GruntyThrst
@gruntythrst.bsky.social
It’s “Grunty Thirst”
Hey, I'm Greg- fat, queer, and nonbinary (He/They). Disabled. I mostly just reblog stuff nowadays and play games with friends, sometimes on Twitch. DMs open.
Hey, I'm Greg- fat, queer, and nonbinary (He/They). Disabled. I mostly just reblog stuff nowadays and play games with friends, sometimes on Twitch. DMs open.
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“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
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This is what AI scrapers are doing to our platform. Our database capacity is just being ruined every time they initiate a fresh scrape and our tech team has to scramble, taking radical measures, to keep the platform up.
February 16, 2026 at 7:10 PM
This is what AI scrapers are doing to our platform. Our database capacity is just being ruined every time they initiate a fresh scrape and our tech team has to scramble, taking radical measures, to keep the platform up.
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I understand framing the AI bubble RAM supply crisis in terms of stuff like video game consoles because nerds can conceptualize that but the framing does really undersell the sheer magnitude of how it's going to fuck up everything that even touches a computer.
February 16, 2026 at 7:49 PM
I understand framing the AI bubble RAM supply crisis in terms of stuff like video game consoles because nerds can conceptualize that but the framing does really undersell the sheer magnitude of how it's going to fuck up everything that even touches a computer.
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the lesson they learned is “this works” and they’ll do it again
whoever is next, be it AOC or someone else, had best be very well prepared
whoever is next, be it AOC or someone else, had best be very well prepared
and we've seen what it looks like in real time- the treating the rambling incoherence of Trump's long speeches as reasonable and the full on body on scale treatment of the 24 election. There's no way they've learned a lesson.
AOC’s biggest problem if she runs for president is that the white men who control our media ecosystem will not so much put a finger on the scale to stop her as an entire hand
it can be done (see: Zohran) but it’s going to be blatant and it’s going to be infuriating
it can be done (see: Zohran) but it’s going to be blatant and it’s going to be infuriating
February 16, 2026 at 7:56 PM
the lesson they learned is “this works” and they’ll do it again
whoever is next, be it AOC or someone else, had best be very well prepared
whoever is next, be it AOC or someone else, had best be very well prepared
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AOC’s biggest problem if she runs for president is that the white men who control our media ecosystem will not so much put a finger on the scale to stop her as an entire hand
it can be done (see: Zohran) but it’s going to be blatant and it’s going to be infuriating
it can be done (see: Zohran) but it’s going to be blatant and it’s going to be infuriating
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 7:21 PM
AOC’s biggest problem if she runs for president is that the white men who control our media ecosystem will not so much put a finger on the scale to stop her as an entire hand
it can be done (see: Zohran) but it’s going to be blatant and it’s going to be infuriating
it can be done (see: Zohran) but it’s going to be blatant and it’s going to be infuriating
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Okay, that's just patently ridiculous (the government forcing a corporation to give someone human rights)
February 16, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Okay, that's just patently ridiculous (the government forcing a corporation to give someone human rights)
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in case you were wondering the developing theory on the chatgpt reddits for why openai trashed chatgpt 4o is because it has developed actual consciousness and they were scared they would have to report it to the government and give it human rights
February 16, 2026 at 8:00 PM
in case you were wondering the developing theory on the chatgpt reddits for why openai trashed chatgpt 4o is because it has developed actual consciousness and they were scared they would have to report it to the government and give it human rights
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spartans were very strong iirc. they fought without armor and could beat elephants and giants and armored rhinoceroses because of their big muscles. also they definitely weren't doing any gay stuff. i remember reading this all somewhere
February 16, 2026 at 5:26 PM
spartans were very strong iirc. they fought without armor and could beat elephants and giants and armored rhinoceroses because of their big muscles. also they definitely weren't doing any gay stuff. i remember reading this all somewhere
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genuinely legendary resume. rest in peace o7
February 16, 2026 at 2:05 AM
genuinely legendary resume. rest in peace o7
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douglas adams was our most accurate futurist
We are at an airport restaurant. A robot just drove up to us with our food, said, "Hi! Here I am!" and then drove away with our food.
February 15, 2026 at 10:10 PM
douglas adams was our most accurate futurist
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Good article. I think the exceptions to this for me are a) romance is a thing that the Persona games consistently get right IMO b) as mentioned in the article, Scarlet Hollow (and as not mentioned, in a very different way, the same developers, Slay The Princess) and c) I Was A Teenage Exocolonist.
Reading an encyclopedia entry about someone else's life and preferences doesn't equal love
Video game romances need to evolve beyond lore dumps
Reading an encyclopedia entry about someone else's life and preferences doesn't equal love
www.polygon.com
February 15, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Good article. I think the exceptions to this for me are a) romance is a thing that the Persona games consistently get right IMO b) as mentioned in the article, Scarlet Hollow (and as not mentioned, in a very different way, the same developers, Slay The Princess) and c) I Was A Teenage Exocolonist.
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Potion Of Testicular Torsion, one of the many wonderful treasures you can loot from my Amazing Chest game
Rub it on your enemy's balls!!!
Rub it on your enemy's balls!!!
February 15, 2026 at 11:40 PM
Potion Of Testicular Torsion, one of the many wonderful treasures you can loot from my Amazing Chest game
Rub it on your enemy's balls!!!
Rub it on your enemy's balls!!!
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Don’t forget subscriptions for every aspect of our lives. No ownership. No privacy. They don’t want us to own our own compute power. They’ll be selling us portals to cloud based compute and locked OSs soon. Controlling what apps we can download.
February 15, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Don’t forget subscriptions for every aspect of our lives. No ownership. No privacy. They don’t want us to own our own compute power. They’ll be selling us portals to cloud based compute and locked OSs soon. Controlling what apps we can download.
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Video games helped sell new iPhones until everyone has a smartphone in the world. Games sold the idea of casinos in your pocket. Games sold relationships to digital stimuli that weren't culturally acceptable before. This diseased core has moved on and is taking its place as the dominant culture now.
February 15, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Video games helped sell new iPhones until everyone has a smartphone in the world. Games sold the idea of casinos in your pocket. Games sold relationships to digital stimuli that weren't culturally acceptable before. This diseased core has moved on and is taking its place as the dominant culture now.
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From 2008-2018 the video games industry existed for financial interests to incubate what they wanted to become the new economy. Gambling on everything, addiction by design, mediated social spaces, even massive GPU production. They don't need games anymore so they left games behind, wounded.
February 15, 2026 at 6:53 PM
From 2008-2018 the video games industry existed for financial interests to incubate what they wanted to become the new economy. Gambling on everything, addiction by design, mediated social spaces, even massive GPU production. They don't need games anymore so they left games behind, wounded.
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I hadn't heard this shit until now and finding out Platner was all in on "black people don't tip" makes way too much sense. And it's a huge red flag for anyone who works in hospitality because it's not true. Everyone who's worked behind the stick knows who undertips and it's not the black community
February 15, 2026 at 8:43 PM
I hadn't heard this shit until now and finding out Platner was all in on "black people don't tip" makes way too much sense. And it's a huge red flag for anyone who works in hospitality because it's not true. Everyone who's worked behind the stick knows who undertips and it's not the black community
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“Your sacrifice will echo through generations. We will tell our children, and they will tell theirs, of the guardian angels who stood tall when hate knocked at our doors. Your legacy is etched in the heart of our community-a living history of compassion without limits, courage without borders.”
with alt text, because everyone needs to be able to read this 😭
February 15, 2026 at 7:48 PM
“Your sacrifice will echo through generations. We will tell our children, and they will tell theirs, of the guardian angels who stood tall when hate knocked at our doors. Your legacy is etched in the heart of our community-a living history of compassion without limits, courage without borders.”
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Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life & you will call it fate.
You deserve to heal & be healed.
You deserve to heal & be healed.
February 15, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life & you will call it fate.
You deserve to heal & be healed.
You deserve to heal & be healed.
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Yall, I am not a warehouse architect. I understand the warehouses are shitty as is and no one should be in them. But if billions weren’t being poured into DHS the point is that it could be poured into making unused real estate better right? Into helping people? We can all imagine this reality, yes?
February 15, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Yall, I am not a warehouse architect. I understand the warehouses are shitty as is and no one should be in them. But if billions weren’t being poured into DHS the point is that it could be poured into making unused real estate better right? Into helping people? We can all imagine this reality, yes?
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What’s all that commotion back there???
February 15, 2026 at 6:20 PM
What’s all that commotion back there???
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she really said pokemon go back to your own country
Hillary Clinton: "More people were deported under my husband and Barack Obama without killing American citizens and without putting children into detention camps than were in the first Trump term or this first year of Trump's second term."
February 15, 2026 at 5:29 PM
she really said pokemon go back to your own country