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Amy N @amyfluidgoth.gamingfluid.co.uk · 10h

One of my favourite versions of Sokoban was the amusingly-named “Shove It! The Warehouse Game” for the Sega Genesis. It wasn’t released in Europe so it was one I got to know via emulation, and some of its puzzles are hair-tearingly frustrating!

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Amy N @amyfluidgoth.gamingfluid.co.uk · 12h

Dynasty Warriors 3 Remastered comes out tomorrow, but I couldn’t wait and tried the demo! It’s a full remake more than a remaster, with so many great quality-of-life updates that it feels more like a “Dynasty Warriors 10” despite the skeleton of the PS2 game. A rare day-one purchase for me!

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Alma Elma @almaelma.bsky.social · 13h

Lets play every version of Toy Story 1! Link: almagaming.wolfpack.xyz/gameblogP14.... I grew up with the Genesis version and have some lovely memories attached to it, especially with my grandfather at the time. He'd watch me play it and make funny comments, good times. What version is the best?!

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Joe :)🦕 @sillydogjoe.bsky.social · 18h

Save in Progress... Please reframe from removing your Memory Card.

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Shen Comix @shenanigansen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

CONTINUED, The Boy From Venus #15 🍄

Panel 1: Audrey and Val are facing one another on the river bank, seemingly in the late afternoon. They're wearing their last respective outfits from the previous episode. Audrey is saying "Well, you live right near the corner store, right? I was thinking, when I get off work ... I could bring over some snacks and we could watch a movie or something."

Panel 2: Val has a strained expression and starts sweating, sucking in her lips, like she is trying really hard to decide what to say.

Panel 3: Audrey holds his hands up and says "Okay, yep, no. That's definitely the NO face. Say no more!"

Panel 4: Val looks to the side with a strained, nervous expression, replying "No, no, Audrey, it's just, I don't think my apartment is ... Ready for visitors."

Panel 5: Audrey tilts his head and asks "Oh? What's up with it?" as Val turns her head away from his, sweating.

Panel 6: Val says "UH," rapidly swinging her head back to face Audrey but with his eyes lagging to the side, giving her time to think.

Panel 7: Val recalls her room, which is an absolute mess, empty pizza boxes, trash bags, socks, unopened mail, miscellaneous chargers, and stains littering the floor. The mattress has no cover, the trash bin is overflowing, and there's a single sound insulating foam panel on the wall behind the computer monitor. A sound of a fly buzzing emanates through the room.

Panel 8: "Black mold," replies Val, finally looking directly at Audrey.

Panel 9: Audrey suddenly leans close to Val and balls his hands with a worried expression, yelling "BLACK MOLD?? Val, you CAN'T BE LIVING THERE!!" Val leans back a bit.

Panel 10: Val gives a thumbs up and a close-eyed nervous smile, saying "No no it's okay. I like ... wear a mask."

Panel 11: Audrey has a comedically sad expression, like a toddler who got told that magic isn't real. Water eyes, tensed chin, as if about to cry.

Panel 12: Val, by contrast, just has her brow furrowed in slight annoyance, asking "What."

Panel 13: Audrey, still watery-eyed, begins speaking in a baby talk voice, saying "My besht fwiend's wivving wiz bwack mowod."

Panel 14: Fisheye lens closeup of Val looking very unamused, brow still furrowed, the setting sun casting a hard shadow on half of the face. She says "Audrey. Audrey you know I hate the V-tuber baby voice."

Panel 15: Audrey raises his head and begins saying into sky, "OOWOWW DA BWACK MOWD IS" and Val interrupts him, hands together in a pleading gesture and eyes shut tight, saying "OKAY OKAY I'll call a mold specialist TODAY. And we can hang out tomorrow. No more ear terrorism."

Panel 16: With her hands still together, Val looks down towards the ground, her pupils hazy, as a bead of sweat rolls down her face. "God I am so f*cked," she thinks.

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reebert @rueghost.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

amphoroooooos art trade piece with @gioscalie.bsky.social

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Amy N @amyfluidgoth.gamingfluid.co.uk · 28/09/2026

I like these “assist mode” menus in games because they remind me of arcade DIP switches and service menus, where the difficulty settings were spelled out in more-or-less normal language and you could tweak things to extract maximum coinage- er, I mean, make the experience perfect for your clientele!

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Amy N @amyfluidgoth.gamingfluid.co.uk · 28/09/2026

The Bradford Science & Media Museum has a working video game exhibit-slash-arcade on the top floor, with none other than my pal Zool! Shown next to an Amiga CD32 but actually running via emulation, it was at least nice to see the old hardware on display. 😊

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Alma Elma @almaelma.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Dice Fantasy has been fully translated! V1.0 is here and it's thanks to Akai that we were able to even get this far! You can now play this game completely in English! I hope you enjoy it! The game has already been put on that very romantic CD place for your pleasure!

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Ironlily @ironlilyart.com · 27/09/2026

I bet you armour-loving boys and girls have all dreamed of having a magical girl transformation at least once.

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Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

*blackadder theme* His head is bigger than a fence He breathes, and everything gets warmer His urge to trample represents A nation's nuclear war trauma Godzilla! Godzilla! The scourge of beast and man! Godzilla! Godzilla! He's flattening Japan!

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Amy N @amyfluidgoth.gamingfluid.co.uk · 27/09/2026

I also noted the presence of Scooch (aka “Stairlift” - thanks @sonofbengt.bsky.social!) in #totp. By sheer coincidence I’m in the Science and Media Museum in Bradford this weekend, where there’s a Eurovision exhibition - featuring David Ducasse’s costume from Scooch’s infamous 2007 performance!

A blue flight attendant uniform as worn by David Ducasse of Scooch in their 2007 performance at Eurovision

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Amy N @amyfluidgoth.gamingfluid.co.uk · 27/09/2026

Catching up on Friday night’s #totp from 2000 (for my sins) and System F have provided me with a new favourite gif… 😁

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Bloggo's POW! @bloggospow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Clown Violence, Flyby Shootings and shapely backsides! That's enough about my Saturday morning but how about yours? Watch to keep up with the Bloggodore! youtu.be/guWpSTRabgQ

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Arcade Obscura Vol.12 - Obscure Arcade Games POW!

YouTube video by Bloggos Pow

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Design concepts for the Xbox 360 from two companies: Hers Experimental Design Lab in Osaka and Astro in San Francisco. Both submitted designs with one primary focus: appeal to Japanese tastes and avoid what happened to the original Xbox there. One of them was this comfy looking cushioned design.

A photo of a white box with a carry handle and a cushioned surface with a green X on top

From a G4 launch special, a still of a line of weird and wonderful rejected designs.

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zoviazzg @zoviazzg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Women are amazing. 😭

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Alma Elma @almaelma.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Time to sleeve my Wixoss cards! I have been putting this off for a while but its time. I only really have 3 different sleeve colours to pick from sadly but I can make this work!

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Dawnfire @dawnfire.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

More fun outifts for Ely! Daily 1345

Sketch of a half-demon magical girl wearing a big sweater, shorts, and tights

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The Cutting Room Floor @tcrf.net · 24/09/2026

Howdy folks! Here's our writeup on the DDoS from last month: blog.xkeeper.net/the-cutting-... Thanks for your patience while we worked to get this out!

a chart from the linked post, showing our server's traffic stats over the last 30 days, annotated with various details. see linked post for full details

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As a follow-on to yesterdays question about notable games you've not played: What games have you experienced only through watching a Let's Play or stream? There are a bunch of games I'm fond of and feel I've had my fill off the back of certain LP and LPer(s). Feel free to link your fave ones too.

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Amy N @amyfluidgoth.gamingfluid.co.uk · 24/09/2026

Anime recommendations: Ya Boy Kongming! / Paripi Kōmei One that I was sold on just be reading the premise: the legendary Chinese strategist Zhuge Liang is reborn in modern-day Japan and takes a struggling singer under his wing, propelling her to pop stardom! And he does rap battles… 😁

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Ya Boy Kongming! OP / Opening「UHD 60FPS」

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#TBT to this from 2012 in honour of Michael Gove starring as an invasion-battling leader in Sky's new show The Wargame. If you don't know what or who this comic is about... just count yourself lucky and scroll on, no worries.

[Opening scene is WESTMINSTER, LONDON. Over Downing Street a huge ALIEN SPACECRAFT hovers, silent, still, filling the whole sky a la Independence Day].

[Cut to INSIDE 10 DOWNING STREET. The (then) prime Minister DAVID CAMERON is looking out of his office window at the ship.]

VOICE FROM OFF-SCENE, BEHIND CAMERON:
Prime Minister…

CAMERON [addressing the person behind him, still keeping his eyes fixed ahead in dread at the spaceship]:
Yes?

[We see the speaker is MICHAEL GOVE, then Education Secretary]:

GOVE:
Let me do it.

CAMERON:
For God's sake, Michael, you're the Education Secretary! You've never flown a fighter plane in your life!

GOVE:
But I know I could do it, David. I could fly a fighter plane into the big space- ship...

...and shoot all the aliens.

CAMERON:
But you have no military training!

GOVE:
David

I haven't told you this, but...

I used to be a journalist. For The Times.

[Cameron reacts, turning to look at Gove with awe and respect, as if only now truly seeing him for the first time].

GOVE:
I wrote two articles about planes, David.

I've got strong opinions about aliens.

I know I can do this job.

[Cut to a title card panel]:

AND SO:

[Then cut again to Cameron on the roof of Number 10, watching a Michael Gove pilot a fighter jet up towards the spacecraft, and then completely miss it, careering towards Earth, as Cameron buries his face in his hands].

[Ends]

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 24/09/2026

Star Trek Discovery started 9 years ago today. It was the first Star Trek series since Star Trek: Enterprise (concluded in 2005), and launched a new cycle of Trek shows that will conclude next year.

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Shen Comix @shenanigansen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

CONTINUED, The Boy From Venus #13. 🦦 Gonna need 2 for this one, so [1/2]

Panel 1: Val and Audrey are standing together in front of the pool. Audrey points forward as they exchange a look and says "You don't have to go in if you don't want to. But I'm goin' in!"

Panel 2: Audrey begins to pull up his shirt over his head, illuminated by a streetlight behind him.

Panel 3: Val quickly covers her eyes, sweating a bit, surprised by him suddenly doing that.

Panel 4: We see only the thin slivers of light leaking between Val's fingers from Val's point of view. A speech bubble appears by one of the slivers, the tail indicating it to be from Audrey. "Val?" says Audrey.

Panel 5: Still Val's point of view. Val opens her fingers a bit, just enough to see Audrey's face looking at her, amused. "Val, why are you doing that? Ha ha," says Audrey.

Panel 6: Val opens her eyes fully to see Audrey in a frilly blue two-piece bathing suit with a top that slings around the shoulders on both the side and top, and a skirt bottom. "It's just a bathing suit," says Audrey, "It's not like I'm naked."

Panel 7: Audrey walks off, sticking his tongue out a bit stupidly, as Val looks on. Audrey says "Anyway, I know what I'M here for. I'm gonna go splash around!"

Panel 8: Val thinks "I had seen Audrey be clumsy when we were walking on land before," and remembers him tripping with a fast food tray in front of her, sending french fries and soda flying everywhere.

Panel 9: Val looks forward, the pool reflecting in her glasses, and thinks "But, looking at him now, I realized something."

Panel 10: Audrey smiles placidly as his whole body gracefully flows through the water, as if he he one with the currents, bubbles gliding around him along the rhythms of his body. "This was never a land creature," Val narrates.

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GouldFish On Games @gouldfishongames.com · 21/09/2026

Of all games Lemmings got 2 adventure books! Where you had to guide the tribes of lemmings 2. It works in the classic choose your own adventure way.

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Amy N @amyfluidgoth.gamingfluid.co.uk · 21/09/2026

Blood Bros. is a fun shooting-gallery arcade game, a sequel to Cabal from the same developers. Me and @almaelma.bsky.social played it together the other day; we particularly enjoyed the cowboy-and-Indian duo’s victory dance at the end of each level!

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Amy N @amyfluidgoth.gamingfluid.co.uk · 21/09/2026

Going to spin this off into video games: would-be Amiga mascot Zool had not one but *two* tie-in novels, “Zool Rules” and “Cool Zool”. They expanded upon the story and characters set up in Zool 2, like his female counterpart Zooz and his two-headed dog Zoon!

The two Zool tie-in novels: “Zool Rules” and “Cool Zool”

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GigerPunk @gigerpunk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Meanwhile, friends have suggested we set up a gofundme to help alleviate money worries while trying to get Flo back on her feet again. And then they did all the hard work setting it up as well. So if you'd like to help, please have at it. And if you can't that's fine too. gofund.me/d0d4004d7

gofund.me

Donate to Help Flo and Rob with Flo's Stroke Recovery, organized by Emma Leadley

Flo is an artist, sci-fi and fantasy writer and regular attendee at conventio… Emma Leadley needs your support for Help Flo and Rob with Flo's Stroke Recovery

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Feel the wind in your hair..." Okay, there's a big anniversary today: the 40th since the release of Sega's sublime arcade racer OUTRUN! Sometime between today and the 25th in 1986, arcade goers were being taken on a Sega multi-route race for the first time. Share the OutRun love, peeps <3

From Sega Retro, a scan of an arcade flier with OutRun screenshot blown up and a photo of the arcade cable below it.

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Amy N @amyfluidgoth.gamingfluid.co.uk · 19/09/2026

Reunited with my beloved pup in Castaway, an indie Zelda-alike that I picked up the other day! The story mode is tiny and can be finished in 20 minutes, the main attraction is the roguelite Tower mode that you unlock after the credits.

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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 19/09/2026

I can't believe people started using .md for markdown files when that extension was clearly already taken for sega megadrive roms

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Stuart Millard @franticplanet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Now available for all, a VHS:WTF Unlucky Dip sifts through a(nother) snooker-based comedy masterclass, the musical ambitions of a 90's comedian, and a screeching 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper teaching Brit kids how to get abs while avoiding being sex-trafficked www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Sge...

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VHS:WTF Unlucky Dip IV

YouTube video by Stuart Millard

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Amy N @amyfluidgoth.gamingfluid.co.uk · 18/09/2026

If James Blunt is just going to get the audience to sing for him, I reckon the BBC should withhold his fee #totp #notTotp

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Alison Eales, Nerves of Steel @alisoneales.com · 18/09/2026

Objectively one of the best moments in pop history #totp

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Amy N @amyfluidgoth.gamingfluid.co.uk · 18/09/2026

Colonel Abrams plays us out as we join the #totp audience for their customary school disco! This is actually a fairly underrated track in my book. And that's all for tonight! A little bit underwhelming but still lovely to spend the evening with all of you. Til next week! ❤️

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Amy N @amyfluidgoth.gamingfluid.co.uk · 18/09/2026

It would have been more effective as a video if they'd gotten a few dozen people to also dance in the streets, rather than just them... #totp

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Amy N @amyfluidgoth.gamingfluid.co.uk · 18/09/2026

Midge Ure came as Hopkirk (Deceased) in his video, but not on #totp

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Amy N @amyfluidgoth.gamingfluid.co.uk · 18/09/2026

Aww, Kate Bush going down so they won't play Running Up That Hill... 😟 #totp

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Amy N @amyfluidgoth.gamingfluid.co.uk · 18/09/2026

Good old Mij. Always liked this one, and his vocals are lovely and crisp. #totp

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VoiceOfTheMysterons @mysteronvoice.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Tonight's programme is an 15 Certificate, which means that it may contain graphic violence and sexual swear words. Watch out later, when I call Peter Powell a proper fucking twat, and go at him with a baseball bat ..." #TOTP

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