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T.J. L

@tj09.net

he/him. Software engineer by day, pixel artist/game dev by night. Creator of Dragon Cave. Black Lives Matter. Trans Rights are Human Rights. NFTs/AI = no thanks. https://tjl.co

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“I don’t like Bad Bunny because I can’t understand Spanish.”

You are WEAK. Weeaboos have been jamming out to songs they don’t understand in Japanese for decades.

09.02.2026 20:34 👍 2514 🔁 914 💬 51 📌 44

"what's the weather like outside?"

*proceeds to stare at clock*

"Ah yes, 2:40pm"

04.02.2026 23:18 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"This app could've been a website" is the "this meeting could've been an email" that not enough people talk about.

28.01.2026 22:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 2
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Important perspective from Greenland.

20.01.2026 13:31 👍 12027 🔁 4152 💬 480 📌 731
16 bit pixel art bust of a robot with an egg-shaped brass chassis.  He has green lamps for eyes, a hose connecting his mouthpiece to his chest, and a gray fuel tank with a dented muffler on his back.  The character depicted is Robo from the game Chrono Trigger.

16 bit pixel art bust of a robot with an egg-shaped brass chassis. He has green lamps for eyes, a hose connecting his mouthpiece to his chest, and a gray fuel tank with a dented muffler on his back. The character depicted is Robo from the game Chrono Trigger.

Name? Ah, my serial number. It is R66-Y.

The second piece of the December '25 Subscriber Suggestion Weekend, Robo from Chrono Trigger!

#pixelart #ドット絵 #fanart #squareenix

28.12.2025 22:42 👍 160 🔁 52 💬 2 📌 0
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EARTHBOUND - Local child defeats violent gang

26.01.2025 00:50 👍 2017 🔁 537 💬 8 📌 7

"Something that I have found difficult for non-artists to understand is that the ‘early messy stuff’ that non-arty folks insist can be ‘fixed by a human artist later’ is where the best work is done."

True of every creative field. You can't start building halfway up; the foundation has to be sound.

19.12.2025 01:04 👍 740 🔁 250 💬 7 📌 2

Repost if you're tired

10.12.2025 22:46 👍 714 🔁 815 💬 2 📌 18
A bird standing on a beach facing the ocean. Classic "meme-style" (thick white font with black outline) text reads "MAN."

A bird standing on a beach facing the ocean. Classic "meme-style" (thick white font with black outline) text reads "MAN."

Took this picture the other day and a friend realized the meme potential.

15.08.2025 00:26 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A 16 bit pixel art half-body portrait of a large character fully clad in black and white armor.  The helmet of the armor is accented with brass trim, and both the helmet and gauntlets have pale blue highlights.  The art is of the client's Warrior of Light from Final Fantasy XIV

A 16 bit pixel art half-body portrait of a large character fully clad in black and white armor. The helmet of the armor is accented with brass trim, and both the helmet and gauntlets have pale blue highlights. The art is of the client's Warrior of Light from Final Fantasy XIV

FF14 has returned to my queue in a big way.

Viewer redeem for @tj09.net of their Roegadyn Warrior of Light.

#pixelart #ドット絵 #ffxiv #finalfantasyxiv

08.06.2025 15:57 👍 83 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 0
Several dragons sit around a campfire. One, standing, holds a book in one claw, reading scary tales to the others. Overlaid text reads "Dragon Cave's 19th Birthday"

Several dragons sit around a campfire. One, standing, holds a book in one claw, reading scary tales to the others. Overlaid text reads "Dragon Cave's 19th Birthday"

Happy Birthday to us! 19 years of Dragon Cave!

forums.dragcave.net/topic/194406...

21.05.2025 04:02 👍 53 🔁 13 💬 4 📌 0
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ACUVAC: A Suck and Blow Adventure on Steam Suck! Blow! Swing your hose around! Become ACUVAC, the world's most chaotic canister vacuum, in this physics-based action-adventure. Smash, clean, and overachieve your way through ridiculous challenge...

#ACUVAC currently only has about 400 wishlists, which is not enough to get picked up by Steam's algorithm.

With Next Fest coming up, ACUVAC is going to have a playable demo! Hopefully that gives us a much needed push!

Help ACUVAC by wishlisting + following! #indiegames #gamedev

▶️ s.team/a/2333940

18.05.2025 18:53 👍 13 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0

Ooh you did the soundtrack for Revenant's Reach? Sick, I've been looking forward to that after seeing it several PAX's ago.

19.05.2025 01:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🎂 Happy Birthday!

18.05.2025 19:43 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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RaidSecrets | Reddit Welcome to RaidSecrets! We share secrets, glitches, tricks, and more related to Bungie's game Destiny 2 and its predecessor, Destiny. Be sure to read the sidebar rules and search for your topic/questi...

Sure. I'd recommend checking out the RaidSecrets community on Reddit (www.reddit.com/r/raidsecrets/) and Discord as well; most of the coordination and solving occurred there, and a lot of people in that community have documented the process or could give additional perspectives.

16.05.2025 01:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Bungie.net

Official confirmation is pretty fast this time: www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Ar...

01.05.2025 19:04 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Haven't played Destiny since December, but apparently that isn't enough to stop me getting sucked into the latest community puzzle. They're too much fun.

Congrats to everyone who contributed, be it submitting pieces, helping verify data, or theorizing solutions.

01.05.2025 17:01 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0

I tried to buy it years ago and after it never shipped I learned the last of iam8bit's stock had apparently gotten damaged or something.

And now I have another chance 👀

22.04.2025 20:34 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

imagine dying on main and not even on an alt.

22.04.2025 13:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Neat! Seems a lot like how ASCII art works.

04.04.2025 03:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Me being afraid to declare a favorite character because I have a nagging feeling something is going to happen to them...

03.04.2025 23:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Happy birthday! What's the "nice 'stache" count up to?

21.03.2025 21:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

"why am I not getting full FPS in my game?"

*looks at photoshop on my tablet, discord on my second monitor, my browser with too many open tabs, and a linux VM also running somewhere just for good measure*

"the world may never know..."

19.03.2025 21:00 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It's a fun archipelago game, as long as you play it with similar-length games. It's got like ~200 checks, so doing it with a ~1000 check Pokemon Emerald can be unbalanced.

19.02.2025 03:38 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

TIL there's a deleted scene :o

given mega man has so many different variants already, I think there's always room to explore the space some more.

17.02.2025 23:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

So true--I really want to ask their PMs what people problems they started with that led to all of these redesigns.

Though have a guess on what the answer might be...

05.02.2025 02:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I now find myself wanting a roll of Vault-Tec packing tape...

30.01.2025 23:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I am a long boy and my name is on this list. hope that helps clarify.

10.01.2025 10:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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a bunch of white clouds floating in a blue sky Alt: a bunch of white clouds floating in a blue sky

As they say, "the cloud" is just someone else's (expensive) computer.

30.12.2024 01:38 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

5 years ago I was convinced moving off of my physical (colocated) servers into virtual servers was the play.

Last week I completed moving everything back onto physical hardware, albeit on rented servers so I don't (currently) have the up-front commitment of a hardware purchase.

How things change.

30.12.2024 01:34 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0