Found thanks to a Video Game History Foundation tweet (Xcancel link, Bluesky link); you can browse the magazine (the November 1983 issue of Electronic Games) and do full text searches in their archive.

Interesting quantitative look at web performance and how designs made for people with high-end devices can be practically unusable for people on low-end devices, which disproportionately affects poorer people and people in developing countries. Also discusses how sites game Google's performance metrics—maybe not news to the web devs among ye, but it was new to me. The arrogance of the Discourse founder was astounding.

RETVRN to static web pages.^[Although even static web pages can be fraught—see his other post on speeding up his site 50x by tearing out a bunch of unnecessary crap.]

Also, from one of the appendices:

In principle, HN should be the slowest social media site or link aggregator because it's written in a custom Lisp that isn't highly optimized and the code was originally written with brevity and cleverness in mind, which generally gives you fairly poor performance. However, that's only poor relative to what you'd get if you were writing high-performance code, which is not a relevant point of comparison here.

TL;DR: they were just vibing

"[...] with the real calendar. You won't regret it."

- Hilltop, lead developer of said translation patch

(the URL in the OP links to a trailer for the patch)

Meant to post this earlier, but better late than never, I suppose! I'll be following along with the game in August—and by the way, Hilltop mentions that it only takes about 30 minutes per day, so it's not a huge time commitment.

Here's the tweet that I grabbed the post title from which also links to the patch (edit: wich is PS2 only):

https://xcancel.com/HilltopWorks/status/1817625943583949163

And here's the link directly to the patch to save you a click (make sure to read the readme for instructions on patching the ROM and tweaking the game settings in PCSX2—nothing major, just a few clicks):

https://www.patreon.com/posts/boku-no-2-patch-92070798

(if you're not sure where to get the ROM, I recommend Myrient)

Ever since seeing Tim Rogers' Action Button video on the original Boku no Natsuyasumi, I've been very curious to play a game from the series. Looking forward to experiencing this in "real time", so-to-speak, and I hope some of you will join me!

Separately, if you're interesting in romhacking/reverse engineering, definitely check out Hilltop's YouTube channel. The only reason I saw this tweet in the first place is because I followed him after seeing his excellent in-depth videos on PS1/PS2 romhacking.

The Animal Crossing GC decompilation project is starting to bear fruit! It's amazing to see the tireless effort that's put into these projects, chipping away at code line by line, function by function, file by file. Even without mods, I think they're worthwhile just as research projects for understanding what makes games tick, but they open up a whole new world of possibilities and breathe life into these old games.

Features I spotted:

• Optional widescreen
• Character customization (you no longer have to be a )
• Optional smooth camera (removing the screen transitions between acres)
• New bugs and fish
• Collecting furniture that was only available in other regions (which I assume means JP and CN—I don't think there were exclusive items in the EUR/AUS versions)
• Build outdoor decorations (this was a feature in the JP versions—not sure if it's simply bringing that feature over or implementing it in a new way)
• New fruits
• No longer having to mail your damn fossils (hell yeah)
• Exterior home decorating via a new traveling NPC?
• Cycling through held items without having to go through the menu
• Waking up Tom Nook to shop at night (this was only in the JP GC re-release that followed the US release)
• Sitting on rocks (?!)

https://xcancel.com/leftistbeard/status/1939115723965833490

If you want to dive right in, here's a link to the Cyan collection in the VGHF digital archive:

https://archive.gamehistory.org/folder/22cf9aa2-812b-4f39-b42e-e87a3c153b8c

Video description:

This video is for transgender, non-binary, and gender nonconforming people, and anyone else who has been pushed to the margins.

You face unspeakable adversity. So many voices shame you and want you to be diminished to a more palatable effigy of yourself, and many don't care if that means the material or metaphysical disillusionment of who you truly are. The voices come from your government, from strangers on the internet, from your coworkers, from your family.

One of the voices probably comes from inside you.

Every voice in this video is from someone rooting for you. I'm rooting for you.

When you're too broken to work, too broken to play, too broken to even get out of bed, know this:

Every breath you take is a radical refusal to acquiesce to the voices that want you to be diminished. Your cellular metabolism follows the same basic chemical equation as any other fire. Focus on taking your next breath. Feed the flame oxygen and Don't. Be. Extinguished.