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Mike Costello @buffplankchest.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Finally played Injustice 2 online. I will absolutely never main this game. I'm just not compatible with the NRS gameplay philosophy. Too slow. Too clunky. Too awkward.

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Mike Costello @buffplankchest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I love the look of Fatal Fury, but then I remembered they put Ronaldo and a French asshole DJ in the game. Even if you ignore that, there's no one in the roster I'd even want to main. Maybe KOF XV is my new home?

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Mike Costello @buffplankchest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's been 3 months since I dropped SF6, and I'm essentially mainless right now. Went back to Strive. That lasted all of a week. Picked up Injustice 2. Love the single player content, but I can't see myself putting in the work for this game.

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Mike Costello @buffplankchest.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My current low-stake conspiracy theory is Crunchy Roll keeps adding more and more isekai slop with stupid names because we'll all eventually cave in and watch some of this garbage. It MUST be fun if there's THIS much of it out there!

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Mike Costello @buffplankchest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Hustle culture" and it's just an overworked idiot being taken advantage of by their corporate masters.

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Mike Costello @buffplankchest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"☝️🤓 Umm, music is subjective, and you're no more qualified to judge what constitutes good music than the people who enjoy Taylor Swift." Some dork in the replies. Music might be subjective, but shareholders approved slop isn't music, so I'll judge the fuck out of it all I want.

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Mike Costello @buffplankchest.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Rod Stewart. Ocean air. Feeling good. 🤙

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Mike Costello @buffplankchest.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

First time back on the board in two months. Took a part-time job that ate up my Sundays, so no more Sundays with the bois for a while. And now, for some God forsaken reason, I'm back in school three days a week. Finally settled in enough to start cutting out a slice of "me" time, and it felt GOOD.

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Mike Costello @buffplankchest.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Missed Connection: You Pointed at Me. I saw you at the outdoor event. You were a weird old man in a blue shirt and hat, with a face like expired pastrami. Your pointed at me and turned away when I smiled. We've got beef to settle, old timer! 🥊

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Adam @adamolson1975.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I'm currently shopping for high vol. Short length surfboards if anybody has any tips ... I think in the 6-ft length I could get into the 40 L volume that I'm looking for... But if anybody has any suggestions. I need high volume, and preferably under 6 ft youtube.com/shorts/yZhtW...

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Rob's Seaside and Go Pad

YouTube video by Firewire Surfboards

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Mike Costello @buffplankchest.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Every fucking time, dude. Every single time.

Tweet: Every heartwarming human interest story in america is like "he raised $20,000 to keep 200 orphans from being crushed in the orphan-crushing machine" and then never asks why an orphan-crushing machine exists or why you'd need to pay to prevent it from being used.

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Mike Costello @buffplankchest.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

And then in the sequel, her union rep would've told those corporate stooges grilling her to take a hike. 💪

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Mike Costello @buffplankchest.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Parker and Brett wouldn't have had to keep bringing up the bonus situation to management if they were unionized. They would've been comfortable knowing that the union had their backs if Weyland-Utani tried to shortchange them.

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Mike Costello @buffplankchest.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Decided my next JRPG adventure will be these two, back to back. I played a good chunk of Wild Arms 1 when I was 13, but never finished it. I've only ever watched my brother play 2. Started 1 tonight, and it's insane how well I remember this game. It really stuck with me, and I can't wait to beat it.

Game cases for "Wild Arms" and "Wild Arms 2," both PlayStation 1 titles.

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Mike Costello @buffplankchest.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I was waiting for the punchline, but then I realized that you were being completely serious. 😬

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Mike Costello @buffplankchest.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Inevitably gonna crash and burn. 💪

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Mike Costello @buffplankchest.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I was today years old when I learned Peter Cullen did the Toonami promotions, including this masterpiece. Thank you, Peter!

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Gundam Wing Remastered Trailer | Toonami 25th Anniversary

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Mike Costello @buffplankchest.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

THIS is how I find out Peter Cullen died? Fuck, man. Transformers were a MASSIVE part of my childhood, and when I got back into them as an adult, it felt like being reunited with an old friend. I need to just sit in silence for a while because I can't deal with anything right now.

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Mike Costello @buffplankchest.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Sharing my buddy's mostly self-filmed curb skating edit. Cut to a song written and performed by another friend in our skate group.

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My Curb Edit – 1 Year of Curb Skating

YouTube video by Kweed

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Tina Pratt @enshogirl.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

5 new pages of The Paul Reveres is now up! Definitely didn’t run these pages past the editor. 🤭 paul-reveres.com/comic/issue-... #webcomics

Graphic for the latest update of the webcomic, The Paul Reveres. Shows a panel from the newest page with British soldiers outside of a mansion at night.

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Mike Costello @buffplankchest.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Holy fuck. I finished FF12. Genuinely didn't think I was going to. At least not tonight. Somehow found the right tempo of healing and boss damage to pull it off. Fucking crazy. Man, that was a great story to play through!

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Ffxii Final Fantasy Xii

Alt: FFXII Fran (left) and Balthier (right) celebrate after kicking the final boss's ass.

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Tina Pratt @enshogirl.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

OP14 Boa mats are now available and come in 4 color variations! We also now offer cloth and rubber backed mats. 🐍 #optcg #onepiece

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Mike Costello @buffplankchest.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I don't know any scales, I just make a lot of fuzzed out, reverbed to Hell noise.

Seath the Scaleless, from the video game Dark Souls

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Mike Costello @buffplankchest.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Watched this one recently, too! It's absolutely a mess, but it's an entertaining mess and I admit that I enjoyed the ride.

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Tina Pratt @enshogirl.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Slowly making progress on finishing up coloring the comic pages for this month. Doesn’t help I keep drawing the next batch of pages at the same time.

Comic work in progress (flat colors) of a panel of The Paul Reveres. British soldiers stand outside a building. A crowd gathers.

Sketch of August, a Hessian Soldier, and Willam, a British Solider, from the webcomic, The Paul Reveres.

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Mike Costello @buffplankchest.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The Google Maps reviews of this prefab piece of shit park is filled with pictures of dudes demonstrating how uneven and jank the obstacles are, and it's probably the funniest skateboard-related thing I've ever seen. 😂

Skaters pretending to slam to demonstrate how bad and uneven the obstacles are in a poorly made early 2000's skatepark in Hooksett, New Hampshire.

A skater pretending to be completely folded by a shitty prefab skatepark ramp. He explains in his review: "The transitions are awful, no roll up for anything, nowhere good to skate flatground"

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Mike Costello @buffplankchest.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Definitely a flawed movie that feels more like a TV pilot than a movie, but it's oddly one of my favorites in the Fox X-Men movies. I like the minimal cast and lower stakes. It's nice to watch a superhero movie about self-discovery in a sea of "end of the world" stories.

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Tina Pratt @enshogirl.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Working on 5 new pages for the August update on my webcomic. I missed Benedict.

Sketch panel from a future page of The Paul Reveres Webcomic featuring Benedict.

Sketch panel from a future page of The Paul Reveres Webcomic featuring Benedict and General Clinton.

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

By Ward Sutton. Truth. Stop reposting AI slop cartoons.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 28/07/2026

Basic rules of society that we need to re-establish post Covid: - You actually have to stop for red lights and stop signs. - If you want to watch videos or listen to music in a shared public space, you need to use headphones. - Your pet does not need to go everywhere with you. - Don’t litter.

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Kosher Nostra @harfenist.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Spoof ad in London

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Mike Costello @buffplankchest.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I need to stop scrolling down on LinkedIn. I *NEVER* need to read anyone's thought pieces, even if I agree with them. They're *NEVER* worth the time and energy.

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Mike Costello @buffplankchest.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Rest in peace, Sam Neill. Such a fucking bummer. He's one of those actors that when they show up on screen, you feel a sense of joy. Especially when you're watching something that you didn't know he was in.

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Mike Costello @buffplankchest.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

If there was ever a time to start reading The Paul Reveres, it would be now

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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 05/07/2026

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

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Tina Pratt @enshogirl.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

There’s 30 minutes left for July 4th! 🇺🇸 The Paul Reveres webcomic has come back after 2 years! Read all SEVEN new pages starting here: paul-reveres.com/comic/issue-... New pages will be posted monthly.

Cropped page from the webcomic, The Paul Reveres. Shows 3 Hessian soldiers around a tavern keeper.

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Mike Costello @buffplankchest.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Are you telling me that he did not, in fact, get his "first real six-string" that he bought at the Five and Dime? This was all a lie? Now I don't know what to believe!

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

By Nick Anderson.

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Martin Rak @martinrak.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

A Midsummer Night’s Dream After several attempts, I finally managed to photograph fireflies in the Czech woods.

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