Eric Bailey

@ericvbailey.bsky.social

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Mild-mannered husband-father office manager by day, cozy quirky anti-billionaire indie game developer by night. Writing, coffee, Jesus, whimsy, mischief. Bad jokes? ericvbailey86@gmail.com. https://tinybookshelf.itch.io

An illustrated image depicting a, uh, sharp-nosed red-hatted figure holding a beer in the foreground of a tavern setting (similar pointy-eared figures are drinking in the background). The captain reads: "What's the matter vagueboy, afraid you might say something?" in all caps.
The Pokémon Gardevoir, except its face has been replaced with the face of the Star Wars character Mon Mothma.
I'm not even 100% sure what the source is, but I think it's Ed Harris in Westworld? He's looking at something off-camera/off-screen, pensively-sorta. I feel like this is a difficult one to be descriptive of, for me, for some reason, sorry! It's a still from a TV show. He's wearing a cap.
A screenshot from a GBA Pokémon game, showing the classic early Professor scene of offering the player their starter pokémon from three choices. The text has been altered, though, to now say: "OAK: HELL YEAH, I LOVE EXPLOITING WILDLIFE FOR PERSONAL GAIN. GO AHEAD, PICK ONE!"
Altered screenshot of a Mega Man (NES) game, one of the "you got a new weapon" screenshots, showing a green-armored Mega Man on the right side of the screen, the text has been modified to say: "YOU GOT ANOTHER DAY OF MISERY COOL"
photo of two goats outside, one white one light brown
Photo of a Humpty Dumpty artwork showing his egg shape and odd blue outfit
Cropped screenshot showing account "theericbailey" on ebay, with 300 positive feedback.
Photo taken on a walk, showing the window of someone's house. They have used tape to write two messages in the window for passerby to observe: "WHERE ARE THE ZOMBIES?" and "#THIS APOCALYPSE SUCKS". Taken in late 2020.
Children's book illustration of a dolphin. On the side of the dolphin is drawn a mouth. Like, where the gills would be on a shark. Nowhere near the normal place a dolphin-mouth would go (you know, at the end of a dolphin).
A multi-panel using the style and characters from Calvin & Hobbes, but with dialogue and art referencing the book "House of Leaves." In the first panel, Susie Derkins approaches Calvin and asks "Hey Calvin, you want to play "House"?" but the word "house" is in blue text. Second panel: Calvin respond "I don't know. How do you play?" Third panel: From our POV we see a doorway, through a doorway, through which another doorway is visible, through which is visible another doorway... between rooms, Susie can be seen moving laterally. Panel four: Susie is walking through a massive hallway. Other doors, turns are visible. She seems so small, as though the ceiling is several dozen feet above her, as though she has been reduced to a child's toy in a house. Panel five: Calvin is in the dark, in his pajamas now, holding a flashlight which seems to have found a large hole in the floor. Panel six: Calvin is running downstairs in the dark, a vague shadow in pursuit of him, as he yells "HELP HELP! IT'S AFTER ME!" Panel seven: Bird's-eye view of a typical-looking house.
An artwork depicting the "The One Ring" artwork from the Magic The Gathering card, except obvious the Ring itself has just been copy/pasted (and rotated) onto a new background -- in a process very similar to how Dan Frazier might have copied Marta Nael (accidentally, possibly).
The classic retro-game-screenshot "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US" meme image, but the caption has been replaced to say "I'M SORRY BUT AS AN AI LANGUAGE MODEL I CAN'T ASSIST WITH THAT"
Photo of "looksmaxxing" guru "Clavicular," shown in a white dress shirt, he's a white dude with a face and hair.
Photo of terrible pastor Mark Driscoll, a white dude in a suit mid-speaking.
A screenshot from Excitebike VS., depicting an old video game with a motorcycle rider jumping over six trucks with sad-face icons on their cargo sides. One text box reads TIME 08 over a white fluffy cloud, the bottom of the image has green, the background is a sky blue, and text has been added: EVERY SECOND IN THE REAL WORLD IS A SECOND CLOSER TO OBLIVION
Two circles overlap, one red and one blue, showing purple where they intersect (notably, about 99% of the circles' area intersects).
A compass-like image/diagram, showing the four cardinal directions of a compass along with corresponding labels: Northern, Eastern, Southern, Western.
Screenshot (all text) from Halls of the Things computer game for ZX Spectrum, showing all the keys needed for controls.
Screenshot from the 1983 ZX Spectrum computer game Halls of the Things, depicting the simple white humanoid player-character in a dark interior environment with green walls. Yellow gold and a bright blue bottle item lie nearby, along with gated corridors.
Photo of a red Ford Aerostar minivan vehicle. It's got a gray racing stripe.
Photo of a drinking mug in the style of Nintendo character Kirby, complete with round pink shape and big cute eyes.
Image showing former comedian Mitch Hedberg on the left, while on his right is a quotation: "I want to hang a map of the world in my house. Then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've traveled to. But first, I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won't fall down." -- Mitch Hedberg
Photo of a can of Arizona's sparkling apple lime drink, the Rickey.
The face of Mario, but hastily made green-skinned and given an orange eye-wrap to resemble a ninja turtle.
The text "SUPER MARIO BROS SUPER SHOW" in the style of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles logo (white text on red banner over green textured text).
Using the Super Mario Bros show logo generator (curved green text over Mario's head which is over red text) to make a logo saying "TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES"
Screenshot from the NES game Bionic Commando, depicting the head of resurrected Hitler (no, really) in a lab of some kind, a dialogue box saying "WHAT, YOU'RE GOING TO FIGHT AGAINST ME? YOU DAMN FOOL."
A screenshot of the original SimCity computer game, depicting its cityscape and management icons, along with a disaster alert edited to contain the following message: "DISASTER-YOU HAVE CEDED YOUR GOVERNMENT TO BILLIONAIRE PEDOPHILE WARMONGERING RACISTS AND TECHNO-WARLORD MEGALOMANIAC PSYCHOPATHS MAY THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD BE SWIFT AND TOTAL"
Taken from the website of the Glitch City game developers' collective in LA, a list of some games made there. It includes such indie darlings and gems and powerhouses as Hyper Light Drifter, Frog Fractions 2, Wildermyth, Donut County, and many others.
The post for Disney MCU show "Echo," showing the titular protagonist on a motorcycle on a road while the shadow-silhouette of antagonist Wilson "Kingpin" Fisk looms overhead against a colorful abstract background; except, I've crudely edited "ECHO" to read "ECCO" and put Ecco the Dolphin in the shadowy space of the Kingpin's head.
The "I AM ERROR." screenshot from NES game Legend of Zelda II: The Adventures of Link, except the caption has been altered to say "CAVES OF QUD." instead.
"I should buy a boat" meme (the cat contemplating life mid-coffee and reading) but I have used the caption: "I should finish Superstar Saga."
A gif captured from gameplay footage of Championship Bowling (NES), showing the player first bowling a strike and then an ostrich running across the bowling lanes in celebration (?).
Mock-up in the style of an old gaming magazine advertisement, featuring a photo of country music artist Kenny Rogers along with a lyric from his iconic song The Gambler: "If you're gonna play the Game Boy, you gotta learn to play it right." Also included is the Nintendo Power logo.
An edit, combining two images: The Nintendo Seal of Approval, of which I kept the star-shaped outline and the TM symbol. And the cover of Seal's gold-hued greatest hits album, of which I took his iconic outline and the banded gold gradient shading. Silly joke.
The "epic handshake" meme, with two muscular forearms and clasped hands in the middle. One arm labeled "Skinamarink," the other arm labeled "Mike Tyson's Punch-Out." Over the hands is the caption: "Respecting the greatness and inherent contribution of the subject, especially its unique flourishes relative to its field, even if it isn't my thing personally and I didn't even really enjoy it"
Photo of an Almost Hero NES video game cartridge, held by my hand against the white wall of my office.
North American box art for the NEs video game "R.C. PRO-AM," an old Rareware classic, isometric action racing title.
An image of Kirby, the Nintendo character, with characteristic pink 'puffball' body and big cute eyes and happy face (rosy cheeks!) and lumpy limbs.
An animated gif of the text caption "My dog's name is Rufus" with a cursor-hand icon moving back and forth beneath it.
A painting of a dog, by my eleven-year-old daughter. I'm so proud of her already!
Photo (purportedly early 2000s) of a Sharper Image storefront, a shopping destination now defunct.
Screenshot from N64 video game The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, depicting enigmatic character Happy Mask Salesman with his trademark scowl and pack of masks on his back.
"The Return of the King" title graphic, except "King" has been replaced with "Whimsy."
Screenshot of the 1991 DOS puzzle-platformer F. Godmom, in which you could 'copy' one tile-object (ladder, brick wall, coin, etc.) and then turn other objects into it. You could not jump, take fall damage, or touch crab enemies, but getting all the coins in a level would reveal the exit. Good times.
Image of the Magic: The Gathering card Goliath Sphinx, a blue 8/7 flyer. Just a big dumb beatstick.
Photo of the box art for the NES video game Gauntlet, by Tengen, showing their distinctive gold half-border framing style with classic fantasy artwork depicting the mage, archer, warrior, and valkyrie characters.