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@krisopolis.bsky.social
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I existed once. Maybe I still do?

(Bi, he/him) An apparently grown man, with a peculiar sense of humour, & interests/tastes all over the place. Also very rarely makes videos, music, and writings. That is not my cat. It is a cat I know.

18+ only please.
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Reminded of this Menswear boxset I picked up a few years ago, still astonished & delighted it exists. As well as being an incredibly niche item, it's an absolutely bang-on example of how a boxset should be done. Everything is on this, including many songs that had never seen the light of day before.
The Menswear 25th anniversary CD boxset, with all of its contents laid out on display. It comprises 4 albums in cardboard sleeves, a booklet, a small signed print, and a set of 5 pin badges, as well as the box itself.
November 12, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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In lighter news, yes mate Tangle & Whisper in Crossworlds, missed these good lasses.

Also Lumines Arise launched today, and I am going to be riding that train for the foreseeable now
A screenshot from Lumines Arise. Two hands are held up in front of a bright light.
November 12, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Case in point: I've been playing the demo of Absolum today, increasingly enjoying it. Thinking a lot of the character designs are cool. And then this character turns up, & I immediately think "oh no, I might have now met them"
A cropped screenshot of Cider, from the 2025 video game Absolum. They have spiky red hair, a white mask concealing their face, a prosthetic left arm and left leg, a blade attached to their right arm, and are wearing a short yellow cloak and a tight black body suit which draws attention to their bottom.
November 8, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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This evening, I have been to the curry house.
Various curries on a restaurant table, among which are a butter chicken masala & a bhindi bhaji, as well as glasses of Diet Coke.
November 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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"Post a random video game from your collection on this, the day of my daughter's wedding"
The Don from Family Guy, reclining in a luxurious padded armchair behind a desk.
October 31, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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I yearn for the days where we had newspaper headlines such as this
A headline on a newspaper from the 12th of October 2016, pertaining to a story from Italy. The headline reads "Grapes prove inescapable"
October 13, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Dan's shoulder was bothering me because it was too pointy, so I mended it
Drawing of Merry and Dan, from the webcomic Merry Hell. Merry is cheerily dancing next to a CD player on a cabinet playing music. A speech bubble indicates she is saying a squiggly symbol, which is the logo and written name for the 1980s synthpop band, Freur. Dan is looking at her, eyes narrowed in confusion, responding "...fruhhr?" as a question.
October 7, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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I did a drawing of Merry and Dan, from the webcomic Merry Hell by @stuartgipp.bsky.social - based on a mini arc from comics 562-568 wherein Merry and Dan momentarily bond over a shared taste in music.

Merry is listening to "Riders of the Night" by Freur, from their 1983 album "Doot Doot".
Drawing of Merry and Dan, from the webcomic Merry Hell. Merry is cheerily dancing next to a CD player on a cabinet playing music. A speech bubble indicates she is saying a squiggly symbol, which is the logo and written name for the 1980s synthpop band, Freur. Dan is looking at her, eyes narrowed in confusion, responding "...fruhhr?" as a question.
October 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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I have recently been very taken with a birb character that @stuartgipp.bsky.social invented, & as such have been moved to draw three pieces of fanart of him already.

Also featured in the third piece is another of his new characters, Axoloti. I think they are both neat.

Drawing is fun.
A muscular anthropomorphic bird with black feathers and piercing red eyes, wearing a blue and brown headpiece and a beige waist wrap. He is looking off into the distance. A muscular anthropomorphic bird with black feathers and piercing red eyes, wearing a blue and brown headpiece and a beige waist wrap. He is front-facing and appears to be levitating, with his arms held out to his sides, palms up. His large wings are also visible behind him, partially unfolded. Two characters standing on a beach next to the ocean. One is a male anthropomorphic bird, tall and muscular, with black feathers and piercing red eyes, wearing a blue and brown headpiece. The other is a female anthropomorphic fish-like character, short and slim, with blue-green skin and pink frills, webbed hands and feet, blue eyes and a cute fang. She is wearing a beige waist wrap that is clearly too big for her, and smiling at the bird character. The bird character, who is lacking clothing, is looking back at her and blushing.
September 24, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Big fan of the banner designs for the skins from the Lumines series - nothing like the originals
A collage of banners representing skins featured in the original game of the Lumines series.
September 21, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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When you create a new mouse fursona
A screenshot from Lumines: Puzzle Fusion depicting the reward screen. It reads, "Bonus skins - Got a bonus skin! - You've got a new skin! - Rodent - OK"
September 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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I have now done this puzzle set 5 times. On Lumines II (PSP), Lumines Live! (Xbox 360), Lumines Remastered (twice, on Switch and then PC), and now Lumines Supernova (PS3).

Cheers
A screenshot from Lumines Supernova, depicting a results screen indicating that all puzzles have been cleared, unlocking the new skins "Rodent" and "Manager Class". A screenshot from Lumines Supernova, depicting the last 10 puzzles on the puzzle mode menu, under the 'Super Hard' category. Ticks next to each puzzle name indicate they have all been cleared, complete with individual clearance times.
September 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Oh no, look out! It's Gerald!

"Grrrrr!"
September 6, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Update: received a response to the above ticket this morning. More or less the response I expected. I do hope the phrase "for now" and the fact they are gathering feedback regarding this leads to a better and fairer solution than what they currently have.
Screenshot of a response message received from Steam support. Text is as follows: For now, verification based on credit card ownership is the only path Steam currently offers for age verification under the OSA (note: debit cards are not able to be used). As this is a new process, we are still gathering data on potential pain points for users and will take your feedback back to the team. We are sorry for the inconvenience this new requirement is causing for you and the rest of our UK users. More information on this process can be found in our FAQ: Age Assurance under the UK Online Safety Act (note: this is highlighted in bold to denote a hyperlink leading to the relevant information) Steam Support (note: name of the agent has been redacted from this image)
September 2, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Written the following message to Steam support. Not holding my breath it will go anywhere, but I am resolutely not having this. I urge others to do the same if you can.
Screenshot of a message sent to Steam support. Text is as follows: Apparently I now need to provide "age assurance" to access mature or adult content on this platform; the only option given is to add a credit card. I do not have a credit card, nor do I intend on getting one. Furthermore, I have had this account since 2008. I am very clearly over 18, as are many other people with similarly old accounts. This is proof enough of my age, & as per UK legislation is acceptable as a standard of effective age assurance, as you will have long-term data on this account (and many others like it) to verify that this is the case. I implore you to implement this as a method of age assurance as soon as possible, as to not do so would be exceptionally unfair and unreasonable to many users of your platform in the UK.
September 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Apollo the gift of prophesy
August 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Potato Products
August 18, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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no cheating, post your lock screen

Snap! Delighted to see someone else with this fabulous Thanzag piece by @siriusdraws.bsky.social
Hades game fanart, depicting Thanatos carrying a sleeping Zagreus in his while standing in the red waters of the river Styx. The artwork is overlaid with a phone lock screen interface.
July 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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As per below, any website that allows user interaction or content sharing is impacted by this act, & will be required to implement age verification checks such as which bluesky imminently plan to use, i.e. requiring users to provide photo ID, bank info etc. to all manner of 3rd parties.
Excerpt from the gov.uk page "Online Safety Act explainer" Who the Act applies to The Act’s duties apply to search services and services that allow users to post content online or to interact with each other. This includes a range of websites, apps and other services, including social media services, consumer file cloud storage and sharing sites, video-sharing platforms, online forums, dating services, and online instant messaging services. The Act applies to services even if the companies providing them are outside the UK should they have links to the UK. This includes if the service has a significant number of UK users, if the UK is a target market, or it is capable of being accessed by UK users and there is a material risk of significant harm to such users.
July 12, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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My books from the River St volume 1 Kickstarter by @llllucid.bsky.social arrived this morning! A pleasure to be able to give my backing once again to a splendid artist. Thanks very much!
A copy of the first volume of the comic series River St by Lucid, alongside a doujin comic by the same author, a print of the book's main characters by Midgart, as well as a set of smaller art cards.
July 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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honks
May 4, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Here's my haul for this month's Bandcamp Friday; a bigger haul than usual as I've missed a few lately, which has made a nice dent in my watchlist!
A screenshot of a list of purchases made on Bandcamp. There are 18 releases in total on the list.
May 2, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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@stuartgipp.bsky.social coming through with the goods like the hero he is, this afternoon
A screencap from a discord thread. Me: "If there isn't a gif of Miyako doing the funny arm dance in the 365 intro, I will think on and make one myself". A still from an animated gif of exactly what I described is posted after that message. Me: "Yay!"
April 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Some of my favourite liveries in motor racing are the ones from smaller or lesser-funded teams that are like

"How many sponsors do you want on your bike"

"Yes"
A screenshot from MotoGP 22, depicting Andorran rider Xavier Cardelus standing next to his MotoE bike from that season. The bike livery is covered top to bottom with a multitude of different sponsors in different colour banners, all of which are mismatched.
April 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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One of my favourite things to do in the earlier MotoGP games from the mid-10s, is to watch the intro movies for the race locations & spot all the random people they filmed who have likely never realised they've been immortalised in a motorcycle racing video game
A screenshot from the game MotoGP 15 of an FMV intro for the German motorcycle Grand Prix. An old man in a blue and gold garment with a retro diamond patterned undershirt, sporting a long blonde drooping moustache and a single lock of hair combed forward, sits in a park playing an unusual stringed instrument while singing. He does not realise he is appearing in a motorcycle racing video game. A screenshot from the game MotoGP 15 of an FMV intro for the Dutch TT motorcycle race. A middle-aged woman in a grey tank top, wearing sunglasses with a second pair of glasses on her head, lounges on a rowboat on a river with her hands behind her head. A man wearing a baseball cap, white shirt and jorts lounges behind her, horizontally across the boat. Neither of them realise they are appearing in a motorcycle racing video game.
April 14, 2025 at 11:35 PM