Reasonable Steve

@reasonablesteve.bsky.social

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Existence is pain, #brands are a balm Proud to have the world's first user-selectable pronouns

"BEWARE OF THE PIPELINE" meme format typically depicting a gender transition, here instead showing a progression from a literal gun computer mouse to more typical vertical mouse designs, then slightly sexual ones, and ending with the Novint Falcon, a force-feedback input device notorious for being made into various sex machines
The ridiculous boxart of Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2013, advertising the "Fearmaster" light gun peripheral, which included a heart-rate sensor which allowed the game to adjust your aim based on how nervous you were.
The "7 Days to Die" banner art, with the name at the top. Zombies creep towards four survivors standing behind a really useless looking barbed-wire barricade, like seriously, it's foot-high, c'mon; they inexplicably glow. A spooky house looms behind them.
A completely normal image of a golden retriever, with nothing odd about it whatsoever. Just so we're clear this isn't a gag, the image is totally innocuous.
A golden-orange cat lays on a blue-and-white rug in direct sunlight, casting harsh shadows. Her pupils are narrowed to tiny slivers.
A bookshelf groans and visibly sags under the weight of dozens of role-playing game books. Highlights include: core rulebooks from basically every edition of Dungeons & Dragons, as well as half the 4e books ever published, and almost all the 5e books; His Majesty the Worm, Mystic Bastionland, Magical Kitties Save the Day!, Thirsty Sword Lesbians, Rogue Trader, Delta Green, Mothership, and Shadow of the Weird Wizard, among others. Two towers of physical PC games are also visible. If you've got too much free time, try to count the copies of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and IV: Oblivion.
Favorite game: Ultima Underworld. Best story: Outer Wilds. Favorite art style: Factorio. Biggest personal impact: Diablo 2. Best Combat: Dragon's Dogma. Overheated: Star Control Origins. Underrated: The Looker. Overrated: The Witness. Needs a remake: Outwars. Criminally Overlooked: Heaven's Vault. Favorite Protagonist: Metroid Dread. Favorite Antagonist: Morrowind. Best soundtrack: Fez. Best multiplayer: Valheim. Not usually my thing, but...: Apex Legends. Turn my brain off: Vampire Survivors. Best with friends: Freelancer. Best retro game: Lemmings. Nostalgic childhood game: Master of Monsters. Game everyone should play: Star Control 2.
Screenshot from Chessmaster 5000 of a game of chess in play; the pieces are all cartoonish dinosaurs in green or purple. T-rexes for kings, brontosaurs for queens, etc.
Grey-and-white longhair cat rests in a brown recliner, leaning on the arm rest like a retiring Roman emperor, staring intently at the viewer; his eyes glow demonically with reflected camera flash.
White text, black background: "WATCH FOR THE NEXT ADVENTURE OF BUCKAROO BANZAI" from the credits of the film
edited Shencomix.com comic depicting a character with an engorged, throbbing cranium - "I've taken a controversial [AI tool] that [amplifies my cognition]. Second character - "So you're smart now?" First character - "I'm stupid faster."
Screenshot of the DSi game Photo Dojo, a game where you can use the DSi's built-in camera to take still photos of people doing fighting game poses and do battle with them.
"The Literature of Ancient Sumer," by Jeremy Black, Graham Cunningham, Eleanor Robson, and Gabor Zolyomi; front cover
The gang of hydra's teeth skeletons from the classic fantasy adventure film, Jason and the Argonauts, just as they charge.
Tweet from @yurirando about Guitar Center changing their logo so the guitar is no longer the "G" in their name: "when they burned the library of Alexandria the crowd cheered in horrible joy. They understood that there was something older than wisdom, and it was fire, and something truer than words, and it was ashes"
"BEWARE OF THE PIPELINE" meme format typically depicting a gender transition, here instead showing a progression from a literal gun computer mouse to more typical vertical mouse designs, then slightly sexual ones, and ending with the Novint Falcon, a force-feedback input device notorious for being made into various sex machines
A cheap painted-steel-pipe-and-particleboard bookshelf groaning under the weight of a collection of TTRPG books. 4th and 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons are overrepresented, but there's stuff dating back to 1st edition and more eclectic choices like Magical Kitties Save the Day!, Delta Green, and a couple Warhammer RPGs. The bookshelf is flanked by two towers of boxed PC games.
A clamshell plastic Sega Genesis case for the game Zoom!, featuring the grey-on-black grid aesthetic, with the inexplicable main character, game field, and enemies. The only way I can describe it is a partial disco floor populated with a clock, an animate scrubbing bubbles brush, an ominously wiggling disembodied purple hand, and the main character itself, an orange ovoid with an enormous face, a giraffe tail, giant bat ears, and green arms and legs (replete with cartoon gloves and shoes) all sticking directly out of the "torso." It looks like a parody of videogame.
A tiny Duke Nukem bust looks down upon the view, almost dissmissively, from a haphazard shrine seemingly made of various CD-ROM jewel cases, the Fallout 4 Pip-Boy box, and a Total Annihilation manual. The low-quality digital zoom makes it all look like a grainy mess, as if seen in a nightmare.
Screenshot from S1 of the Mandolorian, with Werner Herzog's absurdly evil character going to bat for the absurdly evil empire while a stormtrooper literally looms over his shoulder. He is literally about to ask for a literal baby to be consumed in his evil experiments
A full row of two dozen or so 4e D&D books gently deforms a particleboard shelf. The Neverwinter Nights mapkin rests daintily atop them.
"BEWARE OF THE PIPELINE" meme format typically depicting a gender transition, here instead showing a progression from a literal gun computer mouse to more typical vertical mouse designs, then slightly sexual ones, and ending with the Novint Falcon, a force-feedback input device notorious for being made into various sex machines
Simpsons screenshot with Moe holding two knives, subtitled "I gotta tell you, this is pretty terrific"
Picture of the Ultima Underworld UI, replete with gargoyle and two lizards curled around the edges of the view window
A snippet of a spreadsheet listing D-Ratings and ILF-Ratings of characters "Lando Calrissian (old) - 4, 2" "Sheev Palpatine - 5, 2" "Cham Syndulla - 4, 2" and "Din Djarin (helmet on) - 2, 4"
Screenshot of the XCOM 2 poster mode, with a truly sublime poster of two soldiers: one kneeling in tactical gear aiming a sniper rifle, and the other standing in nothing but sunglasses and short shorts straddling the rifle. Superimposed text says "HIGH CALIBER."
Screenshot of the name of a Google Doc called "Star Wars DILF Rankings (official)"
Three-panel comic showing Link and Zelda from Breath of the Wild pressing foreheads together, looking longingly into one another's eyes in the first panel; panels two and three are their extreme close-up perspectives of their views of one another, heavily distorted and ridiculous
A scan of a 1994 pitch document for the original Diablo, depicting the game's structure: a small surface "town" the player returns to often, near a many-layered "temple/dungeon" the player explores one level at a time, descending ever deeper and further from the town.