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Dennis Farrell @dennisfarrell.bsky.social · 13h

Now I understand why wrestlers smash each other with these bulbs. And it's not because they're mad at their opponents.

Dennis Farrell @dennisfarrell.bsky.social · 13h

You're on a stepladder trying not to drop anything or yourself. Removing a fixture the size of a small adult. Wondering why the bulb has two pins, but the slots are runic symbols that only vaguely hold the thing in place after your rotate the bulb for half an hour while crying

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Dennis Farrell @dennisfarrell.bsky.social · 13h

The universe contains no greater gulf than the one between "replacing the kitchen tube bulb should be easy" and reality. The word ordeal originated from this exact situation.

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Dennis Farrell @dennisfarrell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

When you make a good joke on here, this is the dream outcome

A group of officials being approached by a woman saying "Excuse me! There's a post on the internet that I think you need to see."

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Dennis Farrell @dennisfarrell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Pretty sure 8bitdo's Tomb Raider controller colors were chosen to imply you're holding Lara's shorts and... shirt

8bitdo Tomb Raider controller, brown with teal joysticks

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Dennis Farrell @dennisfarrell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Listen to EMF's "Unbelievable" and tell me that isn't the most Mario Paint song created outside of Mario Paint. The dog woof and baby "eh-ehh!" could slide in there without notice.

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Dennis Farrell @dennisfarrell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Did you know: The average human body contains more bones than the entire sun?

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Dennis Farrell @dennisfarrell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Let's all chip in to save the rich. We just have to: -Hate the vulnerable, the compassionate, the academic -Pretend toiling in misery is virtue, freedom -Fund/worship violence to protect the interests of the powerful -Underfund health, true progress, our surroundings Sounds hard, but we're capable

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Dennis Farrell @dennisfarrell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

(to the tune of Possum Kingdom) Do you want a fry? Do you want a fry? Well I promise you I will salt it well My sweet angel So help me eat this

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Dennis Farrell @dennisfarrell.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I don't think they made a billion dollars or owe me all of their profits. I do think they made a hundred million dollars and owe me half.

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Dennis Farrell @dennisfarrell.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Shortly after I published this, that JAV titles account took the ball and ran with it. Every time it pops up (like today with the Onion owner posting it) I regret treating it as a one-off idea www.somethingawful.com/news/japanes...

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Actual Japanese Porn Movie Titles

A selection of real movies one might enjoy, such as: The Nickname "Professor Masturbation" Has Followed Me All The Way Through Grade School

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Dennis Farrell @dennisfarrell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Going into debt to order custom furniture made of PS1 games so when it's delivered I can ask "Is this seat Tekken?"

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Dennis Farrell @dennisfarrell.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Calibre was terrific for formatting ebooks + loading them on my Kobo. Sadly the dev got AI-brained. New "features" include slop book covers and a backend for Musk's csam generator. Everything terrible keeps tainting the niche interests I use to escape from everything terrible.

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Dennis Farrell @dennisfarrell.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

You know a boss fight's about to get real when these guys float in

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Dennis Farrell @dennisfarrell.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

When the only tool you have is a Warhammer 40K, every problem looks like a Warnail 40K

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Dennis Farrell @dennisfarrell.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Sit, human. Bad news. The scan indicates bones in you. We need to get them out immediately.

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Dennis Farrell @dennisfarrell.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I liked how they let the concept play out in nihilstic Aniara-ish ways, until they clumsily undercut that. It also felt like every single scene was missing a few seconds of either setup or letting dialog breathe. Weird one!

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arr @arr.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

back in the 90s it seemed clear that we would get ever more powerful babecubes as computer technology advanced. but that future never came to pass.

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Dennis Farrell @dennisfarrell.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Me, ostensibly an adult, when I approach the front desk for any appointment

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Dennis Farrell @dennisfarrell.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Such a bummer to see this stuff oozing into the MiSTer FPGA too. Even one of the established devs slopped out a Virtual Boy core with a defensive "AI is just, like, a tool" readme

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

My toddler whenever I’m using the bathroom:

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Dennis Farrell @dennisfarrell.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Isn't it funny how we all try to make universally relatable posts that turn out to be specific to our circumstances + viewpoints, and our name is Dennis Farrell?

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Dennis Farrell @dennisfarrell.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This ad made me ragequit the YouTube app (didn't make it past the "dreamers" part) and go back to an HTPC setup with a browser to block that shit

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Dennis Farrell @dennisfarrell.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The first frame of this week's Ranking the N64:

Superman III, caught in the scariest computer wires of all time

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Dennis Farrell @dennisfarrell.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Girl Reporter, you spent your first paycheck on that Spanking Robot Superman. The "accidental" pratfall might have worked once, but you do it every time we're over for dinner, Girl Reporter.

Comic panel of "Girl Reporter" being spanked by a robot Superman

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Dennis Farrell @dennisfarrell.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The MiSTer fpga was about talented nerds painstakingly recreating/preserving original hardware behavior. Now it's flooded with human Patreon accounts pointing AI at emulators to fart out cores

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Dennis Farrell @dennisfarrell.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I hope to die peacefully at a ripe old age, surrounded by machines that will instantly transfer my consciousness into a vessel that will live forever

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Dennis Farrell @dennisfarrell.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

finally, an action figure I can identify with

Death of Superman figure, featuring an exhausted, defeated guy

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Dennis Farrell @dennisfarrell.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

okay but how do I send the movie back to you guys when I'm done

Netflix page from 2007, describing the upcoming option to watch streaming movies

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Dennis Farrell @dennisfarrell.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Evan Dorkin's work got me to stop casually following characters/series and start caring about specific creators. Kate Beaton goofed around on the Something Awful forums in the early webcomic days and wisely escaped our hellhole. Insightful funny people creating stuff makes the world seem better

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Dennis Farrell @dennisfarrell.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Finally treated myself to some comics I've been meaning to pick up for years

Ducks by Kate Beaton, Beasts of Burden by Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson

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Dennis Farrell @dennisfarrell.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Stereo speakers are often labeled Left and Right. But they don't say if that's your right/left or the system's right/left. To be safe split the difference, placing the speakers in the center of your room with one on its back and the other laying face down on top of it.

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Dennis Farrell @dennisfarrell.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

These game industry layoffs are brutal, they even let go of Steve Martin

Steve Martin in an office beneath a sign that says GRAPHICS

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Karla Anthocyanin Zimonja @eternal.observer · 14/07/2026

some of y'all on here ( bestiary.ca/beasts/beast... )

a depiction, medieval, of a creature called an Onocentaur. It's a person's top half, in a little green shirt, connected up in the centaur way to the shoulders of an onager. they look like they are making a point online.

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Dennis Farrell @dennisfarrell.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

It's probably for the best that the series ended with Baby Talk Powerlifting on the 32x

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Dennis Farrell @dennisfarrell.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Sega's Sports Talk Football '93 was okay, but they really hit their stride the following year with Dirty Talk Bowling

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Dennis Farrell @dennisfarrell.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

It would be a hoot to see a chart of your entire life, graphing the number of object categories you saw for the first time (dog, astronaut helmet, buttplug, etc.) on each day

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Dennis Farrell @dennisfarrell.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Tilapia + rice is one of the few fish things I love. It's also great seared in a thin coating of Zatarain's fish fri, with a bit of duck/apricot sauce mixed up in the rice.

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Dennis Farrell @dennisfarrell.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I once bought what looked like an official boxed Quake expansion, but turned out to be an anemic unlicensed level pack. And there were lots of those! This German shovelware release's "Qu .. ke" title treatment always cracked me up:

Box art for "Qu .. ke", not to be confused with Quake

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Dennis Farrell @dennisfarrell.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

You hear a lot of "my kingdom for a horse" but no "my horse for a kingdom". Big time seller's market, horse-wise vis a vis kingdoms.

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Dennis Farrell @dennisfarrell.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Another little detail missing from the equation in similar PC build comparisons is the Deck/Machine-specific downloadable shaders+tweaks. The performance impact varies but that quality of life stuff makes the platform feel special.

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Dennis Farrell @dennisfarrell.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

When a celebrity podcast guest says they're a fan of the show, they are moments away from being flummoxed by a routine part of every episode

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Dennis Farrell @dennisfarrell.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I would describe my body as chiseled. Chiseled out of tapioca pudding by a sculptor unfamiliar with the human form, but chiseled all the same.

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Dennis Farrell @dennisfarrell.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I will give one billion dollars to anyone who steals one trillion dollars from some dumb asshole and transfers it to me

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Dennis Farrell @dennisfarrell.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

GOG has emanated stink lines for years, and I finally dropped them when they embraced AI. Now they're knowingly emailing Nazi-embraced symbols (doubled specifically to evoke SS) and not bothering to pretend it was an error. No DRM-free copy of Daikatana is worth dealing with these cretins

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Dennis Farrell @dennisfarrell.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Watch out, this guy spent more than anyone else on ugly shirts in the 2000s

A Diablo 2 enemy named Champion Afflicted

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Dennis Farrell @dennisfarrell.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Every month the Collection Chamber gets five old games running on modern computers and does a writeup for each one. It's a great way to discover some truly odd, interesting, and largely forgotten stuff. collectionchamber.blogspot.com/2026/05/mont...

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MONTHY 5 - May 2026

After a chaotic couple of months, I'm trying to get to some semblance of normality come May's close. And so, I bring you the retur...

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