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Hi my name is Thorn and I make awful posts. Just absolute dogshit posts
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The key art of Ville Kallio's surreal cyberpunk comedy-horror game Cruelty Squad.
November 20, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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IDK, I think @stephencollins.bsky.social has still got it

the way he contrasts the mundanity of life with the shitshow that is modern politics really tickles me
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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'Course, that was the early version of the Space Agency uni. The new one's got more of a "practical workwear" feel with a zipper and pockets, and the division colour is now the primary and not the highlight colour.
#myart
A small drawing of a red zip-up jacket with grey "stripes" down the shoulders and outsides of the arms. It's been partially unzipped and folded out to form psuedo-lapels at the top, revealing the grey inner lining and a red shirt worn underneath.
November 19, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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eh screw it imma post my art here

Lieutenant Kalo Vek, head of the Tactical Division of the Confederation Space Agency vessel Wayfinder
#myart
A humanoid alien with chitinous skin, spiracles on his neck, a jagged mouth, a very shallow nose, and a pair of antennae on his forehead. He's looking confidently off to the side, wearing a white and grey jacket with red markings.
November 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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An edit of a popup message from Sim City 2000, saying "YOU CAN'T RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!"
November 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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how i feel after making yet another dogshit skeet
The C rank screen of Pinolino's Great Grand Adventure in the Tower, a Pizza Tower total conversion mod. It depicts Pinolino (a bizzare Peppino Spaghetti-like creature) staring at the camera with hollow, hateful eyes and a grotesquely distorted frown. His body is drawn extremely slender and seems to be dangling below his face. To his right is the word "LOSE" written in bright red default MS Paint font letters.
November 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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This post was approved the Humanist Insight and Regulatory Authority.
The emblem of the Humanist Alliance from Dream Pod 9's Heavy Gear gaming universe.
November 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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The poster of the 2008 EVE Online Machinima Clear Skies, which centres on a trio of freelancer spaceship crew and their second-hand Minmatar battleship who are forced to take on a contract which may well be beyond their pay grade.
November 16, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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If you're Stateside then I can only really think of Panzerschiffe? They do 1/2400 waterline ships, all one-piece resin castings. They're infamously "low-res" but they get the job done, and their WW1 French range has a few pre-dreads.
The official product image of the Panzerschiffe model of the Bouvet-class battleship. It's a rather crude looking single-piece casting, with no masts and little upperworks, painted all over flat grey except the funnel tops and clearly photographed with a handheld camera. It has a distinct lo-fi charm.
November 16, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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I'd probably go for Tumbling Dice's 1/2400 "Age of Battleships" line. The moulding's not the best but they're cheap. They're also all pewter, which is a plus in my book.
A higher quality image of a 1/2400 Tumbling Dice Bouvet-class battleship. The moulding is still pretty crude, the turrets are still part of the hull piece, but it's got more accurate proportions and the upperworks are more clearly defined.
November 16, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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If one has not committed crimes of the heart one has not truly lived
November 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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I am now regrettably obligated to show you this
November 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Combo meter ranks from Hetzer, an arcade endless survival game with shitpost elements made in @gdevelop.bsky.social's GDevelop 5 engine.

I was inspired by Pizza Tower for these, and even moreso by Pizza Tower joke mods like Pinolino Adventure and greg.
#gamedev #indiedev #shitposting
3/3
The word "Hi" written in hand-drawn black letters with a white outline. The word "MOLDY" written in hand-drawn greyish white letters with black outlines. The letters are crudely and erratically drawn and are covered in dark green splotches, giving the impression that the word itself has begun to molder. The words "UH-OH..." written in hasty and uneven bright red lines. What can't be seen in this image is the fact that during gameplay the icon strobes black and red. A black and white emoticon, staring ominously at the viewer with an unreadable facial expression.
November 14, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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combo meter ranks from my WIP arcade game Hetzer, made in @gdevelop.bsky.social's GDevelop 5
I was inspired by Pizza Tower for these, and even moreso by Pizza Tower joke mods like Pinolino Adventure and greg
#gamedev #indiedev #shitposting
2/3
The words "SO RETRO!" crudely constructed out of black rectangles with eyesearing neon green outlines. What can't be seen in this image is the fact that the outline flashes to neon pink at an epilepsy-inducing rate during gameplay. The words "QUITE CraZy" written in hand-drawn letters. The "QUITE" is made of neatly proportioned blocky magenta letters with a black outline, while the "CraZy" is just crudely scrawled black lines. The words "Oh Yeah!" written in hand-drawn bright red letters with black outlines. The word "GEMMY" written in hand-drawn angular letters, coloured in Minecraft diamond blues with black outlines. There is a stylised diamond in the middle of the image; its lower point nestles neatly into the middle M of the word GEMMY.
November 14, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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combo meter ranks from my game Hetzer
I was inspired by Pizza Tower for these, and even moreso by Pizza Tower joke mods like Pinolino Adventure and greg
#gamedev #indiedev #shitposting
1/3
The word "Gormless" written in dark beige hand-drawn letters. The first four letters are on top and larger, and the capitalisation is inconsistent. Overall it looks like "GOrM less" The word "CREAMY" crudely written in hand-drawn white letters. The letters appear to be oozing, giving them the impression of being composed of a thick white fluid. The word "No!" written in hand-drawn yellow letters. To the right of the word is a smiley face, crudely drawn in a bizzarely realistic style. The face has a bulbous nose, pronounced eyebrows, and seems to be smug about something. The word "MID" written in hand-drawn grey letters. The letters are drawn like 3d objects, in a manner similar to the 20th Century Fox logo. The overall impression is of a grand stone monument. A monument to Mid.
November 14, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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GMS, Harrisson Armory, IPS-N, and SSC liscences if nobody in the #lancerrpg lore invented mechs
A Neo-Soviet Bizon tank from Brigade Models' 15mm sci-fi range. It's a blocky, ugly, unsubtle brick of a thing with thick armour and a big gun, a quintessential capital-T Tank with no frills whatsoever. A CEF HT-72 hovertank from Heavy Gear Blitz. It's a sleek, robust, angular machine with a big gun and six vectored jet exhaust ducts that hold it aloft and propel it. An M9 Hannibal tank from Dropzone Commander. It's huge and bulky with prominent treads, mltiple sets of redundant sensors and spotlights, a rounded turret that evokes tanks of the 1950s, and a coaxial machine gun the size of a man. It has two big guns- a cannon in the turret almost as long as the hull, and a smaller one on the hull, presumably for dealing with dug-in infantry when making a frontal charge. Several sheets of metal have been bolted onto the turret and hull as field repairs. A Bessarabian M-36C Leu 8x8 tank from Brigade Models' 15mm Hammer's Slammers range. It's a sleek, angular vehicle that looks light and fast, riding on eight wheels that look more suited to the road than the battlefield. It's painted in an eyecatching three-tone scheme of light grey, dark grey, and sky blue.
November 14, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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the first three level-end ranks from my game Hetzer
#gamedev #indiedev
The phrase "you play like DICK" written in coloured letters with black outlines. The "you play like" is written in shaky, crude lowercase with light grey letters, while the "DICK" is in jagged angular bright red allcaps. The word "CRUDDY" written in boxy grey-green letters, which are rusting in places. The phrase "Basically Alright" written in default text on a white background The phrase, "AYY, good job!" The "AYY" is written in blocky angular spring green letters, while the "good job!" is handwritten in lower case.
November 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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How I feel looking at the DS9 fleet shots thinking "Why are these ships in a deathstack and not arranged into multiple formations over a wider area?"

#startrek
A man wearing a labelled "thinking cap" points at a hot dog wearing shades and a backward baseball cap riding a skateboard and says, with a smug grin, "this fucking sucks actually" the hotdog is helpfully labelled "(literal coolest thing ever)"
November 14, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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...he says, as though the protags of his "What if Star Trek was good" project aren't rocking up in monstrosities like this
A Confederation Space Agency vessel from my Wayfinder project. It's a big, ugly, blunt-nosed spaceship covered in antennae, bulges, and utility hatches, with a pair of winglike protrusions near the prow and four humongous engines at the stern. From the dozens of tiny portholes across its immense girth, one can tell it's several hundred meters long. It overall looks something like a cross between a Soviet cruise missile submarine and a sea cucumber.
November 13, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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An image of a galaxy, with a single point highlighted with an arrow and the caption "you are here, paying taxes to pedophiles"
November 13, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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I was married but I'm not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle.
An RT-15 Brollachan APC from Brigade Models' 15mm Hammer's Slammers miniatures line.
November 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Now that I know you're into niche wargames I find myself obligated to introduce you to Anyaral: The World of Twilight

which has been lodged in my brain ever since I saw it back at Salute 50 in '23
November 13, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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cool dead ahead screenshot I took last year

I swear I've been experiencing withdrawal symptoms since I lost my roblox account
A screenshot of the Roblox game DEAD AHEAD, taken during a round of the DREADNOUGHT gamemode on the Siccon Archipelago map. Viewed through binoculars, the Antarean battleship Omikron- a mountain of armour and guns, looking like a more heavyset and rugged Yamato with a squat and robust superstructure instead of a pagoda mast- sails broadside-on to the enemy, her three triple 406mm turrets and a bristling forest of 130mm secondaries trained on her target. Her B turret has just fired, as evidenced by the dispersing gun smoke and the trails of three 406mm shells streaking away to the left of the image.
November 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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It's kinda fascinating how our privileged position at the top of the food chain is the one thing that lets us think of so many species as cute and cuddly.

To an aphid, this is the face of death.
#insects
A macro photograph of a ladybird.
November 12, 2025 at 10:07 PM