Peak robot design:

Made the mistake of looking at this post on my phone while on the bus and had to stifle my laughter for like 30 minutes

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22674921/

According to this study, exercise had little to no effect on relieving symptoms in people with depression and while it made the participants healthier due to increased physical activity, it did nothing with regards to improving mood, at least in this particular sample. There’s also the case that if you have a chemical imbalance causing your depression or mood disorder (such as with pituitary gland and other hormonal disorders) or certain genetic predispositions, it may mean that your body can’t produce enough dopamine or other endorphins naturally anyway, so exercise is just going to make you feel tired and sore but with none of the ‘runner’s high’ effects.

I hate exercising for this reason, but obviously I still do it to keep my body healthy (or at least as healthy as it can be).

The idea of ‘dopamine addiction’ is just PopSci bullshit though. The reason we’re ‘addicted’ to our phones is because of alienation in late-stage capitalist society leading to us trying to find some semblance of enjoyment or control over our own lives.

• Step 1: Do nothing
• Step 2: Win

According to the article they’re developing it for people who’ve been paralyzed in accidents (Specifically spinal cord injuries), so that they can control either their existing limbs or prosthesis using their mind. It’s intended as a disability aid.

Steve

This is why we need to go back to personally-curated site directories

My preferred hacks are for games that are N64 era or older.

The OOT mods that make use of the zelda 64 decomp project are pretty impressive e.g. Ultimate Trial and Indigo: Chapter 2. The Sealed Palace and The Missing Link are also quite fun.

I’m also quite fond of visual and gameplay improvements to older games (NES + GB/GBC) and Romhacking dot net has some I’ve kept my eye on for a while.

Robocop Texas Edition uses graphics based on the original arcade version, Castlevania 3: Aperture of Corruption is a complete overhaul of the original NES game, and Street Fighter 2 Deluxe and Sonic 5 improvement are both romhacks of bootlegs for the NES that improve various graphics and fix gameplay issues.

Both Pokemon Polished Crystal and Pokemon Red Plus Plus feature updated graphics (similar to gen 3), fixed gameplay, new mechanics, and various QoL updates.

From the wording, they’re banning short ninja blades / ninjatou specifically, but they’ve said nothing about other weapons like shuriken, kunai, naginata, yari, or any samurai sword (uchigatana, wakizashi, tantou etc.)

I think I remember seeing this on the Something Awful forums back in the day

Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire is back

Reminded of this classic video

Thanks for letting me know. If this was the only source, I would have breathed a sigh of relief at it just being :cia: propaganda, but unfortunately state-owned media Sixth Tone has corroborated this information over several of their articles, so it does seem to be true, at least the parts regarding the regulations against homosexuality, feminine men, and GNC AMABs.

• https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1008389/chinas-ongoing-struggle-against-sissy-young-men
• https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1008587/chinas-gaming-body-to-bar-local-games-on-foreign-platforms

From the last article:

Apart from limiting access to foreign games, the agreement also emphasized the responsibility of gaming companies to monitor users via real-name registration and facial recognition to deter minors from playing. The document also expressed its commitment to combating so-called sissy men and danmei :deeper-sadness:

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/671510.html seems to be the main source. The comments are coming from leaked materials of a CPC-led conference at Beijing International Game Innovation Conference back in September.

http://www.cgigc.com.cn/info/22297.html There’s more info on the guidelines on their official website. For whatever reason it’s currently not loading (possibly due to increased traffic?), but I’ll try uploading the .pdf files of the guidelines to somewhere if anyone knows a good place.

https://tweet.lambda.dance/pengulican/status/1443455893664718855?s=19 The guidelines are translated to English here.

All in all, this really doesn’t look good, and doesn’t seem to apply to only games - apparently various gay shows and books are affected too. Obviously there are some decent guidelines in there like the banning of imperial japan worship, regulation of gacha/pay to win exploitative ‘games’, etc. but it shouldn’t be at the expense of LGBTQ+ comrades :sicko-no: