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Phantom Lord

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Find the Sacred Heart somewhere bleeding in the night.

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Ross Johnson@rosserford.bsky.social · yesterday

We’re going to hear about how everyone loved Dolly, and that feels true. But it’s good to remember, and to her credit, that she was attacked for her AIDS activism, her vaccine advocacy, her LGBTQ+ support and even, more recently, for her reading initiatives. She ALWAYS stood firm when it mattered.

Pedro Soares@peachflavor3d.bsky.social · 2d ago

The artwork of Cannon Dancer/Osman by Kouichi Yotsui used for arcade flyers in Japan and North America. Restored by removing text/logos, adding a missing bit from other sources, applying the usual upscale/clean/retouch process.

Cannon Dancer/Osman clean artwork by Kouichi Yotsui used for arcade flyers in Japan and North America. Image depicts the hero Kirin in a blue attire flipping over a dragon like blue and yellow monster with several red eyes, with its mouth open showing its tongue and sharp teeth. Kirin has his left hand on one of those teeth while performing the flip. The background features some shade os light blue and white with some texture.
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d ago

An employe at McMahon's company, WWE was accused of systematically sexually assaulting vulnerable boys who worked at the company. McMahon persuaded them not to sue, and told one she would support his education. When his grades dropped, she stopped paying tuition support. He later killed himself.

In 1992, Cole, then twenty-one years old, and another ring boy told the San Diego Union-Tribune that Phillips had molested them. They said that he groped their feet for hours at a time. (Phillips would lock the kids into wrestling holds.) Sometimes he rubbed their feet on his penis. (Later, other ring boys alleged that Phillips had forced them into oral sex, ejaculated on them, and attempted to have penetrative sex with them; the McMahons have denied knowledge of the actions.) Cole later accused a W.W.E. executive named Pat Patterson of groping his butt, and an executive named Terry Garvin of turning on pornography and asking to perform oral sex on Cole during a work conversation. When the story broke, the three men left the company. According to one account, the McMahons let Patterson go personally, at the mansion, and both Vince and Linda cried. (Patterson was reinstated soon afterward.) Vince held a series of damage-control phone calls with Phil Mushnick, a sports writer with the New York Post. Mushnick later testified in a deposition that Vince told him, “We had known for some time that Mel had a peculiar and unnatural interest and attachment to children.” Vince said that they’d fired Phillips before, years earlier, but had subsequently rehired him “out of the goodness of our hearts.” He framed this as a joint decision: “We brought him back with the caveat that he steer clear of children.”Cole threatened to sue the company. At a meeting with the McMahons in New York to discuss a settlement, Cole’s attorney left the room several times, leaving him alone with the McMahons. Cole recollected that Linda seemed compassionate. “I thought having her present and a mother’s instincts were invaluable,” the company’s longtime lawyer, Jerry McDevitt, later said. Cole said she told him that she believed him, and that she wanted to help. He remembered her saying, “I consider you in a sense like a son. I want to look at it that way. I want you to come to me with your problems.” Cole opened up. At a later meeting at W.W.E. headquarters, according to Cole, the McMahons sought the names of other potential accusers with whom he, along with his brother Lee, was communicating. At the McMahons’ coaxing, he gave them access to his brother’s answering machine. (Vince denies this.) His lawyer had sought a monetary settlement, but Cole, who’d left the company, said that he just wanted his job back. The McMahons agreed, and also gave him fifty thousand dollars in back pay. Linda McMahon and Cole also made a separate agreement: he’d be paid as an employee but would return to school, as McMahon wanted. “I talked to this young man as I would my son, and told him how supportive of him we would be,” she later recounted. He signed a document that she’d prepared, agreeing that his employment was contingent on his academics.As the journalist David Bixenspan, who has reported on the ring-boy allegations, has detailed, Cole enrolled at a community college. McMahon corresponded with his professors. Cole found that he was still traumatized by the abuse and had a hard time concentrating. He asked McMahon if he could drop out and resume working for the company. She told him to stick with it. Cole stopped attending class. He failed. His transcript was sent to McMahon. “I was very disappointed in your performance,” she wrote to him. “At this point we believe that we have done everything we can. Therefore, this letter is to advise you of your termination with Titan Sports, effective immediately.” She concluded, “The opportunity of a lifetime is a terrible thing to waste.”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

BASH: One of the things that's happening is there's a push to start students down a trade school track as early as elementary school. Is that too early? LINDA McMAHON: I don't think so BASH: But elementary school? McMAHON: I think you can have some introduction of skilled trades in elementary

Phantom Lord@bastardsquad.bsky.social · 5d ago

Starting a new save on VII Remake. Always impressed by how (mostly) consistent the design language for everything has been across the R Trilogy to date. There’s blips here and there such as the mountains in Nibel changing between Remake and Rebirth, but given the scale of production it’s forgivable.

GSK | ALL CITY SLOP SHOP (ETA SOON)@allcityslopshop.com · 6d ago

a trio of Star Cruiser MD patches, produced in consultation with og programmer/designer Kotori Yoshimura patch #1 is bug fixes; #2 is fixes+movement tweaks based on specs Yoshimura wasn't able to implement at the time; #3 is all that+diagonal strafing, added at the discretion of the patch maker

GitHub - marinyan/PATCH_STARCRUISER_MD: IPL patch for STARCRUISER for Megadrive · GitHub

IPL patch for STARCRUISER for Megadrive. Contribute to marinyan/PATCH_STARCRUISER_MD development by creating an account on GitHub.

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videogame history@vghistory.bsky.social · 6d ago

saboteur, developer message, zx spectrum (1985) 'this string is found right at the beginning at the loader code. it can be found at hex address 149 in side 1 or 15D in side 2, for the .tzx dump.'

text: if you pirate this the martial artists will get you!!
Pedro Soares@peachflavor3d.bsky.social · 6d ago

The artwork of Bare Knuckle III aka Streets of Rage 3 by Taku Makino used on the cover of the Japanese #MegaDrive release (front and back). Restored by using different sources, filling in some bits, applying the usual upscale/clean/retouch combo.

Bare Knuckle III aka Streets of Rage 3 clean artwork by Taku Makino used on the cover of the Japanese Mega Drive release (front and back). Image depicts Axel, Blaze, Skate, and Zan on the right side, in different poses with some menacing hands reaching for them up top with a source of light in tones of orange coming from above. On the left side there are six baddies, men and women all in different poses in the air with a city landscape behind them with tall buildings and one that resembles the Chrysler Building. Tones of orange and red compose this side of the image.