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Eidolon
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Software Engineer and hobby #GameDev currently working on #RingRacers ( https://kartkrew.org ) and Sonic Robo Blast 2 ( https://srb2.org )

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c/c++ memory bugs
October 26, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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ohh fuck I just time traveled. please ignore the fact it's grody as hell, but this is literally the same (third party) launcher I used more than 15 years ago LOL
a GP2X handheld Linux device turned on with Cave Story selected on a third party launcher application
August 18, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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The text "you wouldn't wish ill on a mold colony" written in all capital letters in the style of a mid-2000s anti-piracy advertisement from the Motion Picture Association of America.
August 18, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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August 8, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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The way the game taunts you for trying to undo a horrible action you can commit early on instantly reshaped how I think about video games as a medium.
July 27, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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How many FFXIV songs can make you cry on command
A cat is sitting on a office chair with a person out of frame holding a microphone to its face. The same photo is below it, but the cat's face is modified to be crying
June 28, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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#FinalFantasy
popuko from pop team epic holding a hammer threatening a model house, saying "your mother fucking life ends thirty minutes from now." the image is edited so she is holding squall from final fantasy 8's gunblade and the second panel shows her using the draw skill to pull spells from the house
March 11, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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we tried to make a shitpost to announce this feature. @velocitoni.bsky.social #RingRacers #GameDev
November 24, 2024 at 4:16 AM
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I hope whoever worked on these #Warcraft remasters knows that their work is not going unappreciated. The reillustrated art is ASTONISHINGLY close to the original silhuoettes and forms, but done in a digitally illustrated style. The more I look and compare the sprites, the more I adore it.
The Orc Town Hall building sprite from Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness, 1995. It is relatively low-resolution pixel art, with dithered shadows cast from the central tower. The Orc Town Hall building sprite from Warcraft 2: Remastered, 2024. It is digitally repainted in much higher resolution, with the same color palette.
November 14, 2024 at 9:24 PM
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they understood the assignment
November 14, 2024 at 5:12 AM
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I was #1,109,174 I guess
September 16, 2024 at 9:53 PM
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This wasn't a bug but I discovered that hall-of-mirrors while screen tilting in software mode has a crazy effect. (This requires turning homremoval off which I strongly discourage). #RingRacers #GameDev
September 13, 2024 at 3:47 AM
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Had a fun bug while working on an early prototype of the new hardware renderer in #RingRacers during development. #GameDev
September 13, 2024 at 3:45 AM
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KDE apps are so sleek...
Screenshot of KDE application Elisa, a minimal music player, with Brothertiger's Fundamentals albums in a running playlist
September 8, 2024 at 8:53 PM
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September 2, 2024 at 1:33 AM
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Hallowfall is crazy man. The WoW team keeps killing it with environment design.
screenshot of World of Warcraft looking from the entrance to Hallowfall from the Ringing Deeps, looking at the supermassive crystal Beledar, an underground artificial sun
September 1, 2024 at 1:49 AM
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testing the xblock screenshot labeler
dril tweet on August 7 2024. "movies taught me Wisdom. Tv shows taught me Pride. Posts taught me Strength"
September 1, 2024 at 1:29 AM
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Just learned the vinyl of Elemental is phenakistiscopic. That RULES
The album art for Pendulum's Elemental, a phenakistiscopic animation featuring Soviet-esque graphic designs of various bombs and hearts
July 24, 2024 at 3:53 AM
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#Nier
Machine Receptionist at the Amusement Park in Nier Automata saying, "Whether or not you enjoy something simply depends on your own heart."
May 27, 2024 at 4:20 AM
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Still just unreal to see this kind of artifact in a hardware rendered game
A screenshot of Doom 64 showcasing a "slime trail" bug where a room behind a wall is erroneously drawn over a wall that would obscure it
February 28, 2024 at 4:23 PM
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The ocean is beautiful this time of year 😊😊
Screenshot of The Sanguine Sea in Lunacid
November 7, 2023 at 1:26 AM
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Dream vacation spot 😊
Screenshot of a dimly lit sewer from Lunacid
November 7, 2023 at 12:53 AM