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I post about games or tech sometimes 🦍

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New York Transit Museum @nytransitmuseum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
⚾️ This secret is a home run. Secret no. 35 tells us how the history of transit and baseball are connected. #50SecretsofTransit celebrates the 50th anniversary of the #NYTransitMuseum. Join us as we pull back the curtain on New York's transportation system.
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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baxterc @bcrook.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"for the average sweat"
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baxterc @bcrook.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
/r/100yearsago/ is a subreddit that posts clippings and comics from a century ago today. Lately, W.K. Haselden is upset about winter coats.
Newspaper comic complaining about women being hard to recognize in winter coats and hatsNewspaper comic "Why not abolish the overcoat?"
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baxterc @bcrook.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
i played galleria earlier this year mostly on your recommendation and mostly loved it (it had some... interesting difficulty swings) 🫡
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Willa Harlow Ross @willaharlowross.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I know this is obvious to everyone who follows me who's played arcade games longer than me, but I'm genuinely stunned at just how systemic is the widespread ignorance, incuriosity, and intellectual dishonesty regarding arcade design (and bmups in particular).
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Weird Popeyes @weirdpopeyes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A Japanese Menko card featuring Popai playing baseball with some other unidentifiable cartoon character.
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baxterc @bcrook.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
still better than running Jet Alone on win11. what if there's a OneDrive notification or mandatory restart during an angel attack? could be even less reliable than the teens in those creepy nerv robots.
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A Low Poly Robot @lowpolyrobot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mocchi Mocchi Mocchi
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baxterc @bcrook.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
hesiod's name itself being partially anglicized (from Ἡσίοδος/Hēsíodos, had to look it up) like many classical figures adds to the fun. and a big part of me likes that complexity, that we have these arbitrary and inconsistent rules cooking for centuries
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baxterc @bcrook.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i love these
6 Final Fantasy VI Choices With Hidden ConsequencesFinal Fantasy VI Lets You Skip Almost Its Entire Second HalfI Played FF6 For 30 Years And Didn’t Know You Could Save HimHow to Beat Ymir (Whelk) Easily | Final Fantasy VI Boss Guide
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baxterc @bcrook.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i love these
6 Final Fantasy VI Choices With Hidden ConsequencesFinal Fantasy VI Lets You Skip Almost Its Entire Second HalfI Played FF6 For 30 Years And Didn’t Know You Could Save HimHow to Beat Ymir (Whelk) Easily | Final Fantasy VI Boss Guide
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baxterc @bcrook.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Garfield comic about using a smartphone. Top comment: "Technological advances, this particular strip would have made no sense when the comic premiered in 1978." Response: "Why?"
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baxterc @bcrook.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Cartoon rodent next to a sign  "Animated movies not only for kids"
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baxterc @bcrook.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"you have to hit yourself" is at least as old as the April 2003 EGM. full page archive.org/details/elec... not proud of my ability to vaguely recall reading something in a magazine 20 years ago, but here we are
Final Fantasy Il features a unique experience system we would need pages and pages to explain. Instead, here's a quick hint to build up your hit points (we also suggest visiting www.gamefaqs.com for a more in-depth guide): Enter a battle with a weak group of enemies and wallop them until there's only one left. Now, turn on your own party, hitting them until less than half their hit points are left. Finally, finish off that last enemy. If you did it right, your characters' maximum hit points should go up.
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baxterc @bcrook.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"you have to hit yourself" is at least as old as the April 2003 EGM. full page archive.org/details/elec... not proud of my ability to vaguely recall reading something in a magazine 20 years ago, but here we are
Final Fantasy Il features a unique experience system we would need pages and pages to explain. Instead, here's a quick hint to build up your hit points (we also suggest visiting www.gamefaqs.com for a more in-depth guide): Enter a battle with a weak group of enemies and wallop them until there's only one left. Now, turn on your own party, hitting them until less than half their hit points are left. Finally, finish off that last enemy. If you did it right, your characters' maximum hit points should go up.
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baxterc @bcrook.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
sorry for posting a "thread." here's an image to make up for it
Screenshot of Steam Workshop page for a Stellaris mod "Osaka Advisor."  An image shows the character from Azumanga Daioh. A reviewer says it's "mostly random osaka noises totally unrelated to what's going on."
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baxterc @bcrook.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
None of this is to defend Microsoft, a company I don't think you should do business with. But I'm not worrying about them making you stand and shout "McDonald's!" just because they patent it. They do plenty that's bad already. ("McDonald's!" is Sony, but I'm too fond of it to not post)
Art from Sony patent depicting a person watching TV standing and shouting "McdDonald's!" to make a commercial end.
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baxterc @bcrook.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Software patents are bad policy in general. Get rid of 'em! Software is already covered by copyright and doesn't also need patents. endsoftwarepatents.org
endsoftwarepatents.org
End Software Patents
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baxterc @bcrook.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Big tech corpos will often encourage their employees to submit patent ideas. Throw anything over the fence and let legal figure out if it's worth filing - and if does, reap the reward. The reward is a pittance - not any kind of ownership of the patent. There's not much in it for the employee.
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baxterc @bcrook.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This also gives you tools to harass other legally if you want to make them miserable and spend lots of money. I'm not aware of the big tech companies doing this, but Nintendo did it to Palworld's dev recently www.rockpapershotgun.com/nintendo-rep...
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Nintendo reportedly look set to net so little from their Palworld lawsuit you'll wonder why they bothered
We're talking only a fiver finger sum, here.
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baxterc @bcrook.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Suppose you're Microsoft. You don't want Oracle to sue you for patent or copyright infringement. Your portfolio of random, unused patents probably has something you can use to sue Oracle if they start a fight. Oracle is the example for a reason: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_....
en.wikipedia.org
Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc. - Wikipedia
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baxterc @bcrook.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There's a couple news stories along the lines of "Microsoft Patents Awful Gaming Thing." Big tech companies file as many patents as possible, including for items they have zero intention of ever making. This is done chiefly to create a defensive arsenal of patents so they can counter-sue others.
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mortis 🩻🐈‍⬛ @justmortis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Tail of the Sun x Scotch's "Primitive Man"
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Victor Hunter @victorehunter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It also has an incredible map of the states, plus unlockable Koubu that play way better than any of the horseback characters and almost make the game fun. It’s a pretty rough musou but its super playable even un-translated
Sakura Wars V Episode 0’s map of the USA that makes absolutely no senseErica’s Koubu F Type 2 on an in-progress Golden Gate bridgeErica in her Chattes Noires costume riding a zebra and wielding a toy hammer
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TCRF Informalities @tcrfinformal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
(Showing the tcrf.net page for The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons.)

Regional Differences
Text Changes

[A table with four columns, labelled: Text Index (1), US (2), Europe (3) & Notes (4) respectively]

(1) 2c00
(2) "AHH! ! !
You startled me!
Winter sets in
all of a sudden,
then down my
chimney comes...
You're not
Santa!"
(3) "AHH! ! !
You startled me!
Winter sets in
all of a sudden,
then down my
chimney comes...
You're no
chimney sweep!"
(4) "Somebody evidently realized this reference to Santa implies the existence of Christmas and therefore Christianity, which stopped being a thing in the Zelda series after A Link to the Past, and took it upon themselves to correct this grievous continuity error. Apparently chimney sweeps throw themselves down the flue unannounced where they live."

(1) 2e0d
(2) "Santa Welcome!!!"
(3) "Hearth fires are
best on chilly
days! Chimney
sweep wanted."
(4) "Santa is apparently not welcome in Europe."
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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 17/09/2026
Mel Blanc screams are like Greek fire, we lost the technology to make sounds like this
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Giant Robot FM @giantrobotfm.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
same energy
Top: Maya and Ritsuko from End of Evangelion (1997); Bottom: Chief Chuujo and Professor Go from Giant Robo (1992-98).
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baxterc @bcrook.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
They go on to explain that "uplifts" (adding the chairs) are great because they can be done at night without closing the store like with a traditional renovation.
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baxterc @bcrook.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Starbucks is trying to save the company by bringing back chairs. app.ft.com/content/8d38...
Starbucks is betting $1bn that an environment with leather armchairs, rugs and hardback books can lure back customers willing to buy one of its $6 lattes and perhaps linger long enough to have another. 

The world’s biggest coffee shop chain is making the investment so that as many as 9,000 cafés feel more like a “community lounge”, even serving as an oasis for “lonely and disconnected” lives lived online.

The aesthetic jettisons design austerity that followed the Covid-19 pandemic and contrasts with strategies of fast-growing rivals such as Dutch Bros, 7 Brew and Luckin Coffee, which sell beverages from small shops with few to zero chairs.
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Chris Kohler @kohler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Symphony of the Night design documents on display at the Konami booth at TGS. The mock screenshot is incredible
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baxterc @bcrook.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
shin fight in the manga happens in chapter 8. the anime really puffs the first story arc out
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Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🚨 CRYPTID SIGHTING 🚨 Spotted at E3 1995. If you see this Rayman, please report him to raymanwatch@raymancontrol.gov
A mascot suit for Rayman, as seen at E3 1995. He is unusually lanky and has permanent pog face and a haunting stare.
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baxterc @bcrook.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
you could endorse legalizing murder and I would be like,well that's unconventional but i still need to see virtual-on screenshots
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Personasama @persona.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🎂🎂🎂Happy 27th Birthday, Dreamcast!🎂🎂🎂 I'll never forget the depth of your game library and how wonderfully diverse and creative your peripherals were
An illustration of Sonic holding the Dreamcast Twin Sticks next to Ulala from Space Channel 5 Part 2 holding a Dreamcast controller with a Seaman microphone, with Beat from Jet Grind Radio behind them holding a fishing controller. They are all intertwined by the cords of their peripherals, while behind them is a giant Dreamcast glowing gently over them. In the background are floating Chao, Light Chao, and Dark Chao, Amigo from Samba de Amigo, and a Chu Chu and Kapu Kapu. Also Seaman looking upset at Ulala, maybe Ulala said some crass words that he didn't enjoy
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christa lee @ohpoorpup.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Use Logan's sense to discover Nightmare Doors and complete traversal, combat, and gauntlet challenges to uncover his forgotten memories. #WolverinePS5
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🐰harsh noise hotot🐰 @merzbun.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
10. Sumire Kanzaki (Sakura Wars) thank you for the support!
b+w lineart drawing of sumire kanzaki, facing left with a fan up to her head.
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Enerjax✦ 🔜 Roundhouse, Design Festa @enerjax.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Okonomiyaki Boys「広島焼き」
Jin Saotome & Stryder Hiryu enjoying some much earned Hiroshima style okonomiyaki even though it’s still crazy hot out ..
This will be September’s Patreon print!! Please stay tuned 🔥🔥🔥
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baxterc @bcrook.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Photo of Goofy cube figurine
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A Low Poly Robot @lowpolyrobot.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Me, only, not Mint: Wow!
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videosyncrasy @videosyncrasy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Weird Popeyes @weirdpopeyes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A Sweaty Man arm wrestles a Popeye in front of a lovely vintage Popeye's Chicken & Biscuits restaurant
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baxterc @bcrook.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
assuming you're talking about the 2d art program man...agreed. his writeup did not inspire confidence in the engineering done and had a strident tone, but that's not enough to justify being the villain of the day i don't think people realize how quickly LLMs have seized software
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ronununu @ronununu.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
#FFタクティクス #FFT #FFTactics
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ronununu @ronununu.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
#FFタクティクス #FFT #FFTactics
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alex siple 🏳️‍🌈 @alexsiple.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
yorknew
Digital painting of Kurapika and Leorio from the anime Hunter x Hunter in a subway train. Kurapika is reading a big newspaper as Leorio looks over his shoulder at it and gestures with his hand. Kurapika looks troubled.  The newspaper says something like “Phantom Troupe in Yorknew”. Behind them are random other passengers in the train, sitting with their eyes closed or also reading a copy of the paper. The colors are greenish and suggest artificial lighting.
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New York Transit Museum @nytransitmuseum.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🤫 Until now, his identity was a secret! Secret no. 29 reveals the voice of the bus. You've been hearing his voice for years on @MTA.info New York City Transit buses. His name is Mark Groce and now you get to meet him. #50SecretsofTransit celebrates the 50th anniversary of the #NYTransitMuseum.
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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
front-facing pokey
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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Capcom's X-Men vs Street Fighter team drew a bunch of Rogue and Gambit gag strips.
Rogue and Gambit in the style of influential shoujo manga artists like Moto Hagio. This one's about Rogue's desire to be a "normal girl"Ren & Stimpy style Rogue & Gambit. Gambit does a big Tex Avery awooga over Rogue, Rogue slaps him and yells DON'T TOUCH ME. A weepy Rogue holds Gambit close and says "But Ah wanna be an ordinary girl."Gambit thinking about Storm, Chun, and Cammy while Rogue glares and cracks her knuckles
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quettatonia @quettatonia.neocities.org · 27/08/2026
This method is effective on Mush Boys and Hard Shells.
Image from Knight Quest's manual- the picture features the protagonist, a knight called Will, slashing a dark slime with a background featuring trees and mountains.

"SeaGull Attack
In this style, Will mightily slashes his trusty blade across the beast's belly.

Usage:
As Will did once learn, this method is effective on Mush Boys and Hard Shells."
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