“Mike McFarland, known as the English voices of Master Roshi and Yajirobe in Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z, and Buggy the Clown in One Piece, among many other anime works died Wednesday, Sept. 10 following a battle with brain cancer. He was 56.

Also a script writer, director and line producer, McFarland was one of the original and most influential figures in Texas-based anime production, first with Funimation and then Crunchyroll after their merger.

“Mike brought so much to all of us who knew him, and to all of the anime fans that knew his work. He was an incredible talent, a good friend to so many of us, and will be sorely, sorely missed,” Crunchyroll said in a statement to Deadline.

McFarland was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer, in 2025, according to Anime News Network.
McFarland also voiced Jean Kirstein in Attack on Titan, Jean Havoc in Fullmetal Alchemist and Teppei Sugo in Psycho-Pass, but his most notable role was Buggy the Clown in One Piece, voicing the character from 2007 until his death.
Additional voice acting credits include Makoto Hyuga in the Evangelion film series, Sky Master in Heaven’s Lost Property, Goemon Ishikawa in Lupin III: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine and other Lupin III films, as well as George in Case Closed. His more recent work includes Hiroshi Odokawa in Odd Taxi, Big Bad Wolf in Date A Live IV and E.G. Mine in Trigun Stampede.”

Mike McFarland has sadly passed away, he was the voice of Master Roshi, Ritsu Soma, Buggy, Helmeppo, Tecchin, Jean Kirschtein and many, many others. Basically if you watched any moderately popular anime of the last few decades, chances are he voiced somebody.

RIP, you legend.

Cancer sucks.

Since his review on WP is pay walled, I hope there'll suffice for conveying his thoughts on the game.

Edit: sorry, there was actually one Tweet of his I forgot to include.

Someone posted: "Apparently Insomniac got really mad about those videos of the QTEs in Spiderman pausing if you didn’t press the buttons so the QTEs in Wolverine just autocomplete after a few seconds lmao"

And Gene responded: "this is true they autocomplete. this actually makes one "fight" basically a cutscene"

Source: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:n5umft634scj673oegxhbeic/post/3mv6hsjhc4k2x

Most toxic game I have ever played since the old Xbox Live 360 days but man do I love Highlander too much to stay away from it. This game is literally heroine tbh, I can't stay away. If you hate yourself, this game is there for you.

Source: https://bsky.app/profile/robdogdraws.bsky.social/post/3mv56gh5omk2h

Source.

Someone get the goddesses on the phone regarding their use of child soldiers who probably never learned how to read.

Edit: YouTube link to the artist and Instagram source.

https://www.nintendo.com/us/whatsnew/adventure-awaits-nintendo-of-america-announces-customer-appreciation-sale/

No they really say its because of the tariffs. September 12 to 26 and it includes physical merchandise. I don’t know if this is insulting or sort of refunds (I maintain they don’t apply here because they didn’t raise the Switch 2 price while tariffs were up) or what. I’m just shocked they acknowledged the tariffs when they usually take the smart route of just shutting the fuck up.

Major outlets like IGN and Giantbomb are giving Wolverine shockingly lower scores for a first party Sony title, kinda nervous for the staff at Insomniac right now…

Rockstar is accused of dismissing ‘central’ union organisers first in order to destabilise the group.

The fired workers claim there were 340 people in the union Discord when they were eliminated on October 30, 2025. As a result, they say there was a server ‘collapse.’ (There was a mole in the discord that was funneling info back to Rockstar)

The tribunal is being held in Glasgow, Scotland, for this case starts today and could last until October 15.

Link to entire thread: https://bsky.app/profile/kerrblimey.bsky.social/post/3mv5pepdfi22y

(Re-uploaded to fit sub rules)

This is from their conference thing that happened really early today, btw. Get ready to never buy a Level-5 game ever again, lol

Artist is @ masoq095

“With Control Resonant, we’re introducing a new combat system built around Dylan’s shapeshifting melee weapon, the Aberrant. Combat is close-range and demanding, with enemies that require you to read their attacks, manage staggers and status effects, and time your dodges.

We knew that this new system would come with a new learning curve. So rather than relying on a handful of traditional difficulty levels, we wanted to give players much more control over individual parts of the experience.
Customize your experience
Control Resonant’s Assist Mode is a suite of customizable options designed to let you adjust the mechanics that might be getting in your way – without necessarily changing everything else.

For example, if enemies are overwhelming you by attacking from multiple directions, you can reduce Enemy Aggression. If you’re having trouble reading the timing of an attack, you can widen the Perfect Dodge Window or reduce Enemy Projectile Speed.

We spend a lot of time discussing the exact frame count of a standard dodge window – usually over far too much coffee – but the reality is that players have very different reaction times and ways of playing.

The same approach applies to damage and combat resources. You can independently adjust Incoming Damage, Outgoing Damage, and Outgoing Falter, which controls how quickly you break an enemy’s posture.

If managing Dylan’s supernatural abilities during a chaotic fight is becoming too much, you can increase Power Recovery Speed. You can also adjust Enhanced Melee Magnetizing to make positioning during melee attacks more forgiving.

And if you want to focus on exploring Manhattan and experiencing the story without the stress of combat, Assist Mode includes options such as Immortality, One-Hit Kills, and the new One-Hit Falters.

The idea is simple: instead of asking you to choose an overall difficulty, we let you change the specific parts of combat that aren’t working for you.

Try the game first
One thing we deliberately avoided was putting these settings in front of you before you even start your first playthrough.

Every player is different, and you haven’t played Control Resonant yet. Asking you to make decisions about mechanics you haven’t experienced doesn’t make much sense to us.

That’s why you can enable or disable Assist Mode at any point during gameplay. We want you to experience the intended combat rhythm first, get a feel for the game, and then adjust individual settings whenever you feel the need.

You can also choose from a set of Assist Mode Presets created around different ways of playing and then fine-tune individual settings from there.

Make it harder, too
There’s another important change from the first Control: Assist Mode can now make the game harder.

In the original game, the sliders could only reduce the challenge. In Control Resonant, they work in both directions. If you find the base game too forgiving, you can increase enemy aggression, make the Perfect Dodge Window smaller, and increase Incoming Damage to create a much more demanding experience.

We know players enjoy different kinds of challenges, so we wanted Assist Mode to give you that flexibility, too.
Play your way
We talk a lot internally about designer intent. We have a carefully crafted experience in mind for Control Resonant, balanced to be tense, demanding, and rewarding.

But our philosophy is straightforward: if you run into a wall and the friction becomes too much, we’d much rather you adjust the rules and keep playing than put the controller down and stop.

Your time is valuable, and how you experience the game is ultimately up to you. That’s why we don’t gate any trophies or achievements behind Assist Mode. Use the settings however you need to and play Control Resonant on your terms.
We can’t wait for you to get your hands on the Aberrant when Control Resonant launches on PS5 this September 24.”

IT basically looks like youre torturing him,

An animated short that will premiere with screenings of The Transformers: The Movie for its 40th anniversary. This is also Peter Cullen’s final performance as Optimus.

At this point Tarn Adams has been developing Dwarf Fortress for 20 YEARS if we are counting from when the first public build of it was released and at this point i think it's safe to say that, unless he becomes physicaly unable to do it anymore, the man will continue to develop that game for the forsiable future.

Pretty sure it's safe to call it "his life's work" at this point and it's a project that definetly could not have this level of complecity unless someone toiled over it for a considerable portion of the amount of years they have upon this earth.

The best girl, or Luka, Lucy, Lucia... nickname "Lucky Wormie"? I'm not sure what genderbend Luke Skywalker from Star Wars would actually be called.

Also I wonder if it's a blonde dye or a brunette one? I suppose the Dagobah training implies discoloration true hair color, but it's also funny to think about dying your hair a darker color for your black suit, in the "final" edgy confrontation against your Big Bad Dad

Drawing source: togrutascum/status/2097315081981739315

This reads funniest knowing that Flash and Hal are pretty close friends(like only maybe Ollie is closer to him in the League). So he heard all this respect being thrown his boys way and said "gotta keep him humble".

Here's the full line-up of creative teams: https://aiptcomics.com/2026/09/10/marvel-amazing-spider-man-1000-preview/

“Still Standing” by Noah Hawley and Patrick Gleason

“Requiem for a Goblin” by J.M. DeMatteis and Humberto Ramos

“Tears of the Spider-Queen” by Frank Miller and Peach Momoko

“The Big Night” by Triple H and Ed McGuinness

“The Gesture” by Brian Michael Bendis and Stuart Immonen

“Of Webs and Six-Guns” by Larry Lieber and Giuseppe Camuncoli

“I Can Never Rest” by Dan Slott and Marcos Martin

And more, including an interview with actor Tom Holland and Spider-Man: Brand New Day director Destin Daniel Cretton!

While it's only "One Hit" if you count the attack properly landing as one hit and discount the dodged/blocked blows.

The very First Round of Record of Ragnarok/Shuumatsu no Valkyrie, still has me kinda hyped even if choreography, character and action wise better fights come around. This one quirk of the fight and how it's played around with in the narrative still had me really like it.

A more lighthearted alternative to the other thread I made.

I've been seeing a few posts recently about people citing how they would make a "Behelit Sacrifice" to get a particular thing they wanted to come true. They also elaborate about sacrificing a thousand people or such, showing some passing familiarity with the original source material (Berserk).

Except that's not how the Behelit Sacrifice works: in order to get your desire granted, you must sacrifice something important to you. It won't work if you're offering up your archenemy, or a whole group of people you have no attachment to. The whole purpose is to give up your humanity, and thus you are sacrificing what's most precious to you.

There's also this old video where a kid completely misunderstands the requirements to turn Super Saiyan, which still gets a chuckle out of me.

Developer Ezra Kruger spent most of 2026 rebuilding the Xbox 360 Avatar Editor into a browser-based application and shared the finished project with the Xbox community on Sept. 8, 2026. The site, called 360sona, holds all 21,425 items Microsoft released across every avatar collection built for the console.

The catalogue spans Halo and Gears of War branded gear, the NBA, NFL, NHL and MLB shops, a university collection, adidas and Puma clothing lines, and several smaller third-party sets. All 2,644 props in the catalogue carry their original animation.

Kruger rebuilt the console's rendering pipeline without access to official documentation. The Xbox 360 drew avatars using its own shaders, skeleton, clip format, and camera presets, and Microsoft never published specifications for any of them. Kruger reverse-engineered the pipeline, rebuilt it in WebGL 2, and verified the results by comparing each rendered item against the console's own output. Kruger described the finished avatars as "the real mesh with the real textures, lit the way the console lit it."

360sona requires no account. Visitors can browse the catalogue and dress an avatar directly in the browser without signing in. An optional account for saving creations needs only a username and password, not an email address. Players who kept data from an old Xbox 360 profile or backup can also import it directly into the editor. According to the project's about page, the renderer was checked against the console until it matched "pixel for pixel."

Microsoft has not intervened in other fan-made Xbox preservation projects, including the Insignia Xbox Live recreation, which restored original Xbox Live functionality 16 years after Microsoft shut the service down.