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Alex Kraus

@alexfkraus.bsky.social

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Official Hard Off Ambassador named by Hard Off Co. Live and work in greater Tokyo area. Retro collector/40歳 🚹. Shop my Etsy retro game store at: https://retrodreamgames.etsy.com

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Alex Kraus @alexfkraus.bsky.social · Oct 26

I met some of my heroes in Tokyo this month:

•Nobuo Uematsu (Composer: Final Fantasy series) @uematsunobuo

•Yoko Shimomura (Composer: Kingdom Hearts series) She was in the lobby at the Uematsu concert, I wasn’t expecting to see her! @midiplex

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Alex Kraus @alexfkraus.bsky.social · 9m

He looks so peaceful, I didn't even realize it was a moving video

Alex Kraus @alexfkraus.bsky.social · 43m

The Dead in Christ Shall Rise First

Alex Kraus @alexfkraus.bsky.social · 49m

I was expecting the American Beauty piano soundtrack

Alex Kraus @alexfkraus.bsky.social · 51m

The Christians were right, the Rapture is happening

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Alex Kraus @alexfkraus.bsky.social · 2h

Me when Sony keeps raising the price of PS5

drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 2h

what could go wrong

then, assuming your purchase goes up in value infinitely over time, you'll be rich!

Alex Kraus @alexfkraus.bsky.social · 2h

Last Sunday I had the great pleasure of meeting Shoji Meguro @s_megarock and Hiroshi Kawaguchi @Hiro_H10th and receiving their autographs at the Archipel Caravan event.

サインいただきありがとうございました！！

Alex Kraus @alexfkraus.bsky.social · 2h

女神まつりで会いましょう！

Alex Kraus @alexfkraus.bsky.social · 2h

This is a yaoi manga and you can't convince me otherwise

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Corodon @thecorodon.bsky.social · 16h

Exodus 8:2
"If you refuse to let them go, I will send a plague of frogs on your whole country."

Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 1d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Alex Kraus @alexfkraus.bsky.social · 7h

I bought a copy of this for @colinwilliamson.bsky.social without the manuals so this might help if it he ever tries to play it

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Alex Kraus @alexfkraus.bsky.social · 15h

Huge step up in sound fidelity over the Famicom. More channels I assume

Alex Kraus @alexfkraus.bsky.social · 17h

Well this is going to give me nightmares

Alex Kraus @alexfkraus.bsky.social · 18h

Yamauchi trying to disguise himself without taking off his tinted aviators

Alex Kraus @alexfkraus.bsky.social · 22h

I had the brown and pink one way back when. Nostalgic!

Alex Kraus @alexfkraus.bsky.social · 22h

Last Sunday I had the extreme pleasure of meeting @yokotaro and @Uchikoshi_Eng face-to-face for a brilliant lecture and receiving their autographs at the Archipel Caravan event.

サインいただきありがとうございました！！

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 1d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Alex Kraus @alexfkraus.bsky.social · 23h

That's a great theory for something I have never put any serious thought into

Alex Kraus @alexfkraus.bsky.social · 23h

Uhhhhhhhhm was it this one by any chance? 😈

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Alex Kraus @alexfkraus.bsky.social · 1d

RIP to a real one

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Alex Kraus @alexfkraus.bsky.social · 1d

Found my Book Off trade-in receipts from when I was moving and had to downsize a bunch of stuff quickly. Reading the values makes me want to cry.

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Alex Kraus @alexfkraus.bsky.social · 1d

@cabel.panic.com tofu on fire spotted 📛

Alex Kraus @alexfkraus.bsky.social · 1d

Are they a Kansai only chain? Gonna have to check their locations later

Alex Kraus @alexfkraus.bsky.social · 1d

Like, how many stores can you walk in and buy a Famicom Box off the shelf? very few.

Kaihou Souko is very good, it gets my stamp of approval. I always buy a big stack of stuff there. Do you have a favorite location?

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 2d

An old photoshopped image I previously posted to Cohost of a fake YouTube video titled, "2 Hours of Shiori Fujisaki Rejections to Fall Asleep to." The thumbnail depicts Tokimeki Memorial's own Shiori Fujisaki standing at the school gates at the end of the day, rejecting your character's offer to walk home together. As icing on the cake, the fake user icon is a picture of Tokimeki Memorial's crazed science girl Yuina, as depicted in the puzzle game spinoff Taisen Puzzle-dama.

It's one of the dumbest posts I ever ran on there and I'm still proud of it and completely forget I'd ever made it until browsing through my pictures folder just now instead of finishing this translation assignment I'm supposed to deliver.

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Alex Kraus @alexfkraus.bsky.social · 1d

Just recently bought Lumines Remastered on sale but haven't had a chance to try it. Enjoyed it on PSP tho