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Ælfheim @aelfheim.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Truly Cage's weirdest film bar none

Zandalee (1991) poster with Cage, Judge Reinhold, and Erika Anderson; featuring unfortunate facial hair choices.

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Ælfheim @aelfheim.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Probably wrong context but Manji is an absolute banger and fundamental to pink film as a genre

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Ælfheim @aelfheim.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Been reading some older military manuals for a game dev idea I've been cooking and came across the moniker 'pyrobolist' for the chemist/alchemist that specialized in making rockets.

Early modern woodcut of rocket equipped pigeon and cat.

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Ælfheim @aelfheim.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Wild that the Guardians didn't shit the bed in the end and managed 21 strike outs

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Ælfheim @aelfheim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

>tfw watching the Guardians shit the bed again

Big Lebowski
"Fuck it, Dude. Let's build Gundams"

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Ælfheim @aelfheim.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It is a very short experience (I was short on time today and wanted to pick one of the shorter ones I knew was there), but it was incredibly creepy, has some clever aspects, and the actual history bits it bases itself off of was

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Ælfheim @aelfheim.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A P&C game using stop motion, the game has you reading through a journal and literally poking around on small little clay statue. The game involves some really fun little puzzle solving, nothing too easy or too obtuse. It is also legitimately incredibly creepy

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Ælfheim @aelfheim.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

31 Games of Spooktober - Day 3: The Children of Clay

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Ælfheim @aelfheim.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

cool stop-motion styled dream sequences. Game uses the scottish dialect well and has quite a few neat, little hints at what actually in happening if you're familiar with some historic medical symptoms. Not the deepest or broadest game, but an enjoyable one with a good atmosphere to it.

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Ælfheim @aelfheim.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A folk horror game set during the 1600s, you play a Witch Finder tasked with hunting down a witch in a scottish village over the course of 5 days. You can talk to or torture the five people still in the village to make you final decision. It has a very interesting and stark art style alongside some-

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Ælfheim @aelfheim.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

31 Games of Spooktober - Day 2: Daemonologie

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Ælfheim @aelfheim.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

and details of the report match and filing it under the right category. Some desktop mystery elements. Quite an enjoyable experience with good art and some nice tension and spooks alongside some jumpscares. It also has some fun little bits and details to play with. Would recommend.

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Ælfheim @aelfheim.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Starting off the month and point & click adventure game week is Last Report (2024). A pixel art game putting you in the shoes of park ranger returning from vacation and catching up on paperwork on a rainy night. Gameplay involves scanning in reports from security cams and verify that the image-

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Ælfheim @aelfheim.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

31 Games of Spooktober - Day 1: Last Report

Last Report VHS style cover pulled from SteamGridDB

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Ælfheim @aelfheim.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Normally I do a 31 days of Halloween movie marathon where I come up with a list of 31 horror films in themed chunks and watch through it But after a few years it started to get a bit repetitive or scraping the barrel with some themed blocks.

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Ælfheim @aelfheim.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Osteo-necromancer is my favorite historic term for paleontologist

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Ælfheim @aelfheim.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Been watching my nephew while wfh and have they changed the soap formula for bubbles? Shit seems so much more robust and shiny than what I remember from childhood

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Ælfheim @aelfheim.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Fascinating to see the swing in the type of crowds between Indy weekend, Vintage Bike weekend and then Super Bike weekend

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Ælfheim @aelfheim.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

That thread always seems the most interesting, with the actual MC being bland, generic power fantasy wish fulfilment bullshit. I always end up getting bored and skimming 4/5s of the story just to get back to the childhood friend because it's the only bit with emotional juice.

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Ælfheim @aelfheim.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

With the manga/LN sub-genre of "Talented but downtrodden MC left abusive childhood friend and staked out on their own" (fantasy or IRL), really wish there was a more serious Josei version that specifically focused on the childhood friend and their self-reflection, journey, and growth as a person.

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Ælfheim @aelfheim.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Awww, the little icons are cute

Fandango seating chart for The Odyssey with taken seats being little helmets

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Ælfheim @aelfheim.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

That's a HIPPA violation if I ever saw it. Be curious who fucking pays it out.

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Ælfheim @aelfheim.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Crazy that visibility in my area is only like a half mile

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Ælfheim @aelfheim.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Must be interesting to have the main legacy of your cathedral being the place where Martin Luther was ordained aaaaand where 60 nobles drowned in shit after the floor in the bathroom collapsed.

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Ælfheim @aelfheim.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Interesting read for tactical level happenings of the Napoleonic Wars

Witch Musket, Cannon and Sword: Battle Tactics of Napoleon and His Enemies

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Ælfheim @aelfheim.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Oh neat, didn't realize that The Wailing director has a new movie coming out and it has Fassbender too

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Ælfheim @aelfheim.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Tfw you tell the barber to surprise you and they assume you are 24 instead of 30 and give you a zoomer fade/whitewalls rather than something respectable for a millennial.

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Ælfheim @aelfheim.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Weird to me that some studios will push a really graphically advanced game but have the unskippable start screens and even cutscenes be super compressed ~900p30 video. Why go through the effort for such a polished game and have the first thing players see and how you announce yourself be so rough?

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Ælfheim @aelfheim.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Forgot what an adorable short king Tom is in Nightof the Living Dead

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Ælfheim @aelfheim.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Been doing the math and honestly really surprised how little water AWS/Amazon AI shit is using considering the absolute scale and insane amount of the web backbone/infrastructure they entail. Like just the water consumption of 82k which is like .8% of any city that matters or .02% Ag.

Pooh confounded and disgusted by what they see

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Ælfheim @aelfheim.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Like a third of a way through a concerted effort to play every Zelda game chronologically, including the Zelda forward CD-i one and what not, this summer since the franchise was, on one hand, foundational to me and on the other I had major blind spots (also did 1HKO randomizers for ones I know well)

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Ælfheim @aelfheim.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Warms my heart that at any Miata race, there will always be one with a Lightning McQueen livery

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Ælfheim @aelfheim.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

With the UE6 announcement, I went and checked the list of UE5 games: A. Kinda surprised at the amount of them (~700) B. Despite memes about performance and same-y looks, a lot of really performant and uniquely beautiful games in there, including some I played and didn't even realize was UE5

Kronii & Cece drinking game where German vs East Asian alcohol genes come into play

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Ælfheim @aelfheim.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

It is always wild to me that whenever there is a headline about Kadokawa, it is always framed as FromSoftware parent company, and not, you know, one of the largest publishers and multimedia holding corporations in the world.

Pooh staring confused and befuddled at a note meme, but Nendo'd

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Ælfheim @aelfheim.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I got around to reading Blade and Bastard. I didn't realize it was explicitly a Wizardry story. With the first couple references I had just assumed, knowing the author, they were some heavy nudges and winks towards the material for fans rather than it being an official use of the setting.

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Ælfheim @aelfheim.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Is there a more demeaning term for both creator and audience than referring to what you make as content and what you engage with as consumption? Both sides of the coin involve artistry and engagement with heart, culture, and life. Denigrating either side of the equation is gross.

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Ælfheim @aelfheim.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Got a game project basically done on the back end but torn on presentation. As something that's an homage to PC-98/DOS games, on one hand I really want to have base resolution tied to a pseudo historic resolution that integer scales well to modern displays, letting pixel art/crt emulators work.

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Ælfheim @aelfheim.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Will say, a big bugaboo of mine is the weird pop definition shift of media literacy to be that there is only basically one valid read on a piece of media, effectively killing off death of the author, alternative frameworks, and subtext, which is also something that's had a bad definition shift.

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Ælfheim @aelfheim.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Interesting, didn't realize, along with cost and safety, one of the reasons squibs and blanks stopped being so widely used in film over the last two decades is that the pyro used release lead fumes that surpass OSHA standards by a significant amount.

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Ælfheim @aelfheim.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Finally got around to reading Theresa Raquin after having that as one of my bigger classic lit blindspots. Really enjoyable, you can definitely see its influence in later works. Also makes me curious how much is lost in translation and curse my ability to only kinda read ~2-3 languages.

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Ælfheim @aelfheim.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Tried NtE, wasn't expecting it to have a surprising amount of Control flavor to it

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Ælfheim @aelfheim.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Neat, looks like there's a Godot plugin for gaussian splatting.

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Ælfheim @aelfheim.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Also always super neat the birds and opposite birds coexisted in the same niche for tens of millions of years with the latter dominating until the K-Pg allowed birds to expand and fill that niche.

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Ælfheim @aelfheim.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Is it a hot take to say that Bioshock 2 is not only significantly better gameplay-wise but narratively too?

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Ælfheim @aelfheim.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Should have a course in highschool on how the different types of backbone infrastructure actually functions and what goes into it. Tier 1 ISP, telecom, electrical, payment processors, stock exchange, etc. Be a good pair to a robust civics course and allow for informed discourse and voting on issues.

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