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Alex Kraus

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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 · 13m

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

Alex Kraus @alexfkraus.bsky.social · 24m

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 · 2h

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 · 8h

“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 · 1h

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

Alex Kraus @alexfkraus.bsky.social · 1h

Uhhhhhhhhm was it this one by any chance? 😈

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Alex Kraus @alexfkraus.bsky.social · 2h

RIP to a real one

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Alex Kraus @alexfkraus.bsky.social · 3h

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 · 3h

@cabel.panic.com tofu on fire spotted 📛

Alex Kraus @alexfkraus.bsky.social · 6h

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

Alex Kraus @alexfkraus.bsky.social · 9h

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 · 1d

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 · 11h

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

Alex Kraus @alexfkraus.bsky.social · 12h

Ness Chess

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carlos whisper @mae.seal.observer · 1d

we're watching this zombie movie and this guy keeps whipping out the game boy camera

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Alex Kraus @alexfkraus.bsky.social · 13h

I read this as ラブプラス➕(Love Plus) 🤦‍♂️

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 6d

magazine screenshot & caption (1995) archive.org/details/Uned...

header: cdi is the best
3d screenshot of a woman reaching out and sticking her hand through the body of a man (spread fingers and partial hand can be seen out of the back of his top). he is looking down. she is looking concerned.
caption:
you won't see graphics like this on many other systems, for sure!

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Alex Kraus @alexfkraus.bsky.social · 1d

As often happens now with big ticket items, that eBay seller is trying to flip another seller's Mercari listing; essentially trying to flip an item they don't own. Stay shady, eBay.

jp.mercari.com/item/m511501...