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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 25/08/2026

Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only.

Greg Johnson, Alec Kercso, Bob Gonsalves, T.C. Lee, Rod McConnell of Binary Systems, creators of Starflight

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 17/03/2026

I just found a before and after DLSS for the Doom Guy.

The Doom Guy in his classic pose: strangely underdressed but licking ass (with some kind of gun not in the game? Whatever. Still classic)

A very (purposely) poorly drawn rendition of the Doom Guy. Think 2nd grade doodle with all the proportion issues and mutated anatomical nightmares that entails.

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 07/03/2026

Post the cover of a book you love from the '90s

Cover for Alien vs. Predator: Prey, the first in a series of actually quite good novels in the Alien and Predator universes with a badass female protagonist

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 06/03/2026

My nine games. As with John, one was missing that I was head over heels about (Might and Magic III: Isles of Terra). Made at my9games.com

9 games meme: covers of 9 games in a grid, 3 wide by 3 tall.

From top left to bottom right: Doom, Thief the Dark Project, Alternate Reality: the City (Atari computer), Subnautica, Outer Wilds, Tempest 2000 (Atari Jaguar), Fallout (the original DOS one), Daggerfall, Starflight

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 03/03/2026

I won’t link to it nor paste the copy as to not give free advertising via searches or the like, but I’ll attach a screenshot here.

A screenshot of a fake Scrivener app. I’m not going to paste the text here to avoid giving these people search hits, but the copy, the actual name, all exact knockoffs. I’m pretty sure the app description is literally taken from actual pages on the real Scrivener.

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 26/11/2025

They came. They took a look around. They said. “Hmm, you know what Zorknarf? I think we should get the hell out of here before we are made into a rug or squashed in a press for our oil or something…”

Two aliens staring up at a life-size crucifix with a representation of Jesus hanging from it. One says: "You know what we need to do? We need to get the fuck out of here, that's what we need to do. "

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 01/08/2025

This seems an oddly aggressive way to say you no longer do marble cake… “But what about marble cake? Huh? Where is it, damnit!” Tony “Cakemurder” Spinelli leaned close. “Marble cake is no longer.”

A sticky note on a cake display which say “marble cake is no longer”.

That’s the whole thing. It literally ends there. It’s not like some of the sticky note is behind something and blocks the final word “available” or something.

It just says, in total, that marble cake is no longer.

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 17/05/2025

If you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky.

Glitched image, grainy and pixelated. Oscar the Grouch (green, messy garbage-can-living muppet), looking like he’s teaching something to us all behind all the glitches and image errors, with “Neutrality is a form of violence” in pale lavender text at the top.

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 08/05/2025

Damn, they got him a greeting card and everything!

The new pope looking at what is likely something important: a bible, some kind of holy relic like St. Smeggly’s pickled testicle, maybe a pressed flower. I don’t know. But from the angle of the photo (pope on left seen from the front, hands steepled, looking intently to the front-right at a giant, 3 foot tall, opened book trimmed in white and gold is held open for him), it looks like a big greeting card, maybe one that plays music and has a little cartoon Jesus inside holding a fish juggling around on a paper spring.

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 29/04/2025

The process for selecting a new pope

Screenshot from the Amiga/DOS era point and click game “Dreamweb”. High res for the time. Mostly blacks and grays and browns. Cyberpunk. A lot of user interface including a giant side view of the protagonist on the left. More than a little Bladerunner inspiration. Shot is of a roadside with an abandoned police car, rain, other cyberpunk staples, top-down, with a cursor the player uses to click around the world shaped like a big old hand.

The story is some kind of fever dream where a man kills his way through a number of supposed bad guys who may well be some kind of “horsemen of the apocalypse” based on dreams he has… or perhaps he’s just snapped and whacking people in a murderous rampage.

However, I’d like to put this forth as an equally viable way to choose a pope. I mean, hey, why not try something new? Find a guy driven to murder by dreaming about little talking blue energy balls or whatever the hell they were, make him run a gantlet of puzzles and a bit of murder, and *bam!* new pope!

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 13/11/2024

I grew up on these streets.

Screenshot from the original isometric Fallout.

Deathclaw nest, baby!

Isometric view of damaged streets and walls of a post nuclear hellscape (might as well get in the practice now before real life looks like this). Main character decked out in the robotic Brotherhood of Steel armor with two party members to his rear. A deathclaw, a creature that looks like a lizard was mated with Elon Musk’s weird barrel body, is seconds away from owning the crap out of our hero for at least a few punishing rounds because, badass power armor or not, Fallout 1 Deathclaws are brutal.

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 04/11/2024

The energy I bring to Bluesky

Screenshot from the Adult Swim fake-sitcom-intro, “Too Many Cooks”. It’s like 30 minutes of slowly devolving madness where the show never starts, but instead continues in the manner of TV sitcoms for decades: smiling people caught unawares smiling at the camera, theme music too on the nose, families eating at a table, etc. etc. etc. until it spirals out of control, becomes something of a horror movie full of frozen characters, fake doors, plywood walls, and a madman on the loose.

Image is of said madman. It is an image from the future of what I will look like, sent back to haunt me like a Ghost of Christmas Future. Very reminiscent of my father. Heavyset but healthy-enough build, facial hair scraggly but sort-of trimmed. Beard, long mustache. Hairline about 50% up his scalp but long at the sides (like I said, future me). The grin of someone up to some bad shit, facial expression somewhere between “are you going to eat those fries” and “I slipped a razor blade into one of your shoes, but you have to guess which one TEEHEE”.

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 21/10/2024

*waves at @trulytarotbyjudy.bsky.social* Thief 1 and 2. I’ve read it explained that these games don’t have levels, but spaces. It’s true. They inspired every stealth game since and have yet to be matched. Even after playing them dozens of times, I still get lost in these maps.

Cover art for Thief 2: The Metal Age.

Garret, the thief protagonist, is cloaked in shadows looking pretty cool in that pseudo-middle-ages fantasy thief garb, hood and all, holding a bow with a glowing arrow nocked.

Plenty of shadow and a background of rusty metal to demonstrate the main conceit of the sequel: the steampunk technology which is being used for nefarious purposes by one of the most amazing antagonists ever.

Google “Thief 2 Karas voice” and enjoy.

A screenshot from the game Thief. While ostensibly about thieving… it’s not. There is always a magical and/or steampunk component, including demigods and demons and nature spirits. The screenshot is of a long hall in a mansion, but it’s twisted into a spiral. Very Esher. The mansion in question is not what it seems on the outside, and laws of physics need not apply.

All part of the Thief charm. You think “hey, a stealth game about nicking valuables” and then you end up in the mansion of a demigod pretending to be human with rooms built upside-down and filled with odd growths.

But, yeah, while you’re there you *do* help yourself to some nice valuables just laying around. Got to pay the bills, after all.

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 21/10/2024

*Waves at @dreamless.bsky.social* Mercenary: Escape from Targ. Doesn’t look much today, but on an Atari computer in the 80s, it was amazing. Completely open world and unguided. Hard as nails. Can both fly ships and walk. What Mario 64 was decades later, this was like that. Just in wireframe.

Cover art for an Atari computer game, Mercenary. Standard 80s box art: bright, perhaps a little exaggerated compared to the product inside, but not too exaggerated.

A futuristic pilot (only the top of a helmet and gloved hands visible) flys a craft over a green landscape populated by wireframe buildings.

A screenshot from Mercenary: Escape from Targ. Shows what it looked like on the Atari computer. Top 3/4 of the screen is the “3d” view, at least as 3d as an 8-bit 6502 processor and some custom graphic chips could handle. Green ground, black wireframe roads. White wireframe building in the distance. Blue skies. Quite advanced for its time.

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 20/10/2024

If anyone is interested! I’ll not spam your timeline all at once. I’ll keep it spread out and sane.

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 22/07/2024

She might be part dinosaur herself…

A close-up of mangled AI hand which seems to somehow have a little tiny claw at the end and a thumb-banana mad scientist experiment thing…dreadful

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 08/07/2024

Tater, the little monster who gave me a real run for my money the first 12 months we had him… The best little monster.

Photo of a sleepy yellow Labrador, sitting up with eyes closed and face wrinkled from his big goofy head being tucked down and to the side in comfort.

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 06/06/2024

Totally does. And he is a handsome fella! Here is my lady. Sadly, no longer with us, but don’t be sad (as we animal people get over each other’s passed animals). She had 15 glorious years. She looks thicc here…but it’s all fur. Like inches of fur on all sides.

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 05/06/2024

For my artist and writer friends. (p.s., no idea how BlueSky will flag this image. It is a scene from No Country for Old Men, and is not some scary or gruesome image, but I've had BS flag images as "corpse" or the like completely out of context since the filter sees bodies)

Image of a scene from No Country for Old Men where the assassin character strangles a man in order to escape prison.

Words over the two faces: "Artists and Writers" over the strangler's face, 'ChatGPT, LLMs, Image "AI"s' over the stranglee's face.

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 04/06/2024

“AI” is sooooooooooooooooo bad at facts. Attached is an image from a Quora AI bot explaining how Terry Pratchett wrote. As far as I know, every single point except number five and some of point one is completely, totally, wrong…like documented in multiple sources including his own words wrong.

Terry Pratchett, the beloved author of the Discworld series and many other books, had a unique writing process that worked well for him. While every author has their own approach to writing, Pratchett's methods were known to be both disciplined and creative. Here are some key aspects of Terry Pratchett's writing process:

1. Routine: Pratchett was known for his disciplined writing routine. He would often start writing in the morning and continue throughout the day, treating writing like a full-time job. He believed in the importance of showing up every day to write, even if the words weren't flowing.

2. Planning: Pratchett was a meticulous planner. He would often spend a significant amount of time outlining his novels before he started writing. This included developing the plot, creating character profiles, and world-building. He believed that a strong outline provided a solid foundation for his stories.

3. Writing by Hand: Despite the prevalence of computers, Pratchett preferred to write his first drafts by hand. He felt that this method allowed him to connect more deeply with his writing and helped him to focus on the story without distractions.

4. Editing and Revising: Pratchett was known to be a meticulous editor. He would revise his drafts multiple times, refining his prose and tightening the story. He believed in the importance of rewriting and polishing his work to make it the best it could be.

5. Humor and Satire: Pratchett's writing was known for its humor, wit, and satire. He had a keen eye for observation and a sharp sense of humor that he infused into his writing. He was able to tackle serious themes with a light touch, making his stories both entertaining and thought-provoking.

Overall, Terry Pratchett's writing process was a combination of discipline, creativity, and meticulous planning. He was dedicated to his craft and worked hard to create the rich and imaginative worlds that have captivated readers around the world.

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 22/05/2024

post a PERFECT album from the 90s that isn't nirvana or pearl jam or soundgarden or alice in chains

Cover for the CD of Tool’s 1996 Ænima.

As all Tool album art is, it’s pure madness visually but I’ll god-damn try…

A bright blinding white square sits at the very center of utter blackness, the dark pierced only by green human eyes. Originally it was packaged with a form of optical chicanery, the kind where an image made of slatted lines of opposing graphics (perhaps an animation, or a dark night and a bright day, etc.) are behind a plastic sheet of ridges which made it so depending on the direction you held the CD case, the eyes would change and move.

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 28/03/2024

Repost with the first album you bought with your own money. I’m pretty sure this is it. I went absolutely bugf*ck for CDs at roughly the same time that I purchased this, and was exploring *all the things*, so no way to know for sure which was first—but this one feels like it was, looking back.

Album cover for Nine Inch Nail’s second album, Broken.

Kinda just a big old lower-case N over what looks like orange flames or the like but I’m pretty sure it’s some zoomed in, tilted photo of something kind of blurred and colorized to trick the eye.

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 27/03/2024

What the Australian aborigines could have had, according to this text:

Cover art for Ark, a video game which in part involves taming and riding dinosaurs.

A woman with an assault rifle rides a raptor, a guy with a bow rides a saber-toothed cat, a T-Rex photobombs in the background with an expression of reptilian confusion.

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 23/03/2024

You’ve been murdered. Who do you want on the case? With the way things have been going, prob need a detective with a little supernatural experience to solve my murder.

Cover image for the strange, ahead of its time survival horror game Nocturne. Noir based (hat and coat and whole shebang), shadowed main character stands in front of a golden, glowing, creepy castle/bridge arch holding out a cross and a pistol.

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 20/03/2024

How dare you disrespect Zorg!…oh wait, wrong thing.

Quoth the Wiki: “Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg, or simply Zorg, is the secondary antagonist of the 1997 sci-fi action film The Fifth Element.”

I didn’t even know the guy had first names. But there he is in all his strange 90s science fiction glory.

Image: Zorg, a character from The Fifth Element, played by Gary Oldman, looking off into the middle distance. Soul patch, strange plastic half-helmet, and uhhhh hair that screams “incel”, topped off by a collar going up so high he can’t even turn his head.

It’s gorgeous.

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 16/03/2024

Drop a ship that's not from Star Trek or Star Wars

Cover for Starflight, a Sega Genesis/Mega Drive port of a PC game of the same name. A pretty cool ship design, at least I always thought.

Cockpit area in the front, semi-spherical, followed by a long core section which holds storage bays, and semi-Enterprise style engine layout but straight to the sides in a horizontal configuration rather than the jaunty angle of the Enterprise nacelles.

Of course, in game, the PC DOS version ship is like 24 pixels, and the Genesis version is much better, but the ship on the cover is much cooler than either in-game representation because that’s how things rolled back then!

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 06/03/2024

Oh boy. Amazon is brimming with “How to Use ChatGPT for Your Novels!!!!” books. I just have to say: if you need a how-to manual on using the *god damned cheat program* that will “write” your novel for you, I just don’t know what I can tell you. Maybe you need an AI to use the AI to write?

A long list of “craft” books (craft is quoted with deeply sarcastic quotation marks here) from a quick search on Amazon for “ChatGPT novel”.

There’s a lot. Screenshot only shows one screen-worth, but that list just goes on and on if scrolled.

All amazingly written, I’m sure, with the careful, loving craft of asking ChatGPT questions and then copy/pasting the word vomit into a word processor. Real “writer in the throws of composition” stuff for sure.

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 17/02/2024

What is the “invitation list”?

Captain Picard meme, looking stressed and confused much like everyone, really, hand out. Top text “Well?”, bottom text “What is it?!”

Meme gleefully stolen from Google image search because, at the core, I’m lazy.

But, really, what is the invitation list?

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 11/02/2024

@resentment.space <- using lists as a bully tactic. Added me to a bunch (3) of unrelated block lists because they found themselves on one for saying weird things to Neil Gaiman. Not asking for anyone to block or do anything, just take note of their behavior if you run across them.

Screenshot of a block list made by @resentment.space, adding me to an unrelated list for “stolen content” in response to their being added to a legit list for abusive behavior towards Neil Gaiman a few months back.

Obvious abuse attempt against me in “revenge” I guess.

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 03/02/2024

Well, he did get himself some interaction for sure.

Screenshot showing blocks gained by being purposely obtuse and hostile. Well done!

Shows 8 blocks since one day before this post.

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 24/01/2024

Is this a Live Photo of the guy who nuked his own account trying to spite you?

YouTube error page for a missing YouTube channel with, for whatever reason, a purple monkey wearing a red had and holding a magnifying glass…look, I don’t understand it either, I’m just describing what’s there.

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 22/01/2024

@aesonique.bsky.social Let’s see where you take me! Never read in this specific genre before, and I’ve decided Death Becomes Him is going to be my first foray. So far I am a big fan of the brutal wit right from the start…a certain multi-billionaire sent to Mars for sure…

A page of text from the novel Death Becomes Him: An Age of Steam and Sorcery novel by Patrick Charlton-O'Shea, which I’ll try my best to paste in here…wish me luck:

Johnny, with his unusual numerical middle name “OneOneSeven” roller skating in the street and nearly getting hit by a car in the process. Both of his Dads losing their minds in the comments section over how he could have been killed.

Sue-Ellen and Billy-Bob, the twins from up the street where he used to live. Their strange family where everyone had two names. Their even stranger great-uncle who used to dress up as a ghost with his friends, with their white robes and pillowcase with eye holes cut out of them dancing around a big “T” on fire. He did have a nice vintage car though, he called it Lee for some reason, that had even been around long enough to be given a military rank.

Friends of friends swimming in a pool at the foot of a waterfall in Venezuela. They’d taken the Hyperloop down for an overnight trip. Twenty years ago no-one would have believed that the engineers messing about with underground trains in vacuum tunnels would come to anything. Now Loop travel had made air travel obsolete and sent a certain multi-billionaire to live on Mars.

A gaggle of young men dressed to the nines rocking out at a Justine Bieber concert. There was even an embedded video of a tribute she sang with her parents Justin and Miley about her grandfather Billy-Ray. They were both fresh out of rehab and weren’t exactly on their game, but Justine made up for it.

So much fun that he couldn’t afford to join. Fun that he doubted he could feel even if he could afford it. It was like his emotions had become dulled, ephemeral. Only the sadness remained. Sadness that smothered and overwhelmed him.

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 21/01/2024

This is basically the same reason I do anything at all ever. As such I firmly understand the character’s motivation. 5 out of 5 stars.

They jumped down and fell. Wilbur had a parachute because he was not invincible, so he could get killed. Harriet was having so much fun. "Whee" she said when they finally landed.

The section “Wilbur had a parachute because he was not invincible, so he could get killed.” Is highlighted.

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 21/01/2024

There was a real good stretch there, late 80s to mid 90s of great comedy. Remember Dirty Rotten Scoundrels?

Scene from the movie Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Steve Martin, whose character is playing a part for a scam, is at an ornate and richly set table donning an eyepatch and holding a trident as the brother Rupert, designed to frighten off a rich heiress after of course his co-conspirator makes off with certain jeweled and cash.

It could also just be a candid photo of me after a few too many drinks, if we are being honest.

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 18/01/2024

Nope. I mean, wonderful work. Not a nope on your work. The work is great! But nope on that critter. A resounding, deafening nope.

“Yip” “Nope” Martian character from Sesame street staring at an old black rotary telephone. Because, nope to deep sea critters in general.

But oddly, the martians and their strange distended muppet jaws are quite similar to the deep sea critter in question…

And I like the martians. They make me laugh. Yet deep sea critters make me sad. Yin and yang, perhaps? Do the deep sea creatures exists to that I may enjoy muppet martians all the more? Or to remind us all that we are one related tree of organisms doomed to live and die on this small blue marble?

Meh. Anyway, a cute Martian staring at a phone, and imma go have an existential crisis.

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 14/01/2024

“I wonder if she still makes that mead…” Look man, shut up. Oh and you, Mr. Rorikstead? Get bent. Let me just roll up a character and begin ignoring the main quest already.

Scene from The Ballad of Buster Scruggs where a man at the gallows quips “First time?” to another man about to be hung, referencing the fact he had been in that same situation before.

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 14/01/2024

Yeah, a few little treats, something they can smell. Makes it a puzzle. Can do it with a paper bag or similar as well, though obviously that won’t last as long. Plenty of sweeping up after of course, but that’s ok.

Photo of a Labrador Retriever, alias “Tater”, perched on a mossy rock during a winter walk. A cute little guy, always posing for the camera, and also I thought Labs were chill and why does he make us work so hard oh god he wants attention again send help…

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 11/01/2024

I grew up in these streets.

Screenshot of the video game Streets of Rage on the Sega Genesis/MegaDrive.

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