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Panic Restaurant

@panicrestaurant.bsky.social

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He/Him, 37, taken. I like to post dumb things on the computer and people seem to enjoy it. Passionate about retro games and Pokemon. Carly Rae Jepsen’s strongest soldier. ❤️ Not a bot, just follow a lot of people! Avatar by @kujikawaii.bsky.social

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Panic Restaurant @panicrestaurant.bsky.social · 3d

JUST IN CASE THIS SITE EXPLODES:

Moots are more than welcome to just DM me, follow me on Backloggd or Steam, same name. Still on Something Awful and I guess I could make a tumblr or something if needed

Discord is panic restaurant all one word with a period at the end

Not going anywhere though!

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Panic Restaurant @panicrestaurant.bsky.social · 1h

I’m rotating this [[LITTLE SPONGE]] in my mind over and over and over

Panic Restaurant @panicrestaurant.bsky.social · 1h

As someone who is extremely slow to play games is it ok if I get Spamton brainrot now.

Is it ok if I take my chance to be a [[Big Shot]] in 2025, during these unprecedented times?

I just love this awful little creature

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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 5h

God if the outcome of all this is a discovery that a specific type of black mold makes you a weird bigot I'm gonna have a hearty chuckle then fill my pockets with stones and walk into a lake. We are now living in the mold age. The mildew years. The roaring fungis.

Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 5h

Suuuure it's the "molds" fault. Whats next, a very specific strain of mold that turns children's book authors into raging terfs?

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 5h

fiction is a safe space to think of unsafe things

if you feel it's messing you up, step away. don't assume it's messing everyone up and you need to eradicate it because you caught a case of the feel-bads from something. go sit with that and think about why instead of pissing in everyone else's cheerios.

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Brian Clark (bclarkomp) @onemillionpower.com · 4h

This is the story of Sega's R360: The legendary arcade cabinet that spun players around and left arcade floors far too early. Exclusive interviews, developer quotes, and more!
I'd appreciate not only everyone watching, but also sharing this post and the video!
youtu.be/I-LnKFILB5I

Sega R360: Spinning Dreams in the Arcade

YouTube video by One Million Power

youtu.be

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Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 4h

We are in a crisis of sell outs. With recent stark examples like Riyadh festival and respected filmmakers embracing AI. I hope it kills these dinosaurs and makes room for new voices who to create and succeed. We need to make shame hurt more.

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 4h

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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404 Media @404media.co · 3h

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 3h

PEDDLER: wojaks here. fine wojaks
HAGGLER: ho there goodman. have you soyjaks. i would buy a dozen
PEDDLER: fine soyjaks indeed. see you these. dollarcoin for the lot
HAGGLER: stale, these. they'll barely offend. quarter dollarcoin the gross
PEDDLER: half dollarcoin the dozen, sir. i can't go lower

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 2h

To be clear, it's not that bitter online dorks assumed it was about them. It -is- about them. They just don't like that it is calling them out for what they are.

Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 3h

It’s kind of crazy that Nazis and the KKK have recently become controversial bad guys because a bunch of bitter online dorks assumed it was about them

DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 22h

Ubisoft canceled an ‘ASSASSINS CREED’ game set in the post-Civil War era

• Featured a Black Assassin who was formerly a slave

• Players would fight the emerging KKK

• Leadership canceled it after concerns with U.S. political climate & Yasuke backlash

(Source: www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...)

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Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social · 2h

From the great novelist Sherwood Anderson, a letter to his son.

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 2h

Franz kafka ruined waking up as a giant bug. now if you wake up as a bug it's automatically "kafkaesque"

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 2h

1. Anti-trans outrage is losing its bite.

Last week, Elon Musk led a mass boycott campaign to get trans characters removed from shows on the platform.

Major conservatives joined in.

Now, we have the result: the boycott was a fizzle, and Netflix stock is up.

Subscribe to support my journalism.

Netflix Stock Up As Elon Musk's Anti-Trans Boycott Fails To Materialize

Last week, conservatives tried to cancel Netflix to force the carrier to remove transgender characters.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Panic Restaurant @panicrestaurant.bsky.social · 2h

Oh wow! Never heard about that but it makes total sense. Even back then I was baffled by the choices…not that it stopped me from getting the whole set!

Panic Restaurant @panicrestaurant.bsky.social · 2h

I have genuinely wondered this exact thing for years and this makes perfect sense, thank you!

I have to assume “not knowing what creatures would be breakout hits” also explains why KFC gave out plushies of like, Zubat and Seel.

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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 4h

Every once in a while, I see people wonder why, out of all of the available Pokémon to choose, Poliwhirl was so often shown front and center. Especially in the case of Pokémon's marketing in America.

Well, I'm going to do my best to answer that question now.

Retro Game Art 🎮🖼️🎃🦇 @retrogameart.bsky.social · Dec 27

Pokémon Time Magazine Cover (1999)

#retro #art #gaming #Pokemon

Pokémon Time Magazine Cover (1999) ft: Poliwhirl, MewTwo, Psyduck, Pikachu, Charizard and Blastoise

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 3h

ERIC ADAMS AT PODIUM OUTSIDE WHOLE FOODS: Sasquatch, Godzilla, King Kong, Loch Ness, goblin, ghoul, a zombie with no conscience. You can eat them all here, in Manhatting

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downchasm @downchasm.bsky.social · 3h

they said it was impossible for a Genesis game to contain this much unrefined DOS Energy

what else have they been hiding from us?

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Spheal Posting @sphealposting.bsky.social · 6h

Pokemon rumble spheal with the dark souls meme text over it that says "SPHEAL REPOSTED"

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 4h

As well as this, I feel quite strongly that the increased prominence in recent years of social media influencers who engage in nothing but ragebait content and harassment has proverbially sucked all the air out of the room, content mills producing bullshit at speed who dominate gaming conversations.

Jennifer/Aster Unkle 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔪 @spookycutewitch.bsky.social · 5h

“Why isn’t anyone covering our indie games?”

1. The gaming press has been decimated by business suits, and the whims of an uncaring search engine behemoth
2. Doing the job means you get death threats and harassment
3. There are more games released in 1 week than there were in entire months in 2015

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Jennifer/Aster Unkle 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔪 @spookycutewitch.bsky.social · 5h

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 3h

In Super Smash Bros., the skeletons visible when characters are hurt by electric attacks are not tied to specific animations, and instead are a form that can be toggled on and off at any time, including in cutscenes. Below are excerpts of the game's intro, with skeletons.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 4h

The guy from Troll 2 screaming at a woman being turned into vegetables and being eaten

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 4h

Like??

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 4h

video games can just look like this

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