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pavera

@skeltima.bsky.social
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skeletalworks.bandcamp.com/music mid-30s guy that makes music and likes crusty ass old video games. anti-ai, anti-fash. pro-chicken.

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pavera @skeltima.bsky.social · 16h
sometimes I worry I am going to be unemployed forever just because the fundamental idea of having a job again activates my fight or flight response like I spent 11 years in corporate hell learning to hate everything about my chosen profession, and i'm just supposed to struggle to go BACK to that??
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pavera @skeltima.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I recently completed a thoroughly unique and fantastic journey through a series that I now hold irrevocably in the core of my brittle game lover's heart. King's Field (and Shadow Tower). Four of the most engrossing, flawed, beautiful, strange, frustrating, and provocative games I have ever played.
King's Field (JP) Cover art for PS1King's Field II (JP) Cover art for PS1King's Field III (JP) Cover art for PS1Shadow Tower (JP) Cover art for PS1
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pavera @skeltima.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oi oi, I fucking unlocked my mix and passed the car test with flying colors, time to FUCK
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pavera @skeltima.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I love being in the phase of cat ownership where he is now so endeared to me that he follows me into whatever space of the apartment I am in and just sits near me, doing his own little cat thing, but close by for comfort.
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pavera @skeltima.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
having just completed the King's Field trilogy on PS1, I've now completed my quest to unlock the greatest ending text read ever committed to waveform. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opdf...
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King's Field 3 - Ending 2nd movie
YouTube video by Game Atlantis
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pavera @skeltima.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Why do games insist on making me stare at a crosshair in first person even when I don't have a shootable Gun equipped?
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pavera @skeltima.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
the amount of AI generated food flyers I saw at the fair today was enough to put me on Hunger Strike
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pavera @skeltima.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
everytime I see an AI generated flyer or advertisement it reminds me of when I was in 6th grade and I downloaded my first level 99 diablo 2 character off some cheats website and imported it into open bnet, trying to pass it off like I leveled it myself. good times, being 12 years old
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pavera @skeltima.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
while I work on new garden synth tracks, maybe listen to the ones i already released 💮🌼🐔
skeletalworks.bandcamp.com
Memoria Gardenia, by Opal Legbar
8 track album
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esselfortium 🏳️‍⚧️ | Not Yet releases Oct 1! @esselfortium.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
New album preorder is up, with two tracks "Until Then" and "Not Yet" available today and the rest of the album coming on October 1st! esselfortium.bandcamp.com/album/not-yet
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Not Yet, by Esselfortium
10 track album
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esselfortium 🏳️‍⚧️ | Not Yet releases Oct 1! @esselfortium.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
here it is. title is Until Then. it's part of an album's worth of new music i've written this month with the mac ii and hardware synth rig. album is titled Not Yet, i'm planning to release it on october 1. <3
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BouncyTEM @bouncytem.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
bouncytem.bandcamp.com/album/q30-mu... with the release of the Q30 Music Jam, I am releasing my contributions to it on my bandcamp! Alongside some additional strays I had made. 6 tracks in all!
bouncytem.bandcamp.com
Q30 Music Jam (plus additional quake jam tracks), by BouncyTEM
6 track album
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pavera @skeltima.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Pour out your love on top of me These hands are open wide I'm weaker than the morning But I'm hungry as the sky
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Pour Your Love
YouTube video by Little Weight
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pavera @skeltima.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
i am not "scared of generative AI". i simply find it to be too spiritually and morally depraved to consume.
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duchess of delay @pretendeer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This is a project of mine I think about often. Released it in January and I intended it as a one off, but I've been thinking about doing another for it. Mostly because I'm playing Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 and the events of the game match the music perfectly
pillarsandpalisades.bandcamp.com
Last of the King's Men, by Pillars & Palisades
6 track album
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pavera @skeltima.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
it is one thing for gen AI to ruin art, writing, music, programming, culture, literacy, the environment, the economy ... but it is another thing entirely for it to ruin my fucking appetite
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pavera @skeltima.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The gate is open Bathe your feathers in the sun 'Til it stops shining
skeletalworks.bandcamp.com
Opal Sunbath, by Opal Legbar
from the album Memoria Gardenia
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pavera @skeltima.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The gate is open Bathe your feathers in the sun 'Til it stops shining
skeletalworks.bandcamp.com
Opal Sunbath, by Opal Legbar
from the album Memoria Gardenia
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pavera @skeltima.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
i bought a label maker ...
some of my CD cases with naked spines, finally identifiable.

Ancient Lands
Terminal Velocity
Star General
High Seas Trader
Master of Orion
Mechwarrior 2
Robot City (CD 2 (can't find my CD 1 :< ))
Titanic: Adventure out of Time (CD 1 & 2)
Panzer General III
The Civil War
SWAT 3
Civilization III
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pavera @skeltima.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
did you know the Duke Nukem 3D Plutonium Pak addon CD, which converts your base game into the expanded Atomic edition, also came with a plethora of weird side content? Including this jigsaw puzzle program that lets you piece together screens from the game. It even plays in-game music! Cozy!!
A bad phone camera picture of my monitor screen, displaying the "official" Duke Nukem 3d jigsaw puzzle game
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pavera @skeltima.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
the most striking thing about this game is that, for all of the guns and boobs and one-liners and machismo, underneath it all is quite a somber and foreboding game. if you turn off duke's one liners it actually becomes an incredibly lonely game. only like 3 songs on the OST are hard rock bangers.
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pavera @skeltima.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Has calling people "fatty" seriously re-entered the acceptable lexicon? are we really back to that? am I in middle school again? fat shaming is not cool, was actually quite damaging to me in my formative years!!!
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pavera @skeltima.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
it's time to eat ass and shit bubble gum ... and i'm all outta ass
CD jewel cases of Duke Nukem 3D and the Duke Nukem 3D Plutonium Pak
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pavera @skeltima.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
nice album about chickens in a garden
skeletalworks.bandcamp.com
Memoria Gardenia, by Opal Legbar
8 track album
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pavera @skeltima.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
doin' computer stuff is just so much more fun on an old computer, like, every little thing i modify or customize about it just feels so satisfying
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pavera @skeltima.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I ripped the textures from doom2.wad and created an expansion pack for my windows 98 3D maze screen saver >:)
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pavera @skeltima.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
dumps like a trump, trump, trump
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pavera @skeltima.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
nice album about chickens in a garden
skeletalworks.bandcamp.com
Memoria Gardenia, by Opal Legbar
8 track album
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Ecliptic @shriekingvoid.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I've also got CDs and cassettes for To Sima Semu'ul o Kuakul coming from Red Nebula: rednebula.bandcamp.com/album/to-sim...
rednebula.bandcamp.com
To Sima Semu’ul o Kuakul, by Ecliptic
5 track album
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pavera @skeltima.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
i am become bitch
Daikatana fold out CD case, front cover. orangeDaikatana fold out CD case, opened, containing screenshots, Hiro Miyamoto, and the disc. orange
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pavera @skeltima.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Feel bad, tummy hurt, no sleep
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pavera @skeltima.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I just want to express in no uncertain words that I love all of my trans friends deeply, with every amount of my affection and care, and I want nothing more than to create a better world for you. You all inspire me to keep trying to be a better version of myself everyday. and harry potter sucks ass
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pavera @skeltima.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I never thought i'd grow up to live in a world where "cheaters never prosper" and "slow and steady wins the race" would turn out to just be fucking wrong
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TQ 🌿 @witchytq.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
TWITCH AI TRAINING IS LIVE - ON BY DEFAULT here's how to turn it off: - settings - security and privacy
twitch ai training "training for generative ai" consent screenshot
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pavera @skeltima.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
reporting back in to say that Heretic II is a *legitimately* great game. It plays like a 90s-contemporary example of what streamlining a Tomb Raider game would feel like. your character moves in an acrobatic way, with flips and stunts, but with all the fluidity of a WASD shooter.
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pavera @skeltima.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
you know how the best part of any old source code leak is where you get to read all the unhinged comments of the sleepless bastard who wrote it all in a hazy feverpitch? for the sake of this tradition alone, we must defeat AI
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pavera @skeltima.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
And another prize ...
An open jewel case copy of Heretic II, Wicked 3-D action fantasy gaming for Windows 95 and 98.

A psychedelic 3D maze screensaver plays out on the monitor in the background
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pavera @skeltima.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
in contrast to the sweetness of Opal Legbar, here's my latest Skeltima, which hasn't got enough attention, but deserves more because I worked hard on it. riffs and scramz, long song titles, skelton, acronyms, field recordings of winter snows.. go listen! skeletalworks.bandcamp.com/album/soul-k...
skeletalworks.bandcamp.com
Soul Keeper's Eternal Longing, by Skeltima
4 track album
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pavera @skeltima.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Got my copy of Hexen II today
Hexen II manual and disc. Manual cover depicts an imp with metal horns akimbo, tongue protruding in a mischievous expression. His body is wrapped shoulder to foot in a gold serpent. He has golden, dragon-like wings.
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pavera @skeltima.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
to all Quake level designers, just know that if you are placing these guys in your map ..... Hell Awaits You
a Quake spawn
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pavera @skeltima.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
earned my stripes >:)
steam achievements indicating that I have completed Dawn of the Machine for Quake on Nightmare difficulty
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pavera @skeltima.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It dawned on me this year that my Doom II episode Arrival is 5 years old this year, and I missed the anniversary by nearly four months! maybe if you're into Doom, not a bad time to check it out? crazy how time flies. should I start mapping again? doomwiki.org/wiki/Arrival
doomwiki.org
Arrival
Arrival is an 11-map episode WAD for Doom II created by Walker Wright (Pavera) and released in April 2021. It has an original soundtrack composed by Brayden Hart (AD_79). It won a Cacoward that year, ...
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Kek-w @kekw-writer.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I think this is such a lovely, sweet idea / project - the complete anthesis of these awful, hate-filled times we live in - and one that deserves to be supported.
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pavera @skeltima.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
everyone likes my computer >;)
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pavera @skeltima.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Who wants to come over and play games on my new computer????
An eye-watering, jealousy inducing picture of an immaculate Windows 98 setup, complete with decked out stacks of CD-ROM cases filled with the likes of many era appropriate games.

The main menu of Thief: The Dark Project on the monitor, with case on display. The PC tower is a 90s beige, Dell XPS logo on the front, with a black CD drive. It also contains a Zip drive and a 3 1/2 floppy.

PC running a 600 Mhz Pentium III, with 256MB RAM, and a Matrox Millenium g400 32MB graphics card. 

A beige HP PS/2 mouse and keyboard combo perfectly compliments the tower.

Games present, in no specific order:
Rollercoaster Tycoon
Rainbow 6: Rogue Spear
The Settlers 4
Shadow Warrior
Warcraft II
Age of Empires II
Command & Conquer (TD, RA, RA2, TS, Generals, and Renegade)
Diablo & Diablo 2
Myst, Riven, Exile, Uru
Riddle of the Sphinx
Rama
Half-Life
Escape From Monkey Island
Star Wars: Dark Forces II
Star Wars: Jedi Knight II
Dune 2000
Army Men
Silver
Zork Nemesis
Privateer 2: The Darkening
Commandos 2
Blitzkrieg 2
The 7th Guest
Far Cry
The Sims
Mavis Beacon teaches Typing
Starcraft
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
Sim City 3000
Reader Rabbit's 1st Grade
Quake, 2, 3
Medal of Honor Allied Assault
Galactic Multiplication & Division
Caesar 3
Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare
Wing Commander 3
Operation Flashpoint
Shogun: Total War
Devastation
Total Annihilation: Kingdoms
Nocturne
Deadlock
Kayo Dot - Hubardo
Qin: Tomb of the Middle Kingdom
Hellbender
Tomb Raider
Requiem: Avenging Angel
World of Warcraft

Many more games remain hidden in cases without marked spines.

An Adventures of Square mousepad is also visible. What a cool, free game.
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pavera @skeltima.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Who wants to come over and play games on my new computer????
An eye-watering, jealousy inducing picture of an immaculate Windows 98 setup, complete with decked out stacks of CD-ROM cases filled with the likes of many era appropriate games.

The main menu of Thief: The Dark Project on the monitor, with case on display. The PC tower is a 90s beige, Dell XPS logo on the front, with a black CD drive. It also contains a Zip drive and a 3 1/2 floppy.

PC running a 600 Mhz Pentium III, with 256MB RAM, and a Matrox Millenium g400 32MB graphics card. 

A beige HP PS/2 mouse and keyboard combo perfectly compliments the tower.

Games present, in no specific order:
Rollercoaster Tycoon
Rainbow 6: Rogue Spear
The Settlers 4
Shadow Warrior
Warcraft II
Age of Empires II
Command & Conquer (TD, RA, RA2, TS, Generals, and Renegade)
Diablo & Diablo 2
Myst, Riven, Exile, Uru
Riddle of the Sphinx
Rama
Half-Life
Escape From Monkey Island
Star Wars: Dark Forces II
Star Wars: Jedi Knight II
Dune 2000
Army Men
Silver
Zork Nemesis
Privateer 2: The Darkening
Commandos 2
Blitzkrieg 2
The 7th Guest
Far Cry
The Sims
Mavis Beacon teaches Typing
Starcraft
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
Sim City 3000
Reader Rabbit's 1st Grade
Quake, 2, 3
Medal of Honor Allied Assault
Galactic Multiplication & Division
Caesar 3
Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare
Wing Commander 3
Operation Flashpoint
Shogun: Total War
Devastation
Total Annihilation: Kingdoms
Nocturne
Deadlock
Kayo Dot - Hubardo
Qin: Tomb of the Middle Kingdom
Hellbender
Tomb Raider
Requiem: Avenging Angel
World of Warcraft

Many more games remain hidden in cases without marked spines.

An Adventures of Square mousepad is also visible. What a cool, free game.
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pavera @skeltima.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
still a few hours left ... anyone need something to listen to while they walk around with their watering can?
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pavera @skeltima.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
picked up some cool stuff today for BCF!!! vakkerike.bandcamp.com/album/beleza fallenmoonservant.bandcamp.com/album/with-a... lammothofficial.bandcamp.com/album/onward psevdanor.bandcamp.com/album/house-... scoured.bandcamp.com/album/still scoured.bandcamp.com/album/ceasel...
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pavera @skeltima.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
damn I have to say that was a pretty fun BCF today. got some exposure and a few sales! nice!!
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pavera @skeltima.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
For your BCF consideration, PWYW! It's a really nice little album! I think you'll like it!
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