Misty De Méo
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Probably one of the best phrases I'll read today
January 10, 2026 at 2:53 AM
Probably one of the best phrases I'll read today
Speaking of Titanium Court, I can now point out that AP Thomson just casually dropped a self-portrait via a screenshot of Titanium Court in an interview a year ago, when it was still unannounced, with no explanation at all of what it was or what it was doing there canvasrebel.com/meet-ap-thom...
January 10, 2026 at 12:20 AM
Speaking of Titanium Court, I can now point out that AP Thomson just casually dropped a self-portrait via a screenshot of Titanium Court in an interview a year ago, when it was still unannounced, with no explanation at all of what it was or what it was doing there canvasrebel.com/meet-ap-thom...
At no point was I prepared for where this sentence was going
January 9, 2026 at 4:35 AM
At no point was I prepared for where this sentence was going
Highly recommend reading this story about a reporter casually finding out his wife is a world Tetris champion: archive.boston.com/news/globe/m...
January 6, 2026 at 5:14 AM
Highly recommend reading this story about a reporter casually finding out his wife is a world Tetris champion: archive.boston.com/news/globe/m...
Learning about, “Santa Claus”
![Originating in 1937,[3] Santa Claus lies approximately 14 miles (23 km) northwest of Kingman, Arizona, along U.S. Route 93 between mile markers 57 and 58](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fdnh742vkxb2gv2noo357ffk/bafkreibmdyjczwkocuxfjusw7w2tcsx3fk6v2wfuq5w62wklmab3ke32yy@jpeg)
January 4, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Learning about, “Santa Claus”
Sega website (December 19, 1996) web.archive.org/web/19961219...
January 4, 2026 at 6:17 AM
Sega website (December 19, 1996) web.archive.org/web/19961219...
This is the fakest book cover I've ever seen in my life.
January 3, 2026 at 5:22 AM
This is the fakest book cover I've ever seen in my life.
Running into up-to-date projects on GitHub
January 3, 2026 at 5:07 AM
Running into up-to-date projects on GitHub
Huh, weird! Yeah, it's not happy.
January 3, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Huh, weird! Yeah, it's not happy.
2025 was many things, but most of all let's remember it as the year I finally found Crosscountry BC: cdrom.ca/games/cancon...
January 2, 2026 at 9:44 PM
2025 was many things, but most of all let's remember it as the year I finally found Crosscountry BC: cdrom.ca/games/cancon...
What does the ABC know that I don't know?
January 1, 2026 at 8:07 AM
What does the ABC know that I don't know?
Jessica got me a Master System flashcart for Christmas; finally time to catch up on all the 8-bit Sonic I’ve missed.
January 1, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Jessica got me a Master System flashcart for Christmas; finally time to catch up on all the 8-bit Sonic I’ve missed.
sssSnakin' website (1999) web.archive.org/web/19990225...
December 30, 2025 at 6:24 AM
sssSnakin' website (1999) web.archive.org/web/19990225...
Love that Terry’s have cheaped out so much most of the “chocolate” oranges can’t even legally claim to be chocolate anymore
December 29, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Love that Terry’s have cheaped out so much most of the “chocolate” oranges can’t even legally claim to be chocolate anymore
I love that this game is always emphasizing how this character speaks heavily English-accented Japanese. I guess because she's a golden retriever, and those are from Scotland. Someone greeted her with ごきげん in hiragana, and she replies with ゴキゲン in katakana. Very cute way of depicting an accent.
December 29, 2025 at 4:58 AM
I love that this game is always emphasizing how this character speaks heavily English-accented Japanese. I guess because she's a golden retriever, and those are from Scotland. Someone greeted her with ごきげん in hiragana, and she replies with ゴキゲン in katakana. Very cute way of depicting an accent.
That’s right, I broke the bank at the Boxing Day sales (spent $1 on a DS stylus)
My Nintendogs DS Lite didn’t come with the matching stylus and it turns out the metallic pink ones are hard to find? So I’m glad I happened to stumble into one.
My Nintendogs DS Lite didn’t come with the matching stylus and it turns out the metallic pink ones are hard to find? So I’m glad I happened to stumble into one.
December 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
That’s right, I broke the bank at the Boxing Day sales (spent $1 on a DS stylus)
My Nintendogs DS Lite didn’t come with the matching stylus and it turns out the metallic pink ones are hard to find? So I’m glad I happened to stumble into one.
My Nintendogs DS Lite didn’t come with the matching stylus and it turns out the metallic pink ones are hard to find? So I’m glad I happened to stumble into one.
This also answers the other thing I'd always wondered about. The Saturn version looks absolutely awful, with weirdly stretched-out sprites, but the English internet claimed it was only a Saturn game. Finding the PC version explains it; the art was drawn for high-res PC and not all converted properly
December 25, 2025 at 2:54 AM
This also answers the other thing I'd always wondered about. The Saturn version looks absolutely awful, with weirdly stretched-out sprites, but the English internet claimed it was only a Saturn game. Finding the PC version explains it; the art was drawn for high-res PC and not all converted properly
Biggest surprise: I found a complete set of text and image resources in English! Seems the British team wrote the game in English and the publisher translated.
Tried running the game with them, but the final game isn't set up for English - double-wide text and no proper linebreaks. Also crashy.
Tried running the game with them, but the final game isn't set up for English - double-wide text and no proper linebreaks. Also crashy.
December 25, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Biggest surprise: I found a complete set of text and image resources in English! Seems the British team wrote the game in English and the publisher translated.
Tried running the game with them, but the final game isn't set up for English - double-wide text and no proper linebreaks. Also crashy.
Tried running the game with them, but the final game isn't set up for English - double-wide text and no proper linebreaks. Also crashy.
New blog post! I wrote about Father Christmas, the weirdly barebones Japan-exclusive CD-ROM game based on the British storybook. It's... not very good, so I didn't have much to say, but I *did* find some interesting stuff in here anyway.
cdrom.ca/games/2025/1...
cdrom.ca/games/2025/1...
December 25, 2025 at 2:47 AM
New blog post! I wrote about Father Christmas, the weirdly barebones Japan-exclusive CD-ROM game based on the British storybook. It's... not very good, so I didn't have much to say, but I *did* find some interesting stuff in here anyway.
cdrom.ca/games/2025/1...
cdrom.ca/games/2025/1...
One of my favourite Wingroove features is that it measures how good your PC is in terms of how many times faster it is than the developer's PC. My Windows 98 VM is 131 times faster, apparently.
December 24, 2025 at 10:28 PM
One of my favourite Wingroove features is that it measures how good your PC is in terms of how many times faster it is than the developer's PC. My Windows 98 VM is 131 times faster, apparently.
Trying to figure out why Ars Technica thinks we don’t have internet in Canada
December 24, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Trying to figure out why Ars Technica thinks we don’t have internet in Canada
Seems I'm able to screenshot while it's playing but not do a screen recording, which isn't a surprise.
December 22, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Seems I'm able to screenshot while it's playing but not do a screen recording, which isn't a surprise.
The episode title is the replacement that aired in the US, but the description opens with the CECOT segment, as does the video itself.
December 22, 2025 at 9:33 PM
The episode title is the replacement that aired in the US, but the description opens with the CECOT segment, as does the video itself.
