I go back and forth between wanting a pure Nostr experience (no bridges) and then wanting everything in one spot (bridges). I apologize to everyone the Fediverse as I work through this indecision...

GM. Jordan Peterson, famed crackpot and benzo addict, is fading into irrelevance and today I'm going to have to listen to him gasp for attention on Rogan...

Stay alert!

This showed up in my Twitter feed. Enjoy, Nostr.

It would be cool if someone came up with a package/plugin/implementation (you guys are smarter than me, what's the appropriate term) for a Nostr-based comment section on webpages. I suspect it would be a service, with some degree amount of moderation allowed and it would be separate from the greater Nostr ecosystem, probably its own relay, etc..It would be nice to take this npub, and use it it elsewhere on the internet, outside of microblogging

My default assumption is that every game studio actually hates their customers, and wishes they could replace them with another group of buyers (other than indies of course). Most will put out slop and then when it fails they delight in blaming their customer rather than questioning their own choices. Nintendo just hates your wallet, and your emulators, but they will not put out slop, so I appreciate that.

Apparently someone on BlueSky managed to find some high quality screenshot scans of Mario Smash, a canceled Virtual Boy Mario game. I remember seeing the screenshots if this in Nintendo Power when I was a kid. Apparently that same level was demoed back in the day. Its looks...slow. #retrogaming #gamestr

I think I missed the boat on getting a Retroid 5. I wanted a heldheld just so I could play older games on the couch (that and I'm tired of soldering all the time to save old hardware). My guess is Retroid is next to cut back things. #retrogaming #gamestr

Time Extension

Emulation Handheld Maker Anbernic Suspends All Shipments To The US

"We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience"

Another hot take for a Monday (cause I'm back to work and annoyed, so fuck it): Nostr's killer feature is how it handles identity. Everything else is either neat shit or noise. Nostr's killer feature is not zaps. The only people who give a fuck about zaps are people looking for an excuse to use lightning for something. It's not zaps, it's identity.

Probably an unpopular opinion, but if I was designing a Nostr client that I intended to be commercially viable, I'd probably use a caching relay. Primal takes a lot of shit for this, but it seems to make things run a little smoother, plus if I wanted to rely on ads or boosted posts for funding, that would be key to it.