Ben Lesnick
@banditloaf.wcnews.com
Like so many Americans, he was trying to construct a life that made sense from things he found in gift shops. (he/him)
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Ben Lesnick
@banditloaf.wcnews.com
· Nov 15
Hello Bluesky! My name is Ben but my old friends call me LOAF. I’m best known for helping Chris Roberts dream up Star Citizen but I mostly skeet about Wing Commander esoterica and my life with two wonderful black cats and beautiful wife Ali (plus dumb jokes and nonsense about other media I love).
Weird day at the licensing expo.
February 18, 2026 at 4:45 AM
Weird day at the licensing expo.
Here's a wonderful Wing Commander III PlayStation ad discovered by @xwinggameseries.bsky.social! It's fascinating how the marketing totally changed the identity for Japan; it looks so much more colorful and fun.
February 17, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Here's a wonderful Wing Commander III PlayStation ad discovered by @xwinggameseries.bsky.social! It's fascinating how the marketing totally changed the identity for Japan; it looks so much more colorful and fun.
Just... fly the vehicle.
February 17, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Just... fly the vehicle.
2 Fasnachts 2 Furious
Fasnachts for Fat Tuesday 🍩
Fasnachts (a type of donut) are the traditional Shrove Tuesday treat in Central Pennsylvania; a way to use up the sugar and lard before Lent.
#art #linocut #illustrator #printsky
Fasnachts (a type of donut) are the traditional Shrove Tuesday treat in Central Pennsylvania; a way to use up the sugar and lard before Lent.
#art #linocut #illustrator #printsky
February 17, 2026 at 3:49 PM
2 Fasnachts 2 Furious
Lumi, have you been publishing Assassin’s Creed games? Because you be soft.
February 17, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Lumi, have you been publishing Assassin’s Creed games? Because you be soft.
Note the rare mention of the unreleased Saturn port!
Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger
Source: Electronic Entertainment 21 (September 1995)
Scan Source: RetroMags
#dosgaming #playstation #3do
Source: Electronic Entertainment 21 (September 1995)
Scan Source: RetroMags
#dosgaming #playstation #3do
February 17, 2026 at 1:13 AM
Note the rare mention of the unreleased Saturn port!
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My wife has beautiful hand painted objects for sale at her Etsy store. Each one is exquisite and unique and *could be adorning your home or that of a loved one right now*. What on earth are you waiting for?
I have hand-painted wood items in my Etsy shop, and several of them have a mysterious cat!
www.etsy.com/shop/PennyHa...
www.etsy.com/shop/PennyHa...
February 16, 2026 at 10:53 PM
My wife has beautiful hand painted objects for sale at her Etsy store. Each one is exquisite and unique and *could be adorning your home or that of a loved one right now*. What on earth are you waiting for?
I subscribed to the Hess Truck subreddit earlier and then for the first time ever the algorithm started spitting endless horrifying men’s rights group suggestions at me.
February 16, 2026 at 10:36 PM
I subscribed to the Hess Truck subreddit earlier and then for the first time ever the algorithm started spitting endless horrifying men’s rights group suggestions at me.
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In case you didn't tune into the stream last night...here's Ultima VII in first person! Programmed by DLBSP83!
www.twitch.tv/viridiangame...
www.twitch.tv/viridiangame...
ViridianGames - Ultima VII in first person!
Watch ViridianGames's clip titled
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February 16, 2026 at 10:02 PM
In case you didn't tune into the stream last night...here's Ultima VII in first person! Programmed by DLBSP83!
www.twitch.tv/viridiangame...
www.twitch.tv/viridiangame...
Deep Impact: Robert Duvall’s soft-spoken geriatric former moonwalker who gets sent back to space to nuke a comet is somehow the most rebatable character in the movie.
February 16, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Deep Impact: Robert Duvall’s soft-spoken geriatric former moonwalker who gets sent back to space to nuke a comet is somehow the most rebatable character in the movie.
People are saying we need to ‘listen to the angels of our better nature’, that now is not the time for violent riots or vicious beatings. That that sort of thing just ‘plays into their hands’. Well, I say to hell with all that: it’s time we send a message to LEGO that we do not want Smart Bricks.
February 16, 2026 at 6:12 PM
People are saying we need to ‘listen to the angels of our better nature’, that now is not the time for violent riots or vicious beatings. That that sort of thing just ‘plays into their hands’. Well, I say to hell with all that: it’s time we send a message to LEGO that we do not want Smart Bricks.
After an appropriate period of panic I learned that there are actually two prominent Warren Spectors.
February 16, 2026 at 5:40 PM
After an appropriate period of panic I learned that there are actually two prominent Warren Spectors.
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I got some of my #Babylon5 Civilian and Raider ships painted the other day, after finally getting successful test prints off the latest set of models! Here is a Civilian Freighter, Civilian Tanker, and Raider Schooner. The Schooner has 12 Delta-V fighters docked to it, similar to the Strike Carrier.
February 14, 2026 at 5:46 PM
I got some of my #Babylon5 Civilian and Raider ships painted the other day, after finally getting successful test prints off the latest set of models! Here is a Civilian Freighter, Civilian Tanker, and Raider Schooner. The Schooner has 12 Delta-V fighters docked to it, similar to the Strike Carrier.
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Day #215: Fritos (1975)
February 16, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Day #215: Fritos (1975)
All that posting about medals got me thinking about Wing Commander I's ribbon system. So I made this chart! Turns out the internet has been getting the fighter qualification and service ribbons swapped because of a barely noticed bug (the game awards you the five mission ribbon after one mission).
February 15, 2026 at 4:05 PM
All that posting about medals got me thinking about Wing Commander I's ribbon system. So I made this chart! Turns out the internet has been getting the fighter qualification and service ribbons swapped because of a barely noticed bug (the game awards you the five mission ribbon after one mission).
Here’s the original Wing Commander medal art and how it was updated/colorized for the Super Famicom and Mega CD manuals!
February 15, 2026 at 3:26 AM
Here’s the original Wing Commander medal art and how it was updated/colorized for the Super Famicom and Mega CD manuals!
Wait till it comes out that Jostens has been forwarding all of our ring measurements to sex pest island.
Lifetouch, a major school photography company linked to Epstein co-conspirators prompts several districts to cancel picture days amid safety and privacy concerns. Read the full story at bit.ly/3MoOOyi
#Lifetouch #JeffreyEpstein #SchoolSafety #PictureDay #BreakingNews #ChildSafety
#Lifetouch #JeffreyEpstein #SchoolSafety #PictureDay #BreakingNews #ChildSafety
February 15, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Wait till it comes out that Jostens has been forwarding all of our ring measurements to sex pest island.
Here's the rotoscoped kiss from Wing Commander II! This could be played over any background and I think it gets used three times: after Spirit dies, at the end of the game when you're reinstated as Colonel and then once more in Special Operations 2 after you rescue Angel.
February 14, 2026 at 11:34 PM
Here's the rotoscoped kiss from Wing Commander II! This could be played over any background and I think it gets used three times: after Spirit dies, at the end of the game when you're reinstated as Colonel and then once more in Special Operations 2 after you rescue Angel.
I've got a tape from 1997 that one of the producers on Wing Commander Prophecy shot at ECTS (or E3?) to bring back and show the team back in Austin the competition. Colony Wars is the big focus!
So I've been mucking around with Duckstation's 16:9 rendering mode and it turns out that Colony Wars, a classic PSX space shooter in the realm of Wing Commander, not only works really well in 16:9 but also has enough extra geometry in the interface that I'd believe you if you said it was intended.
February 14, 2026 at 11:08 PM
I've got a tape from 1997 that one of the producers on Wing Commander Prophecy shot at ECTS (or E3?) to bring back and show the team back in Austin the competition. Colony Wars is the big focus!
inside the book: twenty seven separate short stories about how an industrial cleaning robot accidentally didn't stop a murder
Philippe Caza’s cover art for “The Rest of the Robots” by Isaac Asimov, 1989.
February 14, 2026 at 11:00 PM
inside the book: twenty seven separate short stories about how an industrial cleaning robot accidentally didn't stop a murder
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Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger (1994)
February 14, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger (1994)
This is super disappointing for a show I’ve loved to this point. The crumminess of AI art aside, this should have been a slam dunk way to celebrate Star Trek’s long, wonderful history of tie-in comics. Instead our grandkids have one more thing to rework in the remastered version come 2066.
They could have done something cool, like had a one shot tie-in book that IDW actually published to accompany the episode as a fun bit of multimedia synergy, but instead we got this trash.
February 14, 2026 at 1:43 PM
This is super disappointing for a show I’ve loved to this point. The crumminess of AI art aside, this should have been a slam dunk way to celebrate Star Trek’s long, wonderful history of tie-in comics. Instead our grandkids have one more thing to rework in the remastered version come 2066.