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Alecat @alecat.bsky.social · 4h

Thank you everyone for coming to our panel, we had an absolute blast!

Photo of five speedrunners! From left to right:
Sten, wearing a tiny boot on his head
Vichisuki, wearing a tiny crown
Alecat, adorned with a bell necklace
Nicosar wearing a lovely bow
Havra decked out with hearts

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Alecat @alecat.bsky.social · 14h

TODAY!!!

Alecat @alecat.bsky.social · 4d

THIS WEEKEND at @paxaus.bsky.social: we're excited to be hosting a speedrunning themed gameshow panel!

@alecat.bsky.social is a solo Untitled Goose Game speedrunner looking for a buddy to take on the co-op leaderboard with. Problem is, her usual partner @nicosar.bsky.social isn't a good fit! (1/3)

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 17h

"Neutral" is the ne plus ultra of anagrams.

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Alecat @alecat.bsky.social · 4d

THIS WEEKEND at @paxaus.bsky.social: we're excited to be hosting a speedrunning themed gameshow panel!

@alecat.bsky.social is a solo Untitled Goose Game speedrunner looking for a buddy to take on the co-op leaderboard with. Problem is, her usual partner @nicosar.bsky.social isn't a good fit! (1/3)

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Alecat @alecat.bsky.social · 3d

Watching the Link Click live action makes it painfully obvious how much the animators *choose* to deliberately bait the audience with ShiGuang.

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vi @vichisuki.bsky.social · 8d

hey y'all, i know i don't post here much but i wanted to post about my upcoming events and things that i'm doing!! if you wanna get more updates about what i'm up to, you can join my discord here: discord.com/invite/Y4X8e...

basically! catch me at pax aus, ready start art, acmi and more!!!

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Alecat @alecat.bsky.social · 4d

Hosted by @havraart.bsky.social, we'll explore the ins and outs of video game speedrunning and what makes a good partner in a co-operative speedrun.

Join us: Saturday 11 October, 3PM Kookaburra Theatre.

It's sure to be chaotic fun! (3/3)

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Alecat @alecat.bsky.social · 4d

What's a girl to do? Well, obviously, hold a competition to find the right speedrunner to partner up with! We've invited @vichisuki.bsky.social and @sten.bsky.social - runners with a previous history of speedrun rivalry - to compete in this dating-gameshow inspired panel. (2/3)

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Alecat @alecat.bsky.social · 4d

THIS WEEKEND at @paxaus.bsky.social: we're excited to be hosting a speedrunning themed gameshow panel!

@alecat.bsky.social is a solo Untitled Goose Game speedrunner looking for a buddy to take on the co-op leaderboard with. Problem is, her usual partner @nicosar.bsky.social isn't a good fit! (1/3)

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Alecat @alecat.bsky.social · 5d

Sadly, the parents haven’t been around for a day or two. I spotted an egg in the nest this morning but this afternoon I looked out and it had fallen out. The ants noticed much quicker than I did 😭

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Alecat @alecat.bsky.social · 8d

Meanwhile the other tables have the toum and we helplessly point at them until we get the right thing.

Anyway, I’ll be using this bracket as reference from now on to look it up from.

Alecat @alecat.bsky.social · 8d

It endlessly frustrates me that my family collectively cannot remember the name of toum whenever we eat at our usual Afghan joint and when we ask for the “garlic sauce” they bring out a different yoghurt based one.

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Alecat @alecat.bsky.social · 8d

Pigeon update:
They stopped using the nest for the week after I posted this and I got worried they were abandoning it, but then they settled back in and there’d been one on near permanent nest duty for the last fortnight.

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Alecat @alecat.bsky.social · 9d

Dreamt that I was playing Splatoon for the first time in forever, but that somehow I had good *awareness* and was capable of not just running into every engagement.

Dreams truly are fantasy lands.

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Alecat @alecat.bsky.social · 10d

I think I haven't been noticing my solder paste getting gradually drier, which has given me a few problems of late.

Alecat @alecat.bsky.social · 12d

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Alecat @alecat.bsky.social · 12d

“Mr Wilson, have you measured the server ping?”
“Yes, of course”
“Well let me ask you, how long is it?”
“How long is the local server ping?”
“Yes”
“It’s a local server”
“I know what it is, Mr Wilson, I’m asking you how long it is”
“It’s about 100ms long”
“About 100ms long.”

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Alecat @alecat.bsky.social · 12d

There isn’t a day goes by that I don’t think about remaking The Games (1998, 2000) except set in the world of video games and esports.

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Chenonetta Creations @chenonetta.com · 15d

I'll be at @adelaideartcade.bsky.social this weekend! Hope to see you there!

Save the date!
I'll be tabling at Adelaide Artcade

September 27-28
St Clair Recreation Centre, 12:30pm - 5:00pm

Visit adelaideartcade.org for more information.

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Alecat @alecat.bsky.social · 17d

I have managed to slice open two of my fingers in separate incidents over consecutive days. At this rate I'll have incapacitated all of the digits on my left hand by the weekend.

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JDAG @jdag.bsky.social · 24d

when cloud services hound me to pay for the 50th time

An edit of the infamous "Almost christmas means it wasn't christmas!" screenshot of phoenix wright, edited to say "Almost out of storage means I'm not out of storage!"

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Alecat @alecat.bsky.social · 26d

Yes! We may have time on Monday - might even have Havra as a fourth for mahjong this time!

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Alecat @alecat.bsky.social · 26d

I had the delight of watching half of a Midsomer Murders episode while waiting for a surgery, came out of general anesthetic wondering who the murderer was.

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Alecat @alecat.bsky.social · 27d

A shame! Thank you for the luck <3

Been thinking of you recently actually. (Being fleeced by family members in mahjong came up as a topic of conversation)

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Alecat @alecat.bsky.social · 27d

Thank you @hpichystockmann.bsky.social and @nq-fenno.bsky.social for being our test victims!

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