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Magnus Anderson

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Was that Tower Records?

31.10.2025 23:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

And right away there's the ambiguity of graveyard smash: did the graveyard like it? Was it destroyed by it? Did the dance make a smashing sound?

31.10.2025 21:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

A cavernous room with shelves and shelves of games, it never occurred to me that these places wouldn't last for ever

31.10.2025 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Build a 3D flight combat game.
You must write your own rendering engine.
You must include twenty ship designs.
You must have upgradeable equipment, interplanetary trading, a crime system, police chases and space stations.
You must have 8 galaxies with hundreds of star systems.
You have 22 kilobytes.

19.10.2025 10:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Who hasn't seen Penda's Fen was a hot topic of conversation during a long car journey a couple of weeks back - the answer was everyone apart from the person who asked

05.10.2025 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh how you underestimate my barrier to having takes

04.10.2025 15:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Clout reacquisition time!

01.10.2025 09:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Skin successfully jumped out of

07.09.2025 14:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Somewhere in another part of the world a stadium has just lit up

04.09.2025 22:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hollow Knight: Silksong demand prompts Steam and game store crash Social media users also struggle to grab the game on the Nintendo, PlayStation and Xbox game stores.

Extra! Extra! Game with no physical stock goes out of stock!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

04.09.2025 17:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No one should be playing any ps2 games unless they've finished all 4000 ps1 games

02.09.2025 21:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How many d'ya need mate

29.08.2025 16:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The world's largest retailer wants to know if I want any more of those toilet seat hinges I enjoyed so much this time last year

29.08.2025 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This fear is quite unfounded

29.08.2025 10:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Anthropologists examining my household would conclude that one of my main fears is running out of tote bags

29.08.2025 10:57 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Vegetable bowl containing the well known vegetable strawberries

Vegetable bowl containing the well known vegetable strawberries

13.08.2025 07:40 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Every Thursday at 5:30pm, the grind never stops

07.08.2025 17:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That's twelve THOUSAND

06.08.2025 13:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Is there a category name for a picturesque area that becomes a crime hotspot around the time a telegenic detective is posted there?

01.08.2025 21:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hard to dispute that Action Comics #1 is the iconoc image for introducing a character on a comic cover. I know that the UK equivalent is probably Eagle #1 - and I can certainly visualise every one of Frank Hampson's perfect panels. But I have a real, real soft spot for 2000AD Prog 228

11.07.2025 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Not that that Moore's process with ST

30.06.2025 18:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Y'know, if you're a writer handed an established title yr not especially fond of and have rapidly read 100 issues for research, I can imagine shifted paradigm and/or deconstruction being where you get to

30.06.2025 18:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The day comics rebooted

30.06.2025 18:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

BRB, cutting the sleeves off my shirts

01.06.2025 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Clout casting time!

01.06.2025 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

There's an excitement and pleasure surrounding walking away from a shop with a boxed computer game that I can't imagine ever having from clicking on a download button

30.05.2025 08:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Everyone, please admire this

27.05.2025 20:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Does this also require sideways RAM, but for space reasons?

27.05.2025 20:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I take back my guffaw from when the magic glowing flash drive was explained

27.05.2025 13:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Also featured steam engines I think?

07.05.2025 15:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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