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Max Rose @maxrose.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Listening to a bunch of 80's Dance-Punk today and got jump scared by the sample from Moby's "Go"

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Go! (Club Mix)

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Max Rose @maxrose.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Jeff Mills last night... holy cow. Not going to name any names but I've seen a lot of legendary DJs before and have been left disappointed but that was everything I hoped it would be. Easily in the top 5 nights I've gone to SmartBar.

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Max Rose @maxrose.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I might be interested if you still have it

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DOKI DOKI CRT PIXEL @crtpixel.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

TOKYO JUNGLE CRISPY'S/PLAYSTATION C.A.M.P. / SCE JAPAN 2012 PLAYSTATION 3

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Max Rose @maxrose.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Re-listened to the album "Krush" by DJ Krush and the Acid Jazzy vibes of it really vibed with me more than previous listens. Really nice album. The track "On The Dub-ble" will always be the best cut from it though and one of my favorite DJ Krush beats in general. youtu.be/mw9ZgMaY288?...

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On the Dub-ble

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Max Rose @maxrose.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

The Krautrock-esque freak out at the 8 minute mark is so unlike anything else The Orb has done but it remains one of the best moments in their entire discography. Orbus Terrarum is a masterpiece.

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Montagne D'Or (Der Gute Berg)

YouTube video by The Orb - Topic

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Max Rose @maxrose.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Mr Oizo makes the perfect music to shit to

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DOKI DOKI CRT PIXEL @crtpixel.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

RESIDENT EVIL CAPCOM 1997 SEGA SATURN

The first appearance of a zombie in the RE series. "Did I do that?"

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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 30/10/2025

Aragon - カラオケ・フルコーラス - Full Chorus [Japan; Minimal Electronic/ Sound Collage / Ethereal / Soft Ambient] (1985) from quintet 2nd and last LP on Victor - feat. Kazuhiro Nishimatsu . redd.it/1l68ea6 youtu.be/WOoMvPEnyPg

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Max Rose @maxrose.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Itemlabel and anti Nazi stickers. Powerful

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Max Rose @maxrose.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Bluesky finally adding bookmarking and Twitter changing it's entire discoverability algorithm to AI is the one-two punch that will finally make me fully convert to this app

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Max Rose @maxrose.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Any tips for getting cats to live with together without wanting to kill each other?

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Max Rose @maxrose.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

That's awesome! Yeah, that's an incredible friend

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Max Rose @maxrose.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

If you're talking about this record, I got into it the past year and it's pretty quickly become one of my favs. So good!

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chillvia @chillvia.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

機動警察パトレイバー劇場版 Patlabor (1989) - Mamoru Oshii

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Giant Robot FM @giantrobotfm.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Raffle time! We're partnering with AnimEigo to give away a Blu-ray copy of Megazone 23! To enter you must: ✔️Follow @animeigo.com and @giantrobotfm.bsky.social. ✔️Repost and like this announcement post. And that’s it! Contest ends in one week on 3/8 at 12:00 pm EST. Best of luck!

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The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Street Fighter EX3 (2000 | Arika | PS2) also celebrates it's 25th birthday in Japan today. It's a frankly insane interpretation of Street Fighter with four person battles, a cast of bizarre original characters, and incredible win screens.

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Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast @gundampodcast.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Gundam 0080 episode 5: Police detectives investigate the wreckage of the Kampfer.

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Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast @gundampodcast.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Gundam 0080 episode 3: Federation engineers assembling the RX-78NT-1 'Alex' in secret.

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Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast @gundampodcast.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Gundam 0080 episode 3: mistaking him for a burglar, Chris Mackenzie cracks Bernie over the head with a baseball bat.

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Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast @gundampodcast.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Gundam 0080 episode 3: inside a police station on Libot / Ribot colony.

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Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast @gundampodcast.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Let's stitch together some panning shots from Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket! (and check out the ones @sundownmcmoon.bsky.social has been posting from Zeta Gundam). This one from episode 6 is probably the most memorable in the whole OVA

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Max Rose @maxrose.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Eventually I'm going to be as obsessed with Susumu Hirasawa as I am Ryuichi Sakamoto and Haruomi Hosono. The four P-Model albums I've heard so far are all so weird and cool.

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Max Rose @maxrose.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

My roommate left the TV on the Baywatch Channel and my cat has been sitting like this watching it all day

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Max Rose @maxrose.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Crazy that Ryuichi Sakamoto's dad was an editor for Yukio Mishima

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Max Rose @maxrose.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

One of the coolest appeals of 3D animation is its ability to evoke the uncanny or liminal. There's something so surreal and dreamlike about older cgi renders.

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Max Rose @maxrose.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Kind of limiting to the imagination of what you could achieve with 3D animation that one of the go to examples of a really great looking 3D animated film is that it has a lot of charm of 2D animation.

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Max Rose @maxrose.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Call me a hater but my issue with the Spiderverse style is that you spend so much time trying to make 3D animation look like a comic when you could just, draw it? Like ok it's cool that the tech can pull off the look of a comic but the appeal of such a feat borders on tech fetishism.

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Max Rose @maxrose.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

If you retreat to the familiar constantly and never seek discomfort or challenge not only will you be incredibly dull you'll also deteriorate your brain and become easily persuaded by false narratives. This is why fascist governments have always been against challenging art.

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Max Rose @maxrose.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I used to get side eyed for being broadly against the poptimist movement but now everyone is starting to see how much of "poptimism" is just anti-intellectualism. Anti-intellectualism is a cornerstone of fascism. Have idiosyncratic tastes people! Like weird shit!

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Max Rose @maxrose.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I genuinely question the humanity of people who are hyped about generative AI "art". Real reptilian psychology. Just so devoid of any soul. Legitimately creeps me out

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dvlsblsh @devilsblush.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

front mission alternative / psx square, 1997

load-out screen with three mechs visible in the background. two weapons are available to select, named DINGUS and DORK

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madebyabra @madebyabra.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

throwback to some fake game covers i made last year

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Max Rose @maxrose.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

it's a design mentality that I wish wasn't pretty much removed from mainstream games anyway. think taking moments to slow down and force the player to think adds texture and introspection to more action based titles. In a weird way, I think I miss getting "stuck"

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Max Rose @maxrose.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

It's interesting how Quake especially, the final test in a game mostly about running fast and shooting a ton, is an obtuse puzzle that involves a mechanic that never even shows up in the single player campaign. Maybe older games could often be ineloquent in the way they conveyed their puzzles but -

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Max Rose @maxrose.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Boss fights themselves are also puzzles more than just damage sponges or tests of mechanical dexterity. This was also true of the first Metal Gear Solid, as well as Quake I. Quake had two boss fights, and both were more puzzles than just big guys you shoot a ton.

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Max Rose @maxrose.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

It can be frustrating feeling, but there's something to be said about how often older games force you to slow down and think about information being presented to you. Soul Reaver's biggest crime so far is the most puzzle dense levels have the worst music (Soul Reaver generally has a great OST).

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Max Rose @maxrose.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

By this metric, Soul Reaver totally fails. Progress grinds to a halt while you struggle to figure out what the fuck you're supposed to do. I don't really know if this objectively a bad thing though.

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Max Rose @maxrose.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Soul Reaver, is not a hard game mechanically. Not so far anyway. Combat is pretty easy and a true game over state is pretty hard to achieve. But MAN the puzzles and level design have me going a bit crazy. I think in modern games, there's this idea that constant forward momentum = good game design

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Max Rose @maxrose.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Part of that is obviously I'm older now and I've internalized more of the language of video games and have gotten better at them But whenever I play older video games I often get closest to getting "stuck" again. A lot of that has to do with puzzles or obtuse level design.

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Max Rose @maxrose.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

As a kid growing up with these kinds of games I would often get stuck on games and almost never for mechanical reasons. It was always because I would hit a point where I just straight up did not know what I was supposed to do. As I've gotten older I rarely get stuck in video games anymore.

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Max Rose @maxrose.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Playing Soul Reaver has me thinking about 90s/early 2000s video game design. In the past year I've played Metal Gear Solid, Quake I, Quake II, Turok, Resident Evil 1, and now partially Soul Reaver. A common trend I'm remembering is how puzzle oriented a lot of nominally "not puzzle" games were.

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Max Rose @maxrose.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

This really is so cute it kicks ass

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Amanda Holcomb @ashthetrashh.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Aliens can have a little yap sesh as a treat 👾

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Max Rose @maxrose.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Speaking of Stasis - that's the name of my favorite track on the album. Really pretty, whistful downtempo ambient-techno. The main bleepy lead melodies are so beautiful and bittersweet.

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Theorem - Stasis [Plus 8 Records ‎– plus8057]

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Max Rose @maxrose.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Theorem - Nano I've had this on CD for like a year now and only now got around to seriously listening to it and this is great. Minimal, moody, futuristic ambient techno with lots of soul. Somewhere between detroit techno and early IDM, similar to artists like B12 or Stasis.

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