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🧙📼The VHS Wizard📼🧙 @vhswizard.bsky.social · 5h

This feels scammy, but do I... report this? And if so, how? eBay has made it so getting to an actual human for help is nigh on impossible, and their reporting practices are almost all geared towards issues with an auction you are actively bidding on, not ones you just *nearly* bid on.

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🧙📼The VHS Wizard📼🧙 @vhswizard.bsky.social · 6h

I have used unholy alchemy to fuse a meme image and a possum-every-hour possum into one image of intense power.

A possum going ham on some piece of fruit. Text over image reads

=Coming Up=
Goblin Time

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🧙📼The VHS Wizard📼🧙 @vhswizard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The only problem I am having now is the keen, painful awareness of how many other Trails games there are out for the Switch alread. There are a LOT of them, none of them are cheap, and I want them ALL. I just need to figure out out how to get all of them without bankrupting myself.

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🧙📼The VHS Wizard📼🧙 @vhswizard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I am a lifelong SaGa stan, and will defend the "Tales of" and Dragon Quest series to my dying breath, so I do not know where this new series fits into my cosmology, but... daaaaaymn, it's good.

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🧙📼The VHS Wizard📼🧙 @vhswizard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ok so I've had a couple of days to mess around with it, and I have to say... The Trails RPG games are fantastic.

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🧙📼The VHS Wizard📼🧙 @vhswizard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Sauron, thinking that he's covered all his bases and that there's no way Gandalf would think to fly the eagles into Mordor, ignoring the fact that his fortifications are not giant robot dinosaur-proof

3 image comic meme. Top panel is Frodo from Lord Of The Rings saying "Excuse me, that man in the corner, who is he?"
Bottom left panel has the barkeep responding "He's one of them rangers".
Bottom right panel has the Red Ranger from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers badly photoshopped into the final image so he's standing behind a table.

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🧙📼The VHS Wizard📼🧙 @vhswizard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And they, the blue buttoners, need us to push the blue button so that their current bubble can continue to exist (and continue to harm the planet, the internet, history, society, people, etc)

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🧙📼The VHS Wizard📼🧙 @vhswizard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Actually, maybe I have that backwards. Maybe we're the ones pushing the red button, and that's saying No to AI. If we get enough people to push the red button, AI won't be financially sustainable and will "die".

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🧙📼The VHS Wizard📼🧙 @vhswizard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

They have told all of us that they are determined to hit the red button, and will be sad about it when they kill all the blue button people, but it's our fault for not hitting the red button, so we really brought it on ourselves. Thoughts and prayers and all that.

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🧙📼The VHS Wizard📼🧙 @vhswizard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I hate to break things down to simple terms like US and THEM, but sometimes that's just what you need to do.

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🧙📼The VHS Wizard📼🧙 @vhswizard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That's the reason they're all doing such a hard-court press on the AI, why they're trying to shove it in every nook and cranny they can find, why they're spending billions trying to convince the rest of us to use and love AI.

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🧙📼The VHS Wizard📼🧙 @vhswizard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So, back to the buttons, and the moral dilemma therein.

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🧙📼The VHS Wizard📼🧙 @vhswizard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

They need people to want to use it, to love it, to depend on it... so they can start charging us for it in every place that they've added it to the pre-existing systems. That's the "work" they're looking for. AI to become financially self-sustaining.

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🧙📼The VHS Wizard📼🧙 @vhswizard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We're throwing money at this problem so fast hoping against hope that someone will get it to "work" before they run out of money and everybody winds up bankrupt.

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🧙📼The VHS Wizard📼🧙 @vhswizard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Lots of people and companies are taking huge swings and financially over-exerting themselves to invest in technology that either costs 10x more than it brings in or, in some cases, doesn't actually exist YET.

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🧙📼The VHS Wizard📼🧙 @vhswizard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

How is this about AI? Well, let's get one of my wizardly text threads going and I'll tell ya. #AI #moraldilemma #redbutton #bluebutton

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🧙📼The VHS Wizard📼🧙 @vhswizard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There was a meme floating around earlier this year, and it occurs to me now that it's ABSOLUTELY about AI, even if it wasn't supposed to. Y'all have eyes and can read it yourself, but I'll state the dilemma here anyway:

Picture of two large buttons - one red, one blue. A small box under them has the text of the original question: "In front of you appears red and blue button. If more than 50% of the people presses the red button, everybody who pressed the blue button dies. If more than 50% of the people presses the blue button, nobody dies. What button will you press?"

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🧙📼The VHS Wizard📼🧙 @vhswizard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Forgive me for invoking superstition at the edge of the internet universe, but... Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit

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🧙📼The VHS Wizard📼🧙 @vhswizard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Dr. Dre could release his own custom prosthetic hands specifically designed for fistfights, and also call them "Beats by Dr. Dre"

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🧙📼The VHS Wizard📼🧙 @vhswizard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This Reddit text exchange explains why, even though I am polyamorous, I have basically stopped even trying to date anymore.

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🧙📼The VHS Wizard📼🧙 @vhswizard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The idea of having a couple of what are essentially fucking Digimon that I can give orders to and have them wander off into the internet and do shit for me... that's appealing. That's an AI use case I feel like I could get behind. If it wasn't... you know...

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🧙📼The VHS Wizard📼🧙 @vhswizard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And the thing is, there's a part of me that really, really wants to just... give up and give in?

A screenshot from It's Always Sunny in Philidephia where Dennis, the resident sociopath, explains how he plans to take girls out to party in a boat, where they won't say no to anything that he wants to do... because of the implication...

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🧙📼The VHS Wizard📼🧙 @vhswizard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Channel hit it's stride a year or so ago, when they started making in-depth, exhaustive, well-researched retrospectives into classic video games. Currently watching a 3 hour long video about Zelda II. www.youtube.com/@DaveControl

youtube.com

DaveControl

This is the gaming channel for Dave Klein to discuss/talk about/and post videos about games!

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🧙📼The VHS Wizard📼🧙 @vhswizard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Peter: "Look, I know you can't punch global warming, but you can switch this arm of Wayne Corp over to sustainable energy, it would help."

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🧙📼The VHS Wizard📼🧙 @vhswizard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Peter, with a clipboard in the Bat Cave giving a breakdown of what all happened while Bruce was away: "Let's see... Pam, Vic, and I stabilized the DNA of Clayface and Man-Bat, and were able to at least partially walk back Killer Croc's mutation.

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🧙📼The VHS Wizard📼🧙 @vhswizard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

He just refuses to engage with the Joker at all, which drives the Joker even more insane.

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🧙📼The VHS Wizard📼🧙 @vhswizard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Story Idea: Batman and the entire Bat Family have to leave Gotham suddenly and unexpectedly unattended for an extended period of time because of... reasons. Maybe they have to go to space, that's usually where characters have gone for this sort of thing.

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🧙📼The VHS Wizard📼🧙 @vhswizard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Next question is... what are the wizarding degrees in? Like, what fields can you get a doctorate - and on that matter, we need a magic word for "doctorate".

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🧙📼The VHS Wizard📼🧙 @vhswizard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

To that end, I am formally founding the Universitatus Esoterica, a very reputable for-profit online university and diploma mill... but for wizards, witches, warlocks, mages, and the like. (No sorcerers though, those self-taught hacks can go fuck themselves)

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🧙📼The VHS Wizard📼🧙 @vhswizard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Rigby: "we didn't even tell him about the giant eagle." Benson: (deep breath) "YOU'RE FIRED!"

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🧙📼The VHS Wizard📼🧙 @vhswizard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Benson: "So let me get this right... you didn't get your work done today... because a blonde angelic Helen Keller appeared and made you help her fight Friedrich Nietzsche... in hell... using giant robots given to you by... Thomas Edison." Mordecai: "I still don't believe it now. And I was there."

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🧙📼The VHS Wizard📼🧙 @vhswizard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Was watching the Mothers Basement coverage of the Happy Science cult's different anime movies, and it occurred to me that no matter what insane thing was going on at the time, you could easily edit Mordecai and Rigby from Regular Show into it. Just...

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🧙📼The VHS Wizard📼🧙 @vhswizard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Oh, also - I LOVED this game, it was one of my favorite NES games and the one where I basically learned how to "git gud" at video games. I also really like this channel, they do solid work. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh9bMZCfqCg

youtube.com

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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🧙📼The VHS Wizard📼🧙 @vhswizard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

And exposure to the Thorn causes you to reconnect with that original form and become something... new.

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🧙📼The VHS Wizard📼🧙 @vhswizard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I had furries in my webcomic, a million years ago. It's complicated to explain, but basically... there was a prophecy that impacted all humans, and a subset of humanity didn't want to be included with it, so they struck a deal with Loki to exclude them from the prophecy.

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🧙📼The VHS Wizard📼🧙 @vhswizard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

because it's not really taught, it's just sort of... known. That's why - "A well-made big red metal spoon" is correct, but - "A metal red well-made big spoon" makes you sound like a madman

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🧙📼The VHS Wizard📼🧙 @vhswizard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's sort of like that "Order of Adjectives" thing that breaks containment and makes everybody go insane every couple of years, when they realize that English has a semi-fixed order that adjectives are supposed to go in, and that's why some non-native speakers struggle,

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🧙📼The VHS Wizard📼🧙 @vhswizard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

we don't really know for sure if that's actually a difference or not.

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🧙📼The VHS Wizard📼🧙 @vhswizard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I have no problems conceptualizing a hypothetical fourth dimension that exists alongside our usual 3 that we (as flatworlders) can't directly perceive, but CAN sometimes see the effects of, that allows concepts like tesseracts .

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🧙📼The VHS Wizard📼🧙 @vhswizard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A minor technical and linquistic quibble that bothers me: When people are talking about something extra-dimensional, and they way they always say "THE fourth dimension" instead of just "A fourth dimension".

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🧙📼The VHS Wizard📼🧙 @vhswizard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Here's the ones I know off the top of my head: Mar 10 is "Mario Day" May The Fourth is Star Wars Day The end of April is "It's Gonna Be MAY" January 29th is Threshold Day I'm sure there are a ton of other ones.

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