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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh this can just fuck off An AI-'written' complete copy of my own book is now on Amazon; same title, more-or-less the same blurb, and exactly the same impetus. Reviewers of Amazon, I urge you to absolutely dive-bomb this plagiaristic piece of shit: www.amazon.co.uk/FORGOTTEN-VI...

A hollow copy of my book with a shit AI-generated cover

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gorilla.bas @brassicgamer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Does anyone else struggle with the existential dread that is knowing there's no way you'll be able to complete all the projects you want to do before you die? LGR kind of touched upon it during his post-VCF video. For me it's mostly all the things I've started but haven't finished and may never.

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gorilla.bas @brassicgamer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ah, nice! I was looking for an opportunity to use the gauss gun like that! My initial plan was to use shields to get somewhere that I could pick them off as they came around a corner but that didn't work. In the end I loaded up with lasers and that seemed to work. Now I want to complete it with one!

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gorilla.bas @brassicgamer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Completed Syndicate. Unlike every other RTS game I've played, this got more enjoyable as I played it.

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gorilla.bas @brassicgamer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Er, yeah you're not wrong. The first few times I tried it, I was genuinely bewildered. Worked it out in the end though. 🙂

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gorilla.bas @brassicgamer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Reading the manual and noticed there was a guy on the Bullfrog staff called Michael Diskett. Pretty funny. Also, the names of the agents that you can recruit into your syndicate are the surnames of the staff. I also noticed some of the missions have famous coder names like Cauldwell.

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(🖬🖫). ₍^. .^₎⟆ @a.very.sleepy.galactic.furball.discatte.com · 28/09/2026

*thunderous disk and meowing sounds* 💾

its a goofy 3d renderin o discatte, actually a bad 3d extrude from inkscape we colored, and stacked the z-offset of each part, so its kinda like cardboard but pastel

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gorilla.bas @brassicgamer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How did you use the ability to save games or did you not? That's really the only way to mitigate the difficulty.

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gorilla.bas @brassicgamer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah this and Beneath a Steel Sky were revelational for me.

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gorilla.bas @brassicgamer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I suspect that's common. And i think there are people who either played it briefly then gave up or played the shit out of it.

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gorilla.bas @brassicgamer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Syndicate. I'm playing it properly for the first time because I generally hate strategy games. Loving it. It has its issues but most can be circumnavigated. Gonna write something up for my blog.

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gorilla.bas @brassicgamer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have actually spent many, many hours playing this game and hardly any playing the first two. I loved it!

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gorilla.bas @brassicgamer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Really wanted to put Mario Land 2 on mine as well but I spent more time on the original.

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gorilla.bas @brassicgamer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My 9 games #My9Games my9games.net/en/share/294...

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Kim Justice @kimjustice.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Here's a new video announcing my newest book :) the official companion book to the Rubber-Keyed Wonder, celebrating 45 years of the ZX Spectrum! www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp2B...

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Announcing A NEW ZX Spectrum Book! The Rubber-Keyed Wonder

YouTube video by Kim Justice

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gorilla.bas @brassicgamer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The additional problem I have is that there seems to be absolutely no point in doing that thing so many other people do where they fire up the game and take a screenshot of the opening scene. I would have to play each game for at least 5 or 6 levels to make it worthwhile 😅

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gorilla.bas @brassicgamer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Thanks, that's a kind offer! I think you're right that, in the long run, I should work towards replacing them with my own grabs, but at my own pace. Maybe I should have stayed doing that years ago 😅

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gorilla.bas @brassicgamer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

2/ That's fine, these things happen, and I knew I was making a choice that would lead to this point one day. Now I have a choice: 1. Download the screenshots manually, upload them to my blog, relink (and credit). 2. Make my own screenshots (of hundreds of games) but own them. What do we think?

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gorilla.bas @brassicgamer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

1/ Some years ago, I wrote articles for my blog about the games I used to play during certain CPU eras (386, 486DX4, Pentium III) and I linked to (and credited) screenshots from Mobygames because they had all of them right there already. Now they've changed things so the links are broken.

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gorilla.bas @brassicgamer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

4/ See, I've just watched John's view on the gameplay presentation and he pretty much sums the achievement up perfectly by saying something like "if this is actually released at a stable 30fps, it will be the smoothest GTA launch ever"

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gorilla.bas @brassicgamer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Makes sense. What an odd bunch of people! 🤣

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gorilla.bas @brassicgamer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Like, I love John's DF Retro videos. Yes he does a similar thing in analysing the performance of old games on their respective target platform but it's so much more interesting because it's analysis rather than what sounds like straight up nitpicking. Maybe I'm just being old 😅

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gorilla.bas @brassicgamer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

2/ Their comments, and viewers' comments just sounds like "waaaah, no 60fps mode". Stutters? So what. Frame timing off? So what. It's a next gen game on current gen hardware. TBF they are mostly complimentary, but I wonder how much of what they do is just making work for themselves.

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gorilla.bas @brassicgamer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

1/ Watching the Digital Foundry review of the new GTA VI gameplay trailer and honestly I couldn't give a shit about most of what they're saying. Maybe it's because I've never had current hardware, PC or console. Maybe it's because I grew up with DOS games, or because I expect variable performance.

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gorilla.bas @brassicgamer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Just watched the remastered @kimjustice.bsky.social Complete Story of GTA I to V and realised two things: 1) I've only completed the OG, the PSP releases and V. 2) aside from the first game, I've never had a PC that was capable of playing any major release when it came out. youtu.be/kOT2ytyAau4

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The COMPLETE Story of Grand Theft Auto I to V

YouTube video by Kim Justice

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Todd Gill - Retro Frog @retrofrog.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

SG-1000 games now work on the #Colecovision thanks to PicoPak CV. No conversions required. Will add support to run Sord M5 games (along with a couple other similar spec hardware) and finally MSX 1 games with an attached Super Game Module. PicoPak is gonna be 🔥

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gorilla.bas @brassicgamer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

For the uninitiated, X-Wing Alliance took everything that was great about its predecessors and excelled at them all. Tricky and engrossing single-player story mode, multiplayer, and a finely-tuned in-flight control system. It also allows you to pilot ships like the Millennium Falcon.

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gorilla.bas @brassicgamer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Whoever it was at Bose who designed the power adaptor for the SoundDock should be shot. 1. It's upside down. 2. The 'clever' design that means you can tidily wrap the lead around the adaptor for neat storage means any double socket it's plugged into becomes a single socket. Faux pas.

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gorilla.bas @brassicgamer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

During lockdown in 2020 I discovered the X-Wing Alliance Upgrade and got quite far into the game. Recently I went back to it but had lost my progress so had to start again. There is a new upgrade for 2025, however, which I can now enjoy fully! The PS3 controller over Bluetooth is great for this.

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gorilla.bas @brassicgamer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Nice one Ron, had a feeling. 🙂

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gorilla.bas @brassicgamer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Thank you whichever lovely soul added me to the Vintage Computing Good Eggs list - I've already had some new followers! (Yes I'm quiet at the moment but it never lasts forever.) go.bsky.app/BaBov2K

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gorilla.bas @brassicgamer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I have requested more info in the hope of helping. 😅

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gorilla.bas @brassicgamer.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

nVidia tech demo devs in 2012 be like: Manager: "we can't objectify women like we did in previous tech demos. Dev: "no problem, we'll make a fairy - they're not real" Manager: "will it be a female fairy?" Dev: "...yes?" Manager: "will she be mostly naked?” Dev: ".......yes?" Manager: "great"

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gorilla.bas @brassicgamer.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Mine was overclocked tbf. Simple FSB tweak.

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gorilla.bas @brassicgamer.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Yeah, I did play Quake but not much. It was maybe the first game that I just couldn't run. And when Quake II came out, I still had the same computer so I didn't play that until a few years ago.

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gorilla.bas @brassicgamer.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I loved Quake when it came out, but my 486DX4/120 did not. So when Duke Nukem 3D appeared and it ran brilliantly on my 486, I was very happy indeed. Quake may have been superior technologically, but Duke 3D was the better game for multiple reasons. Can't believe both are 30 years old.

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gorilla.bas @brassicgamer.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Pretty much. I've owned this game since I bought the Orange Box in 2008 or something ridiculous 🤣

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gorilla.bas @brassicgamer.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Completed Portal for the first time. 😅

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vswitchzero @vswitchzero.com · 25/06/2026

Happy 28th birthday to Windows 98! Released June 25th, 1998. Enjoy a two minute time-lapse video I did a few years back of the full installation process 🙂 youtu.be/2IvyM__2sNI #retrocomputing #windows98

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Windows 98 Installed in Under 2 Minutes - Timelapse!

YouTube video by vswitchzero

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Linotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

As heat waves intensify, remember that the first job of a data centre, powered by hundreds of fossil fuel generators, is to keep hot GPUs, running at maximum energy+waste heat, as cool as possible. Under capitalism, useless computers get power, heat, cooling, shelter, water, before humans will

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☀️🌸idspispopd🥀🌙 @bhaalspawn.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Deus Ex (2000) is now as old as Taito's Speed Race (1974) was when Deus Ex came out.

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gorilla.bas @brassicgamer.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Didn't know what this was about but Lee's video was right under this post on my timeline so now I know!

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gorilla.bas @brassicgamer.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Sorry you went through this Lee. Gonna join the new one immediately!

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gorilla.bas @brassicgamer.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

That's hilarious! I used to throw these batteries in my dad's log fire when i was a kid then sit in the next room until I heard a *bang* followed by him shouting "bloody resin!” 🤣

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gorilla.bas @brassicgamer.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I'm still planning to make a spot welder one day. I understand a transformer from a microwave should be sufficient for the job?

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gorilla.bas @brassicgamer.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Most importantly, it was released *1 day* before Mario 64.

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