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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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@apachesmash.bsky.social Insane they caught a live ghost on camera WILD
November 4, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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The Onion is crazy for this one y’all. 🤣
September 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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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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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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At least today linters, IDEs, codegen tools are so advanced you don’t get stuck because of a missing curly boy like last time I tried in 2019. Things have come a long way.
A programming humor meme. Top in large type: “WHO WOULD WIN?” Left: “a computer program with millions of lines of code” above an image of a crazy amount of random JavaScript looking code. Right: “one CURLYBOY with no friend” above an image of a large “{“ curly bracket.
August 27, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Spoilers: Really what I’m trying to say is the final boss is a beautiful white moth-thing you fight in heaven and it makes you feel like you ascended and it’s pretty great. Here’s a picture, you’re welcome you don’t have to beat it now.
August 22, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Charlottesville loves @iammachinegirl.bsky.social . Come visit sometime, you would kill at the Southern.
August 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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We one-year-old gamin’. Get ready, EVO 2035.
August 4, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Nintendo says 🗣️🔥NO to June ending.
A Facebook post by Nintendo. The post reads: 👊 Now you're playing with power. Brick Power! It’s a screenshot of a video of the new Lego Gameboy with captions on, reading: “Wow. LEGO Gay Boy comes with brick built game packs, Super”
July 24, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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July 22, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Our kid loves playing with the broom…. And somehow does this.. how.
July 15, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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help
July 12, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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July 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Happy 4th. Seeing a lot of exhaustion, sadness about the state of our country online today. Contrasting that with my carefree son giving Sonic a big hug and running down the hall makes me hopeful.

I hope you invest love and care in those around you and keep running ahead. Freedom rules. 🔵
The back of a small toddler. A large Sonic the Hedgehog stuffed animal is peeking over his left shoulder.
July 5, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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@bclikesyou.bsky.social a classic popped up on the way home today 🥰
June 26, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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How it feels to be thrown on a last minute big project the week before vacation. Thankfully we made it.
An image of the box art for the video game Burnout 3 Takedown. The joke is that I’m burnt out.
June 13, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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If that’s the case, some feedback: it’s hard to read your website because of all these sticky elements? I’m docking a A off the AAA. 😅
June 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Einhander rules.
June 7, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Tbh it’s been sounding a lot like this guy, did you decide to outsource?
April 22, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Y’all why is marketplace so unhinged in my area
April 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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How it feels reading yalls FFXIV tweets
April 10, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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The riveting game play and dream of the childhood, please reggie
March 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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@obsoletesony.bsky.social have you seen this one? Kinda want it for a display piece ngl
March 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Hurting for a full day because they had these at the event and I have no self control
A plastic container with several donut holes in it. The top of the container has the words “Gen Bake: Churro Donut Bites, Dusted with Cinnamon and Sugar.” It’s glowing with pure evil.
March 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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“This could fix me”
The thing:
Screenshot of a fancy looking computer keyboard with dials and a little screen embedded on it. Some text reads “Knob1 US$439.00”
March 14, 2025 at 1:12 AM