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CANDIDS: Lumi recovers and immediately relocates “corn mouse,” a beloved kittenhood toy that Ali hates because of its weird texture.

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Silas @silaslesnick.bsky.social · 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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This is a big, exciting area of film history that I knew *nothing* about two years ago, but one that I have thoroughly enjoyed discovering. There has never been any release quite like this in the history of home entertainment and I'm very proud to be a part of it.

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Let the record show that @patterned.bsky.social made meatballs for me and that they were delicious. These are very hard times but I am blessed to have someone that cares for me so much.

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I think we need to remember that Doug Funnie is a hero who gave his life for the Confederation.

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As promised, let's watch the second episode of Wing Commander Academy which aired thirty years ago today! The Last One Left is written by two of the Edens brothers, the three of whom broke every story in the season and wrote the majority of them.

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Trekkie Bill 🖖🏻 @trekkiebill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1954 and we are pitching paper warships to boys AND girls! Based.

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if you see this, post a vampire that isn't dracula

F-109 Vampire from Wing Commander: Prophecy

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GenerationAmiga.com @generationamiga.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is the 100th week of Wing Commander movie club! It only seemed appropriate to choose Phantom Menace for the occasion—Friday! In the last two years we’ve watched 97 club movies, one unofficial movie and missed just one week! (Das Boot took two weeks.)

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Wing Commander 1 & 2 just got a serious PC overhaul. WCAT 1.0 fixes speed issues, controls, saves and long-standing DOS bugs, making these classic space combat games easier to run on modern PCs. #WingCommander #RetroGaming

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Two legendary Wing Commander games just got a serious modern PC refresh

Wing Commander still has one foot firmly planted in 1990. Its cockpit, chunky ships and mission briefings come from an era of DOS PCs, Sound Blaster

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Jessica Kagan (is writing fiction!) @planepackedjess.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Wing Commander Academy begins in earnest with Ron Perlman as a disillusioned war hero who abandons society for a life of piracy. I’ll try and do a watch thread tonight!

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This tells me you didn't have the luxury of downloading Cutemouse off Home of the Underdogs in 2002 without telling me you didn't have that luxury. The copy of AotP I got from a yard sale didn't work without it! ...and didn't havs sound without booting into DOS instead of Windows 98, but still. 🌏

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Carl @listeningtofilm.net · 27/09/2026

Sometimes I wake up in a sweat, screaming inside at the memory of needing to free up 614kb of conventional memory to play Aces of the Pacific.

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I’m still thinking about how nuts the cast was in this game. Hamill Tom Wilson Malcolm McDowell John Rhys Davies John Spencer Holly Gagnier François Chou Richard Riehle Jason Bernard Robert Rusler And that’s just off the top of my head

Mark Hamill, Holly Gagnier, and Jason Bernard in Wing Commander 4

Richard Riehle as Richard Riehle er Pliers in Wing Commander 4

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Alexis @patterned.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A lot of folks have very thoughtfully forwarded me a trailer for a "Wing Commander Remake". I am sorry to report that this is not genuine; it's a crypto bro who has found Howard Day's open source "Wingleader" assets and is vibe coding them to launder their reputation.

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Fall friends 🍄 #art #linocut #printsky

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Ridiculous! People are saying they’ve never heard of Langley?! What about Frohike or Byers?

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AllTinker @alltinker.com · 27/09/2026

My parents left this tuxedo in the sun all summer and she has completely rusted!

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Yesterday was Wing Commander's release anniversary; I also released Wing Commander A.T. 1.0! There's been many improvements, but the biggest thing is that I brought everything over to Wing Commander II! It's been a heck of a journey (and a lot of work) to get to this point... alltinker.itch.io/wcat

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Wing Commander A.T. (WCAT) Overhaul Mod by AllTinker

An extensive overhaul mod for Wing Commander 1 & 2 for DOS.

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 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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Aha, my annual opportunity to post my one Wing Commander-related thing!

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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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Why are SO many classic games celebrating their anniversaries this month (and many today specifically)? September is the end of Q3 which is when you wanted your game on store shelves in time for the holidays!

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SAM Retro @retroman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I had an English professor named Jon Watts. One day he just stopped talking about the book and spent the whole lecture going on about jumping out of C-47s in Central America for the CIA. He’d be about a hundred years old now but I’m going to not read this and assume it’s the same guy.

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Wing Commander (1990) #MS-DOS

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Chris Helgerson @chrishelgerson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Unfortunately, it actually "worked a little too well"; so many people rushed to donate blood in the wake of 9/11 that, because whole blood has a finite shelf life, about 200k units were wasted. This led to a bit of backlash fueled by ignorance and sensationalized headlines.

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RetroGamingExpo.com @retrogamingexpo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

George A. Sanger aka The Fat Man has been doing game audio and music since 1983. From Intellivision to Loom, Wing Commander, Maniac Mansion, 7th Guest and much more! He joins our Sierra On-Line reunion! Tickets at tinyurl.com/3a5hdpw4 #prge #prge2026 #retrogaming #SIERRA

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Star Trek Enterprise - Red Cross commercial

Today is also Enterprise's 25th anniversary! It's easy to forget that that means that the series premiere aired two weeks after the 9/11 attacks. The pilot actually aired with an ad spot where Scott Bakula asked viewers to support the American Red Cross: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOHQ...

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YouTube video by Ben Lesnick

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Alexis @patterned.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Autumn leaves, fresh off the press this morning. 🍂 #art #linocut #printsky

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BREAKING NEWS: WCAT 1.0 Released with WC2 Support!

THE EXTREMELY COOL THING HAPPENED! @alltinker.com has released WCAT 1.0 which... SUPPORTS WING COMMANDER II! For the first time in over three decades, Wing Commander II's speed issues have been fixed and we can play the game the way it was meant to be played. www.wcnews.com/news/2026/09...

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It's Wing Commander's birthday! 36 years ago today, Origin celebrated the launch of the original Wing Commander with a picnic and the announcement that Chris Roberts had been hired as the company's ne...

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Im back in Ashton helping care for my mom this weekend. Since the strokes (and maybe before) my mom has been fascinated by the AppleTV screensaver that’s drone footage of nature. Last time I was here she said she wished it had a narrator that told you what you were seeing…

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