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Adam, Once Juiceless Now Rehydrated @barely3d.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I know what you mean here, but using "retro" to refer to a game being like an x360 or ps3 title still makes me feel so painfully old

A screenshot from Steph Sterling's review, wherein she uses the phrase "true to its retro nature" to describe a game being a throwback to the xbox 360 era, thus aging me to dust.

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Adam, Once Juiceless Now Rehydrated @barely3d.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I put in a window today! It was really hard

A picture of me, with the window I put in on the wall behind me. I sure hope it's level.

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Adam, Once Juiceless Now Rehydrated @barely3d.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Sorry to repost from the bad place but I can't get over the fact that someone is apparently recreating the Bicameral Mind

A screenshot of a post originally from twitter (sorry) that reads JUST IN: redditor claims he can now 'use chat gpt' in his head and accurately predict what it would say." This has been quote-tweeted by @shortmagsmle, who says "Accidentally re-inventing 'thinking' from first principles"

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Adam, Once Juiceless Now Rehydrated @barely3d.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Trine is the only one of these that wasn't an absolute banger. Even GSB was a weekend's terrific fun

My first five steam purchases were Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead 2, Trine (for some godforsaken reason), Gratuitous Space Battles, and Half-Life 2.

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Adam, Once Juiceless Now Rehydrated @barely3d.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I see your bouba and kiki and raise you one Shcrimbly and Bompous

Two cats one is shcrimbly and the other is bompous

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Adam, Once Juiceless Now Rehydrated @barely3d.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

As much fun as I've had with tiktok, it was never going to be my platform. It was for photogenic, charismatic, coordinated people. Which makes it all the funnier that the only thing I'll actually be permanently losing is this, by far the most-liked thing I have ever written:

A screenshot of a comment on a tiktok video (frog type beat) that reads "it got that gluntch to it"

The comment has been liked over 17,300 times.

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Adam, Once Juiceless Now Rehydrated @barely3d.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Good old Mary Poppins isn't even phased by your eldritch baubles. Although she might just be an outside-context helper fae/whatever Tom Bombadil is, so I don't know if she necessarily counts.

Mary Poppins, giving what to me looks like a slight frown of distain, much like the one she would give to the minions of Sauron and Saruman when they try to stop her from casting the One Ring into the fires of Mount Doom

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Adam, Once Juiceless Now Rehydrated @barely3d.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

If you see this, post an image you saved because it made you laugh

A pair of (apparently hand-drawn) posters in a window, that read "SAY PIZZA" "SAY NO" and "TO DRUGS" "TO YES" respectively, and have pictures of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on them as well. No matter what order you read the posters in, they don't make sense. If read from left to right, they say "SAY PIZZA TO DRUGS. SAY NO TO YES" which is the reading that brought this particular bsky user to tears laughing when I first saw it. It's probably edited, but the alternative is too funny not to be true so I don't care

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Adam, Once Juiceless Now Rehydrated @barely3d.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Hank the Black Lab needs more love. He will always need more love.

Hank, a full-grown black lab, sits with his chin carefully perched on the photographer's knee. His eyes are dark brown, and gaze at the camera longingly. Why are you taking a picture of him, he wonders. You could be snuggling with him instead.

Hank again. All decorum has been cast aside; he throws himself belly-up at the photographer's feet. Pet my belly, he implores, although his eyes are not visible this time. His ears are sticking out to the sides of his head. It is silly, and adorable.

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Adam, Once Juiceless Now Rehydrated @barely3d.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I hope everyone who follows me is OK with me importing the closest thing to a brand I had on twitter: a heady mix of political anxiety, gushing about video games I love, and TTRPG design theory. Also the occasional picture of my sister's moody pup, Pickles.

Pickles, the mutt sits on a floral blanket. She has short fur the color of butterscotch and a little bit oc a wrinkle in the space between her eyebrows. Her Mama has embarrassed her by tying scrunchies around her floppy ears to make them stick straight out, and she does NOT look happy about it. She looks REALLY cute, though.

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Adam, Once Juiceless Now Rehydrated @barely3d.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

So it's a Rockstar game, in other words. Rockstar has always had a reputation of being bitingly satirical, when really their point of view in most of their stories post-San Andreas has reliably been "everyone sucks, aren't we smart for noticing and pointing it out?"

A quote from the Aftermath article that reads "I don't remember the 2000s being this overtly MEAN. The entire vibe of the game is just bleak, from the design of the school itself to the way every single character is just hugely draining to listen to and be around. I get that it's a product of its time, and a specific idea within that time, but boy, from 2024 it's a borderline repulsive place."

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Adam, Once Juiceless Now Rehydrated @barely3d.bsky.social · 18/08/2024

I see we're on thin ice with the title alone.

Text reading "Aliens vs Predator: Requiem (stylized as AVPR: Aliens vs. Predator - Requiem)"

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Adam, Once Juiceless Now Rehydrated @barely3d.bsky.social · 12/08/2024

Somehow these two tweets juxtaposed with each other is real fuckin funny

A screenshot of bluesky showing the skeet I am replying to followed immediately by a skeet from the account "Riker Googling" that reads "how can i ddos the borg"

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Adam, Once Juiceless Now Rehydrated @barely3d.bsky.social · 06/08/2024

Just popped back into the other place to see how they're taking today's political news and.... uh, it's going great.

A series of tweets from my timeline on the platform formerly knowm as twitter. Almost all of them are blank and display a posting date of 31 December, 69

Yet more tweets, most of them still displaying the same post date

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Adam, Once Juiceless Now Rehydrated @barely3d.bsky.social · 17/07/2024

Bloomhaven is on the horizon, and I may dip my toe back in just for that.

A picture of the guy from Tiger King saying "I am never going to financially recover from this"

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Adam, Once Juiceless Now Rehydrated @barely3d.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

Melt this guy down and turn him into a 10x scale bust.

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Adam, Once Juiceless Now Rehydrated @barely3d.bsky.social · 18/05/2024

"What's that, Reed? You want me to fly you, your girl, and her LITTLE BROTHER into space to see some cosmic gunk up close? ...eh, what the hell. S'not like I got anything else on my plate. A woman can only test-fly so many DARPA projects before she goes nuts, yannow?"

Natasha Lyonne, staring at the camera smoking a cigarette, looking ridiculously hot.

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Adam, Once Juiceless Now Rehydrated @barely3d.bsky.social · 10/04/2024

I 100% agree here, and wonder if maybe using websites whose identities are defined by having to boil your points down to short, snappy, sometimes pithy statements hasn't made the business of organizing large political movements HARDER than it was in the past.

An excerpt of Dr Hancox-Li's article, which reads "if you weren't on board with the most radical proposal, then obviously you were in favor of police brutality and the system exactly as it exists"

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Adam, Once Juiceless Now Rehydrated @barely3d.bsky.social · 29/03/2024

Great article! I would like you to know that because of this pun I now hate you.

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Adam, Once Juiceless Now Rehydrated @barely3d.bsky.social · 21/03/2024

I am blessed (my cat allergy seems to have mostly disappeared) and as celebration have some pictures of my sister's cats, Sunny and Tulip (and my sister is there too. She's ok I guess)

Sunny, a grayish cat with white socks. He is lurking behind a mattress propped up on the wall because he is a nervous boy and needs cover from incoming artillery fire at any given moment. It's hard to see in this picture, but he always has a look on his face that suggests he has done something and hopes you didn't figure out what it was.

My sister holding Tulip up to the camera. Tulip is a fluffy cat the color of a toasted marshmallow, with a soft belly and pink toe-beans. We have decided that she speaks spanish and is very protective of her "frijoles" mostly because "¡no mama! ¡Mi frijoles!" is fun to say in a baby cat voice. She has an expression of quiet resignation on her face. If it were possible for a cat to say "well, this might as well happen" she would be doing so.

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Adam, Once Juiceless Now Rehydrated @barely3d.bsky.social · 14/03/2024

The new release I played the most last year was VAMPIRE SURVIVORS, which looks like THIS

A screenshot of the video game Vampire Survivors. It is a low-fi pixel-art game with a retro style. The main character is fighting literally hundreds of demonic bats. I cannot emphasize enough that I am not being hyperbolic about that. There are so many bats.

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Adam, Once Juiceless Now Rehydrated @barely3d.bsky.social · 02/03/2024

My bedroom looks like this right now, does this count?

A picture of a partially-constructed bedroom. It is well-insulated, but that is all that can be said in it's favor. The walls are bare studs, with insulation only partly covered by plastic, and the floor is bare plywood covered by a cheap rug. At least the occupant has a novelty portrait of the family dog in elizabethan formalwear to keep him company.

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Adam, Once Juiceless Now Rehydrated @barely3d.bsky.social · 25/02/2024

To my knowledge, there's only been one time where a famous fash interacted with a leftist in such a way as to drum him out of public life

Richard Spencer, famous nazi, in what may have been the last frame of video before an antifa fist made contact with his face.

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Adam, Once Juiceless Now Rehydrated @barely3d.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

I got my sister's dog Pickles the same toy! ...It did not survive Christmas day.

Pickles the brown-furred mutt, with her paw on a stuffed pickle toy wearing a santa hat. Something has caught her attention, but fear not. The pickle toy will be disemboweled soon.

Perhaps fearing that someone will try to steal her new toy from her, Pickles springs into motion, taking her toy with her as she flees.

Some time later, Pickles has returned to the safety and comfort of her bed. The pickle toy has been utterly gutted, its stuffing innards spread across the floor, the inner squeaker extracted (and safely discarded by Pickles' Mama. Pickles remains suspicious of the person taking pictures of her.

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Adam, Once Juiceless Now Rehydrated @barely3d.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

I can't believe I'm saying this, but... the beard helps. The alternative is even worse.

A picture of Marc Andreessen, looking like a walking rebuttal of the basic principles of white supremacy. His head is as close to literally egg-shaped as anyone I've ever seen, and him being cleanshaven only makes it worse.

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Adam, Once Juiceless Now Rehydrated @barely3d.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

It's funny you mention the torment nexus because it seems like Ernest Cline doesn't even realize that a torment nexus is a bad thing here

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Adam, Once Juiceless Now Rehydrated @barely3d.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

I don't have the clean space or the confidence in my tech skills to switch out the case on my steam deck yet, but BOY DO I WANT TO

A steam deck game console with a transparent purple case, allowing the user to see the inner components. It look kickass.

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Adam, Once Juiceless Now Rehydrated @barely3d.bsky.social · 25/11/2023

Pickles visited for thanksgiving. We're all thankful for her, even if she does constantly steal our seats. Oh well, I'll adapt.

Pickles, the adorble mutt, poking her head from behind a lumpy man in a gray sweatshirt, who has trapped her in a chair with her for the crime of stealing the seat when he got up for food.

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Adam, Once Juiceless Now Rehydrated @barely3d.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

I would dearly like to retire this meme, but unfortunately it continues to be relevant.

A meme showing cops hand signals to each other, but with the text explaining them all replaced with some variation of "I'm shooting this dog"

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Adam, Once Juiceless Now Rehydrated @barely3d.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

This short paragraph knocked the wind out of me more than almost anything else in the entire game. Sure, the circumstances of the failure are different, but god, do I feel this sometimes. We had our chance, but we couldn't get our shit together. We aren't going to get to try again.

A screenshot from Disco Elysium. Late game, so spoiler warning if you haven't beaten it yet. It's a line from an NPC named the Deserter. He says: "The material base for an uprosing has eroded. The working class has betrayed mankind and themselves. The historic opportunity for a revolution has passed. It will not come back anymore. However hard I try, whatever I do."

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