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Editor @nintendolife. Lover of games, coffee, yellow socks. He/him. Profile pic by @jonkristinsson. Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.

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Portalrealm @portalrealm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Batmobile from 1992 film is going up for auction at Julien's Auctions This is the "hero" car - the primary car, screen matched to the majority of on screen appearances. Its 19' 8", so you need a long garage to store it when not using it to pick up the groceries.
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Gavin Lane @dartmonkey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Get down Saturday night m.youtube.com/watch?v=VRUH...
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Pino D'Angiò - Okay okay (1981)
YouTube video by Peer-Southern Productions
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Gavin Lane @dartmonkey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Hot topic for literally dozens of us, but is there a better disc of Star Trek than this? Individually, these episodes might struggle to crack an all-time top 5. But cumulatively? These represent the absolute best of Trek.
The episode list for Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 4 Disc 3. The list reads as follows:
Data’s Day
The Wounded
Devil’s Due
Clues
First Contact
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Gavin Lane @dartmonkey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Metroid Ravenous logo font with the following text:

YOU WOULDN'T
EAT A METROID
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Gavin Lane @dartmonkey.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
They’ve got some extremely neat exhibits (moon rock, the world’s first electric train, 16th century books, ships, helicopters, CERN stuff) at Milan’s Science Museum. But they really pull out the big guns in the kids’ play lab:
A 2024 Revell model of the USS Voyager from Star Trek: Voyager. It is hanging upside down in an illuminated, rectangular box in the ceiling. The interior of the box is purple and it’s covered with clear Perspex. The surrounding ceiling tiles are white with small coloured strips along one edge, also illuminated.
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Gavin Lane @dartmonkey.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Everybody 1-2-Direct
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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing
Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.
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Gavin Lane @dartmonkey.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Can’t imagine many of you have seen it, so can confirm that the new Spiderman film is good with some really great bits. (Non)specifically, a moment of such exquisite cruelty it’s up there with the dad-taxi scene in Homecoming. Emotional and twisty and excellent
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Gavin Lane @dartmonkey.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Most important odyssey rn is @jeffgerstmann.com’s N64 journey, for science. Just finished Ep 3 but can’t wait to see him get to Body Harvest, Ep1 Racer and Banjo. N64 is my bag, but in Science we trust
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Gavin Lane @dartmonkey.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
A very happy @84play.bsky.social day to all who celebrate!
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Cheers Toast
Alt: Jimmy Stewart in Rear Window raising a glass.
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Gavin Lane @dartmonkey.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I felt dirty picking this up, but needs must when it’s delisted without warning. Was a racing game ever not improved by the addition of dinosaurs?
A code-in-a-box copy of Cruis’n Blast for Nintendo Switch.
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Gavin Lane @dartmonkey.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
For any/everyone who needs it after a long old week 👍
Dale Cooper from Twin Peaks giving a good, solid thumbs up with a confident, positive expression on his face. Surrounding him are positive phrases rendered in white text (all lower case, sans serif, sizes vary).

Clockwise from the top left, text reads:
“you are a valuable human being”
“keep doing your best”
“good work”
“i love you”
“you should probably have some coffee”
“i like your outfit”
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
blogged it aftermath.site/microsoft-xb...
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You Don't Have To Hand It To Microsoft For A Well-Planned Bloodbath
People are being laid off in a horrendous job market. You do not have to praise the muddled prose of the rich and insulated.
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Gavin Lane @dartmonkey.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
What a total clusterfuck* *not that one, or that one, or that one, or—
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Gavin Lane @dartmonkey.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
This days old when I realise Beck isn’t singing “Someone grab the door” in Loser
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Gavin Lane @dartmonkey.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Good manners never go out of fashion, what-what.
A copy of Gentleman Space Adventurer Quarterly, a Star Fox 64-themed supplement which came free with N64 Magazine issue 8.
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Gavin Lane @dartmonkey.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Could be looking at a 10 here
A screenshot from Nintendo’s new not-WarioWare game for mobile, Pictonico. Pic shows a crazy scientist with my face thinking of other people in different costumes, also with my face.A screenshot from Nintendo’s new not-WarioWare game for mobile, Pictonico. My face on the front of a toy train.A screenshot from Nintendo’s new not-WarioWare game for mobile, Pictonico. My face on a banana.A screenshot from Nintendo’s new not-WarioWare game for mobile, Pictonico. Shows my face on a body wearing a Denpa Man/Teletubby-style blue onesie.
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Gavin Lane @dartmonkey.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Picture of the starship USS Enterprise (bloody D) flying toward the camera through a starfield. Title text reads “Who Shot Mr. Worf?”
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Gavin Lane @dartmonkey.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
It’s a full-time job
A screenshot from Indiana Jones and the Great Circle showing a pile of Fascists  unconscious next to a door in an ornate building with fancy furniture. Viewed in first-person, an arm holding a truncheon-like item appears on the right.
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Gavin Lane @dartmonkey.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Helluva build. Is there a more accurate Lego set dimensions-wise?
An original Nintendo Game Boy on a wooden tabletop next to the Lego version.
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Gavin Lane @dartmonkey.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Totally 100% absolutely #RandomGameSaturday
A big-box copy of Lylat Wars (Star Fox 64) for N64.
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RJ Palmer 🔜 LBX 637 @rj-palmer.com · 01/05/2026
good tweet
screenshot of a very long rant tweet about the state of technology. Its too long to paste into the alt text
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Gavin Lane @dartmonkey.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Life, uh, found a way. (to capture Goldblum likeness at 7mm)
The plastic head of Ian Malcolm wearing glasses from the X-Plus 1/35 scale Jurassic Park T-rex model, in the palm of my hand.
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Gavin Lane @dartmonkey.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Hills of beans on this blue marble. #ArtemisII
A picture of the earth as taken by the crew of Artemis II. Via https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8jzr423p9o
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Dr. Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
We are sending people to the moon for the first time since 1972 TODAY. Don’t let this historic moment pass you by! 🧪🔭
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Gavin Lane @dartmonkey.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
SFA is great. It swings, hits hard when it does & the acting and production are absolute top shelf. Holly Hunter goes straight into top 3 Captains, the Athena is a hell of a starship & that Sisko episode?!? Jesus, what a show. Haters seem like great people I’d 100% enjoy meeting at a party.
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Gavin Lane @dartmonkey.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Nintendo improved on this feature-wise, but the look and feel of this upgrade was just 👨‍🍳👌 So smooth and comfortable. My OG was red but this blue is also beautiful:
A blue and black Nintendo 3DS XL.The top right corner detail of a blue and black Nintendo 3DS XL.The bottom right corner of a blue and black Nintendo 3DS XL. The depth of metallic-style blue is very sexy.
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Hit Points by Nathan Brown @hitpoints.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
On Phil Spencer newsletter.hitpoints.co/362-dank-spe...
Throughout it all, even when things went bad, Spencer clearly understood games as a medium, a profession, and a business. Having an Actual Game Guy at the top of a big gaming company is far rarer than it should be, and while there was a lot of facade to Spencer — particularly towards the end, when he used faux-candour and his gaming credentials to try to mask the godawful shitfest he had spawned — I imagine this is the aspect of him we will come to miss the most. Heartening though it is to at last see a woman in the big chair in this most historically blokey of industries, I do not see much in Asha Sharma’s track record to suggest things are about to get better. (And that’s before we get into all the birthrater stuff.)

So, yeah. Phil was a good bloke, and he did some good stuff. I believe his heart was in the right place right up until the end — but unfortunately for him, and the rest of us, Microsoft these days is no place for hearts. Let’s have a quick look at the three big moments where, to my mind, it all went wrong for Phil Spencer.
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Gavin Lane @dartmonkey.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Jesus. Video games
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Gavin Lane @dartmonkey.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Me when I plug in a USB-A the right way up first time
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woody from toy story is dancing in front of a red wall
Alt: Woody from Toy Story looking outrageously smug, grinning and flicking a pointed finger at an imagined onlooker while simultaneously flicking his hat up
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Gavin Lane @dartmonkey.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I’m back in my 2020 happy place, making Star Trek stuff in ACNH.
A screenshot from Animal Crossing: New Horizons showing a character dressed in a Star Trek TNG uniform sitting in the corner of a room decorated to look like Ten Forward on the Enterprise D.
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Gavin Lane @dartmonkey.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
A long way from launch, and in need of repair following a severe gravitational anomaly in December. But despite it all, she still gets the pulse racing any day, and double on 17/01. 🖖
A partly assembled, partly painted 1/1400 scale 3D printed resin model of the USS Enterprise G from Horner Shipyards, as designed by Bill Krause, as assembled and painted by yours truly. Viewed from the rear, above.A partly assembled, partly painted 1/1400 scale 3D printed resin model of the USS Enterprise G from Horner Shipyards, as designed by Bill Krause, as assembled and painted by yours truly. Viewed from below looking at the front of the ship.A partly assembled, partly painted 1/1400 scale 3D printed resin model of the USS Enterprise G from Horner Shipyards, as designed by Bill Krause, as assembled and painted by yours truly. Saucer mainly, viewed from the front and slightly above the midline of the ship (nacelles visible, secondary hull and deflector dish obscured by the saucer).
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Gavin Lane @dartmonkey.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
If “too many deltas” is the biggest criticism, I think we’re off to a fabulous start. 🖖
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Gavin Lane @dartmonkey.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Lego set showing 11 featureless, single-colour minifigures of different hues standing beside each other in a line.
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Gavin Lane @dartmonkey.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
One final bag and boom, ready to launch. A couple of mods I want to make before taking her out but construction is essentially finished. It’s hard to convey just how big this ship is! She’s a beauty
The Lego USS Enterprise D, viewed from the front, below.The Lego USS Enterprise D, viewed from above.A nacelle from the Lego USS Enterprise D held in my left hand.
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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
A crucial piece of the canon.
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Gavin Lane @dartmonkey.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Still only 9 bags in with this 30-bag beauty! I’m thinking about options to mod the deflector that keep that the cool printed piece but make it closer to its onscreen look. A sticker is the obvious solution, but I’m exploring other ideas.
The Stardrive section of the Lego USS Enterprise, missing nacelles.The stock look of the deflector dish with a black 6x4 plate behind the transparent blue pieces.The black piece replaced with a bright red plate.The plate replaced with a mixture of dark red and orange plates, plus a white 2x2 rotating plate with a grey centre.
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Gavin Lane @dartmonkey.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Make it snow, etc. Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals.
The Lego USS Enterprise D, freshly unwrapped beneath a Christmas tree.
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Gavin Lane @dartmonkey.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Roughly 15% of my life now is finding these and trying to peel them off cleanly.
An IKEA SAMLA storage box with a sticker on the lid. Someone is trying to peel the sticker off with their left index finger.
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Gavin Lane @dartmonkey.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Time for one of these I think
Dale Cooper from Twin Peaks giving a good, solid thumbs up with a confident, positive expression on his face. Surrounding him are positive phrases rendered in white text (all lower case, sans serif, sizes vary).

Clockwise from the top left, text reads:
“you are a valuable human being”
“keep doing your best”
“good work”
“i love you”
“you should probably have some coffee”
“i like your outfit”
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Gavin Lane @dartmonkey.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
I’d take this further in how it once (and still can, at its best) cross divides. That anybody could ever say ST wasn’t political is INSANE to me, but also quite wonderful. How many closed minds were gradually opened, possibly over the course of many years, to the possibilities of… existence?
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a man wearing a black head scarf looks at another man 's head
Alt: Q from Star Trek TNG going to whisper a secret into Captain Picard’s ear, but stopping at the last moment and smiling, knowingly.
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Gavin Lane @dartmonkey.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
A few big 35th anniversaries today, but let’s not forget this one. Whaddagame!
A PAL boxed copy of Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse for the Sega Mega Drive.
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Earl Grey Memes Club @earlgreymemes.club · 19/11/2024
#Generations30th #StarTrekGenerations
Shot from Star Trek: Generations showing the Enterprise D saucer section flying above the landscape on Veridian III. It looks like a flying saucer. X-Files style text reads: I WANT TO BELIEVE.
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Gavin Lane @dartmonkey.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Yep, tracks.
A screenshot from the Onedrive’s  ‘Looking Back’ tab. Image shows Austin Powers cross-eyed.

Text reads “Looking Back - Last week - over time”
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Gavin Lane @dartmonkey.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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a man is sitting in a chair with his hands on his chin
Alt: Khan from Star Trek 2 is sitting in the captain’s chair with his hands on his chin. He then sees something in the view screen and jumps up pointing.
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Gavin Lane @dartmonkey.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Have a good one, everyone. X
A baked pumpkin, ready for a pie.A baked pumpkin cut in half, ready for a pie.
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Gavin Lane @dartmonkey.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Luigi's Mansion 3 character DLC when
Still of icon animation showing Resetti vacuuming leaves in the Animal Crossing: New Horizons 3.0 update.
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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
For gamers who aren't in game dev, you should know that we are in one of the worst periods in game dev history in terms of industry stability and the reason you're not seeing that play out through products is because the average development window of games is 3-7 years so it hasn't reached you yet.
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Gavin Lane @dartmonkey.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Masking, ready to spray some sensor bands. Sensor bands? Yep, let’s go with sensor bands.
The saucer of a 1/1400 scale USS Enterprise G model with Tamiya 3mm and 1mm tap masking a strip around the rim.The saucer rim of a 1/1400 scale USS Enterprise G model with three thin sensor bands masked with yellow Tamiya tape,  ready to be airbrushed.
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Jörg Hillebrand @gaghyogi49.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Can I share something with you? I'm really really scared of the day when one of the #StarTrekTNG main cast members dies. I remember the days when DeForest Kelley and Leonard Nimoy died vividly. But #TNG is *my* #StarTrek. I just can't imagine at all how I will cope. 🙈
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