was a neat addition to my blog.
Bonnie Blue claims she sold her baby’s name for £1,200,000
However, the winning bid came from the online betting company BetBolt. The self-described ‘Crypto Casino‘ reportedly paid over a million pounds for the right to name the content creator’s baby, and thus, the child was named BetBolt, according to the video.
This has got to be rage bait. Right? RIGHT‽ That poor kid.
Bisexuals Are a Statistical Majority of the LGBTQ+ Community
As the largest contingent of the LGBTQ+ umbrella, bisexuals have led the charge in the reported growth of the queer and trans population in the United States. In fact, the latest Gallup polling from 2025 found that the U.S. LGBTQ+ population has doubled since it was first recorded in 2012, with bisexuals now accounting for 58.6% of the now 9% of U.S. adults that identify across the alphabet spectrum. This means that roughly a whopping 5.3% of all U.S. adults are openly bisexual, making bisexuals more common than redheads.
🩷💜💙
Mark Hoppus of Blink-182 Pays Tribute Chad Gilbert of New Found Glory
But those hours and talks and bus rides really showed me who Chad was. A fighter. A champion of joy. “Joy” sounds weird but that’s what Chad was. Fucking. Joyous. He was the guy who sincerely smiled and laughed and loved to see and meet new people. And listen to music. Joy. Whatever negative thing was going on, Chad was going to say fuck it. And fight it. And face the world and celebrate.
RIP Chad. Will definitely be rocking out to some NFG tonight, starting with the Sticks and Stones record. Fuck cancer ☹️
Napster Is Back, and It Wants to Digitally Clone Teachers
“We’re not at the point yet where AI can fully replace humans, and therefore we want to leverage that technology overlaid on top of humans to get the most of it.
Obviously the entire premise of replacing human teachers with AI is ridiculous. But I’ve never understood why you don’t just start a new company instead of re-purposing the name of an old one. It’s like if Blockbuster came back as a fintech startup.
William Shatner Takes Riot Fest by Storm, Previews Metal Album
Shatner addressed the Riot Fest crowd by telling them he was approached by Cleopatra Records to do a metal album, and his response was “What the fuck is heavy metal?,” which led directly to the album title, What the F Is Heavy Metal? He also noted that the album will be released sometime in the winter.
Devastated Ed Sheeran claims his own family ‘abandoned’ him amid Gaza row
“Everyone’s telling me to cancel and I’m feeling all of my friends and family and people I know abandon me,” he said.
“Everyone’s an asshole but me” —Ed Sheeran
Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee
Applications for Flock’s voluntary severance program opened Friday, and employees have until October 2 to decide whether to leave the company.
Read that as “voluntary surveillance program” at first glance. That would be silly though. Flock’s dystopian surveillance program is strictly non-voluntary for the people of ‘Merica. Feels good to finally see them in the “finding out” phase of fucking around.
