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Spriteanon @spriteanon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

TO BE FAIR, I too would be in favour of drivers being held to the same level of account as cyclists. Which is to say, if you build a car as light and slow as an e-bike, I think you should be able to drive it with the same lax rules as e-bikes. Yes, I am mostly thinking of the one Clarkson barely fit

Jeremy Clarkson inside a blue 1964 Peel P50, a car so tiny it's closer to a suit of armor than to most cars. So tiny, he could drive it around inside the show's offices.

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Spriteanon @spriteanon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

That's what he always looked like in the old games too. Considering Infinite Wealth introduced a whole Crazy Taxi inspired minigame shortly after Ichiban adopts that attire, I wouldn't be surprised if his clothes were inspired by my guy.

Image from Crazy Taxi (3, I think?) showing Axel, one of the selectable characters in an identical outfit to his latest iteration.

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Spriteanon @spriteanon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The one minor degree of it that I do find weird, is just how alien the concept of racism and oppression supposedly is to the Guardians when... I mean, Krypton explicitly wanted to run a racially stratified dictatorship in this continuity, and Supergirl showed slave raids. Guardians really must be:

Image of the famous and beloved blind musician Ray Charles at the piano with a half-smile on his face turning towards the camera. A caption reads: "I'm gonna pretend I didn't see that."

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Spriteanon @spriteanon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I reserve timeline posts mostly for official things, but I see your CABAL and raise you the Sims 1/SimCity 4 Servo:

The iconic Servo robot from the first generation of The Sims games, as seen in a special disaster in SimCity 4, flattening the city.

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Spriteanon @spriteanon.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

People keep bringing this up, but I don't think the ones who dislike Star Trek having a full on Muppet episode would really be swayed by it being on Lower Decks. Sort of how M'Ress being in TAS would still make a lot of people unhappy about a Cats (2019) looking character in a wig and onesie.

M'Ress, in all her 1970s animated catgirl glory.

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Spriteanon @spriteanon.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

That depends. Are you in River City?

Still from the film The Music Man (1962) of the titular character riling up a crowd about the moral implications of a Pool table existing within their humble, God-fearing community.

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Spriteanon @spriteanon.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

You forget the Spider-Man from the dimension where he has a gun.

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Spriteanon @spriteanon.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

For a moment I thought those were the guys from Tinker, Tailor, Doctor, Spy. A lot of the fanboism does feel a lot like people seeing the guy's delusions of grandeur and believing they're unironically real, along with the Photonic Cannon (coming, fairly confidently, by the end of next year).

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Spriteanon @spriteanon.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Hm, yes I suppose that makes sense. Ah, but just more thing. If these things are not supposed to be eaten green, why is there a clearly well lit and composed almost certainly marketing image (to which you're replying) demonstrating them harvested and sliced for consumption while they're green?

Image from the TV series "Columbo", where the titular character stares just off camera quizzically next to their parked car.

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Spriteanon @spriteanon.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Like, the thing I love about Dark Souls multiplayer is that its shitheels actually contribute to the art. When someone can choose to be overly agressive, fuck you up, exploit the environment, but they choose instead to help or at least be honourable and duel, it means something when they do.

Partial quote from Aldia, Scholar of the First Sin from the Scholar of the First Sin edition of Dark Souls 2: "Men are props on the stage of life, and no matter how tender, how exquisite... A lie will remain a lie. Young hollow, knowing this, do you still desire peace?"

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Spriteanon @spriteanon.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

How dare you! Mallatobuck has been slaving away, doing her best to make an enjoyable Life Day celebration for her family even under Imperial rule, all while her husband is off gallivanting around the galaxy and flirting with strange astromechs! Put some respect on her name and the work she put in!

Chewbacca, long distance husband and dad, suggestively showing off his body to R2D2 as a form of establishing dominance in their relationship after forcing a victory in a children's tabletop game under threat of violence; a 'traditional' Wookie courting technique that most today can only excuse via 'it was another time, another galaxy'.

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Spriteanon @spriteanon.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

What I want to know is, why is the left sidebar between the middle section and the right side bar according to text select?

Demonstration image, where the start of the text selection is in the middle of Nash's post which occupies the center of the desktop interface of Bluesky, and the end of the text selection is with the "Popular with Friends" button on the right sidebar. Due to the way that the website's code is structured, the entire left sidebar is also text selected, despite visually being completely outside of the area between the two ends of the text selection.

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Spriteanon @spriteanon.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Also these. There are a lot of these about animals huh?

Poster of the film "Homeward Bound" where three pets try to make a cross-country trip to reunite with their owners.

Poster of the film "Paulie", about a Parrot who's trying to reunited with his owner by trekking across the country.

Poster of the Pixar film "Finding Nemo" in which a Clownfish crosses the ocean to reunite with his son.

Poster of the animated film "Spirit" where a horse crosses all kinds of challenges to reunite with his herd.

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Spriteanon @spriteanon.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Is 'resting Elder Scrolls face' a thing?

An image of an NPC from the original release of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, wherein a character delivers an impassioned speech about how their life's mission is to convert lost souls to the one true faith, while staring past the player with the kind of look one has pulling into a gas station at 7 PM, knowing they can either buy a microwave burrito as their first meal of the day, or get enough gas to make it to their about to be foreclosed apartment next to the railyard.

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Spriteanon @spriteanon.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

To be fair, the previous phases were also pretty ambiguous. Like, sure, Phase 1 ended with Avengers. But then if you look it up, the last movie of Phase 2 was Ant-Man, which came after Age of Ultron, and just before Civil War, meaning Phase 3 had Civil War, Infinity War AND Endgame. But it ended on:

Cover art of Spider-Man: Far from Home. No, not the big cosmic bender with the other Spider-Men, the one with Mysterio that you might have forgot even happened despite being the setup for the cross-over one. Kind of like a mirage. I'll see myself out.

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Spriteanon @spriteanon.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

To be fair, that entire era of 'Star Trek' also started with federation officers excitedly watching prisoners trying to shank each other in the mess hall, playing buddy with Space Hitler after showing she eats people, and the Federation being proud of having a species enslaved via doomsday button.

Screenshot from the film "The Odd Couple" (1968) where a friend of one of the protagonists characterized by his slob lifestyle comments on his out-of-order refrigerator stating: "I saw milk standing in there that wasn't even in the bottle!" which is written out on the image for emphasis.

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Spriteanon @spriteanon.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

They are Englishmen, going to an English soccer game, and yeah, Englishmen are going to know and care about English history more than some clerk in an American Spirit Halloween store labeling costumes. If I as a Hungarian dress up as a Huszár, that doesn't mean I'm cosplaying as a Pole.

Hungarian Huszárs, which are older than and distinct from the famous Polish (Winged) Hussars that most people associate with similar imagery.

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Spriteanon @spriteanon.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I know it's confusing on its face because there's a cross pattern, but those are not necessarily crusader costumes. The red cross or white background is the flag of England, or Saint George who in legend slew a dragon. Knights wearing Saint George's colour describes all of High Medieval England.

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Spriteanon @spriteanon.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

For a moment, I thought Gambit was holding a Mjolnir Greathammer and now I kind of wish that was a thing.

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Spriteanon @spriteanon.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The jury's out on it, though most people will say no. Technically, rules are pretty strict on the dress-code, but there is a long and storied history of people breaking the dress-code for one reason or another.

Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman wearing a shirt in parliment that is far outside of regulations.

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Spriteanon @spriteanon.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Your daddy gave you good advice.

Thumbnail of a TF2 themed recreation of an iconic meme born out of the campy gay porn film's intro, featuring the TF2 character Soldier gazing at a penis off screen with a hard to read but subtly approving look. The scene itself and thus the meme is generally known simply as 'Oh shit I'm sorry'.

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Spriteanon @spriteanon.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Noooo, petting my Lion in Black and White 2 will see me from the gay thoughts!

Still from the game Black and White 2 where an anthropomorphic lion creature covers its mouth, deep in thoughts of whimsy.

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Spriteanon @spriteanon.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

"10 pound paperweight." If we're measuring writing by weight, then would that meant that the Complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir is not only the most ancient, but also most in-depth writing on economics that we have?

Image depicting the complaint tablet, and a Mesopotamian statue often used as a depiction of its subject.

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Spriteanon @spriteanon.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Pretty much everything from Lionhead Studios. But if we're picking one first: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXf-... (Then Black and White immediately after.)

Cover art of the Lionhead Studios film industry tycoon video game: The Movies.

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Spriteanon @spriteanon.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Gul Madred, his assertion wrong.

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Spriteanon @spriteanon.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Look, this account I have explicitly started existence so I can post updates on a fanfic I wrote where multiple male characters are replaced with female variants. I'm not sure how much more on the 'girls are not icky' side of things I could be. All said: Fandom attachment isn't exclusive to sexism.

Some of the stats for the referenced fanfic, including its 1.6 million wordcount to demonstrate it's not just a one off little thing I threw together.

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Spriteanon @spriteanon.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

To be honest, I too have been upset over protag swaps before, though it was when they stopped the Prince of Persia Sands of Time trilogy. I want to play with that specific Prince, not some other prince who happens to do parkour. I like my edgy metal goober.

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Spriteanon @spriteanon.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

You forget, the Space Shuttle's missions weren't just throwing trash in the sky that will turn to atmospheric dust in a few years. They also had to train crew for each mission, which added to the time it would take for the next mission to be ready. That being said, here's two Discovery missions.

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Spriteanon @spriteanon.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Hit 200 km/h first and you can make some CRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAZY MONEY!

Still of the player's vehicle jumping from the cult classic video game Crazy Taxi. (Or one of its sequels, honestly I can't name the exact game in the series from the screenshot, sorry.)

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Spriteanon @spriteanon.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Oh huh, I was about to ask what settings you're even talking about because the ones I saw didn't seem to match what you were describing, and then I noticed that badge at the bottom which too me to the rest of the filters. On my first view of the menu that genuinely just got filtered out by my brain

Button at the bottom off the moderation settings that opens a separate filter system's settings.

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Spriteanon @spriteanon.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Then again, as a Hungarian I might be predisposed to be okay with it. One of the classic lines of Hungarian cinema is "Hagymát hagymával!", which is the demand of a Nouveau Riche character to be served "Onion with onion!"

Still image from the Hungarian film "Hipollit a lakáj" (Hipollit the butler) in which the referenced character demands onions with everything.

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Spriteanon @spriteanon.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

It always has the same energy as playing Tropico 4, and El Presidente closing every election speech with how the great country of Tropico is on the verge of victory.

Mock up election poster for the Tropico Franchise's mascot "El Presidente", reading: "VOTE EL PRESIDENTE" with smaller text highlighted in red beneath: "OR ELSE"

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Spriteanon @spriteanon.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

You can tell r/truestl is for fake fans, because the background image has a memes put on Skyrim, Cyrodill, Morrowind and the Summerset Isles, but not the Iliac Bay, the true Magnum Opus of Elder Scrolls. Any TES game that censors The Real Barenziah is Anathema!

Screenshot from Daggerfall, featuring the three most iconic elements of the game: Massive clunky UI elements as God intended, 2D sprite of a burly enemy A-Pose shuffling at you with some blood sprites from ongoing combat, and of course scantily clad women straight out of Jabba's Pleasure Barge.

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Spriteanon @spriteanon.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Star Wars does have a quality to it where a ton of alien designs are really cool looking but they need to stay either in animated form or as cantina cameos with no real focus or dialogue.

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Spriteanon @spriteanon.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Case in point, this is a proposed propaganda flier that the US military was at least planning to use during World War 2 to promote their 'great success'. They can't even pretend this was to 'end the war', so the napalm strikes just get memory holed.

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Spriteanon @spriteanon.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I mean, sure, unchecked development lead to all the major plagues of history due to urbanization, put microplastics in both our bloodstreams, gave lead poisoning to both our families during the 20th century, is actively destroying the livability of our planet via climate change, but other than that?

Screenshot from the film 'Life of Brian', where a character asks 'Whatever have the Romans ever done for us?'

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Spriteanon @spriteanon.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

There genuinely seems like there was a reverse uncanny valley in video game visuals, where the tech got to a point where you could start making things with a lot of style in 3D, but the 8-bit era was recent enough that no one expected things to have to look overly detailed.

Screenshot from the 2005 game Black and White 2 showing the four choosable player pet creatures as well as the two guidance NPCs. There's also a grown up version of one of the animals superposed in the background, though that's not part of the game. This image was taken from an article where that edit was made.

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Spriteanon @spriteanon.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Herbert Hoover wouldn't have stood for this!

Jasper Beardsley from The Simpsons standing on a candy fantasy land stage in an 19th century young gentleman's suit holding a comically oversized lollipop.

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Spriteanon @spriteanon.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Preview of Week 20: "The war in Iran was one of Joe Biden's worst mistakes."

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Spriteanon @spriteanon.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

What does a company that's about to move all its computers into space, need with a power plant in Mississippi?

Screenshot from Star Trek: The Final Frontier, where Captain Kirk calls out the bluff of an alien claiming to be God, by pointing out that if it was truly God, it would not need a Spaceship, the thing it's asking them for.

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Spriteanon @spriteanon.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Failing to anticipate his appearance is an issue you're hardly alone facing.

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Spriteanon @spriteanon.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Now I'm stuck thinking about how this absolutely does look like the skinsona of an industrial metal artist.

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Spriteanon @spriteanon.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I'm not sure if it's AI, there might be an actual Kung Fu master who did kick the lights off of a car, but if you look at that entrie video, at one point they pull his hat off, and the guy in that video is mostly bald, unlike Pretti was. I highly doubt he regrew that much hair in 11 days.

Unknown lookalike with completely bald top of head, receeding back halfway down the back.

Alex Pretti before the fatal shot, thin but full head of hair.

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Spriteanon @spriteanon.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Just leaving this here for anyone who might find this useful: Google search does support a limited number of classic search query symbols from the 90s. - is pretty powerful, and you can eliminate sites with it. So if you hate pinterest results, you can append "-site:pinterest.com" to the end.

Search results for castle battlemaps on google images, with a few pinterest results visible

The same search appended with "-site:pinterest.com" with largely the same results, except none from pinterest

A third example with "-site:reddit.com" also added in, further limiting results from aggregate sites.

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Spriteanon @spriteanon.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Some people's brains really work like: "Man, the amount of money you'd need to buy all these protestors is so absurd it almost makes me think they can't exist... Which means clearly there is a secret group even richer than me I must get richer to meet!"

Variant of the Seymour Skinner 'Am I out of touch?' meme. It reads: "Am I as paranoid as my therapist and ex-wives say I am? No, the secret trillionaire shadow cabal that makes car doors slam on my dick is just really sneaky."

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