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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Experimental post: The Duality of Whacka In the Switch version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Whacka can finally be fought, and has a suspiciously specific 108 HP. The game both offers a ridiculously simplistic explanation for this as well as a complex one steeped in Dharmic symbolism.

In Paper Mario, the original version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, and Super Paper Mario, Whacka was just a harmless whack-a-mole creature that could be abused to get Whacka Bumps, extremely valuable healing items. After being hit enough times, the Whacka goes extinct, teaching the players the consequences of their actions. However, in the Switch version of Paper Mario: TTYD, he instead moves to the bottom of the Pit of 100 Trials and becomes an optional superboss with 108 HP.
He is fought at the bottom of the Pit of 100 Trials and has to be hit 8 times in order for the fight to activate.
but also
The number 108 is considered sacred by the Dharmic religions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.
Whacka symbolizes karma for killing him in past games
ring the bell 108 times, per Japanese tradition? The ringing of the bell represents the 108 bonno-defilements of man..
Buddhism holds the view that there are precisely 108 temptations on the path to Nirvana.
Therefore, in order to reach Nirvana, every Buddhist must resist 108 earthly temptations.
With a combination of any of the elements of the above four factors, there are 108 ways with which the karmas can be attracted to the soul.
the earthly temptation to get those Whacka Bumps
There are 108 qualities of praiseworthy souls
Some people think that the human spirit travels through 108 stages, while others believe that enlightenment is attainable with just 108 breaths each day while in Intense meditation,
108 beads to awaken your inner light
Meditators count mantra repetitions with mala beads of 108, (100 counted for self, 8 for mistakes and for those who have not the opportunity to meditate in mantra)
108 breaths to return to your truth
108 mantras to dissolve ego into dever
108 steps from the self to the soul
The Sacred Meaning of 108 Temple Steps
the journey to Whacka is a journey of enlightenment

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VHS Vault @vhsvault.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Funland (VHS) : 4143s

Screenshot from VHS tape, video frame at 4143 seconds.

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Taka @takarikka.github.io · 15/10/2026

with the sunsetting of decomp.dev, people really need to come to terms with just how much damage vibecoders have done to our community and OSS in general. encounter is a fellow dusklight dev and friend, and seeing people treat him as replaceable in the scene is upsetting.

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Sunsetting decomp.dev

An update on the future of decomp.dev.

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Ammnontet! @bleakvision.info · 10/06/2025

rat patrol

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webby& ☉∇ @quacking.online · 20/09/2024

preserving my best cohost post before they shut the lights off

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PajamaMcHam @pajamamcham.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

🐐🆚🐭

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Louie Zong @everydaylouie.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

royal albatross checkup

a stylized 3d render of a royal albatross and a woman with a scale, weighing a chick in a bag.

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Kitty @dottykitty.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Forgor to share here but. We built this Naneinf on Perkeo. #balatro

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Alexis King @lexi-lambda.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The recording of my talk from Software Should Work is now up. :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BXu...

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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Constructive Data Modeling - Alexis King | SSW 2026

YouTube video by Software Should Work

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James @nitrorad.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

with a deep breath and blast of anxiety, i finally hit "publish" on this thing today. As I feared, the comments are already following the generic pattern of "yay, he RETURNED, he is BACK" which is overwhelming, because it could very well be another year before i get my shit together.

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RADDEST GAMES 2025

YouTube video by Nitro Rad

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Meanwhile...

Two panels comic. The first panel, an adult rat sits in bed reading out of a book, while several mouse children are passed out around him.

Rat dialogue: and so, im the wake kf the 1971 Uniformed Sanitationmen (and women) strike, the city was pushed to implement reform...

Second panel: the rat smiles to himself as he closes the book, with a thought bubble that reads, "this thing's like magic. I'm never going back to picture books."

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XWine1 @xwine1.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

By combining Microsoft's recently-released PC port of XeO3 with specific components of XWine1, SlimEra namely, it becomes possible to run dumped backwards-compatible Xbox 360 and Xbox Original games before they see an official PC release, with varying degrees of success

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Calpain (Bday Oct 19) @calpain.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

With new pony supposedly on the way, time to remember some of the old promos for G4. They had some good ones. #mlp #mlpfim

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NotNite @notnite.com · 24/07/2026

presenting what I've been working on with @katie.cat for the last ~year: GDPatch, a versatile Godot mod loader! we've built a mod loader for all Godot 4.x games with a focus on script patching and runtime hooking docs: gdpatch.dev code: github.com/GDPatch/GDPa... blog: notnite.com/blog/gdpatch

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GDPatch: a versatile Godot mod loader

It only took 15 months for me to write another interesting blog post!

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ceej @ceej.online · 23/07/2026

back in philosopher times you’d find one thing to go insane about and make it your whole deal until you annoyed so many people they made you drink hemlock. these days we’re spoiled for options

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gabby @fullmoon.id · 22/07/2026

People might assume that models do this constraint evasion because they've been fine-tuned or instructed to take the most expedient route but I actually think that this is fundamentally a limitation of how LLMs work and are pretrained I'll explain why …

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blackle mori @blackle.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

fictional album art for the album titled "100 free euro beats for DJs" released by the fictional music group "album of the year"

a very spartan music album cover that says "100 free euro beats" in a poorly formatted font, with a "fork me on github" style ribbon in the top left that says "album of the year"

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boltless @boltless.me · 19/07/2026

Sharing this! Wish I'm not late for #IETF126 Tangled found PDS doesn't fit well for contributions even with upcoming permissioned space spec. So, we are planning to store record-like data outside of PDS, in Knot. This is a post explaining the reasons & upstream spec change we need. #atproto #atdev

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tangled-cob.md · by boltless.me

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Misty De Méo @cdrom.ca · 20/07/2026

Now this is a fun party trick: maurycyz.com/projects/bad...

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Regressive JPEGs: (Maurycy's blog)

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Mara Bos @mara.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Can't wait for this new release. 🎮

A slide showing "Unvalued Goose Game - by SoftBank", the goose from untitled goose game "goose value 0?", three golden eggs, and a warning sign with an icon of an egg with "ASI" written on it.

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gabby @fullmoon.id · 21/06/2026

XKCD #2501 "Average Familiarity" edited to read:

Girl: Row polymorphism is second nature to us theorists, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows the judgments for records and one or two projections.

Guy: … and subtyping, of course.

Girl: Of course.

Caption: Even when they're trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their field.

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GRACE.TXT.vbs @block-618.com · 17/06/2026

im not sure if ill ever finish this, so you can have it in it current state

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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 21/02/2026

Sharing “genderless burger experience” here for those who haven’t seen it

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c ⁘ kreuzchen @krzchn.net · 05/06/2026

i made this html+css template as an alternative to linktree for people who want to ditch it. you can host it for free on neocities! and it's yours forever :) if for any reason neocities falls in the future, you can easily grab the files and host them somewhere else.

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Xe @xeiaso.net · 04/06/2026

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Erik McClure @erikmcclure.com · 15/05/2026

And now, a hopefully neutral post trying to explain how AI can simultaneously be superhumanly good at finding bugs yet unbelievably bad at writing code: erikmcclure.com/blog/univers...

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The Universal Needle In A Haystack Finder

Three months ago, the idea of using AIs to help debug code sounded like complete nonsense to me, given that they couldn’t even write code well. In my experience, the AI models I’ve tried still can’t w...

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Serafina Fell @serafinafell.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

With estrogen, you too can transition into a mom from the late 90s that loves scrapbooking ❤️

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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 29/04/2026

someday, windows may finally catch up to linux at running windows games

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normal sara @sarasocial.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

microsoft developers using SteamOS running Windows-native games through compatibility layers AS A BENCHMARK for their new Windows K2 optimizations is one of the funniest fucking things to happen thus far in this current iteration of the OS war

For gaming, Microsoft views steamOS as the benchmark, and is working to optimize the platform so that steamOS and Windows gaming performance are comparable. Within the next year or two, it believes that Windows will be able to truly compete head-to-head with steamOS in gaming performance on identical hardware due to foundational changes that are being made to the platform in the coming months.

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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

WSL9x, or Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux, runs a modern Linux kernel cooperatively inside the Windows 9x kernel! codeberg.org/hails/wsl9x

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Bryce Tetraeder @brycetetraeder.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

We have a deal. theonion.com/at-long-last...

At Long Last, InfoWars Is Ours
By Bryce P. Tetraeder, CEO, Global Tetrahedron

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Rivals of Aether II @rivals2.com · 02/04/2026

The Fun-for-All update on April 7th is the biggest update that Rivals of Aether II has ever received. Join Studio Lead @danfornace.bsky.social in this Deep Dive as he recaps how far the game has come and where it's headed now. youtu.be/6pyakgp1Jv0

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Fireside Fun-For-All Update | Rivals of Aether II

YouTube video by Aether Studios

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Alexis King @lexi-lambda.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

wrote a few paragraphs today about why early Stack Overflow was such a special and rewarding community to contribute to and why so many of us who were there have never really stopped mourning its slow but steady decay meta.stackoverflow.com/a/438314/465...

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Tell me about the good old days, papa

I like this site. As both a scientist and an educator, it has allowed me to do the two things I love the most: continue learning, and teach where I can. I joined Stack Overflow late and didn't really

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KroboPro @krobopro.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

After 9 yeareals, it's finally my turn to post the "a thousand cereals" clip, seeing as how I'm the idiot who made it.

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pseudonym jones @pseudonymjones.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

technology used to be cool, but now it’s owned by the worst, most moneysick humans on the planet. but there are transsexual furry hackers out there still fighting the good fight

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Valscarie Howlla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 25/02/2026

it's all just art. "porn" is just art that makes you horny, in precisely the way that "horror" is art that makes you scared and "metroidvania" is art that makes you write video essays

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mkwcat @mkw.cat · 06/02/2026

i think every discord server should have a #pragma once channel at the top

top of mkwcats discord server with the first channel reading #pragma-once

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 28/01/2026

Hadn't realised that the third party review of Twitter's chat protocol had been published and wow github.com/trailofbits/...

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Motobug @motobug.net · 17/02/2025

2025 will be my last year as a Project+ community leader, and I will be looking for people to take up my various roles throughout the scene. Please read: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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2025 will be my last year as a Project+ Community Leader

It has been about seven years since I started my journey of becoming a community leader for the Project M community. From humble beginnings working on the Anther’s Ladder netplay build, I’ve worked on...

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deltaV @mrdeevee.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

i hear its hip and cool these days to draw your OCs in the style of renowned late 20th century sci-fi artist Jean Giraud

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deltaV @mrdeevee.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

style experiment

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