:blahaj: Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑

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Husband, Geek, GenX, Gamer...
Old enough that things aren't "Retro", they're "from my youth ".
You have to pass from retro to vintage to get past that. 😉
Lover of most things vintage from cars to machinery and technology. And music.

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Sorry, I do not know the artist who made the Karlach portrait I have for a profile picture.

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Basics: He / Him, cis-ish, straight-ish
Country: Sweden
Age: > 50
What I do: Hands on tech support

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2024-09-05 09:15:44

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I am a huge believer in the idea that a revival of 17th century male fashion would be a great way to combat online "alpha males'.

2024-08-18 05:14:26

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Oh I am sure if you zoom in and start looking at the individual tree speeches yeah. But the vibe is very "central Sweden in the rain" to me. I can imagine sitting looking thru that scratching mosquito bites 😄

2024-08-18 05:01:16

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It's fun how certain key aspects of traditional architecture gives geography away.
(yeah that was a mouthful I know).
Meaning in this case: This picture looks exceptionally Swedish to me, I have spent many a days inside similar windows looking out at similar nature... except the VERY distinct North American barn tells me immediately it's not in the Nordics. 🙂

2024-07-05 15:12:47

UK Mastodon for the last 24 hours
https://cdn.masto.host/topspicysocial/media_attachments/files/112/734/520/840/016/294/original/1e9f63b120555758.jpg

2024-07-05 09:13:39

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it's infamous for it, it's the main reason I switched to Cinnamon. Tho it's worse on more expensive video cards.

2024-07-05 03:20:57

Okay... quick question:
The #Xfce compositor still give screen tear in videos, right?
#Linux

2024-07-03 21:00:30

One last song before going to bed...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFbnQQ6t98Q
#Metal #Motörhead #Rock #Music

2024-07-03 07:49:13

Trying to remember #Amiga games that stuck with me and honestly I can barely remember any. #C64 games? Quite a lot of games, but Amiga games? Barbarian (the one with duels, not the other one), Arkanoid and... That's it I think despite owning one for several years.
#gaming #retrogaming #retrocomputing

2024-07-02 15:03:55

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or care

2024-06-26 20:27:05

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...Honestly I am clueless. No hints, what are you talking about?

2024-06-22 14:48:26

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Works for me, but I had to fiddle with the settings to get the absolute maximum out of my 3060 with 1080p

2024-06-22 10:32:42

The problem with Cyberpunk 2077 for me is that my motivation to keep playing dies with the companion quests.
I reached level 60 a long time ago. I am only halfway thru the main quest, and have 90% of gigs left to do, but I have no interest to play after everything with Judy and Panam is done. Yes I can have Judy come over and snuggle in my lap, and that is awesome, but it is also... it.
#Cyberpunk2077 #Gaming #Cyberpunk

2024-06-20 04:15:49

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Okay, how... what... ???
"Narcissist and a bully?" Seems about what they told me when I told some guy off for suggesting it was censorship that people I blocked couldn't read my posts, but with the added edge of "talking to a woman I don't like so I have to be completely unreasonably toxic in my replies".
Seriously tho, how does someone draw that conclusion? Soon they will call people bullies for locking their front doors.

2024-06-14 05:11:34

My friend had an "Advanced #asteroids clone" sometime in the late 80s for PC. It was very fun, because the graphics were great for it's time but moreso because it was very customizable. Not only did you have about 10 ships with clearly different characteristics to pick from but you could add or remove a gravity center in the middle of the map, set how dense the asteroid field should be and even play against a friend and instead of shooting asteroids try to kill each other in a 1v1.
#retrogaming

2024-06-11 18:38:23

Just realized that #Outbound and #CamperVan has basically identical thumbnails.
#Steam #SteamWishLift #CozyGames #IndieGames #Games

2024-06-07 08:27:43

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All I know is that I flirt as well as a brick under water. But that probably has more to do with traumas growing up than with being cishet

2024-06-06 14:00:27

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somebody's made of money I see.
🤪

2024-05-31 10:06:39

I don't have any real retro games I want to play enough to say get a hold of an emulator; I fully admit most games I played 10 hours a day in my youth (the 1980s) were shit. The oldest games might actually fancy to play still functions on Steam.
Of course there were good ones like Arkanoid, Uridium, Balder Dash, Tetris and a bit later Defender of the Crown and a few others, but most were played because they were the only game in town.
#retrogaming #retrocomputing #nostalgia #gaming #80s

2024-05-28 13:58:47

In retrospect was Moon Lander not a very fun game.
#retrogaming #Vic20

2024-05-22 14:54:16

I try not to post about politics but this timeline is so enshittified.

2024-05-22 08:26:58

The #Windows 11 subreddit seems to be 50% people talking about leaving Windows and 50% people simping for anything #AI

2024-05-20 13:45:54

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be every careful about the ppl chasing their escaped bikes.

2024-05-20 07:18:25

Okay... #Fabledom is really fun.
#gaming #citybuilder #indiegame #steam

2024-05-17 18:45:18

I am once again getting the urge to install EndeavorOS but I... only use it to run firefox on it.
Seriously, this is the biggest reason I stopped using Linux; I don't actually use it for anything but browsing the web since gaming just is so much more convinient on Windows and I'm not into Linux for ideological reasons (yet).
I ALSO stopped because the number of bat shit racist libertarians on Linux forums I frequented were souring the experience. But that's another matter.
#Linux #Archlinux

2024-05-17 10:31:55

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Silent Hill vs Emmerdale

2024-04-27 08:49:04

Okay, so I am annoyed at #bethesda
The reason? They push the "Free DLC" (aka user created content they decided they like) onto the game ( #Fallout4 ) with no option to say no.
I... I am not a fan of user created content in at the best of times, it tends to be completely overpowered or in other ways stick out like a sore thumb.
I had to manually go in and delete files from a directory since unlike the proper DLCs or properly installed mods you can't just uncheck it.
#Gaming #Fallout

2024-04-20 07:59:47

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That time line... that caused so much ruckus among people not paying attention.
Bethesda has confirmed the bomb dropped on Shady Sands AFTER New Vegas took place.
#Gaming #Fallout #FalloutNV #TV

2024-04-20 07:52:27

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Easy to say "what if", but if my character got caught ALMOST taking the fusion core, I would have gone thru with it. Of course in a game you can reload...

2024-04-20 07:31:25

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Okay the glowy eyes were cool.
...Knowing a lot of the lore beforehand makes Cooper's experience in the past less... creepy and more "waiting for Twilligt episode to actually start".
I mean I am not a lore-hound, so it was a long time ago I stopped reading terminal entries in the games; I already know some horrid shit went down in this (insert company ruins or vault here) place, all I want to do is loot and get out.

2024-04-20 07:15:00

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The one eyed monster? ;)
(Seriously tho, the fact that the BOS do not teach sex ed is fucked up)

2024-04-20 06:37:52

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I feel him. Parties has never been my thing. As in these kind of things.
Give me a family holiday? I love those. A bunch of friends just playing games and eating pizza for 28 hours? That too.
Full cosplay ("tux" or other unnatural clothes) and politeness and cocktails? Fuck right off.

2024-04-20 06:28:21

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...No, not a commercial, an INFOmercial.
WestTech huh?
Sidenote here: Someone said the power armor in the series are too durable; the truth is the opposite; they are supposed to be as tough as in the cutscenes and the show, they are WEAKENED in the games. In the lore the P51 and T60 was way more powerful than anything the Chinese had, but in the games (FO3 especially) an unarmored player with a rifle from the 1800s could take them out.

2024-04-20 06:13:34

Cool, that's the actual TV intro from FO1??

2024-04-15 19:26:10

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Oh ffs everybody KNOWS that unless your gun is modded to fucking hell AIM FOR THE LEGS of a ghoul.

2024-04-15 16:42:34

I have played every major release of the Fallout Franchise (aka not Tactics, Brotherhood of Steel or 76) and man the first episode of the show hits hard anyway.
#Fallout #Gaming

2024-04-11 04:42:52

Looking forward to binging #Fallout this weekend.
https://youtu.be/8XPzICHxXoQ?si=4539XuxaNlJazvKQ

2022-11-12 05:53:00

More #aboutme:
I don't do horror or misery porn. Not because I can't handle it but because the way I'm wired I don't get any positive feedback from it. Same with rollercoasters btw. So at best it makes me sad for no reason.
I have never watched an anime or played a JRPG that held my attention for more than 30 minutes. Not sure what the issue is other than I sometimes feel like a fraud for calling myself a geek when I've not finished a single FF game... 😅

2022-11-11 19:43:38

#Interests
Short list. None of these are professional interests, I just enjoy stuff about these things... Except we do own two dogs!
#Gaming
#Pets
#Dogs
#Vintage
#Paleontology
#History
#ClassicCars
#Architecture
#80s
#Nature
#Fantasy
#SciFi

2022-11-11 19:34:30

#Introduction:
👋 hello, I'm only sort of a #geek. The kind who thinks indie games are cool and then clock 4500 hours in Sims 4, have never actually owned a #consol except a 6 month period when i had a #segamegadrive which I only played Golden Axe on. I also don't particularly care for horror movies or obscure rock bands or...
My computer and gaming history is #C64 -> #Amiga500 -> PC.