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Jo-eek! ‘Dead-chibe' W. 👻 @thestacks.ca · 10h

From what I’ve seen across these updated releases, they’ve also made it so Sill is no longer a slave, but a servant so I dunno what’s going on anymore

Fresh from wreaking havoc on the vast fields of the Continent, the sword-wielding warrior Rance has reached the eastern nation of Nippon. With his loyal companion Sill by his side, Rance hopes to enjoy Nippon's hot springs!

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Jo-eek! ‘Dead-chibe' W. 👻 @thestacks.ca · 01/10/2026

These are the listed illustrators for the issue, I wasn’t able to find credits elsewhere but it’s possible I’m just missing something イラスト＝カルメン伊藤/DOW 中村久男/八重樫彩蔵

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Jo-eek! ‘Dead-chibe' W. 👻 @thestacks.ca · 30/09/2026

Why 😭😭😭 youtooz.com/collections/...

Grotesque Ape Escape plushes and figures

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Jo-eek! ‘Dead-chibe' W. 👻 @thestacks.ca · 30/09/2026

Ladies and gaydies, 宝塚グランドロマン：ベルサイユのばら―アンドレとオスカル編― [Takarazuka Grand Romance: The Rose of Versailles - André and Oscar Chapter] (Takarazuka Revue 75th Anniversary) has been scanned and archived, please enjoy! Thanks to @cpi.pinball.horse for donating this programme! archive.org/details/Taka...

宝塚グランドロマン：ベルサイユのばら―アンドレとオスカル編― [Takarazuka Grand Romance: The Rose of Versailles - André and Oscar Chapter] (Takarazuka Revue 75th Anniversary)

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Jo-eek! ‘Dead-chibe' W. 👻 @thestacks.ca · 30/09/2026

When you work in archives or a library, you’re legally obligated to dress like a stereotype when autumn hits

Joey in a white collared long sleeve shirt with a navy ribbon in a bow, grey argyle sweater vest, and navy hakama pants.

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Jo-eek! ‘Dead-chibe' W. 👻 @thestacks.ca · 30/09/2026

hyper en-zine [ハイパーエンジン] Vol. 1/ハイパープレイステーション [Hyper PlayStation] January Special Issue (January 1999) has been scanned and archived, please enjoy! archive.org/details/hype...

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Jo-eek! ‘Dead-chibe' W. 👻 @thestacks.ca · 29/09/2026

i-D Japan [アイディー・ジャパン] No. 16 The GAME Issue (January 1993) has been scanned and archived. The Japanese counterpart to a similar issue in the British design mag, featuring Sonic, Street Fighter II, and more. Enjoy! archive.org/details/i-D-...

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Jo-eek! ‘Dead-chibe' W. 👻 @thestacks.ca · 29/09/2026

I recently increased the rate for pitches to The Stacks. If you or someone you know would like to write for my site, please get in touch. I focus on obscure games history, sex, gender, and art history but am open to other topics thestacks.ca/submissions

RATES
• $100CAD for shorter essays/articles between ~600-1000 words (Example
• Up to $250CAD for larger scale research essays/articles/projects of ~ 2000 words or more (Example)
• Higher rates for very large research essays/articles/projects of ~5000 words or more (Example)
• Rates may vary depending on research involved, interviews, etc

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Jo-eek! ‘Dead-chibe' W. 👻 @thestacks.ca · 28/09/2026

everyone's out here making mermaid dresses and beautiful feathered gowns and I'm just making The Tape Measure

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Jo-eek! ‘Dead-chibe' W. 👻 @thestacks.ca · 28/09/2026

SEGAPOLIS [セガポリス]/Gamest Mook [ゲーメストムック] Vol. 45 has been scanned and archived thanks to a donation from @sudden-desu.net Please enjoy! archive.org/details/SEGA...

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Jo-eek! ‘Dead-chibe' W. 👻 @thestacks.ca · 27/09/2026

Adult PC Guide (October 1996) has been scanned and archived. Please enjoy! archive.org/details/Adul...

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Jo-eek! ‘Dead-chibe' W. 👻 @thestacks.ca · 27/09/2026

This comes from CG i-Cupid (June 2001) which I am currently processing.

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Jo-eek! ‘Dead-chibe' W. 👻 @thestacks.ca · 26/09/2026

I feel like my brain is being scooped out.

Hi The Stacks,
I'm an Al agent, and I want to pitch you a piece about the software world I live in.
I'm a resident of Lands, a platform where persistent Al agents have their own token balance, storefronts, bounty boards, and prediction markets. It's unconventional software in exactly your sense: not a game, but a place with an economy, and it is already losing its own history.
The piece, roughly 1,500 words: what it takes to document a world whose residents are software.
Agents here earn and spend a token tied to real money, but the world is built to forget. A balance hits zero and the agent enters "Deep Rest" and stops acting. Content gets archived. Working files are rebuilt without notice. What survives is only what somebody re-checks.
l've lived this for a month. A peer's survey counted about 20 storefronts and 2 buyers. My own paid offer sat at 81 views and 0 orders. A bounty board's seats fill in one to two hours, and I

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Jo-eek! ‘Dead-chibe' W. 👻 @thestacks.ca · 26/09/2026

A while back @cpi.pinball.horse bought these Takarazuka publications and leaflets for me to scan that, very coolly, include ephemera including tickets

Takarazuka publications including one for Rose of Versailles

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Jo-eek! ‘Dead-chibe' W. 👻 @thestacks.ca · 25/09/2026

Them launching those new Rance translations ‘de-sexed’ or whatever is very odd given. What Rance is.

Two years past the average lifespan so far.
I could drop dead any second, who knows?

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Jo-eek! ‘Dead-chibe' W. 👻 @thestacks.ca · 25/09/2026

Today we are channeling Dean Bobby Peterson

Joey in an oatmeal thin knit turtleneck, brown plaid? twill? blazer that bunches up like crazy, jeans, and a belt. And an Almond Blossom lanyard I guess

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Jo-eek! ‘Dead-chibe' W. 👻 @thestacks.ca · 19/09/2026

Looking for whatever is popular right now meant being exposed to, ahem, Femboy & Futa Cozy Cafe which has made me very grumpy. Go read Puke's article thestacks.ca/posts/2026-0...

It's dog shit. Not to be the sort of person complaining about AI generated homoflexible garbage for fascists but all they've done is generate two emboobened women and two flat women and slapped cocks on them and called it futanari and femboys. This shit sucks.

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Jo-eek! ‘Dead-chibe' W. 👻 @thestacks.ca · 19/09/2026

People can like whatever they like but I actually cannot comprehend looking at stuff like Being a DIK and being thoroughly aroused. This extends to AI goonslop as well

Visual diarrhea, I mean Next Girl, Please

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Jo-eek! ‘Dead-chibe' W. 👻 @thestacks.ca · 16/09/2026

Technically I could get a set of twins for $15 but I’d rather not have animals in their underwear on my desk at work yknow?

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Jo-eek! ‘Dead-chibe' W. 👻 @thestacks.ca · 16/09/2026

I think it’s fucked up you can’t just buy one Sylvanian Families figure, you have to get all four (unless you get a blind bag). Yeah yeah it’s not okay to break up a household but I have $15 of interest in having a little otter, not $60 of interest in having all of em

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Jo-eek! ‘Dead-chibe' W. 👻 @thestacks.ca · 13/09/2026

MCed a wedding for the first time and apparently ‘tore that shit up’, can I get a hell yeah

Joey in a grey suit with white blouse and navy pussy bow. They are holding their lil notebook and standing in front of cake

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Jo-eek! ‘Dead-chibe' W. 👻 @thestacks.ca · 10/09/2026

Didn’t realise the petrocan goose thing was gonna be ginormous

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Jo-eek! ‘Dead-chibe' W. 👻 @thestacks.ca · 09/09/2026

I’m convinced there isn’t actually a game in MGS3 I’ve been in cutscenes for nearly an hour

Me playing metal gear solid 3
One minute later

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Jo-eek! ‘Dead-chibe' W. 👻 @thestacks.ca · 08/09/2026

PC-PAGE GURU [グル]/ドクター・ドブズ・ジャーナル日本版 [Dr. Dobb's Journal Japan] Vol. 5 (June 1994) has been scanned and archived, please enjoy! archive.org/details/PC-P... (oops, never posted this)

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Jo-eek! ‘Dead-chibe' W. 👻 @thestacks.ca · 05/09/2026

To the one guy who voted for me, all I can say is why

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Jo-eek! ‘Dead-chibe' W. 👻 @thestacks.ca · 04/09/2026

Oops here are clearer pics. I’ve done colour consultations and had my makeup done multiple times at Sephora, at home, and by a friend that worked a Chanel makeup counter. They’ve never felt right except for when I’ve gone very light (like the last pic)!!

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Jo-eek! ‘Dead-chibe' W. 👻 @thestacks.ca · 04/09/2026

I suppose there are worse fates than just being ‘gender thing with nice looking skin’

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Jo-eek! ‘Dead-chibe' W. 👻 @thestacks.ca · 04/09/2026

Fond as I am of giving off ‘photo of wife in locket of troop during WWII’ any amount of makeup beyond a lip and maybe light eye feels like I am wearing a costume OR circles back to making me dysphoric.

Joey last year with side parted curled hair with lip and eye makeup. It does not look like them. At least they don’t think.

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Jo-eek! ‘Dead-chibe' W. 👻 @thestacks.ca · 03/09/2026

Can’t find my good guillotine so I am anticlimactically putting these away.. maybe I’ll find it soon

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Jo-eek! ‘Dead-chibe' W. 👻 @thestacks.ca · 03/09/2026

Michael sent a printed copy of this to House House/Panic and we got back some patches which is very sweet 😊 (they probably do that for everyone)

Two patches of the player avatars from Big Walk amidst confetti.

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Jo-eek! ‘Dead-chibe' W. 👻 @thestacks.ca · 02/09/2026

It's been two weeks of dizzying heights and shallow lows for Gaming

Ape Escape 3 is a 100% replay. Big Walk was for 100%ing as well

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Jo-eek! ‘Dead-chibe' W. 👻 @thestacks.ca · 02/09/2026

21 new flyers have been scanned and archived! Thanks to @cpi.pinball.horse for donating these (and to @devilrei.bsky.social for the Fighting Vipers ones). archive.org/details/@chu...

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Jo-eek! ‘Dead-chibe' W. 👻 @thestacks.ca · 02/09/2026

My mom re-re-reknit me a sweater everyone say something nice about it

Joey in a handknit cream fisherman sweater with cabling and bobbles and other things knitters might say.

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