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Best friends together again

Dr. Eggman and Dr. Wily from the Archie Sonic the Hedgehog comic playing a video game against each other on a device called an "Eggs Box". In the background are toy models of Eggman's robots Motobug and Buzzer, a nd Dr. Wily's Castle. The screen shows Sonic beating Megaman in a fighting game, and the screen says "Time Over". Robotnik raises his fist victoriously, Dr. Wily is sticking his tongue out.

September 25, 2025 at 2:34 AM

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Me, playing Sonic Racing Crossworlds as Robotnik and getting Zazz as my rival, seeing him grab the camera and lick the screen: "Oh, I guess he's in this? Instead of Zavok? All right then."

My sister, watching: "WHO THE HELL IS THAT"

Sonic villain Zazz of the Deadly Six, reaching forward to grab the camera that is theoretically filming him to emphasize his taunt toward Dr. Robotnik, with a caption saying "Revenge time, baby! I'm gonna terrorize you all the way to the finish line!"

A graphic declares that he is a rival racer and gives him a level of 3 out of 10 flame icons to indicate how challenging he is.

August 30, 2025 at 10:22 AM

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I feel some vindication about this opening weekend. But my condolences to longtime Minecraft players who wanted something else. Y'just got Phantom Menace'd.

A Discord message from CraterLabs dated 09/07/2024 1:13 PM saying 'Honestly, the only thing that truly feels weird to me about the Minecraft movie trailer is that Jack Black doesn't look like Minecraft Steve to me

Nearly every complaint I hear about it is people saying "But it looks like X!" where X is something that nine year olds love"

The first sentence has an image of Ellen from El Goonish Shive nodding her head somberly as a reaction emoji.

April 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM

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Got my calendar from @ethannestor.bsky.social today! Time for many months of a good boi. :-)

An open calendar showing January 2025 with the days New Year's Day, Backflip Day (the 19th), and a day marked as :/ (the 6th). Above the month is a picture of Ethan Nestor in a festive top hat, yellow bow tie, black shirt, and suit jacket holding a bottle of champagne upside down. Ethan's arm is on the shoulder of his dog Spencer, who is also wearing a matching yellow bow tie. A cityscape in the background has fireworks going off above it, implying a New Year's Day celebration.

February 18, 2025 at 10:42 PM

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So I just picked up a new Playdate game called Bona Fido by @rae.wtf. This game is adorable, it's like the original Mario Bros. game, but instead of clearing monsters out of a sewer you clear them from the underworld by barking. Pick it up if you've got a Playdate!

play.date/games/bona-f...

Saved for posterity: Nicole's high score after a single session of Bona Fido, coming in at 5th place with 1350 points; highest scocre is 4600, highest about CraterLabs is 1350, and the lowest (right below) is 300.

February 2, 2025 at 9:35 PM

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My fingers hurt so much, but I'm ready to play my new game!

#RansomNotes
#tabletop
#boardgames

A stack of game cards titled "Ransom Notes", the game box, a plastic baggie with small metal trays, a black drawstring bags, and most prominently a large stack of refrigerator magnet poetry words, all arranged on the top of a wooden table

December 29, 2024 at 7:52 PM

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Is it weird that this tiny, tiny portion of an enhanced screenshot for the upcoming Shadow Generations movie DLC is the most important part of the reveal to me? :-P

A small sign sticking out of a building featuring a stylized Robotnik face, done in the style of the old Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon instead of the modern Eggman silhouette

December 13, 2024 at 4:16 AM

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Uggghhhhhh fine, I'll do one of these engagement bait things, but only because it looks fun and I like talking about myself (the art section will talk about the arts of writing and/or sandwich making)

A series of 50 questions that will be answered depending on the likes received, including 1) why are you on Bluesky, 16) favorite season, 27) last book you read, and 40) who'd you do fanart of

December 3, 2024 at 6:07 PM

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Just realized I didn't share my Halloween costume! Here it is. Low budget, but a lotta fun.

Brown paper bag with a crudely drawn picture of a monster with orange horns, red eyes, three teeth poking out of its mouth, red hair, and a scar on it's forehead

November 6, 2024 at 2:46 AM

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Decided to go to a comedy club for an open mic night for the first time tonight with a friend. I was worried it was gonna be sketchy but literally my only complaint is that it wrapped up after just one hour instead of two.

So we went walking in a local park and saw a splash pad light show.

Fountains and lights splashing red, blue, and green water around with a restaurant called "Howard Park Public House" in the background

October 9, 2024 at 2:07 AM

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Looks like I was Bluesky user #118,685. Woo, first 250,000 adopters!

An image proclaiming me to be user #118,685

September 17, 2024 at 12:43 AM

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This is what I like to call "Environmental Storytelling"

A screenshot from the Team Fortress 2 store page on Steam giving the game's image, description, Recent Reviews (listed as Mostly Negative) and All Reviews (listed as Very Positive)

June 4, 2024 at 10:51 PM

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My sister came back from a road trip to see a mothman museum and said she got me a present.

Turned out it was a cute li'l Flatwoods Monster sticker!

Sticker of a Flatwoods Monster designed as a cute girl in a green dress, affixed to the lid of a laptop

April 26, 2024 at 9:41 PM

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I think this is probably the most sensible final layout I've ever gotten in Catacombs of Karak.

January 11, 2024 at 5:36 AM

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I'm concerned about the math being used on the NaNoWriMo website

A screenshot of my progress in NaNoWriMo from the official website, claiming that my 49819 written words out of my 50000 goal is 100%

December 1, 2023 at 3:10 AM

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Okay, I finally, *finally* caught back up with where I should be in NaNoWriMo. And with two days to spare!

A Scrivener Project Target window showing 46,700 words of 50,000 words finished in the whole manuscript, and 4,090 words written out of 1,667 in the current session.

November 29, 2023 at 12:14 PM

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Okay, made some good progress on catching up in NaNoWriMo today. Passed the 40K mark, and with four more days to go that's not too shabby.

NaNoWriMo 2023 progress: 80% (40,099 out of 50,000 words) and various badges marking the progress in the event

November 27, 2023 at 12:26 PM

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Went to a Halloween party for clowns with a hastily assembled (thanks entirely to my sister while I was at work) costume that represents my inner bank robber

October 17, 2023 at 6:06 AM

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I've been procrastinating about Inktober, so here's two images to catch up.

1: Dream: Teleporting SuperTeen Short-Cut has only had one dream since Galaxy City was destroyed, and it's not a great one...

10: Fortune: Notorious gangster Sammy Stick-Figure steals a fortune from the 723rd national bank