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Psyklax

@psyklax.bsky.social
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I don't know what to tell you, I'm a dull old man.

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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I remember the Outhere Brothers, especially their other hit at the time - though it was only recently I discovered that both songs had VERY different lyrics on the radio edits that I was familiar with.
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Parker Tapes! Cassetteboy are/were so good. I think my only physical CD of theirs is Carry On Breathing, which is a masterpiece of a concept album. I need to give it another listen.
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Tim Curry corpsing? SEND FOR THE MAN! (please tell me I'm not the only one who thought of this)
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
To quote Henry IV Part 1, "tis no sin for a man to labour in his vocation". You have found your calling in life, so four years is nothing. 😁
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Yeah, I checked the RRP, it's surprisingly reasonably priced in the UK (unlike most companies), and I suppose the form factor and bespoke elements are worth paying a bit extra. Still too much for me, but I'm not the target for this.
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I dunno, if you're paying a scalper for a machine much less powerful than a regular PC which costs less, that's your own fault. It's not like a Switch 2 with exclusive games. In fact, I'm not sure of the point of the Steam Machine at all, really.
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I don't get it, it just reminds me of an Atari Jaguar controller. I'll stick with my 8bitdo Pro 2 and Xbox Series S pads.
An Atari Jaguar games controller in all its unwieldy glory
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Meh, I've been using Chromium on RPi as my only browser from day one and I don't see much reason to switch to Chrome. And on x86 Linux I use LibreWolf with Chrome as secondary. Is there any good reason to switch to Chrome over Chromium?
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
That's exactly what I was thinking, "is this a bit of Threads that I've forgotten?"
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Never before has the phrase 'dripping with sarcasm' leapt so quickly to my mind.
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Hold on, I saw this on Patreon a week ago, are you saying we all missed something in that version, or you changed it between then and this release? I'm confused...
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
...s.
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Oh yeah, it's not on the Play Store, you should use F-Droid, it's like Play Store for free open source apps. Tubular is on there and I imagine New Pipe is too.
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Settings, Video and Audio, Prefer original audio. I use Tubular (New Pipe) every day, it's by far the best way to view YouTube.
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
This made me laugh more than it should've.
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
With all due respect, Kari, you must admit you are hardly representative of your generation in this regard. 😄
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Poor, sweet departed Brentcore...
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
BBC report on abuse against football players and managers said 82% of abusive messages came via X. There's a simple solution, then.
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
As a longtime fan of both the RPi 400 & 500... I'm worried they've jumped the shark here. Identical to 500 except for twice the RAM, big SSD and fancy keyboard, but over double the price. The whole appeal of RPi is the price, and I don't need any of those 3 things on my 500. So, who is this for? 🤔
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Back in the day I bought a spindle of 100 cheap CD-Rs which was perfect for my, ahem, legit gaming needs. SD cards, even low capacity ones, are WAY more expensive. I feel like this is a bit backward, but clearly I'm not the target audience.
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
I thought you were drinking a strange knock-off beer called Adam, until I realised the photo was horizontally flipped.
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
I really like GFN because it's free and it works. All this talk of improved quality makes no difference to me. What matters is which games I can play - if they run, that'll do, and the free tier is fantastic: it puts me off subscribing to Boosteroid, for example.
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
No, you can install games on their server and stream them, rather than them being readily available. Boosteroid does the exact same thing. I'm not sure why, perhaps it's a licensing thing.
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
"just like it did in the 80s"... not that you would have experience of that. 😜 But yes, R Tape loading error was a constant problem for me.
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
I enjoy the free GeForce Now on my Raspberry Pi through Chromium, but I can't see exactly how this would improve things. It'll make no difference to performance, I presume, but maybe I'm missing something.
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
In hindsight I should have complimented you on your paint job, in addition to reliving my past association with figurines. I think I'm just jealous. 😄 Good job!
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
When I played Warhammer with my pals one used to say "don't shoot until you see the whites of their undercoat", cause I would just coat them with white paint and never actually paint them fully cause I was lazy and terrible at painting and just wanted to PLAY THE BLOODY GAME.
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
How hard is it to just not use Amazon? I used it 20 years ago when it was good, now it's basically American AliExpress. Just use eBay or literally any other shop, of which there are many.
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
You knows it, clart! Big up the GLC!
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
HHUUURRGGHH WHAT DA FUG OOOH
BrentCore shouting  HHUUURRGGHH WHAT DA FUG OOOH
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
AI has ruined blogs: I search DDG for the answer to a query and get 10 pages of the same regurgitated slop and it's impossible to find anything by an actual human. I remember finding one blog link that was from before 2020 and was like "YES!".
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Not exactly: people commonly referred to the actual original DOS version as 'vanilla Doom', so the author of a source port trying to be as close to that as possible called it Chocolate Doom as a clever joke. But yes, it's one of the basic ice cream flavours (along with strawberry, I suppose).
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
This is honestly confusing. We were all criticising companies for not pulling out of russia, turns out so is Putin? Eh?
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
No mouse? That's brave. Then again, it's how I used to play before Quake made that seem ridiculous. I did enjoy your little jig, though. 😄 I bought a book back then to teach me how to make new levels, wonder where I put it...
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I came here to write the exact same thing, it felt like quicksand would be as common as potholes.
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Damn, I just missed it. Guess I'll have to go back to the Cave again...
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I imagine not many people remember playing it, to be honest, given that it was pulled from sale relatively quickly, which explains the ridiculous asking price today. Still, piracy was apparently rampant, though I was too young to know where to get anything for my Speccy...
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I can assure you it's a lot better than the other place, much fewer nutjobs and pornbots.
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
I played a game where I looked away from the screen and tried to guess each song: think I got about 30. I don't know how you do it, but it's great.
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
My dad bought it at my juvenile insistence for £250 (plus £60 for SM64), and I remember being very angry about the price drop so soon after launch. Taught me a valuable lesson, and I have never bought anything on launch ever again, console or otherwise.
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I presume you read the headline and saw the photo and jumped to this conclusion, because the actual song isn't country in the slightest, but never mind.
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I was a patron before GM but your story illustrates how all it takes is one viral video to change everything in this online world. The key is to keep people coming back after the viral video has run its course, which you have done, so kudos to you!
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Literally, I've read every single reply, and not one of you boneheads gets the joke here. Tsk.
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Sad to say I agree, I even chip in a buck a month to Fosstodon and it's how I found you, but I can only see a limited discourse there, unlike here where people talk about anything and it's genuinely become pretty big.
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
@darthputinkgb.bsky.social Don't believe ANYTHING until the Kremlin denies it, as usual. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I'm curious how this works, as I've often watched vids from subscriptions then seen a different thumb a day or two later. Does it just keep switching the thumbnail for different users? If the vast majority of views are in the first day, surely you don't want to risk multiple thumbnails?
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
£5 is excessive even for London, you should invest in a coffee machine. 😄
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Jesus, is that real?! To think that Astérix was thought too obscure for a US audience so they turned it into the blandest thing imaginable. Unless it was cheaper to remove the licence, that's also possible.
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Psyklax @psyklax.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
It's funny, I had it reversed: I had Stunts back in the day, had no idea it had the other boring title. Lots of games with different names though. One that springs to mind is Another World being Out Of This World due to a US soap opera. Used to see it in Sky TV listings then got disappointed. 😄
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