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Keep pushing the BBC Model B, Micro Live!

(The war never ends)

excellent

I'm surprised to see the MSX with 2% of the marketshare.

some sort of rounding error

I have started playing Wordle

You'll never guess what today's word is

excellent

dng wrote: Fri Nov 03, 2023 12:09 pm but once it costs 84p i'll definity get it

It is currently 0p

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1272 ... ir_Brante/

hooray

although oh no (windows only!)

also what was the other day's wordle word?

i'm trying and failing to think of any five letter words at all

cockr

eggss

Xpiss

Mexan

Cat

dng wrote: Sat Jul 18, 2026 2:45 am although oh no (windows only!)

wine is on Mac as well as Linux. Would that be any good? Does Steam do Proton compatibility for Macs?

I dont know. I'm always sceptical about installing stuff like that on my laptop in case it ends up breaking everything

Basically i'm scared of computers these days

no idea how macs work but might be worth a look

or just install linux on it instead of macos

i hear that's a viable option as well

or do a dual install

dng wrote: Sat Jul 18, 2026 2:45 am also what was the other day's wordle word?

it was CLACK

Excellent. Hooray

I am never playing a video game again

I'm trying Disco Elysium again. I got pretty far into it on Switch but gave up because it kept crashing and losing my progress. It was on sale for Xbox so I figured it was time to give it a proper shot, a few hours in it crashed and lost a good chunk of progress

I can see why this game has a vocal cult following but I'm surprised EVERY recommendation doesn't come with a "but it's absolutely fucking broken" disclaimer, like Deadly Premonition etc

Damn, that ain't good

it's seven years old, surely they should have fixed it

Instead they just sacked all the people that made it and stole their money

ves

Christ

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czjlvrd9e43o

The PS4 is going to be the last games console I'll ever have been able to afford

I assume this means the ps6 and whatever impenetrable name the next Xbox has will cost a thousand pounds minimum

If they ever come out and the entire games industry hasn't killed itself to death by then

dng wrote: Mon Aug 03, 2026 10:37 pm I assume this means the ps6 and whatever impenetrable name the next Xbox has will cost a thousand pounds minimum

About the same price (when adjusted for inflation) as when the Atari VCS 2600 console came out.

fucking hell

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjejyl34345o

at least this means EA will be dead in five years I suppose

fuck knows what the last EA game I bought was. Dragon Age 3 maybe?

actually its almost certainly FIFA 2018 for 10p in cash converters or something

dng wrote: Wed Aug 05, 2026 9:41 am fucking hell

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjejyl34345o

at least this means EA will be dead in five years I suppose

Ves, this always end well:

"It is thought to be the largest leveraged buyout in history, meaning a significant part of it is paid for with borrowed money, which the company will have to pay back.

This is because as well as the $36bn it has already put into the deal, PIF needs to borrow $20bn from investment bankers JPMorgan to close it, with the business taking on the debt."

Did it always have to end up like this?

I've been playing Yakuza: Infinite Wealth, and it's (inadvertently) the bleakest videogame ever made.

One of your mans gets cancer, so the rest of your team get him to make a bucket list so he can do everything he's always wanted to do before he dies. Then everything on this list is the same tedious grinding busywork you always have to do for minor exp bonuses.

"So what are the things that would give your life meaning in the days before you die?"

"Walk 100000 steps, use taxis 100 times, buy 20 pieces of clothes I don't need because they're inferior to the clothes I currently own, and pick 500 items up off the floor."

Christ

what about "Play Spikeout 10 billion times"

Of course.

I never managed to get past the first level so he'll die unfulfilled now

also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0OohDyMcW0

amazing

its strange spikeout was never released on the dreamcast in that it seems like it would have been the most perfect dreamcast game ever

i know. It's such a sadness

along with Scud Race, also made on Supermodel 3

they had scud race in the student union bar at essex university in 1996 or whenever (along with sega rally, although sega rally was just the stand up cabinet version, whereas scud race had the seat and the gears and whatever)