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☆「ＹＡＳＥ」IdolismJ ☆ @idolismj.yase.world · 22/09/2026

When I was thinking the Switch 2 would usher in a new age if Nintendomination, it was on its own merits. Not because Sony and Microsoft would literally kill themselves in full view of the public

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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

To the guy riding the motorcycle past my house while blasting Fuck Me R&B at max volume. Never change, dude.

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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Earthion doesn’t have retro achievements? I figured if any game had retro achievements, it would have to be that.

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Neil Before Zod @jarritow.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

See. Thrashed.

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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Damnit!! There’s an AI produced fan translation of Shadowrun for the sega cd. Pretty sure that means all instances of drek, wiz and chummer are going to be replaced with antisemitism hate speech and child porn.

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I've got some good news about Shadowrun Mega/Sega CD and fan English translations: another one is in the works with some chops behind it in knowing Japanese and the world and lingo of Shadowrun. I reached out to the person that someone in my post yesterday mentioned had already been doing one.

A snap of a post on retrogametalk forum from Agitprop, working on translating and localizing a 60hz NTSC-J release.

"Well, fuck.. I've been working on the same game (though, using NTSC-J, so.. it wouldn't have this slow down). Started it a while back, stopped when I found someone else was working on it, then started when that person said their programmer quit. Didn't know anyone else was working on this...

Tested it on real hardware too"

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Hi! Can I just ask if your WIP translation uses any kind of Genai (claude, chatgpt etc) for code or JP-Eng?

This translation is human, which is why it's going to take as long as it takes. My friend is a teacher who's worked in Japan for many years as a tutor (do not do that job. The stories she has are a nightmare). I'm going to be doing localization for the setting (all the Shadowrun slang) so if ya'll don't like that, blame me, not her 😂

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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I have two weeks left at my current job. They have been giving Adobe software to people that have never used any graphic software before, trying to distribute my job to others. It's going as well as you would expect. It's actually pretty funny to watch!

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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Do people realize nobody is forcing them to buy a video game they don’t want to buy? I’ve successfully not bought a Dragon Ball game or a FIFA game every year for the 47 years I’ve been alive and I’m fine. I didn’t want to buy either, so I didn’t buy them. Nothing bad happened.

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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

@f1tv.bsky.social Just to let you know, Apple TV won't let me watch races I pay to see. Their security codec crap blanks my monitor. So now I have to pirate the race broadcast, even though I'm already paying to watch it. Great job.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My heart goes out to the millions of people struggling to remember how to write "Thanks! Sounds great!" in an email.

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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I’m curious how Hamilton and Lawson are going to be blamed for the Vestappen crash today. #f1 #formula1 #formulaone

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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Oh shit!! I HAVE A BUNCH OF FORMULA 1 TO WATCH #f1 #formula1 #formulaone

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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Whatever. Fuck it. Lets just listed to early 90's UK psychedelic synth rock. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTEN... #psychedelic #rock

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Ozric Tentacles - Strangeitude (Full Album) 1991

YouTube video by Rockolastica

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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

That Perez Hilton video is like some shit out of fucking Hellraiser. Event Horizon. What’s fucked is how slow and deliberate it is. Fucking hell

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Retro Computers @retrocomps.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Man, 80s computer books made even non-relational databases look fun. (Source.)

The cover to the book, "Writing Your Own Program: Creating A Database: Adventure Game." Each line is in its own font. The computer (a black affair with rainbow keys" depicts a scuba diver swimming, handcuffs in hand, as it is attacked by a giant cross octopus; the painted octopus is literally bursting out of the monitor. A tiny little banner in the corner states: "For Commodore 64 And Apple IIe Computers"

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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Kabuki inspired anime more than I could have realized. The poses, the oversized props and weapons, the head movements, the character design. I went down a YouTube rabbit hole trying to learn about Kabuki and my mind was blown!

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Demily Pyro 🥐🎀💢 @demilypyro.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Young Ladies Don't Play Fighting Games is about how grinding ranked will kill you but locals will save your life and put you in yuri situations

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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Microsoft slashed thousands of job this week. Every problem the company is facing is of their own design. Per usual idiot management got made bad choices, got paid millions to fail and us peasants get stuck picking up the pieces.

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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I farted in the bedroom this morning. My wife said “It smells like someone poured beer on a gas station hotdog cooker!”

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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I like Dubs over subs. I’m a graphic designer. I already spend 8 hours every day reading text on screens.

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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The filthy casuals we used to ridicule in the 2000’s & 2010’s? They were keeping the games industry healthy, not us hardcores. Folk buying a random game at Walmart based on the cover kept designers employed and funded B tier games. Now all those players are on mobile, not consoles or PC.

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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

For shits and giggles I tried the new Concept to Vector tutorial in Illustrator. All I did was click the "Next" button when asked, and Adobes shit AI spit out a bunch of garbled nonsense. They can't even get their new feature demos to work right.

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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Were there any confirmed AI slop booths at #combonreaker

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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I take comfort knowing the vast majority of people that actually enjoy producing and viewing AI slop art are also unwilling to PAY for it.

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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Hell yes!! All Hail the Goat! The new Hellripper album got to me early!! #coronach #hellrippermetal

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T @tjlou.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

ALL GAIL THE GOAT 🤘 #hellripper #coronach

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Noizze @noizzeuk.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Out tomorrow, Hellripper's new album 'Coronach' is "vicious, decadent, ridiculously fun and packed with riffs sharp enough to draw blood". You'll want to hear this. www.noizze.co.uk/hellripper-c...

noizze.co.uk

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𝕶𝕸ä𝕹𝕽𝖎𝖋𝖋𝖘 @kmanriffs.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

FULL FORCE FRIDAY:🆕Mar 27 1⃣🎧 HELLRIPPER - Coronach 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇬🇧⚛️ 4th album from Aberdeen, Scotland, UK Black/Speed Metal outfit⚛️ BC➡️hellripper.bandcamp.com/album/corona...⚛️ #hellrippermetal #Coronach #BlackSpeedMetal #centurymedia #FFFMar27 #KMäN

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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Once I was forced to forgo paying a utility bill because I was required to buy a wedding gift for folk I’d never met. The couple said they were so “broke” they were CONSIDERING giving up their Tokyo apartment, because they just didn’t to to Japan much anymore. EAT MY FUCKING SHIT FILLED ASS!!!!

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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

What started as me testing my new earbuds has turned into me listening to the entire album "Scumdogs of the Universe" by GWAR.

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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Starting the first full Apple TV Formula 1 replay. I’m fully expecting Apple to cut away from the race for minutes at a time to inject a bunch of crying grandmothers and celebrity interviews.

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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

58 degrees with heavy evening rain. Perfect time to do one of my favorite things, stand outside while listening to Nutshell from Alice in Chains.

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Roger @partlyhuman.com · 02/03/2026

Seems like Nokia has fallen on even harder times, licensing out its IP to dogs, smh

A dog toy that looks to be some sort of ball on a bungee cord? With packaging clearly stating the name of the product: N-Gage

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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

This happened at work today. That’s some Friday ass shit!!

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pmcTRILOGY @pmctrilogy.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

good day to post this reminder

a hasty edit of the "only trust your fists, cops will never help you" that instead reads "only trust your emlators, publishers will never help you"

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weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

swordfighting tactics, germany, 16th century

a ink drawing of a man tackling another man swinging a sword by grabbing him around the waist and putting his face in his crotch

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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

How long until some anonymous troll in Minnesota starts calling ICE with false tips, leading to ICE agents ransacking the houses of Trump supporters. I mean, warrantless entry and all. Just like SAWTing, some innocent people will be hurt or killed.

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weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

normal dog, switzerland, 15th century

a medieval painting of a scruffy white dog with a strangely human face

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Spookiorie 💀 @sofiorie.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Translation: "I have invested a sizeable amount of company funds into AI, please dear god love AI."

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Esper Quinn 💠 @esper.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

gen z will never understand the hold SuicideGirls had on the millennial libido

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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

If YouTube videos are a reflection of reality, Riddick Bowe spent most of his career getting repeatedly punched in the nuts.

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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

After 39 hours I can definitely say that I really don’t like Baldur’s Gate 3. The bugs. The speed bumps to drag out playtime. All the things I’m expected to understand before any info is presented. Time to boot Cheat Engine and obliterate all the bullshit it’s expecting me to accept.

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