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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm going to try a Blender tutorial that's more than two hours old. I BET IT WON'T WORK!!!!

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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Next time somebody asked “Where did you get that?” Tell them you stole it off a dead man.

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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Just started watching the F1 replay and the chaos of the formation lap. I hope all this software nonsense is being caused by stupid ass AI that multiple teams shouldn’t have been using in the first place. #f1 #formula1

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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My morbid curiosity really wants to know the hallucination based frame data of a vibe coded FG project.

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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Haven’t been to Cedar Point in years, but I love to see them embrace the junkfood scavenging seagulls.

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

I understand the sentiment. But a Twitter box cover would use AI slop to present the game villain as the hero and the protagonist as a radical terrorist.

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

Also, who in the hell looks at an online casino app and says to themselves “I’M the person that’s immune to the algorithm that determines who wins and how much”. Your wins and losses are calculated long before you take any action. It’s a reverse Ponzi scheme for idiots.

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

Same goes for when these wealthy celebrities ask us peasants to donate to a cause. Most of them could use their money to end problem X, but they make the choice not to.

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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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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’m not a vinyl enthusiast, but I know many people who are. From what they have taught me your entire setup is now damaged. You might as well throw out that record and your entire record player. Maybe even your speakers and amplifier just to be safe.

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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The grueling battle ended with the victory of.. TAKIS ASS!

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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’ll never understand people. How can anybody look at online casinos or sports betting apps and say to themselves “There’s no way this is tuned in favor of the company and not me.”

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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I remember that game being unplayable. No hyperbole. The controls and camera were that bad.

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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

He also turned me onto The Ozric Tentacles

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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I worked with a British dude back in 03 that had great stories of the Madchester and UK rave culture of the late 80’s early 90’s. That’s where it started.

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

See. Thrashed.

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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

While I’m at it? Fucking Sir Mix-A-Lot!! Dude had some fantastic albums!!

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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Yo, Subset, the Presidents of the United States / Sir Mix-a-Lot side project.

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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

GOD FUCKING DAMNNIT!!!!! At least once a year someone brings up NAD and I feel like someone has been playing a joke on me since 2003. I’ve never even listened to them, but they are an omnipresent element of my life.

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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Jimmy Buffett. I can’t help myself.

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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Unless you’ve had one, you don’t understand. Those things are dangerous.

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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

NOW YOURE A MAN! A MANMY MANNY MAN!!

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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Humans learn nothing when money gets involved.

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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"

SharkaBytes said:
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

Sony and MS have yet to offer me a compelling reason to buy one of their consoles since my purchasing a 360 in early 2008. Our family does however own a WiiU, switch, switch 2, and multiple computers that run the low-graphic requirement games we enjoy. Somehow my family and I are the problem?

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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 · 09/09/2026

At some point Democrat leaders need to realize that “I shook hands with Ted Kennedy” can no longer be the lynchpin of your entire political career. Nobody under the age of 75 that’s struggling to pay for groceries gives a fuck about legacy bullshit like that anymore.

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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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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I do love that the music industry RIAA bullies are losing their minds over AI copyright theft, but their pockets aren’t deep enough to fight it this time.

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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 · 16/08/2026

Did Namco ever release that Ridge Racer Dubstep generator to the public?

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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

As a graphic designer I can attest to the euphoria you feel when you discard the confines of good taste. Sometimes you just need MORE drop shadows, MORE filters, MORE light sources that don’t make sense.

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

I've ran this game at a few mystery tournaments with Fighting Game enthusiasts. This game feels like a proof of concept. It's too fast, the hits have no impact and the characters are to small on screen. Very hard to get a feel for how your inputs are actually effecting the gameplay.

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

Ahhh! I thought your Blue Sky posts were promoting a podcast or youtube series about ranking Genesis Fighters. I didn't realize that the posts WERE the rankings.

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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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Virtual Balboa @virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I was so damn excited for this during the preview magazine coverage. The. I rented it. Once.

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

I’ve been not watching WWE since 2009. Since then I’ve never heard anyone say it’s gotten better, only the occasional NXT gush.

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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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