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Thane Gaming @thanegaming.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This morning before work I quoted Bubsy 3D with “The wheels of capitalism will forever grind our bones into dust” and now my wife is experiencing existential dread, I'm sorry wife 😭🐱 Happy Monday service workers

Adult Bubsy does not fear the reaper as he marches toward redemption

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Thane Gaming @thanegaming.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Oh... Nintendo Music uses the inferior version of this song without the electric guitar. Why didn't they include the regional variant 😢

Listening to "King of the Koopas" on Nintendo Music

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Thane Gaming @thanegaming.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

New video: Do the Zelda Games Pass the Bechdel Test? Featuring Goombanna! I hope you all give it a try! This one took forever to edit, but I really enjoyed making it. youtu.be/RpZDE1b445s

Link's Awakening fails while The Wand of Gamelon passes. Tetra is skeptical...

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Thane Gaming @thanegaming.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I was shaking scared for a second but it's only down due to a power outage 😮‍💨 Internet Archive lives another day...

Internet Archive services are temporarily offline.

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Thane Gaming @thanegaming.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Bought Hypnospace Outlaw on mobile to support the devs, and to always have April the Angelic Hampster with me

HypnOS 2000 screen, with a date of July 22, 2026

April the Angelic Hampster, the first official Hypnospace Virtual Pet

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Falcon @falcon200.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Ted Tonight

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Source Gaming @sourcegaming.info · 13/07/2026

Just a reminder that you only have a few more days left to fill out the "Most Wanted Earthbound Character for Super Smash Bros." poll. Would appreciate any RT's to help spread the word. forms.gle/XJQ1ZaZTmFv8... #Mother #Earthbound

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Earthbound / Mother - Smash 6 poll

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Thane Gaming @thanegaming.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I love R̶y̶t̶h̶y̶m̶ ̶H̶e̶a̶v̶e̶n̶ R̶h̶y̶t̶h̶y̶m̶ ̶H̶e̶a̶v̶e̶n̶ R̶y̶t̶h̶m̶ ̶H̶e̶a̶v̶e̶n̶ Rhythm Heaven!

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Thane Gaming @thanegaming.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

@fangallyss.bsky.social and I searched for 30 minutes trying to find our cat, she somehow got into the desk drawer (that was closed)! 🤦🏼‍♂️ Taiga the office kitty:

Taiga meowing from within the depths of a desk drawer

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Thane Gaming @thanegaming.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I met Greg! He said I was wearing my seven belts "too neatly", but complimented the Roswell shirt because he's been working on a UFO abduction movie. Now I have a signed headshot of Tommy Wiseau from Greg & the legend himself!

Greg introducing The Room on stage at my local theater

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Thane Gaming @thanegaming.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

All ready for tonight's showing of The Room. Greg Sestero (Mark) will be there! I was inspired by fashion icon Tommy Wiseau and Tetsuya Nomura

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Thane Gaming @thanegaming.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

A gaggle of groaning Goombas, their grimaces immortalized in plastic 🙏😭 (1988 Hasbro trophy, found at Speedway Antique Mall)

A vintage Super Mario Bros. toy, featuring funny-looking Goombas

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Thane Gaming @thanegaming.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Inconspicuous morbid lore details found in supplemental/external material is the best. It's great fun surprising someone who already loves the game but only experienced the world-building from within the game itself 💀😅

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Thane Gaming @thanegaming.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

GET READY FOR AN ADVENTURE OF [ADJECTIVE] PROPORTIONS WHEN... (dramatic pause) THE [GAME TITLE] GAME [VERBS] ITS WAY ONTO THE NINTENDO SWITCH 2 SYSTEM

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Thane Gaming @thanegaming.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

This is the last day of con and I haven't heard a single Link cosplayer amateurly playing an ocarina 😢 I think this is a sign of the end times...

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Thane Gaming @thanegaming.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I'm in Phoenix for Fan Fusion (pop culture convention!) Here's an unrelated picture of my cat, Moira.

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Thane Gaming @thanegaming.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

This is awesome and I'm happy it's here, but I ordered the Switch 2 Edition. They sent me Switch 1 (ordered from Atari) 😿

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Thane Gaming @thanegaming.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Playing Brave Fencer Musashi for the first time. I'm still only a "LV 2 Little Turd", but I'm really enjoying it so far 🔥

The game's title screen with a PS1 controller on display

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Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Throughout the collection, there's a ton of promotional artwork and high-res renders for Sonic Adventure, some of which has rarely been seen before!

Amy Rose, hanging out on a blanket and drinking a soda.

High-resolution render of Perfect Chaos from Sonic Adventure.

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Thane Gaming @thanegaming.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

New podcast episode on my second channel, Thane Brain youtu.be/E_eWf_KwPRI?...

"Insomnia, and getting my autism evaluation as an adult". Shows a tired brain with the ASD infinity symbol in a cartoon thought bubble.

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Thane Gaming @thanegaming.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I had a friend who once said "Ocarina of Time is my favorite Zelda, but I never could beat that annoying Water Temple 😡" The funny thing is though, he thought the Water Temple was Inside Jabu-Jabu's Belly, so they quit playing before seeing any of the Adult Link stuff

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Thane Gaming @thanegaming.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Nobody show @jon.gvg.io the 8-bit monkeys from EarthBound Beginnings, they're too powerful! They even have their own 8-bit monkey underground cave system 🙈

An 8-bit monkey warning Ninten & co. that other 8-bit monkeys will lie to them

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Thane Gaming @thanegaming.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Porky Minch is best friends & roomates with Vlad Țepeș Dracula

Porky Minch and Dracula bonding over "spreading a capitalist agenda".

"I won't turn you into a chimera", says Porky Minch, handing Dracula a bouquet of flowers

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Thane Gaming @thanegaming.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

T - Tomodachi Life H - Hypnospace Outlaw A - Animal Crossing N - Nintendogs E - EarthBound G - Golden Sun A - Ape Escape M - Moon I - (The) Incredible Hulk: UD N - Namco Museum G - GoldenEye 007

Collage spelling out "Thane Gaming" with letters from different game box art

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Playtonic @playtonicgames.com · 20/04/2026

To celebrate our 60fps upgrade of Yooka-Replaylee on Switch 2, we're giving away an alternate cover copy of the game to two lucky winners! To enter, make sure to 🔄Retweet this post and be 👤Following us for a chance to win!

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Reid Young @reidman.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

20 years ago i bought two MOTHER 3 DX boxes – one for myself, one for The Future a few weeks ago, i took that mint DX with me to Japan and got it signed by Shigesato Itoi today, it goes up for auction to benefit @wck.org tiltify.com/@ladyte/auct...

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Thane Gaming @thanegaming.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I doodled during a work lecture. Here are some strange faces from my imagination:

A sticky note with doodles of strange faces/expressions. They are labeled "cheese!", "gasp!", "sheesh", "gadzooks", "chillin'", "guh guh", and "clown town"

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Thane Gaming @thanegaming.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

They had Super Donkey Kong 3 set up at Bookmans 🐵 it's my favorite so I had to clear the first world!

Super Famicom version of DKC3 playable at an in-store kiosk. This is the world map screen, showing the first world 100% cleared.

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Thane Gaming @thanegaming.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Guys the next Sonic game just leaked!!!

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Thane Gaming @thanegaming.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Proof that Link did indeed have a "sausage nose" for @nintendormant.bsky.social! This is official art from the English & JPN instruction manuals. The last one is concept art. Look at that schnoz!

Example #2: Another Link w/ Impa illustration

Example #3: Link pointing up on page 43 of the JPN instruction manual

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Thane Gaming @thanegaming.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

The way my mind works is that I see this normal picture of penguins and just immediately think of Shigesato Itoi's "penguinism" album

Penguin picture, windows default lock screen background

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Thane Gaming @thanegaming.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

I watered every square inch of what the game would let me except for Squirtle

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Thane Gaming @thanegaming.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

N64 monkeys! Which one is your favorite? From my "patron thanks" end screen. Newest video is about a strange monkey-related oversight I discovered in Majora's Mask! youtu.be/Pr2CHnq3ug8?... 🐒

Answer: Mankey, Andross, Diddy Kong, Salsa, Ukiki, Porter, Chimpy, Kirby (DK Copy Ability), and the "Foolish Monkey" (Majora's Mask).

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Thane Gaming @thanegaming.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

After reviving Koume in Majora's Mask, monkeys will stop Link from leaving the woods. You can simply hear them out to proceed...but if you ignore them with the Song of Soaring, they'll bar access to the swamp itself & clip into each other, creating a monkey chimera. Video link: youtu.be/Pr2CHnq3ug8

Four pictures. The first is Link standing in front of the monkeys, who are restricting access to the Southern Swamp itself instead of the Woods of Mystery. The next is a screen of the monkeys skipping on water like Deku Link! Pictures 3 & 4 reveal the "monkey chimera", which is what happens when the monkey brothers stop at the same place and clip into each other.

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Thane Gaming @thanegaming.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Made a typo trying to get to @monkeyness.bsky.social's channel...I was very confused for a second

I accidentally typed "moneyness" into YouTube's search, instead of "monkeyness"

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Thane Gaming @thanegaming.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

My brother & I playing Super Nintendo! I'm locked in on the left having no fun, and my li'l bro on the right with a disconnected broken controller is having the time of his life 😆 What are we playing?

Photo taken in '99, my brother and I holding SNES controllers

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Thane Gaming @thanegaming.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Wowie I'm viewer 666K of this here spoopy video 😨

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Thane Gaming @thanegaming.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Wife watching me play MM: “Isn’t that Ganondorf’s surrogate mom?” “Yes.” “She good now!?” “Termina's like a parallel world, so it’s an alternate version of her.” “People sh*t on Kingdom Hearts for being complicated, but Zelda's worse w/ all the different dimensions & reuse of characters” 😆

Koume drinking a Red Potion Link offered her

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Thane Gaming @thanegaming.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Watching @nerrel.bsky.social's newest video about games as an art form. When he began explaining how low frame rates cause his connection to the media to be "damaged by some tech issue outside the realm of art", YouTube TV poetically started stuttering and damaged my connection to his video 🧐

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Thane Gaming @thanegaming.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Four variants of the game over/moon crashing cutscene most people have likely never seen, from my newest video about useless facts in Majora's Mask! youtu.be/9HbifrQo3XU

Four alternate cutscenes of the moon crashing, featuring Link with different equipment/status effects.

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Thane Gaming @thanegaming.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

It's going to be so fire 🔥 when Nintendo releases the EarthBound Beginnings soundtrack on their music app in 2032

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Thane Gaming @thanegaming.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

...and with the Luigi's Mansion Game™ Nintendo Switch™ 2 Edition + Meetup in Boo-abel Park Upgrade Pack, you'll be able to use the King™ Boo™ Villian™ amiibo™* to unlock a Boo™ hat for Luigi™**! *amiibo sold separately. **An active Nintendo Switch™ Online membership is required to play as Luigi.

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