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Usagineko, Catgirl of Battle
@mikailborg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
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Professional geek. Amateur weirdo. Genderqueer. Makes the podcast serial "Managlitch City Underground". He/him except when I'm not. Also, pretty dresses.

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Through us, they will never be silenced. 🕯️🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵🕯️
A blue-haired, bearded person in a black latex maid dress holds a glass of wine and a banner with the transgender flag. Their expression is somber. A caption reads "Transgender Day of Remembrance 2025".
November 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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My partner: “What do you call the, uh, the Warhammer 40K drugstore receipt strips?”

Me (without missing a beat): “Purity seals.”
October 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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It has been explained to me that I am not getting up until she allows it. #catsofmastodon
September 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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PROTECC Sharma the adorable singing pilgrim bug in Silksong
An underground tunnel with a gated doorway. A small wide-eyed bug in a cloak and broad flat hat is ringing prayer chimes, as a taller bug in a red cloak looks on impassively.
September 12, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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An image from the 80s anime “Dirty Pair,” a series about two unlucky intergalactic troubleshooters. I TOTALLY did not have sexual fantasies about this situation.
A red-headed woman in a halter top, booty shorts, and calf boots is holding a a man in a guard uniform at gunpoint. He is lying on the ground and her boot is on his chest.
September 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Me researching what the old Marathon game would have looked like on a Mac SE (which couldn’t have run it). For reasons.
A dark spaceship hallway with a lit wall terminal at the end. The hall is rendered in an early-1990s flat polygon style, then displayed in a black-and-white bitmap the way a 1986 Macintosh computer would.
August 25, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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We are apparently going to see a co-op version of Battletech soon, where the tabletop players team up against (I assume) a dice-and-tables-driven opposing force. This could be a fun way to play, and I’m looking forward to it!
A custom Battletech miniature made in the 1990s. It uses the rules for 3025 Inner Sphere technology and combines the bird-like legs and missile pods of a “Catapult” mech with the low-slung laser arms of a “Marauder” mech; it was dubbed the “Miffed Cat”.
August 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Government-contracted fairy ring
A remarkably irregular mismatched hexagon of dirty brown mushrooms in yard grass.
August 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Happy #caturday to all who observe.
A 20-year-old black-and-grey tabby cat snoozed curled in the left arm of one of her human minions.
August 9, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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A picture of my cat Willow asleep on my wrist, for Day After Caturday.
July 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Going back and forth between MacOS 15 and MacOS 9 is messing with my visual cortex

Yes, there are reasons
The same window on a shared volume, viewed my MacOS 15 and MacOS 9 respectively. The OS 9 type is clear but shows jagged bitmapping, and the icons are medium resolution; while in OS 15, the type and icons are smoothly rended in high-definition.
July 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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I think I’m going to do Ray Dunakin’s old graphics + text adventure “A Mess O’ Trouble” on my YouTube channel after Excalibur. It won’t be edge-of-the-seat action, but I’ll have fun.
A screenshot of an original 9” black-and-white Macintosh display. On the left of the screen is a narrow window showing a galaxy and the title “A Mess O’ Trouble”, and on the right is a text box describing the background of the game world. “Not too long ago, in a nearby galaxy, a strange spatial anomaly was discovered. More convoluted than a cosmic string, more massive than a black hole, able to leap tall galaxies at a single bound, this new anomaly was something unaccounted for by any theories of quantum physics. Within the anomaly was a new universe, a patchwork quilt of bits and pieces from millions of worlds in billions of different, alternate universes. The very physical laws of nature are alien within this twisted universe, and vary from world to world. ---(click NEXT to continue) This knot in the fabric of space was discovered by a mysterious being known only as "Ray". He quickly filed a claim for the anomaly and became the owner and operator, charging adventurers and fortune hunters a fee to enter it. The anomaly and the mixed up universe it contains are known as Ray's Maze.
July 16, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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How To Build A Castle (requires Mac OS9) This is one of the levels I worked on for the "Excalibur: Morgana's Revenge" game. Looks a lot like making a D&D map... I think that's part of what I liked about it. It's a minor thrill getting the old map-making tools running in emulation!
A screenshot of the SheepShaver emulator running a Mac OS9 install. The application "Forge" is at the front, which was used to make maps for the "Marathon" game and others using the "Aleph One" engine. Here's it's viewing a map from "Excalibur: Morgana's Revenge".
July 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Battling dinosaurs in episodes 2 and 3 of my playthrough of our old game "Excalibur: Morgana's Revenge." It's weird playing this on a PlayStation controller, which was NOT possible in the 90s. I even found a secret I don't remember finding in playtesting all […]

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An image consisting of two cropped screenshots from a 90s-era first-person shooter game. One shows the player using a chain gun to fire at a flying reptile, the other shows the player using a pistol to fire at green bipedal dinosaurs.
July 3, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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I'm thrilled to find out that the video game I worked on decades ago is running on Mac, Windows, and Linux again. I designed levels, wrote story text, and play-tested “Excalibur: Morgana’s Revenge” – a 90s-era shooter game where you chase the famous sorceress […]

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Startup splash screen for the video game “Excalibur: Morgana’s Revenge” showing characters and monsters from the game with a list of play options.
June 30, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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An image of salt grains under a scanning electron microscope. (h/t to @epiceneVivant

It’s the Pandorica! Quick, set Auton Rory over them!!
June 20, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Mistral, I understand you're talking about the MMO you're playing, but you don't know the half of it. (Another dot/Hack screenshot.)
A room in an organic-themed video game "dungeon". In the game-within-a-game, the wall show sign of data corruption. A magician character named Mistral is saying to the rogue player character, "Well anyway. It seems strange things have been happening everywhere in "The World." - referring to the MMO you and she are playing. It's meta!
June 18, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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Sneak preview peek. You’ve seen the Catgirls of Battle, but are you ready for the Mikumarine?! Detail still to be added. I had to remind myself that it’s a 3D print; if I’m unhappy with it, I can always print another!
A Warhammer 40K Space Marine with the head of Hatsune Miku - impossible pigtails included. The marine armor is grey with black legs and blue shoulder pads, and Miku’s hair is her expected blue.
June 6, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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As pretty as a game like Elden Ring is, PS2 graphics were plenty enough to get our imaginations going back in the day. Wanted to see how well my laptop ran dot/Hack, and it's great! Even doubled the resolution! (And oh, Yasuhiko "Orca", if only you knew...)
A screenshot of the PlayStation 2 game "dot/Hack" running in emulation. A rogue in green leathers faces another player, his friend "Orca", who is a barbarian-styled game character. Orca is saying, "People do have a life, you know. We're not online 24/7!"
June 2, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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Coming soon to YouTube: a playthrough of a game released for Mac in 1997, updated to run on Open Source in 2007, and currently only playable on Windows using the 2011 version of the engine. Stay tuned…
Aboard a video game spaceship, two humanoid combat robots beam into a transporter room to attack the player, who has a Gatling gun strapped to his chest. The graphics are blocky and very turn-of-the-century.
May 27, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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Okay, I got one of the apps to run pretty well… now I just need a slightly newer OS from 2005 to run the other one. Lordy I hope the sound is working.
May 25, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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I've decided to hell with all modern operating systems and am going back to the good old days of 1999.
A screenshot of MacOS9 installing. The installer has reached the stage where it is updating the hard disk drivers and is displaying a progress bar estimating 5 minutes for the task.
May 25, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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still inferior to miku miku beam
Article headline: "Project Starline Immersive Videoconferencing Now Branded Google Beam"
May 20, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Kesshite tomarana
Hadō-hō o nusumu
Sono jū o hakai suru
Uchū sensuikan Rabendaaaaa!
A spaceship looking like a cross between the Space Battleship Yamato and the Yellow Submarine. It is captioned with the Japanese text for “Space Submarine Lavender”
May 10, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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Found in some stuff from my mom's old house in Roanoke. These are official TSR Dungeons and Dragons dice dating from sometime in 1979 or 1980, when they had to be bought separately from the boxed set. They were my first gaming dice and I was sure they'd gone to Dice Heaven decades ago!
A set of five plastic polyhedral dice, one for each Platonic solid: a yellow 4-sided, a red 6-sided, a green 8-sided, a blue 12-sided, and a white 20-sided. They have black numbers on the faces which are worn away in places. The plastic on the edges on the dice is rounded and white from wear.
April 25, 2025 at 11:39 PM