Ashley Black 🔪💚
@darkside-ashley.bsky.social
UI artist and gamedev (they/she) || namco/retro game maniac
a good friend of pacman in the pacland || texan in LA || uncool but satisfied
a good friend of pacman in the pacland || texan in LA || uncool but satisfied
Pinned
PAC-MAN is so cool
damn. more like Twinkenstein (good movie)
November 22, 2025 at 5:38 AM
damn. more like Twinkenstein (good movie)
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not sure who needs to hear this, but I think they need to start putting Karnov in games again
November 21, 2025 at 7:14 PM
not sure who needs to hear this, but I think they need to start putting Karnov in games again
discord servers should have a special voice chat just for members to weep quietly together
November 21, 2025 at 8:55 AM
discord servers should have a special voice chat just for members to weep quietly together
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Knowing that aging Namco fans like nothing more than a nice comfy snooze, Kadokawa are releasing 3 Namcot Famicom Box Blankets
Printed on both sides with the front & rear of the boxes, they come in replica boxes, all with a 16 page FC Namcot game booklet. 3,300円 each
www.famitsu.com/article/2025...
Printed on both sides with the front & rear of the boxes, they come in replica boxes, all with a 16 page FC Namcot game booklet. 3,300円 each
www.famitsu.com/article/2025...
November 21, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Knowing that aging Namco fans like nothing more than a nice comfy snooze, Kadokawa are releasing 3 Namcot Famicom Box Blankets
Printed on both sides with the front & rear of the boxes, they come in replica boxes, all with a 16 page FC Namcot game booklet. 3,300円 each
www.famitsu.com/article/2025...
Printed on both sides with the front & rear of the boxes, they come in replica boxes, all with a 16 page FC Namcot game booklet. 3,300円 each
www.famitsu.com/article/2025...
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The fact that Transgender Day of Remembrance also coincides with the anniversary of the Mexican Revolution always makes me think about Amelio Robles.
He was a trans colonel who would threaten to shoot anybody who misgendered him, and that's one of the most badass things I've heard.
He was a trans colonel who would threaten to shoot anybody who misgendered him, and that's one of the most badass things I've heard.
November 20, 2024 at 8:35 PM
The fact that Transgender Day of Remembrance also coincides with the anniversary of the Mexican Revolution always makes me think about Amelio Robles.
He was a trans colonel who would threaten to shoot anybody who misgendered him, and that's one of the most badass things I've heard.
He was a trans colonel who would threaten to shoot anybody who misgendered him, and that's one of the most badass things I've heard.
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20, November (D.D.R. version) - N.M.R feat. DJ nagureo
YouTube video by dancegaabriel
youtu.be
November 20, 2025 at 8:06 AM
got an espresso maker today and i can see the color out of space now
November 20, 2025 at 1:48 AM
got an espresso maker today and i can see the color out of space now
i think a good bit would be to have this unplayed copy of Immercenary get closer to me each time i post a photo
November 19, 2025 at 11:30 PM
i think a good bit would be to have this unplayed copy of Immercenary get closer to me each time i post a photo
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This is an open invitation
I will meet anyone, anytime in my area
We go to a bar/restaurant
No phones or devices
We name N64 games back and forth until someone can't, loser buys food
I will meet anyone, anytime in my area
We go to a bar/restaurant
No phones or devices
We name N64 games back and forth until someone can't, loser buys food
November 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
This is an open invitation
I will meet anyone, anytime in my area
We go to a bar/restaurant
No phones or devices
We name N64 games back and forth until someone can't, loser buys food
I will meet anyone, anytime in my area
We go to a bar/restaurant
No phones or devices
We name N64 games back and forth until someone can't, loser buys food
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This is THIS WEEK!! It's going to be a big night so if you're thinking of coming out to party with us now is a great time to get yourself a ticket!
Well we didn't really get a chance to tease this, with the power outage during the show and all that, but Normal for Girls will return NEXT MONTH with the help of our friends at IMPACT! We will be doing an IRL/URL show at Kremwerk in Seattle! Get yer tix here >>> impactraves.org/events/norma...
NORMAL FOR GIRLS × IMPACT!
Internet party series NORMAL FOR GIRLS brings the URL to IRL for their Seattle debut with Impact!, playing house, garage, breaks, hardcore, and more!
impactraves.org
November 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM
This is THIS WEEK!! It's going to be a big night so if you're thinking of coming out to party with us now is a great time to get yourself a ticket!
trying to understand what it meant to be a man is ironically the thing that led me to realize i wasn't one, but i support the struggle to build positive masculinity so strongly 🙏 i needed messages like this when i was younger and angrier
Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made.
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
November 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
trying to understand what it meant to be a man is ironically the thing that led me to realize i wasn't one, but i support the struggle to build positive masculinity so strongly 🙏 i needed messages like this when i was younger and angrier
i'm going to buy Demonschool and play it in Spanish, a language i can't read, to support its translator @totebug.bsky.social, who you should be hiring
Demonschool is OUT NOW!
It's time to dive into a critically-acclaimed new-style tactics RPG, where motion equals action!
Available on PC, Mac, Linux, Steam Deck (Verified), Switch, PlayStation, and Xbox!
store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/...
It's time to dive into a critically-acclaimed new-style tactics RPG, where motion equals action!
Available on PC, Mac, Linux, Steam Deck (Verified), Switch, PlayStation, and Xbox!
store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/...
November 19, 2025 at 7:06 PM
i'm going to buy Demonschool and play it in Spanish, a language i can't read, to support its translator @totebug.bsky.social, who you should be hiring
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Saw a video of a skateboarding vampire maid on tumblr and I want to be that when I grow up
November 19, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Saw a video of a skateboarding vampire maid on tumblr and I want to be that when I grow up
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scientists are calling it “the best game boxart of all time”
November 17, 2025 at 11:58 PM
scientists are calling it “the best game boxart of all time”
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In the decade-plus I've been making my weekly videos, Rebecca was the only developer to have jumped into my comments to clear up a point I was unclear about—then she graciously agreed to be on the podcast. I found her to be as generous and kind as she was talented. It's truly tragic that she's gone.
In hearing of the passing of Rebecca Heineman, I thought it would be worth sharing this wonderful interview she did on @retronauts.bsky.social:
retronauts.com/article/1167...
retronauts.com/article/1167...
Episode 211 explores the career of Rebecca Heineman
A whirlwind overview of a legendary programmer's work.
retronauts.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:23 AM
In the decade-plus I've been making my weekly videos, Rebecca was the only developer to have jumped into my comments to clear up a point I was unclear about—then she graciously agreed to be on the podcast. I found her to be as generous and kind as she was talented. It's truly tragic that she's gone.
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having a real normal hair day today (thank you so damn much to @vequinox.bsky.social for bleaching and dyeing it)
November 7, 2025 at 10:37 PM
having a real normal hair day today (thank you so damn much to @vequinox.bsky.social for bleaching and dyeing it)
you have a heart of gold. don't let them take it from you!
November 16, 2025 at 7:14 AM
you have a heart of gold. don't let them take it from you!
i could've survived Castlevania
November 16, 2025 at 5:50 AM
i could've survived Castlevania
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dreamcast really had some bangers, especially when it came to the music. shoutout metropolis street racer for essentially having more sonic r tracks
November 16, 2025 at 1:20 AM
dreamcast really had some bangers, especially when it came to the music. shoutout metropolis street racer for essentially having more sonic r tracks
i've been playing Buggy Heat on dreamcast and this car is called Drank Schenker
November 16, 2025 at 12:58 AM
i've been playing Buggy Heat on dreamcast and this car is called Drank Schenker
for #RandomGameSaturday it's Isolated Warrior!
it's kind of weird how overlooked this game is! an autoscrolling isometric run and gun shooter, similar to Zaxxon in presentation, with beautiful graphics and some spectacular enemy designs
it's kind of weird how overlooked this game is! an autoscrolling isometric run and gun shooter, similar to Zaxxon in presentation, with beautiful graphics and some spectacular enemy designs
November 15, 2025 at 6:48 PM
for #RandomGameSaturday it's Isolated Warrior!
it's kind of weird how overlooked this game is! an autoscrolling isometric run and gun shooter, similar to Zaxxon in presentation, with beautiful graphics and some spectacular enemy designs
it's kind of weird how overlooked this game is! an autoscrolling isometric run and gun shooter, similar to Zaxxon in presentation, with beautiful graphics and some spectacular enemy designs
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really loving this dracula manga (#DRCL Midnight Children), the art is stunning- I genuinely haven't seen manga art this beautifully detailed since Miura, and some of the horror illustrations make my skin crawl
November 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
really loving this dracula manga (#DRCL Midnight Children), the art is stunning- I genuinely haven't seen manga art this beautifully detailed since Miura, and some of the horror illustrations make my skin crawl
simultaneously drinking milk out of my cereal bowl, reading this on my phone, and openly crying at the beauty of this assignment Kurt gave them. gonna be one of Those mornings huh
one of the best parts of making art is *making* art. the refining, the fiddling, watching something bad turn into something good. it's the greatest type of exhilaration a person working alone can have
I keep thinking about this Vonnegut letter from 2006. these people are starving their own souls
I keep thinking about this Vonnegut letter from 2006. these people are starving their own souls
![Dear Xavier High School, and Ms. Lockwood, and Messrs Perin, McFeely, Batten, Maurer and Congiusta:
I thank you for your friendly letters. You sure know how to cheer up a really old geezer (84) in his sunset years. I don't make public appearances any more because I now resemble nothing so much as an iguana.
What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit: Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.
Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives. Draw a funny or nice picture of Ms. Lockwood, and give it to her. Dance home after school, and sing in the shower and on and on. Make a face in your mashed potatoes. Pretend you're Count Dracula.
Here's an assignment for tonight, and I hope Ms. Lockwood will flunk you if you don't do it: Write a six line poem, about anything, but rhymed. No fair tennis without a net. Make it as good as you possibly can. But don't tell anybody what you're doing. Don't show it or recite it to anybody, not even your girlfriend or parents or whatever, or Ms. Lockwood. OK?
Tear it up into teeny-weeny pieces, and discard them into widely separated trash recepticals [sic]. You will find that you have already been gloriously rewarded for your poem. You have experienced becoming, learned a lot more about what's inside you, and you have made your soul grow.
God bless you all!
Kurt Vonnegut](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:66urak6a57qgkikpxod2cchx/bafkreibx5gp2kihijmqrna4lw6igh2zs2jew4zxjq5odnl5tajuqwhljtq@jpeg)
November 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
simultaneously drinking milk out of my cereal bowl, reading this on my phone, and openly crying at the beauty of this assignment Kurt gave them. gonna be one of Those mornings huh
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Japanese poster for FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE (1965)
Directed and co-written by Sergio Leone
Starring Clint Eastwood
Directed and co-written by Sergio Leone
Starring Clint Eastwood
November 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Japanese poster for FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE (1965)
Directed and co-written by Sergio Leone
Starring Clint Eastwood
Directed and co-written by Sergio Leone
Starring Clint Eastwood