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Nathan Fear
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Office worker and dad who used to write comics on the internet. Ask me anything about Super Metroid! (he/him)
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Today in "Don't Trust AI to Tell You Facts": How several different "AI" programs messed up the simple fact of to whom I dedicated a book, and what that means for how much you should trust "AI" to tell you the truth about things (spoiler: not much at all):

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“AI”: A Dedicated Fact-Failing Machine, or, Yet Another Reason Not to Trust It For Anything
I search my name on a regular basis, not only because I am an ego monster (although I try not to pretend that I’m not) but because it’s a good way for me to find reviews, end-of-the-yea…
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December 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
npfehr.bsky.social
Take the day off of work, pull down the blinds, put the phone on DND; it's #MetroidPrime4 day baybeee
December 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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retrotechdreams.bsky.social
Unreal Tournament (1999) - Morpheus
November 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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pftompkins.bsky.social
This is unbearably funny
noelreports.com NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · Nov 11
Joke of the day from Moscow: Russia tried to unveil its first humanoid AI robot, Aidol. Key word: tried. The robot collapsed during its debut, forcing organizers to cut the presentation short. Their rushed attempt to lift the prop only made things worse.
November 12, 2025 at 1:17 AM
npfehr.bsky.social
At long last I'm back on my Let's Play nonsense! Please enjoy NATHAN PLAYS OUTER WILDS & ECHOES OF THE EYE www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Nathan Plays Outer Wilds (& Echoes of the Eye) - YouTube
It's been a couple of years since I've played it, so it felt like the right time to dive back into my favorite game of 2019! I do remember some of the puzzle...
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October 31, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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bicycleidiot.bsky.social
RIP Kaleb Horton
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I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee. You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.
September 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Experimental post: The Inevitable March of Time
From the moment of this post, Super Mario Bros. is now closer to World War II than it is to the present day.
September 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Star Trek The Next Generation scene. We're in a modern 1990s looking house, on a white pleather cushy couch. There's some flowers in a vase in the background, and an arty sculpture on display behind him. Worf is sitting, in uniform, and having a cup of tea in a wee little teacup. He's holding the cup in one hand, pinky up AS ONE DOES, and holding the tea cup saucer in the other. He's concentrating and looking serious. Closed caption reads, "Good tea...Nice house." Alt in pic 1
September 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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bakoon.bsky.social
i think with the success of this bug metroid game they should make a sequel to "shadow complex" that is left wing enough to give orson scott card an aneurysm
September 3, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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mattythemouse.bsky.social
What people think they 80s were like versus what the 80s was actually like.
August 29, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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krfabian.bsky.social
HAPPY 20TH ANNIVERSARY TO THE ALL-TIME BANGER THEY'RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD

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They're Taking The Hobbits To Isengard HQ
YouTube video by Erwin Beekveld
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August 18, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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grimwilkins.bsky.social
I've been looking at futuristic cityscapes from Akira and Syd Mead this week and seeing this neat trick where they draw somewhat realistic foreground buildings up to a point,

Then draw incomprehensibly gigantic structures behind them to push it over the top
August 16, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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retrotechdreams.bsky.social
Star Wars TIE Fighter (1994)
July 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
npfehr.bsky.social
Happening now! My mostly annual Super Metroid / Canada Day stream! www.twitch.tv/beefwheat
Beefwheat - Twitch
It's the Super Canada Metroid Day Classic! (Mirrortroid Edition)
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July 2, 2025 at 12:45 AM
npfehr.bsky.social
This year I'm bringing back a Canada Day tradition: a livestream of Super Metroid starting 7:30 CST at www.twitch.tv/beefwheat
Will it bring healing to the nation? TUNE IN AND FIND OUT!
Beefwheat - Twitch
I like Super Metroid and my name is an inside joke I can't explain. Don't call me Beefwheat!
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July 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Daft Punk were a French electronic music duo formed in 1993 in Paris by Thomas Bangalter (left) and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo. They achieved popularity in the late 1990s as part of the French house movement, combining house music, funk, disco, techno, rock and synth-pop.
Daft Punk were a French electronic music duo formed in 1993 in Paris by Thomas Bangalter (left) and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo. They achieved popularity in the late 1990s as part of the French house movement, combining house music, funk, disco, techno, rock and synth-pop.
June 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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jonbois.bsky.social
those of us who were born in 1982 grew up in a unique time and have had some really interesting life experiences, but what really makes me laugh is when people born before or after 1982 claim that they’ve also had life experiences. get serious. no you haven’t
June 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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REZ
UNITED GAME ARTISTS 2001
SEGA DREAMCAST
A wire frame human floating in wire frame madness
November 27, 2023 at 11:21 PM
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THE TERMINATOR
PROBE 1992
SEGA GENESIS
T-800 "hasta la vista, baby"
March 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
npfehr.bsky.social
I (brilliantly) improvised an entire set of lyrics to the #StarTrek #DeepSpaceNine theme, themed on our cute dog. After I was done, my wife, nonplussed, only said "...wow, you really went the distance, huh? I thought you'd run out but you...just kept going" #unappreciated
March 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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emotion-engine.bsky.social
Do you ever think about how modern games as we know them exist because Pixar sued a small Scottish developer under the pretext of owning the concept of a CGI unicycle, forcing the latter to go through a series of acquisitions until they were assigned to a little title called Grand Theft Auto 3?
Lawsuit Shortly after the game's release, DMA Design was sued by Pixar for allegedly copying the unicycle design and concept from their 1987 short film Red's Dream. Mike Dailly, one of the developers at DMA Design, commented, "The problem with Pixar was that they seemed to think that any computer generated unicycle was owned by them". DMA Design lost the lawsuit, and as a result, Nintendo had to terminate production of additional Unirally cartridges. According to Dailly, "The deal was that Nintendo wouldn't make any more carts, so Unirally only sold the 300k initial run". Fellow DMA Design developer Robbie Graham recalled, "They took footage from Red's Dream and compared it to Unirally and the unicycles were virtually the same; this isn't a big surprise as there's not a lot of ways you can bring life to a unicycle without looking like the one Pixar did. The judge-being the moron that he was—agreed". [3] The limited sales were one of the factors that led to DMA Design being sold to British video game company Gremlin Interactive, and then quickly again to American publisher Take-Two Interactive, to become a subsidiary of Rockstar Games.
February 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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nocontexttrek1.bsky.social
Zoomed out we see a small, lone shuttlecraft flying through a cloudy sky. Closed caption reads, "(screaming)"
November 6, 2024 at 4:58 PM
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Reminder: They're trying to demoralize you, and they're doing a great job of it. Part of resisting is making time for joy despite the attempts to make you feel this is not the time for it. Love your people. Dig the art that speaks to you. Go to the places where life flows into you. You deserve joy.
A man jumping, under the words "Make Time For Joy"
February 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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January 1, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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All pleasures are guilty pleasures if you have high enough anxiety
December 16, 2024 at 11:50 PM