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Michael (Mixel) Dawes

@mixelslab.bsky.social

Solo indie dev of retro & C= Amiga games. Draws things sometimes. โœจ He/They โœ๐Ÿป Artist ๐Ÿ‘พ Amiga โ™๏ธ INFP-T ๐Ÿฆ‡ Goth ๐Ÿ’พ Indie Dev ๐Ÿ’€ Horror โค๏ธโ€๐Ÿ”ฅ Lydia

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in a way aren't we all holding a barrel in the darkness

09.09.2025 23:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 861    ๐Ÿ” 258    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Why the fuck is that Monster High Alien collab doing a better job at adapting the original Giger design than pretty much every Alien sequel that ever came out

10.10.2025 21:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 92    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Met my other half through Facebook, entirely coincidentally, and despite her then living abroad, now lives here with me..

Social media has also really helped some of my projects.

08.10.2025 22:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Totally agree, his work is so distinctive, even when it doesnโ€™t quite hit the mark itโ€™s really compelling.

The 3.5hr cabal cut of Nightbreed is wild, they filmed so much material that wasnโ€™t included - a lot of it improves things massively, and it has really cool hooks for a nonexistent sequel.

05.10.2025 00:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A yellow cardboard carton on a CVS shelf with brightly colored letters that say โ€œsqueeze me to hear me screamโ€ and โ€œstatue of liberty chicken.โ€ Inside the carton are hot pink, teal, and royal blue rubber chickens with googly eyes rendered like the Statue of Liberty, with their faces distressed and frozen in a shriek.  They have tags around their necks that say โ€œsqueeze me to hear me screamโ€

A yellow cardboard carton on a CVS shelf with brightly colored letters that say โ€œsqueeze me to hear me screamโ€ and โ€œstatue of liberty chicken.โ€ Inside the carton are hot pink, teal, and royal blue rubber chickens with googly eyes rendered like the Statue of Liberty, with their faces distressed and frozen in a shriek. They have tags around their necks that say โ€œsqueeze me to hear me screamโ€

Canโ€™t decide whether these Statue of Liberty rubber chickens that say โ€œsqueeze me to hear me screamโ€ are a little too on-the-nose for these times or if theyโ€™re perfect

03.10.2025 01:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2177    ๐Ÿ” 521    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 51    ๐Ÿ“Œ 38

We have them here in the UK, and theyโ€™re very much appreciated.

26.09.2025 15:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Donate to Help Us To Help Puca (Was Vader), organized by Shamsi Pearson I run Little TinCRs cat rescue service. We took Puca (was Vader) off the streets of Bโ€ฆ Shamsi Pearson needs your support for Help Us To Help Puca (Was Vader)

Sorry to ask.. If anyone could spare anything for Pucaโ€™s CT scans that would be really appreciated, we need to get to the bottom of his scary breathing issues. ๐Ÿ˜• Heโ€™s gone from very grumpy and clawy to extremely affectionate, but he still needs a lot of help. #catsofbluesky gofund.me/556b16c12

25.09.2025 20:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Evil Egg comes October 30.
Infinite Twin-Stick Chaos.
100% Free Game.
Wishlist on Steam:
store.steampowered.com/app/3651950/...
Join the discord to play the beta:
discord.gg/sQb5agEYzM

25.08.2025 01:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 358    ๐Ÿ” 135    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 16    ๐Ÿ“Œ 18

wrong answers! get yer guaranteed wrong answers here! correct just often enough you'll get lulled into depending on em! unsustainably propping up a broad range of severe and irreparable economic issues caused by open looting of the rich and politically connected! replace experts with wrong answers!

21.09.2025 18:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 337    ๐Ÿ” 120    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Ohh, Iโ€™ve only ever used the UK version. Great machine, wish it had survived that generation.

17.09.2025 20:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I like it other than the dpad made of razor blades.. My thumb hated the Dreamcast.

17.09.2025 17:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Odd, itโ€™s really smooth on my 13 (non pro) - Iโ€™ve been running the betas beforehand though so maybe it just takes a while to stabilise?

15.09.2025 19:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Kiryu saying, "Huh? Wait. So you'te transgender?"

Kiryu saying, "Huh? Wait. So you'te transgender?"

Kiryu saying, "Oh, I get it. You were born as a man on the outside, but on the inside, you like you were a woman."

Kiryu saying, "Oh, I get it. You were born as a man on the outside, but on the inside, you like you were a woman."

Kiryu saying, "love is about accepting one another for who you are."

Kiryu saying, "love is about accepting one another for who you are."

Kiryu saying, "Everyone has obstavles they've got to deal with. Yours are just a bit bigger than everyone else's, Ayaka."

Kiryu saying, "Everyone has obstavles they've got to deal with. Yours are just a bit bigger than everyone else's, Ayaka."

Kiryu Kazuma said TRANS RIGHTS

15.09.2025 00:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 697    ๐Ÿ” 305    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 13

Emmy winner! Outstanding writing for a drama series! For a Star Wars show! ๐Ÿคฏ

More than deserved.

15.09.2025 02:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 610    ๐Ÿ” 72    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
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AmiGameJam 2025 A game jam from 2025-05-31 to 2025-12-14 hosted by Amiga Cammy. To help keep the jam alive, Iโ€™ve set up a GoFundMe to help cover the prizes and shipping costs. If youโ€™d like to support it in any way, ...

The AmiGameJam 2025: Return of the Arcade is currently running.

Two and half months remain to make an #arcade game for #Amiga, and the winner gets their game built into a full-size cabinet shown in some of America's top arcades ๐Ÿคฏ

itch.io/jam/amigamejam

#RetroGaming #RetroDev #Commodore #GameJam

12.09.2025 08:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So close to getting his wish on the last one there. ๐Ÿ˜…

Bah, live by the sword, die by the sword.

11.09.2025 09:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Since someone mentioned having difficulty finding the original it happened to show up on my fyp

11.09.2025 00:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Uugh. Recent blood tests imply strange things happening with my Liver. Further tests soon. Any doctors around with opinions on:

Serum procollagen type III N-terminal propeptide level 10.60 ng/mL
Enhanced Liver Fibrosis (ELF) Test 9.7 ๐Ÿ˜•

#health #medical #advice #askadoctor #medicaladvice

10.09.2025 04:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The monk has 12 fingers & the dragon farts fire. ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

05.09.2025 06:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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AmiGameJam 2025 A game jam from 2025-05-31 to 2025-12-14 hosted by Amiga Cammy. To help keep the jam alive, Iโ€™ve set up a GoFundMe to help cover the prizes and shipping costs. If youโ€™d like to support it in any way, ...

AmiGameJam 2025 is here! Build an Amiga game that belongs on the arcade floor by 1 Dec 2025.

Whether you code, draw, or design levels, now's the time to show the world what your Amiga game can do. ๐Ÿ‘พ

Insert Coin โ†’ itch.io/jam/amigamejam
Help Fund the Jam! โ†’ gofundme.com/f/amigamejam-2025

05.09.2025 01:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

.. random skeksis?!

29.08.2025 10:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Platform of choice for reality in general ๐Ÿ˜…

27.08.2025 20:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Weird.. Enabled Black Frame Insertion on the big OLED TV as it makes motion (particularly panning cameras) so much smoother..

But my daughter (17) can see the black frames, so itโ€™s unwatchably flickery for her. I wonder if I can set a shortcut to toggle it.

26.08.2025 09:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€œDavid would eventually be revealed as the architect behind the iconic xenomorph.โ€ Not sure about that. I love covenant too but heโ€™s poking something that already existed within the goo. The mural in Prometheus has a xeno - and their entire lifecycle - depicted on it already.

21.08.2025 09:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A close-up photo of me, a gremlin cat artist trying to pass as human ๐Ÿ˜ธ

A close-up photo of me, a gremlin cat artist trying to pass as human ๐Ÿ˜ธ

An green/gold illustration of an elven maiden casting spell, with spirits gently surrounding her. Dragon Age inspired.

An green/gold illustration of an elven maiden casting spell, with spirits gently surrounding her. Dragon Age inspired.

A portrait of a redhead aasimar with 4 spread wings and a blue eye on her forehead.

A portrait of a redhead aasimar with 4 spread wings and a blue eye on her forehead.

A poster-like illustration of Solas, Cass, and Fenris from Dragon Age. A ghostly, shining hand is touching Solas' chest (it's Lavellan!).

A poster-like illustration of Solas, Cass, and Fenris from Dragon Age. A ghostly, shining hand is touching Solas' chest (it's Lavellan!).

Today is my birthday! Could you, please, share my art, it is the best gift an artist can get ๐Ÿ’–

15.08.2025 12:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1486    ๐Ÿ” 857    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 88    ๐Ÿ“Œ 16

Technological progress *demands* the introduction of UBI.

11.08.2025 18:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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New (very grumpy) family member; Puca.. Heโ€™s a rescue and fighting some health issues and not happy about it at all. But heโ€™s settling in well.

He hasnโ€™t met Penny yet, heโ€™s in quarantine until heโ€™s feeling better. #caturday

26.07.2025 14:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It did look painful. You were great!

19.07.2025 13:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A little sneak peek behind the scenesโ€ฆ

#roguelike #gamedev #indiegame #indiegamedev #amiga #noAI #retrogame

11.07.2025 00:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 29    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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