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Dan "Remy" Dickinson @vjarmy.com · 16/09/2026

Going to go cry myself to sleep. #bigwalk

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Dan "Remy" Dickinson @vjarmy.com · 03/09/2026

Also, the description is incredible and/or insane? (Definitely "and".)

Meat sacks
Player biology is fully simulated, from brain activities to hormone levels and everything about what constitutes you can be altered and augmented: feeling too weak? Get carbon nanotube muscle implants! You are too smart? Get a lobotomy right now!

Gender is a social construct, but in Hypernet Explorer gender is fully commercialized! Alter your starting gender via surgical, magical and hypercapitalistic means.

Enemies have over 80 different biologies with different limbs and organs to rip and tear to weaken the stats of your enemies! Cut off a vital part or organ of an enemy to get an instant kill.

Hypercapitalism oh!
Names are power...and money is power! And it happens that Mario Draghi's name is written over a billion times on 14.5 billion euro banknotes in pre-printing phase. This gives hypercapitalists who amassed huge amounts of euros huge arcane and political powers.

Invest in the OIL and SOUL stock market, buy real estate and squeeze rent from your tenants as you squeeze the black ichor of earth from deep oil deposits, burn your stock options in battle to summon powerful entities.

Scale every minigame and side activity with incremental games inspired mechanics: why settle for a measly greasy pizza place when you have an entire galaxy where to export the concept of "pizza"?

About This Game

Hypernet Explorer is an immersive-sim roguelike set in a weird and alternate 2001, where the Y2K bug shattered reality and erased most modern technology, that is slowly being rebuilt using magic and the occult.

Form a party to explore a 92 floor skyscraper that barely holds the cosmos together or just get lost in alternate activities; manage a cursed pizza place, become a certified tarot reader, date yourself from another plane of existence, start your own space program, get filthy rich by manipulating the soul market and... go bowling with your beloved cousin.

Every boundary that once separated religion, science, finance and magic is now obsolete so... do what thou wilt.

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Dan "Remy" Dickinson @vjarmy.com · 15/08/2026

After taking photos at enough shows, the auto-tagging becomes overwhelming and you just have to lean into it.

Multiple wrestlers tagged in the Apple Photos “People & Pets” feature.

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Dan "Remy" Dickinson @vjarmy.com · 10/08/2026

I can't wait for beatmania IIDX HOTEL BEER.

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Dan "Remy" Dickinson @vjarmy.com · 20/07/2026

They're already back in Spain, don't worry.

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Dan "Remy" Dickinson @vjarmy.com · 16/07/2026

TK: “We’ve got Judas at home.” At home:

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Dan "Remy" Dickinson @vjarmy.com · 14/07/2026

"Say there's this child, and you have to teach them..." Oh, NOW we're teaching children?!

Xalavier Nelson Jr. claiming in 2023 he did *not* teach that child to gamble.

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Dan "Remy" Dickinson @vjarmy.com · 06/07/2026

What if we kissed at the CONCACAF House: 41 For One in the middle of the Oculus? haha jk …unless…? 👉👈

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Dan "Remy" Dickinson @vjarmy.com · 30/06/2026

You ever commute home and have five years of soccer subreddit moderation PTSD manifest in physical form in front of you? No? Just me, huh?

It involves some sort of ball kicking challenge.

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Dan "Remy" Dickinson @vjarmy.com · 23/06/2026

You know who WASN’T cringing when he hit play?

Jan Gunnar Solli DJs at halftime while suspended during the MLS playoffs.

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Dan "Remy" Dickinson @vjarmy.com · 19/06/2026

Okay, this time for real. Get in here, folks.

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Dan "Remy" Dickinson @vjarmy.com · 18/06/2026

“Dan, why do you still have an 11-year-old GIF of yourself awkwardly fist bumping Jesse Marsch on your phone?” For score lines like these!

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Dan "Remy" Dickinson @vjarmy.com · 12/06/2026

We have finally come to the end of the science. Be there for history.

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Dan "Remy" Dickinson @vjarmy.com · 09/06/2026

"I’m very tolerant but I’m not sure the baby’s getting anything out of this" is absolutely sending me. www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/j...

Screenshot of a Guardian headline:
Tempest in the stalls as baby disrupts Kenneth Branagh RSC performance
Audience members said baby’s cooing and gurgling ruined Branagh’s return to the RSC after 30 years, with some seeking refunds

“There was a young woman with a baby in the audience – and it mithered all the way through the first act,” ticketholder Sian Morgan told the Daily Mail. “Thank goodness there was never any actual screaming or crying, but it was gurgling and cooing and chirping very loudly throughout. It never let up.”

Morgan added the child appeared to wake up during the opening scene. “Theatre audiences generally are very tolerant and progressive, but it was ruining it for everyone as it made it so hard to concentrate – and by the end people were audibly tutting and turning around to show their displeasure,” she said.

Another audience member said their group had made a six-hour round trip and paid £400 to attend the performance, which had been “completely ruined” by the disturbance.

“No one wanted to be mean to a young mother, but it was simply extraordinary that she seemed unable to read the room and to take the baby outside when it began being noisy,” they said.

Among those in the audience was also former home secretary David Blunkett, who is blind and relies on hearing. “I said to the person sitting next to me: ‘I’m very tolerant but I’m not sure the baby’s getting anything out of this,’” he said.

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Dan "Remy" Dickinson @vjarmy.com · 02/06/2026

Even Darude seemed not entirely sure on this one? www.reddit.com/r/Music/comm...

A Reddit AMA where Darude is asked about the correct pronunciation and the response reads "Darude in Finland, Daruud elsewhere, I guess."

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Dan "Remy" Dickinson @vjarmy.com · 28/05/2026

If I had a nickel for every time Don Garber said a weird thing about having his name on the soccer ball, I'd have ten cents. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened (at least?) twice.

Don Garber in today's Sportico article on succession planning: "But somebody [else] is going to get the soccer ball with their name on it, and I’m going to be super supportive.”

A 2018 USSF meeting transcript screenshot that has been in my camera roll for nearly a decade:

MR. GARBER: That's why my name is on the ball there big guy.
PRESIDENT GULATI: Commissioner...

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Dan "Remy" Dickinson @vjarmy.com · 18/05/2026

The last year has been a lot, so spending last night watching a sold out Brooklyn Paramount crowd lose their minds to city pop legend ANRI was a timely (!!) mental health reset.

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Dan "Remy" Dickinson @vjarmy.com · 14/05/2026

Never expected to have an undefeated run for *anything* on @learnedleague.com, but abnormally proud to have blown out my mini league group in the most important of trivia topics: 1990s Music.

The table for Group 108: ten wins, one draw, first place.

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Dan "Remy" Dickinson @vjarmy.com · 12/05/2026

Oh good, the “iOS Teams unread count is wildly wrong” issue isn’t just me!

Getting an incorrect notification count on your ^ mobile device
This is a known issue under investigation.
Teams might display an incorrect notification count on the iOS app badge. You'll still see the correct notification count in the desktop version of Microsoft Teams on both Windows and Mac.
For example, Teams on your desktop may indicate no unread messages, but Teams for iOS indicates that there are one or more unread messages.

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Dan "Remy" Dickinson @vjarmy.com · 08/05/2026

Even the official AEW recaps have gotten the #WTFCOS memo from @speedballbailey.bsky.social.

A screenshot of a Dynamite match recap on the official AEW site; a moonsault to the floor is described as "sizzlin'", like the way you want your fajitas to come out.

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Dan "Remy" Dickinson @vjarmy.com · 30/04/2026

Come to /r/jerseycity for traffic complaints, stay for the breathtaking financial analysis around PATH fares.

A Reddit thread in which a user confidently states "Higher costs isn’t an excuse for higher prices and worse service". The post is rated -6.

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Dan "Remy" Dickinson @vjarmy.com · 03/04/2026

Oh wait, was this the kids version, given the syringe of tomato sauce?

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Dan "Remy" Dickinson @vjarmy.com · 18/03/2026

Imagine not enjoying something as weird and wonderful as wrestling. #tjpw

Pom Harajuku "drives" a "Tesla" (Raku is pushing it) during a TJPW match in Austin, Texas.

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Dan "Remy" Dickinson @vjarmy.com · 05/03/2026

I don't know who gives out what awards that might be left in US soccer journalism, but I'd like to nominate this bullet for something.

"Active player calls letter ‘a bunch of bullshit’"

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Dan "Remy" Dickinson @vjarmy.com · 12/02/2026

Just thinking about this April 2019 MLS match for some reason.

An MLS game result screenshot depicting Minnesota United winning 1-0 over DC United.

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Dan "Remy" Dickinson @vjarmy.com · 06/02/2026

Three years ago, I hit my first indie wrestling show: a single-day tournament featuring the best up-and-coming talent of the scene. It was my gateway to 35+ more shows since. And the J-Cup remains one of the best indie showcases every year. Happy #JerseyJCup weekend to all who celebrate.

A graphic showing the 20 entrants in this year's Jersey J-Cup.

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Dan "Remy" Dickinson @vjarmy.com · 29/01/2026

This Steam bundle name is perfect, no notes.

A Steam bundle of Winnie's Hole and Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator named "What Have You Done?!"

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Dan "Remy" Dickinson @vjarmy.com · 22/01/2026

Checking in on /r/jerseycity which is having an absolutely normal one.

A Reddit thread titled "Risk of getting vaporized by a thermonuclear ICBM? Downtown JC."

Joke comments related to the Fallout game series.

Two comments reading:
"You're totally safe. If NYC is stuck, there's no way the blast would make it to Jersey City. As we all know, nothing from NYC will come over to Jersey City no matter how many times we ask. It's "too inconvenient"."
"Once the bomb hears the word “jersey”, it’ll just make fun of you for being broke and not come over."

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Dan "Remy" Dickinson @vjarmy.com · 17/12/2025

Getting to watch Dan from Metrofanatic try to process the team winning hardware for the first time will always stick with me.

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Dan "Remy" Dickinson @vjarmy.com · 03/12/2025

Now that LL107 MD13 is in the rear view, I'd like to thank whoever smithed Q1 on @learnedleague.com yesterday for simultaneously triggering both my PTSD and my "if there's anything I'm going to know cold, it's this" instinct. #RBNY #NYRB

A trivia question on LearnedLeague that reads "The MLS team New York Red Bulls is often abbreviated RBNY, probably most likely because the team's formal name is Red Bull New York, and also perhaps because NYRB has been in use since 1963 as the initialism for what literary periodical?"

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Dan "Remy" Dickinson @vjarmy.com · 26/11/2025

Happy 7th birthday to Katsu, the best weirdo cat anyone could ask for.

Katsu being perturbed by her father leaning in

Katsu on her back with her paws up in bunny position??

Katsu, sitting normally but staring into your soul

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Dan "Remy" Dickinson @vjarmy.com · 12/11/2025

Clippy looks different than I remember. (and why can't I turn this nonsense off?)

A screenshot of CoPilot integration into Microsoft Word.

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Dan "Remy" Dickinson @vjarmy.com · 11/11/2025

Never mind the red eye flight and the three hour time jump; going from 85 and sunny in LA to this has instantly vaporized my vacation chill.

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Dan "Remy" Dickinson @vjarmy.com · 03/10/2025

Happy release day to the millions who were waiting for someone to finally rhyme “that brown liquor” with “my dick’s bigger”.

A screenshot of the Apple Music display of the lyrics to Taylor Swift’s “Father Figure”, which includes the lines:

“I was your father figure
We drank that brown liquor
You made a deal with this devil, turns out my dick's bigger”

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Dan "Remy" Dickinson @vjarmy.com · 01/10/2025

#RBNY hyping an overloaded-with-buzzwords premier amenity tier called "Hype House" less than 12 hours before their 15-season playoff streak ends? Well, that *truly* brings the vibes - and you know me, I thrive on vibes! So this is clearly my place! www.newyorkredbulls.com/hypehouse

A generic rendering of a generic stadium "club" space, with faux people that are included in architectural renderings, followed by the text:

"The place for those who thrive on vibes.
Hype House is built for those who want to be in the middle of the matchday buzz. This new premium club sits just beneath the seating bowl, offering field-level tunnel access to your seats, right near the action. From the energy of the crowd to the unbeatable premium amenities, Hype House brings the vibes."

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Dan "Remy" Dickinson @vjarmy.com · 23/09/2025

A truly incredible day of games and game-likes alike.

Creep Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 1 Re-Raptored header graphic

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Dan "Remy" Dickinson @vjarmy.com · 17/09/2025

We used to joke that given how much we were there, the Dead Rabbit was our second home. Now, their spin-off Irish/Mexican pub San Patricios is a few blocks from our actual home in Jersey City. My friends, we are so back.

The overwhelming crowd during the soft open at San Patricios

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Dan "Remy" Dickinson @vjarmy.com · 30/08/2025

Imagine not enjoying something as weird and wonderful as wrestling. #senjo

Super Sasadango Machine gives a 12-minute PowerPoint presentation at "Senjo The Biggest" on August 24

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Dan "Remy" Dickinson @vjarmy.com · 19/08/2025

Putting the twerk in kraftwerk

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Dan "Remy" Dickinson @vjarmy.com · 15/08/2025

Admittedly, three of these are a surprise to be in the first five.

First five Steam purchases: Orange Box, GTA Classics, Audiosurf, Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines, COD4

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Dan "Remy" Dickinson @vjarmy.com · 12/08/2025

You ever break Facebook’s algorithm so bad it’s showing you strategic planning open houses from small cities you’ve never been to (in a state you haven’t been to since 2014), and when you ask why the algo goes “OTHER FACTORS, okay?!”

A Facebook post from the City of Suwanee, Georgia

“Other factors also influence the order of posts.”

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