Hong Kong born and raised. Spent 20+ years covering tech and games and news for CNN, Rest of World, IGN. Liverpool fan. Addicted to video games. Huge Nintendo 64 nerd. Sign up for my free weekly newsletter: ravi64.com (Avatar by @wrenegade.bsky.social)
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Hey, are you games PR with some Switch 1 codes to burn? My neighbor's kid turns 12 this month and long story short, has had a rough year! Grandma (helped raise him since mom is single) passed away, he's helping mom with disabilities, etc. But he's a great kid. Looking to surprise him with some games
if Messi was *worse* at goalscoring, he'd be the undisputed GOAT
Indian news sources are nearing the final state of full enlightenment by having the first screen of an article have essentially no content at all (in this case, a headline managed to get 14 words in edgeways, but that's it).
I’ll be in Tokyo for TGS week and happy to talk anything AWAYSIS!!
Hi Darth! I've been writing a newsletter for almost a year now about games and tech. Been diving into deeper subjects recently too like how games help me deal with depression. After spending so long as an editor, it's been fun finding my own voice as a writer again! ravi64.com/grinding-thr...
oh this is awesome!
i loved mon mothma’s dress in andor so much i made one for myself, mostly hand-pleating the fabric and handsewing it all together
Just checking my itinerary for tomorrow.
- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked
BUM TO THE BUM TO THE BUM TO THE BASS TO THE BUM TO THE BOOM TO THE BUMBLE
Talked to 23 people who suddenly have to pay huge tariffs or otherwise cannot get chainmail from Pakistan, yarn from France, retro computers from Japan, metal music from the Netherlands, DVDs from Germany, cosplay supplies, sunscreen, etc. www.404media.co/its-just-a-m...
The shot on the left is mildly misleading in that hovering over those controls will then highlight a larger target area, but that's also kinda the point: you can't "hover" when you're using your fingers.
Here's Safari in last year's macOS and this year's. The latter feels really tappable to me.
I haven't really paid attention to Apple's Liquid Glass makeover -- see the below piece for why -- but now that I've installed it on my Mac... is it just me, or do the bigger bolder buttons everywhere feel like a step towards a touchscreen Mac?
But all the multi-fire modes etc gave PD these many many extra layers to learn… which gave me an extra leg up because I had the time (and the game itself) to learn it. It just felt a bit too unbalanced in that sense, so we dropped it quickly.
Multiplayer didn’t click for me, but that might be my specific experience of the time. I was the guy with the N64, my friends played when they came over (or I brought it to theirs). GoldenEye was so simple that you could pick it up relatively quickly and compete.
Living through the Perfect Dark hype cycle and seeing the result was rough. So much talk (spin) about being freed from the Bond IP to produce a better story; so much hope (desperation) that the N64 would have a darker, more mature title... and in the end, we got Elvis.
oh nooooooooo
Of the many writers to predict AI, only Douglas Adams got the tone right
This was the era where Namco made a Japan-only Star Wars game where Darth Vader turns into a giant scorpion so I figured the cover art not looking exactly like Harrison Ford was just a local adaptation and not a sign that it wasn't officially licensed
TIL that this Konami game for Famicom Disk System is not actually Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom?? I played this game a bunch as a kid and just assumed it was Indy, because, I mean... look at it??? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arumana...
Sometimes you just gotta stare at your ascii Pad, you know?
Same!! The best
oh noooo
Love him, he's going to be so big for us
DOM MY BOY!!!!!! #lfc
This really is the original sin of the current era of AI. They work precisely because humans react to human imitators in the same ways we evolved to respond to one another.
This story of one coder's 16-year effort to make an emulator for a largely forgotten laser disc video game system is a fun reminder of the mountains people will climb simply "because it's there." www.readonlymemo.com/this-is-the-...
“caviar topped chicken nugget” - I cannot think of a better objective-correlative for the American ruling class
Charles Leclerc is driving angry and it's both super great and a bit sad because Ferrari (and luck in general) has totally broken him #f1
"Israel is engaging in the deadliest and most deliberate effort to kill and silence journalists that the Committee to Protect Journalists has ever documented." cpj.org/full-coverag...
If you don't do the triple jump across the castle lawn the moment you get control of Mario in Mario 64, what are we even doing here
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
Me, looking at timestamp: This seems like a long time to get to the joke Me, watching for 15sec: I am absolutely watching this whole thing
Will Arnett Oscar let’s goooo
People saying Trump is dying or possibly dead, but I for one would urge caution, because it is quite possible a second healtbar will appear as he enters his second phase and a gargantuan centipede will burst forth from his torso, so be careful of his new sweep attacks and toxic buildup from bites.
I find their position here so fascinating because it's a proper "damned if you do..." situation. Either you ditch a guy you've just reshaped the squad for... or you keep the worst manager in their modern history. There's no right answer here.
I wish Americans would get louder about their opposition to this man in particular; he is damaging global public health for an entire generation and millions of the most vulnerable around the world will suffer and die directly because of him. A mortality rate equivalent to plagues.
TIL GoldenEye’s remote mines are just Saitek Joystick bases? (Credit: www.reddit.com/r/Thatsabook... )
Wearing the Taylor Swift engagement dress. I think Bobo likes it! 🐶 💕
Today we have released ares v146. This release is significant because it introduces emulation for the Pioneer LaserActive, which has never been emulated successfully in the past. Read more at ares-emu.net/news/ares-v1... Get ares at ares-emu.net
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
khajit has wares but worried about tariff
I remember before the Chinese made magnets popular, we used to build MRI scanners with lines of X-ray specs from the back of comic books, and hard drives used tiny trained mice who would note everything down in a series of 1s & 0s on a little slate with white chalk…
the fuck
how much did pep guardiola hate watching that game. where's the control. where's the staying in position.
Feel like Dom needed that with Wirtz taking his slot and looking a bit lost at the 6
i love it when a wikipedia page suddenly gets a lot of attention and a lot of edits
![Rio Chima Ngumoha Adigun (born 29 August 2008) is an English professional footballer who plays as a winger or attacking midfielder for Premier League club Liverpool.[2] Liverpool claim to have 20 league titles but no one actually counts the covid title so by anyone's book they only have 19, 19 and a half at a push. And manchester city are currently facing 115 charges of financial corruption. United will be back utfrs.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:g3e7bogelhgdtmdguipv4wls/bafkreido4h24dgm3itrqmgn7o4eq7mg4rp7dhk47hwdpk4jbseecw57kki@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Rio Ngumoha, take a bow. (And Dom for his dummy and general all-around great performance!) #Ifc #epl-live
RI-OH MY GOD!
OR MAYBE SOMETHING ELSE WILL HAPPEN RIOOOOOOO #lfc #epl-live
I’m too mad to even realize the whole “stupider and stupider each time” angle ffs
There’s no way Newcastle don’t get a winner with this many set pieces. Nailed on. #lfc
Eleven minutes lmao. Eleven! #lfc #epl-live
I love Ibou, but man. So many moments of “wtf?” in this match.
I was just going to say that equalizer was coming. Pathetic from us honestly. Against 10 men for the whole half and just not going for it. #lfc #epl-live
Nah I wrote this after the goal
Liverpool pls keep a clean sheet, they’re actually pretty neat #lfc #epl-live
Hahaha. Hugo Boss! #lfc #epl-live
Third time in four seasons that this fixture has featured a red card. All first half too, which must be quite rare.
You are both absolutely correct and yet I am still surprised somehow
Liverpool have had 9 fouls given against them in the first 25 mins v Newcastle here. That's the most they have ever conceded in the opening 25 mins of a Premier League match on Opta's records. #LFC
Hahaha, I was thinking the exact same thing! “Ah ffs, the worst outcome here is a Gravenberch shot”
HAVE THAT NEWCASTLE #lfc
Did the ref just blow for a Newcastle foul? Is he allowed to do that??
"Nothing is achieved alone", the banner says, with an advert for the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia displayed immediately below. A more perfect photo could not possibly have been taken. bsky.app/profile/geor...
It might sound odd, but one thing that makes DR stand out for me is that I didn’t see it coming. I had no interest in it, saw a preview just before launch that sounded okay, took a punt and loved it. I have a real soft spot for games like that.
i think we should probably wreck their dumbass industry
2012-13 – Gillingham (W3 D2) remain unbeaten across their opening five games of a fourth-tier campaign for the first time since 2012-13, a season during which they were automatically promoted after winning the league title. Charm. #OptaOnEFL
Brilliant by Cunha to get all his xG regression out in one match here #epl-live
If Mitoma scored that they should just close down Everton’s new stadium, it’d have peaked #epl-live
In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.
The most common thing i heard at Gamescom was actually "I had a friend who worked at Xbox but they left recently"
Jarell Quansah scored immediately in his Leverkusen debut. Celebrated like a champ ❤️
NEW: 🎰 FIFA was in advanced talks with venues in Vegas to host World Cup draw 🫡 But Trump admin insisted on Kennedy Center in DC - a venue he is now chairing & shaping - & Infantino fell into line, despite numerous FIFA officials preferring Vegas option www.nytimes.com/athletic/657...
Look how they massacred my boy
You typically play this pass to Nico for him to bounce it straight to Stones, who then goes wide to Lewis. But even if the pass from Trafford was any good at all, the Stones bounce isn’t really on anyway. Gotta chip to Lewis or go long to Haaland.
The Brennan Johnson Experience. No pass. Only shoot. #epl-live
Jet Force Gemini was 1999 actually! And looking it up, Diddy Kong Racing was also published by Rare in 1997. iirc, Nintendo distributed them, but officially speaking Rare was the publisher for a few games.
Hi there! I saw this in your document and I'm not sure that this is true? I thought Rare published Perfect Dark and Jet Force Gemini...
i am so sick of the dumbest people alive being in charge of everything and the second dumbest people alive writing opinion columns about how it's good
This was quite a hard post to write, but I hope that by sharing my struggles, it can help others get through it. These are tough times for so many people, so if you're also suffering, know that you're not alone. ravi64.com/grinding-thr...
Yeah, this is a whole other thing. The prestige and loss of face are hard to parse. I guess the Winter Games coming first will be instructive to see how they handle the World Cup, to see if they do try to host a small portion of it on site to claim "it worked!"
I think it's definitely a bad look for them to descope the project, not disagreeing with you there. But it's not Qatar, it's a decently-large country with a few large stadiums already. Solving this doesn't involve, idk, defying the laws of physics, it just involves a lot of regular construction.
I don't think those things are as hard to solve as Trojena though. And World Cup plans are often wildly over-optimistic. Remember, the accepted Qatar bid was for a summer World Cup. Japan's 2002 bid promised holographic matches in unused stadiums. Those things quietly get shelved... (cont)
The chain of dependencies is so darkly comic. A Winter Games. But it doesn't snow there. And there's no rivers. So they need to fill a massive reservoir. Which needed to start being filled already. But they haven't built the desalination plant yet.
Fascinating piece about how, in effect, the critical deadlines for delivering the games have already passed. Given how many heroic assumptions are built into the 2034 World Cup plans, one can only wonder if that infrastructure can be delivered either. www.ft.com/content/6dfc...
Does the World Cup depend on Neom, though? Loathe as I am to pass up a chance to clown on their insane, obviously-not-happening plans, the World Cup just needs 12-15 stadiums. And they already have more stadiums and more football infrastructure than Qatar did. It won't be fancy, but it's doable?
Grinding is not a celebrated part of gaming. It's quite boring really, a repetitive slog for minimal rewards. But it's about progress. Small progress, sure, but still progress. And that's a powerful feeling when you're in a dark hole. ravi64.com/grinding-thr...
They say phones only make us miserable but I just got this news alert and laughed for a solid minute so who is to say
having thought about this for three days, my current status is: what the FUCK are we doing trying to ban social media for kids and not banning AI use? we are literally telling them not to use the computer to talk to their real friends but instead to the imaginary technology monetisable 'friends'.
Newcastle: HE'S NOT FOR SALE*!!! * unless the right bid comes in** ** but he's really not for sale*** *** but reluctantly we'd consider if...
The funny thing about all this is the implication that Newcastle actually were totally willing to sell him before this. Didn't they spend months insisting that he was NOT FOR SALE?
oh they must be on a blocklist I've used in the past, never seen them before!
heh, whoever it was I'd already blocked
When I'm depressed, I feel like all joy is drained from my world. The sun's a little darker, colors are less vibrant. I get less enjoyment out of the things I love, like video games. But there's one aspect of gaming that does help me: grinding. ravi64.com/grinding-thr...