I've always been fascinated by these small computers. GPD makes these kinds of devices too. Ordered one once but I never got it. Been thinking of building one myself though I'm worried it would be too small to enjoyable use. I would definitely write on it, that I am sure of.

I wrote an article about the 3 games and just how good they are. Imo, they're extremely underrated. I really wanna play more games similar to it but I can't find much in the way of isometric collectathons(?) at all. Looking for any suggestions. Apologies if this isn't the right spot. GBA is retro right?

Imo, the 3 games are extremely underrated in the Spyro series and feel like completely different games.

Here's the article. It explains more specifically what I mean by these games.
Website: https://charinusraps.neocities.org/pages/writing/gamenotes/spyro
Medium: https://medium.com/@charinusraps/spyro-season-of-thunder-7969d3a4dcee
Substack: https://substack.com/home/post/p-144166959

I know there's the main Spyro games but I'm looking for 2D ones, basically the same deal as the Season games.

Well discord isn't completely comparable to IRC but the look of that client sure is!

The Zelda games on the Game Boy and Colour are unique within the Zelda series as a whole. Strange plots, enemies, music, mystery and even gameplay plague the three games. Hell, in Link's Awakening half the enemies are straight up from Super Mario Bros. And the oracle games come with novels and feature interconnected password systems, animal companions (who vary depending on your own actions) and areas unique in any other Zelda games (Subrosia). It's almost as if these 3 games exist in a void unto itself.

I recently watched a playthrough of the Unreal remake of Link's Awakening. Those plus the Oracle games are imo, some of my favourite Zelda games. Anyone know any games similar? I alreayd know of and love Lenna's Inception and Anodyne but I want more. I wrote an article about Link's Awakening and what I call Lozgbc games with a few more listed. Anyone know any other ones I could add?

Substack: https://charinus.substack.com/p/a-retrospect-on-links-awakening
Medium: https://medium.com/@charinusraps/a-retrospect-on-links-awakening-0af2035f183e
Website: https://charinusraps.neocities.org/pages/games/gamenotes/zelda

Nintendo claims that Yuzu actively assisted in piracy of Tears of the Kingdom. They say that Yuzu violates Nintendo's copyright by decrypting their games to run.

They also claim that "Nintendo also has technological measures on the Nintendo Switch console itself, including additional layers of encryption, which prevent users from unlawfully accessing or modifying the console—including to procure the prod.keys—and from accessing or copying games stored on the console or on a cartridge inserted in the console." - From the actual lawsuit which you can read here: https://www.scribd.com/document/709016504/Nintendo-of-America-Inc-v-Tropic-Haze-LLC-1-24-Cv-00082-No-1-D-R-I-Feb-26-2024

Nintendo claims that Yuzu spoiled Tears of the Kingdom for everyone (not listed as a damage in the lawsuit this is just something they've added on).

This lawsuit bears similarities to the Bleem v. Sony though I'll let you draw your own conclusion if this is comparable.

From the github description: "A Virtual Boy emulator for the Nintendo 3DS continuing mrdanielps's work on r3Ddragon, which is itself based on Reality Boy / Red Dragon. It uses a dynamic recompiler with busywait detection and a hardware-accelerated renderer to achieve high performance on the 3DS's limited hardware."

Here is the complete announcement: https://commaful.notion.site/commaful/A-Heartfelt-Goodbye-and-a-New-Beginning-at-Commaful-a31080180fa647f5ad69eac89fa6b532

Commaful is a website where you could post short (really short) stories to with pictures. I've used it in the past to post my lyrics to my music but otherwise didn't really interact with it. Aside from poetry and short stories the website also contains a ton of shortform fanfiction.

I'm assuming a full backup wouldn't be that big (it's literally just text and some images + a lot of people using the same stock images). I just downloaded all my stories and it came to about 9mb (against 20 or so stories).

Alone: The Horror Begins is allegedly (more on that later) a J2ME game developed by Centrescore, a company I can barely find any information about. This company is hard to track down. After scouring their old website I still can't figure out where they were even located. I guess somewhere in the U.S.A. but even then all the info I have is circumstantial. In their lifetime none of the games they made were that popular. They never quite made it out of obscurity. A cursory search indicates their most successful game being "Surviving High School '07", a coming of age group of minigames. Alone was their only foray into horror games before their disappearance. It appears that in 2006, Vivendi Games purchased Centrescore, eventually bringing all their IPs under that Vivendi hood. Under the Vivendi hood they were dissolved and all of their games forgotten. Makes you wonder why Vivendi even wasted the money acquiring them.

This game was apparently released in November 2005 to various digital storefronts. Some claim it unreleased but there's at least one link that proves it was public and for sale. It was, at some point available for sale on EasyEdge, a now discontinued mobile phone service.

During the search for this game a lot of inconsistencies came up.

This game is known as a J2ME game, a simple web search will back me up. But looking at that EasyEdge page one can see none of the phones listed were actually J2ME phones. They all ran BREW, a whole separate system. For comparison it's like saying a games was made for the SNES but it was really a Genesis game. BREW was on some whole other thing.

Here's some links:

https://web.archive.org/web/20071106212646/http://easyedge.uscc.com/easyedge/GameDetail.do?1697 - EasyEdge page, confirms it was released.

https://web.archive.org/web/20090420025521/http://www.centerscore.com/index.htm - Centerscore's old page. More proof the game was released.

I ended up writing a full article about the history, attempts at recovery and link dump of all the places the game was mentioned. It's a damn shame too. J2ME horror is a super underrated genre and this looks like it would be a fun game. You can read the article here:

my website: https://charinusraps.neocities.org/pages/searchlight/alone

medium: https://medium.com/@charinusraps/the-horror-never-began-e99d873d19ba

substack: https://charinus.substack.com/p/the-horror-never-began

If anyone has any idea of where I could find this, or leads, people to contact, etc. Do get in contact with me. I feel this game has to exist somewhere still. Hopefully one day someone finds and posts it. I'd love to play it.

AlmaLinux's statement on the recent RHEL source code changes.

Finished 3-South the other day. Pretty good. Wasn't expecting much but it managed to be charming in it's own way. Felt it ended perfectly as it did. Not interested in a reboot or revival. Lord knows it would be impossible. My headcanon is that Joe begrudgingly accepts Sanford and Del or at least better understands how to be 'king of the idiots' and takes over Barder. (assuming nobody died in the final episode)

Hope they eventually release the final 3 episodes in better quality. Made it hard to watch them.

Gonna probably watch Gary & Mike or Home Movies next.

Anyone else seen 3-South? Or enjoyed that era of adult cartoons?

#television