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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 8h

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Yuming Li @yumingart.bsky.social · 9h

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VGBoxArt Daily @vgboxartdaily.bsky.social · 9h

Game: SATAN:THE VIDEO GAME
Console: Xbox 360
Created by: SATAN
Uploaded on: December 1st, 2012

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onion person @junlper.beer · 12h

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Sick Combos @sickcombos.bsky.social · 1d

could you run that by me again

How To Play instructions that include some interesting translation choices during the intro, i think Mr. Do should see a neurologist // Neo Mr. Do! for Neo Geo AES, photography on CRT TV

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · Mar 23

incredible anecdote in one of Phil Jackson’s memoirs: Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls accidentally drank *Gaterlode*, a high-carb drink, in an NBA Finals game

“Each of the players, it was estimated, had ingested the equivalent of about twenty baked potatoes.”

Bulls lost the game

Malone scored 23 points, pulled down 10 rebounds, and made two key free throws with eighteen seconds to go. At which point Pip-pen said, "I guess the Mailman does deliver on Sundays here.
" Later
we learned that our equipment manager had mistakenly served our players Gaterlode, a high-carbohydrate drink, instead of Gatorade throughout the game, which explained why the team was so sluggish in the closing minutes. Each of the players, it was estimated, had ingested the equivalent of about twenty baked potatoes.
The next game involved one of the most inspiring acts of perseverance that I've ever witnessed. The morning of game S, with the series tied 2-2, Michael woke up with what appeared to be a stomach virus
but

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☁️ hourly yume nikki fangames @ynfgbot.bsky.social · 15h

yume 2kki (2007)
tv room (channel 6)

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まったくモー助 @mmousuke.bsky.social · May 31

「手をあげろ」

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まったくモー助 @mmousuke.bsky.social · Jun 10

金魚鉢

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まったくモー助 @mmousuke.bsky.social · Jun 16

いちゃいちゃ

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まったくモー助 @mmousuke.bsky.social · Aug 31

かまってダイブ！

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まったくモー助 @mmousuke.bsky.social · 4d

先客

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 11d

lucasarts, technical support, official website, excerpt (1996) web.archive.org/web/19961223...

yoda is sitting behind a 'desk' or stone tablet or something with a feather quill in his hand, looking wrinkly and wise as always. a dimly lit wall with odd shaped round windows is behind him.
text (with hyperlink): visit yoda's help desk to solve your technical problem online.

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Romhack.ing @romhack.ing · 1d

Screaming Mad George's Paranoiascape - English Translation (PSX) Added

Screaming Mad George's Paranoiascape - English Translation - Content

This patch translates a screen that appears before each level offering some tips for the stage. There are also some voice clips in 3-2 where Screaming Mad George himself gives you feedback -- it turns...

romhack.ing

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 1d

"The hills have eyes" is a cautionary tale about having some stuff

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jamie @bigshoebill.bsky.social · 1d

i didn't look cute until i bought makeup that actually matches my skin, went to a salon that gave me cute bangs and got my eyebrows trimmed so they're slimmer

jamie @bigshoebill.bsky.social · 1d

(people making modern TV UI's) the most important thing is to place the volume bar so it completely covers up any subtitles underneath. be sure to make it 100% opaque and don't forget to make sure it lingers for a full 10 seconds before going away.