Mechalink

@mechalink.bsky.social

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I code for work, I get varianced for fun. Also, I enjoy waffles. Genderfluid, he/any. 両刀使い

magic card quag feast
a bg3 combat log wherin the spider matriarch fell to receive 33 damage, going to 1 hp, and then karlach threw an eyewitness account of paper at her for the finish. 'crushed by eyewitness account' is in the text
An IBM PS/2 from IBM's PS/2 historical page: https://www.ibm.com/history/ps-2
Project G.K.R., a weird as hell 13 episode cyberpunk saturday morning cartoon where the protagonist was supposed to be a robotic super soldier but is just a wacky half-functional little guy
A cookie cake with red, white, and blue frosting, with a soccer ball topper resting on green frosting
a picture of the cover of the PS2 game Flipnic: Ultimate Pinball The game looks nothing like the cover fwiw
The image of the magic card Nick Fury, Agents of Shield https://scryfall.com/card/msh/25/nick-fury-agent-of-shield Relevantly, he has an ability which can put an equipment onto the battlefield from the top 7 cards of your library, and then if it's double-faced, transform it. This works with many heroes from the set, but ALSO works with...
The Legend of Mana OST
The Chrono Cross OST's cover image
A screenshot from The Misadventures of Tron Bonne, in one of the box puzzles, where you are trying to steal cargo with move/carry limits. The 'normal' reward cargo for missions 6-7, 6-8, and 6-9 are green and are marked COW, and the special reward cargo is red and marked with GOAT It's a GOAT pun, you see
The MTG card Needlepeak Spider. It does not have Reach as printed.
NES version of Golgo-13, with Hitler's name being changed to Smirk, and the visual being of a cyborg. In JP it was Hitler and clones.
A moderate size tv and white ps2 slim on a pale wood floor. The TV is displaying a splash screen from Night 2 of Racing Lagoon: TAIMAN RACE vs. Makoto Sawaki (NightRacers No. 2warrior) Bay-Lagoon short Leave Makoto Sawaki in the dust! HIGH SPEED DRIV8NG RPG
A short gif of a part of adolescence mokushiroku, the Utena movie. The duel between Utena and Juri, while all the various building parts move around them visually. This isn't even close to the most ambitious animation sequence in the film.
Caves of Qud options menu: show advanced options toggled
picture of a ww2 airplane overhead with red dots all over marking damage for surviving planes. extremely common image about survivorship bias.
The SGDQ submission form, with 5 games for submission: Golgo-13: Top Secret Episode (1 Category), Wu-Tang: Shaolin Style (4 categories), Golgo-13: Mafat Conspiracy (1 category), Legend of Mana HD Remaster (1 category), Home Alone (GB) (1 category).
A screenshot of the steam interface for Unfair Flips, indicating I have played for 11.9 Hours, and am still missing the achievement for the 10 Heads Ending.
Blocky pixel text stating 'Get to know my speedrun backlog. 1 like = 1 game I wanted to speedrun but didn't'. Should be haven't, probably!
full-size glaceon on top of a bean bag with a plush napstablook on her back, both facing the camera. the bean bag is on a clean brown carpet with a laminated paneling column next to it
Two lines of the end-of-game screen for Caves of Qud which note, "You were level 78. You scored -2147483648 points."
I can't transcribe all the text here, sorry. It's 65 different Baetyl requests in Caves of Qud, from the same tile of the world, which I copied out via screenshots so I could manage them outside of the interface.
A screenshot from a prompt in Caves of Qud for Yappotrice, legendary dawnglider. Traveller, we've been reading the village anals and we learned of a nearby location forgotten to our people, Haazolep Dihedron. What mysteries might this place contain? Warm rocks? Warm rocks? A shrine to mysterious strangers? We must know. If you find it for us, we will reward your services. What do you think? We hear that it's located next to Marquppir. You can say yes or no to this prompt.
the cover of a book called how to win at Nintendo games. there were more than one of these
a large plastic bag of delivered food on a whiteboard desk. yes there is chicken in it
A Civ7 game window showing green/yellow (me) having a whole lot of naval units and some ground forces rolling over an enemy of purple/cyan. It's, uh, a lot.
An in-game list of all possible keyboard/mouse/joystick bindings in Zexion. Cardinal move, all attacks, save/load (optional savestate accessibility option), slower/faster (same), gun cycling, gun selection, 8 way shoot, missile toggle, auto, three-state gun/missile/bomb, 8 way aim, up or down angle, and hold position. Together these options would let you build any metroid-like control scheme I can conceive of, from how an emulator maps it out on keyboard to dual stick to classic super metroid and more.
A screenshot of Undernauts: Labrynth of Yomi, attempting to illustrate how much screen space would be available to move UI elements. The right-hand has a vertical bar of 6 static status symbols that represent party buffs you may put up. The top of the screen has a marquee where intermittent text comes across that is both worldbuilding and relevant. Below that is a map which is only 5x5, centered on you, and smaller than your character portraits. The bottom 30% of the screen is taken up by a floating set of 6 character portraits, HP, MP, statuses, and XP Bars. The entire rest of the screen is a first person view into a 3D dungeoncrawler maze where you have reasonable sight lines to things.
An info screen from Pokémon ZA where an Alpha Mawlie is shown. the text describing nature says 'This Pokémon is pretty Naughty by nature'.
high score screen of the mega mayhem agdq 2026 challenge with a 1st place time (a few days ago) of 3:10.58, which is 5th place in the updated list the OP had
a taco, burrito, a chimi, rice, and beans, all plated in even segments on a rectangular plate
a watermelon margarita on a bar, water glass for size reference
me wearing a 3m mask with pink filters
A cyberpunk-esque bilboard presentation of when Mechalink is running The Running Man (Amiga): 6:53 AM EDT on January 8th. It has a pixellated picture of Arnold Schwarzenegger, who plays Ben Richards in the movie The Running Man, which has a runtime of 101 minutes.
Comparing two characters in Guild Wars 2 with screenshots. The one on the left used the L80 boost item, the one on the right is an organic L80 built in one week of play.The one on the left has higher stats across the board except having like 5% more attack, at the cost of being down 90% on numerous others.
the back of the box art for Virtual Hydlide along with accurate puffery, such as 'computer graphics and 3D backgrounds created on high-tech workstations' and 'first 3D polygon action RPG for any New Generation System!' there are other dubious hilarious claims, including 'To experience RPG any more real, you would have to go there yourself - Sega Visions' and the completely false 'Over 40 billion possible worlds awaiting your exploration'
esper deck from aforementioned cube
aforementioned spiders deck
deck from the aforementioned cube. notables revelation, Meadowlands, tamiyo, glory, primal command, ravages of war
a pic of the aforementioned deck. legacy weapon, predator, phage, endless whispers as notables
a suboptimal version of the BG spiders deck from the aforementioned cube
black cherry and salted caramel with fudge and cashew ice cream cone, at night, inverted rabite looking up at it
a LD deck from the aforementioned cube
a rabite looking at a blue and brown ice cream waffle cone
rightside human (me) head in a M3 mask with pink filters next to rabite plush (icon) left side
An image of me when I had hair long enough to cover my eyes, timestamped from Sunday November 16, 2003 at 3:20:03 AM
A screenshot of the Final Fantasy Tactics: Ivalice Chronicles Enhanced Version job selection screen for Ramza, with every job marked as mastered. Level 99 with 99 XP, Job Level 8 9999 JP in Gallant Knight as well for the value.
A run summary of a Monster Hunter 2 run, displaying a deck with 7 Ember Caches, 3 non-consuming self-duping knidles, two shadowseige with tiny stones and quick, and other ways to draw through the deck with extremely high mana
section of the screen of unfair flips where an upgrade has set flip duratioin to a number epsilon close to 1
The 'Us vs Them' meme, highlighting how Silksong is being criticized as being too hard/punishing by people who love Elden Ring. Elden Ring's limited respec build options meaning that it's fairer/better/more balanced/less punishing than Silksong's 'you can reconfigure your build at any savepoint'. Elden Ring's open world lets you disengage from being blocked to do something else, which is way better than Silksong's metroidvania design which is obviously linear and unfair. Elden Ring's developers are masters of their craft, while Silksong's developers are too sadistic to make a good metroidvania. Silksong can kill you in 3 hits early in the game, unlike Elden Ring which... okay, that one is so obviously bullshit I am not going to dignifiy it by describing it again.
A nationwide 'liberal hunting permit' card/sticker, styled after hunting permits for wildlife. This fake hunting permit could be purchased at gun shows in the 90s. The list of conditions are 'No Bag Limit - Tagging Not Required. May be used while under the influence of Alcohol. May be used to Hunt Liberals at Gay Pride Parades, Democrat Conventions, Union Rallys, Handgun Control Meetings, News Media Association, Lesbian Luncheons and Hollywood Functions. May hunt day or night with or without dogs.'
another misprint oreo bag, same shifted right 50% configuration, unopened
a picture of a bag for family sized double stuff oreos, except the bag was crimped and cut at halfway through the normal packaging, making for the left side print bring on the right side, a large gap, and then part of the right side on the left this is also funny because magic the Gathering also has misprints
retroachievements screen identifying that i got all the achievements for Racing Lagoon and its Subset. that 60 hours is a short run to beat it when it came out, then like 55 hours on 100%ing it in the past week
a shattered light covering of 70-90s style on a non-covered bed with other clothes laying about
a field of grass, the near third cut down somewhat, the back two-thirds 2-3 feet high
a category list of FF games completd. I think