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Daryl Surat

@darylsurat.bsky.social
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I'm an engineer, podcaster, and Otaku USA Magazine contributor driven insane from pop culture overload and isolation. It makes me scream a lot with my fingers. www.animeworldorder.com

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SUDDEN・DESU @sudden-desu.net · 5h
And what if I told you there was a Indian girl character planned for DOA2? And that (some of) her data is still present in the older DC prototype dumps?
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perry @perryseity.bsky.social · 2h
apparently its been four years since witch from mercury... that doesn't feel real at all. i made some tiny miorines and sulettas to celebrate
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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 1h
lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd.
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Sean | Zimmerit @sean.zimmerit.moe · 3h
A long time in the making, I polished up a long piece I've been writing about the production history of Mospeada to celebrate the TV debut (43 years ago today! of this unique and beloved mecha series. Read it here: www.zimmerit.moe/ride-on-lone...
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Ride on, Lonely Soldier Boy: The Production History of Mospeada
On the anniversary of Mospeada’s TV premiere, we take a look at the unusual production history behind one of the more iconic shows to come out of the gunpla boom.
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 4h
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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Handlebar-Orion X.🟦ᴺᵉʳᵈʸ ᵖʳᵒᵍʳᵉˢˢᶦᵛᵉ ᵠᵘᵃᵈʳᵒᵒⁿ ʲᵉʷ @handlebarorionx.bsky.social · 8h
#Dragongate had a beautiful send off and a 10 bell salute to one of the very best gaijin to have ever wrestled in Dragongate. PAC. Dragon Kid couldn't hold back the tears remembering his old rival and former Junction Three stable mate #wrestlesky #AEW #dragongatenetwork #ThankYouPAC #RIPPAC
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 16h
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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Anime News Network @animenewsnetwork.com · 13h
Voice actor Naoki Bandō — whose four-decade career includes roles in Yo-kai Watch and Gundam: The Origin — has died at 69 years old.
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Voice Actor Naoki Bandō Dies at 69
Career spanned more than 4 decades; voiced Robonyan in Yo-kai Watch, Minovsky in Gundam: The Origin
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Bob Geiger @bobgeiger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If there's an election coming up, it's time for MAGA media to start inventing migrant caravans to demonize immigrants. Trump supporters, is the caravan in the room with us right now? www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...
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Fox News is running its midterms migrant caravan playbook again
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Good Smile Company @en.goodsmile.com · 15h
GSC Figure Update! Good Smile Company Magic Knight Rayearth Nendoroid Hikaru Shidou/Umi Ryuuzaki/Fu Hououji Stay tuned for more information coming soon! #MagicKnightRayearth #nendoroid #goodsmile
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Cilvia @giganide.bsky.social · 22h
I LOVE OPA OPA
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botoggle @botoggle.bsky.social · 15h
Gotta be honest with you, a game opening with an options screen allowing me to disable tutorials while also warning me that it will "alter the onboarding experience" gives me some of the worst vibes imaginable
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Perry “Bastard Pac-AckAckAckAckAck You Outta Know By Now” Normal @perrynormal.bsky.social · 16h
Ospreay actually name dropped a different UK indie guy (Farrell, not Farrelly) but the rest of what you said stands.
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botoggle @botoggle.bsky.social · 16h
One of the funniest things about achievements is when you play an adventure game and one pops for "reached the opening title drop" and less than 60% of players have it
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Peter G @kingsigy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Even before AI, I saw this first hand when I left Destructoid to join TheGamer. Destructoid didn't pay me well at all, but allowed a ton of freedom with regard to editorial. TheGamer also didn't pay well and I had ridiculous guidelines to hit. It sucked the life out of me.
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Carli Boo-locci 👻 @carlivelocci.com · 01/10/2026
Games media is not only unhealthy because there aren't jobs. For years, games media (journalism in general, really) has run on a deeply unhealthy system that incentivized the worst kind of writing and devalued the labor of writers and other creators.
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ari velazquez 🌯 @ari.velazquez.fyi · 01/10/2026
steam: this game you've had installed for two years but never played has an update. we'll download it next week me: no you'll download it right now motherfucker. and i will sit here and watch it download. steam: so you're gonna play it? me: fuck you
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Daryl Surat @darylsurat.bsky.social · 16h
Normally, I would hesitate at bringing in another longtime veteran when you got guys already there, but the Death Riders are regrettably down a man since the untimely loss of PAC, and Claudio can certainly say they need to "raise the bar" in the aftermath. Plus, Will did just namedrop him last night
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 21h
Musk’s AI chatbot Grok reportedly encouraged Trump to capture Venezuela’s president
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Musk’s AI chatbot Grok reportedly encouraged Trump to capture Venezuela’s president
President Trump reportedly asked for Grok's opinion before invading Venezuela and capturing Nicolás Maduro.
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Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 23h
1 October 2026 marks thirty years since Nadesico started airing.
Aestevalis units being prepared. Akito disconsolate in front of Gekiganger.Various characters burst comically through a door.Prospector stands in front of a projected image of the Nadesico.
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うえだ @uedymummy0921.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
10月だ〜!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Please, for the love of God, can the media stop calling random cranks who write fan fiction about their personal heroes in the past "historians."
Geoff Shepard, a former Nixon aide turned Watergate historian and revisionist, recently gave a two-hour presentation at Justice Department headquarters that laid out his theory that the deep state took Nixon down. The title of his 78-page slide deck: “Watergate As Lawfare.”
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING WSJ: The Trump Justice Department is reviewing whether the special prosecutor's office that investigated Watergate committed misconduct. A revisionist historian went to DOJ HQ to present his case that Richard Nixon and his associates weren't treated fairly.
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Exclusive | Decades After Watergate, Justice Department Reviews Whether Nixon Got a Raw Deal
A revisionist historian went to the DOJ headquarters to present his case that the former president and his associates weren’t treated fairly.
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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026
Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...
A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is. Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol
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Daryl Surat @darylsurat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I never liked Half-Life even when it was new, to the point that it is 2026 & I have not bothered to play Half-Life 2. Not even my usual "I installed it and never started it" laziness. I only kept my copy of Half-Life because there were beta mods for these things called Counter-Strike & Day of Defeat
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
His vocabulary is so limited it’s like reading a transcript of Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, if Koko were a white nationalist
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🦇Bram Stoker’s Grantula🦇 @grantthethief.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hey folks, after some delay I’ve got a brand new Blade Licking Thieves podcast for you! This time it’s our review of the seminal 1980 film Be Forever Yamato. In this one we discuss not only this massive work, but how people can approach a long-running series with such a rich history. Enjoy!
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#126: Be Forever Yamato (1980)
Join us on a grand voyage through the sea of stars aboard mankind’s last great hope, the legendary, Space Battleship Yamato, as we review the third film in Leiji Matsumoto’s most popula…
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Daryl Surat @darylsurat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don’t know about that, Nicolas Cage. Unlike Marvel this decade, even WWE under Triple H knows how to plan things out a year in advance variety.com/2026/film/ne... Also, WWE is extremely well-funded. Funded by whom & how only partially explains why they’re so morally detrimental in all that they do
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Nicolas Cage Says the Marvel Cinematic Universe ‘Is Becoming a Well-Funded and Glorified WWE’ With 50-Plus Year Olds in ‘Ridiculous Outfits’
Nicolas Cage compares watching films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to watching WWE.
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Daryl Surat @darylsurat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“I think if you keep betting on ‘Nothing happens,’ you’re only wrong once, & then it’s like, ‘Well, great. I’m glad I was wrong,” Farrar said. “But until then, I’ve racked up a million victories on ‘Bad things don’t happen to powerful people.’ That’s how the world is organized, you know.” It’s true
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Hegseth: "It's worth saying again so the fake news understands it. We are no longer the woke department or the weak department. Simple translation of that -- no fatties no trannies no beardos no weirdos no wimps no radicals. Just warriors."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Hegseth: "Project Meridian will be co-led by three of our nation's best minds: Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich"
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 01/10/2026
The Pentagon taps Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to help decide what the military should do next
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The Pentagon taps Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to help decide what the military should do next
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth just launched a 120-day study on the future of warfare, led by Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich, and while it makes sense given their ties to the administration, critics could point out that Musk's and Luckey's companies already sell the kinds of technology the study is likely to recommend.
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Spooky McSkellington @gooberzilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New month, new podcast and what could be more SPOOKY than identity theft, assassination and general skullduggery? Check out our review of the Nineties Internet time capsule that is The Net (1995):
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Surfin’ That Information Super-Highway
Practice some basic information security, because The Net (1995) is (probably not) The Greatest Movie EVER! Click on the movie poster or the title above to download our review of the film, featurin…
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Gretchen Leigh 🇨🇦 @gretchenleigh.zone · 30/09/2026
Sure, I can make a distinction between MiSTer cores that are pure vibe coded MAME ports vs. ones that use some mix of LLM and human engineering, but the whole promise of the MiSTer that excited me was reproductions of hardware from sickos who were decapping ICs, not "good enough" emulation on FPGAs
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Killvia Bones 💀💜 @vestenet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
got choked up at the wile e. coyote movie
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JCP⭐Designs 👺 A Professional Who Gives A Shit @jcpxdesigns.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Don't forget, talent didn't have to work tonight if they weren't comfortable. Attendance was optional. Wardlow returned early, and Bryan Danielson came out of retirement for it. #AEWDynamite
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Big Show Ripping Darts @homunculusdick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I love that Will Ospreays Black Arrow is a tiny bit shitty only bc PAC's was so sharp and precise by comparison. 🤼‍♂️
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♾️ UNCAИИY (they/them) VundaHalloweenathon Edition 🎃 @uncanny305.bandcamp.com · 01/10/2026
BRYCE'S REACTION TO COUNTING THREE ON THE BLACK ARROW IS DESTROYING ME #AEWDynamite 🤼
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TDE Wrestling @tdewrestling.com · 01/10/2026
Hangman Adam Page remembers PAC. #AEWDynamite
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TDE Wrestling @tdewrestling.com · 01/10/2026
I don't know if Jon Moxley can see the future, but he can see truth. #AEWDynamite
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Richard @sirlariato.northsky.social · 01/10/2026
Stop 😭 #AEWDynamite
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Onikuno @onikuno.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's nights like tonight that make it easier to drop WWE for a long time if not for good. I'll always have my childhood memories of the Hogan and era up through the Attitude era. But it comes to a point where even knowing how dirty the business can be historically, the disrespect tonight is too much
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NHATional Scissoring Day ✂️ @nhathanielh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
…fuck man 💔 #AEWDynamite
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Daryl Surat @darylsurat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
...Yeah.
YouTube screenshot of WWE live-streaming "WWE When Worlds Collide 2026" head to head with AEW Dynamite, opposite the memorial show for PAC.
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AnimEigo @animeigo.com · 30/09/2026
Manga comes to the MediaOCD store with a selection of titles from @mangamavericks.bsky.social! mediaocd.com/brand/manga-...
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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Warhammer pipeline from casually curious to detrimentally obsessed is REAL and can HURT YOU
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Daryl Surat @darylsurat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Guess who just got back today? Them spess mehrens that'd been away Haven't changed, hadn't much to say But, man, I still think them librarians crazy They were askin' if Greenskins were around How heresy was, where it could be found The boys are back in town (boys) www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmf9...
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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV – Blood Ravens Trailer
YouTube video by Warhammer 40,000
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Daryl Surat @darylsurat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I was unsure about the merits of FPGA devices relative to just having a Steam Deck or handheld running Android. A FPGA can't handle as many systems, but would the input lag reduction actually make a difference? I tried it out. I want you to put the word out there that we back up (our old PSX discs)
A screenshot taken from a MiSTer FPGA of a practice test run of Bust a Move 2: Dance Tengoku Mix in which my finish combo is 6 with a dance rate of 96% and a Just Command Rate of 58%. Not a great score by any means, BUT that rate and combo would be closer to 0% on a software-based emulator (including a hardware device running a software emulator on the back end) due to the combined input lag of a modern LCD display with that of the emulation software. Meaning it is possible to play old rhythm games again.

Several hundreds of dollars were spent on multiple things to acquire this information.
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