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Zach Bruce
@zaxbit.bsky.social
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Senior Product Designer Dad. Pixel art, D&B chiptune, tech, & retro game enthusiast.
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Plex Submits $35 Bid For Warner Bros.
Plex Submits $35 Bid For Warner Bros.
LOS GATOS, CA—In an attempt to fend off growing competition from Paramount and Netflix, Plex CEO Keith Valory announced Monday that the streaming platform had submitted a $35 bid for Warner Bros. Disc...
theonion.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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thecountofs.bsky.social
Longest Serving Powered Assault Platform in History
November 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com
Spotted this poking out of a drawer so…
(Amazing cover art, right?)
#RandomGameSaturday
A photo showing the box for Power Dolls 5 (PC) held up to the camera. Most of the cover is taken up by an illustration of a large bipedal mech with a white/blue colour scheme. It holds a gun in one hand, and is posed as if ready for action.
November 8, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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@apachesmash.bsky.social Insane they caught a live ghost on camera WILD
November 4, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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zedotagger.bsky.social
Another garden. #pixelart
November 1, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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inkpixels.bsky.social
9 colors, pixelart
October 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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pillowfort.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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zedotagger.bsky.social
Hillside. #pixelart
October 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
zaxbit.bsky.social
The Onion is crazy for this one y’all. 🤣
September 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
zaxbit.bsky.social
Ummmmmmm …

jammer lammy?
September 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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PRO-TIP:
you might think you suck -- just don't tell anyone
September 25, 2025 at 7:43 AM
zaxbit.bsky.social
What’s up Bluesky I accidentally poured too much salt on my salad tonight.
two men are sitting at a table in a video game talking to each other .
Alt: two men are sitting at a table in a video game talking to each other, one is hanging his head, slams his fists angrily on the table and exits the room
media.tenor.com
September 24, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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magnoliapearl.bsky.social
Tried to capture the face babies make when they briefly “wake up” and “look around” without actually opening their eyes
September 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Happy September 21st to those who celebrate
September 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
zaxbit.bsky.social
My FB algo sucks other than “The same photo of Chief O’Brien every day” but today we’ve reached the point where the SMB Movie ‘93’s goofy Big Brother scifi tropes are more relatable to people than ever. Don’t let them de-evolve you, friends.
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A Facebook post from a nostalgia bait profile: The Mom & Pop Video Shop "Loyal, lethal... stupid." Koopa's plan was painfully straightforward. He ran a depleted world where the infrastructure was collapsing, the resources were gone, and the only functioning systems were surveillance and propaganda. He treated the public as raw material to be shaped or discarded, using his de-evolved foot soldiers for expansion into a world that still had something left to strip. De-evolution was his solution to dissent. Turn the naysayers into Goombas who couldn't articulate criticism even if they wanted to. The genius of it was that it looked voluntary. What made Koopa's system work was exhaustion more than fear or ideology. The population was too worn down to push back. The fungus choking the walls was actually the old king, devolved into something that could only be perceived as poisonous. That's what happened to opposition in Koopa's world. Intelligence became a liability, so he promoted stupidity. Koopa called himself advanced, but his survival depended on making sure no one else was. The more compliant his subjects became, the more powerful he appeared. Once a system starts decaying from the inside, the population will accept almost anything that promises stability. In 1993, Super Mario Bros. registered as hamfisted satire. Dennis Hopper chewing scenery like a T-Rex in a double-breasted suit, explaining his plan to merge dimensions and drain our world while his own despotic nonsense decayed around him. Continued: We got the joke. We just thought it was too obvious to actually work. The part we missed was the timeline: Koopa didn't need to win overnight, he just needed to normalize the conditions. Make degradation feel inevitable, intelligence seem dangerous, and questioning the system more exhausting than serving it. Keep the screens on, the questions soft, and the past blurry. Wait long enough and people start doing the work themselves, defending the very machinery that's grinding them down, because at least it's familiar. You can't be wrong, because you're on the right side. What's interesting is how much of this was already there in 1993. How a film this messy and misjudged could still land on something so familiar. That exact playbook - feed the fear, dumb it down, call it strength - wasn't just a kid's cautionary tale. It was a blueprint. We knew what we were looking at in 1993. We just thought knowing was enough. Or at least, half the battle. -Pop A still from the Super Mario Brothers Movie (1993) showing actor Dennis Hopper as King Koopa; blonde slick-backed hair, wearing a red tie and dark suit, his small, gold-ring laden hands propped up like a T-Rex. He’s standing next to a monitor with a staticky cross section of the human brain. This is from the scene, I think, where he’s describing de-evolving individuals to a smaller-brained state.
September 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Long tail end of COVID is really hitting me hard with the exhaustion and brainfog over a week later. Stay safe out there friends.
a cat is laying on its back on a wooden floor next to a wall .
ALT: a cat is laying on its back on a wooden floor next to a wall .
media.tenor.com
September 17, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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jx444444.bsky.social
[16-Bit;Genesis]Stand Proud - Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part 3【KR/JP Subtitle】

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#chiptune #16bit #genesis #ym2612 #jojo #JoJosBizarreAdventure
[16-Bit;Genesis]Stand Proud - Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part 3【KR/JP Subtitle】
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September 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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First weekend away from our 1.5 year old ever and I’m floored at how loud and nonstop my life has been (though I wouldn’t trade it for the world). I hope every parent gets the ability to take a moment of peace. Best wife and best burger in Cape Charles pictured below.
September 13, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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@vinny.vinesauce.com holy shit @redlettermedia.com mentioned you (totally unintentionally??) 😂 youtu.be/q5-b7v6EIzc 10:10
Obligatory "YouTube is Broken" Video
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September 8, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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The Rona has hit the Bruce household. Hm if only there was a vaccine we all could’ve gotten at our Dr’s last week???
September 7, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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So is Silksong good or…?
September 4, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Turns out the issue was: android emulators are stupid and just won’t load websites on our network. How y’all devs even do this.
zaxbit.bsky.social Zach Bruce @zaxbit.bsky.social · Aug 27
Going hard on being more involved with dev for my latest project reminds me of why designers should code more: One day you’re pushing out advanced functionality with ease. The next, you can’t display a simple YouTube embed. There are no boundaries to what easy stuff can just destroy your timeframe.
August 27, 2025 at 9:57 PM
zaxbit.bsky.social
Going hard on being more involved with dev for my latest project reminds me of why designers should code more: One day you’re pushing out advanced functionality with ease. The next, you can’t display a simple YouTube embed. There are no boundaries to what easy stuff can just destroy your timeframe.
August 27, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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roboctopus.bsky.social
Back to working on my next gameboy release!

Now 2xLSDJ so I can get that deep bass sound at the same time as my Way Too Many Sample Kits. XD

Think it's sounding pretty cool.

#chipsky #lsdj #chiptune #gameboy #drumnbass #breakbeats
August 21, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Tech leadership needs to find other ways to market their products other than “It’s going to destroy you and everything you believe in”. I mean it gets attention sure, but at the cost of securing your company as Evil Supervillains.
mgosketches.bsky.social 🥭MANGO - Comms Open @mgosketches.bsky.social · Aug 21
Reminder that AI doesn't just screw artists, it screws the whole working class 🤝
August 21, 2025 at 11:32 PM