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zi11ion

@zi11ion.bsky.social

Wizened nerd guy. Retro, Indie, Horror game fan. Web Dev.

created October 30, 2024

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Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah, or a goblin!

20/9/2025, 7:34:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social)

I'm trying out streaming some Fallout 76 again. Going to try to work on my CAMPs while playing with a couple of friends. And I tend to speak in a silly wizard voice. www.twitch.tv/zi11ion

19/9/2025, 11:55:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social)

Loving this 8bit Mega Man style chiptune rendition of Battle on the Big Bridge from Final Fantasy V. youtu.be/EozbJv9IKqA?...

19/9/2025, 8:23:22 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

Writing this name down for my next D&D character.

19/9/2025, 5:14:32 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ALTON🏺🦊 (@rudefoxalton.bsky.social) reposted

Wow we should base our entire economy on this technology

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19/9/2025, 7:12:33 AM | 3392 1111 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

I finally scrolled long enough to find something somewhat hopeful on here. Thank you.

19/9/2025, 3:07:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

Will they actually remember what terrible stuff that man really said and did? Doubtful.

19/9/2025, 3:05:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social)

So, anyone got any hopeful news on here? I'll take just about anything at this point.

19/9/2025, 3:01:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

I want to take whatever meds you're on.

18/9/2025, 8:38:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social)

My struggle to appear to be a normal person is a Sisyphian task. But the hill keeps getting steeper. And then I stub a toe and trip, my Boulder of Normalcy crushing me on the way down while bystanders watch. Then I have to go find a new hill because everyone at the last hill saw what happened.

18/9/2025, 8:13:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture garyg (@gjgold.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

May 1935, shutting down two Berlin cabarets “because they emphasized the funny side of life in the totalitarian state.”

New York Times article from May 11, 1935: Headline, “Nazis Ban Satire”. Reports two Berlin cabarets shut down.
18/9/2025, 3:54:18 PM | 44 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laura Anne Gilman (@lauraannegilman.bsky.social) reposted

www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

Headline from the New York Times, 1939: “Goebbels ends careers of five “Aryan“ actors who made witticisms about the Nazi regime.”
18/9/2025, 1:58:10 PM | 5622 2626 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

Purple and green, an iconic duo!

18/9/2025, 5:19:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't like those kinds of tricks.

18/9/2025, 5:18:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

Did the grail actually cost $6,000 or was that a joke?

18/9/2025, 5:12:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social)

I've been trying to find a good pair of boots to use for a Black Mage / Wizard costume. I'm just finding things that are a mix of: not quite what I'm looking for, or really close, or too expensive or too low quality.

18/9/2025, 4:16:28 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

You can kinda combine the two by playing Chocobo Racing, I guess?

18/9/2025, 3:49:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

This looks amazing and it's also freaking my brain out.

18/9/2025, 3:48:15 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

Cute model! great job!

18/9/2025, 3:47:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

It's their dead soulless eyes. The eyes of a shark.

18/9/2025, 1:54:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social)

I wish that I could move away, but I'm stuck here. I wouldn't know where to go anyways.

18/9/2025, 1:50:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social)

Post a mage! Scramps the Hobo Wizard. My character in Fallout 76. (PC name "ScrampsTheHoboWizard")

17/9/2025, 4:29:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

That's the guy with the little magic wand that he waves to make the train go, right?

17/9/2025, 2:23:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

As a long time SH2 fan, the remake is excellent! I hope you enjoy it!

16/9/2025, 8:39:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

Or do, but it's a decoy?

16/9/2025, 8:34:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sailor Sqwirrel 🎮 in the Borderlands (@ragesqwirrel.bsky.social) reposted

Wake up babe. New shopping list dropped.

16/9/2025, 7:31:45 PM | 18 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

I can only imagine how Hewlett Packard firearms behave.

16/9/2025, 8:28:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted

JD Vance's threat to use the power of government to attack his political opponents under the pretext of national security is nothing new. Decades ago, my father and I watched the infamous Joe McCarthy do the same thing. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/personal-history-my-father-and-joe

16/9/2025, 8:15:06 PM | 2834 791 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

*A* god, not *THE* God. We got pantheons for small blessings

16/9/2025, 7:57:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

Classic, genre inspiring masterpiece. I'd love more horror turn-based RPGs like this.

16/9/2025, 7:17:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social)

I'm at the phase of my life where I grow my beard out and buy wizard robes and hats.

16/9/2025, 6:43:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

This is the first I heard of the transvestigating. whaaaat?? Just let a man enjoy his passion for making high-quality leather boutique shoes for overpriced creepy dolls.

16/9/2025, 6:39:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr René MD 🇺🇸🩺 (@drrenemd.bsky.social) reposted

PASS IT ON 🙏

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16/9/2025, 2:44:54 PM | 436 425 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kara Swisher (@karaswisher.bsky.social) reposted

No notes

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16/9/2025, 3:34:31 PM | 37791 10217 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social)

If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to Bluesky.

16/9/2025, 3:49:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture A.R. Moxon (@juliusgoat.bsky.social) reposted

Trump: everyone in the US died from drugs last week Reporter: [nods] Trump: so we must murder on the high seas Reporter: [nods] Trump: I caught Trix rabbit once Reporter: [nods] Trump: the cock on that bunny Reporter: [nods] Trump: bigger than you think Headline: Trump Policy Seeks To Save Lives

16/9/2025, 9:48:34 AM | 6285 1614 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

At least escape rooms are designed to be solved by the player...

15/9/2025, 4:47:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social)

My favorite line from FMV classic , 7th Guest:

DUTTON: Argh! Argh! Argh! Argh! Argh! Argh! Argh! Argh!
15/9/2025, 4:46:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

Did they just squirt out that game?

15/9/2025, 4:37:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Benjamin Dreyer (@bcdreyer.social) reposted

“How you die does not redeem how you lived.”

15/9/2025, 1:38:34 AM | 4725 1117 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

A hobo that kills nazis? Two great tastes that taste great together!

15/9/2025, 3:02:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture IRL Loading Screens (@irlloadingscreens.bsky.social) reposted

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15/9/2025, 2:03:39 PM | 50 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

I think it looks amazing! I'm always excited for more Dragon Quest stuff and this is gorgeous

15/9/2025, 1:30:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

whoah, I haven't seen this FF4 artwork before! It looks great! Where does it originate?

13/9/2025, 11:30:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paperback Paradise (@paperbackparadise.bsky.social) reposted

Photo of a vhs for an episode of the Animorphs tv show that features a boy transforming into a dog. Titles and copy read GOD’S PUNISHMENT NOW YOU EAT DOG SHIT the inner thoughts of the child float around his transformation, they read: What’s happening? Sure could go for some dog shit I eat dog shit now? What did I do? Wish I was eating dog shit right now A promotional graphic proclaims A boy turns into a dog and eats dog shit for lying Part 1 the sins of children series
11/9/2025, 5:29:32 PM | 656 132 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sailor Sqwirrel 🎮 in the Borderlands (@ragesqwirrel.bsky.social) reposted

Sir or ma’am… that’s not how any of this works. I’ll take three.

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11/9/2025, 3:01:09 PM | 43 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

This is a level of body horror that I had never envisioned. Pure brilliance

11/9/2025, 5:24:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pop Heist (@popheist.com) reposted

What if E.T. landed in Turkiye, no one gave a shit, and he was also gay? He would be Homoti, titular alien in a truly bizarre movie.

11/9/2025, 5:13:04 PM | 11 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

badass!

11/9/2025, 3:33:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

oh shit that's rad! do you have a referral code I can use?

11/9/2025, 3:19:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

I would cry if my antidepressants didn't numb me.

11/9/2025, 3:16:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

I barely have the mental energy at the end of the work day to do anything other than feed my cats and crawl into bed early.

11/9/2025, 3:15:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social)

I'm getting so overwhelmed with *gestures broadly* all this everyday that its hard to deal with what's going on with myself. I want to work on myself, I want to improve things, and I want to be creative. But I just see the world continually get shittier and more chaotic and it's hard, man.

11/9/2025, 3:15:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) reposted

This was LITERALLY last month. I feel like I'm losing my mind seeing rightwing posts over on Twitter tonight. nytimes.com/2025/08/13/u...

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11/9/2025, 5:47:39 AM | 12906 3590 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social)

I was going to say something about Suicide Prevention Day yesterday but then a lot of things happened. I don't even know what to say or do anymore guys.

11/9/2025, 3:10:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social)

more and more I just want to retreat to the woods and become a hermit.

11/9/2025, 1:50:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chronic Illness Humor (@chronicillness.bsky.social) reposted

observations from urgent care -People who exercise a lot get knee injuries from overdoing it -People who only exercise occasionally get knee injuries from being unprepared for the exertion -People who don't exercise get knee injuries from being out of shape Solution: Don't have knees.
11/9/2025, 1:38:44 PM | 327 46 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aaron Weiss (@aweiss.bsky.social) reposted

Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Governor Polis Orders Flags to Half-Staff to Honor the Anniversary of September 11th and the Passing of Charlie Kirk
11/9/2025, 2:23:25 AM | 32648 9468 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) reposted

This was just last month and we have already memoryholed it. A cop killed by an antivaxxer.

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11/9/2025, 4:15:40 AM | 23266 6196 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Bulmer (@demontomatodave.bsky.social) reposted

Never became as popular as "ET Phone Home" did it

A drawing of ET waving at us on the cardboard packaging for a 1980s product called
10/9/2025, 2:20:46 PM | 3516 1183 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

Makes a fella want to log off forever.

10/9/2025, 6:39:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Profile picture David Lynch's Worlds (@davidlynchsworlds.bsky.social) reposted

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9/9/2025, 3:49:18 PM | 178 49 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social)

Geesh, I wish I lived in an area that's safe to be myself.

9/9/2025, 4:25:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lisa F. Moore (@femlfm.bsky.social) reposted

History is repeating itself.

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9/9/2025, 10:09:40 AM | 23 12 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

Jet Jaguar would do all this and more because Jet Jaguar is our Yakuza Blood Brother!

9/9/2025, 4:08:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

it's just a -make

9/9/2025, 4:07:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

Not to mention the degaussing!

9/9/2025, 3:51:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

Jet Jaguar would help you change your tire to drive that body to the forest! Jet Jaguar would supply the quick lime to help get rid of the evidence! Jet Jaguar would lie in court to get you off the hook!

9/9/2025, 3:46:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

I trust him with my DVD copy of Godzilla vs Megalon that I REFUSED to throw away, as I was instructed to do. Jet Jaguar would help me hide a body and ask no questions!

9/9/2025, 3:39:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

Don't get me started on the lawless improv scene.

9/9/2025, 3:36:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

Yep, I'm sold! More like this, please

9/9/2025, 3:34:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

Jet Jaguar is an absolute bro and a true homie. I trust Jet Jaguar with the contents of my fridge.

9/9/2025, 3:33:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

You're the Judge now dawg *hands over gavel and ostentatious judge-wig*

9/9/2025, 3:31:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

Wish that held up in court.

9/9/2025, 3:28:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social)

Have you ever had someone in the office who farted so disruptively long and loud that they got brought into a meeting with HR about it? And follow up meetings with the team? And the subsequent disbanding of Taco Tuesdays?

9/9/2025, 3:26:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

I heard that not properly ejecting for long periods of time can cause prostate problems.

9/9/2025, 3:22:26 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

This art is gorgeous!

9/9/2025, 3:07:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Onion (@theonion.com) reposted

It Only Tuesday https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/

It Only Tuesday
9/9/2025, 2:00:41 PM | 10506 2906 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture NoSoloBits (@nosolobits.com) reposted

Pu·Li·Ru·La Arcade Taito, 1991

7/9/2025, 7:09:18 PM | 64 17 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

Pure Art ™️

8/9/2025, 3:30:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

That's So RAD!

8/9/2025, 2:37:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

Lego Star Trek! Lets Go!

8/9/2025, 2:36:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

Excited about Lego Picard for some reason.

8/9/2025, 2:35:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Profile picture Kye (@gxldsociety.bsky.social) reposted

BREAKING: In Chicago, Illinois—U.S. citizens protesting ICE were dragged into vans by masked federal agents with no badges and no warrants. People screamed: “Who are you? Where are you taking them?” This is authoritarian control in real time.

7/9/2025, 7:48:19 PM | 7158 4028 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

but he looks so joyful!

6/9/2025, 10:51:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jessica-Star✨ (@sleepisfort.bsky.social) reposted

In the ongoing battle between #Snaxalotl & #Carealotl in Fallout 76, we struck a blow for CARE during Iguana Bits News on today's podcast. We have a theme song now, take that SNACKERS! @fallout.bethesdastudios.com @indyandroid.bsky.social #Fallout76

6/9/2025, 8:08:52 PM | 24 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

Don't we all scream when we're born? I mean...I guess we don't talk immediately, normally. At least not for a while.

6/9/2025, 8:07:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted

Kiss it goodbye Donnie.

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Profile picture Game Changer (@gamechangershow.bsky.social) reposted

The ultimate way of torturing Brennan, now animated by Yukfoo Animation #GameChanger

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Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

I...I think this might actually work as a film? huh.

3/9/2025, 6:09:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Leftist Gamer Memes (@leftistgamermemes.bsky.social) reposted

⚔️🤝🛡

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Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

If the work piles up enough, nobody can see me not doing the work.

3/9/2025, 5:00:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

The *nice* Arby's has these kinds of windows:

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Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe "notorious"? "Infamous"? Either way, it's an iconic and definitive episode of MST3K.

3/9/2025, 3:40:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

You're cool

3/9/2025, 3:13:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

Thanks. Now I'll get no sleep...

3/9/2025, 3:00:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture zi11ion (@zi11ion.bsky.social) reply parent

The mode 7 lethargic-kaiju truck pull event is unhinged as heck and I love it.

3/9/2025, 2:49:06 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sassenash (@mkouel.bsky.social) reposted

This is really awesome work!! youtube.com/watch?v=4A76...

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