Zach Bruce

@zaxbit.bsky.social

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Senior Product Designer Dad. Pixel art, D&B chiptune, tech, & retro game enthusiast.

Half-Life 2, MINERVA Mod: Walking down a dark Combine corridor marked with large stenciled "3"s on both walls, cyan energy lighting along the baseboards, and a glowing passage visible at the far end.
Half-Life 2: Gordon Freeman stands in a retro-styled launch control room with NPCs at terminals, a countdown display reading 03:63, and Dr. Magnusson visible on monitors.
The cover for Sonic the Hedgehog On The Go Volune One. It features Sonic spinning his red shoes over a wooden bridge with Tails flapping his tails, flying behind him.
A Facebook post from a nostalgia bait profile: The Mom & Pop Video Shop "Loyal, lethal... stupid." Koopa's plan was painfully straightforward. He ran a depleted world where the infrastructure was collapsing, the resources were gone, and the only functioning systems were surveillance and propaganda. He treated the public as raw material to be shaped or discarded, using his de-evolved foot soldiers for expansion into a world that still had something left to strip. De-evolution was his solution to dissent. Turn the naysayers into Goombas who couldn't articulate criticism even if they wanted to. The genius of it was that it looked voluntary. What made Koopa's system work was exhaustion more than fear or ideology. The population was too worn down to push back. The fungus choking the walls was actually the old king, devolved into something that could only be perceived as poisonous. That's what happened to opposition in Koopa's world. Intelligence became a liability, so he promoted stupidity. Koopa called himself advanced, but his survival depended on making sure no one else was. The more compliant his subjects became, the more powerful he appeared. Once a system starts decaying from the inside, the population will accept almost anything that promises stability. In 1993, Super Mario Bros. registered as hamfisted satire. Dennis Hopper chewing scenery like a T-Rex in a double-breasted suit, explaining his plan to merge dimensions and drain our world while his own despotic nonsense decayed around him.
A programming humor meme. Top in large type: “WHO WOULD WIN?” Left: “a computer program with millions of lines of code” above an image of a crazy amount of random JavaScript looking code. Right: “one CURLYBOY with no friend” above an image of a large “{“ curly bracket.
A Facebook post by Nintendo. The post reads: 👊 Now you're playing with power. Brick Power! It’s a screenshot of a video of the new Lego Gameboy with captions on, reading: “Wow. LEGO Gay Boy comes with brick built game packs, Super”
The back of a small toddler. A large Sonic the Hedgehog stuffed animal is peeking over his left shoulder.
An image of the box art for the video game Burnout 3 Takedown. The joke is that I’m burnt out.
A plastic container with several donut holes in it. The top of the container has the words “Gen Bake: Churro Donut Bites, Dusted with Cinnamon and Sugar.” It’s glowing with pure evil.
Screenshot of a fancy looking computer keyboard with dials and a little screen embedded on it. Some text reads “Knob1 US$439.00”
A screenshot of Spotify listing out Zach’s liked songs from drummer Buddy Rich. Nutville from the album The Roar of ‘74 is greyed out indicating it’s no longer on Spotify.
Lower half of a chubby baby holding a copy of “ARMORED CORE VI: FIRES OF RUBICON” on top of a baby playset. The baby is gingerly holding it up right next to a plastic purple elephant.
Mike from redlettermedia in a Christmas sweater in the middle of making a horse-sound. His mouth looks really funny.
Acclaimed actor Joe Esteves on the set of Jackass 2
Funni video of the professional bowling guy losing it