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Benji

@bitmapx.com

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Author of The Land Old, Untouched Personal Work bitmapx.com Grid Remnant bitmapx.itch.io/grid-remnant YouTube https://youtube.com/@bitmapx

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Benji @bitmapx.com · Aug 17

Hello!

I made a short, cryptic puzzle game called GRID REMNANT. A micro-city builder with a cyberpunk and esoteric energy.

It can be played on a browser / phone and hosted on itch.io - who I'm sure is not in the news for any special reason? 😶‍🌫️

#browsergames #puzzlegames #cyberpunk #gridremnant

GRID REMNANT by BENJI

A quiet, cyberpunk puzzle game about memory and connection.

bitmapx.itch.io

Benji @bitmapx.com · 2d

Finally getting around to Total Recall (2012). Film has an Uncharted/Nathan Drake lost in a cyberpunk adventure energy and I like it!

Benji @bitmapx.com · 3d

Local News in Houston.

Missing 15-year-old Houston boy with autism was in the custody of immigration authorities, FIEL says

YouTube video by KHOU 11

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Benji @bitmapx.com · 6d

I respect that @naughtydog.com brought the Last of Us story into the modern era with their Remasters and Remakes and hope that @rockstargames.com preserves the Red Dead series in a similar fashion.

Red Dead 1 and 2 in whatever engine GTA6 is built in would be incredible.

Benji @bitmapx.com · 8d

My current D&D crew.

Cherry, our bard (clarinetist); Duke, our fighter; me (a lizardfolk monk named Billum Jr); Failey, our fairy with a secret; and the creep we know and love, the wizard with wet lips, Dumbldoor.

An illustration of a D&D group. From left to right: a longhaired bard playing a clarinet (named Cherry); a large human fighter (named Duke); a lizardfolk monk wearing a colorful coat (named Billum Jr); a fairy with white hair & large wings (named Failey); and a lanky human wizard (named Dumbldoor, spelled correctly). They are within a dreamlike landscape of thunder and cinnamon rolls.

Benji @bitmapx.com · 8d

I imagine the world would be in a better place if more folks read the novel The Phantom Tollbooth as a child.

Milo Meets Chroma (Rainbow Orchestra Scene from Phantom Tollbooth)

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Benji @bitmapx.com · 10d

I think about this PDF often.

And what's most amazing about it, it was written in 2015. Over the last decade, it has formed so much of my personal understanding of our software future and has only proven to be more and more prescient as time goes.

For further context:
LLMs are only 3 years old

The Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Part 1 - Wait But Why

Part 1 of 2: "The Road to Superintelligence". Artificial Intelligence — the topic everyone in the world should be talking about.

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Benji @bitmapx.com · 12d

Neat

Benji @bitmapx.com · 18d

🎶 Generals gathered in their masses.
Just like witches at black masses.
Evil minds that plot destruction.
Sorcerers of death's construction.
In the fields, the bodies burning.
As the war machine keeps turning. 🎶

Black Sabbath ~ War Pigs

YouTube video by Gabrielle Marie

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Benji @bitmapx.com · 20d

This feels like 40 years ago.

truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

Trump shares AI video of vision for Gaza, featuring giant gold statue and him lounging w/ Netanyahu

YouTube video by New York Post

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Benji @bitmapx.com · 22d

And so begins the Autumn of 2025.

Benji @bitmapx.com · 25d

I personally gravitate towards the Hermetic Principles, as a philosophical and almost mathematical prism to view this absurd experience from.

The 7th principle is the knowledge that gender is in all things, governed by the other principles as they are governed by it.

Benji @bitmapx.com · 25d

Which admittedly is a bit esoteric and who has time for that? But I enjoy the more... primitive hunt for meaning. Even if it's nonsense. I sometimes think the conversation around gender is lost in the fashion of it.

And fashion is a weapon

Benji @bitmapx.com · 25d

To expand.

Walls are erected and brides destroyed in war while bridges are built, walls dismantled in peace.

Neither without the other

There is Father time
And Mother nature.

Neither without the other

Benji @bitmapx.com · 25d

I don't want to be weird but why are bridges female and walls men?

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Alan Cernobite @alancerny.bsky.social · 28d

If we're talking SNEAKERS, Dan Aykroyd's conspiracy theories are great; mostly because I'm not sure if they're the character's, or if they're Aykroyd's.