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benstylus 🐧 The Once and Future Urban Champion | No AI

@benstylus.bsky.social

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I'm benstylus. I block/mute 18+ accounts, ai, bots, overly aggressive/abrasive people, techbros, etc. DM's are OK but don't send unsolicited commissions/sales/fundraisers/etc. Not interested. Just here to be happy. he/him or they/them is fine.

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benstylus 🐧 The Once and Future Urban Champion | No AI @benstylus.bsky.social · Nov 17

The obligatory "about me" post due to the influx of new users:

Likes:
Retrogaming 🕹
- Sega
- Nintendo
- PlayStation
- Atari
- C64
- Spectrum
- DOS
- Arcade

Mahjong 🀄
- Riichi 🇯🇵
- American 🇺🇸
- Chinese 🇨🇳
- Singaporean 🇸🇬

Sports
- F1 🏎
- Sumo 🤼‍♂️
- Hockey 🇨🇦

Located in western Kentucky, USA

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benstylus 🐧 The Once and Future Urban Champion | No AI @benstylus.bsky.social · 7h

Or including a Kinect with every Xbox One console?

benstylus 🐧 The Once and Future Urban Champion | No AI @benstylus.bsky.social · 13h

I guess that means I did my part with the games and devs i slapped "ignore" on due to use of slop.

benstylus 🐧 The Once and Future Urban Champion | No AI @benstylus.bsky.social · 13h

I just don't get it. Genesis/MD emulation is a solved issue. Why do companies feel the need to reinvent the wheel (and get it wrong) instead of licensing one of the ones that already exists and works correctly?

benstylus 🐧 The Once and Future Urban Champion | No AI @benstylus.bsky.social · 1d

And they remove the composite A/V out, proving that Nintendo giveth and Nintendo taketh away

benstylus 🐧 The Once and Future Urban Champion | No AI @benstylus.bsky.social · 1d

... the virtual Console on Wii / Wii U / 3DS, and now Switch Online + Expansion pass, they've consistent kept a lot of their biggest franchises available.

benstylus 🐧 The Once and Future Urban Champion | No AI @benstylus.bsky.social · 1d

Nintendo has done a reasonable job in keeping many of their old games available on newer hardware too. Whether it's Mario All Stars on SNES, the secret NES games in Animal Crossing or the Zelda Collector's Edition on GameCube, or the ports of Super Mario & Donkey Kong Country to GBA...

benstylus 🐧 The Once and Future Urban Champion | No AI @benstylus.bsky.social · 1d

I'm Destined to be the Sole Villainess, so I'm Buying Up the Rights to All the Others and Shutting Them Down Forever!™

benstylus 🐧 The Once and Future Urban Champion | No AI @benstylus.bsky.social · 1d

If Bubsy made a videogame, it would be Awesome Possum.

benstylus 🐧 The Once and Future Urban Champion | No AI @benstylus.bsky.social · 1d

Doesn't help that I already bought everything during a previous sale either.

(I mean I'm sure that did help you, but doesn't help the numbers for THIS sale).

I think my Steam library is something like 80% casual games at this point

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benstylus 🐧 The Once and Future Urban Champion | No AI @benstylus.bsky.social · 1d

Also, I beat it on the actual NES hardware, so it all had to be done in one sitting.

benstylus 🐧 The Once and Future Urban Champion | No AI @benstylus.bsky.social · 1d

Mine would probably be 1942 on the NES.

I thought I liked the game until I actually sat down and played through it. It's just way too long and repetitive for what it is (and that's without getting into the poor programming).

It is among a very small handful of games I've sworn never to play again.

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benstylus 🐧 The Once and Future Urban Champion | No AI @benstylus.bsky.social · 2d

At the book store, one can find an abundance of An Abundance of Katherines. I took this picture out of an abundance of caution.

3 copies of An Abundance of Katherines stacked atop each other

benstylus 🐧 The Once and Future Urban Champion | No AI @benstylus.bsky.social · 2d

Only 3 non-garbage videos are trending. That tracks to my recent experiences with youtube

benstylus 🐧 The Once and Future Urban Champion | No AI @benstylus.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe I'm a bit meaner... i banish the game, developer, and publisher to the ignore list.

benstylus 🐧 The Once and Future Urban Champion | No AI @benstylus.bsky.social · 2d

Wish they would put it at the top of the page instead of burying it deep in the weeds

benstylus 🐧 The Once and Future Urban Champion | No AI @benstylus.bsky.social · 3d

Promising new upcoming mod for Gran Turismo 2 that takes out the boring race cars and adds more of what we all want. MINIVANS!

youtu.be/IzPunGJay8g?...

Gran Turismo 2 Beige Edition: Teaser Trailer

YouTube video by HWTsuchiyaNathan

youtu.be

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benstylus 🐧 The Once and Future Urban Champion | No AI @benstylus.bsky.social · 3d

It's either that or furiten.

benstylus 🐧 The Once and Future Urban Champion | No AI @benstylus.bsky.social · 3d

I would never watch it based solely on the thumbnail.

benstylus 🐧 The Once and Future Urban Champion | No AI @benstylus.bsky.social · 3d

That being said, when people's eyes do the slot machine thing and end up with dollar signs in them, a lot of folks are willing to forget their principles (which really means they never had them in the first place).

Just ask all the comedians who got the biggest paycheck of their career last week.

benstylus 🐧 The Once and Future Urban Champion | No AI @benstylus.bsky.social · 3d

For people who arent "in the trenches" (either trans themselves or regularly talking to trans people about the things that are affecting their lives), it may also be that they don't fully realize how bad it is.

Not caring is also a possibility, but I like to pretend most people care once they know.

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waterplant @waterplant.bsky.social · 5d

the funniest possible sequence of events has occured: battlefield 6 came out and instead of no-lifing it for the next week I have gotten really into mahjong instead

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benstylus 🐧 The Once and Future Urban Champion | No AI @benstylus.bsky.social · 4d

This is even better as a solo post rather than a reply.

jay-tea.bsky.social @jay-tea.bsky.social · 13d

I won't be happy until Sam Altman is walking around wearing a wooden barrel as clothes.

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benstylus 🐧 The Once and Future Urban Champion | No AI @benstylus.bsky.social · 4d

Certainly classier than the "Danger: Fart Zone" placards they sell at various shops around here

benstylus 🐧 The Once and Future Urban Champion | No AI @benstylus.bsky.social · 4d

I play competitive Urban Champion. I'm used to games that the rest of humanity shuns like a room full of lepers.

benstylus 🐧 The Once and Future Urban Champion | No AI @benstylus.bsky.social · 4d

I guess I'm in

Ebay purchase history showing a copy of Lair has just been bought

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