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Nice work! I spotted the binary and wondered if anyone had checked it out yet.

On the BBC today a short, cryptic Doctor Who trailer showed three binary codes

Translating to 7!@THE#!!'' ^@^@ STAR &% #(BEAST(*2'' i.e. The Star Beast, a reference to the comic first featuring Beep the Meep. The comic was in Doctor Who Magazine #19-26 in 1980, also referenced in this trailer

Since we already knew about Beep the Meep being in the specials, maybe this suggests the title of one of the specials might be The Star Beast in reference to this comic? Also, the trailer showed the code EV1305

So we’ll be getting a trailer on the 13th of May during Eurovision?

If you reverse the audio of the trailer, you get the voice lines “cryptic, I hate that” and “why did this face come back?”

Did I miss anything?

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Neil Banging Out the Tunes (2023)

Air-dry clay over foil and wire armature, EVA foam, acrylic paint, paint marker

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I saw a bumper sticker and thought “is that seductive Daffy Duck” and then when I looked closer I realized it was actually a fishing bumper sticker but also. also it is still very much seductive Daffy Duck???? somehow????????

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Harry H. Corbett, Billy Cornelius, Fenella Fielding, Kenneth Williams, and Tom Clegg in Carry on Screaming! (1966).

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When you’ve got that Ferengi Fetish

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A blog post, on cheap vinyl record coasters from Aliexpress and whether or not there is actually anything on them.

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$70 plus the respect of your buds

heres thing about buying video game from loud anti-trans mouthpiece. you CAN do that if you want, technically speaking, but other buds CAN ALSO THEN point out you are not being their ally. the real price of your game is: $70 plus the respect of your buds. thats your call to carry

i wouldnt do it. if you WANT my advice, id say you shouldnt either. we all share this timeline and it is not job of trans people and allies to shield you from the the pain you cause them. nobody else is here to protect you from the consequences of your choices. thats the price.

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One of my mostest favouritest Viz ads, L.S.D. Carpets.

"With prices like these we must be RIPPED to our FUCKING TITS!"

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Top Boy, Shampoo japan commercial (1984)

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2027, there are no tv dads anymore, Pedro Pascal has been backfilled by AI into every role. Married With Children, The Cosby Show, Homer Simpson, Uncle Phil, all dad.

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Sims ads from their webmaster pack, taken from TheSims.ea.com from 2000/2001

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Computer store, West Germany (1983)

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Must be fairly broadminded : https://archive.org/details/Adults_Only_1984_Sophisticated_Games

UK 1985

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Last year around this time, I posted about the Game Master Catalog, an attempt in 1980 to produce an industry-wide glossy sales/distro catalog. There are tons of obscure games and accessories in there, but my favorite was Zargonians, a line of die-cut cardboard monster standees from a company called Bearhug Enterprises.

This is Large Creature Sheet 5. You get three identical sheets in the pack. I have no idea who the artist is, but I adore the art. It’s crude and colorful and vibrant in exactly the way I want my old school RPG art. It also…seems ill-informed? Like, the Rakshasa, a sort of woman/dog centaur thing, does not line up with the D&D version of the monster at all. Or anything, honestly. The Roper seems to just be a pile of rocks. Others are obviously trying to avoid copyrighted names — Dimension Beast instead of Displacer Beast, Lopey instead of…I don’t honestly know. The Leucrotta? But then the Beholder is just labeled Beholder, so I dunno. I like how it kind of look like a mushroom forest is growing out of its head, though.