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Dr. Mel @dr-mel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Why must every ui element be pilled shaped now? Why, god. #blutoid

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I thought this was just beautiful. Kurt Vonnegut takes a walk to mail a letter:

She calls out, “Where are you going?” And I say, “I am going out to get an envelope.” And she says, “Well, you’re not a poor man. Why don’t you buy a thousand envelopes? They’ll deliver them, and you can put them in a closet.” And I say, “Hush.”

I go next to the postal convenience center down the block at the corner of 47th Street and Second Avenue. The woman behind the counter says, “Thirty-nine cents for a stamp.” I say, “I only brought thirty-seven. When did that change?” She looked at me a long time. “Thirty-seven isn’t enough.” “Well that oughta be enough for one envelope,” I said. The line was getting longer.

The lady moved her hand into her coat. I knew this routine. I backflipped behind the man behind me in line, wrapping my elbow around his throat as I landed. By the time the stamp seller had unloaded her clip, I had full cover. The gentleman’s body dropped to the floor, six holes smoking. The package he was carrying fell to the floor with a heavy clunk. Whatever was in there, it would do.

I rolled my foot over the cardboard and did a “flick up” as they call it in soccer. I bounced the package once or twice on the back of my foot as the mail lady reloaded, then I launched it high and spun 360 to deliver my patented “Rising Phoenix kick”. The package caught fire as it shattered through the protective plexiglass window and struck the woman’s head with all the force and hatred I had learned to channel in my grueling tutelage under five fallen Wudang masters in my youth. The lady’s body exploded off of her bones, leaving just a blackened skeleton spinning in her office chair. “So it goes,” I said, but no one laughed. I guess they weren’t big readers.

And I go home. And I have had one hell of a good time.

We are dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something. We are here on Earth to fart around. Don’t let anybody tell you any different.

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Dr. Mel @dr-mel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#blutdoid, why did some of the pokemon say their names and others made like actual animal noises?

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Dr. Mel @dr-mel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Every spring the honey goes to honey jail because it keeps bringing ants into the house, and every year in fall we think it learned its lesson and let it back out. I pray it has changed its sinful ways. #blutoid

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Dr. Mel @dr-mel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Lego epona's tail being an anchor looks like she's taking a big excited dumpy at the worst time. Not as bad as the link amiibo pee pillar. Maybe. #blutoid

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Dr. Mel @dr-mel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Can't wait for solitaire to get an open world sequel. #blutoid

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Dr. Mel @dr-mel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The entire time i was watching that direct (Majora's mask)

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Dr. Mel @dr-mel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Man, ascii maps are such a lost art... Was looking up some info on Grandia 2 and this gamefaqs guide is just insane. Every dungeon is mapped out this way. #blutoid

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Dr. Mel @dr-mel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I know the gta6 stuff is a little nuts now, but don't forget this is going to be the biggest entertainment product ever released. There's more money to be made on the fringes of this thing than whole games make by themselves. Buckle up, people. #blutoid

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Dr. Mel @dr-mel.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Is there a discount group deal on dying this week? Is this a fiscal year thing? Jeez. #blutoid

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Dr. Mel @dr-mel.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I can't wait to find out if we saved the planet or not. 🤞 #blutoid

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Dr. Mel @dr-mel.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Are you telling me we could have had a future where we could be complaining about the price of slob-octals right now? #blutoid

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Dr. Mel @dr-mel.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I played some Entropy. 10 bucks. Play it if you want a weird turn-based game that is basic and difficult and well written, but has typos, and looks like a version of low-poly and CRT visuals that never existed. store.steampowered.com/app/3940340/... #blutoid

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Entropy is a tactical turn-based RPG inspired by classic JRPGs. Assemble your party of mercenaries and forge your own path towards an expedition into hell to stop the demonic incursion. Choices you ma...

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Dr. Mel @dr-mel.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

1 horse has the power of 5.7 horses. No questions, please. #blutoid

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Dr. Mel @dr-mel.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Definitely want to check these out when they release soon. #blutoid

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My Name is Grant @mynameisgrant.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

My dad’s texts are poetry

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GWIZ 🎧🌙✨ @gwizofthestars.com · 24/07/2026

A Hero Must Rise. Believe. WalMart.

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Dr. Mel @dr-mel.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Are we talking about being old? #blutoid en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Today%2...

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Today's Special - Wikipedia

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Dr. Mel @dr-mel.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I hear people don't like Discord these days, so I'm here to say that for Steam users, they do offer a chat room like function in the Friends list. For drop-in/drop-out voice chat with a group of friends, it works fine. #blutoid

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Dr. Mel @dr-mel.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Discs are not how we preserve anything. Preference for a physical collection and the ability to save some money sharing and buying used are fair, if increasingly symbolic as these discs are often unpatched incomplete copies of the game that rely on publishers to authorize the patches. #blutoid

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Jeff Gerstmann @jeffgerstmann.com · 02/07/2026

Look, I get it, not everyone has an appetite for “cute” anecdotes about kids, but this two-year-old just ripped a disturbingly loud fart then looked at me and said “ooh! My poop is burping!”

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Dr. Mel @dr-mel.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Controller saga: So my Elite 2 controller grips came undone to the point I got sick of dealing with it, so I ordered an 8bitdo ultimate 2 as a replacement, because after two "elite" controllers failed in ways I've never had other controller do, I'm done buying those. While that was shipping...

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Lucien Ey @pollhereford.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

This year, we can only afford single entendres.

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Dr. Mel @dr-mel.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

holy crap, i forgot this game existed. this and rise of the triad saw a lot of regular action back in the day. Lot of great, terrible sound effects #blutoid www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbA0...

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Dr. Mel @dr-mel.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

BIG wishlist add. store.steampowered.com/app/3940340/... Been waiting for a good turn-based game with this kind of art style. Seems we got everything BUT this kind of game with low poly visuals and perhaps I have finally gotten my wish. #blutoid

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My Name is Grant @mynameisgrant.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Today is when all dads are officially a year older in order to standardize things for Dad Racing.

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Dr. Mel @dr-mel.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

These two videos right next to each other are giving me incredible ideas that will never happen. #blutoid

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Dr. Mel @dr-mel.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Been playing the Elden Ring Reforged overhaul mod. It's quite a good excuse to replay that game! Add a good level of difficulty with a ton of granular options for what kind of difficulty you want, adds new content, rebalances basically everything, and works with the Seamless Co-op mod. #blutoid

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Dr. Mel @dr-mel.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Breaking: ten billion people laid off today from several major game studios to make some excel conditional formatting turn green in upcoming FY budget meeting.

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Dr. Mel @dr-mel.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Nintendo giving people what they want is them at their creatively weakest. And yes there's an ocean of normies unconditionally asking for this, they're not in your timeline. I know *you* are above it, but spare a thought for Kyle in accounting, ok? He's pumped. #blutoid

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Dr. Mel @dr-mel.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

wtf did i do to my youtube feed. #blutoid

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Dr. Mel @dr-mel.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

"Five" came to English by German as something like Fimf, the second F was turned into a V and the M was dropped. But this dropped nasal sound survives in the Greek and Latin words we use for Five, Penta and Quint, and in Finger (M and N are often interchanged historically). #blutoid #wordtoid

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Dr. Mel @dr-mel.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

The real shit was at Day of the Devs. Some of my picks below. The rest you can find here: store.steampowered.com/sale/dayofth... store.steampowered.com/app/2431080/... store.steampowered.com/app/2090210/... store.steampowered.com/app/3564410/... store.steampowered.com/app/2988030/... #blutoid

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Dr. Mel @dr-mel.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I'm sorry, but my age group's "we didn't have the internet" is not going to stand up to the eventual "I was openly exposed to gambling at age 5 and everyone let it happen". #blutoid

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Dr. Mel @dr-mel.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I still consider it a point of pride that I managed to make more than one reference to the Strangereal during my freelance game coverage days. I don't think my editors knew what I was talking about, but they left it in! #blutoid

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Dr. Mel @dr-mel.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The phrase "look ferocious" is technically redundant, because the word ferocious is derived from the words feral (wild, fierce) and eye (looking, seeming, appearing). #blutoid #wordtoid

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