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Hey, it's Rockdan! I like video games and hockey and things. I try to be good at fighting games and music games. He/him https://twitch.tv/heyitsrockdan
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#RandomGameSaturday

Sky Shark (NES)

A vertical scrolling shmup where you fly a warplane. Sometimes known as Flying Shark on other releases.

Notable for being one of Tim Follin’s earliest NES soundtracks.
Photo of Sky Shark cartridge for the NES. It shows a warplane diving in front, with a grimacing pilot face in the background, and the tagline “Nobody ever said it would be easy.”
November 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
rockdan.bsky.social
#RandomGameSaturday

Sky Shark (NES)

A vertical scrolling shmup where you fly a warplane. Sometimes known as Flying Shark on other releases.

Notable for being one of Tim Follin’s earliest NES soundtracks.
Photo of Sky Shark cartridge for the NES. It shows a warplane diving in front, with a grimacing pilot face in the background, and the tagline “Nobody ever said it would be easy.”
November 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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bigdad.bsky.social
READ THIS!!
November 20, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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ruminescence.bsky.social
Thursday the 20, november DJ nagureo
November 20, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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tadashidaiba.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com
"Grandia’s a game keen on showing you what’s happening rather than telling you about it, detailed sprite sheets packed with so many unique grabs, poses, pointing, high-fives[...]you wonder how they managed to fit it all onto two CD-ROMs."

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Grandia: A grand[ia] old adventure
Studio Ghibli’s Laputa: Castle in the Sky has a lot to answer for. I first saw that incredible film on plain old through-the-aerial TV as a child, back before I even knew there was a specific…
kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:38 AM
rockdan.bsky.social
Red Wings win tonight, and move to first place in the division! Hockey looked rough for a couple weeks, but all is well again
November 19, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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itzskye.bsky.social
a HOFer who now spends their time living off of their reputation while shamelessly selling out any and every way they can
jiikae.com Jiikae @jiikae.com · 5d
Only like 5 people will understand this comparison but..

Justin Wong is the Snoop Dogg of the FGC
November 18, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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✨The 2025 Ryan's Community Giving Guide for Southeast Michigan is now live ✨

If you've ever wondered who is doing work that needs your support when #givingtuesday comes around, or you want to find folks doing vital work, the 6th annual guide is here to help. Grab the pdf at henyard.com/giving
Ryan's Community Giving Guide, 2025-26 Southeast Michigan photo of a sandhill crane at sunset, captured in profile. text at the bottom reads 'created by Ryan Henyard - v6.0 - henyard.com/giving. edit and adapt for your own community!' alongside a QR code and the creative commons CC-BY-NC-SA icon from the author page, with a photo of Ryan, a large Black person in an outdoor coat, in the lower right. RYAN’S COMMUNITY GIVING GUIDE I originally created this giving guide as a way to amplify the challenges my communities were facing in 2020, and I’ve heard from lots of people who expressed a desire to help but don’t know where to start or who to support. I created this guide to highlight and uplift some of the important work happening, and encourage you to choose some of these efforts to support through donations, volunteering or mutual aid for Giving Tuesday and beyond. For the sixth edition, I have made some additions and changes to the organizations listed in the guide, and expanded sections on health and social justice programming. Our communities are filled with people dedicated to building a more just and loving future, and I’m glad to be able to share some of that with you. I’ve also started a free newsletter at www.creating.care - a place to explore in-depth my writing, art, organizing work and intersections with the people and groups weaving care into our community in a meaningful way. Because this is centered around my communities and values, it is not a comprehensive guide by any means; the guide and artwork are both available under a Creative Commons license (CC-BY-NC-SA) and I would be elated if others spread love for community-based work in their own communities. The best gift I can receive during this season is knowing someone contributed to these efforts after reading this guide, so please reach out and share your support for these community pillars with me on social media or email! In love and solidarity, Ryan Henyard email: ryan@henyard.com newsletter: https://creating.care instagram: @kuroganeig BlueSky: @ryan.blacksky.app Home of New Vision homeofnewvision.org Narcan distribution, harm reduction, recovery care, treatment and support for people who use drugs Stand With Trans standwithtrans.org Sliding scale compassionate mental health care for LGBTQ youth and their loved ones Birth Detroit birthdetroit.com Black-led, midwifery, maternal health practice offering birthing services, wellness care, prenatal/postpartum care, and classes Black Mothers Breastfeeding Association blackmothersbreastfeeding.org Reducing inequalities in breastfeeding support with community based doulas Detroit Disability Power detroitdisabilitypower.org Organizing the power of the disability community to end disparities in health, housing, education & employment Washtenaw Camp Outreach linktr.ee/washtenawcampoutreach Outreach, supplies and advocacy by and for the unhoused community FedUp Ministries fedupministries.org Offering free meals, mobile shower and laundry services to support the dignity of community members Wolverine Street Medicine wolverinestreetmedicine.org Student-run organization focused on caring for the health of those experiencing homelessness in Washtenaw County and Detroit MANY - Mutual Aid Network of Ypsilanti ypsimutualaid.org Creating survival programs & building alternative systems, including Pullover Prevention, Free Markets & Pantry Support. Detroit Peer Respite detroitpeerrespite.org Consensual, voluntary, non-clinical alternative place to stay during a mental health and/or substance-related (non-medical) crisis.
November 18, 2025 at 2:39 AM
rockdan.bsky.social
Just an incredible watch of great magic.
papapishu.bsky.social Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 6d
Good news: If you would like to watch Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants on YouTube I have done a painstaking 4k upscale of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gW...
November 17, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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notdetroitredwings.bsky.social
The beautiful game
November 17, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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lillikoifish.bsky.social
YOU GUYS WANNA SEE SOMETHING CURSED???? HOW ABOUT NEON GENESIS LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS HOCKEY?????
November 16, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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#RandomGameSaturday

Klustar (GBC)

Kinda like Tetris, but pieces come from the sides toward the middle, and you form squares to clear it. You rotate the middle chunk, not the Tetris blocks. It’s made very basic & not fun at all.

Also, hope you like hearing a long loop of bad Home On the Range.
Photo of the cartridge for Klustar, for the Game Boy Color. The cartridge is black, and the artwork shows green cubes blasting out of a purple nebula.
November 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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dogdumpster.bsky.social
woman after my own heart
November 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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4cjoe.fgcfilm.org
Friend: "Hey man, can you help me move out of my apartment this weekend?"

Me, a very busy man:
November 13, 2025 at 1:53 AM
rockdan.bsky.social
Damn. One of the greatest to ever do it.
priscillapage.bsky.social priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 12d
hearing reports out of Japan that Tatsuya Nakadai has passed away at 92. RIP to a legit legend.
a bearded Tatsuya Nakadai in Harakiri on the left side of the frame, seen through the ribs of a parasol closeup on an older Tatsuya Nakadai in Heat Wave, face slightly turned (almost in profile but not quite) with a colorful stained glass window behind him young evilly grinning Tatsuya Nakadai in Yojimbo, to the left of a window belching flames into the top of the frame gorgeous closeup on Tatsuya Nakadai in Sword of Doom wearing a ronin hat, a wide-brimmed hat made of bamboo with a chin strap, the light filtering through it onto his face.
November 11, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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ryan.blacksky.app
A reminder that this is all just how the party approaches 'kabuki theatre' on these votes; the ones who orchestrated the cave bow out of the vote depending on how much heat they get, someone else in the rotation takes the bullet, they pretend they fought hard and can go back to farting around
purrtah.bsky.social #1 Nate Blouin for Congress Stan @purrtah.bsky.social · 13d
Gary Peters and Jon Ossoff both No
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 AM
rockdan.bsky.social
hi it is snowing today

yeah I am playing some final fantasy 6
rockdan.bsky.social Rockdan @rockdan.bsky.social · Nov 26
Looks to be snowing outside today
Final Fantasy 6 opening scene of the armors walking through snow
November 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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dragon quest 1 is in the air lately, so please enjoy this old blog exploring the development of one of my favorite relationships with a jrpg world map
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a map of dragon quest 1's overworld, labeled and color-coded to describe different relationships with or feelings about geographical regions that emerged in my playthrough
November 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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#RandomGameSaturday

Steins;Gate (PS3)

A visual novel that takes an interesting approach to time travel. After establishing the premise in the first third, it hits the ground running with a very tightly paced story, in my opinion.
Photo of Steins;Gate case for the PS3. A collage of three main characters are on it, along with a wall of english text (written very small). It has a PEGI 16 rating in the corner.
November 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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November 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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wrote more about my surprisingly copaganda-free Halloween on my newsletter, creating.care - subscribe and share this abolitionist goodness - it's free.99!
A Shift In The Signal? Lastly, a small reflection on Halloween. When we first moved to Dexter in 2013, it was really different from every other place I’d lived, in so many ways; one of the biggest shocks was realizing that Halloween was a BIG DEAL here. Growing up in Detroit, where so many of my spooky seasons entailed a hyper-vigilance for Devils Night fires and having to drive to bougier neighborhoods for Trick-or-Treating, it felt great to live in a place that kids would go to rather than away from. We gathered our candy and put up some decorations, but we were not prepared for the horde. Over 250 kids showed up that first year, running us out of supplies and leaving us dumbstruck; we vowed to do better, and from that year on I started keeping track, as only a nerd can - with data! Each year I livetweet (or nowadays, thread on Bluesky) our costumed community with updates every half hour about our frantically busy Halloween; after the second year, I kept tally of which costumes were most prevalent by category — Disney princesses, Minecraft, Athletes, etc — which turned into a useful proxy for understanding what elements of pop culture were most salient for kids and their parents. Sometimes these trends tell a story, and for 2025 the biggest takeaway was from what wasn’t there: There was no copaganda at all.
November 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!

Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.

Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!

#MundaneHalloween
November 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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elmore.zone
Happy #Karnovember to all who celebrate
Karnov in an NES
November 2, 2024 at 1:54 AM
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Happy Halloween! Gather round as I tell scary stories, like how badly YT kills discoverability for smaller channels! Thus, here are some of my favorite small channels as a bonus video for hitting 2k subs

youtu.be/bGQBzaJKqvM?...
October 31, 2025 at 9:04 PM