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Thelypody

@thelypody.bsky.social
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A chronically depressed 30-year old bottomless pit of self-esteem with legitimately no social skills and no future, stuck in Russia forever. No friends IRL, uncomfortable chatting with strangers online. Completely unsuited for life in a modern society.

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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Playing PowerWash Simulator for the first time. It's curious to see a game on PC which is technically a first person shooter and provides optional Wii-style controls, where aiming crosshair moves across the screen independent from camera controls.
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Can't wait for electric vehicles to completely replace ones with internal combustion engines, so that I don't have to feel garbage trucks outside my window causing infrasound quakes across the whole neighbourhood for an hour.
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Strange that Mike Oldfield's album Tubular Bells 2003 is not available in Hi-Res audio formats on digital music storefronts. The album originally released with a DVD Audio variant, including 24/48 stereo and 5.1 mixes on disc.
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Is the word "recomp" gonna be this decade's equivalent to the word "remaster" (regarding video games), where people don't know what it means exactly and how is it different from other already established terms, but they apply it to everything because they like how it sounds, erasing all synonyms?
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Belarusian folk music group Pesniary in 1979: What if we recorded a real progressive rock concept album, similar to Jesus Christ Superstar, but with Slavic folk motives and some contemporary disco flourishes? Soviet music critics: Never do anything cool like this ever again. (Pesniary - Gusliar)
Cover art of a music album Гусляр (Gusliar) by the Soviet Belarusian music group Песняры (Pesniary).
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Looks like Jotego and his team are working on an FPGA core for Technos Japan's arcade version of Block Out, a 3D take on Tetris concept originating from Poland. github.com/jotego/jtcor...
github.com
jtcores/cores/blkout at master · jotego/jtcores
FPGA cores compatible with multiple arcade game machines and KiCAD schematics of arcade games. Working on MiSTer FPGA/Analogue Pocket - jotego/jtcores
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Why do you need to completely disassemble a PlayStation 2 console (model SCPH-5000X) just to replace a clock battery? WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!!
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Playing with recently published MiSTer FPGA 3DO core and wow, The Need for Speed is the real deal. A realistic driving game with a good sense of speed (in cockpit view), surrounded by authentic textured 3D environments. Having it on your TV screen in 1994 must have been revolutionary.
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
PC Engine: real Super Famicom Super Famicom: Famicom IIGS
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I ask all music producers worldwide: please, don't use samples of air raid sirens in your music. Thanks.
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Playing on a Nintendo Switch with a completely drifted-out analog stick made me understand what Atari 5200 owners must have felt at the time, playing games originally designed for digital inputs with a non-centering analog stick.
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Data East's DECO Cassette System if it was awesome:
DEVO
CASSETTE SYSTEM
WAIT UNTIL THE COUNTER BELOW READS 000 THEN GAME START
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I've just realized that Dr. Bosconovitch from Tekken is named after Namco's other arcade hit game Bosconian.
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Millipede (1984) for Atari 8-bit computers is one of the most frantic games ever. Despite reduced visual fidelity, being a 16K cartrige game, every single frame has dozens of things going on simultaneously, requiring constant attention from the player. A very strong arcade game conversion.
Screenshot of the game Millipede for Atari 8-bit computers.
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I find it funny how Nintendo has two games named officially in English "Clu Clu Land" and "Kuru Kuru Kururin", which both have the same Japanese word in the title (クルクル/くるくる), but it is romanized differently, representing cultural differences between Japan in 1984 and Europe in 2001.
American box art of Clu Clu Land for Nintendo Entertainment System.Japanese game cartridge of Clu Clu Land for Nintendo Family Computer.European box art of Kuru Kuru Kururin for Nintendo Game Boy Advance.Japanese box art of Kuru Kuru Kururin for Nintendo Game Boy Advance.
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
A Venn diagram of people who make jokes about Venn diagram shapes and people who know, what Venn diagram actually is, is not a Venn diagram.
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Ten years ago in 2016, I unexpectedly encountered a Russian-bottled can of Dr Pepper for sale in a Moscow university cafeteria. It tasted noticeably superior to imported American and Polish variants, but since then I've never ever seen it again. What could have been...
A hand holding a can of Dr Pepper soft drink.A back side of a Dr Pepper soft drink can. Text in Russian:

Dr Pepper® 0,33 л
"Др Пеппер"® НАПИТОЕ БЕЗАЛКОГОЛЬНЫЙ
СИЛЬНОГАЗИРОВАННЫЙ. ПЕЙТЕ ОХЛАЖДЁННЫМ.
ПИЩЕВАЯ ЦЕННОСТЬ на 100 мл:
ЭНЕРГ. ЦЕННОСТЬ 42 ккал/176 кДж
УГЛЕВОДЫ 10,4 г
ОБЩИЕ САХАРА 10,4 г
БЕЛКИ 0 г ЖИРЫ 0 г
Состав: очищенная газированная вода, сахар, краситель са-
харный колер IV, ароматизаторы, регуляторы кислотно-
сти (ортофосфорная кислота, молочная кислота), кон-
сервант бензоат натрия, кофеин (менее 150 мг/л).
Дата рохлива указана в нижней строке, срок годности - в верхней
строке кода на дне банки. Хранить при t° от 0 °C до 30 °C. Откры-
тую банку хранить в холодильнике, напиток употребить в течение
6 часов. © 2015. Все права защищены. Изготовлено с разреше-
ния "Хвеппс Холдингз Лимитед" ООО "Кока-Кола ЭйчБиСи Евра-
зия", юридический адрес: 603032, Россия, Нижегородская обл.,
г.Нижний Новгород, ул.Баумана, 66. Код завода изготовителя см.
в строке срока годности: (МО) 119633, Россия, г.Москва,
ул.Новоорловская, 7; (НО) 630526, Россия, Новосибирская обл., Новосибирский р-н, МО Мичуринского сельсовета, пр-д Автомо-
билистов, 8; (РО) 346748, Россия, Ростовская обл., Азовский р-н,
хутор Новоалександровка, ул. Центральная, 3.
Уполномоченное изготовителем лицо
в Республике Беларусь: унитарное пред-
приятие "Кока-Кола Бевериджез Белоруссия".
223056, Республика Беларусь, Минский р-н,
д.Колядичи, 147/2, тел.: +375 (17) 210-02-10.
С вопросами и пожеланиями в РФ обращай-
тесь: 📞 в Москве 8 (495) 956-55-22,
в других городах 8-800-200-22-22 (звонок
бесплатный); на сайт www.coca-cola.ru,
cocacola@coca-cola.com.
* Рекомендуемая суточная
потребность - 2500 ккал
в соответствии
с ТР ТС 022/2011.
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Crüe Ball for Sega Genesis is a fun pinball game.
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I've just learned that you can change MIDI device in EDuke32 by typing "mus_mme_device" into console and it will list all available MIDI ports to use instead of default Windows MIDI synth. This way you can use a separate synth like Nuked SC-55 with the game. Why isn't it documented anywhere?!
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Heh, doing an image search for "Art of Noise", looking for media related to the 1980s synthpop music act, produces some images of a character from Pizza Tower along with expected results.
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
PROJECT WITH ACTUAL PLOT AND OUTSTANDING GRAPHICS A promotional image for PIKE: Операция "Громовержец", a Russian DOS PC game from 1996, found on a Pilot Brothers 1 CD-ROM.
ПРОЕКТ С НАСТОЯЩИМ СЮЖЕТОМ И ПРЕВОСХОДНОЙ ГРАФИКОЙ

PIKE
secret operation

1С® представляет
SNOWBALL INTERACTIVE™
online @ www.snowball.ru
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
The newest stable version of ScummVM has been released. Among numerous improvements, the program now natively supports game data from Special Editions of Monkey Island 1/2, meaning that you can now play classic version of these games with speech without having to build "Ultimate Talkie" versions.
scummvm.org
ScummVM :: Latest Developments :: ScummVM 2026.1.0 "Like a Version" is finally released
Another year has gone by, therefore we are releasing a new ScummVM version. As you may notice right away, we are changing our version numbering schema, but that’s not all! We are also planning on more...
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I still use a 1080p 60Hz LCD monitor from 2012. Thinking about upgrading it, and feeling I might actually prefer 1440p over 4K. The ability to integer scale DOS games from 320x200 to 1600x1200 to preserve intended 4:3 aspect ratio is appealing, and a 4K monitor would display them in a small window.
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
This month I've discovered that Xbox 360 emulation is apparently in a pretty decent state. Exciting!
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
It's an evening, you want to experience Gustav Holst's The Planets with accompanying low resolution images, thanks to a 1991 CD+G release, and then Mars, the Bringer of War, hits you with TWO two-thousand yard stares at the same time.
A screenshot from a CD+G disc featuring two reproductions of a man from Thomas Lea's painting "The Two-Thousand Yard Stare", standing one slightly behind another, rendered in shades of blue with highly contrasting purple skin color.
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Audiophile gold audio CD: 😑 Audiophile gold audio CD, Japan: 😮
An album Thick as a Brick by Jethro Tull, issued on CD by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, a boutique audiophile label.An album Thick as a Brick by Jethro Tull, issued on CD by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, a boutique audiophile label, featuring a Japanese OBI strip on its left side.
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
My mother is the only person I regularly speak to in the whole world, yet unfortunately sharing physical space with my parents for any period of time brings me emotional pain due to our vast cultural differences. I do not want these people to shape my life, but I have nobody else to go to.
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Pac-Man Master Museum by LackofTrack is a homebrew compilation of classic Pac-Man arcade games for Sega Master System based on disassembled Z80 code. A port of Jr. Pac-Man is included, making it arguably the best way to play the often forgotten sequel to Ms. Pac-Man. www.smspower.org/Homebrew/Pac...
smspower.org
Pac-Man Master Museum - Homebrew - SMS Power!
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Got denied service by my psychiatrist today due to supposedly not having an appointment, despite me successfully calling the clinic and claiming an appointment several days prior. And people may wonder why I absolutely do not trust other people with mundane tasks in everyday life.
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I like the music in Joe Montana Football for Sega Genesis, but unfortunately the composers in that game are uncredited. Turns out that the IBM PC (DOS) version of the game uses the same music compositions and composers are actually credited right on the title screen along with other developers.
Screenshot of the video game Joe Montana Football for IBM PC.
JOE MONTANA FOOTBALL™
(c) Copyright 1990 Sega of America, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Sound and Music
Matt Berardo
Russell Lieblich
Pete Mokris
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Something completely unpredictable has happened. I've started to enjoy playing American football video games.
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Always be skeptical of people who use the term "Sega of Japan" when talking about video game history.
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Can't connect to Pinball FX servers for several days. I'm starting to suspect Roskomnadzor breaking random Internet connections as usual. Everything to protect innocent citizens from evil pinball extremists dedicated to destroying Russia's traditional values™ through public pinball leader boards.
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Oh yeah, there's an MSU-1 hack for Super Smash T.V. which replaces music with the original arcade soundtrack. Beam Software did an amazing job with their SNES conversion, but many of Jon Hey's music flourishes were unfortunately not replicated there.
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Playing the playtest demo of RACCOIN: Coin Pusher Roguelike, it's fascinating how in this game you either lose or utterly break the game with no survivors, with no in-between outcome possible.
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Does IrfanView use a different library for opening Photo CD (.pcd) files in 4 Base/16 Base resolutions from the one used for smaller image resolutions? Is there a reason for that?
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フラッグさん @pixelflag.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
シャトルをソ連っぽくしました。
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Got some play time out of my New Nintendo 3DS XL after some time and, wow, what an ergonomics nightmare is this thing. I like Its numerous improvements over the original 3DS model, but it is pretty much impossible for me to hold the system correctly when actively using its D-pad.
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
An evil antisocial idea: make your SNES homebrew constantly make calls to the ST018 co-processor as a means of copy protection, so that your game can only be played on emulators and no reproduction cartridges could ever be created without cracking the game.
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Apple // Bejeweled (2016) is the real deal. Plays really good on an old computer platform with game rules faithful to the original. #AppleII
Screenshot of "Apple // Bejeweled" for Apple II computer.
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
This is Sergio of the Napoli Angels baseball team. Everything his bat touches turns into a home run. The real MVP. Baseball Stars 2 (1992, Arcade and Neo Geo AES) #neogeo
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Hotel Mario for Philips CD-i is actually a pretty decent game, despite the infamy surrounding it and the whole CD-i ecosystem, but from time to time it just stuns you with some absolute nonsense like this:
Screenshot of a 1994 video game Hotel Mario for CD-i multimedia players. Mario is standing on the edge of a platform, facing a three story column of Wigglers moving in the same direction, completely impossible to avoid or defeat.
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Atari 400/800 home computer is desperate for your affection. #atari8bit
A screenshot of a demonstration program running on an Atari 400/800 home computer from 1979, saying "I CAN HELP YOU WITH DOZENS OF YOUR DAILY ACTIVITIES" in very large letters.
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Why does the BlueSky app now default to the notifications tab whenever you launch the app? I don't want to be constantly reminded that I am lonely and nobody ever reads whatever I shout into the void. There's no apparent option to revert this. #bluesky
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
I hope that some day game roms used by MAME for Sega's 1988 Tetris arcade game get redumped, so that the missing background tiles issue visible in one particular stage can be resolved. The missing tiles are only relevant to set 3 and set 4 variants of the game running on System 16A hardware.
Screenshot of the 1988 arcade game Tetris, released by Sega in Japan, showcasing a background graphic issue visible to the left of the play area.
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Ms. Candyman (1983) for [Bally] Astrocade is honestly one of the coolest little games I've seen, yet it is completely unknown to 99% of retro gamers. Fast action, unique enemy graphics, funny death animations, constant color changes, etc. It is very polished, despite being an indie game of its era.
Title screen of Ms. Candyman for Bally Professional Arcade home gaming console.Screenshot of Ms. Candyman.Screenshot of Ms. Candyman.Screenshot of Ms. Candyman.
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Glad to learn that Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 64 lets you play single player portion of the game with the only controller being plugged into the fourth slot.
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Did you know that Paul Romero, the acclaimed composer behind the music of Heroes of Might & Magic game series, had previously performed music on the infamous "The Flowers of Robert Mapplethorpe" compact disc for the Philips CD-i?
Title screen of The Flowers of Robert Mapplethorpe for Philips CD-i.Section of the credits for The Flowers of Robert Mapplethorpe for Philips CD-i, listing musicians who have played music recorded for the disc.
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Finally reached the final car class in Project Gotham Racing 2 on Original Xbox after a long pause. Looking at the race list, it would be cool if the game had a final Cone Challenge set on the whole Nürburgring track, giving an opportunity to earn over one million Kudos all at once. 😄
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Thelypody @thelypody.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Smooth Noodle Maps by Devo is a great album. It's unfortunate that it got buried by critics in 1990.
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