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I've been streaming Dr. Chaos for the NES recently. This is one of the first games I remember playing and has never been far from my thoughts (despite forgetting if it was even a real game for 30 years). Pumped to be playing it for real, now that I'm not 7 years old and know how to play games.

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nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 13/09/2026

Holy shit did anyone watch this Banonkey Town documentary? Obviously I feel for anyone who lost money or loved ones to a con artist claiming to be channeling God. But the tonal whiplash of frequent cuts to "she had us working long hours building Banonkey Town" and a clip of a shitty mobile game.

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nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 21/08/2026

Well, what do we have here? You must be a new arrival. Let me guess. The Duskbloods Network Test, right? Well, you're not the first. But there's no game server here. You'd have done better to rot in bed...But, too late now.

It's Crestfallen Warrior from DS1. This post is his intro dialog humorously updated to reference The Duskbloods Network Test.

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nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 10/08/2026

Explaining to my cat that the thing under the blanket is my other cat that we both just watched go under the blanket.

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Evercade @evercade.co.uk · 06/08/2026

Introducing the Evercade Nexus DOOM Edition. Exclusive design. Exclusive packaging. Exclusive collectibles. Limited to 3,000 units. Pre-orders open 7 August at 3pm UK via Funstock. evercade.link/m/doom-nexus

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nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 03/08/2026

As a reminder, there are only two types of people in the world: resistlibs and nazis. So if you try to do anything on this website other than reposting resistance larps from altgov accounts or posting AI images of Trump in a dunce cap you will be asked to leave.

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Laurens @laurenshof.online · 03/08/2026

i dislike this beyond being factually incorrect, it is also missing the core problem with Big Tech Algorithms: it is a matter about who controls attention, not the algorithm itself /1

BlueSky today is really two things. There’s the BlueSky app, which is what a lot of people are familiar with. It’s a social network. We think it’s a better social network. It’s more human focused, doesn’t have ads. It doesn’t have algorithms. But more importantly, underneath BlueSky is an open protocol called AT Protocol. And BlueSky is only one of now over a thousand apps built on that protocol.

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nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 07/07/2026

Remember when this shit was just chain emails forwarded by your uncle who doesn't quite understand how the Internet works?

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Evercade @evercade.co.uk · 01/07/2026

How to open your new Evercade Cart: 1) Open Box 2) Remove manual 3) Smell the fresh print 4) Remember that everything will be ok evercade.link/cartridges

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nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 24/06/2026

Beat Mega Man 2 Watch today lol. It was a pretty fun adaptation. The platforming felt fine, tho the couple swipe-to-turn segments were finicky. Boss fights were still about timing and pattern recognition, but I missed boss weapons and weaknesses.

The ending cutscene of Mega Man 2 where Dr Wiley is on his knees apologizing to Mega Man. It's being shown on a watch attached to a hairy arm.

The Mega Man MyPlay Watch "stage select" watchface that has a grid with robot masters like the Mega Man 2 stage select screen. At the bottom it shows the time (22:38) the date (06/23) and the amount of battery remaining.

My high score for Mega Man Arcade Mode on the MyPlay Watch: 11,360.

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nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 05/06/2026

Love to have a well-made indie game that offers some meat and some challenge without being the longest and most difficult game I've ever played. Mina really nails offering up some challenge while still always feeling achievable.

Picture of the gameplay stats from the end credits of Mina the Hollower:

Favorite Trinkets: Protospark, Floaty guy, Sturdy boots
Total lives lost: 72
Total Bones: 241,981
Time Played: 20:42:47
Total Item Completion: 54%

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nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 25/05/2026

It is fine, good, and even useful to remember the past, so long as one doesn't get trapped there. The question is: what do we learn from the past and apply today so that some day we can say "the rise of the open social web was a beautiful moment in time."

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nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 06/05/2026

Here this one's for all the 90 Day Fiance / The Simpsons fans.

It's four panels from the Simpsons episode with Poochie. The scene where they introduce the character of Roy to mirror the situation in itchy & scratchy.

Except it's been updated to include Cortney, Colt, and Cortney's new old-man boyfriend Philip who Colt is inexplicably living with.

In the first panel, Lisa says the usual "Adding a new character is iften a desperate attempt to boost low ratings." In the second panel, Roy with Philips face pasted over him enters the scene saying "yo yo how's it hanging everyone?" In the third frame, Marge with Cortney's face over it says "morning Philip". In the final frame, Homer with Colt's face pasted over it says "yeah hi Philip."

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nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 12/04/2026

Me when I enter any snack store at any airport: aw fuck yeah combos lemme get some of those. Me later, on the plane: what the fuck who decided it was a good idea to get combos I hate those.

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daniel holmgren 🫠 @dholms.at · 24/03/2026

hey we actually did most of what we promised last time! here's what we'll be up to the next 6 months or so 🕺💃

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nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 16/03/2026

I dunno, I think it's neat to play around with what these technologies can deliver to games, but it always feels weird when they get to mess with the art style and personality of the characters undirected.

Left is an image of Dana Scully from X-Files from probably Season 1, looking like a new agent. It is has a label that says "DLSS 5 Off". Right is an image of Dana Scully from...well I dunno, it's probably a promotional image but a bit later. Her hair is shorter and more styled, the lighting is more dramatic, her lips are parted slightly and suggestively. It has a label that says "DLSS 5 On."

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nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 10/03/2026

Now to fire up the ol' Discover feed to read some Completely Normal Takes about the Bluesky news.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 09/03/2026

Jay seized a historical moment and speed-ran Bluesky through some wild times. I'm glad she's found her own way back to the big picture. have had great conversations with @toni.bsky.team about standards work and open source governance. very important to have continuity of clueful leadership!

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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 09/03/2026

Heeey, look, it's me! I'm super hyped to announce that @bsky.app have given me a grant to work on the standards for the Federated Credential Management API (or FedCM) to make them really work for all decentralized web applications.

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nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 07/03/2026

Finally got around to moving over to @selfhosted.social. Felt like an important thing to stop putting off after going to the fediforum workshop last week. Feels good.

A screenshot of pdsls.dev showing recent PLC operations against my account, moving from a mushroom PDS over to selfhosted.social. Nice.

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nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 05/03/2026

I know we're all nostalgic for the early 2000s, but c'mon guys not like this.

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Orta Therox @orta.io · 03/03/2026

Shipping today: @puzzmo.com is an @atproto.com app! - We have published lexicons and the Cross|word midi deploying to @puzzmo.com's registry every day - We have user streaks deploying to user registries if they Oauth connect too Massive write-up: blog.puzzmo.com/posts/2026/0...

A screenshot of my atproto registry showing my streak for the game "Ribbit"

The Puzzmo Cross|word on the puzzmo.com atproto registry

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nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 03/03/2026

Reflecting on yesterday's #fediforum, which I'll blog about this weekend. A common claim was "we've built everything _we_ need, now we need to talk to others and build for them." If that's true, why was the event hosted on a closed platform? And used two different closed platforms for note-taking?

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nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 02/03/2026

Huge thanks to @fediforum.org and @masnick.com for organizing and facilitating today's un-workshop on Growing the Open Social Web. And everyone I met there that I'm gonna spend some time trying to track down and follow. It was a ton of fun, but now I have too much interesting stuff to think about!

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nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 28/02/2026

The short answer is: I'm not betting on one over the other. I'm building on AT right now because of the DX and because AT fits my specific use-case better. When I want to build something that fits AP better, I'll use that instead...

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nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 24/02/2026

Twenty-something years later and I'm not sure there's another album that makes anti-racism, anti-homophobia, and vaguely leftist politics sound as common-sense, chill, and downright fun as To The 5 Boroughs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfqU...

youtube.com

We Got The

YouTube video by Beastie Boys - Topic

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nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 23/02/2026

Finally a way for me to be even more annoying with my constant "I don't use Spotify, is it on Bandcamp?" apink.bandcamp.com/track/murder...

apink.bandcamp.com

MURDERER, by PER INK

from the album DEADNAMES

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nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 22/02/2026

Always remember that social media is trying to trick you into having an opinion about everything. But you are still free to take the power back by Not Having An Opinion.

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Christine Galvagna @handle.invalid · 10/02/2026

📊 I’m conducting a very simple market research survey for the next @fediforum.org on growing the open social web. It would be great if folks could forward this questionnaire link to anyone (16+) who doesn't already work on or research social networks or open social: form.typeform.com/to/ntzoOyqB

form.typeform.com

Social media preferences

A super-short questionnaire

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FediForum @fediforum.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/02/2026

Norm MacLennan (@nromdotcom.cloud) put his position paper for the upcoming Growing the Open Social Web un-workshop on his blog: my.badtake.space/growing-the-open-s…

my.badtake.space

Growing the Open Social Web

We can't just keep building facsimiles.

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nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 09/02/2026

Internet Doomerism is easy. And something I've engaged in plenty of myself. The good news is: it's never been easier to Be The Change You Want To See On The Internet. Lotta discussion here on top-down solutions, which is good and important. But maybe more important to discuss bottom-up solutions.

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business goose🪿 @goose.art · 07/02/2026

my general sense is that chatbots are an unusually effective drug against human psyche because if you really think about it, our entire model of reality is largely based on language i have been thinking a lot about the importance language lately, and how strange it is to have automated it

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nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 31/01/2026

I'm so glad I'm finally undertaking my Fromsoft pilgrimage by trying out King's Field. Game is good so far, and I love seeing where many Fromsoftisms came from.

A low-polygon model on the PS1 game King's Field. It's a man standing in a doorway, the subtitles show the man is saying "Everybody is nervous because Sandler has disappeared. I'll talk to you later."

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Hard Drive @hard-drive.net · 28/01/2026

Lakitu Reveals That You’re Going To Have To Replay Mario 64 Because He Forgot To Hit the “Record” Button hard-drive.net/lakitu-revea...

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nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 27/01/2026

I've been poking at atproto for 10-11 months now. Even about to ship my first atproto-powered app when I get a free weekend. Among lotsa other things I have to find the time to write about, the most important thing is that atproto has me feeling hopeful about the web for the first time in a while.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs.

The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

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nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 25/01/2026

Another reminder that Wikipedia is 25 years old this month and that you can and should give them a few bucks if you value the things they do.

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nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 25/01/2026

Lol I forgot I bridgyfedded my blog to bsky with Ghost's ActivityPub integration. Here I was feeling bad not using the Open Social Web to post my thoughts about the upcoming @fediforum.org workshop but turns out I used it in several different ways.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/01/2026

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

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nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 22/01/2026

Jean Valjean, but he had to steal 600,000,000 copyrighted books to feed his sister's starving LLM.

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nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 21/01/2026

Always nice to read things from the lovely folks at Kagi. Their long-term societal vision seems an almost impossible distance away right now, but truly no world can exist unless we first imagine it and then work on building it. And I'm glad these folks are doing both.

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

The president encounters a binder clip for the first time, then talks about it for a while. Remember when Joe Biden had a raspy voice and every major news organization created a 10-person Biden Is Old investigative team?

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nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 19/01/2026

I don't know that I believe there's such a thing as a "last straw" for the craven congressional republicans. But sure if there's going to be one, this is as good as any.

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

2) Also: what the fuck projection is this?! Russia is eight times Greenland's size and they're making it look the same?

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nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 19/01/2026

The thing about the US is that our manbabies are the whiniest and most deranged in the world and we give them access to unprecedented amounts of power and money.

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