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@thleb.bsky.social

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Tom @thleb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Book 9 of 10 in the Malazan series. They're great reads!

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Tom @thleb.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

We rented a cottage last week and the AI-generated menus have taken over the Muskoka fry shacks

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Tom @thleb.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Bonus Hurontario LRT action

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Tom @thleb.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

@realinfowars.bsky.social can't wait! youtu.be/tdSB8muDtzc?...

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Tom @thleb.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Non mais hey

Steam Machine listing from their website: CDN $2,038 for the top SKU with the 2TB hard drive, the Steam Controller and the face plates.

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Tom @thleb.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Cite-moi ça avec les 4 derniers jeux que t'as joué!

Baby Steps: Got my first faceful of donkey dong when I reached the second camp

Labyrinth of Touhou 2: Made it to 9F, still going strong.

2025 Mosaic Retrospective, 90% done with the whole thing. The headlines from last year were mostly bummers.

Satisfactory, putzing around in phase 2, trying to get coal power up and running

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Tom @thleb.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

9 indies I keep re-visiting www.my9games.com

1. Nuclear Throne
2. American Truck Simulator
3. Factorio
4. Parking Garage Rally Circuit
5. Wrestling Empire
6. Caves of Qud
7. OpenTTD
8. Olli Olli World
9. Rabi-Ribi

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Tom @thleb.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Ys X: Proud Nordics on Switch 2 is CDN $89.99 for the base game, $124.99 for the deluxe edition, $204.99 for ultimate edition, tax not included. All DLC is either cosmetic or in-game resources, no extra story. Is the grinding in this game really bad enough to warrant paying an extra hundred bucks?

Quick screengrab from the Canadian Nintendo store website. For $204.99, you get a costume pack, some ship cosmetics, and 3 packs of in-game resources.

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Tom @thleb.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

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Tom @thleb.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

This isn't gonna mean much to too many people, but I used to get wasted with friends and watch the French dub of Steven Seagal's 1991 opus Out For Justice over and over again as a teenager/young adult. Thanks for the memories!

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Tom @thleb.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Home Alone on NES's game over screen jumpscared me so bad as a kid that I begged my parents to go back to the video store and rent something else for the weekend.

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Tom @thleb.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Are cigarette and drug ads on Facebook a recent development? I hadn't noticed this stuff before today

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Tom @thleb.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Dans quel monde pensent-ils que j'habite que je vais payer $38.41 par mois pour un abonnement à des jeux vidéo? $460 par an pour des jeux que je ne peux pas garder? Et pourquoi bundler EA Play et Ubi+ avec la seule option qui donne accès aux jeux de Microsoft Day 1? C'est vraiment n'importe quoi.

Les nouveaux niveaux payants de Xbox Game Pass. Essentiel à 14 piasses par mois plus taxes pour 50 vieux jeux, Premium à 18 piasses par mois plus taxes pour 200 jeux incluant les nouveaux jeux de MS un an après qu'ils soient sortis, Ultime à 34 piasses par mois plus taxes pour 400+ jeux incluant les jeux de MS day one et tous les vieux Assassin's Creed. Pourquoi je veux rejouer à Black Flag pour la ixième fois encore?

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Tom @thleb.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

The game over screen in NES Home Alone. I think there was a noise that went with it. I just remember crying to my parents that we had to return the rental early.

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Tom @thleb.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

I got my first issue of The Onion in the mail last week. Holy shit, this guy's my favourite

July 2025 Onion Op-Ed by Roger Dudek: The Cost Of This Wedding Is Making Me Matri-moan-y!

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Tom @thleb.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Really did wonders for Paul Ryan back in the day

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Tom @thleb.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Games looked so good on that screen!

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Tom @thleb.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

I'm alternating between two Metroidvanias right now: The Messenger and BLADECHIMERA. Messenger not having any kind of mechanic or loadout changes between its two modes is such a waste. I play these games for the exploration of the map and the arsenal, and there just isn't enough of either for me!

Low-effort copy-pasted promo pictures of the main characters from the Messenger (left) and BLADECHIMERA (right). Made with snipping tool and paint, source is Steam library.

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Tom @thleb.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

The little video that played under the op-ed link was ridiculous as well, Douthat the streamer, Cass looking miserable

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Tom @thleb.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

@junlper.beer

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Tom @thleb.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social

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Tom @thleb.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Couldn't help it, had to edit the list a bit www.topsters.org All in chronological order. List skews older because I'm older! Big props to Streets of Rage 4 for unseating SoR2 from a permanent spot, Dotemu did a really good job on that one!

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Tom @thleb.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Also, the pile of shame is big enough as is lol

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Tom @thleb.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

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Tom @thleb.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I beat Incredible Crash Dummies (NES) on my new RG35XXSP. Thank god they don't make them like this anymore!

Spin stands over the beaten Junkman: WHAT'S THE MATTER JUNKMAN, DID YOUR MOM DROP YOU ON YOUR HEAD

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Tom @thleb.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

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Tom @thleb.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

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