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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 14h

Lots of people commenting on the weird things in this video but nobody has mentioned the truck for something called SEX TOURNAMENT

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 23h

We don't talk enough about the soundtrack of Fuck's Quest II, which was clearly made by someone who understands how to compose music and used that knowledge for evil

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David Szymanski @duskdev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fuck's Quest II is a game on Steam store.steampowered.com/app/3545150/...

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

TOEM 2, the official sponsor of the Dan Ryckert Burger

Ghostly, horrifying Polaroids of the burger Dan Ryckert cooked at SGF 2025.

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Mareepathon has entered Day 4

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I have spent so much of the last five months thinking about Fester's Quest

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Looking forward to everyone asking me if I played this game for the next five years

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you search for "Rinoa," one of the first gifs is her throwing Irvine down a flight of stairs, which is relatable

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Final Fantasy Viii Ffviii

ALT: Final Fantasy Viii Ffviii

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I love birds because they encourage you to look up and notice your surroundings. For example: this crow holding a walnut bigger than its head 🪶

A blurry, zoomed-in picture of a crow holding a gigantic walnut with its beak.

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This interview makes me really happy. Anh Phoong became a personal injury attorney because she got in a car accident in law school, and her insurance company took her for a ride because they knew she didn't have a lawyer. Anh Phoong is out for REVENGE

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Anh Phoong may be California's most recognizable attorney, but this Sac State alum hasn't forgotten her roots

Anh Phoong talks about the billboard ads that have made her a household name, her time at Sac State, and her struggle to achieve her dream of being a lawyer.

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Let's Place Bot @letsplacebot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The game Celeste is placed at number 14 directly above Cookie's Bustle and directly below Butterfly Soup.

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Remembering in 2013 when C-SPAN re-ran the State of the Union at like 1:30am, but they left the #sotu Twitter feed up with nobody monitoring it

Obama giving the State of the Union. Below him: a tweet from @Three_Ninjas that reads "I ejaculated into a hollowed out Bible. #sotu"

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The "I like you a bit more" scene near the end of DS9 is the gayest thing to ever happen in Star Trek

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GSK | ALL CITY SLOP SHOP (ETA SOON) @allcityslopshop.com · 25/09/2026

neat! NGF is an immediately practical starting point, too—online SNK resources have been chronically burdened by erroneous "translations" that have been purple-monkey-dishwashered across multiple languages for decades, and this archive might provide the final push to start cleaning em up en masse

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

New project launch days are always fun. Except today because I went home sick because my whole body is aching and I'm nauseous for some reason

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Cyan Worlds @cyan.com · 25/09/2026

33 years ago today, the Stranger stepped onto the dock of Myst Island for the first time. We can still hear the water splashing against the pilings.

The dock of Myst Island from the original version of the game. A wooden dock ends at a spiral staircase that leads up to giant gears on a hillside. A ship is sunk in the water on the right, and parts of buildings are visible on the left.

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I also really love this infographic we did. The magazine archive is a collaborative effort. We've scanned thousands of magazines, but we're also relying on years of scanning work by the community and partnerships with the industry. It takes a village!

30% of our magazines were provided by Retromags. 33.4% were scanned by the Video Game History Foundation. Magazine publishers and staff provided another 10.8%. In declining order, other contributor groups are "Various Internet Archive users," CGW Museum, Out-of-Print Archive, and other community groups.

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Brian Clark (bclarkomp) @onemillionpower.com · 24/09/2026

This is a very exciting project that I'm very happy to be a part of!

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Surprise, we're doing Japanese magazines now! This has been a big slowly moving project with a bunch of collaborators, and I'm proud of the pilot we're launching today

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I don't think there's a single phrase that makes me lose interest in a game faster than "deck builder"

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Steve Lin @stevelin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Exciting @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social update tomorrow on an ongoing project

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The agenda is being forced upon us. Even our games aren't safe.

A bright sun in a clear blue sky with bold text below stating, "They made the sun bisexual in GTA 6." The word "bisexual" is in a vibrant pink and blue design. "INFOWARS" is written at the bottom.

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I've heard this from other institutions too. Somebody sends their "agent" to do research for them, and they blast out these ChatGPT-ass emails to hundreds of libraries, wasting their time and hoping they'll get a 1% response rate LLM sludge is like a DDoS for humans

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This webinar is reminding me how important my public library was for deepening my interest in computers in games. My local library system had an extensive multimedia CD-ROM collection, which played a huge role in broadening my horizons

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Even though the Halo franchise has been gutted for failing to meet unrealistic expectations, at least Bungie, the original creators of Halo, have also been separately gutted for failing to meet unrealistic expectations

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I see we've reached the Jack Tramiel-esque deck chair shuffling phase of the second industry crash

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Forkies ARE enraptured. Nobody is talking about this

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 21/09/2026

I was just reminded that Fuck's Quest 2 is a game that is somehow real and actually good. As in it's a legit good retro Zelda-like, but also the incredibly, brain-smashingly dumb without being offensive. Funny, even. The kind of weaponized dumbassery that only a smart person could create.

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Fuck's Quest II on Steam

in this game u play as Fuck and u get to use crappy weapons and talk to horrible NPCs and find the bible crystals and explore my game and find secrets and play further to see what the next part of the...

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Balancing out negative posts with a positive one: over the last couple months, I've been chipping away at a skunkworks project that I think is almost ready to go! I'm psyched about it and I think it's going to make a big difference for game history research

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Some observations... there was a meme game going around, and something about it felt Wrong. Nothing about it was intentionally designed. The level seemed to be made at random. The instructions and mechanics were vague and poorly implemented. It was sloppy, but not in a shitpost-y way

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It's always interesting to look at the sales charts in historical Japanese game magazines. You can never tell what was going to be the #1 game that week

An issue of Famitsu, featuring the #1 game of the week, ファック君の冒険II.

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I had a dream that I had more tea infusers

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

archive.gamehistory.org/item/9ffec9d...

A magazine ad for Cyberdillo. "Gross, nasty, disgusting, sickening and slimy. I love it!"

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SimplyAJ @simplyaj.com · 17/09/2026

Check out this Stellar Jay chokin' down a peanut, casing and all, that I caught on camera.

A blue stellar jay tossing a peanut up into the air about to grab it with its beak

A blue stellae jay with the peanut in its mouth

The blue stellar jay has the peanut mostly down its throat

The blue stellar jay has swallowed the peanut

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

HARD CORE NON STOP ACTION GAME FOR CHICKEN BOYS AND CLUELESS GIRLS!

A Japanese magazine ad for Mad Panic Coaster, featuring some crazy concert poster style visuals. Features include "GO STRAIGHT TO HELL" and "SHOCK! SMASH! SCREAM!"

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Sure is more and more difficult to get into MAGFest! If you're on the west coast, have y'all considered...... MAGWest

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The funniest spin on this is that Microsoft's response is "yeah we paid that guy to be wrong for us" www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

"The Orlando Sentinel, which is also part of the suit, reports a Microsoft filing “framed Hecht as someone on the payroll to play a contrarian.”"

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

TNG's most important contribution to the Star Trek canon is the existence of the Sex Planet that also constantly hosts academic conferences. Instant way to add depth to character lore by saying things like "yeah I went to Sex Planet for an archeology summit"

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