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@atmcashpoint.bsky.social
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Nerdy about LucasArts and Sierra video games, Star Wars, architecture, JRR Tolkien. He/him/fhtagn. Also on mastodon.social under the same username.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 18m
RIP John Grover (1938-2026) The English film editor worked on a half-dozen James Bond pics (including Moonraker and The Spy Who Loved Me), Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, David Lean’s Doctor Zhivago, Jim Henson’s Labyrinth, Lifeforce (1985)... He was 87.
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John Grover Dead: Film Editor On James Bond Pics, '2001: A Space Odyssey' Was 87
John Grover, a film editor who worked on a half-dozen James Bond pics, Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' and many others, died September 28 at 87.
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 1h
My latest is a hard reality check about the absolute abyss between the gentry-marketed "recovered" Asheville and the actual, struggling city most of us live in. Evictions restarted before the water was even back on and city hall's far more obsessed with spying on locals than aiding them.
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ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 1h
Yikes. Elder abuse is a terrible crime. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Ranulph Fiennes’ stepson appeals for funds to ‘locate and safeguard’ the explorer
Alexander Millington-Cotes is concerned for welfare of the 82-year-old, who hasn’t been seen in public for two years
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thirty-two @j.holmes.codes · 3h
If we had a functioning government in this country, we should make a law against this.
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thirty-two @j.holmes.codes · 3h
Shoutout to us long-s nerds! 🍻
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2dchaos - WISHLIST NECHROMIA!!! @2dchaos.bsky.social · 2h
Battle system with temp art for #nechromia!
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Spooky season seidrmann @transmascdruid.bsky.social · 12h
These things could be properly considered as primordial beings on the same level as the jötnar who died when Múspellheim collided with Niflheim
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Kurbii @kurbiismind.bsky.social · 20h
Oh hey, Have you seen them? [ #Muri / #snail / #pixelart ]
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Ironlily @ironlilyart.com · 6h
Sometimes you need to choose word carefully around your reenactor friend.
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Deivore / Stephen @thedeivore.bsky.social · 19h
Continuing our "Bottom of the Well" #pixelart background from last stream. Maybe the start of the underground background arc? Come say hi! www.twitch.tv/deivore
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Gene Park @gene.meme · 22h
ashley is a wonderful person and writer. someone please give her some work!
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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
In Mario Kart Wii, asphalt is slightly shiny, reflecting a band of light ahead of the player. This is implemented cleverly by leveraging something that the Wii is already doing, allowing it to not need to use any sort of additional lighting or post-processing.
In Mario Kart Wii, asphalt is slightly shiny, always seeming to reflect light in a narrow band ahead of the driver.
Increasing the contrast of the image makes the effect more visible.
Internally, this effect is achieved in an extremely simple way by leveraging an existing system:
Mipmapping is a practice whereby several copies of a texture are stored, each smaller than the previous by a factor of 2. The further away from the camera a point is, the smaller the texture is that is applied to it. This reduces aliasing (the interference patterns created by viewing high-detail surfaces at oblique angles) and improves rendering speed.
The textures are then smoothly blended. This is supported natively by the hardware and happens automatically.
SLIGHTLY BRIGHTER!
Original road texture: 1024x256 pixels
closer to camera
512x128 pixels
256x64 pixels
128x32 pixels
64x16 32x8 pixels pixels
further from camera
By making only the second texture slightly brighter, the system that automatically places the texture a certain distance away from the camera is leveraged to make a band of light that appears to move automatically with the player.
On the right, each mipmap is colored differently for a more striking demonstration.
Fun fact:
this usage of mipmaps to make a rainbow occurs in Paper Mario on the Nintendo 64!
Source: info: Peardian (bsky.app/profile/peardian.bsky.social), screenshots by Supper Mario Broth
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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Unused graphic found in the files of Mario Superstar Baseball, possibly used as a placeholder for the title screen. It features crude sketches of Mario and Luigi seemingly made in MS Paint and the text "ルイージの兄野球", which translates to "Luigi's Older Brother Baseball".
ルイージの兄野球
Source: tcrf.net user "Geno Penguin", https://tcrf.net/File:MSSBTitleScreenSketch.png
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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In the prototype version of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, Mario and Luigi would have needed to electrocute a living mouse for all eternity to solve a puzzle. This was changed in the finished version to a toy mouse, likely due to the original being absurdly cruel.
In the finished version of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, there is a puzzle in the Woohoo Hooniversity basement whereby an electric circuit must be completed using mechanical toy mice as conductors:
Mario must fill himself with water, which Luigi shoots out with a hammer to push the mouse into the circuit, completing it:
After this, for the rest of the game, going back to that room shows the mouse continuing to be electrocuted as it is now permanently part of the circuit.
This is completely fine since the mouse is a toy.
However, in the prototype version of the game, the mice are clearly living animals, being shown to eat cheese when they stop moving:
Now, Mario and Luigi are completing an electric circuit by electrocuting a real animal.
This means that for the rest of the game, the circuit is completed via the mouse's body, meaning it is a real animal being electrocuted eternally.
The cruelty of this is so absurd that it was likely removed for this reason.
Source: tcrf.net/Proto:Mario_%26_Luigi:_Superstar_Saga/Early_Sprites/Map_Graphics_and_Objects,
YouTube user @Skawo, youtube.com/watch?v=lloE59IWN4c
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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I have read the full quote but the headline makes it sound like he's going "You think kids are stupid as shit? I don't even know where I /live/." And then you see the full quote and it turns out, yeah, that's basically what he's saying.
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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I am going to be thinking about this phrase a lot when it comes to millennial writing. Spot on.
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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There is a weird kind of millennial writing that both wants to be edgy and showcase horrors happening to normal people, but also wants to protect its cast of blorbos from the horrors, and also wants said blorbos to be sitcom characters. The result is severe vibes dysphoria.
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X-Wing/TIE Fighter Game Series @xwinggameseries.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
elyosh finally released OpenXW! Just like OpenXWA, OpenTIE and OpenXvT, it is an open-source reimplementation of X-Wing. It runs the original game data natively on current systems and supports both the 1994 Collector's CD-ROM and the 1998 Windows release. github.com/elyosh/OpenXW
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Konstantinos Dimopoulos @konstantinosd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Wither III - Remastered is out now on GOG, and it seems that I do have to at least download and install it. www.gog.com/en/game/the_...
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered 50% off | GOG.COM
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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
hi we're a website you have used for 20 years, we have no idea if you are over 18, send us a selfie. let us connect to your camera. can we get a booty pic with panties on and one without them on? can we also get 3 different pics of your boobs any position
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mcnostril @mcnostril.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This skeltal-based primeval plea was never before seen on the free interwebs.
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Ben Lesnick @banditloaf.wcnews.com · 29/09/2026
What a cool blog in a subject near and dear to my heart! This is of course the same composition that introduced us to the Wing Commander universe…
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Da Scary Rose @modernmodron.itch.io · 29/09/2026
now this is the good stuff
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The Legend of Monkey Island @legendofmi.com · 29/09/2026
There’s a path to the cannibals’ village Guybrush was never meant to find. Discovered by @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social Their article including full video: gamehistory.org/monkeyisland/ Consider donating to support their work. Why do you think it got cut before release? #MonkeyIsland #LucasArts
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Ben Chandler @threeohfour.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Nighthawks has been out for a week! I’m happy people are enjoying it. Here’s a fun behind the scenes look, because sometimes the easiest way to get a good reference is to dress up and pose yourself…
Me dressed and posing as Gideon from Nighthawks.
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DarthHelmet @darthhelmet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Streaming Gabriel Knight Sins Of The Fathers now! Hot and humid crime solving is ahead of us as we delve deeper into the mystery of the voodoo murders and Gabriel's families past together! www.twitch.tv/darthhelmet86
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Darthhelmet86 - Twitch
Streaming retro adventure games, retro roleplaying games other retro games as well as more modern adventure games, roleplaying games and other games from time to time. — Darthhelmet86 streams live on ...
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Fellow GenXers: remember how often we were bombarded with images of late-period USSR? Old, decrepit men in charge, clinging to an ossified ideology. Political repression, nakedly false propaganda, empty shelves, food shortages, inadequate health care, deep-seated cynicism, crumbling infrastructure
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Ironic Star Wars Moment
Alt: A smirking emperor palpatine says "ironic."
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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We actually don't hate this administration enough
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Ben Lesnick @banditloaf.wcnews.com · 29/09/2026
I think we need to remember that Doug Funnie is a hero who gave his life for the Confederation.
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Justin Decloux @declouxj.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
THE CLANS HEIR IS A TRANS WOMAN (2013) is like Steven Seagal decided to Write/Direct/Star in a love letter to his trans friends, but it looks and feels like every action movie he's made... except Hitoshi Ozawa is way way way way cooler than Seagal.
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Lin @buttoven.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Eldon Dendini is a major inspiration for me.
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Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We actually made it a two-way thing in our contracts. Neither the contributor OR the company is allowed to use AI. Legal future-proofing, baby!!
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Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yup! @strangescaffold.bsky.social remains a proudly anti-AI studio.
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Matt 'Wib' Ward @wib.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Legit, I always love it when not only is art for something like this credited properly, but also made available at high res and without branding all over it. Allows you to properly appreciate the work the artists have done as art rather than purely in the context of promotional material.
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Nikita Kapitunov @askelart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's my birthday today! So I would be glad if you share my arts Thank you all for sticking with me!💛
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IggyMaid @iggymaid.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
OBS Studio versions 32.2.2 and lower are vulnerable to this attack
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Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Trash @trashxdiscourse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hey man, if you're out there, if your mom wrote this letter to Abigail Shrier about you, please drop a gofundme and we will get you the fuck out of there.
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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Mark Ferrari is probably the man responsible for LOOM EGA being more highly regarded than the VGA version
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Matneee @matneee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you've not bought #Nighthawks yet, maybe this will sway you🏴‍☠️ Also yes, my character is called Spungo Drains. What of it?👀
A character in Nighthawks recounting swashbuckling tales of their pirate past. Asking about her plans after she hung up ber... uhh... Tricorn and Parrot for retirement, one suggestion is discovering the Secret of Monkey Island. Yarr🏴‍☠️
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2dchaos - WISHLIST NECHROMIA!!! @2dchaos.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We're still in danger, I'd like to pay the rent until the end of the month, otherwise things might get bad. So if you'd like to help, it would be appreciated and you can get cool stuff! 🖤🖤🖤
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2dchaos - WISHLIST NECHROMIA!!! @2dchaos.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Getting closer to a nice result with cloth simulation for the hair!
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 27/09/2026
Happy birthday to the wizard Phil Tippett 🥳
Phil Tippett bringing life to a stop-motion Tauntaun for The Empire Strikes Back (1980).
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Abi Stevens - comms open @abistevensart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
'It's not me recording people without their permission or knowledge it's this cute lil avatar actually, how can you be mad at this 'lil guy?'
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Ben Lesnick @banditloaf.wcnews.com · 27/09/2026
Obscure Star Trek question: has anyone preserved the Xbox Live version of TOS-R that had non-pillar boxed CG shots?
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 27/09/2026
RIP Toshio Masuda. "He later directed the 1977 Space Battleship Yamato film compilation of the series. He was one of the directors and scriptwriters for the 1978 film Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato, the 1979 film Space Battleship Yamato: The New Voyage, and the 1980 film Be Forever Yamato."
Toshio Masuda
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Facebook really doesn't want you to see the new documentary exposing Elon Musk Neither do TikTok or Google or the eX social media site. Since they won't accept paid advertising, let's do some free advertising. Go see Musk in theaters October 9 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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ATMcashpoint @atmcashpoint.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'm not enthused about yet another trilogy of Star Wars movies. But it really is something how the most devout fans of The Last Jedi love to quote the lines of the fascist bad guy as gospel truth. Almost like all the subtext in TLJ suggests he's the one in the right or something...
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Ben Lesnick @banditloaf.wcnews.com · 27/09/2026
This was great! One point interested me: has it never come out that Stratics was an Origin psyop? We shared a server with them way back when!
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