Craig Bamford
@spacetalk.bsky.social
I write about space, in several places. Used to write about other stuff? But now pretty much it's space. I also talk about gaming here, though. Also politics, sadly and mostly unwillingly, but I do try to damp it down a bit
Not really keen on how every positive review of dragon quest 7 reimagined kicks off with the writer elaborately shitting on the original game
And way too many of those people haven't even played it
Like uh sorry but how do you even know DQ7R is "faithful", exactly
And way too many of those people haven't even played it
Like uh sorry but how do you even know DQ7R is "faithful", exactly
February 4, 2026 at 7:46 AM
Not really keen on how every positive review of dragon quest 7 reimagined kicks off with the writer elaborately shitting on the original game
And way too many of those people haven't even played it
Like uh sorry but how do you even know DQ7R is "faithful", exactly
And way too many of those people haven't even played it
Like uh sorry but how do you even know DQ7R is "faithful", exactly
Again, this shit is all being revealed at the exact same time that we have undeniable proof that the people who own us are never to be trusted.
Every single one of these surveillance measures will be used by wealthy fascists against people you care about. And THEY are the actual predators.
Every single one of these surveillance measures will be used by wealthy fascists against people you care about. And THEY are the actual predators.
The failure of age-verification laws is now turning into a War on VPNs. The British government and a number of US states are now proposing that VPNs be banned entirely, or only accessible to those who have surrendered to facial scans, ID check and other identity verification.
'The UK war on VPNs is an embarrassment' – backlash grows over proposed VPN age-checks
Critics are warning against proposals to restrict VPN access — but will the plans actually become law?
www.techradar.com
February 4, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Again, this shit is all being revealed at the exact same time that we have undeniable proof that the people who own us are never to be trusted.
Every single one of these surveillance measures will be used by wealthy fascists against people you care about. And THEY are the actual predators.
Every single one of these surveillance measures will be used by wealthy fascists against people you care about. And THEY are the actual predators.
IMO this is still the best low-key intro to Wizardry-style dungeoneering
Small fixed party, automapping, simple story, gorgeous cartoon character art, and a crab that'll whup your ass
Small fixed party, automapping, simple story, gorgeous cartoon character art, and a crab that'll whup your ass
Shining Force (1992) | tactical RPG | Sega Genesis | Climax
The second installment of Sega's Shining series traded the 3D dungeons of 1991's Shining in the Darkness for a top-down, turn-based experience. Instead of a small party, players now lead groups of allies in tactical battles against evil!
The second installment of Sega's Shining series traded the 3D dungeons of 1991's Shining in the Darkness for a top-down, turn-based experience. Instead of a small party, players now lead groups of allies in tactical battles against evil!
February 3, 2026 at 11:44 PM
IMO this is still the best low-key intro to Wizardry-style dungeoneering
Small fixed party, automapping, simple story, gorgeous cartoon character art, and a crab that'll whup your ass
Small fixed party, automapping, simple story, gorgeous cartoon character art, and a crab that'll whup your ass
FFS at least Putin actually pays the dudes he sends into the Donbas meatgrinder
Trump regime can't even manage that much, all they know how to do is prompt chatbots to produce more bizarre twitter agitprop
Trump regime can't even manage that much, all they know how to do is prompt chatbots to produce more bizarre twitter agitprop
ICE Employees Vent on Reddit, Saying They're Not Getting Paid and Still No Insurance Despite Promises
Staff claim promised bonuses and insurance have failed to materialise, with some reporting they cannot afford medical care for sick children
www.ibtimes.co.uk/ice-employee...
Staff claim promised bonuses and insurance have failed to materialise, with some reporting they cannot afford medical care for sick children
www.ibtimes.co.uk/ice-employee...
ICE employees on Reddit complain about late salaries and missing insurance, despite promises made upon hiring
ICE employees have reported delayed pay and missing health insurance on Reddit, while critics question how staff tolerate dangerous duties for little or no compensation.
www.ibtimes.co.uk
February 3, 2026 at 8:02 PM
FFS at least Putin actually pays the dudes he sends into the Donbas meatgrinder
Trump regime can't even manage that much, all they know how to do is prompt chatbots to produce more bizarre twitter agitprop
Trump regime can't even manage that much, all they know how to do is prompt chatbots to produce more bizarre twitter agitprop
Oh I've seen this show there were cool turtles in it
Don’t worry guys, everything is very cool and normal at the Wegman’s parking lot!
February 3, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Oh I've seen this show there were cool turtles in it
I feel like there's a point where you just start the lawsuits and say "fuck the TOS, I don't care about the TOS, here's some angry lawyers shouting that your TOS was unconscionable bullshit and not a valid contract"
Find some pro-bono lawyers who've got, say, family members that have been impacted
Find some pro-bono lawyers who've got, say, family members that have been impacted
I keep seeing the “reminder don’t use Adobe here are the alternatives” image going around and folks, the problem is not just that Adobe sucks, the problem is they’re blocking legal access to decades of art files utilized by individuals and entire teams
February 3, 2026 at 7:57 PM
I feel like there's a point where you just start the lawsuits and say "fuck the TOS, I don't care about the TOS, here's some angry lawyers shouting that your TOS was unconscionable bullshit and not a valid contract"
Find some pro-bono lawyers who've got, say, family members that have been impacted
Find some pro-bono lawyers who've got, say, family members that have been impacted
Reposted by Craig Bamford
sorry everyone we at pencil company know you liked pencils, but we can't think of any new ideas for them, so we're discontinuing pencils tomorrow. also, you won't be able to access all your pencil drawings, please burn them, cool
Called and spoke with Adobe customer support and the guy told me Adobe is discontinuing Animate because apparently the company can't think of any new features to add to the program and they feel it's gotten stale.
So they're just GETTING RID OF IT???
So they're just GETTING RID OF IT???
February 3, 2026 at 1:03 PM
sorry everyone we at pencil company know you liked pencils, but we can't think of any new ideas for them, so we're discontinuing pencils tomorrow. also, you won't be able to access all your pencil drawings, please burn them, cool
I feel like there's backstory there, it's like Vagrant Story where the omission is SO glaring that your wonder if there's a remake in pre-production hell
(Either that or they're worried about the association with all of monolith soft's various Xeno games, which AFAIK are all soft sequels)
(Either that or they're worried about the association with all of monolith soft's various Xeno games, which AFAIK are all soft sequels)
Square Enix's next HD-2D remake should be its unfinished love story about killing god with mechs
Square Enix's next HD-2D remake should be its unfinished love story about killing god with mechs
If any game out there actually needs a remake, it's Xenogears.
dlvr.it
February 3, 2026 at 7:39 PM
I feel like there's backstory there, it's like Vagrant Story where the omission is SO glaring that your wonder if there's a remake in pre-production hell
(Either that or they're worried about the association with all of monolith soft's various Xeno games, which AFAIK are all soft sequels)
(Either that or they're worried about the association with all of monolith soft's various Xeno games, which AFAIK are all soft sequels)
Reposted by Craig Bamford
Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes."
After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc
After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc
February 3, 2026 at 3:58 AM
Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes."
After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc
After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc
Reposted by Craig Bamford
I think often of a tweet I saw that was like "if your kid actually reads books, they're gonna be one of the smartest people in like ten years" arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245
February 2, 2026 at 11:39 PM
I think often of a tweet I saw that was like "if your kid actually reads books, they're gonna be one of the smartest people in like ten years" arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245
I'm wondering if this is the reaction in Japan; a LOT of people here are making this point, but maybe it's more of a Western thing?
Nevertheless it's interesting that we're seeing the other side of the difficulty debate: good reminder that the flow curve has two sides.
Nevertheless it's interesting that we're seeing the other side of the difficulty debate: good reminder that the flow curve has two sides.
I had fun with Dragon Quest VII Reimagined, but it didn't live up to the hype overall. Still, it's got me downloading Dragon Quest XI, so I guess I'm the voice of the new Dragon Quest generation!
February 3, 2026 at 4:16 AM
I'm wondering if this is the reaction in Japan; a LOT of people here are making this point, but maybe it's more of a Western thing?
Nevertheless it's interesting that we're seeing the other side of the difficulty debate: good reminder that the flow curve has two sides.
Nevertheless it's interesting that we're seeing the other side of the difficulty debate: good reminder that the flow curve has two sides.
Reposted by Craig Bamford
my "it's not a crime to party with mr epstein" t shirt is raising questions etc
February 3, 2026 at 12:37 AM
my "it's not a crime to party with mr epstein" t shirt is raising questions etc
Finding out the producer bounced off it the first time he played it was revelatory
The whole project just had the air of "Netflix anime remake" where the showrunner didn't ever actually like the anime but couldn't get their own show greenlit
Wonder if that dude actually wanted to do DQ8
The whole project just had the air of "Netflix anime remake" where the showrunner didn't ever actually like the anime but couldn't get their own show greenlit
Wonder if that dude actually wanted to do DQ8
I've been playing the Dragon Quest VII remake and while it's lovely to look at, the lack of challenge is a problem. Dead party members revive after battles, there are healing statues before every boss, and you restore HP on level-ups (unlike DQ1-3 HD, you can't toggle this off). No friction at all
February 2, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Finding out the producer bounced off it the first time he played it was revelatory
The whole project just had the air of "Netflix anime remake" where the showrunner didn't ever actually like the anime but couldn't get their own show greenlit
Wonder if that dude actually wanted to do DQ8
The whole project just had the air of "Netflix anime remake" where the showrunner didn't ever actually like the anime but couldn't get their own show greenlit
Wonder if that dude actually wanted to do DQ8
Oh so DQ7 got GUTTED gutted
Cool cool cool, can definitely see how this is not going to backfire in any significant way going forward re: RPG designs
Cool cool cool, can definitely see how this is not going to backfire in any significant way going forward re: RPG designs
February 2, 2026 at 9:12 PM
Oh so DQ7 got GUTTED gutted
Cool cool cool, can definitely see how this is not going to backfire in any significant way going forward re: RPG designs
Cool cool cool, can definitely see how this is not going to backfire in any significant way going forward re: RPG designs
Reposted by Craig Bamford
Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
February 1, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
Threw a "save" on this one because I adore this sort of thing
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February 2, 2026 at 2:59 AM
Threw a "save" on this one because I adore this sort of thing
Reposted by Craig Bamford
This is Jerry Lawson. He invented the video game cartridge for the Fairchild Channel F system. Because of his invention, many consoles had cartridges and CD formats and would become the norm.
The Atari 2600, NES, Genesis, and many consoles wouldn't exist without him.
Happy Black History Month.
The Atari 2600, NES, Genesis, and many consoles wouldn't exist without him.
Happy Black History Month.
February 1, 2025 at 11:04 PM
This is Jerry Lawson. He invented the video game cartridge for the Fairchild Channel F system. Because of his invention, many consoles had cartridges and CD formats and would become the norm.
The Atari 2600, NES, Genesis, and many consoles wouldn't exist without him.
Happy Black History Month.
The Atari 2600, NES, Genesis, and many consoles wouldn't exist without him.
Happy Black History Month.
"Wait... it's nothing but net?
"...Always has been."
"...Always has been."
February 1, 2026 at 6:15 AM
"Wait... it's nothing but net?
"...Always has been."
"...Always has been."
Well the Endfield factory is ticking over real well right now, finished the first region, time to explore
...huh Sandleaf, what's that do
...oh.
Oh no.
...huh Sandleaf, what's that do
...oh.
Oh no.
February 1, 2026 at 6:02 AM
Well the Endfield factory is ticking over real well right now, finished the first region, time to explore
...huh Sandleaf, what's that do
...oh.
Oh no.
...huh Sandleaf, what's that do
...oh.
Oh no.
Meanwhile the quotes for this have every elder millenial on Bluesky becoming Jokerfied in real time
So apparently I was right to shittalk m00t this week because it's been revealed that his boneheaded decision to establish /pol/ and subsequently ruin the website was allegedly born out of a one-on-one meeting with Jeffery Epstein.
January 31, 2026 at 5:41 AM
Meanwhile the quotes for this have every elder millenial on Bluesky becoming Jokerfied in real time
Oh and the revelation that GOG wants an AI guy to work on Galaxy is fucking hysterical
The entire problem with Galaxy is that it ran like shit and had a noxious UX, two things that LLMs will definitely worsen, just pay some fucking humans dude jesus
The entire problem with Galaxy is that it ran like shit and had a noxious UX, two things that LLMs will definitely worsen, just pay some fucking humans dude jesus
January 31, 2026 at 5:26 AM
Oh and the revelation that GOG wants an AI guy to work on Galaxy is fucking hysterical
The entire problem with Galaxy is that it ran like shit and had a noxious UX, two things that LLMs will definitely worsen, just pay some fucking humans dude jesus
The entire problem with Galaxy is that it ran like shit and had a noxious UX, two things that LLMs will definitely worsen, just pay some fucking humans dude jesus
lmao someone at GOG is SCREAMING at their boss right now
The platform lives or dies on good vibes, it absolutely cannot afford to do evil corpo shit because evil corpo shit means that people shrug and go back to "cracked version on a NAS box" as the default for game preservation
The platform lives or dies on good vibes, it absolutely cannot afford to do evil corpo shit because evil corpo shit means that people shrug and go back to "cracked version on a NAS box" as the default for game preservation
January 31, 2026 at 4:56 AM
lmao someone at GOG is SCREAMING at their boss right now
The platform lives or dies on good vibes, it absolutely cannot afford to do evil corpo shit because evil corpo shit means that people shrug and go back to "cracked version on a NAS box" as the default for game preservation
The platform lives or dies on good vibes, it absolutely cannot afford to do evil corpo shit because evil corpo shit means that people shrug and go back to "cracked version on a NAS box" as the default for game preservation
I mean yeah this is one of those situations where they know it wasn't going to actually pass
The point is that they're no longer afraid of the attack ads and hoo boy that is a BIG step forward for the Democratic Party of America
The point is that they're no longer afraid of the attack ads and hoo boy that is a BIG step forward for the Democratic Party of America
👀 Every Senate Democrat + Collins and Murkowski just voted for the Bernie Sanders amendment to repeal the $75 billion in additional ICE funding under Trump’s “big beautiful bill.” The measure failed 49-51.
January 31, 2026 at 2:34 AM
I mean yeah this is one of those situations where they know it wasn't going to actually pass
The point is that they're no longer afraid of the attack ads and hoo boy that is a BIG step forward for the Democratic Party of America
The point is that they're no longer afraid of the attack ads and hoo boy that is a BIG step forward for the Democratic Party of America
Trying to picture that era's version of the weird insecure dudes on here who get REALLY mad if you badmouth AI, and best I can figure it's the "iPad kids will never learn how to use a mouse" thing
hey remember when Microsoft tried to change all of Windows into this format saying that the future of everything was going to be tablets and touch screens, then everybody said nah it will not you're just wrong and pretty bad, then it mostly of got phased out, anyway that but now for AI in everything
January 31, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Trying to picture that era's version of the weird insecure dudes on here who get REALLY mad if you badmouth AI, and best I can figure it's the "iPad kids will never learn how to use a mouse" thing
Reminder that EVERY time some lanyard-poisoned Chart Dipshit hauls out a study saying otherwise, you end up discovering that the people who "aren't working as much" are single mothers using the time for raising their fucking kids
Chart Dipshits don't see that as "real work" so they leave it out
Chart Dipshits don't see that as "real work" so they leave it out
"Not only don't people work less when they are guaranteed an income, they might actually put in more effort at work. And the fact that they have more money to spend leads to the creation of more jobs."
Nobel Prize–winning economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
Nobel Prize–winning economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
January 31, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Reminder that EVERY time some lanyard-poisoned Chart Dipshit hauls out a study saying otherwise, you end up discovering that the people who "aren't working as much" are single mothers using the time for raising their fucking kids
Chart Dipshits don't see that as "real work" so they leave it out
Chart Dipshits don't see that as "real work" so they leave it out