Paul OPC

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This is gonna be my random tweet picture thread.

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@SeanRossSapp

[🌵 RC | The Nostalgia Pro🕹️📺 @NostalgiaPro]

Minimalism is one of the worst lifestyle trends of my lifetime and I'm glad I escaped it.

Over 15 years ago I bought into the concept. Boxed up almost everything and put it in storage. Kept a handful of current gen games on the shelf, a couple of posters on the wall, and that was it. Own less, be free, all of that.

And for a while I told myself it felt good. Clean surfaces. Nothing extra.

It only took a couple of years to break. I started missing things. Actual things sitting in boxes in a storage unit. Games. Movies. Stuff with history attached to it.

And I started noticing something else: everything around me had no character.

My space looked like a rental listing. Beige, empty, and cold. It could have belonged to anyone, which meant it belonged to no one.

That's the part nobody tells you about minimalism. It doesn't just remove clutter. It removes evidence that you exist. Every shelf you empty is a story you can't tell anymore.

So I went the other way. Pulled things out of boxes. Started collecting again. Started enjoying things again.

Now I sit in a room surrounded by 30+ years of games, consoles, and memories, and it feels more like freedom than an empty room ever did.

Keep your history.
Keep your hobbies.
Keep the stuff that makes your space yours.

That's not clutter. That's character.

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@GamewithDave Current desktop background is this picture from a partially busted monitor.

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@Joshstrangehill

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@LoveRetroBTW Arcade near me has both Time Traveler and Holosseum.

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@DE_Gifford Was waiting for someone to come in at the end with an old timey bike

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@Fightful Time to hunt down Danielson.

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@TheLapsedFan @IANdrewDiceClay Kid in the middle kinda looks like

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@AlligatorTownie Twix! Twix! Twix!

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@Murdoink Quanstanza

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@Cultaholic Waiting for a WWE Champion whose first exposure to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was from The Next Mutation.

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@N4pstr

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@NoChurchToday KNOCK

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@JustinWhang

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“you can’t bring your camera in here”

ford city mall, outskirts of chicago. 11 days til it’s closed forever

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@TheOVW5 With the original planned match.

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@ThrawnsAcolyte Death Star II

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@dlobrown75 Nobody puts AC in the Corner

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@Murdoink

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@wiscofirst @iggyfan12 @JimWoodThe22nd @Vinni_Cinnimon @PaperEXE @Crownjo @NoChurchToday FOR