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Topher Florence @topherflorence.bsky.social · 1d

remembering the free time and attention span i had in my early twenties is insane. what do you mean i was reading novels, and keeping up with tv shows, and playing very long video games, and watching movies and rewatching them with the directors commentary and going to class like what the fuck

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Don’t Stop, Girlypop! @girlypop.net · 2d

💖❣️BIG NEWS❣️💖

We just revealed through IGN that our first public demo for Don't Stop, Girlypop! is OUT NOW ✨

Check out the brand new trailer here 👇
https://bit.ly/46G0FiI

Don't Stop Girlypop! – Official Demo Announcement Trailer

YouTube video by IGN

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Topher Florence @topherflorence.bsky.social · 2d

sora it's us your old pals: tron 3 man, captain jack sparrow, kang the conqueror, even stevens...this game was in production for a very long time sora...

Topher Florence @topherflorence.bsky.social · 2d

just realized there's a real possibility they might put jared leto in kingdom hearts lol

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Topher Florence @topherflorence.bsky.social · 2d

just realized there's a real possibility they might put jared leto in kingdom hearts lol

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chess!! @videochess.world · 4d

gamefaqs posts that go hard

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Topher Florence @topherflorence.bsky.social · 4d

watched too much northernlion and now i see everything as "the labubu stare"

a screencap from the motion picture Van Helsing (2004) of a monster babe doin the labubu face

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Topher Florence @topherflorence.bsky.social · 4d

pardon me for asking ma'am but is there a Wire Father? 😏

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Topher Florence @topherflorence.bsky.social · 5d

the motion picture "tron" used a lot of scifi shorthand for the digital world but one part that interestingly lines up with real world computer science is that if you ever write a computer program it is alive and it looks like you and it might fall in love with your boyfriends program in there too

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Topher Florence @topherflorence.bsky.social · 6d

reminding myself of how cool starfighter sanvein looks again youtu.be/Ho1XJkn26uo

Shooter: Starfighter Sanvein - PS1 (2001)

YouTube video by Chapelle69

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Topher Florence @topherflorence.bsky.social · 6d

i have described the videogame unfair flips to three different people as a game about how we make up superstitions about winning and coincidentally the exact moments i was having those three conversations are the precise and only times i got endings

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Topher Florence @topherflorence.bsky.social · 6d

there's an episode of nash bridges where elvira shows up but as a character called frankie and the credits say "elvira as frankie" and cassandra peterson is not listed at all which implies a double fiction where elvira is a separate actress

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Topher Florence @topherflorence.bsky.social · 6d

all this talk about digital AI actors has me wondering what exactly the actor's union contract negotiations looked like when they put muppet names in opening credits of movies

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Kaye “Silent Hill f[emale]” Ross @kaye.zone · 8d

I found it, the most unhinged text entry interface in a console game

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Topher Florence @topherflorence.bsky.social · 8d

its simple all video games cost 100 dollars by default but each gigabyte you add past 1G you have to knock off 10 dollars

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rat posting from the lab @gizmouse.bsky.social · 9d

academy award contending tiktok

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Topher Florence @topherflorence.bsky.social · 9d

actress melissa glibert

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Topher Florence @topherflorence.bsky.social · 9d

no wait i got it, the confusion of what time they are in, the vagueness of "am in in the past or am i the ghost of your memories from the past?", these children are obviously cast members at an elaborate colonial williamsburg style 2002 walmart based theme park

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Topher Florence @topherflorence.bsky.social · 9d

anyway as a guy who enjoyed going into vrchat kmart and watching a youtube channel that has 90s news b-roll of "going to the store" it's time to go full sicko mode and do preparatory LIDAR and photogrammetric scans of the local store so people of 2045 can properly remember Apple Pay or whatever shit

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Topher Florence @topherflorence.bsky.social · 9d

trying to get a handle on the context of the computer demon babies have here. they seem to have some knowledge of the future but still ask questions about it. has there been some sort of time travel cultural exchange program or are they npc elements in some sort of "A Christmas Carol"-style event?

grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 9d

This is doing numbers on social media right now and it's so depressing how people truly yearn for this shit and want to preserve that feeling indefinitely like a mausoleum of false memories.

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Topher Florence @topherflorence.bsky.social · 11d

homestuck pilot takes place in 2009 but they say "pfp" instead of "avatar" immersion broken

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Topher Florence @topherflorence.bsky.social · 11d

they gotta bring back the king's hawaiian sliced bread dawg my sandwich game has been thrown completely off

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Topher Florence @topherflorence.bsky.social · 12d

The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)

a screencap from Steven Universe of Steven and Connie looking up at White Diamond's Pearl hovering in the air. all of these are screencaps from Steven Universe

Peridot from Steven Universe pointing to a chalkboard that says "CLUTSTER EMERGES" and "BYE BYE EARTH"

White Diamond holding Steven Universe in her hand menacingly

Baby Pinto pretending to bring Garbanzo back to life

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Topher Florence @topherflorence.bsky.social · 12d

now were fucking cooking. let's get into that real nitty gritty. we had enough sonic games with running and racing it's time to see the government compliance board for disability standards run by funny talking animals.

Sonic The Wereblog @sonichedgeblog.bsky.social · 12d

A closer look at a directional signage from the Colorful Mall track of 'Sonic Racing CrossWorlds'. Bathrooms, baby changing and wheelchair accessibility icons appear - but uniquely, all of them have animal ears!

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Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · 14d

now that Disney is in the discourse, i must now share the recent conversation i had with @vickyacab.bsky.social for the UK-based TANK magazine on her upcoming book about Disney: as well as Nintendo as a Disney analog, the current state of art in culture, and much more tank.tv/magazine/iss...

Conversations - the mouse trap — TANKtvConversations - the mouse trap

tank.tv

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 14d

Wasn’t ready for this intro and went “hell yeah brother” out loud

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