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Tim McLennan
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I program things, mostly games.
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carmenfflv.bsky.social
A quick Lulu✨ #ffx
November 9, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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grumble.social
it should be illegal for the sun to go down while you are still working
November 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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archive.org
Libraries matter. Access matters.

After years of legal battles, the Internet Archive is still here—and still fighting for a world where everyone can read, learn, and remember.

@arstechnica.com tells the story: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
“We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says.
arstechnica.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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pattheflip.bsky.social
FROM MASHER TO MASTER 2 IS OUT!

If you want to get into fighting games but don't know where to begin, this book will guide your journey.

Featuring art by @koh.money and a foreword by Gerald Lee of Core-A Gaming!

patrickmiller.itch.io/from-masher-...
November 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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cassmarshall.bsky.social
i owe so many video game designers an apology
perryodontal.bsky.social Perry Areolar @perryodontal.bsky.social · 11d
the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"

www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...
according to the liberation newspaper, documents dating back to a 2014 inspection by the French National Agency for the Security of Computer Systems reported a staggering detail: "the password of the louvre's video surveillance server was simply " louvre. "
November 3, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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docrevan.bsky.social
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper

www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
And in that pause between pitch and contact - longer than logic, shorter than hope - we remembered why baseball existed long before we judged a sport's value by viral moments and betting apps. It is the romance of failure. The mortal beauty of trying and missing seven times out of 10 and still being considered great. It is the only sport where patience is a weapon, and panic the surest death. You cannot simply run out the clock in baseball; you must face it, pitch by terrifying pitch, until it finally releases you.
November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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zophar.bsky.social
Complete! The ZSNES creator interview runs > 90 minutes & is full of some very interesting conversation, including how to pronounce ZSNES, the idea behind the snow, the lead programmer's favorite video games of all time, and so much more! Wednesday, 10.22.25, 8:00PM Eastern. 👇
October 21, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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decafjedi.com
This week on Quest Quest: @bvigeant.bsky.social and I discuss Maniac Mansion, the LucasArts classic that gave us the SCUMM engine, coined the term "cutscene," and produced an unbelievably bizarre 1990s sitcom.

Listen here (or wherever you listen to podcasts): zencastr.com/z/RlqktZBv
Nintendo Power #16, featuring Maniac Mansion on the cover.
October 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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frustratedfan.bsky.social
Updated version of something I posted at the end of the last round when the Blue Jays won:
Some say the World Series went to Canada others say Toronto
October 21, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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tonywalsh.fyi
brb changing my studio name to “a solo developer”
October 17, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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portablecity.bsky.social
Me these days
sickos yes meme but its a wizard and outside the window is an orb
October 15, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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brentalfloss.bsky.social
The full 22-track cast recording of my Star Trek musical "KHAN!!!" is out TODAY! 🖖🎵
October 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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dylanmacri.bsky.social
New fandom comes with Peach Momoko art let's fucking go
Sakura beating a young girl at Street Fighter and cheering her misery. Chun-Li Ibuki with a Tanuki Chun-Li from Street Fighter, Mai from KoF, and Morrigan from Deathstalkers all in stylized kimono.
October 12, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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shockdingo.bsky.social
Been a while, but here's a paid casting call for my latest project!

I'm making a short #StreetFighter parody and I'll need voices for Elena, Makoto, Ibuki & Remy! For more info check out the casting call sheet! Tell a pal!

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

#CastingCall
#VoiceActing
#Parody
a video game character named elena is smiling and wearing a colorful outfit
ALT: a video game character named elena is smiling and wearing a colorful outfit
media.tenor.com
October 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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bizzo.bsky.social
brazen-starflower-a6e.notion.site/2762dd7a28ff... I made this wrestling move database for my World Wide Wrestling RPG group. Visual examples, descriptions where warranted, notes and thoughts, etc. It could never be exhaustive but it's got a lot!

@ndpdesign.com
Wrestling Moves | Notion
Though some moves are marked “Finisher” because of their reputation, any move can be a finishing move if the wrestlers and commentary sell it and it’s consistently protected!
brazen-starflower-a6e.notion.site
September 30, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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kiyonescarlet.bsky.social
lol
October 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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domi.zip
I finally cleaned up my messy cablework
2 skeletons, on left with veins, arteries, lymph nodes as they are in the body; on right with them being represented as straight cables like in the arranged neatly next to each other like in a server room
September 25, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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glassbottommeg.bsky.social
Remember do NOT high guard the grapple men, you'll end up in bed on a first date, Always zone and punish with series of delicate hand touches over the popcorn at the movies
September 27, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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mchonmchon.bsky.social
#GhostTrick
July 14, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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borman.bsky.social
Some early Sega Saturn tools backed up at the museum today
September 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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kyleor.land
One of the coolest video game preservation stories I have ever covered arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...
All 54 lost clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity
Finding working copies of the last few titles was an “especially cursed” journey.
arstechnica.com
September 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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thespaceshipper.com
Semiotic Standard icons designed by Ron Cobb for the USCSS Nostromo in Alien (1979).

They're everywhere in the USCSS Maginot from Alien Earth (2025).
A chart titled "Semiotic Standard" showing a collection of futuristic safety and system symbols designed for spacecraft. Each symbol is inside a square with red, black, white, gray, yellow, blue, or green coloring, and labeled with meanings such as “Pressurized Area,” “Cryogenic Vault,” “Airlock,” “Hazard/Warning,” “Exhaust,” “Radiation Hazard,” “High Radioactivity,” “Refrigeration,” “Direction,” and “Life Support System.” A legend at the bottom explains the color codes: red for visible/solid/alive/abnormal, white and grey for life-supporting conditions, black for vacuum and danger, yellow for harmful atomic/chemical processes, blue for lowered thermal condition, and green for biological substances. The chart is signed “R. Cobb.”
September 5, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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efextex.bsky.social
Elena and Makoto Popsicles! 🍦

~ Commission for Jdrfew1 on X ~
#StreetFighter #capcom
September 5, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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zenithmartlet.bsky.social
Hey Firefox users.
Screenshot from a Tumblr post by ralfmaximus: Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of Firefox for the vitally-important purpose of… naming tab groups. Now, some users are noticing CPU and power usage spikes caused by a background process called Inference. Ugh. Reminder again for Firefox users to visit your about:config page, search for the browser.ml.chat.enabled key, and set that to false: If yours says true then double-click it until it reads false. Doing that turns off the AI chatbot features in Firefox, but also the stupid new LLM tab-naming feature that's rolling out
August 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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xavierck.com
Some fantastic stylized modeling tips in here in addition to their rigging and rendering stuff

Highly recommended if you're interested in cel shading but have a hard time understanding how it's going to behave with a given type of geo or vertex normals
August 15, 2025 at 6:33 PM