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Derek Carroll @derekcarroll.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

That was us! Big thanks to Dan Paladin for signing all our shields!

Four people in Castle Crashers cosplay, with blue, orange, red, and green knights represented.

Derek Carroll @derekcarroll.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

The straight one is the one on the original box and the title screen; I don’t know when MS started using that other one.

Box art for MECHASSAULT (2002) for the original Xbox.

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Derek Carroll @derekcarroll.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

I did not know the Tour de France was happening while I was in Paris, so this was a nice surprise.

Photo of a wet street in Paris with several cyclists racing in the rain.

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Derek Carroll @derekcarroll.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Inset on the back of the NEUROMANCER game box. I was so excited by “Soon to be a major motion picture from Cabana Boy Productions.”

Close-up of part of the NEUROMANCER game box, listing these features:
• Drawn from the pages of the smash cyberpunk novel Neuromancer by William Gibson.
• Skill-based role-playing game by the creators of The Bard's Tale™ and Wasteland.™
• Fully digitized original sound track by DEVO.
• Soon to be a major motion picture from Cabana Boy Productions.
• Easy-to-use icon and window interface.
• Use your skills to break into government and corporate computer systems, or jack into Cyberspace and cut into ice-encased databases with your software.
• Multiple paths to a successful conclusion.
• Annoy the characters you meet and they won't forget it - but you can forget asking them for help later on.

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Derek Carroll @derekcarroll.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Almost everything in this quiz had meat in it, so I guess I’m potato-chip fancy.

Graph results from some “are you fancy based on what you like to eat?” quiz, showing that I’m 21.43% upper-middle class, I guess.

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Derek Carroll @derekcarroll.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I took so many pictures of bricks and walls in Venice. Everywhere you look, there's something incredible to see.

a photograph of a wooden door in Venice, Italy, green with algae and showing the effects of water and time.

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Derek Carroll @derekcarroll.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?

DEA agents Copano and Harrington groovin’ in their car.

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Derek Carroll @derekcarroll.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Can't wait for next year's rebrand.

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Derek Carroll @derekcarroll.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Had to get this out of my system. I'm sorry.

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Derek Carroll @derekcarroll.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

We will be stuck on this frame for as long as it takes us to learn.

Line drawing of a person putting a stick in the spokes of the front wheel of the bicycle they’re riding (the next frame in sequence would be the obvious result of lying hurt in the ground)

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Derek Carroll @derekcarroll.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

My family patrolled #ECCC25 yesterday in CASTLE CRASHERS gear. It was cool to see how many people share our love for this game! (cc: @thebehemoth.com)

Five people in the foreground dressed as knights from the video game CASTLE CRASHERS, riding an escalator at Emerald City Comic Con. Their helmets are large, colorful cylinders, each one matching their shield and tabard colors.

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Derek Carroll @derekcarroll.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I spent an inordinate amount of time fruitlessly trying to sink enemy ships using my foils (as the manual implied was possible) in PHM Pegasus (C64, 1986).

box art for the game PHM Pegasus, showing an armed hydrofoil craft speeding towards the camera while firing a cannon on its bow.

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Derek Carroll @derekcarroll.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Take a break to look at this incredibly round, puffy bird:

Tiny bird fluffing themselves up to stay warm, so much so that they look spherical, rather than bird-shaped.

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Derek Carroll @derekcarroll.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

If you are reading this, post a gif from a game you love

Animated GIF of the planet surface during a planetquake event in M.U.LE.

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Derek Carroll @derekcarroll.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Got some music in the mail today. Haven’t heard the new Kim Deal solo album yet, but the other two are like old friends.

Vinyl albums in an overlapped pile: Frank Black-Teenager of the Year, The Breeders-Last Splash, and Kim Deal-Nobody Loves You More

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Derek Carroll @derekcarroll.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Game devs, post your first shipped game and your latest shipped game.

Cover art for the game MechCommander (PC, 1998)

Cover art for the game Destiny 2 (multi-platform, 2017-present)

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Derek Carroll @derekcarroll.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Okay, I’ve seen this image like 100 times this week, and I need to know what’s going on here. Is Musk getting help putting on his sunglasses from someone off-camera? It’s like the juggling scene in LABYRINTH.

Elon Musk looks like he’s getting help putting on sunglasses in front of TFG, who is obviously colorblind, or he wouldn’t make himself bright orange.

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Derek Carroll @derekcarroll.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Have I mentioned how annoying it is that @fordmotorsofficial.bsky.social doesn't sell the Transit Custom in the USA?

promotional photo of Ford's midsize Transit Custom van that is sold in Europe, shown in bright red.

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Derek Carroll @derekcarroll.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Gross, @blockheadnyc.bsky.social ‘s new green splatter vinyl continues the disease theme from the album art very effectively.

Closeup of a light green vinyl record with splotches of dark green that give the impression of an infection.

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