A Big Old Skeleton

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A rat dressed like a ren faire bard shouts YEAH as part of his performance of Shine by Collective Soul
One of those click to spin wheels. A cacodemon sits in the center of the wheel. Around the wheel are the names of various DOOM wads. It is extremely dumb-looking, but it is what I have chosen to subject myself to For The Children.
Donatello triumphantly walks to the Turtle Blimp after beating area 4 of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the NES
Saving Splinter and then jamming on that rewind button because it is funny, to me
Rescuing April in TMNT for the NES but also hammering the rewind button
Donatello saying OK! after defusing the final bomb in the water level of TMNT for the NES. Technically I did it as Leonardo this time but it was on my Analogue Pocket and I'm not pulling screenshots off that right now okay I'm supposed to be working.
A screenshot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the NES. It's the water level. Yes, that one. Donatello is flexing and saying OK! because he just disarmed the final bomb with 15 seconds remaining on the timer. This is the third time I've beaten the level today for some reason I keep booting this fucking thing up and playing it. Send help, a priest, or your marriage proposals depending on what flavor of sicko you are.
Screenshot from TMNT for the NES. Shredder is on a tv pointing at the viewer as he explains that THIS IS SHREDDER and that he's kidnapped Splinter.
The Annals of Hydranym, featuring the winner for No. 13: August 19, 2025. Me, A Big Old Skeleton, won this round (HARPBI, theme: Picture) with Hit a racy pose, build interest. This is the greatest achievement of my career so far.
A tumblr post from user gunpowdercarousel reading as follows: "Persona 3: Save the world from evil monsters with your badass sexy monster-hunter friends in the most magical city in the world (Tokyo) Persona 5: Commit sexy fucking crimes with your badass awesome sexy thief friends in the most magical city in the world (Tokyo) Persona 4: You are in OHIO. Your friends are LOSERS. You are WET. Go hang out at TARGET.Persona 3: Save the world from evil monsters with your badass sexy monster-hunter friends in the most magical city in the world (Tokyo) Persona 5: Commit sexy fucking crimes with your badass awesome sexy thief friends in the most magical city in the world (Tokyo) Persona 4: You are in OHIO. Your friends are LOSERS. You are WET. Go hang out at TARGET." The post at time of the screenshot had 9,344 notes.
A hand holds up a tote bag...thing next to an LED wall Art cacodemon for scale. The bag is black and has a SPOOKY DEVIL GOAT DEMON on it, which is the cover art for SIGIL. It is extremely fucking cool.
The back of the box for SIGIL. It's got John Romero's autograph on the right, and on the left is a lovely drawing of a cacodemon. It's rad.
Clean box art for DOOM II, featuring the Doomguy with a frankly bizarre haircut firing at a big ol' Cyberdemon.
An ad on Tumblr imploring the viewer to discover the rimless Creavit toilet for the hight of hygiene and modern design in your bathroom
A Maker key card, red. It is in a foam case for protection.
I’m not here to praise DOOM³, but I am also not here to bury it, and I am absolutely not here to turn you, the gathered masses, against Brutus and his co-conspirators for their cowardly actions on the Ides of March.
The dog man from the Shining. From the scene. You know the one.
Some hockey is being played and it is very good
A hockey game in progress
The TMNT Arcade game. Not to be confused with Turtles in Time, of course.
The same steam summary as the previous picture, except this one you can see my number 4 game was Elden Ring and my number 5 was Silent Hill 2. Which means they accounted for 5% (like Street Fighter 6 and Helldivers 2) and 4% of my play time respectively. The largest chunk was 7% of my play time being spent on Persona 5 Royal, for whatever that's worth.
My steam replay overview. 98 games played, top three games in terms of time were apparently Persona 5 Royal, Helldivers 2, and Street Fighter 6. I play way too many games, like, 98 is just too fuckin' many.
A screenshot of my PocketCasts year end roundup, informing me the longest episode I listened to was a 4 hour, 39 minute episode of A More Civilized Age on the show Obi-Wan Kenobi, which was a very bad show but a very good episode that I literally just went back and listened to like last week.
An ad offering training in proper use of breathing protection apparatuses. Specifically offering certifications in DGUV Rule 112-190. The ad image is a giant gas mask of the type used by firefighters in hazardous environments. Which are probably any environment a firefighter would go into, now that I think of it.
A photo of a Sega Dreamcast controller with a VMU inserted. On the VMU screen is a little portrait of Claire Redfield's head, looking vaguely annoyed by something. Probably all the zombies running around, I think.
The Sega Dreamcast inte face begins playing Planet of Ice by Minus the Bear. This is how you can tell the disc drive works.
The Dreamcast startup sequence, displayed on my television
A European Sega Dreamcast held in my meaty paw.
A sicko at the window is so fuckin' excited by the prospect of a janky-ass horror(?) game from the dude who directed Silent Hill. It is the only image that can adequately describe how on board I am with whatever the fuck Slitterhead is.
Heather Mason is crouched on a dirty-ass floor and holding a gun. She's looking at something off-camera (spoilers: it is a gross monster that she will shoot soon). She's got a bunch of tattoos and is wearing a tank top and jeans. The tank top has a cool demon on it but you can't see it from this angle so just trust me bro it's absolutely there.
Some lounge pants which have the Slayer's mark on them and also DOOM written on the right pant leg. They are atrociously tacky. I want them so bad.
James breaks a television. I absolutely fucking whiff on the first attempt.
Minmo is on a shirt, growing strong and healthy.
A tweet from Ice Pick Lodge with the date 07/X/24 in an image and no further information
The couch from Giant Bomb has found its way into Silent Hill 3
Silent Hill 3. Heather sourly informs Douglas that she is incapable of feeling sorry for him being menaced by monsters on account of he dragged her into this mess. Whatever "this mess" is remains a mystery but you can bet your ass it involves some gross looking creatures wiggling around!
Silent Hill 3. Heather observes the walnut's former resting place.
A picture saying I was user number 546,551 on bluesky. And my parents thought I'd never amount to anything, ha! WHO'S LAUGHING NOW, DAD? WHO'S LAUGHING NOW?
A plastic container full of delicious curry soup with ramen and teriyaki chicken. There's half an egg in there too. It is delicious, trust me. You can't see the gyoza because I was chewing on it while I took this picture, trust me that it was also good.
The cover for Pathologic 2
A screenshot of SIGIL's fifth level, Abbadon's Void. A shotgun looks out over a pit of lava at a shadowy keep in the not-so-far distance. A few enemies are silhouetted against red lighting. It looks cool as fuck.
The phrase "Ranking of DOOMs" in the DOOM menu font. It is very cool, trust me.
The box art for Sküljagger: Revolt of the Westicans for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It is a terrible game
Screenshot of my google timeline saying I ran 111 km in 16 hr during the month of June. That works out to over eight minutes per kilometer, which is all the evidence you need that I am one of the slowest runners alive.
The DOOM Franchise Bundle, including 8 games, for the frankly stupid price of €28,29. That is fucking cheap!
A screenshot of my steam library, which is set on John Romero's Daikatana. It shows I have put 89 minutes into this thing. Was this a smart move? Oh good god no it wasn't. Is the game as bad as you have heard? Naw, it's fine. I am sure it will get worse once I find my buddy Superfly.
An email subject line from Microsoft Rewards offering an EXCLUSIVE DEAL on the Xbox Mastercard, a product for which I have less than zero use and whose mastermind, frankly, should lose their fucking job. Stop offering me fucking credit cards! I pay you money to play video games I am not getting in a goddamn credit card-style relationship with you. Fuck off!
A Cacodemon LED sign hangs on an apartment wall. You are certain the person who owns such a thing is impossibly cool and definitely good looking.
A poster featuring SIGIL II's cover art
A glider in a muddy field. The cockpit canopy is open and the glider appears to be abandoned. This would be the start of an episode of CSI but it isn't because there's not a corpse nearby.
SC: You’ve sampled some levels on your SIGIL II streams and it seems you’ve gone to diabolical lengths to raise the challenge for players. What methods did you employ to up the ante from SIGIL to SIGIL II? JR: When I decided on the difficulty level for Ultra-Violence level for SIGIL II, I decided to make it more difficult than SIGIL’s UV. The difficulty of SIGIL’s UV was designed so I could finish a level without saving — just one run and I exit the map. With SIGIL II, my choice was to make it so difficult that I need to save/load my way through the levels.
A front-facing sprite of the Cacodemon from DOOM and DOOM II. Stare into his big green eye. What hides behind his friendly smile? Is it a secret? No, it is just plasma! Oh no! Not plasma! That burns! Cacodemon, I thought you were my friend! This is why the Doom Slayer pulls your eye out like he's popping the cork on a bottle of expensive champagne in DOOM Eternal, you know! It's shit like this! I'm sorry, I got a little angry there. You are still my friend, Cacodemon. We are still friends.