I’m sure this is common knowledge but Lyon’s worker uprising in the 19th century is the origin of the word ‘sabotage’. The workers were protesting against semi-automated loom weaving machines that used punch cards like primitive computers. When the managers weren’t looking the workers would through their shoes (which were called “sabos”) into the mechanism to break it.

Just got back from a holiday in Lyon. Super interesting place! I got the impression that the quality of life was good for the locals. Met a bunch of friendly Lyonnaise at a music festival and they were extremely generous sharing their party supplies.

Edit: I believe Lyon workers movement were also originators of slogans like “workers of the world unite”

Nabbed: Ninja Gaiden Collection, Auto Modellista, DOA6

Bonus game: Not really on sale (10% off) but Burggeist after seeing it in the new Iron Pineapple video. I’m a sucker for games inspired by Team Ico.

Thank you, Nintendo!

If Donkey Kong doesn’t have a rap in this game I’m going to riot

This is the 2nd video MVG has done on back compat. See the other one here.

James Bond games have a storied and mixed pedigree. It’s been a long time since the highs of Goldeneye N64 and Nightfire on PS2!

I’m always kind of rooting for them to be good but I’ve not bought any for decades.

I didn’t realise Bomb Rush Cyberfunk had an option to toggle the 30FPS framerate limit. Can confirm it’s playing buttery smooth on my Switch 2 now.

Not sure why the preview is broken. Let me know if the link is also not working and I can try to edit it with a new one.

I think its a pun because Japanese doesn’t have a distinct ‘r’ sound so the title can be read as “Bravely Default” or “Bravery Default”… not sure if it’s intentional!

The game is from square enix who did all the Final Fantasy series. Pretty similar to FF5 in some ways. There is a “default” mechanic in combat which the title is referring to.

mpv is worth a shout out as well

They’ve made a good start by naming it 2 so people realise it’s a new console instead of an add-on (like many did with wii-U)

Still a long way to go to match the 100+ million Switch 1 units sold. I got a Switch 2 but I’ve bought every Nintendo console including Wii-U so I’m not particularly representative.

To be honest even matrix has too many features for me as a discord alternative. I’ve got my IRC channels that I’m keen on and I hang out on those every day.

Realise I’m probably unusual for being happy with 90s tech though!

At least switch 2 has a “2” to indicate it’s a new console and not an add-on

Yeah this could have padded out the repetitive side content

My uncle works at Nintendo and he says that 5G towers are part of an enormous reptilian alien conspiracy.

We need to be able to express 0 and 1 as integers so that functionality is just being overloaded to express another concept.

Wait until the person who made this meme finds out about how many bits are being wasted on modern CPU architectures. 7 is the minimum possible wasted bits but it would be 31 on every modern computer (even 64b machines since they default to 32b ints).

Wasteland 3 is objectively better but I missed some of the janky charm of 2 when I played it.

Take my opinion with a pinch of salt since I only got halfway through each of them.

If you have a prime account this is just you getting the full value out of the subscription. Yeah, they are a scummy company (and apparently terrible to work for too at every level) but lots of households have prime because there isn’t another service that offers exactly the same things.

I believe you can install the Arch package manager on gentoo