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SnepShark | Friend of Eggbug @snepshark.itch.io · 22/09/2026

For any other fans of the classic Cohost moment where Gravis Cathode Ray Dude discovered the theme song for the game "Interpose," the Kickstarter campaign for the comic book adaptation of that game has finally launched: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ben...

I NEED YOU ALL TO DROP WHAT YOU'RE DOING RIGHT THIS FUCKING SECOND AND MAKE TIME FOR THIS.

i might be the last person to hear about it, i don't know, but I fired up this random game from my ExoDOS collection, Interpose, and found out that it's an early furry game from 1995, and a pretty good shmup, and has an incredibly banging soundtrack, but i was absolutely not prepared for what happened when I just left the menu music playing and it turned out that
THEY COMPOSED AN ORIGINAL SYNTHPOP SONG WITH LYRICS FOR A GAME ABOUT A CATBOY SAVING THE GALAXY. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. IT GOES HARD AS HELL. MANDATORY CLICK.

i legitimately lost my shit when the vocals started and if you don't believe me you can check the VOD (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUC8QEyy_MY&t=10794s). this is a certified eurodisco planet of the bass banger, complete with lyrics that aren't quite the best english. my best guess at the words below, but the wild thing is that despite it's heroic tone, it's just a weird teenage rumination on the inevitability of death.

this fucks fully. nothing any of us has done is as sincere as this and we need to step up. we got left in the dust by these norwegian kids before Spiceworld even came out

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SnepShark | Friend of Eggbug @snepshark.itch.io · 16/09/2026

I find it kinda funny that the Unity Asset Store still has a "decentralization" tab in its menu bar, even through the tag has been totally removed at this point

Collage of the Asset Store menu bar (which still contains the "decentralization" button on most pages other than the front page), the sidebar (showing 0 items tagged with "decentralization") and the decentralization tag page itself (which now just says "The Decentralization/Web3 category has been discontinued from the Asset Store.)

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SnepShark | Friend of Eggbug @snepshark.itch.io · 13/09/2026

The HL: Alyx tripwire room is what came to mind immediately when I saw this post

A room with lots of red explosive barrels, a number of which have tripwire bombs attached to them.

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SnepShark | Friend of Eggbug @snepshark.itch.io · 29/08/2026

I do also see reviewers at the time being disappointed that it couldn't be used like a Walkman, which is kinda interesting!

Excerpt from "Products Seek Place" in Colorado Springs Gazette Newspaper Archives March 12, 1983

Just out, and perfect for the
on-the-go, die-hard vinyl lover is
Audio-Technica's super compact,
personal Phonograph system, Mister Disc.
Hailed as "a new
product category" by A-T presi-
dent Jon Kelly, this $170 battery
(or AC) powered record player
is actually smaller than the 12
inch LPs and 45 rpm singles it
spins. The unit measures just
over 11 inches long, 4 inches
wide, and 21k inches high,
weighs only 214 pounds, and
packs into a tidy, suede cloth
pouch.
Playing through the supplied
Audio-Technica headDhones, the
sound from Mister Disc unex-
pectedly good — true high fideli-
ty. The unit features a wow and
rumble-free, belt-drive motor
and a lightweight tone arm with
dual magnet cartridge and
diamond stylus. The top lid of
the player opens up to accept a
record, then folds down again to
stabilize an LP, which overhangs
considerably on the four inch
turntable platter. When playing
on a flat surface, I found Mister Disc
to be well isolated against
table pounding vibrations, but
no, there's no way to use the unit
as a "walkman," in-transit.
Designed basically for stere-
ophone listening, the player
comes with two phone jacks for
sharing the sound. plus a "line
out" jack to permit playing Mister Disc
through any standard
ter
stereo system.

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SnepShark | Friend of Eggbug @snepshark.itch.io · 29/08/2026

I'm honestly kinda surprised to hear that it was marketed as being "portable," but running a search in my library's newspaper archives, I do see print coverage that the Sound Burger was definitely being pitched that way, as something you'd take, like, on a plane or to a pool.

mister disc Personal Portable Phono System box

"Mister Disc plays records anywhere" from The Chronicle Telegram Newspaper Archives November 3, 1983
OCR'ed:
MISTER DISC lets you play records at poolside.
You're comfortably seated on your morning flight to Atlanta and you've just begun reading your magazine when, out of the corner of your eye, you the passenger across the aisle listening to phonograph records. YB, listening to phonograph records! It's your first encounter Mister Disc, a compact, portable play-anywhere phono system produced by
Audio-Technica.
About the size of a facial tissue box (11 1/2 incha long, by 4 inches wide, by 2 1/2 inches high) Mister Disc plays full-size LPs and 45s for twelve hours or complement of three flashlight "C" cells. (Or, should standard AC power be available, tbe system may be played using a adapter available as an accessory.) One lightweight set of
folding stereophones comes with it but there are jacks for two pain in the event you may wish to share your music with a friend.
BUT WHAT if you want to play it throe your home audio system or other portable equipment? No problem. Extra output jacks double as line-out/tape-out receptacles.
At $149.95 (nationally advertised price) the compact portable is a high- performance record laying system. It features a Vector-APigned Dual Magnet cartridge with mlished diamond StYIUSt uynanucally batanced tone arm, and a reliable DC motor which is effectively isolated by a belt drive to assure quiet, rumble- and wow-free listening.

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SnepShark | Friend of Eggbug @snepshark.itch.io · 27/08/2026

He's also the guy that was in charge of dismantling the VA and firing tens of thousands of their employees in 2025, and currently works at the IRS.

Excerpt from the Gumroad wikipedia article:
In 2025, Lavingia worked with Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) as part of its efforts to fire tens of thousands of employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs and introduce AI systems to the VA. DOGE gave Lavingia, who has no government experience, sensitive access to VA systems.
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-department-of-veterans-affairs-ai/

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SnepShark | Friend of Eggbug @snepshark.itch.io · 22/08/2026

same-ish (just trackpad + low 3D res, my framerate is doing better than that)! I'm petsitting right now and didn't bring a mouse, but I wanted to get the last couple levels in before lv100 to finish off the achievements today

screenshot of the level 100 + 100% completion achievements from Marathon (2026)

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SnepShark | Friend of Eggbug @snepshark.itch.io · 02/08/2026

Having used it for a bit, it would be very helpful if we could type in the specific index we want to send an item to in the list like on BGG's geeklist bulk order tool or Steam's wishlist page, but this is already suuuper helpful!! ❤️

Example of the BGG list bulk ordering tool, which has a box to type in a list item's new index next to each item, allowing users to move them that way instead of dragging them

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SnepShark | Friend of Eggbug @snepshark.itch.io · 09/07/2026

The Playdate's screen is well known for producing Harmful Blue Light, lmao

blue light blocking film to apply to the screen of the Playdate console (which notably does not produce any light, blue or otherwise)

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SnepShark | Friend of Eggbug @snepshark.itch.io · 04/07/2026

Finally, the game that one PS Vita ad was talking about

2012 PSVita print ad depicting a woman with breasts on the front and back of her body, advertising the fact that there's a touch surface on the back of the Vita. "Touch both sides for added enjoyment. PSVita"

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SnepShark | Friend of Eggbug @snepshark.itch.io · 03/07/2026

how is your opinion of me this bad, New Reddit recommendation algorithm....

Suggested for you: r/MarathonPlayerCount thread announcing that they've made a subreddit just to talk about the steam charts for Marathon

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SnepShark | Friend of Eggbug @snepshark.itch.io · 22/06/2026

The pitch for UE6 is that the code itself will be a metaverse, whatever the hell that means The part I *do* know is that they're getting rid of their widely-praised visual coding system (Blueprint) and the bedrock of Unreal development's structure (Actor+Component) in order to do that

Why Verse?
Traditional programming languages carry decades of historical baggage and design compromises. Verse starts fresh, learning from the past but not bound by it. It's designed for a future where:
• Code lives forever in a persistent metaverse
• Millions of developers contribute to a shared codebase
• Programs must be safe, concurrent, and composable by default
• Backward compatibility is not optional but essential
• The boundary between compile-time and runtime is fluid

The Nature of Code Publication
When developers publish code to the Verse metaverse, they enter into a social contract with all future users of that code. This contract is more than just a convention—it's enforced by the language itself. Consider what happens when you publish a simple value:

Thing<public>:int = 666

This seemingly straightforward declaration carries profound implications. By marking Thing as public, you're making a commitment that extends indefinitely into the future. Users can depend on Thing always existing and always being an integer. While you retain the freedom to change its actual value, the existence and type of Thing become permanent fixtures in the metaverse's landscape.

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SnepShark | Friend of Eggbug @snepshark.itch.io · 13/06/2026

(among various other typos in the announcement post, it sounds like)

Picture of the announcement post, with very frequent mistakes highlighted by a Reddit user. I'm no Monster Hunter expert, but I do know that it's the "gore magala" not the "gore malaga." Lots of game titles that sound reasonable but don't actually exist.

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SnepShark | Friend of Eggbug @snepshark.itch.io · 24/05/2026

A product made by a team who doesn't understand that the YouTube genre of "I made a wacky gadget that makes gaming a less pleasant experience" is almost always about something someone made for a one-off video rather than as something they actually wanted to use on a regular basis

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SnepShark | Friend of Eggbug @snepshark.itch.io · 19/05/2026

On top of their treatment of NSFW content, Stripe is actively running scams on Kickstarter: The KS checkout screen pops up an ad from Stripe that offers to pay users $5 for their bank account username/password so they can sell it to a handful of "trusted providers" who would like to log in as you.

In other instances, when you input your login credentials in the credential pane, you are providing your credentials to Stripe and one of our trusted service providers. Stripe and our service provider may store and use your credentials to regularly collect updated data and provide it to the business. We do not share your login credentials with the business.

Stripe provides the business with the data they’ve requested and you’ve agreed to share. You may share the account data that Stripe receives from your financial institution, typically including:

accounts details (such as account and routing number),
ownership information (such as the name and address on the account),
balance information (the then-current account balance), and
transaction data (the transactions involving your account that you would typically see on a statement)

Kickstarter (Stripe) checkout screen, offering $5 back if you pay with "Bank via Link," where you give Stripe and their "trusted providers" your bank account login information

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SnepShark | Friend of Eggbug @snepshark.itch.io · 30/04/2026

Okay but will this one feature a line as good as RE2022's "I mostly just read Zootopia porn"

INT. WESKER HOUSE - LIVING ROOM - DAY (2022)
A modestly, modernly furnished home. CAROL enters, ALBERT, BILLIE and JADE right behind.
CAROL
Raccoon City used to be an old factory town-- when Umbrella bought it, the place was almost deserted, but with a little inspiration, and a lot of work, well... it's just special here. The suns a little brighter, the air's a little cleaner. And you can have a house with an actual yard. (to the girls) Plenty of room to run and play.
JADE
Right. I mostly just watch Zootopia porn, so...

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SnepShark | Friend of Eggbug @snepshark.itch.io · 22/04/2026

Sidenote: what happens when you block the moderation bot??? Is it then unable to label your posts as stuff like "rude?"

Screenshot showing that you can block this second settings page???

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SnepShark | Friend of Eggbug @snepshark.itch.io · 21/04/2026

Yes, even the Webtiles chatroom. Remote Access Trojan-er: "If I stole all of this user's accounts, I'm gonna use *all* of 'em" (the images are gone now, but they were the "photographs of a screen saying that Mr. Beast is giving away crypto, give me your info to claim it" scam)

Chatroom on webtiles:
blehgirl69: (A bunch of discord image attachment links)
slothdraco13: omg the person who got their account hacked spammed it everywhere they could :cryingemoji:
adobe.nekoweb.org: even webtiles???? LMFAO

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SnepShark | Friend of Eggbug @snepshark.itch.io · 17/04/2026

This is what I heard when reading this:

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SnepShark | Friend of Eggbug @snepshark.itch.io · 13/04/2026

wait, what? Moves of the Diamond Hand comes out today???

Thinky Games' "releasing today" thing: Moves of the Diamond Hand

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SnepShark | Friend of Eggbug @snepshark.itch.io · 05/04/2026

(Rook run) The silenced pistol is surprisingly good at taking out 3-person teams solo! ...and I would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for you meddling snipers, haha.

Marathon inventory screen, filled with exactly the sort of loot you'd want to take home as a Rook. 5 shields, decent weapons, lots of healing, blue everything incl. backpack. Would've been nice to extract, but oh well, haha.

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SnepShark | Friend of Eggbug @snepshark.itch.io · 30/03/2026

browsing the unity asset store and seeing assets from mobile games I remember playing as a kid

Low-poly cat models used by a virtual pet app my sister downloaded on the family iPad when I was a kid, $4.99 on the Unity Asset Store

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SnepShark | Friend of Eggbug @snepshark.itch.io · 27/03/2026

“the purpose of gameplay is to hide secrets“ is the line that has stuck with me the most from the Arcane Kids manifesto

* shut up about video games
* the fastest way to the truth is a joke
* stop listening to advice
* start your own scene
* art isn't about giving people what they want
* do NOT call us punk
* communities need spaces to grow
* fuck formalism
* fuck puzzles
* play with structure
* bad is more interesting than good
* the purpose of gameplay is to hide secrets
* make games u wish 2 see on the dreamcast

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SnepShark | Friend of Eggbug @snepshark.itch.io · 22/03/2026

oh, no wonder I've never heard anyone talk on marathon Why isn't this under the "audio" settings, or at least some indication there that you need to change it in a different tab

Voice chat settings for Marathon, which are *not* under the audio tab. Both are set to fake inputs/outputs, listening for audio from my Quest 2 VR headset and trying to output audio to my phone over Steam Link

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SnepShark | Friend of Eggbug @snepshark.itch.io · 13/03/2026

It's honestly bizarre just how broken posting to bsky is on mobile. Like, I regularly need to copy what I've written, re-open the tab, and paste it in again in order to actually be able to hit the post button. "Ah, I'll just post this from my PC" I think. Nope! Drafts save images per-device???

Empty bsky draft. It *should* have two images attached, but apparently those drafts are actually stored in my phone's storage, instead of on Bsky itself?

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SnepShark | Friend of Eggbug @snepshark.itch.io · 08/03/2026

And yeah, no trailer to hear the music, no mention of 2 Mello in the description, and according to one review the credit is even misspelled as "2Melo"

Store page for Bop It, notably missing a trailer

The description does mention "original songs," but doesn't mention who they were done by

The first 3 reviews on the steam page, which all mention buying it specifically because 2 mello did the music. One mentions the in-game credit being spelled "2melo"

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SnepShark | Friend of Eggbug @snepshark.itch.io · 07/03/2026

More drugstore game consoles should come with handy carrying bags (that feel like they're made of paper) IIRC some of the games had multiplayer support that you couldn't make use of because it only came with one controller?

The Zone Mini in its horrible razor-sharp plastic prison

The bulge at the back of its box, containing a bundle of cables and a very low quality bag

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SnepShark | Friend of Eggbug @snepshark.itch.io · 05/03/2026

WigglyPaint dot com even tries to pretend to *be* Internet Janitor in order to sell an knock-off for iOS???

© 2024 WigglyPaint. Made with ❤️ by Internet Janitor.

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SnepShark | Friend of Eggbug @snepshark.itch.io · 05/03/2026

Like, when searching Bsky to see if anyone had posted Internet Janitor’s blog post about this there already I saw @/wigglypaint.bsky.social come up in the search results. That user is selling a subscription to an old version of WigglyPaint for *$49/year* (possibly renewing at $99/year???).

Pricing page for wigglypaint dot net, maxing out at $49/year

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SnepShark | Friend of Eggbug @snepshark.itch.io · 16/02/2026

watching the Bad Game Hall of Fame video on Gods and Generals right now (www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsrm...), and holy shit, this website archive web.archive.org/web/20030726...

An eye-searing tiling pattern of "Click Here Now!" against full-saturation yellow replacing most of the images on the promotional webpage for the budget US Civil War game "Gods and Generals"

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SnepShark | Friend of Eggbug @snepshark.itch.io · 10/02/2026

It's super creepy and deeply irresponsible. I wouldn't trust Stripe with my bank account login, let alone let them send it to their "it's on Poob"-sounding partner companies Finicity, MX, Fiserv and Flinks support.stripe.com/questions/ho...

Kickstarter (Stripe) checkout screen, offering $5 back if you pay with "Bank via Link"

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SnepShark | Friend of Eggbug @snepshark.itch.io · 02/02/2026

Seeing this again brought @belarius.bsky.social's horrifying Eggbug edit back into my mind.... web.archive.org/web/20241203...

The gruesome grimace of the cursed painting in the quoted post, photoshopped onto the body of Eggbug.

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SnepShark | Friend of Eggbug @snepshark.itch.io · 28/01/2026

I put a little button linking to it on my site's 88x31 button wall!

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SnepShark | Friend of Eggbug @snepshark.itch.io · 18/01/2026

I went to a Magic: The Gathering prerelease event for the first time, and blogged about it to fully try out Bearblog! snepshark.bearblog.dev/lorwyn-eclip...

The front cover of the Lorwyn Eclipsed Prerelease kit, drawn by Gaboleps. A number of elves with deer hooves/ears dance around a pyre, which appears to be part of a ritual for Eirdu.

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SnepShark | Friend of Eggbug @snepshark.itch.io · 04/12/2025

Purely out of curiosity, what's the story behind the family sharing message here? Was that something you disabled intentionally (are people abusing family sharing?), or did Steam remove your ability to use it on this game?

This game is excluded from Steam's Family Sharing service.

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SnepShark | Friend of Eggbug @snepshark.itch.io · 03/12/2025

Crysis looks *so* real at 200x200px, wow

Screenshots of Crysis next to the reference images they were based on, displayed at very low resolution

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SnepShark | Friend of Eggbug @snepshark.itch.io · 17/11/2025

My first tablet was a Huion H420, which is *extremely* small for drawing (4x2.23" pen area), but trying that tablet was what made me know I wanted to get a larger one eventually.

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