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Popeye Otaku @popeyeotaku.bsky.social · 15m

You'll has to get into REAL RPGs like sd keiji blader /lh

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Feeshie @feeshieofetheria.bsky.social · 54m

There was a guy offering everyone free bibles outside of the school today. He turned to me, ready to make his pitch, and when he saw me the light in his eyes went out and he turned back around without a word 🤣. I'm keeping this as motivation for next time I'm too lazy to touch up my hair color.

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Dave Bulmer @demontomatodave.bsky.social · 47m

it would be funny if the iambic Shakespeare plays were musicals and we just don't have the sheets so we put on a serious voice and try to make the lyrics sound like talking

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Dave Bulmer @demontomatodave.bsky.social · 25m

These days I really only watch physical media (the rock-afire explosion)

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Mom @milph.mom · 2d

If one wonders why I’m dour looking at any Japanese live service game, it’s because I’m THAT specific person who will get the urge to play a 15+ year old game again, and I like it actually existing when I look it up.

Mom @milph.mom · Feb 14

Gacha Gamers nowadays don't know when licensed games used to be REAL video games

A PSP title that would get a 7/10 across from every reviewer is going to live in your brain for the next decade because it PERFECTLY fused Ace Combat and Armored Core control schemes together

Plus Klan Klang is there

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Travis Bickerstaff @bickpixx.bsky.social · 9h

I felt like drawing MIPS.

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Popeye Otaku @popeyeotaku.bsky.social · 5h

Hell yea sockem up!!

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 8h

A squirrel is standing inside and peeking over the top rim of a hollowed out pumpkin. The top of the pumpkin can be seen behind. The squirrel is wearing a slouchy black witch hat with orange stripes and holding a squirrel-sized chef knife. The knife is because the squirrel has carved the words ‘MAYBE IT WILL HAPPEN’ in the side of the pumpkin and in the ground in front the word ‘TODAY’ has been spelled with stringy orange pumpkin guts with seeds scattered all around.

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"Spooky" Marc Quill / WON/F4W / QB1 Publishing @marcquill.bsky.social · 6h

what a bizarre and fascinating thingamajig...

an ad for STD (yes, you read correctly) and their "handy" Joyplus products for your Game Bo-- erm, handheld video game system. The main image shows a Game Boy with the monstrosity that is the Handy Set attached to it.

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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · May 14

Absolutely love this moment

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Popeye Otaku @popeyeotaku.bsky.social · 6h

y'all read thisk OR ELSE'T >:(

Darci Meadows, Published Author @saintwalker98.bsky.social · 7h

🌹morning everyone, don't forget to check out our new blog post about the time when Green Lantern was DC's flagship comic morenopressblog.wordpress.com/tales-of-the...

Tales of the Green Lantern

By Ember Blake and Violet Morningstar When I was reading Green Lantern as a kid it was the biggest comic in the world. Nowadays that feels ridiculous to me, that there was a time when Green Lantern…

morenopressblog.wordpress.com

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Darci Meadows, Published Author @saintwalker98.bsky.social · 6h

🟠if anyone wants to quote repost this we'd super appreciate it

Darci Meadows, Published Author @saintwalker98.bsky.social · 7h

🌹morning everyone, don't forget to check out our new blog post about the time when Green Lantern was DC's flagship comic morenopressblog.wordpress.com/tales-of-the...

Tales of the Green Lantern

By Ember Blake and Violet Morningstar When I was reading Green Lantern as a kid it was the biggest comic in the world. Nowadays that feels ridiculous to me, that there was a time when Green Lantern…

morenopressblog.wordpress.com

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 8h

The Realms of Arkania games have a special place in my heart, especially the first one, Blade of Destiny. The Amiga version was my first experience of an open-world, free-roaming CRPG and became one of my core experiences in the genre.

Enough that I cobbled together my own TTRPG version of it.

A gameplay snap of the 3D texture mapped medieval fantasy polygon town of Riva that takes up a 2/3rds of the screen.

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Lizstar @lizstar.bsky.social · 6h

New Dissidia game announced? Hell yea.

Everyone is in street clothes so we get cool new designs? Hell yea.

Krile is the FF5 rep???? Fuck YEAH.

Aaaaaand its mobile only. God dammit.

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 7h

mtg in 1997: this card is selenia, a guardian angel from the heavenly realm of serra. twisted by the phyrexians, she drove crovax of urborg insane with unrequited love

mtg in 2025: this card is spongebob. from spongebob squarepants

mtg in 2035: we ran out of ideas. this card is your coworker jeff

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Daily Kai Shiden @dailykaishiden.bsky.social · 7h

mobile gamer gundam

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undead transgender kai shiden 👻🦇 @cephalopistol.bsky.social · 7h

was gonna do this initially

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Golden Age Explosions 💥 @comicexplosions.bsky.social · 7h

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 7h

For the Shadow of the Colossus story, we interviewed 14 people including project leads Fumito Ueda and Kenji Kaido, hired Gravity Rush concept artist Takeshi Oga to illustrate the cover, and put together a 10,000-word story with help from @milkman.bsky.social @shmuplations.bsky.social and others.

Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history

Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Team Ico’s masterpiece by looking back with 11 people who worked on it (and three who didn’t).

www.designroom.site

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Darci Meadows, Published Author @saintwalker98.bsky.social · 7h

🟠this is one of those things we totally lose with how segmented the modern world is and how enshittified cause it used to be different subcultures would overlap all the time like there was a bunch of overlap between the computer geeks, the mind expansion hippies, counter cultural rock

Darci Meadows, Published Author @saintwalker98.bsky.social · 7h

🌹the thing is I think Tron reflects more than just "computers are magic" like that's sort of a pithy statement we cooked up to excise the real spiritualism that overlapped with the computer movement because we're so tech bro saturated now we can't imagine anything else? All of which is text

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Popeye Otaku @popeyeotaku.bsky.social · 20h

Yea, I read theory

Popeye Otaku @popeyeotaku.bsky.social · Jul 18

Interviewer, clearly modeled after Popeye creator Segar: Mr. Popeye, what would you suggest to bring back prosperity?

POPEYE: PEOPLE'S GOT TO SPEND LOTSA MONEY -- EVER CENT HAS GOT TO GET SPENT -- BUY EVER'THIN' YA SEES -- THA'S WHAT'LL MAKE PERNAMENT PROSPERITY -- AN' SUMPIN' ELSE TOO EVER'BODY'S GOT TO ECOMONIZE ON ACCOUNT OF A RAINY DAY

Interviewer: What do you think about prohibition?

POPEYE: I DON'T LIKE TO THINK ABOUT IT

Interviewer: Do you ever think deeply? Have you ever given any thought to the mystery of life?

POPEYE: LIFE AIN'T NO MYSKERY -- WE JUS' GET'S BORND AN' THA'S ALL THEY IS TO IT

Interviewer: What is your religion?

POPEYE: TREAT EVER'BODY RIGHT AN' IF THEY STEPS ON YA, SOCK'EM!

Interviewer: Which are the best, California or Florida oranges?

POPEYE: I GOT READERS IN BOTH STATES

Interviewer: Do you drink?

POPEYE: I REFUSES TO ANSWER ON ACCOUNT OF IT MIGHT INCRINIMATE ME

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Darci Meadows, Published Author @saintwalker98.bsky.social · 7h

🌹even the idea of the programs looking like their programmers is a reflection of these values that were being stamped out, that a program was an act of personal creation and would reflect it's creator instead of just being a product built by a faceless corporation

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Darci Meadows, Published Author @saintwalker98.bsky.social · 7h

🌹the thing is I think Tron reflects more than just "computers are magic" like that's sort of a pithy statement we cooked up to excise the real spiritualism that overlapped with the computer movement because we're so tech bro saturated now we can't imagine anything else? All of which is text

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Darci Meadows, Published Author @saintwalker98.bsky.social · 7h

🌹like Tron may not be cyberpunk visual but PHILOSOPHICALLY it is such a clear progenitor of it, SO much of Tron is about the dying days of personal freedom to compute that's why the main conflict is about the MCP of this huge corporation taking power away from the individual

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Rayna @queenrayna1337.bsky.social · 7h

Good morning ☀️

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