Ben Lesnick
@banditloaf.wcnews.com
Like so many Americans, he was trying to construct a life that made sense from things he found in gift shops. (he/him)
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Ben Lesnick
@banditloaf.wcnews.com
· Nov 15
Hello Bluesky! My name is Ben but my old friends call me LOAF. I’m best known for helping Chris Roberts dream up Star Citizen but I mostly skeet about Wing Commander esoterica and my life with two wonderful black cats and beautiful wife Ali (plus dumb jokes and nonsense about other media I love).
I am so sick of the disc course. mocoshow.com/2025/11/14/m...
Maryland’s Newest 18-Hole Disc Golf Course is Now Open - The MoCo Show
Maryland’s newest disc-golf addition is already drawing a crowd. Montgomery Parks softly opened its first-ever 18-hole disc golf course at Northwest Branch Recreational Park in Silver Spring on Novemb...
mocoshow.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I am so sick of the disc course. mocoshow.com/2025/11/14/m...
I heard the new Taylor Swift song that goes "I protect the family, leave it with me" as "I protect the family, Vito and me" and just assumed it was going really hard on a Godfather thing.
November 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I heard the new Taylor Swift song that goes "I protect the family, leave it with me" as "I protect the family, Vito and me" and just assumed it was going really hard on a Godfather thing.
Join us for nuclear proliferation and ExoSquad in 30 minutes!
November 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Join us for nuclear proliferation and ExoSquad in 30 minutes!
Ahhhh!
revenant1.net/crap/smview.... bonus Secret Missions version, featuring a redrawn easter egg plus a second, more elaborate easter egg that i need to record a video of
November 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Ahhhh!
Reposted by Ben Lesnick
Havin a giant cheese wedge and a stein of beer MANFOOD
November 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Havin a giant cheese wedge and a stein of beer MANFOOD
Cartoons (and a documentary about nuclear war) tomorrow on the @wcnews.com Discord! All are welcome.
Wing Commander Cartoon Party IV: The Prices of Freedom https://wcne.ws/17142
November 15, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Cartoons (and a documentary about nuclear war) tomorrow on the @wcnews.com Discord! All are welcome.
I believe I am uniquely qualified to comment on there being admirals in Gwynedd.
A 64-year-old from Gwynedd was arrested for offences 'relating to the unlawful use of military uniforms'
Arrest after 'fake admiral' appears at Welsh Remembrance Parade
A 64-year-old from Gwynedd was arrested for offences 'relating to the unlawful use of military uniforms'
www.dailypost.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I believe I am uniquely qualified to comment on there being admirals in Gwynedd.
Happy birthday, Star Wars Demolition. Sorry your party’s so lousy.
TOTAL CARNAGE!
Star Wars: Demolition (Luxoflux/LucasArts) was released 25 years ago today!
"Trust it to be Jabba the Hutt to break all the rules. Podracing, having been outlawed by the Empire, was soon replaced by an even more dangerous underground sport, Demolition."
Star Wars: Demolition (Luxoflux/LucasArts) was released 25 years ago today!
"Trust it to be Jabba the Hutt to break all the rules. Podracing, having been outlawed by the Empire, was soon replaced by an even more dangerous underground sport, Demolition."
November 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Happy birthday, Star Wars Demolition. Sorry your party’s so lousy.
Dual layer encoding allows you to store twice as much data in the same amount of physical space.
November 14, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Dual layer encoding allows you to store twice as much data in the same amount of physical space.
Reposted by Ben Lesnick
BRITISH RAIL IS TRAVELLING (1969)
November 14, 2025 at 3:04 AM
BRITISH RAIL IS TRAVELLING (1969)
This afternoon I was like “hey the guy in Avatar is also named Sully, I bet he’d like to watch it.” And to my credit he did sit there and watch the entire movie.
November 14, 2025 at 3:11 AM
This afternoon I was like “hey the guy in Avatar is also named Sully, I bet he’d like to watch it.” And to my credit he did sit there and watch the entire movie.
I was today years old when I learned that Virgil Finlay did illustrations for Larry Niven’s The Adults in Galaxy in 1967, which became the basis for Protector!
November 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I was today years old when I learned that Virgil Finlay did illustrations for Larry Niven’s The Adults in Galaxy in 1967, which became the basis for Protector!
This brilliant person made a Wing Commander SNES viewer (it’s further up in the thread) and it led to a pretty cool discovery!
or not, turns out you just have to fly in one direction for an incredibly long time... i wonder if this exists in the DOS version, lol
November 13, 2025 at 11:46 PM
This brilliant person made a Wing Commander SNES viewer (it’s further up in the thread) and it led to a pretty cool discovery!
PEOPLE WOULD REMEMBER FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES WHERE THEY WERE AND WHAT THEY FELT AND WHAT THE WEATHER WAS LIKE WHEN THEY HEARD WHAT HAD HAPPENED.
Serebii Update: Pokémon Pokopia has revealed a new variant of Pikachu for the game, Pikachu (Pale Colour) www.serebii.net
November 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
PEOPLE WOULD REMEMBER FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES WHERE THEY WERE AND WHAT THEY FELT AND WHAT THE WEATHER WAS LIKE WHEN THEY HEARD WHAT HAD HAPPENED.
Did Apple produce and schedule a second season of Monarch specifically to troll long-suffering For All Mankind fans? Seems likely.
#Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Season 2 will premiere February 27 on Apple TV.
November 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Did Apple produce and schedule a second season of Monarch specifically to troll long-suffering For All Mankind fans? Seems likely.
Listen up you shitheads!
November 13 is World Kindness Day. Its goal is to encourage acts of kindness. (After all, one kind day is better than none.) Here's a look at the nature and nurturing of human kindness. n.pr/49S06UX
If you're going to be kind to another human, today is the day to do it!
November 13 is World Kindness Day. Its goal is to encourage acts of kindness. (After all, one kind day is better than none.) Here's a look at the nature and nurturing of human kindness.
n.pr
November 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Listen up you shitheads!
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completely pointless activity of the week: hacking a Mode 7 object viewer into the janky SNES port of wing commander
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 AM
completely pointless activity of the week: hacking a Mode 7 object viewer into the janky SNES port of wing commander
If I were a rich creep I can guarantee all of my emails would be about buying vintage LEGOs.
November 12, 2025 at 11:09 PM
If I were a rich creep I can guarantee all of my emails would be about buying vintage LEGOs.
Dinner is making me nostalgic for the early days of BlueSky.
November 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Dinner is making me nostalgic for the early days of BlueSky.
Reposted by Ben Lesnick
TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png