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Olivia W'
@wlivi.bsky.social
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A friendly system; into cats, games & retro-tech. Early 40s.
https://retro.pizza/@WLivi
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pulling together some wonderfully mismatched graphical elements for stream background/overlay stuff
A screenshot of what appears to be a mismatched computer desktop with a lovely synthwave landscape wallpaper, and a little Atari Adventure-style pixel-art dragon off to the bottom-right. The image includes an old Macintosh-style menu bar at the top, with a colorful Atari Fuji replacing the Apple logo menu. At the bottom is a Windows-style taskbar, with a start button depicting the Steam Deck logo. There are a couple of Amiga disk icons towards the top-left, and at the bottom-left is a media player, branded as X Multimedia System. The menu bar and taskbar each have their own clock, roughly three hours apart from one-another.
November 27, 2025 at 5:23 AM
wlivi.bsky.social
Huh. Familiar lookin' backdrop, there
a screenshot from the rhythm game YARG, displaying the expected UI for both singing and five-fret guitar play, on top of a synthwave-style background depicting the sun, mount Fuji, linked-oval clouds, and a perspective grid on the ground, all rendered in pinks and purples
September 15, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Decided to try adapting this design to pixel art
Pixel art of the No Gen AI seal. The outer shape resembles a light-orange gear with 18 teeth, and inside is the text "This developer assures that no gen AI was used in this indie game". The words No Gen AI are large, centered, and highlighted, thus drawing attention to them.
February 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Interesting how different emoji sets can cause off-brand uses to have divergent interpretations
the shrugging emote with beans for a face, where the beans emoji is rendered differently, thus suggesting a different facial expression.
February 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Your 'add a game' search box seems to be mishandling 1988 scifi game Captain Blood, acting like it refers to the 2025 game of the same title. This is a curious collision, considering none of the meta data should match between them.
screenshot from GOG's dreamlist site, showing the search 'captain blood' and two results - one from 2025 by SNEG, one from 1988 by ERE Informatique, Exxos, Infogrames, Mindscape. Both results have been given the same box art, with the 2025 listed as 'available on GOG', and the 1988 listed as 'soon on GOG'
January 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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post a pic from your device without an explanation
Screenshot from Return to Zork, depicting the troll king in his throne room, wearing an expression of aggravation. Two lines of text overlay the image, also from the game: "Rodent warning: Danger ahead." and "Well... almost everyone."
January 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Message box in the style of Morrowind; it reads "We must persist."
January 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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fixed
Message box in the style of Morrowind. It reads: "With these events, the thread of prophecy is severed. There is no saved game to restore the weave of fate; we must persist in the doomed world you have created."
January 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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courtesy of @foone.bsky.social's deathgenerator.com
A message box in the style of Morrowind. Its text reads: "With these events, the thread of prophecy is severed. Restore a saved game to restore the weave of fate, or persist in the doomed world you have created."
January 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
wlivi.bsky.social
That's a fair point of comparison, yeah. If you take a VHS cassette, make it a smidge thicker and stretch it to add about 50% front-to-back, that's roughly the volume of an MVS cart.
So not too bad to work with, but bulkier than any console I know, apart from AES.
photo of a VHS cassette laying atop a Neo Geo MVS game cartridge, taken from an angle so as to illustrate their relative sizes.
January 20, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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I'd forgotten I threw this together at some point - my OC as one of the dragons from Adventure.

This is just a bit of silliness, not legit 2600 graphics. Rendering it would require both player sprites and the ball - making it impractical for most any game - and the colors are likely off-palette.
A modification of the dragon sprite from Atari's Adventure; adding hair, filling the voids, and using colors evocative of Liv's avatar/OC
January 19, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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At one point I was messing about with Minecraft mod ComputerCraft. Its screens display 16-color text, but the font includes characters which break the cell into 2x3 'pixels', allowing for low-res images with a mild case of Spectrum-style 'color-clash'.
I mocked up several pics with that in mind.
a low-resolution 'synthwave' style scene with a black background. the ground is a blue perspective grid, stretching off toward green jagged mountains. the sun looms large above center frame, in stripes of yellow, orange and red. Above the mountains are a few pink stars. Towards the top of frame, the sky lightens in stripes of purple and pink. the text 'Arkout', rendered in a low-res approximation of the classic Arkarnoid logo type a low-res mock-up of a breakout style game, with grey walls, a cyan ball, and a grey paddle with blips of magenta at the ends. The bricks towards the top of screen are arranged in a rainbow of colors, from red and yellow at the top to blue and magenta at the bottom.
December 31, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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If you like, post a picture that *you* took. just the picture, no explanation. (do add reasonably-descriptive alt text, though.)
Several 500ml bottles of C.C. Lemon, in a red reusable shopping bag, inside a cardboard shipping carton. There are four bottles visible standing at the bottom of the bag, and two more laying down atop something unseen.
December 30, 2024 at 5:17 PM
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if you see this (and you want to), post a knight.
a cropped screenshot from the beginning of Barbuta, a retro-styled platform game from UFO 50. Depicted is the player character - a little knight with a barbuta-style helmet, facing right and rendered in light-grey and red. The player is standing in front of a background archway, constructed of columns and slabs of rough stone, rendered in violet and black. Apart from that arch, the background is solid black. The floor is constructed of large flat stones arranged like brickwork, in a darker grey with highlighting along the top and left to suggest some beveling. One piece of floor, a little to the right of the player, lacks the aforementioned highlighting, but what that difference means - or if it means anything - is not visually obvious.
December 5, 2024 at 2:31 PM
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Nah, they make that pretty clear when you first launch the game
A screenshot of the YARG main menu, with a message overlaid which the user must acknowledge to proceed. Message reads: YARG ANTI-PIRACY STATEMENT YARG stands firmly against all forms of piracy. We neither support nor endorse piracy, as it is a violation of copyright law with serious legal consequences. Out platform's importable content—designed for creators to share their work and for educational purposes—does not justify or excuse piracy. YARG itself does not use any ripped/pirated assets or music and never will. By using YARG, users agree not to promote or endorse piracy in any way through our platform. Upholding these principles ensures a community that respects copyright, creativity, and legal standards. YARG stands for "Yet Another Rhythm Game" and NOT for pirates.
November 24, 2024 at 4:08 AM