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Peter V. Baikun @pvbaikun.com · 02/10/2026

So, this week I got this in. Months ahead of the proposed delivery period. Very happy that I managed to fund it on Gamefound, and love the quality. It's a great game and I love playing it. Deckbuilders are definitely my thing. And yes, I signed up for the Ascensions Lord of the Rings already.

Picture of the Ascension 15th Anniversary tin box, with part of the special board in front of it. There's a small cloth sack holding the plastic honor tokens left of it.

The main box holding the cards of the Ascension 15th Anniversary games on top of the main gameboard. Before it are smaller packs holding the promo cards that game with and the Storm of Souls expansion.

Picture of the main board with all the cards laid out on top as if it's being played. In the back we see the tin box holding all the contents and the smaller packs for the promo cards and the Storm of Souls expansion.

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Peter V. Baikun @pvbaikun.com · 07/08/2026

Man, I came home to this and thought it was a problem on my end. Apparently it's not. Darn. I got shit to tell to people there!

Partial screenshot of a discord server with a red message box stating that "Messages failed to load," followed by the Try Again button.

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Peter V. Baikun @pvbaikun.com · 15/07/2026

Back to #Denshattack! posting! No explanation, just screenshots.

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Peter V. Baikun @pvbaikun.com · 03/07/2026

I am contributing to the rise of physical 4K Blu-Ray sales. #physicalmediaforever And I am expecting another awesome classic next week, thanks to @arrowvideo.bsky.social

A copy of the 4K version of Dune Part Two that is sold in The Netherlands.

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Peter V. Baikun @pvbaikun.com · 01/07/2026

Dear @arrowvideo.bsky.social, would love to see you active on BSky again, because we need to champion physical media now more than ever. Especially with the latest Sony news. Also, would love for your website to work correctly when I choose The Netherlands as my shipping country. Tried 2 browsers.

Screenshot of the Arrow Video site on DuckDuckGo, showing a darkened area and a single white circle with a black x when choosing The Netherlands as the country to ship to.

Screenshot of the Arrow Video site on the Zen browser (Firefox based), showing a darkened area and a single white circle with a black x when choosing The Netherlands as the country to ship to.

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Peter V. Baikun @pvbaikun.com · 12/06/2026

This week's two notable album releases are both sophomores, not counting potential remix albums. Two young bands who both had their debuts in 2023 and very different from each other. First up the is dark and heavy stop/go by OK Goodnight, and the second is the mostly upbeat Bingo! by La Sécurité.

Cover of the album stop/go by the band Ok Goodnight. It features a a horizon consisting of a yellow sky and a red plane upon which four black silhouettes seemingly walk in the lower left corner, with the top figure being smaller as if they're farther away.

The entire covers looks scratched up and torn to give it a weathered look.

Cover of the album Bingo! by La Sécurité. It features the silhouette of a plush dog with a paper body made out of bingo cards. It's face is white with long black ears and a black nose. The eyes are covered by a black plastic label plastered on the top featuring the name of the album. Four white music notes are drawn next to the doggo, offset by the black surface upon which the dog is standing.

The horizon has a blue-sky to the top left which is overruled by a pink/reddish color at a certain point. To the top right the name of the band, in green with a yellow outline and slightly jumbled up but still legible, is overlaying the rest of the cover crossing the white border of the main image. The outside of the album features what look like scratches or broken glass or ice in black and white.

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Peter V. Baikun @pvbaikun.com · 05/06/2026

New album releases this week with two of them standing out as my favourites. Modest Mouse - An Eraser And A Maze (with Song About Nothing as my fav) Lakecia Benjamin - We Dream (love me some nice jazz)

Album cover of Modest Mouse's An Eraser And A Maze. A black and white drawing of a snake with black spots going into, or coming out of, a scaled panel with a sun underneath that panel shining above a sea. The side that the snake is on has a starlit night and a moon at the topleft. It is encircled by a frame that has eyes at regular intervals.

Above the frame are the band's name and the title of the album.

Lakecia James' album We Dream has her sitting on top of a green floating jelly-like substance that acts as a bean bag with her left hand touching the ground/water that is disturbed by the tips of her fingers. In her right hand she has a saxophone as she looks at the camera with her right leg outstretched to the left. Her left leg tucked in as the sole and heel of her knee-high boot completely touch the ground.

The background is a pink/salmon color mix with some shiny effects.

In the top right her name and album title.

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Peter V. Baikun @pvbaikun.com · 27/05/2026

Let me add to that and make it a double whammy because of how many times there were two people in the decontamination chamber together.

A custom generated title card showing the front of Enterprise NX-01 from the show Star Trek Enterprise flying towards the viewer with the title of the episode being Body Massage.

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Peter V. Baikun @pvbaikun.com · 11/05/2026

Dear @twopointstudios.bsky.social. I may be a fan of your games. 😜 Loving the mechanics introduced with each new expansion. The art-creation especially. I still have to get some achievements, for some of the other expansions, but I shall take my time.

Screenshot of five achievements gained in the Two Point Museum Arty-Facts expansion.

The achievements are, from top to bottom:
- Glass Case Of Emotion: Employ an Art Expert with an understanding of all 7 emotions
- Please Don't Touch: Display every Famous Art exhibit in a single museum
- Art Museum: Complete Chapter 5 of Undee Docks
- Model Employee: Have a single Assistant pose for 5 portraits and/or statues
- Frame It 'Till You Make It: Display a pristine piece of original Art

Underneath the final one it says: 0.3% of players have this achievement.

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Peter V. Baikun @pvbaikun.com · 28/04/2026

This is going to be a VERY serious movie, I can tell. 😆

Screenshot of a character in the Rogue Trooper movie painting doing a jump with their left knee forward and their right leg trailing behind, their torso turned to the front, one arm in front of them and on stretched out with both throwing what might be peace signs, or "up yours". All shown in a jovial manner.

Very serious movie, this.

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Peter V. Baikun @pvbaikun.com · 18/04/2026

Played a couple of #Steam demo's today and I liked all three that I played. But, for this post I want to focus on @rebelpixel.fr who are working on #Stardream. It has an incredible style, but they've also made it look like 2D concept art during 3D gameplay. It is gorgeous because of it!

Screenshot showing the game Stardream. The room is a sci-fi 60s style with a gaudy aquamarine color for virtually everything with some brown for the curtains and a small carpet.

Screenshot showing the game Stardream. It shows a very brown section of a golden room with the front door in the background.

Screenshot showing the game Stardream. The room is a sci-fi 60s style with a gaudy gold color area broken up by a brown carpet.

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Peter V. Baikun @pvbaikun.com · 05/03/2026

Well, that is a very nice(!) price for Slay The Spire II. 😜 I will grab it soon.

Screenshot of the Steam app showing a Complete Your Collection section on the Slay The Spire II store page. I can complete for the lovely price of €20,69. Which is very nice(!)

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Peter V. Baikun @pvbaikun.com · 20/02/2026

The game has some fun power ups, such as giant players, missing arms, a DVD logo bouncing around the screen and seagulls that can hinder your play. There are also short, looping victory songs after each match. Just brilliant. 😄 #ProJankFooty

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Peter V. Baikun @pvbaikun.com · 16/02/2026

So demo's for both Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown and Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes are out now and both are roguelite experiences that are pretty small in scope. However, they each fit their respective series really well in terms of gameplay. They also hit just right for me.

A screenshot of the game Star Trek: Voyager - Across The Unknown showing the sector map

A screenshot of the game Star Trek: Voyager - Across The Unknown showing the cross section of the U.S.S. Voyager herself.

A screenshot of the game Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes showing the battlemap

A screenshot of the game Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes showing the CiC aboard one of the ships along with a dialogue of one of the characters you will meet.

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Peter V. Baikun @pvbaikun.com · 16/02/2026

I am very much hyped for this brand new .hack// game! Loving the key art already. Heck yeah! There's a trailer out and an interview in the latest Famitsu. It's a restart, and will have music by Taro Hakase, legendary violinist and composer.

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Peter V. Baikun @pvbaikun.com · 26/01/2026

Not just good. It has lines like this: 😜

A screenshot from the game Promise Mascot Agency showing a conversation between two Mascots called Pinky and Tofun. The character Pinky who looks like a severed pinky finger has an angry look on their face as she proclaims: "We need to budget cut some people at the town hall if you ask me".

Yeah, she has anger issues. ;)

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Peter V. Baikun @pvbaikun.com · 15/01/2026

I'm wondering if @ifycomedy.com is up for this. 😜

Open casting call for the return of Baywatch on February 18 in Los Angeles

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Peter V. Baikun @pvbaikun.com · 19/12/2025

It's a shame to see @eurogamer.bsky.social has fallen to the absurd, consumer-unfriendly and greedy practice of denying EU citizens access to their site if they don't pay for a sub or have ad tracking on. I am fine with having non-personal ads. Don't need my data for that. So they lost a reader.

A screenshots of the Eurogamer website showing an absurd gatekeeping practice where you have to accept cookies that allow your data to be harvested for personalized ads, or take on a paid subscription to not have ads or ad tracking.

Very consumer-unfriendly and should not be allowed to be hoisted on European citizens.

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Peter V. Baikun @pvbaikun.com · 17/12/2025

The newest update for The Division 2 has the perfect size for the new Krampus winter event. 😄

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Peter V. Baikun @pvbaikun.com · 15/12/2025

The US now as the Army, the Marine Corps, the Navy, the Air Force, Space Force, and.... Tech Force? Wonder how long it takes for them to have a Tiger Force, or, gods forbid, a Ninja Force...

A picture of a carded G.I. Joe Tiger Force figure with the name Jungla. It's the Spanish name for the character Outback. He sports green/brown camo pants, a blue bandana and a bright orange shortsleeved top with a stylized tiger face on it consisting of black stripes, dots for eyes and a set of fanged teeth. No outlines on it.

A figure of The G.I. Joe character Scarlett. This time in a Ninja Force get-up. A maligned line by collectors. Scarlett wears a teal outfit offset by bright neon-green pants. Not exactly a color for a ninja, right?

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Peter V. Baikun @pvbaikun.com · 15/12/2025

We need a better, more suitable word, for certain investors who buy shares in a company with the only goal to maximize short-term profits by changing their production pipeline and internal structures. Activist investor doesn't cut it. How about Vulture Investors? Because that's what they are.

A screenshot of a Twitter post by Dr. Serkan Toto, keeping us abreast of a situation concerning a shareholder/investor.

Quoted Post made on May 26th, earlier in 2025: Square Enix is now 7.73% owned by Singapore-based activist investor 3D Investment Partners, making them the studio's No. 2 shareholder. - It contains a link to a video of the poster explaining what this means. Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAPmIeTXWqw

The latest post:

This investor's stake in Square Enix now reached 15.40%.
Only Enix founder Yasuhiro Fukushima has now more shares.

There's a link to a Twitter post made by Jacob Navoks, a former Square Enix app who claims that "Consumers generally do not care" about AI in games, so I am not even going to link to anything he has to say at this point.

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Peter V. Baikun @pvbaikun.com · 16/11/2025

I think my Discovery page is trying to tell me something. 🍕😄

A screen grab of my Bluesky discovery page showing a use who posted a video of a gashapon machine that has little figures of bags of Calbee's Pizza chips (crisps in the UK) in it. Followed by a user who posted an image of a red check box with the words "I agree to Extreme Pizza" next to it.

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Peter V. Baikun @pvbaikun.com · 10/11/2025

So here's the thing, I am not an Achievement Hunter per sé. But I am happy I got a 100% for both @ballxpit.com and @powerwashsimulator.co.uk #2 on Steam this year. Of course, like Vampire Survivors there will be new content that will affect the 100% rating in the future, but for now. I am content.

A screenshot showing the 100% achievement rating for Ball x Pit on Steam

A screenshot showing the 100% achievement rating for Powerwash Simulator 2 on Steam

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Peter V. Baikun @pvbaikun.com · 27/10/2025

A circumferential groove impact sounds like an extremely technical way of saying "hit record". 😛

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Peter V. Baikun @pvbaikun.com · 24/10/2025

Oooff. Seeing people sharing pictures of a new Mortal Kombat art book by Insight Editions and it. is. bad. They used a terrible "AI" upscaler and it makes all the fighters look like they're melting where they stand. Extremely disappointing. Not TOASTY at all. Who the hell signed off on this?

A picture of failed "AI" upscaling used in a book called Mortal Kombat: Flawless Victory - A Visual History of the Iconic Series written by Ian Flynn and published by Insight Editions. This picture shows Kitana whose hair looks like someone tried to use a plastic binbag to create her hair.

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Peter V. Baikun @pvbaikun.com · 17/10/2025

I am not an achievement hunter, and I don't have one bone in my body that can get addicted to something. I just really like #BallxPit. Fun runs of max 15 minutes, and trying to find out new strategies and combinations. Thanks @kennysun.com And Friends!

A screenshot of Steam showing a 100% achievements for the game Ball x Pit.

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Peter V. Baikun @pvbaikun.com · 18/08/2025

Can't share more than this, but I did get a review key for @sega-west.bsky.social and @lizardcube.bsky.social's new #Shinobi title. I can't implore people enough at this point to check out the demo ASAP. Review to follow!

Start screen of the new Lizardcube developed, and published by SEGA, game title Shinobi: The Art of Vengeance. If you can, play the demo!

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Peter V. Baikun @pvbaikun.com · 27/04/2025

Truer words have never been spoken. #Crashlands2

A screenshot of the weird but fun game Crashlands 2 with the floating robot Juicebox uttering the words: "They're USB sticks! You just plug it into a computer, and when it doesn't fit in the port, you flip it around and it still won't fit!"

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Peter V. Baikun @pvbaikun.com · 20/04/2025

Finished my first(!) run of #Rosewater by @grundislavgames.bsky.social and @jesshaskins.bsky.social. If 80s/90s point & click adventure games are your jam, this is a must-play. The rotoscoping looks good, the voice cast is incredible, the randomized encounters, and multiple solutions add a lot. ❤️

A splash image of the fictional wild west point & click adventure game Rosewater, with the name of the game right i the middle. The main character Harley Leger right above it, and her traveling companions around her and the text.

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Peter V. Baikun @pvbaikun.com · 19/03/2025

I mean, look at Sai! A knight with a GIANT SPOON! It's weird, and I love it.

An image of Sai, a young knight wielding a giant spoon, jumping away from an explosion behind them. Screenshot from a pitch presentation for a Final Fantasy IX anime that has leaked. Unfortunately, the anime was never fully produced since it was reported about in 2021.

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Peter V. Baikun @pvbaikun.com · 28/02/2025

Two Point Museum is out in Advanced Access if you got the Explorer's Edition, and so far it's been a lot of fun. One thing stood out to me though. Lovely little detail, @twopointstudios.bsky.social 😀

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Peter V. Baikun @pvbaikun.com · 14/01/2025

Heh, just watched @commandersterling.bsky.social 's newest Jimquisition and it was a delight seeing the love for Sengoku Basara. I never picked up Devil Kings after having rented it once, because it was really bad. But SB: Samurai Heroes is a favorite of mine since launch. Capcom, we need more!

The PAL cover of Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes for the PS3. Published by Capcom in 2010. It shows a samurai with three swords on his belt using one of them to let enemies fly, while his hands and arms are covered in lightning.

The game isn't a very realistic depiction of the Sengoku period, the Warring States, in feudal Japan, clearly. :P

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Peter V. Baikun @pvbaikun.com · 10/01/2025

2025 is off to a great start for me, music wise. Franz Ferdinand dropped a new album today, and I like it. Bar Lonely and Black Eyelashes are my favorite. But, I want to talk about Lambrini Girls today. This is their debut album after an EP back in 2023, and they're punk AF. 1/2

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Peter V. Baikun @pvbaikun.com · 06/01/2025

Acer made a handheld device to play your games on. "Cool, they're getting into that competitive market, let's see them give i..." *sees picture* "WHOA... WHAT IS THAT?" Apparently it has an 11 inch screen, but also has detachable controllers. It's just... Dude...

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Peter V. Baikun @pvbaikun.com · 23/12/2024

Went out for new shoes, picked up a stray. Thanks @scalzi.com. 😄

Paperback release of John Scalzi's book Starter Villain. Featuring a man in a white outline and black suit sitting on an opulent and sci-fi chair. The chair is also outlined in white and has a curvature in the back seat, which clearly lacks any head support because of it, ending in two points on Both sides. It clearly denotes it's a chair for an evil villain this way.

Behind the chair is a mountain, and it is also surrounded by what looks like a whirlpool of red and blue lines, indicating a portal of sorts.

The man is also holding a cat, by the way. Like that one James Bond villain.

The book has blurbs on the front: 'Satire Aplenty' - Financial Times, and 'Laugh-out-loud funny' - SFX, five star review.

In white, underneath the depiction of the man in the sci-fi chair, is the title in white. Starter Villain, followed by 'Anti-hero in training. Underneath that is John Scalzi's name in red.

Blofeld, that was the Bond villain’s name. Just remembered.

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Peter V. Baikun @pvbaikun.com · 13/12/2024

I can't get over how excited I am for a brand new #Okami sequel from one of the my most favorite gamedesigners/directors. The wonderful (101, sorry, had to 😜) Hideki Kamiya! He always wanted to do a sequel, and he finally got his chance! This letter, shared by Capcom, made me even more hyped!

A letter from Hideki Kamiya, translated from Japanese, about his return to the world of Okami. It was shared by Capom on the hellsite.

To all of you,

"Until next time..."

How long has it been since the story was concluded with that? I didn't think the day would really come, where I'd return to Okami and continue the story with my own hands. Even at this very moment, my body is filled with both a cautious surprise that this is not a dream, and a joy that cannot be described in words.

Everyone who has worked so hard to make this project a reality, the friends who believed in me and gathered at CLOVERS Inc., and most importantly, the voices of so many of you who have continued to support Okami even after such a long time: all of this has come together to create this miracle for which I am deeply grateful.

Like a strong rising sun, this project is finally in motion. But it's still a small bud that is blossoming. We are ready to fill this new Okami with many colorful flowers, and to do our best to fulfil the promise of "next time" in the best way.

Everyone please wait with anticipation.

Hideki Kamiya.

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Peter V. Baikun @pvbaikun.com · 06/12/2024

Today I died because I made some bad placements, and I wasn't fast enough in placing a piton. The first drop wasn't that high (see the red skull in the middle), but the main character rolled for a bit and ultimately dropped in a small crevasse-like area on the side of mountain. Much higher drop! 💀

A grey-scaled view of a mountain range, with a heatmap overlayed on top of it. It shows signs of strain during a climb, with green being the least and bright red depicting moments of heavy strain on the main character as she climbs up a mountain.

A red downward arrow depicts a moment where she fell, and two red skulls depicts the two times she fell to her death.

At the bottom left is a drawn image of the main character looking up, with three stars and two straight lines connecting them, giving the idea of an unfinished mountain. The words "The ascent is over" are also shown, together with the options Load Save Point and Return To Main Menu.

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Peter V. Baikun @pvbaikun.com · 06/12/2024

I wasn't planning on making a post this fast after the thread I just did. I just have to talk about it now. A demo dropped for the game #Cairn yesterday, it's an atmospheric climbing game, like Jusant (which I loved), but damn, this one can be very intense. The tutorial alone made my palms sweaty.

A screenshot of the main character of Cairn, standing on a high grassy location looking out over a mountain range. A small robot that climbs with you and supports you is close by, with a butterfly at the top of the screenshot flying into view.

A screenshot of the main character of Cairn, as she is scaling a mountain. The small robot that supports you is clinging on to the left of her. They are tethered together with a red-colored rope.

A screenshot of the main character of Cairn, as she is scaling a mountain. The red rope that tethers her to a support robot is moving out of screen, the robot that cannot be seen is on the other end of it.

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Peter V. Baikun @pvbaikun.com · 19/11/2024

Because of the horrible things coming in 2025 in the US, and I worry for friends there, I would suggest to everyone to make this their go-to album for letting loose. Joy As An Act of Resistance by Idles is one of the best modern punk albums out there, imo. It... GOES AND IT GOES AND IT GOES!

The vinyl record Joy As An Act Of Resistance by Idles, released in 2018.

The album cover looks like a golden sparkly picture frame featuring the picture of two oars holding up a container of sorts against a white brick wall. The container holds sand and a rock with the small ends of the oars poking through.

At the bottom, on a white background, are the words Joy As An Act Of Resistance. On the right a partial vinyl record can be seen so you know it's an actual vinyl record album. Sorry, had to be a bit cheeky there.

Here's the playlist:

1. Colossus
2. Never Fight A Man With A Perm
3. I'm Scum
4. Danny Nedelko
5. Love Song
6. June
7. Samaritans
8. Television
9. Great
10. Gram Rock
11. Cry To Me
12. Rottweiler

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Peter V. Baikun @pvbaikun.com · 17/11/2024

Introduce yourself with four video games.

The front cover of Suikoden (PAL Version) for PSX/PSOne.

Several characters in a thick lined circle on a very white background with some of them breaking through the thick line. The main character, "Teo" McDohl prominent in the front holding his long staff behind him with one hand, poised to fight.

Cover of the PS2 Game Yakuza (PAL) showing the back of Kazuma Kiryu, the main character of the game, with a very intricate dragon tattoo. The word Yakuza portrayed in red at the top in a font that is meant to depict brushstrokes akin to Japanese caligraphy. The background is dark grey-ish swirling sea with a dragon and a tiger across from each other on either side of Kiryu in a classic Japanese artstyle.

Cover of the PC game Crusader: No Remorse, with the title at the bottom. On the left is a person clad in red armor, sporting a red helmet with a similar T-visor as Boba Fett in Star Wars, holding a stylized futuristic machine gun, with explosions behind them. To the right a futuristic city shrouded in the dark of night can be seen, and above the city are the words Nonstop Action From A Different Perspective. Above that text is the name of the development studio: Origin.

The cover of Streets of Rage 2 for the Sega Genesis (Mega Drive in Europe). In it we see the protagonists of the game fighting regular street thugs. Max, the wrestler can be seen at the top left (somehow he is bald on the cover, but in the game has a full head of hair) together with Blaze as they teamed up to take down a single thug. To the right of them we can see Skate, a black kid on inline skates who kicks one of the thugs in his face. At the front there is Axle, who just punched a knife-wielding thug to the ground.

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Peter V. Baikun @pvbaikun.com · 13/11/2024

Because the news from the US is FUCKING WEIRD right now. Here's a (possibly stale) meme. E.A. Bread. It's in the grain!

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Peter V. Baikun @pvbaikun.com · 13/11/2024

There it is. Over 15 Million users on BlueSky. And counting! Be sure to check out the necessary mute/block lists to keep assholes and chuds away from your timeline. The block function is really good here. And if you're new, be on the lookout for all of the starter packs available!

Screenshot of Jaz' user count for BlueSky, it says 15.000.580

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Peter V. Baikun @pvbaikun.com · 08/11/2024

This is fucked up. I really hope #Dropout will get a presence here and leave the hellsite run by that loser fascist. I feel and worry for the people who work at Dropout who want nothing more but to bring joy, which is now more important than ever.

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