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Retro Gaming December 2025
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Tuesday, 2-December-2025 00:07:37 (GMT +10) - by MUTMAN
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This month's "Retro Let's Play" for December is Colossus from 2005
The protagonist of the game is Wander, a young man whose goal is to resurrect a girl named Mono. The only established fact regarding Mono is that she was a maiden who was sacrificed because she was believed to have a cursed destiny. Assisting Wander in his quest to revive her is his loyal horse, Agro, who serves as his sole ally in defeating the colossi ...
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Thanks to Blinky, Lou and metamorphosis this week!
     
     
     
     
Friday Afternoon Reviews
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Friday, 28-November-2025 14:05:50 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Thanks to MUTMAN for putting this post together:
Audio Visual:
Beyerdynamic DT 270 PRO Compact Studio Headphones @ Madshrimps
MINISFORUM M1 Pro @ guru3D
Keyboard, Mouse:
Logitech Powerplay 2 Wireless Charging Mouse Pad @ LanOC
Turtle Beach Burst II Pro Wireless Gaming Mouse @ TweakTown
EPOMAKER RT85 Mechanical Keyboard @ ThinkComputers
Cases, Cooling:
InWin Prism (White) Case @ ThinkComputers
HYTE X50 Mid-Tower Chassis @ TweakTown
Storage:
Biwin Black Opal X570 Pro 2TB SSD @ TweakTown
BIWIN Black Opal NV7400 2TB SSD @ NikKTech
Corsair MP700 Pro XT 2 TB @ ThinkComputers
PNY CS3250 2TB SSD @ TweakTown
Ugreen NASync DH2300 @ TechPowerUp
Motherboard, CPU:
MSI MAG X870E TOMAHAWK WiFi Motherboard @ FunkyKit
Gigabyte Z890 Aorus Elite X Ice @ TechPowerUp
Inside Snapdragon X2 Elite @ HotHardware
Portable, Prebuilt:
The Top 40 Best Laptops Group Test (Black Friday Update) @ SMBtech
HP OmniBook 5 14" AI PC (Snapdragon X) Laptop @ TweakTown
Alienware 16 & 18 Area-51 Laptops @ HotHardware
MINISFORUM M1 Pro @ TechPowerUp
In 1982, a physics joke gone wrong sparked the invention of the emoticon. The whole episode started three days earlier when computer scientist Neil Swartz posed a physics problem to colleagues on Carnegie Mellon’s “bboard,” which was an early online message board. The discussion thread had been exploring what happens to objects in a free-falling elevator, and Swartz presented a specific scenario involving a lit candle and a drop of mercury.
BoM website redevelopment cost hits $96.5m. In this update we are responding directly to community feedback received during the beta phase and since launch in October, with a focus on making the rain radar and weather map easier to use. The update will be rescheduled as soon as the severe weather subsides, and we will have more on that when a date is determined. Watt defended the Bureau’s rationale for rebuilding the website - to address “massive cyber security risks around the old website” - but not the way the project was run. He also confirmed that he wants to see the BoM’s website and app more closely aligned.
Spinning Rust is Dead! Seagate wants you to hold its beer. Seagate's roadmap reveals that 6.9TB platters won't be used in official products until 2030. In the meantime, Seagate is working on developing 4TB, 5TB, and 6TB platters that will enter production in 2027, 2028, and 2029, respectively. But the company won't be stopping there; it projects that it will have 7TB to 15TB platters available from 2031 onward. Assuming nothing changes, Seagate could likely have petabyte-sized hard drives before 2040.
Australian teenagers ask High Court to block the proposed social media ban. A campaign group called the Digital Freedom Project said it launched proceedings in the High Court of Australia in a bid to block the law, with two 15-year-olds, Noah Jones and Macy Neyland, as plaintiffs in the case. More than one million accounts held by teenagers under 16 are set to be deactivated in Australia when the ban on platforms including YouTube, TikTok, Snapchat and Meta's Facebook and Instagram starts on December 10. In a statement, the Digital Freedom Project said the ban "robs" young Australians of their freedom of political communication, an implied right in the constitution. Australia does not have an express right to free speech.
Necroprinting is when weird scientists use a dead mosquito proboscis as a high-resolution 3D printing nozzle. What the ... The female mosquito's proboscis has many qualities that make it well-suited for 3D necroprinting. Notably, its inner diameter of just 20 micrometers is ~100% finer than the best man-made tips, according to the researchers. These biodegradable nozzles are also remarkably straight, stable, and able to withstand internal pressures of up to 60 kilopascals.
The U.S. patent for MP3 audio was granted on this day in 1996. Key personnel behind the invention of MP3 included: Bernhard Grill, Karlheinz Brandenburg, Thomas Sporer, Bernd Kurten, Ernst Eberlein, and Dieter Seitzer. Brandenburg is often credited as being the father of MP3, for leading this and similar research since 1977, but Seitzer (for example) brought expertise in transferring music over standard phone lines.
Warner Music Group is partnering with Suno, the biggest AI-music platform. In the strongest sign yet that the world’s biggest record labels are embracing AI, leading AI-music platform Suno announced today that it has settled Warner Music Group‘s lawsuit over the use of its songs in Suno’s training data, and Suno and WMG are partnering on “next-generation licensed AI music.” “This landmark pact with Suno is a victory for the creative community that benefits everyone,” Robert Kyncl, CEO of Warner Music Group, said in a statement. “With Suno rapidly scaling, both in users and monetization, we’ve seized this opportunity to shape models that expand revenue and deliver new fan experiences.
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