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Alien Bob but also @jeremyoduber.com · 03/10/2026

I'm boxing up a ton of stuff to clear space in the office, the perfect moment for #RandomGameSaturday I've never played it but I bet it's fantastic

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Alien Bob but also @jeremyoduber.com · 01/10/2026

Yesterday was my 21st anniversary with my beloved. We gawked at modern art, ate good, and watched Dune 1984. Just one of thousands of incredible days with her, and I'm hoping for many thousands more. If I have one universal piece of advice, it's to surround yourself with people who know how to love

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Alien Bob but also @jeremyoduber.com · 29/09/2026

In a few hours I'm going to be streaming the start of a full playthrough of the game that destroyed Cryo Interactive. There isn't enough spice in the universe to get me through this broken turd unscathed. Join me, it should be fun!

case and artwork for the PC version of Cryo's Frank Herbert's Dune.

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Alien Bob but also @jeremyoduber.com · 27/09/2026

I think I've solved the storage solution. Old thick-ass hard disks.

A 1990s hard disk, the thickness of a thick book.

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Alien Bob but also @jeremyoduber.com · 27/09/2026

The Streets of Rage spinoff I didn't know I needed

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Alien Bob but also @jeremyoduber.com · 27/09/2026

Here's something important to remember: computers.

A stack of 5 old computers ranging from a 286 to a Pentium 4.

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Alien Bob but also @jeremyoduber.com · 26/09/2026

And last, but absolutely not least, a shitload of IDE hard disks, main boards, and expansion cards and other assorted PCBs. I still need to figure out what most of this is but the personal highlight for me is those card format Pentiums!

Hard disks, motherboards, CPUs, and expansion cards laid out on the floor

Close up of card/cartridge format Pentium 2s and 3

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Alien Bob but also @jeremyoduber.com · 26/09/2026

A bunch of CDs, which includes a couple of games and shareware discs, a bunch of random crap and driver installers, and a large stack of Computer! Totaal C!T-ROM demo/shareware discs each of which come two disc cardboard cases with beautiful early CG art

Jane's WWII fighters and Dawn Patrol cd cases

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Alien Bob but also @jeremyoduber.com · 26/09/2026

Some 4:3 monitors and a shitload of 5.25 inch floppy disks including some absolute classic commercial releases

Several piles of 5.25 inch floppy disks in sleeves

Original copies of 5.25 disk versions of Monkey Island 2, A-Train, Mission Impossible II, Populous, Lemmings, Sim Earth, Sim City, Gold Rush, and Codename: Iceman.

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Alien Bob but also @jeremyoduber.com · 26/09/2026

And the last of the PCs, a regular degular Medion Pentium 4 which might make for a more compatible XP machine than I have now. Also, built in S-Video, Component, and SCART out???

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Alien Bob but also @jeremyoduber.com · 26/09/2026

This might be the most valuable to me one yet. A beautiful if dirty Packard Bell with Pentium iii and Windows 98 that may just have all the ports I need to play with some weird peripherals I have, or at least be a good retro PC gaming project

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Alien Bob but also @jeremyoduber.com · 26/09/2026

Next, a Hewlett-Packard Vectra VE. Pentium inside, designed for Windows 95! And Tulip PC Compact 2. Dutch homegrown, small, but deceptively heavy!

Closeup of the Intel Inside and Windows 95 logos on the case.

A small beige Tulip PC, with both types of floppy drive.

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Alien Bob but also @jeremyoduber.com · 26/09/2026

Now onto the big boys! First, what I assume to be a 286 IBM clone of some kind. It even has the big thocky power switch. No other identifiable markings on the outside.

A really old big computer, with both kinds of floppy drive.

Back of the computer showing various ports and vents.

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Alien Bob but also @jeremyoduber.com · 26/09/2026

A much nicer Compaq, the Evo N600c, looking very thinkpad-esque. And lastly a decent looking Windows Vista Fujitsu Siemens Amilo.

Compaq Evo opened up, featuring a Thinkpad-like pointer nipple.

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Alien Bob but also @jeremyoduber.com · 26/09/2026

Next, a decent looking Dell Inspiron 1150 with an Intel Celeron. Charger included, and a bizarre Compaq Presario that I think is kinda ripping off the iBook G3? The blue parts are sticky old melty rubber.

Regular ol Dell laptop from the early 2000s

A very clamshelly Compaq laptop with media buttons on the front.

The Compaq opened up, featuring blue rubber accents and transparent plastic.

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Alien Bob but also @jeremyoduber.com · 26/09/2026

These next ones all came in their own laptop bags. First up, a "Super 5" brand ??? with a cracked case and very creative hinge reinforcement.

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Alien Bob but also @jeremyoduber.com · 26/09/2026

A pretty Fujitsu Lifebook with a kacked hinge and cracked screen 😢. Another, older Fujitsu Siemens with a Pentium 4 and what I assume is an optimistic cooling solution. Ah, uhhhh...

Laptop with a flat laying hinge and cracks in the LCD

Regular Fujitsu Siemens Windows XP laptop.

A laptop motherboard, display, and top cover in separate parts.

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Alien Bob but also @jeremyoduber.com · 26/09/2026

Diving into the bag o' laptops first. An Acer Travelmate that thinks 2GB is enough for Windows Vista. A Fujitsu Siemens that's seen better days. A pretty solid looking Dell Latitude D600. A pretty solid looking HP something.

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Alien Bob but also @jeremyoduber.com · 26/09/2026

Remember when I essentially inherited a whole collection of 8-bit Atari stuff? Well that same old family friend still had much more to give me. I don't even know what half of this is, so join me in this thread as I do a quick catalog.

Bags full of laptops and computer parts, floppy disks, CD ROM, and a tower of tower computers.

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Alien Bob but also @jeremyoduber.com · 25/09/2026

Some good faces in this manual

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Alien Bob but also @jeremyoduber.com · 25/09/2026

OKAY FINE guess I'll finally learn how to play fighting games.

I'm holding a big box copy of War Gods for Windows 95.

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Alien Bob but also @jeremyoduber.com · 24/09/2026

This is cute, I've never done one of these before

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Alien Bob but also @jeremyoduber.com · 23/09/2026

Trying to solve this puzzle, and if I understood that hint right... The only group of people I can think of that don't care at all when fascists die is... Other fascists. (see Kirk et al)

YouTube comment: For someone who spent hundreds of hours researching a topic, you spectacularly missed the point of the game.
You should have read the manual and try to understand it, not just look for a spreadsheet. And that whole rant about the "fascists" with you inciting people to m*rder someone? Yeah. Don't go around trying to "humanize" game characters that are depicting minorities and in the same breath call for something like that and try to play it off as something morally acceptable. "It's against group X so it's okay" (in this case fascists) but it's not. You will end up in jail and for the right reasons, if you keep this up.
And on another note: a tool is a tool, not a weapon. the owner of the tool decides whether it's a weapon or not.
Maybe think about that before casting judgement onto others. (and before you accuse me of any affiliations, I couldn't care less if a fascist dies or not, maybe that will give you a hint)

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Alien Bob but also @jeremyoduber.com · 23/09/2026

I'll never get tired of living a short walk away from a goddamn T-Rex skeleton

Fossilized Tyrannosaurus skeleton on display in a museum

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Alien Bob but also @jeremyoduber.com · 22/09/2026

Picking up my mom at the airport. I think this is a sign.

Sliding doors with the words "Today is the day" written on them.

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Alien Bob but also @jeremyoduber.com · 20/09/2026

I don't... think this is a very smart thing to name your game thing

YouTube thumbnail for a game called Metroidvania Maker

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Alien Bob but also @jeremyoduber.com · 18/09/2026

Finally youtube recommends a good fucking video

YouTube thumbnail: Marcia Cross réagit à tous les .gif de Bree Van de Kamp

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Alien Bob but also @jeremyoduber.com · 16/09/2026

I used to think those Call of Duty/Red Dawn invasion of America fantasies were pathetic, but now it seems like if we all band together we might just be able to pull it off...

Graph from the quotes bloomberg article showing how much of the us navy is deployed in the Middle East and how many ships are not available for deployment.

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Alien Bob but also @jeremyoduber.com · 03/09/2026

Just a small snippet of what was a very enlightening and I will personally say utterly delightful interview on how this remarkable game was made:

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Alien Bob but also @jeremyoduber.com · 01/09/2026

What's up nerds, continuing my quest for Big Worm in Cryo Interactive's Dune at twitch.tv/alienbob and/or youtube.com/@alienboblives

Screenshot of 1992's Dune adventure game, showing pixelated characters standing in a cave.

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Alien Bob but also @jeremyoduber.com · 29/08/2026

Coincidentally just encountered this and while I'm too ignorant to know if it's right or wrong it did make me go crosseyed for a second.

Example of an English comment with an Arabic username in mixed right to left and left to right writing.

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Alien Bob but also @jeremyoduber.com · 25/08/2026

French developer/publisher Cryo Interactive released two Dune games in its lifetime. One good and interesting, and one godawful and terrible. For once I'll be going against my own pattern and playing the good and interesting one Live now at twitch.tv/alienbob and/or youtube.com/@alienboblives/live

Screenshot of 1992's Dune, showing a pixel art sandworm that looks rather phallic.

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Alien Bob but also @jeremyoduber.com · 24/08/2026

Reading Dune for the first time and surprised at the appearance of our favorite dinosaur hunter.

"I will await below," Stilgar said, "while Idaho makes farewell with his friends. Turok was the name of our dead friend. Remember that when it comes time to release his spirit. You are friends of Turok."

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Alien Bob but also @jeremyoduber.com · 24/08/2026

If you're worried about being political in your gaming youtube videos, of speaking your beautiful truth with your whole entire ass, may I point out that this video which I end with BJ Blazkowicz exploding nazi heads to the beat of a Jet Set Radio song has a 97.4% like ratio?

YouTube dashboard display for A Force More Powerful: this game is political, showing 97.4% likes vs dislikes, 5,574 likes, and 150 dislikes.

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Alien Bob but also @jeremyoduber.com · 22/08/2026

Not running out of milestones to celebrate anytime soon I guess. Total channel views have passed 500k!

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Alien Bob but also @jeremyoduber.com · 20/08/2026

It took some hours but we made it

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Alien Bob but also @jeremyoduber.com · 20/08/2026

Now we can all finally sleep! Although... Some would argue 10,000 is an even nicer, rounder number...

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Alien Bob but also @jeremyoduber.com · 18/08/2026

YouTube is changing how views are counted for ~~reasons~~ so this is the last time I can do a fair comparison, but it's comfortably at the number two spot and may eventually take the crown with a long enough tail.

List of my top five most watched videos. Desperate Housewives at 1 with 85k views, A Force More Powerful with 70k, Cursed Controllers at 31k, Rig n Roll at 29k, and Phoenix Games at 22k.

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