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https://jaytholen.net lead designer, writer, artist, & composer for Dropsy, 1999 web sim Hypnospace Outlaw, & Slayers X. Clickteam software oldhead. follower of Jesus. husband of Katie. dad. 70s prog/fusion/zeuhl guy. Braunschweig, DE / Florida

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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · Feb 5

Hi, I'm the lead dev of Dropsy and Hypnospace Outlaw. and I've been working on my website lately!

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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 23m

duuude

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 10d

🌎🌎🌎NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT!💀💀💀

Introducing *Earth Must Die* from @danthat.bsky.social

A dark comedy adventure game featuring the voices of Alex Horne, Joel Fry, Martha Howe-Douglas and more

store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...

RTs extremely appreciated!!!! <3 <3

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Robert Dallas Grue 🦇 @robertdallasgray.com · 4h

an extremely diligent and articulate listener and reviewer, send your traxxx 👇

Ether Diver @etherdiver.bsky.social · 11h

Musicians! #Musicians! My reserves are running low, so if you were thinking of submitting to Other People's Music, it's a great time!

www.etherdiver.com/other-people...

Free coverage of your music to an audience eager to hear independent music in a wide variety of genres!

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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 3h

got this nice email about New Active Object last night :)

Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 15h

congrats!

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 1d

🚀🚀LITTLE ROCKET LAB IS OUT NOW!!! 🚀🚀

4 years of development, finally available on Steam and Game Pass

store.steampowered.com/app/2451100/...

RTs unbelievably appreciated!! <3

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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 21h

nope! where should I start?

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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 22h

Soft Machine - NDR Jazz Workshop - May 17, 1973

YouTube video by Cuneiform Records

www.youtube.com

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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 1d

it happens to everyone imo. y'all will be dumb and embarrassing in 20 years.

Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 1d

i'm no expert but probably

Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 1d

it's probably one of those legacy ones that oscillates back into semi-coolness with weird kids

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Chris Higgins🔜 @higgins.games · 1d

go, now, and become rizzlers of men

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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 1d

hate to break it to my fellow Millennials out there who engage in Zoomer mimicry but 'no cap' is now ancient. you sound like a youth pastor saying "da bomb" in 2002.

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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 2d

that video has a cool aesthetic dialed in tho. this'll just be a mess.

Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 6d

Hypnospace almost had a lil city nav system inspired by this. the "Hypnospace City Hub" referenced in the game would've looked similar. Ran out of time so I pretended it was only for normal users and not Enforcers

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Kris (Wishlist Mansion of a Million Monsters!) @kristruitt.bsky.social · 6d

Maybe next year - here’s my game where you solve mysteries and hit Dracula with a baseball bat:

bsky.app/profile/kris...

Kris (Wishlist Mansion of a Million Monsters!) @kristruitt.bsky.social · 19d

YIKES! It's a NEW Mansion of a Million Monsters! TRAILER

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webster @quacking.online · Sep 20

preserving my best cohost post before they shut the lights off

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Damiano Gerli @damiano.bsky.social · 8d

Today in "cover art that didn't need to go so hard", Square Deal on the Game Boy (by Robert Bellavance, an artist that disappeared VERY quickly)

Square Deal cover with a lady walking on Poker Cards in a strange land

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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 8d

this*

Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 8d

the poster doesn't really communicate thos buuuut it's a horror film based on an apocryphal book involving child jesus gruesomely murdering multiple kids

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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 8d

bwllll

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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 9d

son if you are reading this in 20 years i am not into anything dirty i was just making a joke. especially not gory stuff or whatever. later bud.

Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 9d

dangit i just remembered that slash was a dirty thing

Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 9d

what about slash

Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 10d

ya agreed. trick/wind are my favorite Genesis albums even tho I consider the Gabriel era my favorite.

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