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You've got to admire the elegance of the MAGA gameplan: When you actively target the most cowardly and weak-willed of a society as your support base, you know they won't have the backbone to stand up to you when you keep everything for yourself and leave them eating shit.

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New rule; Your AI slop "art" (i.e. "here's a picture what I never drew") appears on my feed, I block you.

Ignore him. He's gonna do what he wants, because that's the democracy the USA built. Keep your dignity and tune out. He could launch nukes in the next 15 minutes, or shit his pants while troughing KFC. Stop waiting for MAGA to notice he's nuts. They know already.

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Mark @mrmidlife.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm listening to @laurakbuzz.bsky.social describe the Beastmaster class in FFXIV. It tells me exactly how much Nintendo are going to regret sueing the makers of Palworld. It drew attention to exactly how close to the bone other companies can go without legal recourse.

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Driving into Edinburgh with my wife this morning and this was the sunrise view. Somehow managed to capture a plane dead centre of the shot as well

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Mark @mrmidlife.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ba-dum-tsss! haven't heard that one since the xmas prank vids of parents bundling PS2&3 together in a box.

Mark @mrmidlife.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The only tool I see in all of this is whoever fed the prompt into the AI for the flyer.

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Mark @mrmidlife.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I have no reach in NYC, but I'll repost this to boost the metrics. Fuck the haters.

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Mark @mrmidlife.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"Spooky September" is apparently a thing now. Because "Summerwe'en" leaves too long a wait until the 31st of October. Honestly, they're getting as bad as the Santa Shaggers that put up their xmas lights in October.

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I am having a lovely time tho. It's like having a conversation with my 15-year-old self. You sound exactly like I used to. Behold your future, child. 🤣🤣🤣

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Illiterate? How drae You? And yet hree I am stlil jsut exitsnig and lvinig insdie yuor haed and you cnat do a tnihg abuot it. 😎😎😎

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I'm calm. Just a little over people's need for 100% completion of a game superceding their own enjoyment.

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That's literally what looking up a guide is, just in a very targeted way. You want all endings, play the game and decide for yourself when you're done playing. FOMO is the enemy of fun.

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“Spooky” Tom Guycott @thomasguycott.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Also, if the launch is already delayed due to high demand; STOP TAKING FUCKING LAUNCH DAY PREORDERS, YOU IDIOTS!!!! Strike two.

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Reposted by Mark

Happy birthday to a real champ.

A cartoon Sega Dreamcast with googly eyes sits on a table and is talking with its lid as a mouth:

“OH NO! MY CMOS BATTERY DIED! I CAN'T PLAY VIDEO GAMES ANYMORE!”

“HA HA! JUST KIDDING! YO, WHAT TIME IS IT?”

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Mark @mrmidlife.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The more people he leaves with nothing, the more people there are with nothing to lose.

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Mark @mrmidlife.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I think you mean "AI-pretending-to-be-art"'s ugliness. You know you're pointless, right?

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Mark @mrmidlife.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

You better be looking at selling these shells, I can't justify buying another MiSTer.

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Mark @mrmidlife.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

You can put the AI aside, but you can't leave it behind and take Crazy Taxi with you. This one is painful, but I promised myself Gen AI=No Buy. I've had over 25 great years out of the Dreamcast games, and I'll get another 25 easy.

Mark @mrmidlife.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Crazy Taxi is the one that stings. I made the decision to walk away from modern gaming because Gen AI is becoming unavoidable, but I've been a SEGA fan since I was 6. My principles wouldn't count for much if I only applied them to games I wasn't gonna play anyway, but it still hurts.

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Mark @mrmidlife.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I said it on the video, AI is "just a tool" in the same way that Asbestos was just an additive to concrete, lead paint was just how you decorated hats, or uranium was just a dye for clothes and glassware... There's always a cost further down the line.

AI is my watershed moment, I'm leaving modern gaming behind because of it. I'm only buying games that haven't used AI in development from now on, and the minute studios don't have to disclose their use of AI is the minute I stop entirely.

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Youtube is eventually going to destroy itself, but what kind of damage is it going to leave behind?

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Nice! I haven't seen this film in years.

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You better be drawing a Juicebox up there sometime. 😄

Does you editing it mean that's what it says? See above, re: "Hold".

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Not yet, hold your Earth, Wind and Fire...

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Plaion Replay are rebuilding the Neo-Geo. Look up the Neo-Geo AES+ trailer, it's good!

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Nah, the mask is just off now. They've wanted this since the end of the PS3, but Xbox broke cover first with the XB1 and they saw the backlash. They played the long game with Digital libraries and made sure that most big releases don't fit on a disc these days anyway. Greed, meet patience.

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And if that was genuinely the experience of playing Remakes, I'd be fine with it. FF7 springs to mind, they dragged that story out to the point of "-lessness" and dressed up the combat to look like something it wasn't (i.e. fun). Resi2 and MGS Delta are outliers, but they mostly disappoint/annoy.

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Nothing "Virtual" about it. They're looking at who's in charge of the GOP and that's not a deal breaker? They have to go. Because if they don't get voted out, our next battle won't be political, it'll be bloody and violent and for our own survival.

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I loved the GBA, especially the SP. It was a cool little system. Although it did make my hands cramp up after a while, those buttons were tiny. And it does indeed play original Game Boy cartridges, so it's win-win.

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Did you see what they did to FF7? And you want to trust them with one of your favourites.

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Watching the game industry change is the irrefutable proof that I'm old now. Entertainment is in bad shape as a whole, but gaming is the one that truly hurts. I was there to help it take root, I cheered as it spread everywhere and became global. But now the rot's setting in...

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Yup. I'm still adjusting to the idea that modern gaming doesn't exist in a way I can support anymore. What's really disheartening is that the Roblox Generation aren't going to know any better. They'll buy into the AI Wave/Cloud gaming/zero ownership because that's what gaming will be to them...

I can't fault the logic, you need more information than online dating can provide. An app doesn't tell you if a guy can carry a conversation or make you feel safe.

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The industry is collapsing under the weight of it's own greed. I'm tired of trying to prop it up, so I'm out. 2026 is the year I stopped buying new stuff and I'll be enjoying my back-catalogue until I die.

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The line was crossed years ago. What you're now witnessing is a failure of courage by the people of the United States.

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Heroine addicts get help every day if they ask for it. Do you need help? Sorry man, this started out light-hearted, now I'm genuinely getting concerned for you.

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Let's say they're right (they're not). Let's say that opposing the genocidal antics of Isreal and it's enablers means that you're de-facto anti-semitic (it doesn't)... Where do I sign? You're not going to cow me into not calling out ethnic cleansing by threatening to call me a name.