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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 7h

met the world's unluckiest grunt in halo 3 today

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

might have put a little too much force on the backstep

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the ipad generation is out of control

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

the hell else are you supposed to do in ohio

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

halo 1 on legendary made me a man, halo 2 on legendary will make me a statistic

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You're in her DMs, I'm in the main menu about to access my new pack of leaves. We are not the same.

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you: im sasuke, im so edgy and cool he's just like me me: im simon, the most delusional man alive and i havea hamster

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🧙New Quest Unlocked!⚔️🐉 (gambling addiction)

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

while star wars galactic racer does look pretty promising and i will definitely be picking it up, I still think it's in poor taste to allow baby yoda to be ejected from his car seat during a race

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

what is the earliest console game that lets you pick non-binary and please tell me it's not fucking austin powers for game boy color of all things

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

forever funny to me that nerf has historically avoided copying real existing guns but because the guns in fortnite are real existing guns with quirky proportions nerf now produces yassified FN SCAR-Ls

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

pokemon cards: this is pikachu! he is a small electric mouse pokemon 🥰 yugioh cards: gagagigo learned to Love

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

kids these days will never know the pain of taping over your vague jackie chan tape because of 9/11

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

guitar cable plugged into strap mount even though the port is modeled lol

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

yeah that's probably how you play a guitar

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

computer is some old amiga looking thing but is running... XP?

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

schecter bass is real and makes sense though??

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

agefield has a lot wrong with it but i love that it's all about this whole rock the school thing and the protag owns what appears to be a gibson custom shop guitar (expensive) judging by the inlays in like a 2010s gamer headset color scheme. even the damn tuners, strings, and bridge are red lmao

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

other peoples' dreams: having super powers, impossible spaces my dreams: a friend coming over to my place and insisting that I dig out the sega genesis so that we can play Toki

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Framing the mass layoffs like they're something "happening" to Xbox and not something directly initiated by Xbox as a result of their conscious decision to buy a bunch of companies and then no longer want a bunch of companies is crazy.

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

a few years ago i got the nice PC slipcase physical release of Deus Ex: Human Revolution (original version) brand new from the square enix web store like a decade after it released. no clue how they still had unsold copies lmao

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

obsessed with the controller for this aliexpress robot dog. the completely solid body mold that was clearly made from an xbox one controller complete with non-functioning shoulder/trigger buttons and face buttons like "Act Cute" and "Urinate" is truly a thing of beauty

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

buying halo 1 in japan back in the day got you both the manual and a "training guide" which is basically a mini guidebook by Prima Games for the first mission

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

the hell do you mean the base game doesn't come with the digital game manual lmao

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

even more underwhelming bonus trivia for the GH2 key art: whatever the hell happened here lol. i think the dark spots are shadows but the compositing on the pickups and the grey spot below the neck are... interesting. Surprised Gibson quality control wasn't stricter tbh.

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

bonus underwhelming trivia: hands posed for guitar picks but lacking said guitar picks 😎

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Making her left-handed is fine for the better posing, it's just funny that the guitar isn't a left handed model. Guitar Hero 2's key arts made her left handed but did make the guitar a left handed model. anyways, hope you enjoyed today's underwhelming bit of trivia

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

just noticed that on the guitar hero 3 key/box art, the character Judy is playing a right-handed guitar as if she were left handed, even though in-game she is right handed and Gibson did produce a left-handed version of the guitar she is using lol

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

reminds me of the themed scrims at disney world if they were much, much sadder looking

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

facebook showing me a post by my relative about their sick dog and asking me if I'm "interested" or "not interested" in the post is peak social media lol💀

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I really love the colors in Marathon. These two specifically always make me think of Tyco's Crash Dummies, specifically the plane lmao.

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

like ok toy story 4 you got a spork character and an evel knievel guy cool whatever but toy story 5 coming in hot with a potty-training device, a digital camera, and a translucent hippo GPS (that are all toy-like enough to gain toy sentience i guess)????

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

in a perfect world they would fund a toy story 5 video game tie-in where you play as the discarded potty-training device and they would let me develop it

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

of all these games, resident evil 2 is somehow the one I don't own lol

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

i have faith in my sources so maybe they're saving this one for the next state of play or the game awards or something

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

clocking in to my job at the poke distribution hub

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

the absolute whiplash of getting facebook poked for the first time in 15 years

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

i know dark souls 2 came out like 12 years ago but I just noticed this and sorta feel compelled to share it anyways

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Compy by our talented dinosaur modeler/animator since 2023, Zol.

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

The only downside to adding the lighting-only debug mode is that every time a chunk of level gets built I can't help myself from toggling it over and over lol

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Bonus for the real nerds: because baking starts at the verts not the lights, verts can know if they are being shadowed by their own object and thus avoid self-shadowing. this allows objects to cast shadows without said shadows overriding their own buttery smooth half lambert squared falloff

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