Skybrush Threepwood
@skybrush.bsky.social
I mostly ramble about trivial nerd stuff, but I'm also on a Bluesky list for "angry politics." My politics are that bigots should fall into a deep, empty well. He/Him.
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I love old games, I love old adventure games in particular, I've tried many times to get into the original Zorks and Hitchhiker's Guide and others, but they never click for me. Doesn't help that they also often have the "Fuck you, you're dead or softlocked" design philosophy.
My mind doesn't really conjure images from reading, so I find text adventures disorienting, especially something like Zork that literally centers around underground mazes.
November 28, 2025 at 7:29 AM
I love old games, I love old adventure games in particular, I've tried many times to get into the original Zorks and Hitchhiker's Guide and others, but they never click for me. Doesn't help that they also often have the "Fuck you, you're dead or softlocked" design philosophy.
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Similarly: Halloween, or, "I guess American Fastelavn is always horror themed?"
November 28, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Similarly: Halloween, or, "I guess American Fastelavn is always horror themed?"
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Reskeeting with alt text but yeah it really is this simple yall
We need to be blunt and stop. Pussyfooting around this stuff
Say what it is, call it out and tell. It like it is
We need to be blunt and stop. Pussyfooting around this stuff
Say what it is, call it out and tell. It like it is
November 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Reskeeting with alt text but yeah it really is this simple yall
We need to be blunt and stop. Pussyfooting around this stuff
Say what it is, call it out and tell. It like it is
We need to be blunt and stop. Pussyfooting around this stuff
Say what it is, call it out and tell. It like it is
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These folks really go online every day and just admit to being giant losers. Nobody makes them post stuff like this.
November 27, 2025 at 8:03 AM
These folks really go online every day and just admit to being giant losers. Nobody makes them post stuff like this.
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Have you ever stopped to consider that maybe, just maybe, Tim Sweeney is full of shit?
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney says it "makes no sense" for digital game stores to flag when a developer has used AI during a game's development, because it will become so commonplace in the future.
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/epics-t...
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/epics-t...
Epic’s Tim Sweeney says it ‘makes no sense’ for game stores to flag when AI has been used in development | VGC
“AI will be involved in nearly all future production”, the Epic CEO says…
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November 28, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Have you ever stopped to consider that maybe, just maybe, Tim Sweeney is full of shit?
Similarly: Halloween, or, "I guess American Fastelavn is always horror themed?"
November 28, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Similarly: Halloween, or, "I guess American Fastelavn is always horror themed?"
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As a child I only knew Thanksgiving from the Dino Riders cartoon and thought they made it up for that.
November 28, 2025 at 5:11 AM
As a child I only knew Thanksgiving from the Dino Riders cartoon and thought they made it up for that.
I love old games, I love old adventure games in particular, I've tried many times to get into the original Zorks and Hitchhiker's Guide and others, but they never click for me. Doesn't help that they also often have the "Fuck you, you're dead or softlocked" design philosophy.
My mind doesn't really conjure images from reading, so I find text adventures disorienting, especially something like Zork that literally centers around underground mazes.
November 28, 2025 at 7:29 AM
I love old games, I love old adventure games in particular, I've tried many times to get into the original Zorks and Hitchhiker's Guide and others, but they never click for me. Doesn't help that they also often have the "Fuck you, you're dead or softlocked" design philosophy.
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My mind doesn't really conjure images from reading, so I find text adventures disorienting, especially something like Zork that literally centers around underground mazes.
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
My mind doesn't really conjure images from reading, so I find text adventures disorienting, especially something like Zork that literally centers around underground mazes.
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The only Zork game I unabashedly love, since I just can't with text adventures, Return to Zork is a bit rough, and I don't know, I never clicked with Nemesis. But Grand Inquisitor - there's a brilliant game!
This vision of the final mainline Zork game is brought to Frobozz Electric Posting Company. Frobozz - We're In Your Life, Everywhere!
But yes, third and final game in the Myst-alike Zork games, and one with a lot of referential, tongue-in-cheek humour.
📺: Zork: Grand Inquisitor, Activision, 1997
But yes, third and final game in the Myst-alike Zork games, and one with a lot of referential, tongue-in-cheek humour.
📺: Zork: Grand Inquisitor, Activision, 1997
November 27, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The only Zork game I unabashedly love, since I just can't with text adventures, Return to Zork is a bit rough, and I don't know, I never clicked with Nemesis. But Grand Inquisitor - there's a brilliant game!
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Of all the Star Wars music that isn't the actual Star Wars theme, The Asteroid Field is probably my favorite.
The Empire Strikes Back - The Asteroid Field // The Danish National Symphony Orchestra (LIVE)
YouTube video by DR Koncerthuset
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November 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Of all the Star Wars music that isn't the actual Star Wars theme, The Asteroid Field is probably my favorite.
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Every year, as I get older, I find Quentin Tarantino more and more annoying. Like, just as a person. His whole deal. He's annoying. And I don't mean he's GETTING more annoying - he might be - I mean that I retroactively find everything about his personality ever more annoying.
January 23, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Every year, as I get older, I find Quentin Tarantino more and more annoying. Like, just as a person. His whole deal. He's annoying. And I don't mean he's GETTING more annoying - he might be - I mean that I retroactively find everything about his personality ever more annoying.
Of all the Star Wars music that isn't the actual Star Wars theme, The Asteroid Field is probably my favorite.
The Empire Strikes Back - The Asteroid Field // The Danish National Symphony Orchestra (LIVE)
YouTube video by DR Koncerthuset
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Of all the Star Wars music that isn't the actual Star Wars theme, The Asteroid Field is probably my favorite.
The only Zork game I unabashedly love, since I just can't with text adventures, Return to Zork is a bit rough, and I don't know, I never clicked with Nemesis. But Grand Inquisitor - there's a brilliant game!
This vision of the final mainline Zork game is brought to Frobozz Electric Posting Company. Frobozz - We're In Your Life, Everywhere!
But yes, third and final game in the Myst-alike Zork games, and one with a lot of referential, tongue-in-cheek humour.
📺: Zork: Grand Inquisitor, Activision, 1997
But yes, third and final game in the Myst-alike Zork games, and one with a lot of referential, tongue-in-cheek humour.
📺: Zork: Grand Inquisitor, Activision, 1997
November 27, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The only Zork game I unabashedly love, since I just can't with text adventures, Return to Zork is a bit rough, and I don't know, I never clicked with Nemesis. But Grand Inquisitor - there's a brilliant game!
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This vision of the final mainline Zork game is brought to Frobozz Electric Posting Company. Frobozz - We're In Your Life, Everywhere!
But yes, third and final game in the Myst-alike Zork games, and one with a lot of referential, tongue-in-cheek humour.
📺: Zork: Grand Inquisitor, Activision, 1997
But yes, third and final game in the Myst-alike Zork games, and one with a lot of referential, tongue-in-cheek humour.
📺: Zork: Grand Inquisitor, Activision, 1997
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
This vision of the final mainline Zork game is brought to Frobozz Electric Posting Company. Frobozz - We're In Your Life, Everywhere!
But yes, third and final game in the Myst-alike Zork games, and one with a lot of referential, tongue-in-cheek humour.
📺: Zork: Grand Inquisitor, Activision, 1997
But yes, third and final game in the Myst-alike Zork games, and one with a lot of referential, tongue-in-cheek humour.
📺: Zork: Grand Inquisitor, Activision, 1997
Given that I don't have a fraction of Patton Oswalt's attention, I think I can get away with this: Woodchipper, feet first. The lot of them.
November 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Given that I don't have a fraction of Patton Oswalt's attention, I think I can get away with this: Woodchipper, feet first. The lot of them.
Filing all Chrises under "relatively charming" is actually Chris Pine slander, but he can take it
I don't think there's any one individual role where I've thought, "Why did they cast Glen Powell here?" He's pretty solid.
But the fact that he's in seemingly EVERYTHING gets a bit perplexing. Like, holy shit, did we run out of relatively charming white dudes? Are all the Chrises busy lately?
But the fact that he's in seemingly EVERYTHING gets a bit perplexing. Like, holy shit, did we run out of relatively charming white dudes? Are all the Chrises busy lately?
November 27, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Filing all Chrises under "relatively charming" is actually Chris Pine slander, but he can take it
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As someone who also enjoyed Sisu well enough, but felt like most of the cool parts were in the trailer (kind of peaks at "flying landmine to the face", this is exciting.
I saw Sisu: Road to Revenge. I wasn't super stoked on the first but I kinda thought this one ruled.
November 26, 2025 at 9:55 AM
As someone who also enjoyed Sisu well enough, but felt like most of the cool parts were in the trailer (kind of peaks at "flying landmine to the face", this is exciting.
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I don't think there's any one individual role where I've thought, "Why did they cast Glen Powell here?" He's pretty solid.
But the fact that he's in seemingly EVERYTHING gets a bit perplexing. Like, holy shit, did we run out of relatively charming white dudes? Are all the Chrises busy lately?
But the fact that he's in seemingly EVERYTHING gets a bit perplexing. Like, holy shit, did we run out of relatively charming white dudes? Are all the Chrises busy lately?
November 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I don't think there's any one individual role where I've thought, "Why did they cast Glen Powell here?" He's pretty solid.
But the fact that he's in seemingly EVERYTHING gets a bit perplexing. Like, holy shit, did we run out of relatively charming white dudes? Are all the Chrises busy lately?
But the fact that he's in seemingly EVERYTHING gets a bit perplexing. Like, holy shit, did we run out of relatively charming white dudes? Are all the Chrises busy lately?
"It kinda conspiratorial" Me Skybrush, me no type good
It kinda conspiratorial, but it's hard not to feel like these companies all call motion smoothing by different bullshit names to deliberately make it hard to find and switch off.
the only time i ever gave back to my community (cinephile dorks whose parents claim they can't see it but we suspect are messing with us a little)
November 27, 2025 at 6:19 AM
"It kinda conspiratorial" Me Skybrush, me no type good
It kinda conspiratorial, but it's hard not to feel like these companies all call motion smoothing by different bullshit names to deliberately make it hard to find and switch off.
the only time i ever gave back to my community (cinephile dorks whose parents claim they can't see it but we suspect are messing with us a little)
November 27, 2025 at 6:14 AM
It kinda conspiratorial, but it's hard not to feel like these companies all call motion smoothing by different bullshit names to deliberately make it hard to find and switch off.
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the only time i ever gave back to my community (cinephile dorks whose parents claim they can't see it but we suspect are messing with us a little)
November 27, 2025 at 1:19 AM
the only time i ever gave back to my community (cinephile dorks whose parents claim they can't see it but we suspect are messing with us a little)
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i ain’t thankful for shit go fuck yourselves
November 27, 2025 at 5:06 AM
i ain’t thankful for shit go fuck yourselves
I don't think there's any one individual role where I've thought, "Why did they cast Glen Powell here?" He's pretty solid.
But the fact that he's in seemingly EVERYTHING gets a bit perplexing. Like, holy shit, did we run out of relatively charming white dudes? Are all the Chrises busy lately?
But the fact that he's in seemingly EVERYTHING gets a bit perplexing. Like, holy shit, did we run out of relatively charming white dudes? Are all the Chrises busy lately?
November 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I don't think there's any one individual role where I've thought, "Why did they cast Glen Powell here?" He's pretty solid.
But the fact that he's in seemingly EVERYTHING gets a bit perplexing. Like, holy shit, did we run out of relatively charming white dudes? Are all the Chrises busy lately?
But the fact that he's in seemingly EVERYTHING gets a bit perplexing. Like, holy shit, did we run out of relatively charming white dudes? Are all the Chrises busy lately?