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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

No reason we can't just pick another species for the second instead of general fish - Codpiece and Clampiece, perhaps?

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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I think I can see where the little bird was stored for this scene

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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

....aw Tale as old as time - got to move fast enough so the insane weight of the planks for the next staircase up doesn't kill me, can't move too fast or the character launches themselves off the little ledge at the top of the stairs and the weight means the single-storey drop kills me anyway 😭

A project Zomboid death screen showing a poor sucker squelched flat after falling off a set of stairs. A complex base setup can be seen in the background.

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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Sometimes I wonder how you come up with this stuff, and sometimes I *wonder* how you come up with this stuff

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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Just keep adding a new 'i' each time it's hacked so you end up with spiiiiiiiiiiiders, ain't nobody guessing that!

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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I never understood the explanation that the comics had to go because people were reading the news online more and more - I mean, why wouldn't they if one of the things that made the paper *different* to just reading the text on the web got wiped out (and those pages just got crammed with more ads!?)

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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Was not expecting versions of "The Turtle Moves" á la Didactylos to be all over my feed today

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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The original concept was all Pratchett in his short story "The High Meggas" - it's one of my favourite short stories of all time and absolutely the best of the series.

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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I need to jump back on board - their advice is great for just general fiction writing too, I still write/edit in terms of "fifth-panel thinking" and "punch-word" phrasing from their early episodes

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Dane Owens @owendanes.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I am nothing if not a *dedicated* Clint hater, lol. Calling ME lazy, and brazenly hitting on my wife in front of me on my first playthrough, will he...

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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I'm super excited for this only because it gives me the opportunity to make him fall madly in love with me, break his heart by dumping him on his birthday, then marrying Emily that same day the next year to completely destroy him.

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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Y'all don't...lock your outside doors when you leave the house??

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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I say this with love, but that sounds like the most awful idea. One of Lucas' best calls was never telling anyone the name or origin of Yoda's species. Let there be mystery; let the Force, and the history of the Jedi, be mysterious.

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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

I've hopped in and out of it a few times - seems like it has great potential but it hasn't found its hook in me yet. Although the last time I played it was in VR and that was *exceptional* (then my VR-compatible PC went bye bye)

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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

You know. In the far off days of 1997, the American government just straight-up executing people in the streets was considered so alien an idea it was satire

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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Absolutely incredible this reel of comedian Chuck Nice railing against modern tech enabling people celebrating being stupid ended up with a chatGPT ad running at the bottom of it. Absolute cinema

A still image from a Chuck Nice set against the modern celebration of stupid, showing an advertisement for chat GPT independently running at the bottom

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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

If it tells you anything about the headspace of your audience, I last watched/listened to the Roblox video sitting at a campfire knapping stone tools at 2am, so...

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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

How dare you make Junimo Kart into a DK game

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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

My "read stuff" to "post" ratio has gotta be at least a thousand to one, and nobody could convince me that's not the ideal way to experience this app

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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I wonder if it's a regional thing, or that my follows are all similarly leaning and it's influencing an algorithm, but I exclusively use the discover feed and it's always been a super pleasant experience! It's how I saw this post! Not doubting others' experience, just wondering why their feeds suck

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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

The missing tooth also makes me realise there must be a canonical dollar amount Joker pays for dental work after each time Bruce beats his face in

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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

I haven't really had the chance to try out the new firearms system, although I have a good hundred hours in 42 - I play on Steam deck and the new system just isn't set up for that 😅

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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

What kind of turnaround and what level of feedback are you hoping for? I have extensive beta reading experience but if your books are running up to 200k, I'd need to consider the logistics before being able to offer...

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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

It's probably been somewhere between five and eight years since I logged on last, so there might be options available for full-length works now, but it really seemed to cater more for short-form formats. Would be good for poems or short stories! I used to put some flash fic up 😊

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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Unless it's changed significantly from when I used it, it only really works for shorter clips of fiction too - my standard-length chapters at the time had to be divided into three or four separate uploads, each which required me earning the cache to post by critiquing first...

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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Ohhhh, see the songs are what caught my imagination when I was a kid reading them for the first time - made the world seem so much more alive and vibrant and a *real place* And rereading as an adult I still love to singsong them to my own imagined tunes

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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Ah, shame that it's US only - hope you get some good traction! 😊

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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Caelan Conrad over on YouTube is releasing a fictionalised series next year allegorising this exact sentiment as a local librarian directing people to the resources they then use to kill themselves and/or others. Once you make it a *person*, it's REALLY CLEAR how this should be viewed.

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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

What are you going to do with a whole chest of them?

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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

It's loquat season, and after the best crop I've had in years there was nothing for it but jam! (Except for that last one, somehow I was worried it might make the batch taste a bit...salty 😅)

A man overwhelmed by a surfeit of loquats

A loquat and stem that looks suspiciously like a dick and ballsack, complete with the scrunchy end of the fruit resembling an arsehole

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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

In my experience a chocolate starfish usually means...something different 😅

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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Ooh, this'll be a good series. There is the hand-waving of the rank-and-file crims only being stuffed in the Asylum temporarily because of problems at the "real" prison but it's uhhh... not great the place is set up to easily sub in for a supremely punitive cage rather than, you know...treatment.

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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Did you beat her with the cross-stitch ability equipped, thereby colliding your two worlds in the most satisfying way possible? 😃

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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

There are reasons for critique, but Syndrome's motivations shouldn't be mistaken - he doesn't want to give everyone powers. He wants to be THE ONLY ONE with powers, get all the adulation playacting superhero and *then*, when he's had enough of it, poison the well behind him.

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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

What a delightful way to discover the game you're playing is unquestionably Australian

Odina, a character from the Final Profit video game, expresses "Hey woah! No need to pull a Harold Holt, we can just take the road around" when confronted by a lake

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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

I'd like to think it was a regular Thursday kind of thing across the Federation, lol, but Olly's genealogy coming from the exact same planet we saw in TOS rather than just A Zeus Out There Somewhere makes it seem more rare

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a cartoon character says " i 'm doing it " while holding a lightning bolt

ALT: a cartoon character says " i 'm doing it " while holding a lightning bolt

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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

This guy's name?? Is he an Austin Powers villain??

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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

It always takes me at least 1000 words to write a 300-word review 😅

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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

The "you're the monster" line broke me, but I feel the acting carried the rest of the truncheon-text up to that point. I did see it at the cinema, though, and not while second-screen as I cooked pasta so...sorry, Netflix executives.

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Terence MacManus @terrytalks.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

You can *read* those? You're doing better than me

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