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Eric Bailey @ericvbailey.bsky.social · 3h

A cat my six-year-old drew for me. I find it artistically interesting!

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Eric Bailey @ericvbailey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

oh baby that first pic looks like Ellors Madak (unnamed at the time)

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Eric Bailey @ericvbailey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not great! ... unique, though.

Photo of a can of mango chile pickle beer.

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Eric Bailey @ericvbailey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sometimes your family goes out for ice cream but you're lactose intolerant so you get a warm brownie with Butterfinger crumbles and it turns out actually kinda amazing.

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Eric Bailey @ericvbailey.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Cream Soda Mountain Dew. My review: Not *nearly* as gross as I expected!

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Eric Bailey @ericvbailey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I have decided on my next commander to build. 😈 Looking forward to figuring out how to [impossibly] juggle token shenanigans with spellslinger shenanigans.

An image of a Magic card: Kykar, Wind's Fury, a legendary bird's wizard who not only creates a 1/1 white Spirit flying creature token whenever you cast a non-creature spell, but also allows you to sac 'em for red mana whenever you want. Neat. He's like a giant swan, with both wings and arms? holding a fire orb. In the sky.

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Eric Bailey @ericvbailey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Had a fuzzy visitor at my desk today.

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Eric Bailey @ericvbailey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Any other Marble Madness (NES) players out there? Yeah? Marble Madness? Pretty cool little game, that one. You know it? Marble Madness? No? Ah, well.

A photo, of a television screen, after a gameplay session of Marble Madness (NES) depicting a score achieved of 163,180. Which is like 20,000 points more than I remember my high score ever being. Neat.

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Eric Bailey @ericvbailey.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

camera on my phone is terrible but i shot the moon through the ferris wheel at the county fair

photo of the moon, as seen through the neon spokes of a ferris wheel

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Eric Bailey @ericvbailey.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

of all the weird little pixeljunk reaction gifs and memes and pieces of reply-section detritus, i do admit i've grown fond of this one

An illustrated image depicting a, uh, sharp-nosed red-hatted figure holding a beer in the foreground of a tavern setting (similar pointy-eared figures are drinking in the background). The captain reads: "What's the matter vagueboy, afraid you might say something?" in all caps.

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Eric Bailey @ericvbailey.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

He just logged into bluesky. Show him several vague posts concerning some controversy of some kind. He just started trying to click through to see what the fuss is about. Ensure all the source posts have been deleted.

I'm not even 100% sure what the source is, but I think it's Ed Harris in Westworld? He's looking at something off-camera/off-screen, pensively-sorta. I feel like this is a difficult one to be descriptive of, for me, for some reason, sorry! It's a still from a TV show. He's wearing a cap.

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Eric Bailey @ericvbailey.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

W-which generation game was this?!

A screenshot from a GBA Pokémon game, showing the classic early Professor scene of offering the player their starter pokémon from three choices. The text has been altered, though, to now say: "OAK: HELL YEAH, I LOVE EXPLOITING WILDLIFE FOR PERSONAL GAIN. GO AHEAD, PICK ONE!"

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Eric Bailey @ericvbailey.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Oh, I hit 300 feedback on ebay recently! 100% positive. Neat.

Cropped screenshot showing account "theericbailey" on ebay, with 300 positive feedback.

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Eric Bailey @ericvbailey.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

staring at the mouth on this dolphin until i start screaming and jump out a window

Children's book illustration of a dolphin. On the side of the dolphin is drawn a mouth. Like, where the gills would be on a shark. Nowhere near the normal place a dolphin-mouth would go (you know, at the end of a dolphin).

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Eric Bailey @ericvbailey.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

i am not 100% sure whether @wesaketchak.bsky.social is the original maker of this mash-up but i am 100% sure that it is brilliant and was crafted for my enjoyment particularly

A multi-panel using the style and characters from Calvin & Hobbes, but with dialogue and art referencing the book "House of Leaves."

In the first panel, Susie Derkins approaches Calvin and asks "Hey Calvin, you want to play "House"?" but the word "house" is in blue text.

Second panel: Calvin respond "I don't know. How do you play?"

Third panel: From our POV we see a doorway, through a doorway, through which another doorway is visible, through which is visible another doorway... between rooms, Susie can be seen moving laterally.

Panel four: Susie is walking through a massive hallway. Other doors, turns are visible. She seems so small, as though the ceiling is several dozen feet above her, as though she has been reduced to a child's toy in a house.

Panel five: Calvin is in the dark, in his pajamas now, holding a flashlight which seems to have found a large hole in the floor.

Panel six: Calvin is running downstairs in the dark, a vague shadow in pursuit of him, as he yells "HELP HELP! IT'S AFTER ME!"

Panel seven: Bird's-eye view of a typical-looking house.

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Eric Bailey @ericvbailey.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Wow, what a unique opportunity! Wizards of the Coast commissioned me to do some new artwork for The One Ring and uh well it was sort of a rush job, but I think I got it done! What do you think? ☺️ #wotc #mtg #DanFrazier #MartaNael

An artwork depicting the "The One Ring" artwork from the Magic The Gathering card, except obvious the Ring itself has just been copy/pasted (and rotated) onto a new background -- in a process very similar to how Dan Frazier might have copied Marta Nael (accidentally, possibly).

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Eric Bailey @ericvbailey.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Forgive the [almost completely absent] lighting, and my poor choice to hold my phone right by a fishtank... But I got it! I captured the way our 5yo plays piano. At five, I would've just been banging on keys. She finds funky chords and it's fun to listen to! I think it's wild!

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Eric Bailey @ericvbailey.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

somebody set us up the bomb 😔

The classic retro-game-screenshot "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US" meme image, but the caption has been replaced to say "I'M SORRY BUT AS AN AI LANGUAGE MODEL I CAN'T ASSIST WITH THAT"

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Eric Bailey @ericvbailey.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I confess to some morbid curiosity as to how this 'Clavicular' fella would respond if people started pointing out that one of his eyes is a bit higher on his face than the other.

Photo of "looksmaxxing" guru "Clavicular," shown in a white dress shirt, he's a white dude with a face and hair.

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Eric Bailey @ericvbailey.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

my face when entire podcast series exist to cover how much i suck

Photo of terrible pastor Mark Driscoll, a white dude in a suit mid-speaking.

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Eric Bailey @ericvbailey.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

i made a Venn diagram the red circle is good horror writing prompts, the blue circle is good indie game prompts

Two circles overlap, one red and one blue, showing purple where they intersect (notably, about 99% of the circles' area intersects).

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Eric Bailey @ericvbailey.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

NO TRESPISSING Private Property

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Eric Bailey @ericvbailey.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

A 'mnemonic' is a memory-aid technique in which you use the corresponding first characters of the words in one sequence in order to help remember another sequence more easily, forming a mental association. Here, I made one as an example, to help you remember the four cardinal directions. Enjoy! 🙂

A compass-like image/diagram, showing the four cardinal directions of a compass along with corresponding labels: Northern, Eastern, Southern, Western.

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Eric Bailey @ericvbailey.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Halls of the Things (ZX Spectrum, 1983) I have a soft spot for old dungeon-crawler roguelikes like this; scant on graphical fidelity but big on imagination, leveraging all their power toward systems and inventories and depth of adventure.

Screenshot from the 1983 ZX Spectrum computer game Halls of the Things, depicting the simple white humanoid player-character in a dark interior environment with green walls. Yellow gold and a bright blue bottle item lie nearby, along with gated corridors.

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Eric Bailey @ericvbailey.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Trying a new Arizona drink -- the Rickey, a Brooklyn original. It's an Apple Lime sparkling product, and... I kinda like it! Sweet & fruity like you'd expect but with a complex, interesting flavor profile.

Photo of a can of Arizona's sparkling apple lime drink, the Rickey.

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Eric Bailey @ericvbailey.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Classic NES action platformer Bionic Commando released March 20, 1987. I'll be busy March 20th so here a week ahead of time, happy 39th anniversary and happy Exploding Head of Resurrected Hitler Day!

Screenshot from the NES game Bionic Commando, depicting the head of resurrected Hitler (no, really) in a lab of some kind, a dialogue box saying "WHAT, YOU'RE GOING TO FIGHT AGAINST ME? YOU DAMN FOOL."

Screenshot from NES game Bionic Commando, depicting a simple interior setting (with half a helicopter in view), along with a dialogue box. Only, there is no dialogue, since the portrait is currently depicting the exploding head of resurrected Hitler.

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Eric Bailey @ericvbailey.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

love playing some classic original SimCity (PC)

A screenshot of the original SimCity computer game, depicting its cityscape and management icons, along with a disaster alert edited to contain the following message: "DISASTER-YOU HAVE CEDED YOUR GOVERNMENT TO BILLIONAIRE PEDOPHILE WARMONGERING RACISTS AND TECHNO-WARLORD MEGALOMANIAC PSYCHOPATHS MAY THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD BE SWIFT AND TOTAL"

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Eric Bailey @ericvbailey.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

me, encountering the idea of a game developer 'collective': hmmm sounds interesting maybe cool, but can it actually work in the real world? me, finding what games have emerged from the Glitch City collective: instantly humbled, eating crow, hollering and such

Taken from the website of the Glitch City game developers' collective in LA, a list of some games made there. It includes such indie darlings and gems and powerhouses as Hyper Light Drifter, Frog Fractions 2, Wildermyth, Donut County, and many others.

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Eric Bailey @ericvbailey.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I remember when every MCU release was an EVENT. Now they've had entire runs of shows I've completely forgotten about smh.

The post for Disney MCU show "Echo," showing the titular protagonist on a motorcycle on a road while the shadow-silhouette of antagonist Wilson "Kingpin" Fisk looms overhead against a colorful abstract background; except, I've crudely edited "ECHO" to read "ECCO" and put Ecco the Dolphin in the shadowy space of the Kingpin's head.

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Eric Bailey @ericvbailey.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

An example of whimsy in games that I am always delighted to remember: The celebratory ostrich in Championship Bowling (NES). How strange! How random! How wonderful!

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