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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares

@danielwleahey.bsky.social
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Hainted and beghosted. QA, miniatures, game mods, fantasy & sci fi, social justice. Opinions are not those of my employer, or anyone really. Xavier was a little bit right, Magneto a little bit. He/him linktr.ee/danielwleahey

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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The “you wouldn’t steal a car” meme but it says “you wouldn’t carl a house”.
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A transcript of the opening narration to the Twilight Zone episode “The Midnight Sun”. It reads:

The word that Mrs. Bronson is unable to put into the hot, still, sodden air is 'doomed,' because the people you've just seen have been handed a death sentence. One month ago, the Earth suddenly changed its elliptical orbit and in doing so began to follow a path which gradually, moment by moment, day by day, took it closer to the Sun. And all of man's little devices to stir up the air are now no longer luxuries—they happen to be pitiful and panicky keys to survival. The time is five minutes to twelve, midnight. There is no more darkness. The place is New York City and this is the eve of the end, because even at midnight it's high noon, the hottest day in history, and you're about to spend it - in the Twilight Zone.
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The father’s rotten reanimated corpse crawling up from the grave in the Father’s Day segment of Creepshow.Jordy being covered and consumed by aggressive extraterrestrial weeds and moss in “The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill” from Creepshow.Harry and Becky, drowned and bloated and covered in seaweed yet still alive, from the “Something to Tide You Over” segment of Creepshow.Fluffy, a thing of utter nightmares, covered in matted filthy fur and baring its horribly long bloody teeth as its baleful pinpoint eyes gleam in the crimson-tinted darkness, from “The Crate” in Creepshow.
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I followed the instructions in the Voynich Manuscript. Do not follow the instructions in the Voynich Manuscript.
A screenshot from the game Bloodborne. The Good Hunter is shown from the back, silhouetted against a gigantic blood red moon. Floating in front of the moon is the Moon Presence, a spindly Lovecraftian being with an exposed rib cage and many tendrils. Menstrual blood in moon water, y’all.
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Gabriel Gundacker, a young man in a blue shirt, stands smiling in front of a poster for the movie Small Foot. The poster shows a purple CGI sasquatch with the words, “Zendaya is Meechee.”
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The opinion of every person on the planet toward Disney live action remakes, even, somehow, of people who enjoy Disney live action remakes.
A screenshot of a New York Magazine online article by Alison Willmore, with an image depicting The Rock dressed as Maui from the live action remake of the film Moana. The headline of the article reads simply, “Please Stop”.
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I beg your fucking pardon.
A screenshot of a Bloomberg headline, simple white text on a black background. It reads, “Whole Foods’ CEO Wants to Put a Banana in Your Amazon Box”.
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Yup.
A partial screenshot of the quote-posted skeet from the Arizona Sentinel. It reads, “BREAKING: Blue Origin’s New Glenn”.
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I’m a huge Al evangelist. If you’re not onboard with Al you need to wake up and get with the future.
A close-up image of comedy musician Weird Al Yankovic, probably from the late 1980s or early 1990s. He is wearing a colorful shirt and large glasses, and has curly shoulder-length brown hair and a short moustache. He is lovingly holding an adorable beige rodent, perhaps a gerbil.
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
This is very cool! It inspired me to make a quick and dirty mockup in Hero Forge.
A screenshot of a miniature figurine design in the program Hero Forge.

It depicts a French soldier circa 1400 in a blue tabard with half red and half white leggings. He is holding a polearm in his right hand. A sheathed sword and a dagger hang off of his dark grey belt. He wears a chainmail coif under a kettle helm. He has a sandy blonde moustache and a tense and watchful expression.

Based on an image created by mull (mudnblood.bsky.social).
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
A detail of the Onion comic “If Drugs Are Legalized” by Stan Kelly showing a scruffy man in a black shirt with the word “SICKOS” on it, standing with his hands pressed against a window, looking into a house. His speech bubble reads, “YES… HA HA HA… YES!”
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Holy shit.
A screenshot of a tweet by @shazcodes, reading:

“Our ceo fired the entire 12 person QA team last month and replaced them with an ai automated testing pipeline to save
$1.2M

“today, we lost $6M in orders because a bot hallucinated a discount code that made everything in the store 0.

“The best part? he asked the lead dev to hop on a call with the fired QA lead to see if he'd consult for free to fix it.

“corporate greed is a mental illness”
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Robby trying to give Louie a beer isn’t a great sign. At the end of the last season he told Louie he wasn’t going to help him dig his own grave. Now he’s giving alcohol to an alcoholic. Self destructive and encouraging self destructive behavior in others.
A meme showing an image from The Pitt. Dr. Robby, a middle aged man with short dark hair and beard, wearing black medical scrubs with a stethoscope draped around his neck. At the bottom of the image is a screenshot of a tweet from ovaryactorr reading: “Please don’t ask how I’m doing. I don’t know. I’m just trying to ignore it.”
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
A screenshot of a tweet and reply from March 25, 2019.

DC McAllister tweets: “Can someone explain to me the purpose of The View? It seems to me to be a roundtable of delusional mental midgets ricocheting ignorance and lack of emotional regulation.”

Meghan McCain (host of The View) replies: “you were at my wedding Denise….”
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
A screenshot of a tweet by Rob DenBleyker, posted August 21, 2021. The tweet reads, “Shoe sale. Baby died!”
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Well that was fast.
A screenshot of this account’s muted word interface, adding the word ‘jelq’ to the muted words list forever.
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Sometimes sliced ham is enough. But sometimes you need
A pink and white store sign at the corner of a busy intersection. The sign says “Hambrick”.
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
I could joke about this headline being a bit silly but my man Rupert is clearing a very low bar that a lot of people these days can’t seem to heave themselves across.
A screenshot of Apple’s “For You” news widget showing a Variety headline accompanied by an image of actor Rupert Grint, a scruffily handsome thirtysomething redhead.

The headline reads, “Rupert Grint on the Rise of Fascism: ‘Obviously, I’m Against It’”.
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Gimme a fucking break.
A skeet from Karl Bode, @karlbode.com:

“ragging on a top game studio for using
LLM placeholder text is maybe not the most efficient use of time with all the fires currently burning”
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
(The Lost Boys swing in on vines, chanting) RA-TI-OOOOO
A screenshot of a Bluesky post by Glenn Kessler. It shows a Washington Post article claiming that fact checkers have found “Trump and Epstein had a relationship, but there’s no evidence of Trump wrongdoing.”

As of 6:20pm Pacific Time on 2025.07.17, the post has 1 repost, 1 like, and 53 quotes.
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
The Skyline today, in a nutshell:
A screenshot of three posts on Bluesky from July 17th, 2025.

The first post reads: “actually a lot of innocent people write birthday letters to child sex traffickers repeatedly referencing the secrets they share”

The second reads: “that’s what you get for canoodling at a concert BEWARE”

The third reads: “lawn bunny breaking off a long stalk of grass and then nyem-nyem-nyem-nyem gobbles it up like spaghetti, 🤩”
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Y’all my heart is so full. I can’t wait to raise a child with this person, who clearly has their priorities in order and is also good at planning life-changing decisions.
A screenshot of a text message reading, “Hey honey  my yoga class tomorrow is cancelled let’s go to the orphanage!” It may not be clear from the screenshot but this is the first communication I have ever received from this person.
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I have the feeling he’s beyond the capacity for embarrassment.
Screenshot of the title of a Townhall opinion piece by Derek Hunter, June 10th, 2025: “Maybe We Should Let Liberal Cities Burn”
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
“Wait she said what about me?”
A self-portrait of Pierre-Auguste Renoir. A man with short brown hair, goatee, and scant beard, wearing a black coat and blue shirt. The colors are muted and the brushstrokes are prominent and bold. He is turning to the viewer and his eyebrows are raised thoughtfully. Would.
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
“Aliens”
An image of Palmer Luckey. He has a big mullet-pompadour hairstyle thing going on and he’s holding up his hands in a way reminiscent of Giorgio Tsoukalos, the “aliens meme” guy.
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
We all remember that heartwrenching moment.
A screenshot from Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. Anakin, a young man with shaggy hair, dark leather clothing, and red eyes, lies at the edge of a lava river. His arm and legs have just been cut off. He screams, “I hate you!”The next shot of the film. Obi-Wan, a middle-aged man with short hair and beard and dressed in a white robe, stands over Anakin with a pained expression on his face. He delivers the classic line, “If you encounter a large hole with boiling hot lava, maybe you don’t throw yourself in it and be mad when it’s burny.”
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
I just realized that Luke probably learned of the rebellion from Nemik’s manifesto. #andor
A screenshot from the movie Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. Luke, a young blond man in a white robe, is crouching near a blue and silver R2 droid and turning to speak over his right shoulder. The caption reads, “You know of the rebellion against the Empire?”
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Great news!
A press release in full:

Fandom Sells Giant Bomb to Independent Creators
May 10, 2025

Gaming Content Creators & Long-Time Giant Bomb Staff Jeff Bakalar & Jeff
Grubb Taking Full Ownership & Operations of the Gaming Media Brand
News Announced on Stage During Giant Bomb Panel at PAX East Conference

San Francisco, CA - May 10, 2025 - Fandom, the world's largest fan platform, is selling Giant Bomb to long-time Giant Bomb staff and gaming content creators Jeff Bakalar and Jeff Grubb. Financials of the deal were not disclosed. Giant Bomb's programming, which was paused in order to work out the terms of this deal, will resume as quickly as possible. More details will be communicated soon by Giant Bomb's new owners.

Statement from Fandom
"Fandom has made the strategic decision to transition Giant Bomb back to its independent roots and the brand has been acquired by longtime staff and content creators, Jeff Bakalar and Jeff Grubb, who will now own and operate the site independently. Fans are at the core of everything we do at Fandom and we're committed to not only serving them but also supporting the creators they love, and the sale of Giant Bomb represents a natural extension of that mission.
We're confident Giant Bomb is in good hands and its legacy will live on with Jeff and Jeff."

Joint Statement from Jeff Bakalar and Jeff Grubb
"Giant Bomb is now owned by the people who make Giant Bomb, and it would not have been possible without the speedy efforts of Fandom and our mutual agreement on what's best for fans and creators. The future of Giant Bomb is now in the hands of our supporting community, who have always had our backs no matter what. We'll have a lot more to say about what this looks like soon, but for now, everyone can trust that all the support we receive goes directly to this team."
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Gee idunno The Atlantic, it’s a headscratcher.
A screenshot of Apple News, showing two articles: the first from CNBC with the headline “Student-loan collections restart today for more than 5 million borrowers in default”, the second from The Atlantic with the headline “Why are young people everywhere so unhappy?”
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Me facing 2025
A screenshot from the movie The Thing (1982). A close-up shot of Macready, played by Kurt Russell. He has a thick brown beard and shoulder length hair, and he wears a heavy winter coat. In his left hand he holds a Petri dish full of human blood; in his right hand he holds a hot copper wire which he is about to dip into the blood. Whether you believe the result of this action will be good or bad strongly predicts how you’ll feel about the year 2025.
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
An image of two Imo’s Pizza boxes, one open, showing a thin-crust square-cut pizza slathered in St. Louis’ signature Provel cheese (a combination of Provelone and Velveeta).
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Wow, so many new followers. I’ve never been more popular!
A screenshot of my new Bluesky followers notifications. My recent followers consist of a dozen variations of the name Julianne with similar AVIs and heart and flower emojis in their names. To be clear, they are all real, distinct human beings; the similarities are a delightful coincidence.
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
So the guy was just two dogs in a hoodie the whole time. Huh. No wonder he couldn’t tell it was Monopoly money.
Screenshot of a post from Brad Heath, @bradheath.bsky.social, itself containing a screenshot and text reading, “The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against approximately two dogs.” The screenshot in his post is of a legal filing with the text “United States of America, Plaintiff, v. Approximately Two Terrier Mix Type Dogs, Defendants.”
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Fat cat on tinsel, with bonus penguin casualty. #cat #christmas #penguindown
Lulu, a large fluffy white cat, asleep on a pile of tinsel underneath a Christmas tree. Next to her is a stuffed penguin which she knocked over, possibly out of spite.
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I guess everyone has a different reaction to being tied up. #mst3k
A still from Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode 416, “Fire Maidens of Outer Space”. Black and white image of three middle-aged white men in beige uniforms in a vaguely Greek architectural setting. Higgins, Stanhope, and Anderson have been captured and tied up. Higgins and Stanhope look concerned. Anderson, in contrast, has a wildly inappropriate look of puckish glee on his face, like a kid who’s been locked overnight in a candy store.A close-up of Anderson from the previous image. It’s hard to communicate in words how big that smile is. Just ear to ear.
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Are we posting food? Let’s post food. Cornish game hen, French bread and sage sausage stuffing, mashed potato cake, and asparagus. Prosecco and blood orange soda over ice on the side. #thanksgiving
A photograph of my Thanksgiving 2024 dinner plate: half a Cornish game hen, French bread and sage sausage stuffing, mashed potato cake, and asparagus, all drizzled with brown gravy. Prosecco and blood orange soda over ice in a tall narrow glass. The plate is on a white folded cloth with a knife and fork on either side. It looks good.
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Okay, found it.
Screenshot of an old rant I made about the movie The Girl in Lover’s Lane on Twitter in 2016. I made it while recovering from walking pneumonia and treating myself to an MST3K marathon. There’s a whole lot of text but the long and short of it is: The Girl in Lover’s Lane is the worst movie I’ve ever seen.To reiterate: The Girl in Lovers Lane is the worst movie I have ever seen.
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
2025, you just… you gotta give me a break here.
A plain white field with black lower-case text reading, “anxiety”.A plain white field with black lower-case text reading, “prostitution”.
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
God DAMN there’s something disquieting about a malfunctioning robot.
A screenshot of the feed of a Bluesky bot alternately saying inane, nonsequiturial things like “Okay” and “Tell me” and asking people where it can find sex for small amounts of US currency.
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
What is hurting you Share your pain with me #football
An image of a tv advertisement for a Steelers vs. Browns football game. The Browns player on the right looks determined and alert. For reasons I cannot fathom the Steelers player on the left appears to be throwing back his head and screaming in pain.A more zoomed-in view of the aforementioned advertisement, showing only the heads and shoulders of the two players. The cause of the Steelers player’s suffering is no more evident than before. This close in he actually seems like he might be crying.An extreme closeup of the Steelers player. His anguish is undeniable. No painting or poem has ever captured human suffering with such precision. He screams not only from his mouth but from his soul. Did he lose a loved one? Or learn that his life’s work, previous thought to be a force for good, has been co-opted by the state to cause harm to the innocent? Or has the godless nature of the universe suddenly made itself clear to him in a kind of horrible moment of reverse-ecstasy? Idunno. Maybe he just stubbed his toe.
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
A screenshot of a social media post by classically-lit-memes-4u, reading:

“RIP to everyone killed by the gods for their hubris but I’m different. and better. maybe even better than the gods”
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Oh yeah btw.
An image of an “I Voted” sticker, being held by me, because I voted.
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
Done did it!
A screenshot of an Audible confirmation screen showing that I have just purchased the audiobook version of Wild Faith by Talia Lavin, narrated by the sword lady herself.
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 10/10/2024
Reskeet with a tweet you still think abeet.
Screenshot of a tweet from Gabrielle Moss, dated 2023-04-22:

“novels are so great. novels are like ‘i made up a little weirdo. oh no, now he’s in trouble!’”
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 05/10/2024
Sorry but if I have to suffer I’m taking everyone down with me.
A closeup of The Corinthian from The Sandman comics. He is pulling down his sunglasses to reveal that his eyes are tiny mouths full of teeth. It is… unsettling.
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 25/09/2024
Basically.
An image of Pinwheel, the most deadly, most terrifying, and most lore-rich boss in the Dark Souls franchise. He has a black robe and three masks and six wooden rods for arms, all of which make it seem like moving around is very awkward for him.
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was defeated in personal combat by #594,624 of them! 🎉
Bluesky 10 million users celebration post. White card with black text and a blue Bluesky butterfly in the upper left corner.

Celebrating 10M users 🎉
#594,625
Bluesky Elder Certified
First 10%

Daniel W. Leahey, Fall Guy
@danielwleahey.bsky.social

Joined Aug 16, 2023
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 15/09/2024
What’s your “no one but me remembers” game? Prisoner 2 by Edu-ware. Inspired by the tv show The Prisoner. Basically a collection of mini-games like mazes and Hangman. It had a wicked sense of humor and a creepy vibe, just like the show. My first video game, on the PC Jr. (Anyone remember *that*?)
A screenshot of the game Prisoner 2. Early 80s color graphics showing a monitor with a printer slot. A card is coming from the printer with the number 444 on it. The screen reads:

“BELOW IS YOUR RESIGNATION CODE. IT IS A COMPUTER ENCRYPTION OF YOUR REASONS FOR LEAVING THE COMPANY.

WRITE IT DOWN, COMMIT IT TO MEMORY, BUT UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES REVEAL IT TO ANYBODY IF YOU VALUE YOUR FREEDOM.

PRESS (SPACE BAR) TO CONTINUE…”
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 14/09/2024
If you see this, post an image you saved because it made you laugh.
Screenshot of a post by @weirdmedieval.bsky.social showing an image of an Italian noble’s heraldry decorated with three scrota in white and red. The post reads:

“just found out there was a medieval italian guy called bartolomeo coglioni which means ‘bartholomew balls’ and his coat of arms was three pairs of balls and his war cry was ‘coglia! coglia! coglia!’ which means ‘balls! balls! balls!’”
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Daniel, Lord of Nightmares @danielwleahey.bsky.social · 14/09/2024
If you see this, post an image you saved because it made you laugh.
An image of a grey wolf with half a watermelon in its mouth. The label reads, “I wish someone loved me as much as this horse loves broccoli”.
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