Erik Kelly

Happy Sunday from Cali, everyone.

Feels like El Niño is finally moving in on the West Coast this week, with our first real taste of rippled skies and rain. Happy Saturday, everyone.

Anyone but Callum Turner, who my wife once called "the ugly guy from Eternity" because she didn't know his name.

Every Film Now@everyfilmnow.bsky.social

Callum Turner, Jack Lowden and Josh O’Connor are among the four finalists for James Bond in Denis Villeneuve’s upcoming film. The fourth contender remains secret and is not Jacob Elordi. Final screen tests start next week. #JamesBond #CallumTurner #JackLowden #JoshOConnor

Do you disavow Wong Foo and everything he did for Julie Newmar?

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

Do you disavow the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants? Do you disavow the Brother from Another Planet?

I love macro photography because it lets you get a peek at all the tiny universes that exist around us. Happy Saturday everyone!

@afewfromtheforest.bsky.social

Man I wish Katie Zacharia's last name was Fandango.

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Creight Photo 🌱☮️

#WaterWednesday 🍂 📍Rock Run, Pennsylvania

@ryan-steele-mcg.bsky.social

Happy Saturday! Have a nice day, everyone. #photography

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Crowsa Luxemburg

@quendergeer.bsky.social

I ken this smack barm pea wet don't exist. I ken that when I put it in me mouth, the Matrix is telling me yed that it is juicy and delicious. But after nine years, ye ken what I've decided? I'm plum jiggered

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Ryan McGinnis

Edge of the World Milky Way star trails over the Washington coast.

Happy Friday! Dandy dandelion puffball. #photography

@wejustinnocentmen.bsky.social

wild rose #photography

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We're just normal men

We’re just normal men

Video Game History Foundation

Oof. Backing physical homebrew Game Boy games is something I really like to do, but just look at how much it really costs. $25 shipping! $9 tariffs! (That one is obviously America's fault.) It sucks but I'll probably be switching to digital for this going forward. =\

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@gamehistoryorg.bsky.social

Official Sega Dreamcast product shots from 1999? We've got those in VGHF's GamePro asset CD collection: https://archive.gamehistory.org/folder/6150e1d0-363d-478d-8d48-c90d1fcb02d6

Happy Saturday! Here's a close-up of a tiny wirelettuce flower for you. #photography #macro

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Jim Rohan

@jimrohanjr.bsky.social

Central Park South, NYC. Made with a modified Agfa Isoly I camera.

@damianshields.bsky.social

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Damian Shields

An Grianan from Fasnacloich, Glen Creran #Scotland #Invercreran #Appin #Argyll www.damianshields.com

Mr. Smith, can you confirm on the record that you attended the premiere of Armageddon in 1998? I'll give you a minute to collect your thoughts because I don't think you know we have this.

As an 80s kid it’s impossible to hear Holding Out For A Hero without also hearing a determined self-aware robot psyching himself up and talking shit.

Absolutely phenomenal cover on the latest issue of @retrogamermag.bsky.social (or at least the latest one to reach me in the states 😀)

Happy Saturday Sunrise #photography #california

There are many like it but this one is #My9Games Tough choices when you've been gaming this long.

20 Sept

Life is full of so much beauty and yet social media is practically carved out of pure negativity.

19 Sept

Happy Saturday! #photography

12 Sept

A happy little monarch butterfly for your Saturday enjoyment. Captured on my Sony DSC-F828, which is almost 25 years old now! #photography

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Ellie, but spooky

@roughling.bsky.social

12 Sept

this is such a fun little horror moment in metroid 2. absolutely perfect use of the gameboy's memory limits: you want to get some space between you and the surprise metroid, but the hole you shot to get here has already filled with sand again. you're trapped.

Just look at this cover! Super excited for this month's random classic video game magazine from @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social! It's the 2/93 edition of Computer Gaming World, a magazine I don't know at all. We should at least find some good ads in here. Please dive into the thread below for fun finds.

There's a nice little story here about online friendships between people. "This on-line bulletin board is really a lot more than a few guys gabbing about the latest products on the market. I consider a lot of you my friends.... Let's never let this camaraderie end." I wonder if they did.

Closing with a point of order: I don't recognize most of the games in this magazine but Spectre is awesome! Play it on the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/Spec... (But know that a local emulator or original hardware is better, if you have them)

Cool art in this ad for Star Control II. Not so good artwork in the ad for The Perfect General IMO.

👀 👀 👀 @pc98audi.bsky.social

The Comdex report from 1993. Mentioned: 586/Pentium, smart TVs, 3DO, Sega CD, CD-R ("in development"), The 7th Guest ("long-awaited"). "Unfortunately, there is no clear direction as to where technology is taking the computer gaming hobby." This was clearly the early pre-3D days of PC gaming.

A quite negative review of The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes with this banger: "...new Mario games are always coming out because the old ones sold like gangbusters, while new Sherlock Holmes games come out in spite of the fact that their predecessors sold like space heaters in the Sahara."

Seriously, one of the most interesting things about reading through old mags is seeing when something we take fully for granted was invented and considered revolutionary. Here's an example: the ability to name your save file and see a screenshot of the moment you saved.

And then there are things I didn't even know existed, like play-by-mail games. Bold move to basically ask in a computer magazine "are you tired of your computer?" Wikipedia has a list of play-by-mail games and one of them has been active since the 1960s! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

They are *breathless* about the Mandelbrot set. "Millennia from now, the creation/discovery of fractals will rank with the invention of writing and numbers in the history of human thought." Quite a statement. Check out this song for a less serious take on fractals: youtu.be/-YMcqNc4nSY?...

I had to lol at this. I know it was the early '90s and in-game GUIs were still relatively new, but describing this interface as "revolutionary" is a "the PlayStation can produce mind-boggling effects" moment.

A special Techno-Wizardry section. I miss the days when we talked about technology in earnest, positive terms. 'Computers provide tools for personal creativity and entertainment, group interaction, altered perspectives...' Sometimes for the worse, right? It didn't feel that way back then.

They spend *three* full pages on a fractal generator program called FracTools in their special "Techno-Wizardry" section. I think this image is kinda cool. FracTools 3 is on the Internet Archive.

@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social

5 Sept

Detail on a column of ancient Roman ruins at Paphos Archaeological Park in Cyprus. #photography #archaeology

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Tom Cox

31 Aug

If I could say one sentence to cats and make them understand it, it would probably be "If you are going to puke, please do it on a hard surface."