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Ben 🏳️‍🌈
@bvigeant.bsky.social
Goofy video game streamer: https://www.twitch.tv/ps_garak
Goofy adventure game podcaster: https://zencastr.com/Quest-Quest
Goofy comic writer: https://www.instagram.com/philcomic/

Plus Chicago gay.
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at last, my years of being a social media real estate speculator paid off and I have a bunch of new follows. Here's an introduction of all the stuff I do, apologies to everyone who already knows me.
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Well Atrus, I made it to Myst island, despite your directions.
January 3, 2026 at 11:23 PM
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can't believe the guy whose entire political philosophy revolves around domination would turn out to be a hawk
January 3, 2026 at 7:17 PM
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Thinking about how many times liberals have lectured me that it's good Democrats unanimously supported this guy because he's so reasonable
Rubio: "If I lived in Havana in the government, I'd be concerned"
January 3, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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The Democrats helped shut down the government and showed you can exercise some real power in the minority. Then they gave it away for nothing rather than extracting concessions.

Americans who demand nothing of their elected leaders are some of the most pathetic people in the country.
January 3, 2026 at 6:28 PM
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Can’t do anything in power. Can’t do anything out of power. Weirdly they’re the only party that never has any power or voice, regardless of the situation
I love you all and am holding your hand as I say this:

Dems wield zero hard power levers
it's kind of crazy that there's even any question that democrats are going to do anything about this
January 3, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live
January 3, 2026 at 5:00 PM
I know I know, but these guys need to pick a lane here: did their kidnapping spree across Chicago cause the drop in crime, or is it a riot filled on fire hellscape right now. I know I know I'm trying to delete this
grandpa is posting AI slop again
January 2, 2026 at 9:22 PM
video game AI discourse will soon have the additional gas of "this is why the six year old playstation 5 inexplicably costs more now" on top of everything else
It’s going to be real wild watching video game hardware become functionally unaffordable over the next year.
ASUS will be increasing prices on various products from January 5, including the ROG Ally, to 'absorb increasing costs across the industry'

➡️ steamdeckhq.com/news/asus-an...
January 2, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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New version of the Under a Killing Moon/Pandora Directive mouselook patcher released! Works on (hopefully) all versions and language editions of the game, and the patcher runs in the browser now!
moralrecordings.itch.io/tex3-mouselook
Under a Killing Moon/The Pandora Directive - Mouselook Edition by moralrecordings
Play in your browser
moralrecordings.itch.io
January 2, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing.

You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics.

That is all.
January 1, 2026 at 10:30 PM
i keep getting ads for this, one of the most incoherently designed images possible, which makes it a sincere challenge to figure out what its an ad for.
January 2, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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this is worth reading. a longtime NYT insider confirms that the paper's abrupt turn into seething anti-trans bigotry came directly from the top: AG Sulzberg and his 2 deputies, Joe Kahn and Carolyn Ryan transnews.network/p/a-directiv...
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
transnews.network
January 2, 2026 at 3:07 PM
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Finally found one of my history white whales: A Gamer's Manifesto, an unhinged multi-page rant from c2005 that was passed around message boards like Martin Luther's theses. Ground zero for the internet era of angry gamers who hate everything

web.archive.org/web/20100129...
January 2, 2026 at 1:28 AM
Show up to the club to do my DJ set, it's entirely comprised of music cues from the seventies Price is Right, people lose their minds
archive.org/details/1972...
The Price is Right - 1972 Music Cue Reel : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
All rights goes to Score Productions, Inc.
archive.org
January 1, 2026 at 8:49 PM
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It’s really a mystery how it’s been “adopted” so quickly.
January 1, 2026 at 1:38 AM
I had a good run!
January 1, 2026 at 1:08 AM
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When you get the reputation of being the guy with the encouraging words on New Year's Eve, it can start to come through as a little pressure -- what if the situation on the ground is worse than usual? what if people are more scared than they usually are, and with cause? what use are good vibes then?
December 31, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Ring in the new year with ROSEWATER, an IndieCade-nominated point & click Old West extravaganza!

Travel across the frontier with 5 companions and experience a story that changes based on your choices.

20% off on Steam during the Winter Sale! store.steampowered.com/app/1226670/...
December 31, 2025 at 5:11 PM
As I Lay Dying is entering public domain, so i'm going to make an Oregon Trail game where you have to transport your mother's dead body with all your favorite characters from Bundren family.
December 31, 2025 at 9:38 PM
revisiting the first netflix season of MST now that it's slowly being uploaded to youtube, Avalanche is such a banger
youtu.be/-9AZZJyCLlY
MSK3K 1104: Avalanche
YouTube video by MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000
youtu.be
December 31, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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If you believe in the inevitability of what this lazy old doofus represents you're just a quitter, sorry
Trump announces he’s pulling the National Guard from Portland, LA, and Chicago but threatens that “We will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when crime begins to soar again - Only a question of time!”
December 31, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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always wild when people do woke nativism
December 31, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Kathryn it's not so bad! Go and enjoy a couple games of the great Fish Tales pinball machine behind you.
December 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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star wars and star trek fans are weak "boohoo our franchise isn't good anymore". there's never been a good tron movie and it rules
December 31, 2025 at 3:33 AM
tonight at 8 PM Central, we're starting out FOOLISH MORTALS (2025) on the stream. I don't know anything about this game other than it was very warmly received. Join in for this blind first play: www.twitch.tv/ps_garak
December 31, 2025 at 2:00 AM