Link https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19NXREZmjQ/ Not my words
🤝🇺🇸 There was a time—maybe not perfect, maybe not without politics—but a time when a Democrat and a Republican could disagree without trying to destroy each other. When we didn’t call each other enemies, or traitors, or “vermin.”
When a man like Joe Biden could help bring two people together in love, across party lines. And when Cindy McCain could look back on that kindness, that decency, and say, “thank you” with grace.
That time feels like a foreign country now.
Today, one party is still trying to live by the values this image represents: dignity, decency, shared service. The other? It’s off the rails.
Chasing conspiracy theories, attacking the justice system, calling cancer diagnoses “PR stunts,” and clapping for dictators. They wrap themselves in flags but spit on everything that flag is supposed to stand for.
The divide isn’t about left vs. right anymore. It’s about reality vs. delusion. It’s about compassion vs. cruelty.
One party still wants to govern. The other wants to burn it all down, blame everyone else, and claim victimhood while they victimize the vulnerable.
We are supposed to be on the same side. Not in policy, but in principle. We’re supposed to protect each other. Uphold the Constitution.
Lead with integrity. But the only people still doing that are the ones who are mocked as “radical” simply because they believe in facts, in democracy, in being a good damn human being.
So if the choice is between red hats and the rule of law—between chaos and community—I know which side I’m on.
🗽🕊️ #VoiceOfReason #CountryOverCult #BidenMcCainAmerica
Again, not my words
THE DYING TIME BEGINS ANEW Get used to hearing: “We could have saved lives but chose not to.”
Radio Free Mars | Thaddeus Howze
Let me begin by saying this: I mourn the lives lost in last night’s tornado. Every one of them mattered. Every one of them might have been saved.
And now let me say what others won’t: these deaths were preventable. They are not merely the result of extreme weather — they are the consequence of deliberate political choices.
These are the wages of austerity, ignorance, and ideological sabotage. They are the first major fatalities caused by a weakened U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) and a gutted National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) — casualties of the so-called “government reduction program” pushed by Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the billionaire sycophants of deregulation.
Programs like DO(d)GE (the Department of Government Efficiency) don’t exist to improve public infrastructure. They exist to dismantle it.
These deaths are not accidents of nature. They are policy outcomes.
The same people who dismiss climate science and slash scientific budgets now preside over a system that can no longer protect its people. Tornadoes don’t wait for press conferences. Storms don’t care about polls. But they respond to physics, to data, and to warning systems that once worked — until they were stripped for parts.
We are entering an era where unpredictable devastation will be met with predictable silence. Where disasters will be followed by “thoughts and prayers,” but not by reform or funding. Where warnings come too late — if at all.
Let history record this moment.
Let it say: this was the storm that proved neglect can kill just as surely as wind. And let it also say: we were warned.
Brace yourselves: Summer will be a killing season. Extreme heat will affect hundreds of millions simultaneously.
Weather patterns will bring unprecedented rainfall and storm surges that overwhelm drainage systems and breach every failing levee and sewage pipe.
Windstorms, dust storms, haboobs, and tornadoes will sweep across entire regions, leaving wreckage and death in their wake.
From the over-warm Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, hurricanes of immense size and ferocity will rise — storms made monstrous by a superheated climate. They will carve deadly paths through coastal communities, and without early warnings, many will not escape.
We once had those warnings — timely, precise, and life-saving — issued by a well-funded, fully staffed National Weather Service.
Not anymore.
And when the storm passes, you may look for help — but FEMA will not be there in force. Fragmented and underfunded, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has been hollowed out by the same policies that gutted science.
Every state will be left to fend for itself, with disaster response determined by political will and available funds. In many red states, that funding is nonexistent, and so is the will to prepare.
Policy will decide who lives. Policy will decide who dies. And most disturbingly: policy will decide who gets your home when you're gone.
If you think you’ll be made whole again, study your state’s insurance laws. Many of them will not work in your or your family’s favor when disaster strikes.
This isn’t just climate change. This is climate betrayal.
Welcome to "disaster capitalism" with you as the star. If you survive, the battle will have only just begun.
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/159o7Y5Q5f/
Remember, this guy is making money by declaring the world is on fire and will be destroyed by his enemies. This is all just theatrics.
Facebook post, not my words
The $400 million jet from Qatar and the late night Taylor Swift posts are designed to distract you from what happened on the first overseas trip of Trump's second term.
I am not referring to the highly choreographed, censored, Hollywood version of his Middle East tour. I am not talking about the tepid and inaccurate reporting from failed legacy media outlets, who only repeated his claim of 'hundreds of billions in deals'.
I'm talking about what really happened between the Trump family, the US oligarchs, and the Sunni dynasties which control the Gulf states.
Let's provide some proper grounding. Before departing on Air Force One, the White House informed the most reliable global news agencies, often referred to as 'the wire', that they would not be joining the administration. This marks the first time in history that journalists from the wire services (like Reuters, Associated Press, UPI, etc) would not accompany the US president on an overseas trip, especially one of this magnitude.
Upon landing, Trump and his family, top aides, and the CEOs of at least 20 major companies scurried to make deals as fast as they could.
Trump's large adult sons wrangled a few billion out of Qatar and Saudi Arabia for golf course resorts. They also landed major crypto deals where cartel members, terrorists, and other illicit offshore wealth will be funneled into their own crypto coins. There's nearly one crypto coin for each member of the Trump family.
The biggest single item of the deal was Saudi Arabia's pledge to purchase 500,000 semiconductor chips from Nvdia, for purposes that remain unclear. Saudi Arabia has zero computer talent as their ruling families are accustomed to not working for anything or providing any value whatsoever. Saudi Arabia is apparently going to buy 500,000 AI chips, at a cost of $50,000 per chip, to put them in the desert where server rooms need to to remain a temperature of 65 degrees, all without any local talent to do anything of value.
China's President Xi must be laughing in DeepSeek.
No one groveled more than Amazon's founder, Jeff Bezos. Bezos bowed before Mohammad bin Salman, a man who kidnapped, sexually tortured, and dismembered one of Bezos' journalists, Jamal Ahmad Hamza Khashoggi, employed at the Washington Post. The few remaining talented reporters still employed by Washington Post must rest easy at night knowing in the event someone murders them because they dislike their reporting, the boss will kiss their killer's hand. Not exactly a fantastic workplace vibe for a newspaper, but I digress.
To be honest, there isn't enough space in this post, or any post, to describe the torrent of deals that happened. We are talking about the 60 most powerful companies on earth, mingling with 20 or so members of the Saudi and Qatari ruling families, all pitching deals to channel oil money into their pockets.
One attendee, the CEO of Blackstone, the company responsible for buying up swaths of single-family homes and rental buildings across the US, using algorithms to squeeze every penny out of American renters, pitched a monster deal where Saudi Arabia would recycle billions in petrodollars into the financial products comprised of bundled rental payments from millions of broke Americans. The same Americans who a study released this week showed 60% of whom cannot afford the basic necessities of life.
Elon Musk landed a significant deal with Saudi Arabia to use his Starlink system for aviation and nautical systems. The military industrial complex, the tech CEOs, and the crypto creeps emerged from the summit with ear to ear smiles. It was a spectacle for the ages as the ruling elites of Saudi Arabia sought to greenwash, tech wash, and generally launder their oil wealth into the coffers of America's tech titans.
To be clear, Saudi Arabia is a backward nation of women-hating oil thieves and slavers who have nothing but contempt for our democracy and values. They have financed terrorist atrocities across the world, including 9/11. The Saudi sultans and sheiks attempt to spin their countries as reformed and modern by investing in goofy golf tournaments, but every single strip, brick, and building of the 'new Middle East' was built on the backs of chattel slaves from South Eastern Asia.
These Sunni sultans and sheiks, like the Trump family and the Silicon Valley tech bros, are the takers of the world. They contribute nothing. They live solely to extract as much wealth and amass as much power as they can.
And the takers of the world, like the Sunni elite and the wannabe dictators like Trump, share a similar model: that vision rests on holding the workers and makers of society in total contempt. The people who build our cities, teach our kids, manage our National Parks, research cancer cures, staff our hospital and hotels, farm our food, and generally provide the entire structure and foundation of modern life are deserving of nothing more than squalor, poverty, terror, cruelty, and denied even the basic recognition of citizenship. This is the model of Dubai. This is the vision of Trump's America.
Trump and his dopey sons aren't the captains of this ill-fated journey. Not by any stretch...
Peep🧐 Trump's little hands holding onto King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud's hand. At first glance, it appears Trump is gently supporting an old and enfeebled man. Which is weird, because he doesn't even hold his own wife's hand. But upon closer examination, it's the King who has stuck his middle finger right through Trump's palm as he grips his wrists with the other fingers. He is guiding him around like a donkey.
Trump is being groomed.
The Saudis played the President of the United States like Pinocchio at Pleasure Island. They rolled out their silly lavender carpet. They bussed in a McDonald's trailer so bozo could enjoy a Big Mac in the sweltering 110 degree heat while he canoodled with the people who funded 9/11. They adorned him a Toys R' Us gold chain. They even pawned off a rusted jet they were unsuccessfully trying to offload for years.
The only thing the Saudis wanted was the ability to launder their money into America's leading semiconductor technologies and boatloads of our latest weapon systems.
In the end, hundreds of billions of dollars changed hands. The number of hands numbered no more than two dozen. The 77 million MAGA muppets who voted for this traitor were not part of any deal.
Link. They also have links to articles. I would archive everything and put a bullet point, but too many people complain for anything I do.
I asked ChatGPT for the top posters in this forum.
On KotakuInAction2.win, several users have established themselves as prominent contributors through frequent posting and active engagement in discussions. Here are some of the notable users:
Notable Users on KotakuInAction2.win
Graphenium: Known for initiating discussions on gaming topics, such as organizing community events like pinball tournaments.
Gizortnik: Frequently contributes to political and cultural debates, offering detailed analyses and historical perspectives.
Mpetey123: Engages in discussions on political topics, often expressing critical views on foreign influence in domestic politics.
AlfredicEnglishRules: A prolific poster who shares a variety of content, including memes and commentary on current events and cultural issues.
Kienan: Regularly posts videos and articles, contributing to discussions on media and societal topics.
DomitiusOfMassilia: Serves as a moderator, enforcing community guidelines and maintaining order within the forum.
These users contribute to the dynamic discourse on KotakuInAction2.win, shaping the community's discussions on gaming, politics, and culture.
I then asked it to create a discussion between them. It proceeds to call me Alfredo in everything I try.
Certainly! Here's a fictionalized forum-style discussion on Castlevania featuring prominent users from KotakuInAction2.win: Graphenium, Gizortnik, Mpetey123, AlfredoEnglishrules, Kienan, and DomitiusOfMassilia. It mimics the tone and themes found in similar communities—critical of modern trends, nostalgic, and analytical.
Thread Title: “Castlevania: Still Gothic Gold or Has Netflix Ruined It?”
Graphenium: Just replayed Symphony of the Night and holy hell, it still holds up. The controls are tight, the music slaps, and the atmosphere is uncut gothic horror. Compare that to the Netflix show — it's like someone read a Wikipedia summary of the games and thought, “What if Dracula was sad and everyone cursed constantly?” It’s Castlevania without the soul.
Gizortnik: Excellent point. The original Castlevania games were steeped in European horror tradition — not just vampires, but themes of faith, corruption, decay, and redemption. What the Netflix series did was strip it down to modern cynicism. Everyone’s a nihilist. Trevor's a drunk. Sypha’s a snarky teen. Alucard is depressed and bisexual for some reason. It’s the modern writer’s toolkit: misery and sex. No transcendence. No grace.
Mpetey123: Let’s not pretend this isn’t part of a broader trend. They can’t make something without filtering it through 2020s ideology. Belmont in the games was about duty. Now he’s a reluctant hero who only gets involved after 12 quippy one-liners. Dracula, meanwhile, is a tragic figure with valid points about humanity being cruel. They Thanos’d him. This used to be Christian horror, not moral relativism with blood splatters.
AlfredoEnglishrules: Hot take: Aria of Sorrow is the best Castlevania and the closest we’ve gotten to a real “endgame” for the franchise. You play as Dracula’s reincarnation — in a Japanese high school student. Wild concept, but it worked. Deep themes, incredible soundtrack, and surprisingly good GBA graphics. Netflix could’ve adapted this and blown people’s minds. But no, we get endless grimdark Dracula lore dumps instead.
Kienan: There’s a pattern to this. Everything has to become a soap opera with violence. Look at how Castlevania handles religious imagery — in the games, it’s earnest. The cross hurts vampires. Holy water purifies. In the show? Religion is evil, corrupt, and useless. We’re in a media environment where faith is always the villain. Even when adapting something built on Christian myth.
DomitiusOfMassilia (moderator comment): Reminder: keep the conversation on Castlevania — games or adaptations — and avoid derailing into modern politics unless it ties directly to media criticism. Also, no attacking users who disagree. This is still a forum, not Twitter.
Graphenium (follow-up): All fair points. But I’ll say this: Castlevania survives despite its adaptations. The legacy is in Rondo of Blood, SOTN, and Bloodlines. The Netflix show is fan fiction with a budget. Play the classics. Keep the whip alive.
What do you think? Is Castlevania evolving or being devoured by modern storytelling trends? Drop your thoughts below — and no garlic required.
So it works, but not to the amount and ways needed. A great place to get information, but not do exact detailed things unless you already know how to correct the mistakes.
I need to call my lists Alfredo's Sauces...
I did not write this, I took it from a source
✈️🔥 Selling out your country used to be considered treason. Now it’s just Tuesday for Donald J. Trump. Let’s talk about the latest humiliation: a $400 million luxury jet gifted by Qatar, a nation whose royal family harbored the mastermind behind 9/11. You read that right. Shaykh Abdullah bin Khalid Al Thani—the same man who provided shelter to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed before the towers fell—is part of the regime footing the bill for Trump’s airborne bribe.
This isn’t a conspiracy theory. It’s in the 9/11 Commission Report. It’s in Department of Defense records. It’s part of the historical record that the former Minister of Religious Affairs in Qatar helped the architect of 9/11 avoid capture and escape justice. And now that same regime is handing over a $400 million jet to the same man who thinks hugging the Constitution onstage gives him the right to sell the country off piece by piece.
Trump’s not just accepting the jet while in office—CNN reports that a senior White House source says he’s planning to keep it after he leaves. You know, like a souvenir. Like a thank-you card written in oil money. The kind of payoff that doesn’t just stink of corruption—it screams it from 30,000 feet while sipping champagne in a flying palace.
So let’s be perfectly clear: Trump is accepting a monument to his own corruption from a regime tied to the most devastating terrorist attack in American history. And instead of accountability, we get a press release. Instead of outrage, we get shrugs. This isn’t just bad optics—it’s moral rot on a global scale.
He’s not a patriot. He’s a walking emoluments clause violation. A man who brags about being tough on terror while striking deals with the same regimes that funded it. And now, instead of demanding justice for the victims of 9/11, he’s negotiating loyalty perks with their enablers. Imagine telling the families of the dead that the president just pocketed a jet from the people who harbored their killer.
This isn’t just corruption. This is betrayal. National security, foreign policy, historical memory—sold off for gold trim and a minibar. Trump didn’t drain the swamp. He turned it into a private airstrip for the rich and shameless. And if we let this slide, we’re telling every foreign dictator on Earth that America’s loyalty is for sale—$400 million or best offer.
We owe it to every life lost on 9/11 to call this what it is: disgraceful, treasonous, and utterly disqualifying. You don’t fight terror by shaking hands with its facilitators. And you don’t honor America by flying its colors on a jet bought with blood money.
🗽🕊️
#VoiceOfReason #NeverForgetWhoPaid
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Can you make discussion between the listed posters on the subject of Half Life 2?
Sure! Here's a fictional article written in the style of a spirited forum thread on KotakuInAction2.win, featuring imagined users Graphenium, Gizortnik, Mpetey, and AlfredicEnglishrules, discussing Half-Life 2. It mimics a back-and-forth conversation turned into a digestible article.
Title: “Half-Life 2: Still the GOAT or Overrated Relic?” — Forum Roundtable
By Graphenium, Gizortnik, Mpetey, and AlfredoEnglishrules
Graphenium: Let’s be honest: Half-Life 2 is either the greatest game of all time, or it’s a brilliantly polished tech demo with a cult following. Yes, the physics engine was ahead of its time. Yes, the gravity gun was mind-blowing. But go back and play it now — the pacing is glacial. Chapter after chapter of crouching through pipes, stopping to listen to Resistance speeches, and slogging through Ravenholm AGAIN. Is that really fun, or are we just hypnotized by nostalgia?
Gizortnik: Strong disagree. HL2 is still the blueprint for how to do immersive storytelling without yanking control from the player every two minutes. No HUD clutter, no minimaps, no QTE nonsense. Just tight level design, organic narrative delivery, and that subtle Valve mastery. It trusted you to figure things out. Something most modern games hand-hold to death.
Mpetey: HL2 has one fatal flaw nobody talks about: it's afraid of its own power. The gravity gun should have redefined combat, but instead you get 2 hours of it being amazing, and then you're back to using the same old SMG and pistol for most encounters. It's like giving you a lightsaber and then telling you to use a stick instead. Missed opportunity, and the episodes made it worse.
AlfredoEnglishrules: Honestly? The real problem is the lack of a sequel. We mythologize HL2 because Valve never delivered on HL3. The cliffhanger ending in Episode 2 turned what could have been a satisfying closure into a shrine for “what could have been.” HL2’s legacy is inflated because it’s frozen in time — never finished, never tarnished by a sequel that might have exposed its limitations.
Graphenium (follow-up): Also, let’s talk themes. HL2 has this oppressive, Orwellian setting — but it never really says anything. It's just window dressing. You overthrow the Combine, but there’s no ideological weight behind it. Compare that to Deus Ex or even Bioshock, which actually challenge your worldview.
Gizortnik (rebuttal): Valve's restraint is the point. They don’t bash you over the head with ideology. They build a world and let you interpret it. The Combine’s authoritarianism, Breen’s propaganda, the transhuman horror of the Stalkers — it’s all there, just understated. HL2 trusted the player to think. That’s rare now.
Mpetey (wrap-up): Half-Life 2 was a landmark, no doubt. But the longer Valve stays silent, the more it risks being remembered as a tragedy rather than a triumph. Great game? Absolutely. Perfect? Not even close.
AlfredoEnglishrules (final word): It’s the Citizen Kane of video games. Groundbreaking, influential — and yes, a little overrated by people who use it to feel smarter than they are. But still... when Dog throws that car at the soldiers? That’s gaming magic, and I won’t hear otherwise.
What do you think? HL2: masterpiece, museum piece, or meme? Jump into the comments and tell us where you stand.
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Afrikaner friend is posting about how families leaving South Africa for the USA look like evil rednecks and obviously stupid. Other friends are chiming in how Trump is sending away Afghanistan refugees and that they're the wrong color, and that's why.
Then the English friends are posting about how Afghanistan being a terrible place and sending people back is a terrible thing. Meanwhile South Africa is a great place and no evil horrible thing is happening.
It's been going like this all day.
Star Wars was doing great. Marvel is awesome. It's not dying until Trump tries to help. Not my words
BREAKING: The MAGA White House backtracks on Donald Trump's truly insane announcement that he will be imposing a 100% tariff on all movies produced in "Foreign Lands" and says that "no final decision" has yet been made.
Trump is working hard to destroy ever sector of our economy...
"The Movie Industry in America is DYING a very fast death. Other Countries are offering all sorts of incentives to draw our filmmakers and studios away from the United States. Hollywood, and many other areas within the U.S.A., are being devastated," Trump wrote on Truth Social last night.
"This is a concerted effort by other Nations and, therefore, a National Security threat. It is, in addition to everything else, messaging and propaganda! Therefore, I am authorizing the Department of Commerce, and the United States Trade Representative, to immediately begin the process of instituting a 100% Tariff on any and all Movies coming into our Country that are produced in Foreign Lands. WE WANT MOVIES MADE IN AMERICA, AGAIN!" he added.
The response from Hollywood was swift, with many commentators correctly pointing out that such a tariff could lead to the total collapse of the industry.
It's unclear how such a tariff would even be implemented but it could spark reciprocal tariffs from other countries, cutting off access to crucial markets that films need to turn a profit.
"We believe he has no authority to impose tariffs under the International Economic Emergency Powers Act, since tariffs are not listed as a remedy under that law," California Governor Gavin Newsom's senior advisor for communications Bob Salladay said.
Now, it appears that Trump may be reconsidering—
"Although no final decisions on foreign film tariffs have been made, the Administration is exploring all options to deliver on President Trump’s directive to safeguard our country’s national and economic security while Making Hollywood Great Again," White House spokesman Kush Desai told The Hollywood Reporter.
As usual, Trump's economic policies are as poorly designed as they are ignorant of the fundamental needs of the people on the ground. If he really wanted to help the film industry, he would suggest federal tax credits and subsidies to stimulate more production.
Tariffs will have the opposite of Trump's suggested effect. Just look at what the China, Mexico, and Canada tariffs are already doing to the stock market and small businesses. Piling even more on top will not only hurt Hollywood, it will hurt all of us.
Of course, Trump isn't suggesting a practical solution because he isn't really interesting in solving the problems that Hollywood faces. He's only interested in foisting his harebrained ideas onto the American people to prove what a brilliant leader he is.
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Videogames
XCom style Star Wars game
Amerzone is a mystery adventure game like Myst
Storm gate just updated. It's a Starcraft like game.
The Capcom Fighters Compilation 2 is my birthday gift to me. Yay. Pity it doesn't come out near my actual birthday…
Assassin's Creed Shadows comes to Macs
Endzone is a strategy game based on the environment going tits up and civilization has to survive. Lots of lecturing and commentary to follow. It's $3 when I placed this link though.
New Strategy and RPG games for May
Strategy List A wargamer compiles the top 100 best strategy games. It's 5 pages long, so I had archive and post several pages. Far worse, this is 100-50, not even the complete list.
https://archive.ph/SYq8R https://archive.ph/e3Zzo https://archive.ph/7sDqb https://archive.ph/LZW3B https://archive.ph/rzVHI
They now have it at 50-26. It's another 5 Page deal. https://archive.ph/HspzF https://archive.ph/9CgSo https://archive.ph/cKfUt https://archive.ph/48TLg https://archive.ph/pgb2N
VG: Broken Arrow
Broken Arrow is a MilSim RTS with units and combat areas based on real life.
Another article on the game
Switch 2
A fairly complete idea of their strategy.
Mario Kart views from people who have played it.
Mario Kart has Wave Race in it.
The new Donkey Kong previews
During the Mario Kart Direct they kept throwing a penguin driver off a cliff.
VG: Switch: Mario Kart World Drivers
A list of drivers in the game
There are some really weird ones like Bonefish, Goombas, Boo Dressed as Dracula, and others
There is one big winner though, the Cow from Moo Moo Farms
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/FM8fh
Even movie studios are getting in on that popularity
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/mosYQ
It's got a lot of people noticing
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/sBFTP
VG: Business
Why the bad design of the online service by Rockstar is why you should pirate games
Releasing games is like printing money for Sony. Them going 3rd party is a good thing. Paid for by Microsoft
Amazon keeps thinking it can compete with Steam, and not realizing that steam exists to thwart those ideas
Unity laid off several people with a 5AM email in February
Japanese designer sells IP for earlier game to make newest game. It made $2 Million
VG: Propaganda
The left is going after Notch again
Clair Obscura sparks debate on turn based RPGs.
VG: Prop: Trump Tariffs
Bad emulation machines company no longer ships to the US
More on the company stopping shipments
VG: Classics
Castlevania gets a musical
How Masaya Maatsura talks about going from pop star to game designer
8 obscure PS1 games that could be good
Simon Belmont from Castlevania as presented by artist Hiroaki Gohda
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/rC5iG
While making Half Life 2, a designer for graphics realized the companies making the cards had screwed up the math. He told them and they were pretty angry at him.
The reason why a classic Sega game is a 3D Dungeons is because the director wanted one.
A look at Castlevania for the X68000
A look at Castlevania
Violent Videogames in the 90’s
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/xNf2g
Classic game exclusives and the chance they will be released to PC.
Horror games to get started with.
A video of Miyamoto talking Mario 64 has surfaced. This is an overview with a link to the archived video
VG: Class: Game Design Archives
Capcom, SquareEnix, SeGa and TaiTo are teaming up to make a large public archives of their games and design documents.
Tweet that told me about the news
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/mQTJx
Another article
It may not be an actual announcement and things may be worse
VG: Design
Interview with creators of Bloodsworn. It's a three part interview.
https://archive.ph/6lRIJ https://archive.ph/LVQmQ https://archive.ph/Fm9ek
VG: Mods and Fan Made
Fan made concept ideas for Castlevania 2
PS1 games played on the GameCube
Recompiling N64 games is getting more popular and powerful than emulation.
DarkSeed for the Saturn has been translated
A fan is remaking Toy Story 2 the game in Unreal 5.
Fan Made Castlevania footage
Wii Homebrew Channel shutdown because it had code and documentation from Nintendo.
Fans are making a special emulated broadcast of Nintendo Satellaview for its birthday
Fan made Altered Beast Remake
3D Demo for Neo Geo
Fan sequel to windwaker in breath of the wild style
Fan Made 3D Super Mario World
https://www.gonintendo.com/contents/45081-dev-recreates-super-mario-world-in-3d
VG: MFM: Doom Ports
New color version for Atari ST
Doom ported to PDF file
VG: MFM: GTA III on Dreamcast
GTA III on Dreamcast
A mod for GTA III on Dreamcast has upgraded textures from XBox. It's a video, so the archive doesn't get it all.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/ZGHQ4
Inefficiencies found and being corrected.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/aW9kJ
VG: Classic Indies
Kirito is a beat em up for the Mega Drive
Frontier Force is a new Shootemup for the Mega Drive
GoG has Star wars games like Tie Fighter
VG: CI: Castlevania
Fan Made Classicvania games
Nightstalker is a Castlevania like for the MSX2
Lady Dracula is a Classicvania styled game for PC
Not doing all the stuff I've archived over the month. We have a world expo going on by the way. Feel free to copy a link and make a thread about it.
Racism was gone in the 90’s, because so many shows and athletes were black, brown, Asian, white and more while people didn't care.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/QxkEu
Display on how evil the Red Scare is, and New York Times talks about how it is still relevant today
Guy who forgave his son's killer seems to be wanting the message to be more important. He complains about white trash at an event mourning the son. Son was white, and killer was black.
China has floating cities to destroy the fishing in other countries. The cities are outside of the country borders and over fish the area.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/x1XFV
Scots should be a respected language and accent in the UK, especially in Scotland.
The left is hinting that they need to use violence because that's how it's always worked.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/zggRm
California is kicking out farms in the name of the environment
https://x.com/BasedBattletech/status/1912988027175211259?t=bdt7Ytp6uCC7_B3kCITOZQ&s=19
Comcast and NBC universal is under investigation for promoting DEI
AOC doesn't capitalize Whites, while capitalizing Black and Latino in her post to bring people together. Comments are not having it.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/ZoO2y
Documentary on how Twitter was destroyed by free speech. This is a review.
Trump
The DOGE Russian hacker story turns out to be completely made up
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/On818
Elon Musk proved that much of funding we thought was being used to help people was actually a money laundering scheme.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/QByqN
Trump is deporting child cancer patients and pregnant women! The Rolling Stones reports
A maga friendly list has backfired as people boycott companies on list. Reported by Huffpost.
We might have to shut down the country says the New Yorker
Trump returns Columbus Day to its original purpose. Biden picture shown instead.
The Guardian reports on the first 100 days of the Trump presidency. They crow that he is losing.
Ukraine agrees to mineral deal with US for end of war deal.
50 states, 50 protests, 1 group on May Day. Trump is evil and we should be scared.
Tariffs
Temu and shein are raising prices, and ‘customers’ are willing to pay.
Last boats without tariffs arriving. Soon it will be death and destruction!
Kamala Harris
She returns with rhetoric about a constitutional crisis if Trump continues.
Harris says tariffs will cause recession
ABC Interview
ABC interview with Trump
Angry handwringing about the interview on ABC
Amazon Tariffs
Amazon intends to show price changes from tariffs. BBC expects it to show how bad it is and that Trump is angry.
It turns out it's a single unreliable source saying this, but Bezos is a coward if he doesn't follow through
College Accreditation and Funding Executive Order
Trump has signed an executive order demanding that funding for schools be given for results, not DEI stuff. It's also to stop money laundering through the schools.
Harvard sues Trump over funding freeze.
Another article
Quora articles
Trump is disastrous already, how can he be so destructive?!
How will Trump fall?
