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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I was scared of *everything* An early memory is being terrified of the monsters from the 1986 Howard the Duck movie. Actually, I wrote the above before searching for an image, thinking "haha what a silly thing to be scared of", but you know what, seeing it again, I get 10-ish y.o. me.

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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The only thing I find truly bad about Lanterns is that the Harry Potter references happen so regularly you'd almost think Warner Bros mandated it the same way HBO and Cinemaxx used to mandate sex scenes

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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 4h

"King Charles" lol. Lmao, even

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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 16h

I swear I can feel the paper in my hands, good job!

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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 17h

Is that a digital paper effect, or did you print and take a perfect picture? (I'm assuming it's not handcolored because of all the Ben Day dots...) (Also, I can't find a consensus on whether it's Ben-space-Day dots or Ben-hyphen-Day dots)

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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 19h

For decades, we made laptops lighter and higher efficiency, and then at some point, at least for anything with any kind of GPU, we went "Fuck it" and everything weighs the same as a toddler and lasts maybe an hour if you only read emails

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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

No, Jeff, I actually can't access your personal My Documents folder

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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Tangential, but that link title gave me flashbacks to the several - maybe not *many*, but still *too* many - times someone has sent me an email saying they're sharing a file with me, and the "link" they've pasted is a file path on their computer's hard drive

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hello! I will be available for game direction, writing and design work from next month for the first time in a very long time. If you enjoy any of the games listed in my portfolio here, please do get in touch at caraellison at gmail caraellison.co.uk/divebar/about/

caraellison.co.uk

C:\Cara Ellison\about\

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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

@catvincent.bsky.social 3 episodes into Kill Jackie, and I'm really loving it! It's simultaneously similar and different enough to the novels that I almost want to see a Jack/Jackie multiverse crossover Also, Christine Adams as The Doc. Hello nurse. Except Doc.

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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Back in the 10s, I ran all my media through XBMC/KODI, and that was great. But as streaming became more convenient, that kind of fell by the wayside. Now that I'm self-acquiring a lot more again I might have to figure something out, bc transferring everything to an external HDD is getting annoying

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 06/10/2026

"It has no place in my world" is a god-tier fuckoff line

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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I still far prefer owning on disc to... alternatives. And that's easy with movies, but less so with current TV shows.

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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In the interim, I guess I'm happy TVs now can just play mkv files out of the box

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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Like I said, I used to use KODI, but Plex seems to be easier to make work with the TV - does anyone know if that's still good, or has it become enshittified in some way? I've got an LG TV, recommendations for solutions are very welcome, I'm completely out of the loop, media server-wise.

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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I have a NAS lying around somewhere that my dad gave me, but I have no idea where...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/10/2026

Simon Stålenhag is the best www.instagram.com/p/C3j9F6kq6p5/

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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

For a time time, despite loving 4K, I didn't download things in 2160p because the file sizes just seemed overwhelming when downloaded in bulk Then I realized that an 8 ep season at ~4.5-5 gigs per episode is pretty much the same as a 22 ep season (remember those?) in 1080p, so, hey!

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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's really hard now to explain the excitement of "Did you hear there's a hidden [insert color here] one now??" to someone who wasn't there. It's sort of the video game equivalent of "When I was a kid, I had a stick and a piece of string, and I LIKED it!"

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

get the fun book ✨ kickstarter.com/projects/mrlovenstein/mr-lovenstein-presents-fun

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The Amityville Jordan (1979) @jackal27.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

TIL that the opening of Onimusha 3 was directed by Takashi Yamazaki, director of Godzilla: Minus One! Sadly, nearly every upload of it is a stretched, GenAI abomination. So, I ripped and painstakingly upscaled what I consider the greatest video game cinematic ever from its 2007 PC release! Enjoy!

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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Like, it's perfectly possible that some of the writers just still like Harry Potter - which would suck - but honestly, WB going "You have to stick in some references to remind people that Harry Potter is still a thing" doesn't feel completely impossible, given the PR debacle.

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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And, subject of course to the comfort of the people performing the sex scenes, I sure as hell prefer those to shit like "Where'd Harry Potter go to school" and "Spazkaban: Space Azkaban"

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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Same, except it's four years in my case. I was an Indiana Jones kid years before I was a Star Wars kid

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"how do you want them to avoid cancellation? do you just want guys to disclose it before every video? what do you want them to do??? how can any guy have a chance??" I want him to serve as an example to others. I am not interested in rehabilitation and second chances anymore

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Brady! @like-the-bunch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

this will be funny to like 3 people but I’m one of them and that’s all that matters

The poster for The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, but it’s been edited to include And Knuckles at the end of the title, and Knuckles has been edited into the photo of the cast

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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So, we can stop pondering hypotheticals about personal growth and whether a rapist losing out on writing about video games for a living is overly punitive now, right?

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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I should actually revisit it at some point; I don't think I've seen it since I was a kid! Hell, I'm not even sure I've seen the entire movie; more like portions here and there when it ran on TV

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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

More evidence is always good, I guess, but frankly it's ridiculous that, in the year of some people's lord 2026, we're still treating "Rosalind Franklin was robbed" as something that even needs to be confirmed. Sun rises in the East, water makes things wet, Watson & Crick were glory-stealing pricks

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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As far as I'm concerned, they landed it.

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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I've never watched Friday Night Lights, so from my view, getting tomorrow's newspaper today really took a toll on the guy

A poster for the old TV show Early Edition, featuring a young Kyle Chandler in the mid 90s standing in front of a wall papered with newspaper pages. The show was about him getting, you guessed it, tomorrow's newspaper today.

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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I've never watched Friday Night Lights, so from my view, getting tomorrow's newspaper today really took a toll on the guy

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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Almost caught up on Lanterns, with episode 7 left to watch with the finale tomorrow. I really like the show, but I have no idea how I'd feel about it if I'd been really into Green Lantern in a larger sense. As it is, being uninvested in any particular incarnation, I'm enjoying this.

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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"OMG did you hear he's going to be playable in the next game 😮😮😮"

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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And frankly, I don't consider "Not getting to make a living off writing and talking about video games" to be retributive justice. He's not going to prison. He's just going to have to find a way to support himself that isn't living his dreams. Most of us are doing that already.

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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's just really fucking hard to give a shit about restorative justice for sexual assault in a world where victims are routinely treated far worse than perpetrators of it, to the point where entire systems are functionally designed around it.

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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I was being kind of careful yesterday, because it was sparked by a blog post of someone who seemed to be grappling with a lot of feelings, but I want to be clear: I don't give a fuck what happens to Jacob Geller. I think he's due zero consideration, and certainly not owed a platform of any kind.

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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You know how YouTube sometimes will slip in a right-wing video in here and there, like it's testing if maybe this time you're up for some fascism? I just find it particularly funny every time it tries to serve me the dude HBomberGuy dunked on for copying one of his videos *nine fucking years ago*.

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tante @tante.cc · 03/10/2026

So the "I left $AILab for ethical reasons" grift is starting up: I understand wanting that bag, wanting to be in on a big thing. But if you thought OpenAI or Anthropic were okay a year ago or so, I really am not willing to give you any credit for leaving now.

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I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken - The Atlantic

The industry’s approach to safety will guarantee more failures unless something changes.

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John Scary Name Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

While I welcome what the Pope is saying about AI, you do not (I repeat, NOT) gotta hand it to the Catholic Church.

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