Mikkel

@barl0we

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Mikkel@barl0we· 26d

I saw a van with this branding on (for a carpenter or some such) driving around in Copenhagen. I guess they're only getting away with it because it's Sega's branding they're stealing. If they'd tried that shit with Nintendo's branding they'd have been sued out of existence immediately :D

Mikkel@barl0we· Jul 17

Whoever used these kinds of windows in ye olden times were rightfully scared out of their minds when they got someone knocking on their door 😂

$Me, distorted by a nightmare window slash peephole that distorts my features like a funhouse mirror. A fracture or imperfection in the middle of the glass makes one of my eyes particularly unsettling to look at.$

Mikkel@barl0we· Jul 17

This is a better look at the creepy window. My son also said that it gives him the heebie jeebies 😂

Mikkel@barl0we· Jul 17

This is where I post from

A writing desk with a half-circle window with a MacBook, Steam Decl and two cups of coffee; barely visible due to over exposure through the window is a field that’s been recently harvested, and a treeline in the horizon.

Mikkel@barl0we· Jul 12

The picture didn’t come out right, but the window in the doors to view outside is some bizarre mix of a black mirror and beer goggles. Anyone standing outside would look absolutely GROTESQUE through this nightmare window

An ovoid window that looks more like a dragon’s eye, in a sea of black (I should have used the flash for this).

Mikkel@barl0we· Jul 12

About to spend a week in the most obviously haunted house I’ve ever been in

The outside view of the farm I’m in, taken with a Rewindpix camera. I forget the filter name, but it made the lit window on the first floor look more sinister than it looked in real life.

The tiny almost closet-sized “office” I’m going to be working out for the next week, like some Stephen King protagonist, or Alan Wake. Picture taken with a Rewindpix camera

A view of a field at night, outside the haunted-ass farm I’m staying at for the next week. Pic taken with a Rewindpix camera.

The view back towards the road from the haunted-ass farm I’m staying at for the next week. Pic taken with my new Rewindpix camera.

Mikkel@barl0we· Jul 12

My nephew got a PS5, and really wants Bloodborne. I’m giving him my copy since I got it digitally, but I had to do the meme one last time 😂

Me holding the Bloodborne disc with two fingers behind the hole in the disc, so it looks like the hunter has his butt out

Mikkel@barl0we· Jul 10

I backed the Rewindpix camera on Kickstarter, and just got it today! I think I’m going to have a lot of fun taking pictures that feel like they were taken on a disposable camera :D

A pink heirloom rose set against a backdrop of a brick wall. A window can be seen on the right side of the picture.

The exposure and vignette on the photo makes it look like it was taken with an old disposable camera.

Mikkel@barl0we· Jun 9

New Xenoblade game announced, let’s goooooo!

A black picture with the words “Xenoblade Genesis” and some words I can’t read in Japanese below (probably the Japanese title of the game)

Mikkel@barl0we· Jun 7

Very glad to see Mortal Shell II get this reception with our open beta! It’s nice to finally be able to be a bit more open about the game on our Discord :D …and for those of you who enjoyed the beta: just wait until you see what Cold Symmetry are cooking 🤘

Mikkel@barl0we· Jun 2

Happy Pride Month! I support LGBTQ+ rights *and* wrongs!

A meme of a crab holding a pen. It is captioned “you have been visited by the permit crab. You may do 1 bad things today”

Mikkel@barl0we· May 31

Boogie is TWELVE today! My beautiful pup is a venerable lady in years, but still just as much of a goofball as when she was actually a puppy 🐶🥹

Boogie, a Danish-Swedish Farmdog who is brown and white. She’s standing on a couch, looking away from the camera to the left

Mikkel@barl0we· May 29

I got a pretty great Father’s Day gift! Four gorgeous bowls with Japanese designs, a matcha sampler and a USB converter thingie :D

A blue box with four decorative bowls inside; the decorative design is inspired by Japanese art. Each bowl has an animal on its decoration (lion, crane, fish, dragon). The box is on a wood table, and the matcha sampler is lying on the top of the box with the usb converter.

Mikkel@barl0we· May 8

A fake Burger King ad where the text in the burger says "HOLD ON HOLD ON HOLD ON" and the text on the side says "HER SISTER WAS A WITCH RIGHT? AND WHAT WAS HER SISTER? A PRINCESS, THE WICKED WITCH OF THE EAST BRO. YOU'RE GONNA LOOK AT ME AND YOU'RE GONNA TELL ME THAT I'M WRONG? AM I WRONG? SHE WORE A CROWN AND SHE CAME DOWN IN A BUBBLE, DOUG. GROW UP BRO, GROW UP.".

There is a white and brown background on the image, and a Burger King Burger in the middle

Mikkel@barl0we· May 7

Someone explain to me why Bambu Studio creates a prime tower that extends all the way over fucking there when I try to slice this build that I got from Makerworld 😂

A screenshot of a sliced build plate in Bambu Studio, where the prime tower extends at least half a meter off the build plate

Mikkel@barl0we· May 6

Have a sympathy dog from me :o

A small brown and white Danish-Swedish Farmdog standing on a blue carpet on a hardwood floor. Her mouth is open, and it looks like she’s smiling.

Mikkel@barl0we· Apr 23

It absolutely rips to make shitposts for your community. I've made a channel on the Mortal Shell II Discord where users can type in !gorf and have a random Gorf (a frog from Mortal Shell 1) that I photoshopped show up.

A screenshot of the giant frog "Gorf" from Mortal Shell 1 sitting in a swamp, with a crown photoshopped on its head a la the iconic Biggie Smalls portrait

A screenshot of the giant frog "Gorf" from Mortal Shell 1 sitting in a swamp, with flames around him and the caption "This is fine".

A screenshot of the giant frog "Gorf" from Mortal Shell 1 sitting in a swamp, with a top hat and monocle on. Fancy!

A screenshot of the giant frog "Gorf" from Mortal Shell 1 sitting in a swamp, but made to look like the "It's Morbin' time" memes from the shitposting culture around Morbius. The frog is sitting with its side to the "camera", looking menacing. The image is edited to have blue tones a la Morbius, and in a yellow subtitle it says "It's Gorfin' time".

Mikkel@barl0we· Apr 17

Look at my sons! ( @fluffyaardvark.bsky.social got them for me 🤩)

Two Hazbin Hotel Funko Pops (Sir Pentious and Alastor) standing on a screen mount on one of my pc’s screens. There is a white wall behind them, and you can just barely make out a print of Pyra from Xenoblade Chronicles 2 at the top.

Mikkel@barl0we· Apr 12

Having a relaxing weekend over here 🤙 I hope y’all are having a good time, too!

A selfie of me and my dog Boogie in the corner of my couch. She’s laid out with her back to the camera, and I’m smiling (if a bit tired looking).

Mikkel@barl0we· Apr 12

I’d be all in in medieval street west! I just saw this TikTok the other day, and I’m obsessed with the look!

Mikkel@barl0we· Apr 12

Very cool, very normal ad I got served on Reddit

An ad on Reddit for “eosinophillic esophahitis qhole blood”.

Mikkel@barl0we· Apr 11

I’m righting a wrong in my gaming repertoire, having never actually finished Bloodborne 💀 I got the Cleric Beast and Father Gascoigne down, and am trying the Saw Spear on the recommendation of one of my colleagues :D

A dark screenshot of a Hunter player character from Bloodborne. It is taken in one of the very first rooms you are in, and he’s standing with his hands folded in front of him.

Mikkel@barl0we· Apr 10

There we go!

A screenshot of the Bandcamp page for "Keyframe", the newest album by Palette Knife. The background is yellow, there's a track list on the left side showing that track 5 is playing. On the right hand side there's a picture of the cover which features a pink mech lying on grass. Underneat is a couple of rows of pictures of the people who have bought the album so far.

Mikkel@barl0we· Apr 4

The fifth and final puzzle: a Caesar cipher, where the key to unlocking it is "eight" (see what I did there?). The answer: "Eight to bind; eight to bond. These chosen few, who She preserved; yearn to struggle and to live anew."

A key art of the Harbinger from Mortal Shell II. Above it is a parchment paper with a spray of blood on it, with the encoded text that when solved leads to "Eight to bind; eight to bond. These chosen few, who She preserved; yearn to struggle and to live anew.".

The flavor text beneath:

"I don’t want any trouble. Whoever you are, I know you left the tablet and my brev’s corpse. Please, no more. I give up. You can have your scraps back. I’ll leave ‘em all here and promise to leave you in p–(“peace”scratched out)"

Mikkel@barl0we· Apr 4

Fourth puzzle, and we're nearing the endgame. This is a crossword puzzle; all the hints are based on stuff from Mortal Shell 1, and leads to the answer "eight". (answers in the alt text)

A barely visible key art from Mortal Shell II, with a long piece of parchment with hints to the crossword puzzle. In the middle of the parchment is a tablet a la the ones that could be found in the first Mortal Shell, where the crossword puzzle is etched into it.

Crossword hints and answers:

1: Neither scholar, nor vassal, nor deliverer or venerable (Acolyte is the answer, which is the title that the Tiel character has in Mortal Shell)

2: Regular, Immediate or Mortal (Instincts; the kinds of buffs players can find in The Virtuous Cycle, the DLC for Mortal Shell 1)

3: “Accretion that turns harm into healing” (Yearning - Accretion of Yearning is a skill in Mortal Shell 1 that makes it so Tiel is healed by poison instead of damaged)

4: Be still and let not their attacks bother you, if only for a moment (Harden, the unique Mortal Shell skill that lets players turn into a stone-skin version of themselves to avoid taking damage for one hit)

5: “Pay their attacks no heed, by sacrificing some of your energy”. (Ascent, as in Accretion of Ascent - the skill in Mortal Shell 1 that lets Tiel sometimes lose a bit of stamina instead of health when taking damage)

The flavor text beneath:

"Maybe we should give this all up? I mean look what I found. It’s worse than gibberish. It’s blank. Just a whole bunch of nothing. What are s’posed to do with it? There’s some inscriptions on the back, but they're tiny. Too small for these ol’ eyes. You’re a young brev. You try it."

Mikkel@barl0we· Apr 4

The third puzzle was my personal favorite: The answer is "Gloom". If you've seen the gameplay reveal trailer, you'll have an idea of how "gloom" factors in to the gameplay of Mortal Shell II. I felt like I came up with a real riddle, here :D

A piece of key art from Mortal Shell II with a parchment paper on top of it.

The puzzle reads:

"When I am within you, I am despondent. When I am without you, the world is dark and dismal. Either way, I am as a shroud to you. What am I?"

The flavor text below reads:

"Took you long enough, brev. While you were doin’ all that thinkin’ I managed to steal another one of their sacred scraps. So go on then. You owe me more answers."

Mikkel@barl0we· Apr 4

The second puzzle was a coordinates puzzle, leading to two locations: Restormel Castle (which is a shell keep) and Marrow Lake. By taking the puzzle's hints here, it lead to the answer "Marrow Keep".

A key art of The Harbinger from Mortal Shell II, with a parchment paper on top of it.

The puzzle reads:

"The first is the second, but the type is more important than the shape

50°25'18.6"N 4°40'14.2"W

The second is the first, but here you’ll find no lake

56°52'43.2"N 100°30'00.7"W"

and the flavor text reads "Mether’s milk! I didn’t think you’d actually figure out that gibberish. Well, there’s more to it. Even more confusin’ than the last bit of scribbles. I mean all these numbers? They don’t add up to much."

Mikkel@barl0we· Apr 4

The first puzzle was a randomized cryptogram. The answer was "Find me, my hopeful. The Harbinger draws near. Our patience will soon be rewarded." In the meta layer, the entire puzzle series is delivered by Sester Genessa from the first game, with flavor text from an unnamed brigand.

A random cryptogram on parchment paper, with the E's and A's revealed. Behind the parchment is a part of a Mortal Shell II key art.

Beneath the parchment is some flavor text:

"Feast yer eyes, brev. I snuck into that cursed keep and managed to nick this. Impressive, right? Now I’m thinkin’ it leads to some serious coin. I mean what else could they be guardin’? Anyway, it’s doing my head in. Why don’t ya make yerself useful and take a look? Find me when you figure it out."

Mikkel@barl0we· Apr 3

I love it when they bring out the Crushinator at the recycling center 😂

A device at the recycling center that crushes the recycling to take up less room

Mikkel@barl0we· Apr 1

My wife bought kiddo a Lament Configuration. Cool. Cool cool cool.