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The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Sometimes when I am feeling down I pull up the car dealership post celebrating J Mascis for buying a sensible compact car and draw strength from it like a jpg spirit bomb

A Facebook post from a VW dealership celebrating J Mascis on purchasing a 2016 Volkswagen Golf

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The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 14h

I think it’s fun that all of the core id guys are now normal charming dorky dad types (Romero, Hall, Adrian Carmack) or ontologically evil freaks (John Carmack, Sandy) with American McGee, an ardent libertarian that now lives on a boat and makes plushies, somehow straddling the line.

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The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

more screenshots, mostly of me trying to see what I can get away with in the shader space when it meets Bluesky’s compression

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The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I live in rural Texas. I shop at a Texas-based grocery chain. This is the first thing you see in there. Until yesterday, i had no idea who this person was because even here most public places don’t play country music and also I am 41 and would just listen to Rival Schools all day if I could

A display for Bum Energy, an energy drink endorsed by Ella Langley with a poster and a quote of hers on a little Texas sign board.

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Line @linesonwhite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Something deep inside me told me I should draw Donkey Kong today.

A four panel comic titled "Hours, Bananas, Doors."
Donkey Kong awakens staring at himself in a mirror, then stares down at his hand as he notices a strange watch on his wrist.
Staring at his wrist, the watch turns out to be one of the numbered bracelets from 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors from the Zero Escape series. It's Junpei's bracelet. For some reason.
Peach then asks a confused Donkey Kong, "Donkey Kong? Have you ever heard of the Parallel Banana Theory?"

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maddie ★ othatsraspberry @othatsraspberry.com · 27/09/2026

happy birthday silent hill 2

silent hill 2 comic
pyramid head and mannequin engaged in antics
James: well THAT just happened

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The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

more screenshots, mostly of me trying to see what I can get away with in the shader space when it meets Bluesky’s compression

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barleybap @barleybap.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Same energy.

Screenshot of the status screen from Fiend Hunter showing the name of the protagonist, Feed Sluster.

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Paul Starr @pa.ulst.ar · 27/09/2026

This is so cool. This is so cool! Take any Wikipedia article and play back its edit history as an animation timemachine.carbonadoks.com

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Wiki Time Machine

Read Wikipedia and replay every edit of an article as an animation.

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The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Simple 1500 Series vol.056 - THE Sniper is not actually a very fun game to play but it does play a full opening animation before every level and I think that’s beautiful

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The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

She Steyr my Harquebus til my Wakle Skade (extremely correct buzzer, confetti, the mayor’s office inviting me to receive the key to the city, things of this nature)

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The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just look at these names and try not to feel something.

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Critical Nostalgia @highway62.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Videogames used to want to show us something new once, huh?

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Damien Crawford @developerdamien.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In case you want to start your week off with a six hour dive into Purgatory Dungeoneer's 420 different characters and a tier list that covers all of them, that sure is an option for you (script and game in the description if you aren't watching all that) www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIay...

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Purgatory Dungeoneer Tierlist of all 420 characters (not joking)

YouTube video by DeveloperDamien

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The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I am no longer an ~aesthetic screenshot~ account for several reasons, one of which is I simply don’t play a ton of games outside of Doom anymore and I have an account for that. But I did get my Retroid Nova in the mail today and i can feel the itch

Opening of Gungage stage 2, where the delightfully named Wakle Skade says “I can feel the existence of beasts here” while surrounded by giant hellish maggots.

THE Tennis from the Simple series, where two hideous pre-rendered homonculi play tennis on a pre-rendered green

The first stage of Einhander where your ship is blasting through a futuristic cityscape full of neon signs, prominently featuring one that says ITS ALL NEW! COMBAT

A shot of the skybox in the first stage of Disrupter, an early first person shooter.

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Andrew Elmore 💽 @elmore.zone · 23/09/2026

Updating this while I sit by the phone waiting to hear back from a recruiter to see if they have anything yet, still. I feel like I'm losing what's left of my mind in search of something very basic that no longer exists. I always hate asking, but invoices are coming in too slow and too small. Still.

gofund.me

Donate to Help Andrew & Savannah's Family Stay Afloat, organized by Andrew Elmore

Hey there! I'm Andrew, this is my wife Savannah. We have two kids, and we're… Andrew Elmore needs your support for Help Andrew & Savannah's Family Stay Afloat

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The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My 10 year old needs his own room and I have made enough mistakes with my first resin printer that this weekend will be its last hurrah. It’s a little sad but also I have printed more miniatures than I may be able to paint in my lifetime

My printer stats. I’ve done 121 prints with 23.2 liters of resin over the last year and a half.

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The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You don’t need to use genAI to make nightmare food when our friends in Eastern Europe are out here creating gigantic burritos stuffed with the final level of a Contra game

A close up of one of the photos in the quoted post where someone has a huge “burrito” that appears to be two possibly unwarmed tortillas vomiting forth a bunch of vegetables in a way that looks like a putrid biomass, each skewered by a cocktail stick.

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The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

Spider-Man: Web of Shadows - Amazing Allies Edition (2008 | Amaze Entertainment | PS2)

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WinRAR Earle @tommchenry.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

action therapist trailer 1-4

PANEL 1: Title screen for Action Therapist, "Cognitive Behavioral Therapy...By NIGHT"

PANEL 2: an ESRB rating of MATURE for Blood and Gore, Sexual Content, Attachment Issues

PANEL 3: A cab has pulled up to an airport arrivals terminal and Dr. Mariposa is getting in.

CABBIE: "All the way out to the university, eh? Well, it's your dollar, Mac..."

PANEL 4: The cabbie is driving Dr. Mariposa through the downpour.

CABBIE: "Did they ever find that famous professor lady who went missing up there?"

PANEL 5: Dr. Mariposa is still in his dripping trenchcoat and being talked to by Dean Hondo, a heavyset duck with a beard and a coffee mug.

DEAN HONDO: "We're confident your...memory issues...won't keep you from a full load of case work."

PANEL 6:

DEAN HONDO: "Keep an eye on your Psy points. They can unleash special attacks and combos, but run out and you go nuts."

PANEL 1: a mockup of a video game screen. Dr. Mariposa stands in the foreground and Diane in the background in a building.

DIANE: "The police told me to take an ibuprofen and get over it..."

PANEL 2: the player, as Dr. Mariposa, is prompted to TALK

TALK: "Say more on that" 3 PSY
"That sounds like judgment." 5 PSY

PANEL 3: Diane is crying into her hands.

DIANE: "...Maybe you are the therapist who will break the terrible curse."

PANEL 4: Different view of a break room with stats for Dr. Mariposa. This area is called ADMIN BLDG BREAK ROOM and there are menu options to
MAKE COFFEE
MICROWAVE
BULLETN BOARD
DISH WASHER

PANEL 5: Dr. Mariposa is in an aquarium talking to a different patient. Again the player is prompted to TALK: "Let's go deeper on that." 3 PSY
"You're being pretty hard on yourself." 10 PSY

PANEL 6: screenshot of a cinema scene where Dr. Mariposa is looking angrily at a pouncing astronaut

MYSTERIOUS ASTRONAUT: "You won't traverse the catacombs of my mind so easily, Doc!"

PANEL 1: Dr. Mariposa is standing in ruins under a purple sky and a wrong-looking moon. Its strange light shines on a pinkish lake. Crystal, a duck in a uniform from a restaurant is there.

CRYSTAL: "I'll tell you everything, but we can't tarry here..."

PANEL 2: The game interface shows a 24-hour pharmacy. Dr. Mariposa is a slightly higher level now but he has a CURSE status effect.

24 HOUR PHARMCY (NORTH)
* Fill scrip
* Develop photos
* Browse magazines
* Energy drinks

PANEL 3: Dr. Mariposa is talking to a shopkeeper in the faculty store. A flyer for a Walpurgis Night Sale 20% Off hangs behind him.

SHOPKEEPER: "I can only sell items to tenured faculty. You should publish a peer reviewed article!"

PANEL 4: Dr. Mariposa is in his underwear and his hair is messy. He's in his office. Diane is there and the sky is strange.

DIANE: "Maybe this CORN KEY x1 will be useful on your journey. It's been in my family for generations."

GOT CORN KEY x1

PANEL 5: Dr. Mariposa is now talking to an astronaut in his office. The astronaut lays back on the couch in full spacesuit.

CMDR WALLACE: "We are building American pyramids on the moon, configured to strange geometries."

PANEL 6: Close up of a hand holding a book.

Text: "It's a paperback copy of Peter David's 1991 Star Trek: The Next Generation tie-in novel 'Vendetta'"

PANEL 1: A spooky clocktower under a strange sky with an unsettling full moon. Bats are swooping around.

TEXT: "Maybe there's someone in the old clocktower who could benefit from talk therapy."

PANEL 2 : Game interface showing a treasure chest shaped like a corn on the cob.

TITLE: Hidden Corn Treasure Chest
Description: The small chest is shaped like a corn on the cob. It hums with a strange energy.

USE KEY:
* Office Key
* Corn Key
* Citadel Key
* Empty

PANEL 3: Panel from a cinema scene where Crystal the waitress is leaning in to confide to Dr. Mariposa.

CRYSTAL (here credited as only WAITRESS): "My mom tried to get me to go to therapy, but the therapist refused to talk about all the disappearances in town."

PANEL 4: Dr. Mariposa is in the clocktower at night. His flashlight is pointing at a nude woman, the Clocktower Hermit.

TALK:
* "That's black and white thinking." 3 PSY
* "Would you say that to a friend?" 18 PSY

PANEL 5: Dr. Mariposa is digging through a filing cabinet in a dark basement.

DR. MARIPOSA: "These are all my old patient notes from before the accident! But ... what are they doing here?"

PANEL 6: White text on black.

PHYSICIAN

HEAL THYSELF

FAST.

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The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I am genuinely obsessed with how close these people let Nathan Fielder get in virtually every shot of this trailer. The first documentary shot entirely at kissing distance.

Nathan sitting on one side of the bed while Elizabeth Holmes’ husband stroked her leg on the other.

Nathan Fielder standing a tight 18 inches away from Elizabeth Holmes’s husband in a way that suggest the latter can be pushed against the fridge and be taken to makeout city

Nathan Fielder staring soulfully in Elizabeth Holmes’ eyes less than a foot away.

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The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Don’t talk to me, my son, my son, my son, my son, or my son ever again #miniatures #miniaturepainting #nerdlings

A fuller 32mm chaos warrior also done up in Nurgle Green standing in front of the strip of 10mm Warmaster scale warriors detailed below.

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The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’m not the biggest fan of speed paints but I wanted to try something new so I spent an hour or so between calls painting extremely tiny Nurgle warriors with a limited palette this morning. #miniatures #miniaturepainting #nerdlings

The front of five 10mm scale chaos warriors done up in Nurgle Green on their plate mail and shields. They are attached to the top of a pill bottle with poster putty

The backs. I’ve given them crimson capes and shaded white fur collars. The spray paint I used to prime them clumped but it gives them a pleasant snowy effect.

The six paints I used:
Vallejo Color Xpress Templar White
AK QuickGen Crimson Red
AK QuickGen Ochre Green
AK QuickGen Dark Leather
AK QuickGen Space Green
Army Painter Plate Mail Metal

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The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

A while back I came across a bunch of scans of Rogue Trader, the quasi-RPG tabletop game that would eventually become Warhammer 40k. There’s a lot to enjoy in seeing early art for the setting before a lot of the brand has been established, not least of all Tom of Grimdark the caked-out space marine

A space marine having surgery performed on him while standing up (it looks like he is getting his black carapace implant as there are shiny black bits under his skin) but he is standing away from the viewer with his incredibly thick ass inevitably front and center

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Andrew Elmore 💽 @elmore.zone · 20/09/2026

Gonna start remaking books. It's been so many years and hardware generations since Lord of the Rings came out, you don't really want to slog through that old retro stuff right? The Ringsmastered Edition features quality of life improvements, rebalanced prose, save states, and Pippin says "fuck" now.

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The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

I love that trying to feed a real life war criminal through d20 modern as written means that Saddam Hussein is moderately good at the things we know him for but a generational talent at close up magic.

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Supcat @ Laperopter Corporation @supcat.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Okay but then I was chatting with the guys that were waiting in line since this morning and found the final boss of bootleg merch

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The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 25/01/2024

This is the little known handheld sequel to beloved JRPG/shmup hybrid Doki Doki Uncle Si! Densetsu No Maiden for the Xbox 360

The Duck Dynasty game in a 360 games launcher surrounded by JRPGs and Cave games.

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Saralene (Sara Leen) 💫🐈 @saralene.tv · 16/09/2026

OUT NOW! Air Management '96 (AKA Aerobiz '96) is now FULLY in English for you to play on your PlayStation 1! This game was nearly released in the west as Aerobiz 2000, then canceled. Now you can enjoy it almost as if it had! You can get the full patch NOW at RHDI! romhack.ing/database/con...

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The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

People like to complain about how tech bros ruined Burning Man but I 100% promise you that you can recreate that long-lost vibe just by going to a unitarian church event in a red state.

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MS-DOS Games, Programs, Trivia, Pixels, Grog @scumm-bar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Blasting a MOD style pattern with five instances of the MEGA NOISE MAKER from Jill of the Jungle. 🤘 Yes, it is terrible indeed.

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The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

An incredible juxtaposition from the letters section of EGM issue 150

A picture from the previous letter depicting the band Journey in the early 80s (five men with incredibly feathered hair, mustaches, and so much denim) right above the header for the next one titled “Desperately Seeking Hentai”

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Six Dettmar @sixdettmar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Took the Manga Plus survey so I could tell them not to use AI translations, but wow, they must think I’m a goddamn idiot

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Japan Retro Direct @japanretrodirect.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I hope everyone is having a great week. Here are some nice game restocks (Tales of Destiny 2 and THE Helicopter stand out). Music restocks as well (Utada Hikaru, Ayumi, Asian Kung-Fu Generation). Also a couple new game listings (Lupin III Chronicles and Arcana Heart 3). japanretrodirect.ocnk.com

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Super Screenshotgun: DooM Scrolling @idclev.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A Silent Hill Map for GZDoom by Thysamithan (2022)

the rest stop bathroom from the beginning of Silent Hill 2. Doomguy can see his reflection in a filthy mirror and their are doomcute voxel urinals

The forested walking path, also from the intro to Silent Hill 2. There is a doomcute voxel cargo van and a decayed billboard for Pete's Bowl-o-Rama

The alleyway where you are stabbed to death by children from the beginning of Silent Hill. There is a custom Beware of Dog texture on the rusty gate and a pile of unidentified viscera behind it.

A random hallway once you go into the fog world. One door is a pile of skulls and the other one is straight from Silent Hill 2, both of them sharply offsetting the rusted walls and grated catwalk.

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The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Causing a huge controversy in the local corvid community (dropped a whole Sam’s Club pretzel in the parking lot)

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The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I love the implication in this updated version of Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret that God is actively responding to her, presumably leading to her adopting the name Margaret D’Arc and causing the dreaded English to abandon the siege of Orléans

A newish copy of Are You Thete God, It’s Me Margaret where the title is presented like some text messages and God is currently texting back

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The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Once again you’ve embarrassed yourself by showing up in a singlet when i was clearly inviting you over for some tag team Russell-ing

A DVD of Master and Commander starring Russell Crowe and Tombstone starring Kurt Russell

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The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Once again you’ve embarrassed yourself by showing up in a singlet when i was clearly inviting you over for some tag team Russell-ing

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The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Learning Cassie is officially off the market is like a personal 9/11 for a tremendous amount of people on this app.

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Super Screenshotgun: DooM Scrolling @idclev.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Alcázar (2023) MAP06 - Wish Granted by Ravendesk and General Roasterock MAP08 - Djinn by Ravendesk

The outside of a mosque looking building at night, surrounded by cliffs and a starry sky.

A somewhat off-center shot of what appears to be an industrial machine controlling a lava flow seen through several iron windows. A purple skull key can be seen to the right.

A room where the words Time Is Running Out appear several times. Ironically, if you see it like this, time has ran out.

A look at Map 8 where several small alcoves with golden gyms loop infinitely.

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Ted Leo 🍉 @tedleo.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

9/11 this, 9/11 that; some of y’all need to put down the 9 ELVEN rings gifted to the race of men, who above all else, desire power <send>

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DOKI DOKI CRT PIXEL @crtpixel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

WOLVERINE: ADAMANTIUM RAGE BITS CORP 1994 SNES

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