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@oiseucalypt.bsky.social
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Retro & Indie video games, dragons, plants, SPACE, greyhounds, and more. Probably a few grumbles about the state of the industry and whatever Aus politics is up to. Aro/Ace, Australian.

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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Friend is back. Do you think it looks bigger???
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Got it out. Spider owns the sink now.
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Drat you, you interfering brat! I'm telling you sweet child, not to meddle in things that don't concern you. This is a happy place.
Elizabeth Estensen as T-Bag.
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
One of these two. Look, it's near four decades ago now.
3D Glooper, C64Come any closer, and I will rip you to shreds.

To shreds you say, Gmork?
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Someone leaked the Brisbane Olympics logo. It was quickly taken down... after the media reported on it. He's a few copies, take one each. Honestly? Absolute rippa of a logo. Flaming Galah/cockatoo, torch, and the cooker state all in one? Fantastic job.
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
HORSE
Horrors of 90s Australia television.
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Well, just a few small quests. Now, Bal Foyen, or the rest of Old Ebonheart... Also, other types of Khajiit. Place is massive: gamemap.uesp.net/ptr/?world=t...
I'm sure there's nothing sus about the sus lighthouse at the top of the coast that people are telling me is a bit sus.Bal Foyen is also kinda magical.Kittew.  Yeah, I don't like this sub-breed of kitty.
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Completed all the non house Telvanni (not a fan of that house) quests at Ranyon-ruhn in Tamriel Rebuilt. Now... I don't know, to Teyn maybe? other side of the expansion map? (yes, poison song content to do, I know, I know)
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
deeper!
Top Right of previous map.  Steve dug too deep and his fingers cracked.Beween the wheat farms, lines the mountain storage areas.
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Bring back the upside-down peas on menus.
Pie, chips  and peas in BRITBUX land.

The peas are upside-down. 
I'm sorry if you can't see it.  But the peas are upside-down!
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Microsoft believe my work account to be that of an adult. Which is correct. Good job!
A trillion dollar company guessed correctly on my age range.
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The hero of Neverwinter.
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Okay, time to do the reason I installed Tamriel Rebuilt. Do the mainland quests. Spent the last 5 hours around Ranyon-ruhn and related Temple quests. If you thought Vivec City was wild, go to Port Telvannis.
ahhh, swamp and mountains.  I have half stamina.Just outside Ranyon-ruhn, looking at the root-road to the south.  Once again I am out of stamina.Telvanni bullshit buildings.  But I have full stamina.I believe this is in Llothanis.  It's where I discovered they had Water Striders.  Like the Silt Strider, but they go over water.  Bugs!
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
They really should ask if it is safe to eat the 'food' in this image. Not if it is safe to vote in elections
Pie floater, mate.
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Crikey! They've made this a lot simpler than why I last looked at it. And a lot more questions are about religion, and making sure you know women are people. Not a single question about Don Bradman, or describing what the legislative branch actually does. citizenshippracticetest.homeaffairs.gov.au
TEST RESULT: PASS
Correct Australian values questions: 5/5 (100%)
Overall mark: 20/20 (100%)
Part 1 - Australia and its people	
5/5
Part 2 - Australia's democratic beliefs, rights and liberties	
5/5
Part 3 - Government and the law in Australia	
5/5
Part 4 - Australian values	
5/5
To pass the test, you must get 5/5 (100%) in the Australian values questions and at least 15/20 (75%) correct in the overall mark.
What's next?
Raise your hand to let a Test Facilitator know that you are finished.
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I've forgooten how bright the moon is on non-overcast nights. This bastard is lighting up my front garden like a torch.
Moon.
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
So @firefox.com updated and promoted a new popup blocker. Then immediately had a type of popup on the promotion screen for Firefox Mobile. Great Job!
Mozilla Firefox: Pop-up ads, you're going down.

Then it immediatly has a popup ad to get Firefox on your phone.  Great Job!
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Finally getting around to grinding through the Phantasy Star 1 Endgame. Got to the Air Castle on bugger all health, so it is back to town to heal and stock up. Maybe grind a level or two more and retry. I also think I forgot Odin's final weapon, he hits lightly.
Ahhh, the Air Castle.  I never made it this far as a little kid, have beaten it as an Adult, but still have not taken our Dark Force.

Though did enjoy seeing this castle in PSIV, and recognising the layout in PS1 replays.Who's that Pokémon!1,000 furries were launched with this very special OC.

DO NOT STEAL!It's a God Damned dragon!

Ah!  Gold you say...
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Cindy the Greyhound had 3 days with me at home for the long weekend, and today had to suffer me being at work all day.
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Ahhh, I think I have the upgraded textures working now. Some look... cartoony. Some make a huge difference.
Morrowind in Tamriel Rebuilt.
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
bigger
Adjacent wheat fields have been added on all sides.  I have a bunch of diamond tools.  Except a shovel.  Because I ran out of diamonds and had to use bloody copper.
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
filthy! filthy filthy content!
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Apparently my country South Australia upbringing makes my accent closest to a New Yorker. (red close, blue far, on this one).
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Excuse me, Germany?!
A tin of German sweets from Aldi.  Caption reads:  FRUIT UP YOUR MOMENT.
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I'm in Gawler, in front of the nightmare child painting. Really, this horror is still up next to Woolies.
A 3-colour nightmarish painting of a child painted on a carpark in Gawler, South Australia.
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I'm still catching up with every map in the RAMP megapacks when the body allows me to sit to play through them.
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I plan things out in paint.
A top-down 2D map of the area.  Bsky is probably going to destroy this with .webp, because fuck you, that's why.
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Expanding the craft as I listen to podcasts after taking the dog for a run.
From the previous pic, the outer circle now has black deepstone storage triangular buildings, and a wheat farm has been started.
Mountains?  pfft, you're going into a storage chest Mr. Mountain.
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
10 seconds of a greyhound chewing on a pig ear, totally unconcerned by the amount of traffic.
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
And eventually, I did make it to Old Ebonheart. High-Res textures are not on yet, I wanted to play not wait another hour or two on this connection to get them. Ooooh. Pretty. Check out the size of this place: en.uesp.net/wiki/Tamriel...
Old Ebonheart, shopping district/alley at night.
Did I steal all the lanterns I could?  You bet I did.The central fountain of Old Ebonheart at day.  Ooooh, pretty.
I did not steal anything here, but I did do the introductory mage duties quest to get the indie-mage trader to join the guild.Confirmation Ajira got her promotion.
You know.  That was nice.  That was a nice little add on from the main game to link the TR expansion.And this pretty Argonian lady is also in the mage guild.  Fairly confident she has some new voice barks.  It sounded close, but too clean, but could also be my headphone losing a channel for a bit.

I appreciate it either way.  The lighting in here is great too.
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
First off, get to Balmora and hopefully gain a level or two. I got to Balmora. Did some mage guild quests for Ajira and... Still level 1 (4/10 the way there). This is what happens when I do not deliberately cheese character creation. Widescreen is nice... Can I increase the UI font size through?
Gen-Z voice:  Did you know.  That in Morrowind.  On the starting ship.  There's some skulls and bones.  Just outside the first room.

By the nine, that's going to be an actual youtube shorts, ain't it.  :|Ahhh, Balmora.  It's like my second home town.And here's Hul.  Everyones favourite argonian pottering around the front of Balmora.
I do not remember the argonian legs being so long and walk animation so janky.The most evil creature imaginable.  Somehow even worse than [insert far right politician of choice.  I'm going with Hanson].

Fucking Cliff Racers.
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Finally going to play Tamriel Rebuilt and return to Morrowind, because my backlog is eternal.
Open Morrowind running Morrowind.
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I'm a Level 2 Local Guide. Obviously I should now be getting free meals when I head out to places...
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Don't read the comments.
Dood #1:  Is happy for the nod towards the box art in the pose the Dunmer is taking in the trailer.

Dood #2:  Decides it needs an achktshully response as the character is using a different type of sword.
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
oh, no!
More than 30 mortifications.  What bot did I trigger?
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The movie 'Clue' is on SBS On Demand. It expires in 1 week. I somehow have not seen Clue. So... Time to put myself through this, I guess! In Australia the game is Cleudo.
A box of Cleudo, the classic DETECTIVE game.

It was Rev Green, in the billiard room, with the rope...  He was arrested shortly afterwards, but we never learned who killed Mr. Black.
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Ahhh, sometimes I just jump into minecraft and level a mountain area to develop storage for the mountain I levelled...
A shitty village made in #Minecraft.  Go do your fucking homework and stop looking this up as a hashtag.
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It's rare that what little time I have for gaming syncs up with public convergences in GW2. Yes, I understand they want people to run private ones but... Look. We're all time poor too nervous about wasting others time with a private one. We'll easily fill up a public one though.
109% completion rate, only got knocked down a few times when the boss went wild at the end.  But I get back up again, despite not being a drinker.
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Hey, @firefox.com, what we want is a "piss off and don't ask this again" option. Don't do this Microsoft bullshit of "Not Now" (ask me later) crap.
Firefox mobile, suggesting I shake the device to get a page summary.  Probably using an AI tool that needs to be drowned in a lake.
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Oooh, @crunchyroll.com scam/spam. I've never had an account with renewal payment methods on it. And that UPDATE NOW link is a dodgy as hell url shortener.
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Well, PC is behaving in GW2 so... Spent 3 hours in Central Tyria doing dailies and other stuff, jumped back into VoE map one. "Track Sebb and Kuda." what a horrible task. What do you mean you start underground when it involves the skimmer echoing on the surface... Map 2 is also pretty looking.
Guild Wars 2: Visions of Eternity.
It's a purply forest magical map.  My Charr Engineer is dressed as a blue wizard, he also has wings.  aww, kitty.
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The amount of tourists that pick one of these up... Found one as a kid. I put the rock back and walked back to dry land.
DO NOT HUG!
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Aus Census. Get ready to out yourself, folks.
Fuck off.  I'm openly Aro/Ace to friends, less so at work, and not at all to my borderline fascist family members.
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Why the hell would I want any of this, Google?
I've been 'randomly' selected to try Google's AI Pro tools for free for a limited time. 

Such features like using Nano Banana in Slides, because copy and paste of that slop is far too hard.
Or having Gemini create a sum-total formula, because the button thst does it is again too hard.
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Honestly, there's not enough chatter on this majestic one.

A Cairn/Nature spirit, probably.  #HTP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRXrbHb3NPg
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Talking to a coworker about Maple Syrup bacon wrapped tempura prawn. He was not convinced to try it. The shops only had panko prawn, and I was too lazy to make my own tempura batter. But still.. Damn. This was very tasty.
 Maple Syrup bacon wrapped panko prawn.  The small pieces are held together by maple syrup and toothpicks.  There's some basmati rice next to it on a plate.

It looks overcooked, but that's just the seared/caramalised maple.

The plate that is sitting on a desk that has a map of the world.

A hand, most likely my own, in fact it is, you can be sure of that, is pointing to the plate to make sure you are aware of what I'm talking about.  Just in case you thought maple syrup bacon wrapped panko prawn was a desk.
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
AusAlert. I hope my backup phone at home didn't spook Cindy the Greyhound too much.
The AusAlert message. My backup phone sitting on the TV cabinet at home should have also alerted with the same thing.
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Friend! (Greyhound for scale)
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Ois @oiseucalypt.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
As the techs were fixing it, they found another possum. A possum that hid under the panels as they were putting the proofing up. 2.3kW now coming in, shold be higher once the other panels are restored, and more so in summer.
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