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Hello and welcome to @hotcrtaction.pics! This curated collection of photographs by @aidanmoher.com hopes to preserve the timeless experience of playing retro games on era-appropriate CRT displays. The current rotation of CRTs includes a Commodore 1702 (the GOAT), a PVM-1354Q, and a JVC AV-27D201.

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maud @peloriemate.net · 10/10/2026

i got so many people calling this tweet fakeposting back when i made it but since this is bluesky and things have less reach on here im just going to post the photo

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Andoryu🌸COMMISSION OPEN @andoryuanzuru.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Been a part of the FGC space for about 6 years now and it's just so clearly sad how one state is trying to buy in and influenced it with buying out EVO, owning SNK and now making ARCSYS make gigi project city a host within Saudi Arabia The prince can be a cool guy but there's blood on the family

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 27/09/2026

[shopping at costco] why do hot dogs come in packs of 192 but the buns come in packs of 146

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Void-BOO!!! GAh!!!! (AKA Jess Voidburger) @voidburger.com · 08/10/2026

In case you thought "dude is the jerkoff hand gesture incarnate" wasn't a good enough reason to not buy the dude's games, get a load of this:

Blow is active on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), YouTube, and streaming service Twitch. His online activity includes both commentary about game development and expressing personal political opinions, including anti-vaccine rhetoric, support for the presidency of Donald Trump, and criticism of diversity, equity and inclusion programs, which has drawn criticism from other game developers.

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 06/10/2026

This is apparently the main way to get software in Cuba, due to embargos, they move around hard drives to everyone called a "Paquete", and someone made a game about being the Paquete shop: steffenkoehn.com/work/paketown/ I recently saw a talk by the developer at the @untitledgamesevent.bsky.social

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PakeTown - Steffen Köhn

In collaboration with Nestor Sire, ConWiro, Alexander Bley.

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RockmanCosmo @rockmancosmo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A trial version of #Rockman X2's Yahoo Keitai port was preserved by @unabandonware.bsky.social! It only contains the opening stage. Hopefully we'll find the full game in the future! X3 and X4's keitai ports remain lost to time. Thanks to NaoyaShinota for patching this game's network check.

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The Sonic Stadium ✪ Sonic the Hedgehog News & Community @sonicstadium.org · 06/10/2026

ICYMI: SEGA took an intense crash course in community management last night, as it launched an official Sonic the Hedgehog Discord server that descended into chaos, forcing a shutdown in just a few hours of operation. #SonicNews www.sonicstadium.org/articles/son...

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Official Sonic Discord Launch Descends To Chaos, Is Locked Down After A Few Hours

SEGA took an intense crash course in community management last night, as it launched an official Sonic the Hedgehog Discord server that descended into chaos, forcing a shutdown in just a few hours of ...

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“Dental plan. Lisa needs braces.”

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 04/10/2026

Absolutely gigantic Doom mod (although you only need the UZDoom engine, no game purchase needed) dropped last week. What if Hexen was four times the size and had 12 wildly different playable characters. www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/... I like the big demon lady who can ENLARGE at will.

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Claudia: alt text please 😩 @lesbianspacemerc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Alt text added for accessibility. ❤️

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Adam Dawson @adamdawson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Good lord, the Internet Archive has a functioning Winamp interface, with the milkdrop dsp plugin. Outstanding.

the Internet Archive has a functioning Winamp interface, with milkdrop dsp plugin.

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MegaApple @megaapple18.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Capcom Engineers are building tools that aren't just Game Industry leading, but Tech Industry leading. And making it open source. But this will neither get coverage or apprication. Instead people will blindly fall for clickbait.

So the fastest JSON serializer for .NET now is developed by CAPCOM as part of their game engine that powers Resident Evil / Biohazard

I did not see that coming lol

https://github.com/CAPCOM-TD-OSS/REDox

They’re also doing their own memory-management work underneath this. Instances are managed in 64 KB pages, with page reference counting plus cache and GC optimizations. The goal seems to be reducing the cost of managing huge numbers of objects while improving locality and avoiding some of the fragmentation problems they’ve had before.
This also makes CAPCOM’s REDox project much more interesting.

REDox is their open-source .NET serialization/data library, with JSON, CBOR, MessagePack-style structured data handling, lazy decoding, streaming, compact token storage, etc.
At first glance it just looks like a standalone .NET library.
In context, it looks much more like the kind of infrastructure they can write and test normally in C#, then feed into this RE:Runtime / RE:C++ pipeline and ship as native engine code.

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Yoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In many Romance languages, one way of saying “my name is” is “I call myself”: Italian ‘mi chiamo’ Spanish ‘me llamo’ Portuguese ‘chamo-me’ These verbs all stem from Latin ‘clāmō’. At first glance, cl- changed in very different ways, but it all started with one common change. My graphic explains:

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Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 03/10/2026

I know most of you guys don't go on the other app but the pope posted an anti AI/ pro artists statement yesterday, and the ensuing cope and memes is really funny

Pope Leo XIV
@Pontifex

In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.

2016: I will never fight a holy war

2019: Pope Leo I am ready launch me towards the nearest data center

some AI guy saying he makes christian children's books with AI asking the pope if that is ok then and someone posting a meme react with the pope holding a baseball bat saying 'did I stutter'

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StopSkeletonsFromFighting @stopskeletons.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Need a good horror movie for your Friday? I put all the Mighty No 9 and Keiji Inafune videos into one convenient compilation. This is some of the best and proudest work on the channel, even if the story is heartbreaking and frustrating. Enjoy! youtu.be/qNz7x1ZxJOM

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Mighty No 9 and Keiji Inafune - The Whole Story | Past Mortem | SSFF

YouTube video by Stop Skeletons From Fighting

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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd.

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Vic @vlcrst.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So that's why Eminem was on my mentions I alreqey knew he was a pi ce or crap, but I guess u can always go lower

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Darío @dariosamo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just a warning for everyone, since Video Game Slopterica keeps being the most irresponsible YouTube Channel to exist these days. The Banjo-Tooie Recompilation is NOT associated with us. It is entirely AI-generated. Both Zelda: Recompiled and Banjo: Recompiled have very clear No AI stances.

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Jason Prime @blazingwaters.northsky.social · 01/10/2026

Crossposting this here to spread awareness Someone (Pale) stole Life Bottle Production's work for Phantasia Narikiri Dungeon X, used AI to fill in the rest and is trying to present it as their own They also reportedly did this [shitting out AI crap] for a month straight

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Nintendeal @nintendeal.com · 01/10/2026

Castlevania: Belmont's Curse demo available on all platforms Switch: bit.ly/4xZHDhJ Steam: bit.ly/47tKC74 PS5: bit.ly/4zaa2CI Xbox: bit.ly/4z86q40 "Save data from the demo can be transferred to the full game."

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Tom Schalk - Voice Actor Guy @tomschalk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Halloween times are coming 💀

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Nate Purkeypile: Solo Indie Dev🤘🏹🔪 @npurkeypile.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m a solo dev (worked on Fallout) and just opened the STEAM PLAYTEST for my roguelike inspired by iconic ’80s horror flicks you are the HORROR VILLAIN stalk your victims use stealth & disguises turn everyday objects into weapons playtest is solo but co-op coming GONE FERAL

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Vic @vlcrst.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

...bergas se me antojo bien BIEN Cabron unos chilaquiles verdes con pollo, frijoles refritos, su huevo estrellado, y un café de olla con canela

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Marie the Cat's Expressive Sigh

ALT: Marie the Cat's Expressive Sigh

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rooshoes @roo.shoes · 28/09/2026

very pleased that multiple people get this

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Vic @vlcrst.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Legend says, there is a place where the Xolos wait for souls to guide them to the afterlife" A beer company has more soul and artistic vision than anything slop AI could ever come up with youtu.be/4RVwBdO5lks?...

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A ti, ¿quién te espera?

YouTube video by Victoria México

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Andoryu🌸COMMISSION OPEN @andoryuanzuru.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

DO YOU KNOW HOW RARE KOS-MOS VER 1 MERCH IS THESE DAYS!? DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG THIS PRINT OF THE MODEL KIT HAS BEEN OFF!? YOU SHOULD TOTALLY GET IT

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Lizz Robinett @lizzrobinett.com · 15/09/2026

Reminder that DJ Cutman runs a Suno AI slop farm called “Snuggle Bunch”, aimed specifically at children. The same man that publicly denounced the use of gen AI, yet has been actively using it for monetary gain (as recently as last week)

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Garrett Gilchrist @garrettgilchrist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Have you noticed they're putting Harry Potter on everything now, and signing licenses in aisles of the store that don't normally have licenses Because they know that in a year or two even Grandma is going to know that Joanne Rowling is a deranged bigot and the brand will be toxic

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StopSkeletonsFromFighting @stopskeletons.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Touch grass or touchpads? The 2015 Steam Controller was maybe the most lovingly crafted hardware failure in video game history. But was it really a failure? Its insane history says otherwise. New episode of Punching Weight! Watch with your pets! RT's appreciated! 💀 youtu.be/xkMuoA88n4M 💀

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 28/09/2026

Picking apples is also cool, but apples will not warn you of carbon monoxide. Repeat - apples are not a substitute for working carbon monoxide alarms.

A carbon monoxide alarm growing on an apple tree. The text reads: Get a fresh one! Carbon monoxide alarms have expiration dates. Check the date on your carbon monoxide alarm.

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SimpsonsQOTD @simpsonsqotd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"What a time to be alive."

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H.K // デビル零 #PlayMoreVF @devilrei.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Everyone seems to link this site when news of some crappy recomp drops! Stop doing that! Literally everything on the site is made by AI, from the images to the writing! Of course they want to promote this slop! Don’t give them oxygen!

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Dan Kayur 🥞🥄 @dankayur.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Apparently my pinned wasn't clear enough 'cause I'm seeing mutuals talk about "championing" the new Fatal Fury. The SNK you know died in 2013. UniVersus (then UFS)'s King of Fighters NeoMax set was the last release of anything under SNK USA and they were disbanded before it came out.

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

VGP confirms Terranigma Foil Standard/Steelbook/Gaia Editions are exclusive to LRG and won't be sold at VGP in the future

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Game Wolf Advance (2001) @ator.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I LOVE YOU SENSHI. YOU JUST GET IT

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The Amityville Jordan (1979) @jackal27.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You can’t even comprehend how important Eien ni Hen’s work is to the fan translation community. Romancing SaGa, Fire Emblem, Sakura Wars, Tear Ring Saga, Glory of Heracles, Dragon Force II, Dark Half, Beyond Oasis, Psi-O-Blade, Arabian Nights, and so much more. What a loss. Rest in peace.

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Francisco González @grundislav.games · 25/09/2026

This comment honestly made my day. Indie dev can be a lonely thing, but knowing your work can have a positive effect on people makes it all worth it.

Please allow me to say that your game is great, and thank you for making it!
I played it during a difficult time in my life, looking for some escapism in the form of the point-and-click adventure games I loved as a kid. A Golden Wake was exactly the bit of comfort I needed, so I'll always remember it fondly. It gives me a warm feeling of nostalgia whenever I see it in my Steam library, sitting alongside other classics of the genre and reminding me that I'm in a better place now.
Beyond that, the game itself is a true gem. As someone who considers a strong sense of place one of the most important parts of any story, you did a masterful job. I'm not from Florida, but I could feel its history and character, from the charm to the excess, coming through at every turn.
l've always wanted to make a game of my own but have never found the courage. I'd be incredibly proud to have created something so well made and full of heart. Thank you for sharing it with the world!

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Kaius ⛔ @kaius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

DOES ANYONE KNOW ANY EN TO JP LOCALIZATION EXPERTS WHO WOULD BE INTERESTED IN WORKING WITH ME TO PASS TRANSLATIONS ON FIGHTING GAME VIDEO ESSAYS !!!!!!!!!!

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Vic @vlcrst.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Big asterisk *In the United States* Because ofc nothing else is ever made in any other country

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 25/09/2026

Id have been done SO dirty... but I'm glad that they gracefully gave Quake Champions a final wrap-up. If you ever played it at any time, you get the upgrade to the final retail edition, free.

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 24/09/2026

Hey! Have you enjoyed my CRT photography over the years? If so, I could use some help. My PVM is in good hands now, but repairs are going to be pricey. If you’d like more CRT photos and can spare a couple bucks to help with the repair costs, my PayPal is here: PayPal.me/aidanmoher

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Monster Hunter Rise + Sunbreak is $9.99 on US eShop buff.ly/jWPiLKd (Steam) $8.12 Gamebillet buff.ly/OfSmL0v

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