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@tonyacatte.bsky.social
30-something queer trans goober from PDX (she/they) | Writer of pop culture things (asecretarea.com) / (patreon.com/youfoundasecretarea)
Warning: Will nerd out about game shows, music, & other stuff at random
Warning: Will nerd out about game shows, music, & other stuff at random
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@tonyacatte.bsky.social
· Oct 17
You Found a Secret Area!
asecretarea.com
anyway hi folks I'm beverly jane (or tonya), I write about games and other things on my blog: asecretarea.com
I also archive VHS stuff sometimes and share my finds to folks
beware: I *will* nerd out about game shows and other things that like, 2 people may understand what I'm fully talking about
I also archive VHS stuff sometimes and share my finds to folks
beware: I *will* nerd out about game shows and other things that like, 2 people may understand what I'm fully talking about
I know there's still days left in this year, but a 2026 New Years Resolution is for me to definitely See More Things
Watch more movies. Catch that TV show a friend raves about. Listen to the oodles of albums I've been grabbing. Tackle that goddamn gaming backlog.
Fairly achievable goal tbh
Watch more movies. Catch that TV show a friend raves about. Listen to the oodles of albums I've been grabbing. Tackle that goddamn gaming backlog.
Fairly achievable goal tbh
December 8, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I know there's still days left in this year, but a 2026 New Years Resolution is for me to definitely See More Things
Watch more movies. Catch that TV show a friend raves about. Listen to the oodles of albums I've been grabbing. Tackle that goddamn gaming backlog.
Fairly achievable goal tbh
Watch more movies. Catch that TV show a friend raves about. Listen to the oodles of albums I've been grabbing. Tackle that goddamn gaming backlog.
Fairly achievable goal tbh
A couple days ago, me and my partner did some thrifting and I found some interesting stuff:
- A Flubber CD-ROM press kit
- The soundtracks to The Departed and Reservoir Dogs
- A DVD of Tom Wilson (Back to the Future)'s stand up special, autographed
Love when I find just the wildest stuff.
- A Flubber CD-ROM press kit
- The soundtracks to The Departed and Reservoir Dogs
- A DVD of Tom Wilson (Back to the Future)'s stand up special, autographed
Love when I find just the wildest stuff.
December 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
A couple days ago, me and my partner did some thrifting and I found some interesting stuff:
- A Flubber CD-ROM press kit
- The soundtracks to The Departed and Reservoir Dogs
- A DVD of Tom Wilson (Back to the Future)'s stand up special, autographed
Love when I find just the wildest stuff.
- A Flubber CD-ROM press kit
- The soundtracks to The Departed and Reservoir Dogs
- A DVD of Tom Wilson (Back to the Future)'s stand up special, autographed
Love when I find just the wildest stuff.
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wow this movie really IS insanely transgender
December 7, 2025 at 4:23 AM
wow this movie really IS insanely transgender
that Warhammer 40,000 Darktide is an alright game, I tell ya
December 7, 2025 at 6:16 AM
that Warhammer 40,000 Darktide is an alright game, I tell ya
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media & software piracy on the rise again, anime fansubs coming back ... welcome back late 2000s/early 2010s internet
December 6, 2025 at 7:43 PM
media & software piracy on the rise again, anime fansubs coming back ... welcome back late 2000s/early 2010s internet
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I love how I immediately recognized that this isn't even from an episode of Unsolved Mysteries, it's from BASEketball. 😅
Nobody was walking through mysterious fog like him
December 7, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I love how I immediately recognized that this isn't even from an episode of Unsolved Mysteries, it's from BASEketball. 😅
listening to the genesis mortal kombat OST and forgot how much better it was over the original
December 7, 2025 at 1:07 AM
listening to the genesis mortal kombat OST and forgot how much better it was over the original
Installing a recent game and realizing I was running low on space.
Then I find out that I have amassed a Podcast backlog that's 2 1/2 years behind and taking up 97GB on my SSD.
I have since moved it to my storage HDD because hey, I need that 97GB! It could be used up by more games!
Then I find out that I have amassed a Podcast backlog that's 2 1/2 years behind and taking up 97GB on my SSD.
I have since moved it to my storage HDD because hey, I need that 97GB! It could be used up by more games!
December 6, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Installing a recent game and realizing I was running low on space.
Then I find out that I have amassed a Podcast backlog that's 2 1/2 years behind and taking up 97GB on my SSD.
I have since moved it to my storage HDD because hey, I need that 97GB! It could be used up by more games!
Then I find out that I have amassed a Podcast backlog that's 2 1/2 years behind and taking up 97GB on my SSD.
I have since moved it to my storage HDD because hey, I need that 97GB! It could be used up by more games!
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do not despair. your beloved franchises are now under the careful stewardship of the brilliant minds behind Qwikster
December 6, 2025 at 4:17 AM
do not despair. your beloved franchises are now under the careful stewardship of the brilliant minds behind Qwikster
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Not enough people have seen this bonkers USA Up All Night Atari Jaguar/EGM promo starring Rhonda Shear
Atari Jaguar USA "Up All Night" Promo
Found this gem digging through some old files. Taken from the December 2003 "Atarivision" Video Series #1 file, it's a sweepstakes promo for the Atari Jaguar...
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January 27, 2024 at 6:01 AM
Not enough people have seen this bonkers USA Up All Night Atari Jaguar/EGM promo starring Rhonda Shear
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Thinking a bit more about the stupid Ian Bogost discourse
Over this past year I've been wanting to tackle genres I don't play often, just to diversify what I play
I think it's important to broaden one's horizons, if only to better understand why people like stuff rather than outright dismissing it
Over this past year I've been wanting to tackle genres I don't play often, just to diversify what I play
I think it's important to broaden one's horizons, if only to better understand why people like stuff rather than outright dismissing it
December 5, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Thinking a bit more about the stupid Ian Bogost discourse
Over this past year I've been wanting to tackle genres I don't play often, just to diversify what I play
I think it's important to broaden one's horizons, if only to better understand why people like stuff rather than outright dismissing it
Over this past year I've been wanting to tackle genres I don't play often, just to diversify what I play
I think it's important to broaden one's horizons, if only to better understand why people like stuff rather than outright dismissing it
hey Ian, it's 2025, not 2005.
You're not getting any street cred these days by blindly trashing a genre, dude
You're not getting any street cred these days by blindly trashing a genre, dude
Q-Up and Candy Crush, say, are more serious works of game than Horses (which seems fine and even innocuous!) or whatever embarrassing anime RPG trash is on Steam or Nintendo EShop.
December 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
hey Ian, it's 2025, not 2005.
You're not getting any street cred these days by blindly trashing a genre, dude
You're not getting any street cred these days by blindly trashing a genre, dude
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We've got games based on game shows on the C64 + MS-DOS to show off TONIGHT at 8pm CT! A lot of great faces on these older game show games... twitch.tv/retropals
December 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
We've got games based on game shows on the C64 + MS-DOS to show off TONIGHT at 8pm CT! A lot of great faces on these older game show games... twitch.tv/retropals
Think I'm starting to enter my jazz fusion/pop jazz arc
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Think I'm starting to enter my jazz fusion/pop jazz arc
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![Comic. Doing a task using a company or organization’s website: [flowchart] Go to website, try to log in → Did it work? → Yes → Try to do your task. → Did it work? Yes → Nice! Done! If logging in did not work → Spend hours troubleshooting account / login. If that works, go to Try to do your task. If no → Give up and call customer service. If spending hours troubleshooting doesn’t work, also give up and call customer service. After calling customer service: Hold message: “Did you know you could do all this more quickly and easily on our website? Just go to w-w-w dot…” → Throw phone and laptop into the sea.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiewqnkcrrc4tgla7j5skyz2djf3mrrvre3577c4xcgzurvq33bw4y@jpeg)
December 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
turns out the girls are right: ya gotta moisturize yerself
December 4, 2025 at 11:36 PM
turns out the girls are right: ya gotta moisturize yerself
A recent skeet about the wrong CD in the drive of a Windows 95 PC game reminded me of how great Red Book CD audio was and the article I wrote about it all those years ago
Still find it fun despite I know how impractical it would be now
asecretarea.com/2014/04/02/r...
Still find it fun despite I know how impractical it would be now
asecretarea.com/2014/04/02/r...
A Tribute to Red Book CD audio. - You Found a Secret Area!
When it comes to video games, CDs were a god damn revelation back in the day. Before then, people were developing games on cartridges that barely held a few megabytes. CDs, on the other hand, held up ...
asecretarea.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
A recent skeet about the wrong CD in the drive of a Windows 95 PC game reminded me of how great Red Book CD audio was and the article I wrote about it all those years ago
Still find it fun despite I know how impractical it would be now
asecretarea.com/2014/04/02/r...
Still find it fun despite I know how impractical it would be now
asecretarea.com/2014/04/02/r...
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On this day 175 years ago, the first edition of The Oregonian hit the streets of Portland.
If all had gone to plan, the newspaper would have celebrated its 175th anniversary last month. But when its printing press never arrived, Dryer suspected sabotage!
www.oregonlive.com/history/2025...
If all had gone to plan, the newspaper would have celebrated its 175th anniversary last month. But when its printing press never arrived, Dryer suspected sabotage!
www.oregonlive.com/history/2025...
December 4, 2025 at 8:55 PM
On this day 175 years ago, the first edition of The Oregonian hit the streets of Portland.
If all had gone to plan, the newspaper would have celebrated its 175th anniversary last month. But when its printing press never arrived, Dryer suspected sabotage!
www.oregonlive.com/history/2025...
If all had gone to plan, the newspaper would have celebrated its 175th anniversary last month. But when its printing press never arrived, Dryer suspected sabotage!
www.oregonlive.com/history/2025...
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When you start a game with the wrong CD in the drive
#JustWindows95Things
#JustWindows95Things
December 4, 2025 at 9:25 PM
When you start a game with the wrong CD in the drive
#JustWindows95Things
#JustWindows95Things
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netizen.club/~wildweasel/... - I have Learned Things, today; among those things is that my dad rarely gets rid of anything. Those things, and a handful of amusing other ones, join the words "mashie niblick" and "brassie" in this month's Golfshrine Acquisitions Update.
Golfshrine - Acquisitions and Updates
Bringing out the Tiger in you!
netizen.club
December 3, 2025 at 11:29 PM
netizen.club/~wildweasel/... - I have Learned Things, today; among those things is that my dad rarely gets rid of anything. Those things, and a handful of amusing other ones, join the words "mashie niblick" and "brassie" in this month's Golfshrine Acquisitions Update.
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Getting pretty sick of living in Biff Tannen's America
December 3, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Getting pretty sick of living in Biff Tannen's America