Roy Tang 🇵🇭

@roytang@indieweb.social
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Programmer, engineer, scientist, critic, gamer, dreamer, and kid-at-heart. I'm a longtime full-stack web developer. From the #Philippines.

Fair warning: All my toots are automatically archived to my blog/website (link in profile). If you reply to my toots, your content may automatically be exported and archived on my site as comments.

I'm a mastodon.technology refugee, not a twitter refugee. Mostly here to share blog posts and links

Probably relevant topics: #Tech, #Gaming, #MTG, #Comics

Websitehttps://roytang.net/
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Roy Tang 🇵🇭18h ago

New blog post: 2025 Manga Update https://roytang.net/2025/04/2025-manga-update/

#manga #comics

2025 Manga Update · roytang.net

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭2d ago
Finally managed to "finish" Blue Prince today (reached Room 46) at run 25! This game is insane and still has so much more left to uncover though @_@
Show threadRoy Tang 🇵🇭2d ago

This is a very dumb way for our civilization to collapse

#genai #climate-change

Show threadRoy Tang 🇵🇭2d ago
> 'The elephant in the room is climate change. Everyone knows it can't be prevented any more,' she said, adding that the 'super rich' could generally be split into two groups on the topic.
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> 'The one group thinks it only affects the poor, the "not-white race", while the others fear that it could get worse but there's no sense in trying to do anything about it so they just enjoy themselves,' she told MailOnline.
Roy Tang 🇵🇭2d ago
Shared: DSHR's Blog: Going Out With A Bang https://blog.dshr.org/2025/04/going-out-with-bang.html.
Going Out With A Bang

In 1.5C Here We Come I criticized people like Eric Schmidt who said that: the artificial intelligence boom was too powerful, and had too...

Roy Tang 🇵🇭4d ago

New blog post: Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales https://roytang.net/2025/04/miles-morales/

#gaming #steam #games

Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales · roytang.net

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭5d ago

New blog post: Weeknotes 2025-04-20 https://roytang.net/2025/04/weeknotes-04-20/

#weeknotes

Weeknotes 2025-04-13 · roytang.net

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭Apr 18

Shared: The Rich Are Hoarding Wealth — Because They Know What’s Coming https://archive.md/Z9XYn.

> "The rich are not scrambling to prevent collapse. They welcome it — because they know they’ll be the only ones left standing. While the rest of us are told to “sacrifice” and “tighten our belts,” billionaires are building bunkers, buying private islands, and hoarding resources for the dystopia they see coming."

This essay is long and bleak. Sigh.

#capitalism

Roy Tang 🇵🇭Apr 18

Shared: 'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know | PC Gamer https://www.pcgamer.com/games/steam-total-account-spend/.

I have been tracking my total spend for different categories over more than a decade, so nothing in this Steam page surprises me (and honestly Steam gaming has been pretty good overall anyway).

#gaming

'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know

Our champion Steam spender has dropped a new car's worth of cash into Gabe's yacht fund.

PC Gamer
Show threadRoy Tang 🇵🇭Apr 18
This frivolity feels so 90s (I have just passed 100,000 bongo beats). Back in the day you would just download this sort of nonsense as executables off random websites, which seems like something super dangerous to do these days, so I'm glad this one is distributed using Steam