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Richard Walsh 🇨🇦 @whilefun.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

forget video games, post your rasps and files

My largest rasp, and tiniest needle file. For the rasp sickos.

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Richard Walsh 🇨🇦 @whilefun.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

me on the wagon ride heading into the maple syrup festival with 2 children

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Richard Walsh 🇨🇦 @whilefun.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Watching this cool stuff, and a thought comes to mind: The front porch crew needs WAY dorkier and more colourful outfits

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Richard Walsh 🇨🇦 @whilefun.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

An all-time amazing space image 🚀

Artemis II launch, internal shot showing core stage separation with cool space goo in the background

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Richard Walsh 🇨🇦 @whilefun.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I mean just look at the light here. Ooof.

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Richard Walsh 🇨🇦 @whilefun.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Re-watched Mirror last night, and can't get over how gorgeous it is. These two bookend shots have been stuck in my brain since I watched it the first time.

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Richard Walsh 🇨🇦 @whilefun.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I made you a free placeholder texture

A placeholder texture. Magenta background with Papyrus-style words that read placeholder in the center, with "do not ship" repeated in rows on the top and bottom. There are embossed checkerboard bands on the top and bottom, and lens flare. You won't forget to replace this before ship.

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Richard Walsh 🇨🇦 @whilefun.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

I feel this really captures the banality of genAI. At this moment in time, it seems to me the only value in creating another pong game is the act of learning how a basic video game is made (by making it yourself). Asking genAI to do that for you eliminates the only valuable thing about the task.

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Richard Walsh 🇨🇦 @whilefun.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

it's back. "Up to you" doing a lot of work here, I guess.

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Richard Walsh 🇨🇦 @whilefun.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Ooh, maybe this helps. I right clicked the dumb side bar icon, then unchecked the AI checkbox, turned off side bar, then went to generic settings, searched AI, then turned off a few more unsolicited trash AI things, too.

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Richard Walsh 🇨🇦 @whilefun.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Sometimes you just need to take apart your numpad and not put it back together until it looks like it's from a weird sci fi loading dock or something. Needs better key caps, though.

A USB numpad, painted "space orange" and weathered with dings and scratches. Two mediocre white angled pinstripes at the bottom below the delete and enter keys. It looks junky and old, yet from the future, hopefully.

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Richard Walsh 🇨🇦 @whilefun.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Great post! The Kung Fu 3 mod trailer was the reason I finally bought a full retail copy of Max Payne. This shot, specifically. I got out of my chair and drove to the game store and it was amazing.

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Richard Walsh 🇨🇦 @whilefun.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

There is a non-zero chance I am going to make a Skin Deep mod. This is a lot of fun to goof around in

Basic mostly empty Skin Deep mod map with red lighting and a patrolling engineer space pirate monster

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Richard Walsh 🇨🇦 @whilefun.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

The newest adorable member of my scale model video game goo shelf is the Walkie Talkie item from Skin Deep. It's roughly 1:4 scale, but that's just a wild guess because it's a fictional object to begin with.

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Richard Walsh 🇨🇦 @whilefun.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Finished Skin Deep. I had loads of fun and would buy some DLC of more ship missions for 20 bucks in a second.

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Richard Walsh 🇨🇦 @whilefun.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

The level of chaos and slapstick goofs in this game are great, too. I appreciate the cinematic cuts to show things getting serious (for you or for space pirates), and the event log and "fly mode" with event markers is great. Look at this poor sap who got nailed by a swordfish robot as I escaped. Hah

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Richard Walsh 🇨🇦 @whilefun.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Some very good machine plates in Skin Deep. The cat memos are something I am actually reading and laughing at. There is a cat speaking in ye olde english, which feels like the correct level of silly.

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Richard Walsh 🇨🇦 @whilefun.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

This screen and HUD contents seems a bit insane as a static image, but it makes total sense in the moment. The chaos that can unfold in a matter of seconds is satisfying. Peeking through a door to make a move to shoot a space pirate and 10 seconds later the world is on fire 🙏

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Richard Walsh 🇨🇦 @whilefun.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Still enjoying Skin Deep a lot. The diegetic ammo checks are excellent. I am failing at times, and enjoying every goofy second of my failures. Accidentally rack your shotgun in the vacuum of space? Sure. Bleed out trying to call off a search and hobble to the health station? Yes.

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Richard Walsh 🇨🇦 @whilefun.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Look at this loading screen, it's delightful

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Richard Walsh 🇨🇦 @whilefun.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Skin Deep is doing a lot of fun stuff. I smashed a guards head into the wall, not realizing that I broke the information station and thus could not save my game using that station without summoning repair bots and probably drawing more attention to myself. 10/10 no notes.

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Richard Walsh 🇨🇦 @whilefun.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Skin Deep has some really fun Blendo stuff! All the weird little machines and terminals and signs are excellent so far.

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Richard Walsh 🇨🇦 @whilefun.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Finished build. Canonically, "Office Complex Wooden Snack Vending Machine No 2, with broken glass". Note the extremely stupid easter egg on the back...incorrectly offset "soda soda pop" texture. Complete with "institutional 1950s floor wax swirls". I love it, melty soft edges included.

Completed HL1 "Office Complex" wooden snack vending machine

"soda soda pop" texture, badly offset, on rear face of machine

An attempt at "1950s swirly floor wax" finish on floor section of diorama

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Richard Walsh 🇨🇦 @whilefun.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I can't really play old favourite games without examining everything. The "Ma" between the bunker door and the title card here works so well. You see all the bad signs and the weird skinless dead zombie guy, etc. Then have to break the lock and climb into the place you're not supposed to go. 👨‍🍳

The space between the bunker door in the hallway leading to ravenholm in Half Life 2. It's filled with signs and warnings and bad omens, and ends with a caged off ladder you need to break into to use, then climb up to the dark hell of the old town, in the pitch dark, with title card "we don't go to ravenholm".

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Richard Walsh 🇨🇦 @whilefun.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

(Quake 1 shareware slipgate variants, Left vs Right orientation)

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Richard Walsh 🇨🇦 @whilefun.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Hm, like the quake slipgate build, HL1 wooden snack machine comes in regular and reversed versions. I'm going to see which there are more of and make that one canon. I like the reversed one better (selection panel on right side)

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Richard Walsh 🇨🇦 @whilefun.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Hm, yep, think I'm going to try making one of these...

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Richard Walsh 🇨🇦 @whilefun.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I have always assumed that DR>BREEN was spelled with a '>' because holding shift and typing "DR. BREEN" skips '.' and types '>' and no one ever corrected it for the final texture.

Vending machine from Half-Life 2 which reads "DR>BREENS PRIVATE RESERVE"

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Richard Walsh 🇨🇦 @whilefun.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I didn't realize it also came with this super beefy excellent case. (Had to test glow in the dark, it did not disappoint!)

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Richard Walsh 🇨🇦 @whilefun.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Been playing HROT (2023) and having a good time. It seems to take it's aesthetic choices very seriously, and there is a sense of purity and authenticity about that

Boss fight at the gym, some kind of sentient pommel horse. Shooting it with a lightning gun

A working synth with changeable tones. I know there is probably a secret to be found here if I played the right notes in sequence.

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Richard Walsh 🇨🇦 @whilefun.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Being locked out of their US gov't job right now? Did you know the CIA just has this on their website for you to read? www.cia.gov/stories/stor... www.cia.gov/static/5c875... Here, one could simply substitute "Axis Nationals" with "Leon's boys". Or "Less skillful worker" with "Leon's boys", etc.

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Richard Walsh 🇨🇦 @whilefun.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I enjoy the directness of this quit confirmation

Quit confirmation prompt from the video game Void Bastards, which reads "Quit Game? All Progress is Saved"

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Richard Walsh 🇨🇦 @whilefun.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

Been playing the hell out of Mars First Logistics. I generally don't engage in early access, but this has been great. "Weird Lego Technic Snowrunner" seems like an apt summary. It's fun! When frustrating, it's almost always 100% my fault, which feels like the correct way to be frustrated by a game

Very weird robot, carrying a ladder upright on mars

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Richard Walsh 🇨🇦 @whilefun.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

Maybe the best respawn screen of an actioney arcade game I've ever scene, who can say for sure. It's a good choice.

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Richard Walsh 🇨🇦 @whilefun.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

I guess there is a 4 image limit here. So here is the 5th one I wanted to post. Hitting me over the head with its intention, and I am here for it all day.

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Richard Walsh 🇨🇦 @whilefun.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

Minor spoilers for El Paso Elsewhere, I guess, but I can't get enough of the style choices of this game. It's leaning all the way into its ~*-vibe-*~ or whatever, and it's great. More saturated colors and good composition choices in cutscenes and transitions, please. 🙏

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