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Mark Nicholson @confracto.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

How was that Speakeasy? It was on my list of things to consider doing in Tokyo, but that city is overwhelming.

Mark Nicholson @confracto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Anywhere you want. There's a number of Alternate Universe series that are pretty self contained, or just start with the original series (or it's 3 compilation films if you want brevity). Several series rotate for free on the youtube channel, which currently has Unicorn. Your gacha's from Unicorn.

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Mark Nicholson @confracto.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The most important thing about Gunpla is the following official statement, "Gunpla Is Freedom". You can do whatever you want. If you want it to not count, that's exactly how it works.

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Mark Nicholson @confracto.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Was just playing it last month. Still cool seeing a bunch of the 'Mechs I made in it like the Javelin and Assassin.

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Mark Nicholson @confracto.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bringing Canada flag pins on our trip to hand out to everyone we meet as token gifts has been so much fun. #travel #japan #canada

Canada flag pins on a table at Lake Biwa

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Mark Nicholson @confracto.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Best i can do is a balm of butter flavoured black thunder chocolate bars.

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Mark Nicholson @confracto.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Meanwhile, I just bought a suitcase for all the hard to find gunpla I've acquired in the last few days of this Japan trip. One Surugaya even had all the rare kits organized by colour.

A shelf of p-bandai gunpla kits organized by colour in a surugaya store

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Mark Nicholson @confracto.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ah! We're only a short distance away in Kobe.

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Mark Nicholson @confracto.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Ok, I'm feeling pretty good about this. 6 days to get from Canada to Japan just to follow through on a cheap candy bar recommendation. Not at all related to a trip planned months ago. Tried the milk yea so far. Likely more dangerous with a Costco membership.

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Mark Nicholson @confracto.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Oh Sweet! I'm going to be able to act on this recommendation in a couple days. Thank you.

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Mark Nicholson @confracto.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Ah, yes. The good ones, which are still also built from stealing all our work.

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Mark Nicholson @confracto.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Yeah, and we're gonna keep doing it. (This is a threat, but the kind where we're threatening to keep showing up and buying your work consistently over the years exactly because it supports you.)

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Erika Ishii @erikaishii.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This week, Microsoft GUTTED Bethesda, Zenimax, iD, & more. The C-suites treat the workers who make the games we love as disposable and don’t care they’re destroying the future of the industry! Let them know it has to STOP here: feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/ide...

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Mark Nicholson @confracto.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

We continue to enjoy that this story is how we remain connected. ...I mean, apart from reading your comics ;)

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Mark Nicholson @confracto.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I recall that yes, 2player very much was incredibly difficult. This game was cool, but punishingly hard.

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dgbaumgart @dgbaumgart.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Like, the fundamental thing with "AI" - it all starts with a massive and ongoing act of theft (or infringement, if you like). It's a few billionaire, or trillionaire, owned tech companies stealing everything we ever did then selling it back as a worse version of the work we all do.

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Mark Nicholson @confracto.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

An offhand line during a description of the contents of a cabin about a basket. Players didn't trust that basket, but they sure did carry along "the untrustworthy basket" with them for the rest of the adventure.

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Mark Nicholson @confracto.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I still regret that there was no way to use the timby colours from the non-enhanced scenes (tan/red-brown/blue) that you can see in the leftmost versions here.

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Mark Nicholson @confracto.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I remember midway through MW5:Mercs development, 2 designers spent a day hooking up an oculus just to see if they could. I remember being called over to be the test pilot, spending 10 minutes in a Shadowhawk cockpit, and never ever wanting to leave.

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Mark Nicholson @confracto.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I'm having nightmares about deciding to give Corsair variants different arms, again.

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Mark Nicholson @confracto.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

The story you wrote above proves that true on it's own. Classic 76 antics.

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Mark Nicholson @confracto.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I'm so excited to learn that for once I get to have you enjoy what I work on instead of so much of the other way around.

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