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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 3h

I enjoy Fage yogurt, but they have a new ad that depicts being shushed in the library, so unfortunately now I think the entire Fage corporation needs to be sentenced to death

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 6h

I have been too negative on main recently so I want to highlight the good stuff!

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 6h

I will not lie, I have a couple eBay tabs open for billowy 90s buttondowns with keywords like "egyptian" and "geometric"

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 6h

Kevin has been on a tear with his blog lately, working through every single Atari 2600 game on chronological order. He's making me care about Atari games!

Kevin Bunch (ubersaurus) @atariarchive.org · 1d

The blog continues its updates, as Bob Whitehead's Boxing gets its time in the spotlight. Unassuming but a blast to play, particularly if you're using the original joysticks and want to experience actual exhaustion in your boxing match. www.atariarchive.org/blog/boxing-...

Boxing – August 1980, Atari Archive

After exiting Atari upon the completion of Video Chess and participating in the risky venture of starting up the novel idea of a third-party video game...

www.atariarchive.org

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 21h

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 22h

MK4 is one of only two games that used Midway Zeus, a custom 3D arcade hardware set that was used for only two games. Nobody had gotten it right until now! MK4 technically runs in MAME but the graphics are buggy and missing lighting effects

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 22h

Thank you for this

Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you all for your creative ideas about how to celebrate Fabio Friday. I will investigate

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 1d

(which is to say, I totally get what it's like to be under that pressure! but also recognizing that this usually doesn't happen with people writing in good faith, and like you said, this is a case of an actual imposter we are all afraid of being)

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 1d

I deleted my posts because I don't want a public shaming spectacle, but I do think this was an unusual case because the author has been so arrogant proportionate to the quality of their work. Like, I don't think this kind of public teardown happens unless you've courted that negative attention

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 1d

Upscaling graphics might not sound like a big deal, except that MK4 has NEVER been emulated correctly until now. This is awesome

Digital Eclipse @digitaleclipse.bsky.social · 1d

We've enhanced MK4's graphics with 2x and 4x rendering modes, which give the 1997 arcade original a smooth, modern look. It's entirely optional -- run at the original resolution with the CRT filter for authenticity!

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 1d

Today at the VGHF office: we decided we're going to celebrate Fabio Friday

If you know what Fabio Friday is, please let us know because we don't

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 1d

Oh that's so cool! I'm glad we were able to capture a little of this

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 1d

I do think a lot of games writing nitpicking is uncalled for. I usually don't engage with that, and I'm mindful of not wanting to gatekeep this field or pull the ladder for new writers. But the arrogance of this author and their casual disregard for giving proper credit really wasn't doing it favors

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 1d

Oh my god are you kidding? It was there the whole time 🙃

(Also I'm glad you find this! When I get a chance, I'm going to add this as a citation on the Wikipedia page so people get their source right in the future!)

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 1d

I've said this elsewhere in the thread, but the entire internet community just went through a reckoning about the harms caused by insufficiently attributing other people's work for money. I don't expect full APA citations but surely we can do better than putting "wikipedia.org" in a list

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 1d

They called it "a methodology and scope that has never been attempted before in any published work" and I guess we know why now!

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 1d

He cited WIKIPEDIA! We had a whole YouTube video about this two years ago that broke the internet! We've been over this!

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 1d

Don't worry, they cited Wikipedia

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 1d

Did they seriously just link to entire blogs (by the gaming community!) and call it a day

How much of this book is just summarizing other people's work with minimal attribution

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 1d

He's gathering data for the National Death Grips Survey

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 1d

Guy just walked into the cafe, went up to the barista, and asked "Do you listen to Death Grips?"

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 1d

Please tell me this book cites Yelp

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 1d

I'm glad they cited The New York Times, thankfully there was only one issue of that

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, even putting aside all that other stuff, it's super weird that this got published at all

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