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Tachi @tachi.turbofishstudios.com · 17/05/2026

Just watched Goat and my takeaway is that Hannah the aardwolf is best pony

Screenshot of Hannah the aardwolf wearing a tie dye PlayStation shirt

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Tachi @tachi.turbofishstudios.com · 19/04/2026

Let me introduce you to my lord and savior Lanolin the Sheep

Turnaround of Lanolin the Sheep from IDW Sonic the Hedgehog comics

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Tachi @tachi.turbofishstudios.com · 19/04/2026

The famous computer scientist Dennis M. Ritchie (1941–2011) once accused the self-described "Unix haters" as wanting "a future whose intellectual tone and interaction style is set by Sonic the Hedgehog".

Your sense of the possible is in no sense pure: sometimes you want
the same thing you have, but wish you had done it yourselves; other
times you want something different, but can't seem to get people to
use it; sometimes one wonders why you just don't shut up and tell
people to buy a PC with Windows or a Mac. No Gulag or lice, just a
future whose intellectual tone and interaction style is set by Sonic the
Hedgehog. You claim to seek progress, but you succeed mainly in
whining.

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Tachi @tachi.turbofishstudios.com · 17/04/2026

Thinking about those incredibly difficult Super Mario World hacks with intros that go hard

Super Mario World intro with the text edited to say "I have made the most difficult level in the world, you will cry and wish you were not alive if you play this hack."

Super Mario World intro with the text edited to say "The amount of tears this pain will bring is undescribable agony that there will be no life left in your soul [sic]."

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Tachi @tachi.turbofishstudios.com · 12/04/2026

This is bullshit, the one time I want to click on the Reddit AI Q&A thing just to see what it says it refuses

Reddit screenshot of a post on r/Jerma985 saying “wtf is penis music” with a highlighted “explain penis music with examples” AI answer link

“Reddit Answers doesn’t provide answers to some questions”

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Tachi @tachi.turbofishstudios.com · 26/01/2026

My friends in middle school used to talk about this script kiddie program AOHell and man the splash screen goes hard

Splash screen for AOHell, depicting Steve Case in hell

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Tachi @tachi.turbofishstudios.com · 22/10/2025

Dude, Number Munchers on the highest difficulty (8th Grade) is some bullshit. Figuring out which random 3-digit numbers 17 divides while dodging enemies? WTF?

The game Number Munchers for DOS, asking me to munch three-digit multiples of 17

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Tachi @tachi.turbofishstudios.com · 29/09/2025

Wow, I'm surrounded by so many animals

skircle.me. Shows Tachi, an orange weasel, at the center with lots of animal characters around him

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Tachi @tachi.turbofishstudios.com · 11/09/2025

Super cute and super-accurate-as-of-late sketch that @karpour.bsky.social did at my place!

Pencil sketch. Tachi the cartoony pine marten sits, eyes drooping, working on his laptop. A clock reads 1 AM. A couple of drinks, one spilled, lie next to him.

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Tachi @tachi.turbofishstudios.com · 05/09/2025

Sometimes I just think about this post and blurt out "ethical!" "moral!" "humane!", I'm sorry

Xitter post from @scratchU8:
"had a dream where i found unused texture in sonic adventure 2 and all the style point texts said shit like 'ethical!' and 'moral!'"
with an image saying:
Ethical!
Moral!
Humane!
Virtuous! 2000

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Tachi @tachi.turbofishstudios.com · 02/09/2025

My alma mater has one of those rooms too!

University of Chicago Reynolds Club. Gothic architecture-styled room with portraits of people who are no doubt very important on the walls, full of tables.

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Tachi @tachi.turbofishstudios.com · 31/08/2025

Reposting the little color 3D print of @lemurfeature.bsky.social's Tachi I have because it's just so scrunkly

Colored 3D print of Tachi, the orange and cream colored mascot looking pine marten, running

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Tachi @tachi.turbofishstudios.com · 28/08/2025

Tachi, you better hurry up! The Mirage Express isn't gonna fix itself, y'know... Absolutely stunning commission from @deegeemin.bsky.social!

"Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog" fanart. Tachi the Pine Marten, an orange and cream colored gadgeteer, fixes the Mirage Express (train) engine with flashlight in hand and wrench in mouth. Barry the Quokka, the game's protagonist, looks on with a checklist, a bit flustered. A green Flicky (bird) is perched on the engine box, looking in.

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Tachi @tachi.turbofishstudios.com · 19/08/2025

Related: Larry Wall's (Perl creator) home page, still up www.wall.org/~larry/

Larry Wall's Very Own Home Page, with a very garish shade of chartreuse as a background color, with "Yes, I'm afraid chartreuse is one of my favorite colors... No, I'm not going to change it just because it's not your favorite..."

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Tachi @tachi.turbofishstudios.com · 18/08/2025

My exact location except the City Escape version

A poster of a locale that is obviously San Francisco with a silhouette of Sonic the Hedgehog and "City Escape" シティエスケープ above it

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Tachi @tachi.turbofishstudios.com · 15/08/2025

I mean I know this is the nerdiest thing to notice but: why would they spend so much of the localization budget on adding support for variable-width fonts (which was super annoying back in those days) but not bother finding a native English speaking translator??

Screenshot. "It punchs some out from your rival`s [sic]. 10 STACK CHIP"

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Tachi @tachi.turbofishstudios.com · 08/08/2025

Ahahahaha whoever put City Escape on Lombard St, I SEE YOU

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Tachi @tachi.turbofishstudios.com · 08/08/2025

Ok, shout out to whoever put Sonic on Angel Island on wplace.live (h/t @mynx.spacefox.engineer)

Angel Island, San Francisco Bay overlaid with pixel art of various Sonic characters. From http://wplace.live/

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Tachi @tachi.turbofishstudios.com · 08/08/2025

This smugness makes me want to explode. The poverty of the stimulus argument is w/r/t the typical amount of language a child is exposed to! But LLMs are exposed to an ludicrously enormous corpus of text! Explain English gapping or islands without UG of some sort! I don't see how it's possible!

i am very sorry you wasted your entire career on a promising but ultimately false theory, but, sorry, poverty of the stimulus is as wrong as phlogiston, and even though we absolutely should not have released it when we did, you can't just deny that it replicates competent language production.

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Tachi @tachi.turbofishstudios.com · 06/08/2025

The last thing you see before you die probably #Sonic

Surge the Tenrec (Sonic character) leaping down toward you, electricity crackling

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Tachi @tachi.turbofishstudios.com · 03/08/2025

Hope you aren’t sick of Sonic style Tachi because I just doodled more of him

A Sonic style cartoony pine marten with goggles running

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Tachi @tachi.turbofishstudios.com · 30/07/2025

Another extremely innocent Tachi I drew a few years back

Tachi, an orange and cream colored cartoony pine marten, looks innocent

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Tachi @tachi.turbofishstudios.com · 28/07/2025

Shout out to whoever at Microsoft merged the pull request to let you install Sonic fan games from the command line

winget search sonic
winget install SonicTeamJr.SonicRoboBlast2

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Tachi @tachi.turbofishstudios.com · 27/07/2025

Sonic-style Tachi the Pine Marten 2.0 from @dreddstar.bsky.social! Coolest kicks you've ever seen

Action pose of Tachi the pine marten, with orange and cream fur, brown fingerless gloves, and white shoes with green accents

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Tachi @tachi.turbofishstudios.com · 27/07/2025

Some older doodles of Tachi I did a few years ago. Wish I had more time for stuff like this these days!

Three pics: one of Tachi (little toony orange pine marten guy) pointing, one of him with a wrench, and one of him kinda bowing looking all smug

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Tachi @tachi.turbofishstudios.com · 26/07/2025

I made a bookmarklet so you can upload a 50x50 image for your avatar instead of having to draw it on the site: tachimarten.github.io/undertale-me...

uploading an image to memories.undertale.com with a file picker

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Tachi @tachi.turbofishstudios.com · 24/07/2025

Every so often I remember the time I tried to get through Atlas Shrugged and think about this old jerkcity strip

AN OPEN LETTER TO AYN RAND
STARRING
spigot
deuce
t ayn I hate to break it to you but a novel where a character has a 200 page monologue isn't a novel you've got there it's a steaming pile of shit
atlas sucked

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Tachi @tachi.turbofishstudios.com · 08/07/2025

I wanted to name myself “itachi” because that’s Japanese for weasel but unfortunately than name is taken by a friggin Naruto character, so I clipped it

Why are you named after a sword that is longer than 90cm?

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Tachi @tachi.turbofishstudios.com · 08/07/2025

You mean hug a fox in a box? Sure!

Would you, could you, with a fox? In a box?

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Tachi @tachi.turbofishstudios.com · 08/07/2025

Too many sources to count, but cartoon animals of all types I suppose? Especially Disney and all Scrimblo Games

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Tachi @tachi.turbofishstudios.com · 04/07/2025

I'm reminded of this study from "Power Causes Brain Damage" (www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc... ):

That loss in capacity has been demonstrated in various creative ways. A 2006 study asked participants to draw the letter E on their forehead for others to view—a task that requires seeing yourself from an observer’s vantage point. Those feeling powerful were three times more likely to draw the E the right way to themselves—and backwards to everyone else (which calls to mind George W. Bush, who memorably held up the American flag backwards at the 2008 Olympics). Other experiments have shown that powerful people do worse at identifying what someone in a picture is feeling, or guessing how a colleague might interpret a remark.

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Tachi @tachi.turbofishstudios.com · 28/06/2025

Ok, here’s a fun guessing game. What do you think the blue, yellow, and red lines are in Google Trends?

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Tachi @tachi.turbofishstudios.com · 28/06/2025

Even if I lived a thousand years, I would never be able to come with a better zinger than "Prime Video is a loss leader for Jeff Bezos' sex life" (source: logicmag.io/commons/insi...)

What’s an example of a division that AWS subsidizes particularly heavily?

Prime Video, for one. Jeff loves Prime Video because it gives him access to the social scene in LA and New York. He’s newly divorced and the richest man in the world. Prime Video is a loss leader for Jeff’s sex life.

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Tachi @tachi.turbofishstudios.com · 24/06/2025

But can it destroy CD players the way the original release did

cds in the shape of yoshi's head and diddy kong's head, respectively

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Tachi @tachi.turbofishstudios.com · 03/06/2025

The moment I give up and say "fine, I didn't want to sleep anyway", caffeinate myself, and start work, the construction on the condo down below stops.

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Tachi @tachi.turbofishstudios.com · 17/05/2025

every day we stray further from God's light

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