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  1. Comment on What game is your personal "Silksong"? in ~games

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    Pang on Nintendo DS, released in 2010 (only in Europe). It arrived 21 years after the original Pang (or 27 if you count the earlier Bubble Buster), 20 years after the last home console version,...

    Pang on Nintendo DS, released in 2010 (only in Europe).

    It arrived 21 years after the original Pang (or 27 if you count the earlier Bubble Buster), 20 years after the last home console version, and 10 years after the last arcade-only release. And it's brilliant. It takes everything that is great about Pang and dials it up to 11, across two screens.

    https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2010/10/04/pang/

    4 votes

  3. Comment on What are your favorite casual puzzle games? in ~games

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    Polarium Advance on GBA (better than the also great DS version). One puzzle a day mode is highly recommended! Easy to emulate but there's something about playing on a real GBA Micro/SP. A cheap...

    Polarium Advance on GBA (better than the also great DS version). One puzzle a day mode is highly recommended! Easy to emulate but there's something about playing on a real GBA Micro/SP. A cheap emulation handheld like Miyoo Mini would also suffice. You press a button and are instantly back in the game—no faff. https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2014/01/01/polarium-advance-daily-puzzle-challenge/

    There's also a similar mode in my own Sparrow Solitaire, for Playdate.

    MaBoShi (DS), Orbital/Orbient (GBA), and Magical Puzzle Popils (GG) both amazing but perhaps slightly less casual, though no worse than Chips Challenge.

    2 votes

  4. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    I've built a CD dumping app for macOS. Native, with a better* UI than all other dumping apps. The USP of my app—other than being a great native experience—is that it can dump from multiple drives...

    I've built a CD dumping app for macOS. Native, with a better* UI than all other dumping apps. The USP of my app—other than being a great native experience—is that it can dump from multiple drives at the same time. The UI duplicates itself in a vertical stack. So I'm calling it... Spindle.

    Thread: https://bsky.app/profile/gingerbeardman.com/post/3lz4rpu4qfs2l

    That makes 4 macOS apps I need to launch ASAP. The others are: a quick access bookmark tool (done), sound effects generator (done; needs a name), pixel art app (done; needs help/docs).

    * I'm biased

    2 votes

  5. Comment on Dear Nintendo, please bring back the Wii Remote in ~games

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    I think technically the joycon do everything the Wii remote can do. I'm not sure how they'd solve the sensor bar issue. It was the form factor of the Wii remote that was the greatest thing about...

    I think technically the joycon do everything the Wii remote can do. I'm not sure how they'd solve the sensor bar issue. It was the form factor of the Wii remote that was the greatest thing about it imho.

    4 votes

  6. Comment on Give us your hot takes on the latest Nintendo Direct in ~games

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    I posted this on socials just after the Direct: Super Mario Galaxy movie LET'S-A-GO! About time I replayed Super Mario Galaxy 1 & 2. New Yoshi game looks great—I’m all over that. Virtual Boy...

    I posted this on socials just after the Direct:

    • Super Mario Galaxy movie LET'S-A-GO!
    • About time I replayed Super Mario Galaxy 1 & 2.
    • New Yoshi game looks great—I’m all over that.
    • Virtual Boy peripheral is very cool.
    • Bananza DLC seems nice. Just got the main game but not started it yet.
    • Lego Voyagers looks intriguing.

    The rest left me cold... I'm so picky these days. I don't need any more shooters or rpgs.

    2 votes

  7. Comment on Silksong’s real final boss: The translator who broke his NDA and wrote like a dead poet in ~games

  8. Comment on Gotye – Untitled (2003) in ~music

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    Should be (2003) no idea why he's re-upped it in 2025. Such a tease!

    Should be (2003) no idea why he's re-upped it in 2025. Such a tease!

    3 votes

  10. Comment on Sabrina Carpenter - Tears (2025) in ~music

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    Good Graces is rnb-pop, Juno is pure 80s. But no worries, I think we're in the weeds now of trying to pigeonhole songs into single genres which doesn't seem very useful ...and I think we're...

    Good Graces is rnb-pop, Juno is pure 80s. But no worries, I think we're in the weeds now of trying to pigeonhole songs into single genres which doesn't seem very useful ...and I think we're unlikely to agree. Which is fine :) glad you're enjoying it

  11. Comment on Sabrina Carpenter - Tears (2025) in ~music

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    I came to Short n' Sweet after the release of Please, Please, Please so I had no expectations other than "wow this single is really good I should pay more attention ". Taste has a Betty Davis Eyes...

    I came to Short n' Sweet after the release of Please, Please, Please so I had no expectations other than "wow this single is really good I should pay more attention ". Taste has a Betty Davis Eyes 80s-vibe, so I instantly loved it.

    Playing them both through just now and I'd say only 4 (maybe 5) of 12 tracks are Country-ish. On both albums, which is surely no coincidence.

    With MBF I was excited about Manchild with its half Country/80s thing. But a listen to the new album again just now and I am warming to it. I don't hate it, I just think it's inferior to SnS. Country-ish tracks I would say peaks far higher on We Almost Broke Up Again Last Night and Go Go Juice than anything on SnS.

    2 votes

  12. Comment on Sabrina Carpenter - Tears (2025) in ~music

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    Sadly, this album doesn't do it for me. It just doesn't feel as clever, catchy, novel. On the other hand I couldn't get enough of Short n' Sweet, whose singles were super high bar. I'll go back to...

    Sadly, this album doesn't do it for me. It just doesn't feel as clever, catchy, novel. On the other hand I couldn't get enough of Short n' Sweet, whose singles were super high bar. I'll go back to this new album at some point, you never know.

    4 votes

  13. Comment on Twin Shadow - Awkward Backward / Dominoes (2025) in ~music

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    A: Awkward Backward B: Dominoes * imagine his song Totally Blue meets Game Boy Advance

    A: Awkward Backward
    B: Dominoes

    * imagine his song Totally Blue meets Game Boy Advance

  15. Comment on Kazeta: Retro 90s style gaming operating system in ~games

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    This is for a very particular type of person that is not me.

    This is for a very particular type of person that is not me.

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  16. Comment on Looking for novel retro puzzle game recommendations in ~games

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    Pure puzzle Magical Puzzle Popils GG (a friend and I created a patch to show step count if you want to go for 100% perfect) Polarium Advance GBA (better than the DS version, meant to be played...

    Pure puzzle

    More movement in these puzzle

    4 votes

  18. Comment on Bran Van 3000 - Kings of Las Vegas (2025) in ~music

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    "Random clips and noise" is simply the video edit of this song, to build anticipation. There is even a sort of secret message in the post-song snippets ("And our story begins..."). Lots of music...

    "Random clips and noise" is simply the video edit of this song, to build anticipation. There is even a sort of secret message in the post-song snippets ("And our story begins..."). Lots of music videos have their own longer and more sprawling edit of a song, it's nothing new. BV3 have always done this, heck The Avalanches made whole albums out of this approach. Isn't it ironic to mark a comment about "noise" as "noise"? Don't you think? Thanks for the timestamp.

    1 vote

  20. Comment on What is the most insane, tedious, difficult, and/or noteworthy gaming achievement you have completed or given up on? in ~games

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    I once held a world record at Wipeout Pure. But my favourite 100% completions are: Pang DS, Pilotwings Resort 3DS, Digital Glider Airman PS1, Kero Kero King PS1, GTi Club Supermini Festa Wii, Kuru...

    I once held a world record at Wipeout Pure.

    But my favourite 100% completions are: Pang DS, Pilotwings Resort 3DS, Digital Glider Airman PS1, Kero Kero King PS1, GTi Club Supermini Festa Wii, Kuru Kuru Kururin & Kururin Paradise GBA. All easy to start but very difficult to complete.

    2 votes