Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026My Transformers collection went towards a mortgage deposit. Well, the valuable, rare Transformers did. Probably just as well, as some of the ones I sold probably would be a lot of work for me to keep in saleable condition longer term. 120
Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Hmm, don’t like doing these things for myself, but SBS and THB would likely be on my list. More certainly the latter album. 010
Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 05/10/2026In honor of scary media month: what is the first piece of media you remember truly frightening you as a child? 020
Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Relegated? Driven insolvent and packed off to the bottom of the [insert name of whatever the Vauxhall Conference is called these days], really. At this point I’m not sure that it can be salvaged, short of leaving it alone for at least a half a decade and rebooting the whole thing from scratch. 110
Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 04/10/2026When ‘it happens’, I don’t think that any of us will not get the news pretty immediately if we still own any functional electronic devices. 110
Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I’ve luckily only had two ‘reactions’: Last year’s Covid, when I felt flu-like after 6 hours which lasted until the following evening, and the flu shot in 2021 when I felt mildly delirious for 2 hours and made a expensive impulse purchase. Still better than the alternative! 110
Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I’m of the opinion that public service broadcasting is as vital for a country to function as schools, libraries and hospitals and should be funded as such. Unfortunately, the BBC News is in such a dreadful state, that it’s hard to remain supportive of that particular organ of public broadcasting… 260
Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Retro Gamer (the fanzine) was unmatched, really. Some of the content and information in the interviews conducted by Keith and the various contributors has never reappeared in more recent publications. 020
Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026To be fair, I only did one year of Latin at secondary school, but it was very foundational in terms of skills I later used at university (working methodologically, referring back to written material, etc). Transferable skills are real and good, in my experience. 120
Reposted by Anonymous XGigerPunk @gigerpunk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I should probably keep posting this in case anyone's missed it, as it is at least one thing actively reducing stress levels atm. Obvs no obligation, people have been incredibly generous already but I would be letting Flo down if I didn't keep reposting it on her behalf www.gofundme.com/f/flo-and-robgofundme.comDonate to Help Flo and Rob with Flo's Stroke Recovery, organized by Emma LeadleyFlo 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 11618
Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Yeah, no-one was playing those. Well, unless they had the arcade version of the Neo Geo in their local fish and chips shop, or they were Pablo Escobar. Or both. 020
Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Great magazine, Super Play. Arguably Future’s best (and easily their best console publication). Didn’t mind hearing about the import stuff in SPlay; it’s not like you’d be able to play every non-import game reviewed in the magazines anyway. Well, until emulation game along. 100
Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Klaxon for @wiloverton.bsky.social cover art on this month’s Retro Gamer! 041
Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I mean, the way things went, even 0.05% of profits would’ve turned out to be a ridiculously lucrative deal.static.klipy.comScrooge McDuck in Gold Coins - DuckTalesALT: Scrooge McDuck in Gold Coins - DuckTales 020
Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 23/09/2026We had army recruitment thing at secondary school too. Pre Iraq War II, though. I got yelled at (and possibly worse) for asking to be excused from the presentation as I knew I’d be barred from military service on medical grounds… 010
Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 23/09/2026(Incidentally, presumably Monster in my Pocket being a thing is the reason why Pocket Monsters is known simply as Pokemon in the west?) 210
Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Had to explain to a chronic fuckwit earlier today that a PhD isn’t the ‘basic’ degree that anyone gets for going to university. Really pushed my patience, that did. 140
Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Hasn’t helped they’ve alienated a lot of their voters with more austerity, plus being socially conservative and xenophobic isn’t appealing to their ‘modern’ voter bloc (the more ‘traditional’ Labour voters now solidly Tory/Reform). 010
Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Head Over Heels! I didn’t even play it to start with, but watched my parents play it, both taking turns, and my mum mapping it on graph paper. I later got the hang of playing it. Pretty epic arcade-adventure with early elements of what we’d now call a Metroidvania. Wonderful pixel art too. 130
Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I mean, the Greens have gained a lot of support despite being hapless amateurs because people want an alternative to the Labour and Tories which doesn’t do the same authoritarian rubbish (or the constant austerity measures); it’s an open goal which the LibDems haven’t bothered to shoot towards. 200
Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I’m sick to the back teeth of their current trajectory. They do get a fair bit right, but folding to the Labour government on both the Online Safety Act and the ‘overdiagnosis’ narrative of ND conditions is pretty toxic, even before we get to their newly-announced neoliberal tax-cutting nonsense. 100
Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Everywhere has that kind of post… Reddit, all newspaper websites, that whole lot. I’m of the opinion that these outlets should be removing posts immediately, or removing comments entirely. Of course they won’t, unfortunately, for engagement reasons… 100
Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Oh, you’re regressing back to the Nick Clegg era and trying to outflank the Tories on neoliberal economics policies. Great. 🙄 020
Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 20/09/2026IMO the LibDems leadership are repeating what happened leading up to 2010 and are tilting rightwards fairly quickly. :/ (I see there are numerous LD supporters attacking the policy in the replies there…) 100
Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The FDP tried going right-wing populist (well, more explicitly so than their usual selves) in the early ‘00s, and it didn’t do them any favours. I suppose the AfD have stolen a lot of their platform, admittedly with a lot of added racism on top… 010
Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Referendums should be banned, to be honest. There’s a reason certain European countries either don’t allow them, or only have them with safeguards (quorums, super-majorities, etc). 010
Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 18/09/2026(I mean, it’s easy to forget in 2026 how “Reform Lite” David Cameron was, particularly as opposition leader. Other than a few comments about accepting gay people and recognising climate change, his playbook was very, very similar to what Reform come with now.) 020
Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Those single-issue voters exist, but the authoritarian, quasi-fascist stuff does appeal to a lot of voters: The anti-foreigner, anti-LGBTQ, anti-disabled people rhetoric. Hence the success of the Tories for generations, who’ve regularly leaned into that sort of unpleasantness. 120
Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I wouldn’t say “economic left”, but the older sort of far-right parties had a state interventionist, vaguely welfarist streak (well, nativist welfarist) which the 21st century far-right (Reform, AfD, etc) firmly rejects. I assume that most modern far-right voters don’t widely realise that. 380
Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I mean, I’ve always thought it makes much more sense to think of Reform and its predecessor UKIP as being a unofficial fusion of the Labour and Tory parties, rather than ‘just’ being extreme Tories. 1140
Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 17/09/2026My proposal: • hard reboot, only keeping core concepts and (for merch reasons) the TARDIS. • rarely travel outside Earth; use certain British historical sites and outdoor museums for location shoots. • no Daleks; they’re boring. • total ban on “end of the universe” stories. • new, modern theme tune.bbc.co.ukNew opportunity: Doctor Who invitation to tenderDeadline for initial submissions: 2 October 240
Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I know someone whose place of work had to remove a RNLI charity collection box at the weekend because displaying it by the tills was leading to retail staff getting abuse. Great work, lads. *slow handclap* 010
Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Saw him in Portsmouth last week! Amazing experience. Not a single note out of tune. 010
Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Had an awkward time in Sainsbury’s the other week as I was asked for an ID when buying a pack of beer, but the staff member couldn’t read the DOB details on my ID due to her poor eyesight. So I was sent away beer-less. Ironically, it was alcohol-free beer. Which they still require an ID for. 140
Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 16/09/2026(They didn’t explain that in Latin that U, V, W and Y were all written with a “V”, or that I and J were the same letter, etc. Unless that wasn’t knowledge given to year 7 kids.) 100
Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Also did Latin. Only just in year 7. I think it was oddly one of the most useful things that I ‘learnt’ in secondary school in terms of preparing me for university, due to the methodical nature of it all, and having a set book to refer to. 120
Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 16/09/2026BBC News gave a third of the run time of the BBC1 10 o’clock news yesterday evening to these rural racist wankers. 🤮 140
Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 16/09/2026More like “because they are racist, attention-seeking wankers”. IMO. 0170
Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I’ve become a regular reader of @timeextension.com since they’ve been (rightly) calling out AI slop content. 140
Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Err, it won’t help if certain parties make themselves too toxic for many progressive voters to lend votes to (which Labour is particularly guilty of). Mainstream centre-left parties everywhere still haven’t twigged that apeing the far-right alienates their own voters at the cost of gaining nobody. 030
Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 15/09/2026TBH, if he was still doing games writing I wouldn’t read it, having seen the ideological crowd he hangs about with. Much as I liked his games writing over the decades. (Had a think, and it’s about 14 years since he had anything in Retro Gamer.) 100
Reposted by Anonymous XCraig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This classic arcade cabinet made everyone want a Ferrari and a road with no speed limits – remembering Outrun at 40 www.stuff.tv/features/thi... Also: sequels! ALSO: opinions!stuff.tvThis classic arcade cabinet made everyone want a Ferrari and a road with no speed limits – remembering Outrun at 40 | StuffSega’s classic arcade game has turned 40, which is all the excuse you need to take the game and its sequels out for a spin. Although some are probably best left in the garage 332
Anonymous X @anonymousx.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Has the UK version (with scrolly text and Rank gong) even been commercially available since the Video Gems VHS release? 🤔 110
Reposted by Anonymous XChinnyVision @chinnyvision.bsky.social · 14/09/2026National and Internal Borders 2029 might look something like this 86019
