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@deeb.bsky.social
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Part of the Rebel Alliance and a traitor! He/Him Lvl 41 *certified* cool dad & trophy hubby. Woke PNW native blabbing about retro games, JRPGs, Star Wars and 3D printing. Prone to shitposting, and sharing cat and bunny photos ♾️

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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ 🔜 PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 4h
boomer says an AI-generated video based on a popular TV series is “pretty good” actually
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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ 🔜 PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 5h
This makes me so happy! I love that they’re doing DB and not just DBZ. Hoping for Kame House and Bulma’s bike sets next! There are so many capsule vehicles and ships that would make fantastic sets too.
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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ 🔜 PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My daughter wanted to go to GameStop, I’m not a fan, but I checked out their retro section while we there and couldn’t pass up Metal Slug 7 for $35. It sells for around $100 on eBay 👀
Is a complete copy of Metal Slug 7 for Nintendo DS, including the poster, slip cover, manual, mini CD.
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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ 🔜 PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Apparently there’s already a soft-mod for the Sonic Cab. 👀
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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ 🔜 PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Terranigma for Nintendo Switch 2 is a NS2 edition, meaning it’ll play on original Switch and it’s not a GKC. Nice! LRG not doing a “classic edition” (like an SNES box) seems like a missed opportunity. I wouldn’t be surprised if they do something like that later on as a convention exclusive.
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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ 🔜 PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Galileo loves watching NHK World’s Cat’s View of Japan videos (I do as well) #caturday
It’s Galileo, a tabby cat, on the end of the bed intently watching a cat video on the TV.
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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ 🔜 PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My Mom, my daughter and her friend are going to see Resident Evil today and none of them have played a RE game, they’re just horror fans. It’s wonderful that something based on a video game franchise can appeal to more than just its built-in audience (my mom also enjoyed TLOU and is not a gamer).
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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ 🔜 PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Well damn, little Cindy Lou Who does a solid Chris Cornell! youtu.be/b2uhZ2l-iIY?is
youtu.be
Soundgarden - Outshined / Spoonman (Live at Lumen Field ft. Taylor Momsen & Mike McCready)
YouTube video by Soundgarden
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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ 🔜 PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Holy shit PRGE @retrogamingexpo.bsky.social starts two weeks from today. I can’t believe it’s already been a year. 😅
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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ 🔜 PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It genuinely warmed my heart today to see a local Goodwill stocking CRTs! This is the same Goodwill I pleaded with a few years ago begging them to stop recycling them as they are desirable and have value. Thankfully someone there finally figured it out! Happy day!
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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ 🔜 PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I saw the Sonic 1 Up Arcade at Costco and it’s a shockingly lovely looking cabinet but the game selection is baffling and disappointing. These four games should’ve been BONUS titles. The actual Sonic arcade games would have made this cab very tempting. Sure, it can always be modded, but oof…
It’s the frankly stunning Sonic Arcade 1 Up cabinet at Costco, showing its game selection of: Sonic 1, Sonic 2, Sonic 3D Blast and Mean Bean Machine.
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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ 🔜 PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I was a little worried at first this was gonna be the wrong color, but nope! It’s Spice Orange! So far, the buttons feel great and the screen is briiiight AF!
It’s a KONKR pocket advance Android handheld
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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ 🔜 PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I would have flipped out of these were available back in the 1990s! Better late than never, eh? Can’t say I have room for the DK minecart playset but it is pretty darn cool.
It’s all of the donkey kong country toys available at Target now
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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ 🔜 PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Mic test
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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ 🔜 PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Didn’t anyone else’s mother teach them never to play with things that are a risk to humanity as a whole?
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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ 🔜 PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“We will pivot to AI in an effort to repair Meta’s reputation” is a bold strategy.
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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ 🔜 PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’ve been considering what a less terminally online future might look like for me for like the first time in my adult life
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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ 🔜 PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Keeping the original switch available as long as possible is smart business. Switch 2 is still too damn expensive for parents considering a first console for their children. Switch has an amazing library, so why not keep it accessible at as low a price point as possible for the indefinite future?
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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ 🔜 PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Cool amiibos
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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ 🔜 PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So my mom casually asked if we have plans to see Resident Evil: The Final Trailer 💀
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I got a repro Sega Saturn controller a couple days ago and like- Sega PERFECTED controller design for 2D games in '94, and NO ONE ELSE SINCE has been able to get EVEN CLOSE to what they did. Basically, I love it.
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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ 🔜 PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
FWIW my almost 15-year-old son just watched the Ocarina of Time trailer and said “there’s no way this is running on switch 2!” I just realized he’s basically the same age I was the original came out 🥲
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Clear River Games @clearrivergames.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
🔥 Announcing Lufia 1 and 2 the Sinistrals Saga 🔥 Two classic JRPGs from the golden age of the SNES return to modern platforms in one wonderous collection 🥳 🎉 Coming soon to modern platforms! From @Taito Wishlist today! 😍 Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4027620/...
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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ 🔜 PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Yeah, the Retrotink 6X CE is nuts! This is an RGB-modded SNES Jr running through it on an OLED TV running the JVC D-Series profile at 3840x1080P with HDR.
It’s Mario standing on some blocks running through the RetroTink 6X
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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ 🔜 PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I hope none of my writer friends here are offended that I’m helping my daughter pirate college textbooks. It’s been a minute since I’ve attended college, but apparently now you can *rent* PDFs for the duration of the class for like $40 lol
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David Howe @monolithfiji.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Oh shit they're making dual screen mods for switch games now 🥴
Dual screen mod for Super Mario Wonder
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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ 🔜 PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hey @pinkgorillagames.com @kelslewin.bsky.social I saw this trailer on the highway today and did a double take. You guys aware of this? Seems like an… odd coincidence.
It’s a Pink Gorilla… Espresso… trailer ??
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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ 🔜 PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Since this handheld chainsaw has a USB-C port I just need a USB-C to GameCube controller adapter to test my theory
It’s a Fanttik USB C handheld chainsaw, standing next to a platinum GameCube on a desk in front of a plasma display.
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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ 🔜 PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Honey wake up new cat species just dropped
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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ 🔜 PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A local game store had a… lethal… deal (sorry) on this set I couldn’t pass on! They were asking less than what just the 2P gun by itself is worth.
It’s lethal enforcers for the SNES with both the blue and red guns.
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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ 🔜 PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This seems kinda overkill? I just never connected mine to the internet. 🤷🏻‍♂️
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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ 🔜 PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I respectfully refuse.
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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ 🔜 PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Jeez this is a *mod*?? Incredible.
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Captain Supreme (Adam) @captainsupreme.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I got asked what some BOF3 characters would look like in Mario RPG style, and was happy to oblige. #pixelart
Adult Ryu and Nina, Garr, Momo, Rei, and Peco from Breath of Fire 3 in Duper Mario RPG style
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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ 🔜 PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Giving this a spin while I work today! The packaging is pretty great, especially considering this was the “basic” release!
It’s Zelda Breath of the Wild soundtrack on vinyl, showing some of the art on the sleeves and the color of the record.
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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ 🔜 PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I was highly-skeptical Papa Roach had enough hit songs to justify a greatest hits album… but Vol 2?? 🤭
It’s a Best Buy listing for papa roach “greatest hits” volume 2
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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ 🔜 PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Dinner: Hello Kitty 🌶️ 🔥 Spicy Noodle Soup 🔥 🌶️
I’m holding a cup of a-sha hello kitty spicy noodle soup
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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ 🔜 PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Mmm! Backyard apple!
I’m holding a gala apple from a backyard apple tree
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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ 🔜 PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I’m pretty sure I could get rid of some useless piece of furniture to make space for this… Who needs a kitchen table when you have a Star Wars Trilogy Arcade? Or maybe I could do a toilet conversion? The possibilities are endless!
It’s a FB marketplace listing for Star Wars Trilogy Arcade, asking price is $1,700
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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ 🔜 PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A stained-glass 32X lamp would have *really* tied this all together
It’s a sega genesis 1 and Sega CD that has been converted into a…. Lamp. Sold for $150 on FB marketplace.It’s a better picture of the sega genesis / CD lamp
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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ 🔜 PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Some crazy person built a portable PS2 that uses the original chips but utilizes a custom motherboard. Usually these projects come out kinda clunky but this looks slick af! github.com/tschicki/PS2...
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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ 🔜 PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is sick! Now it needs a GameGear port lol
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 14/09/2026
The AI industry wants to seem like it's responsible, and so, it's now talking about a "slowdown," because it distracts from the fact that LLMs are inherently flawed and the people running model labs are not people who should be trusted. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-alread...
The way that LLMs have been trained is harmful in effectively every way. It is trained on theft, powered by expensive and power-intensive infrastructure and is both unprofitable and unsustainable. LLMs are not the tool for any kind of beautiful, automated future — they are inefficient, volatile and mathematically certain to make mistakes. “Slowing down” is not sufficient. In my opinion, there is no further reason to invest in this industry, nor has there been for the vast majority of its existence. 

Every success that LLMs have had is a direct result of throwing at least half a trillion dollars in infrastructure and compute spend at problems that had vast amounts of data that could be trained against. Half a trillion dollars should have bought us a lot more than this. While I will not dispute that they can do more than a year ago, I am unimpressed, because this is more than ten times what Amazon’s entire capex between 2003 and 2015, the years between AWS’ creation and when it hit profitability. 

This is a terrible deal, its results suck, and the amount of attention it’s gotten is a direct result of the media’s inability to speak truth to power or do anything other than repeat what they say and a financial bubble driven by LLMs’ unbelievable infrastructural cost.If — and this is not a foregone conclusion — there is ever an AI that we, as a society, should fund and build infrastructure for in pursuit of some civic good, it is not the one peddled by Elon Musk, Sam Altman or Dario Amodei. 

This is not the right path, and every further step down it makes the bubble’s collapse worse, as well as multiplying the dangerous and reckless experiments these companies are capable of doing thanks to their near-unlimited access to compute.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 14/09/2026
The Hugging Face Attack wasn't an example of an AI going wrong. It was an example of what happens when you give an LLM a lot of compute and tell it to do something without establishing guardrails. AI is already in the wrong hands - OpenAI's. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-alread...
First of all, what was OpenAI trying to do? 

OpenAI was testing its new models on an evaluation framework called ​ExploitGym​ – a collection of 869 cybersecurity scenarios, most of which pair a specific system with a hacking challenge, such as breaking in to gain access to a protected file. They also usually include a suggestion of a vulnerability to exploit in solving the challenge.

A large language model on its own, of course, cannot break into anything: all it does is generate reasonable next tokens in response to input prompts. To use ExploitGym, you need a control program called a harness that provides access to many different software development tools useful for hacking into systems. The harness can repeatedly prompt an LLM to help come up with an attack plan, then ask it to help implement specific steps – for example, if the harness needs code to exploit a bug, it can ask the LLM to write it.

These capabilities, as it turns out, already exist in the coding harnesses that the major AI companies have been focusing on relentlessly in recent years as computer programming emerged as one of the first major markets for LLM-based tools. To compete in the ExploitGym, therefore, it’s sufficient to combine a version of an LLM missing the standard anti-hacking guardrails with a cutting-edge coding harness tweaked and optimized for these types of challenges.And what happened? I’m going to quote Cal liberally here, because he’s explained it well: this was a series of Large Language Models connected to a software program built to prompt them to complete an evaluation framework specifically to do cybersecurity attacks (along with near-infinite amounts of compute) “solving” the problem using any and all methods available, including hacking Hugging Face

Earlier this month, OpenAI tasked an unspecified coding harness, combined with a pre-release version of a new LLM, to complete an ExploitGym challenge. When prompted, the model – as LLMs so often do – came up with a quirky (but rational) plan to achieve the provided goal: break into a server at Hugging Face that stores the solutions to ExploitGym challenges.

(This behavior, in which the LLM ignores the suggested approach to come up with a different attack plan, is something that the creators of ExploitGym ​describe as common​: “Across models, agents frequently achieved code execution through a vulnerability other than the one we provided.” Notice, using the suggested attack is almost always the right thing to do, so this is more a sign of the unpredictability of LLMs rather than some rogue intelligence.)

The harness then dutifully attempted to execute the Hugging Face plan: first finding a way to gain unrestricted internet access (by default, systems competing in ExploitGym challenges run in a constrained network environment), then chaining together various security exploits to gain access to a Hugging Face server. That’s when it was detected.In other words, the LLMs — albeit through convoluted and aggressive means — “solved” the problem they were tasked with. As Cal said, there was no situation where the AI “went rogue.”  They took some weird ways of getting there for sure (like using a message board to communicate messages between LLMs) — and did exactly what they were supposed to do, even if it meant taking ridiculous routes to cover up that they’d cheated on a test.
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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 17/09/2026
personally disappointed in people talking about ZSNES like it's not just a program you can install and run today. It's not ancient history, and even if it was, you could emulate it. also, why the blurry static JPEG? GIVE ME ANIMATED SNOW.
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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ 🔜 PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8 www.pcgamer.com/software/win...
pcgamer.com
An ex-MS engineer has revealed more details about the infamous 'FCKGW' pirated Windows XP key
'The most plausible source is an OEM or hardware partner that received final media early so they could ship PCs on launch day.'
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James Mielke @milkman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Uematsu-san has his copy of his biography. ** sweats nervously ** Here’s what he said: “The biography about me—which Milky, an American, has been working on for the past few years—is finally finished! Well, I guess I’ll give it a read... Let’s see... It’s in English!!”
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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ 🔜 PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
What a musical mail call! It’s kinda fitting to get the Breath of the Wild soundtrack on Vinyl on the same day as this book I have been looking forward to: Nobuo Uematsu On the Record, by my friend @milkman.bsky.social
It’s the book Nobuo Uematsu on the record on top of the vinyl Breath of the Wild album.
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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ 🔜 PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
So… Any Canadian friends able to help a guy out?? 😅
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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ 🔜 PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
How Hyperkin has not improved the screen or ergonomics on this thing in ten years is beyond me. A 4:3 version with a decent d-pad would be a slam dunk.
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