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Chris Allcock @taskbaarchitect.com · 16h

Balatro Gold Stake win yaaaas!

(And with a surprisingly minimalist setup, too.)

A Balatro game on the Boss Blind of ante 8, using the chequered deck. The Jokers being used are Blue Joker, Green Joker and Madness, which is at x6.5 Mult. The deck has 61 cards.

I RULE.

Chris Allcock @taskbaarchitect.com · 1d

If there's such a thing as Zombie Simpsons, this latest Hulu batch is absolutely Frankenstein's Futurama.

That one movie reviewer would probably be stunned to know I just feel bad for it.

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Chris Allcock @taskbaarchitect.com · 2d

A chill end to my Sunday, listening to a @bigfinish.bsky.social audio while playing Minecraft and thinking "wow, they're really not holding back here with this Eternity Club arc, you have to work to figure out what Benny's doing here and why."

Then I realised I'd mistakenly started with part two. 🙃

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j0toro @j0toro.bsky.social · 2d

That review in The Independent for GDT's Frankenstein has to be rage bait, right? No serious reviewer can be that lacking in media literacy or awareness of the source material...

Screengrab from the review of Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein. Text reads 'Elordi plays the creature as a misunderstood, James Dean-like outsider with Oedipal issues rather than as an agent of evil and chaos. Even if his face and torso are latticed with suitably grotesque scars, staples and stitches, he is not only the most sympathetic character in the movie but the best-looking one too. It’s left to Oscar Isaac to provide the real villainy as the brilliant but egomaniacal scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who “fathers” the monster but then promptly disowns him.'

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Chris Allcock @taskbaarchitect.com · 2d

I don't get why Ant-Man doesn't just shrink down, fly up to Frankenstein, and...

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Chris Allcock @taskbaarchitect.com · 2d

I hear Frankenstein doesn't even fly until right near the end, smh

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Chris Allcock @taskbaarchitect.com · 2d

Nintendo, you're putting Luigi's Mansion on Nintendo Switch Online BEFORE Halloween, right?

...Right?

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Chris Allcock @taskbaarchitect.com · 2d

"We've written some ourselves..."

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Chris Allcock @taskbaarchitect.com · 3d

Kiki, from Kiki's Delivery Service, riding her broomstick amongst a flock of seagulls.

Not pictured: the Angry Sun from Super Mario Bros 3. Why would it be there? It's a completely different fictional universe. Feels weird that you're even considering the possibility, honestly.

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Chris Allcock @taskbaarchitect.com · 4d

A Human Santapede.

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Chris Allcock @taskbaarchitect.com · 4d

It's the same thing I default to on Christmas Cards.

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Chris Allcock @taskbaarchitect.com · 4d

It's just your willy mate, you're getting by alright.

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Chris Allcock @taskbaarchitect.com · 4d

Is this the Rio Light?
This is just Fanta, see.

A can of Rio Light tropical drink and a bottle of Fanta orange drink mistakenly served to Freddie Mercury, perhaps.

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Chris Allcock @taskbaarchitect.com · 5d

It wasn't the first ever TV I had in my room but when I was 14 or so I somehow inherited a wood-panelled TV for myself to have in my room. The last time I ever had to regularly mess with horizontal and vertical hold knobs.

I loved that it felt like a device rather than an appliance, y'know?

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Chris Allcock @taskbaarchitect.com · 5d

NewGame+.

A 1980s Dad, who is smoking and drinking comes in from work and tells his son, who is playing with comics and lego bricks, to leave so he can watch their tiny wood-panelled television.

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Chris Allcock @taskbaarchitect.com · 5d

I'm not sure if this presentation and packaging helps to sell the theme of natural order being corrupted, or if somebody just really wanted to thoroughly upset me.

Jeff VanderMeer's trilogy, vacuum-packed. The first novel is black and the title is lower-case. The second volume is yellow and the title is upper-case. The third volume is black and the title is lower-case, but it has also been packed upside-down.

I hate everything about this.

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Chris Allcock @taskbaarchitect.com · 5d

New Isaac main.

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Chris Allcock @taskbaarchitect.com · 5d

Welcome to my last seven years.

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Stuart Gipp @stuartgipp.bsky.social · 6d

Merry in the style of Earthbound by @taskbaarchitect.com

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Chris Allcock @taskbaarchitect.com · 6d

Closing the curtains at 6:30pm and absolutely loving it.

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Chris Allcock @taskbaarchitect.com · 7d

Every death in that house was caused by Pikmin?! I KNEW IT.

Chris Allcock @taskbaarchitect.com · 10d

Oh my god he's like, twelve

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Chris Allcock @taskbaarchitect.com · 10d

Star Trek was always so prescient.

The android "Data" from the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode titled "Thine Own Self". One arrow points to Data, the other points to the period-appropriate short trousers, known as britches, he is wearing. This is highly amusing. I'm not saying it should win an award, there's probably other, better jokes out there, I'm just saying that I haven't found any, least of all repurposing content from 1993. If you know of any, please never tell me. Cheers. Love you!

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Chris Allcock @taskbaarchitect.com · 10d

And arguably in Galaxy it's an avoidable problem because Mario has an energy meter here, so there's no need to double-punish him by taking the suit away when he gets hit, except the conventional wisdom of "that's what happens to Mario's suits".

Chris Allcock @taskbaarchitect.com · 10d

It's interesting with hindsight that Mario Galaxy 2's designers hit the same stumbling block that plagues Super Mario Maker.

When you make a stage that requires a power-up to traverse it, you have to put replacements all over in case Mario gets hit and loses the one he has, tanking the difficulty.

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