Stacey
@heyitsstacey.bsky.social
Software engineer; hobbyist writer; "professional;" she/her. Will likely post terrible video game opinions, but it's ok because I have a degree. You can rip my em dashes from my cold, dead hands.
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Stacey
@heyitsstacey.bsky.social
· Jul 4
Re-sharing this clip from an optional conversation in Final Fantasy VII Remake for no particular reason.
Even Scarlet takes on a whole new reading with our current secretary of homeland security. There’s a kind of person who fantasizes about achieving power through being a combination of cruel and hot, but they can never get that second part. Plus, no way these bozos could pilot a mech.
January 25, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Even Scarlet takes on a whole new reading with our current secretary of homeland security. There’s a kind of person who fantasizes about achieving power through being a combination of cruel and hot, but they can never get that second part. Plus, no way these bozos could pilot a mech.
Surely Shinra wouldn’t allow quasi-religious pursuit of a Promised Land justify their abuses. Surely the galactic empire wasn’t only around for 20 years. Surely Weyland-Yutani wouldn’t keep throwing bodies at the xenomorph for decades.
Yeah, I totally buy all that now.
Yeah, I totally buy all that now.
January 25, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Surely Shinra wouldn’t allow quasi-religious pursuit of a Promised Land justify their abuses. Surely the galactic empire wasn’t only around for 20 years. Surely Weyland-Yutani wouldn’t keep throwing bodies at the xenomorph for decades.
Yeah, I totally buy all that now.
Yeah, I totally buy all that now.
Part of this is the remake filling in a lot of gaps with AVALANCHE’s ideology and rewriting Barret to be a compelling leader, but it also belongs to a greater trend of pop culture from my youth that seemed too outrageous in its depictions of fascism and capitalism looping back into realism.
January 25, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Part of this is the remake filling in a lot of gaps with AVALANCHE’s ideology and rewriting Barret to be a compelling leader, but it also belongs to a greater trend of pop culture from my youth that seemed too outrageous in its depictions of fascism and capitalism looping back into realism.
When talk about a FFVII remake first started 20 years ago, I was convinced it was a terrible idea, one reason being the hook of scrappy ecoterrorists vs a cartoonishly evil corporation felt very nineties.
Now replaying the remake for a 4th time, every idea in that game continues to feel prescient.
Now replaying the remake for a 4th time, every idea in that game continues to feel prescient.
January 25, 2026 at 8:47 PM
When talk about a FFVII remake first started 20 years ago, I was convinced it was a terrible idea, one reason being the hook of scrappy ecoterrorists vs a cartoonishly evil corporation felt very nineties.
Now replaying the remake for a 4th time, every idea in that game continues to feel prescient.
Now replaying the remake for a 4th time, every idea in that game continues to feel prescient.
As if this week couldn’t get any worse, I just heard the MISAMO cover of “NEW LOOK.”
January 13, 2026 at 6:26 PM
As if this week couldn’t get any worse, I just heard the MISAMO cover of “NEW LOOK.”
Reposted by Stacey
DHS to America: don't believe you're lyin' eyes
DHS Is Lying To You About ICE Shooting a Woman
At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.
www.404media.co
January 7, 2026 at 10:32 PM
DHS to America: don't believe you're lyin' eyes
(Also catching up on all the Netflix releases I’ve missed in the years since season four. Ultraman Rising rules and I don’t know why we aren’t just talking about it all the time??)
January 2, 2026 at 12:23 AM
(Also catching up on all the Netflix releases I’ve missed in the years since season four. Ultraman Rising rules and I don’t know why we aren’t just talking about it all the time??)
I saw the Stranger Things finale at the cinema for New Years. It was whatever, but the girls behind us were going THROUGH it. Genuinely love that for them.
January 2, 2026 at 12:23 AM
I saw the Stranger Things finale at the cinema for New Years. It was whatever, but the girls behind us were going THROUGH it. Genuinely love that for them.
Happy Parasite Eve to those who celebrate.
December 25, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Happy Parasite Eve to those who celebrate.
After 25+ years, I finally beat Final Fantasy Tactics. 🫠
The original PlayStation disc was my first #FinalFantasy game, and I did NOT understand it/never made it very far. I still don’t know if I have the patience to go back and try to beat the classic build. But I beat the Ivalice Chronicles!
The original PlayStation disc was my first #FinalFantasy game, and I did NOT understand it/never made it very far. I still don’t know if I have the patience to go back and try to beat the classic build. But I beat the Ivalice Chronicles!
December 13, 2025 at 9:07 PM
After 25+ years, I finally beat Final Fantasy Tactics. 🫠
The original PlayStation disc was my first #FinalFantasy game, and I did NOT understand it/never made it very far. I still don’t know if I have the patience to go back and try to beat the classic build. But I beat the Ivalice Chronicles!
The original PlayStation disc was my first #FinalFantasy game, and I did NOT understand it/never made it very far. I still don’t know if I have the patience to go back and try to beat the classic build. But I beat the Ivalice Chronicles!
What if the third FFVII remake game leans all the way into its alternate timelines to have a two hour Ivalice jag?
November 28, 2025 at 2:02 AM
What if the third FFVII remake game leans all the way into its alternate timelines to have a two hour Ivalice jag?
This could potentially be read as part of SH’s greater interrogation of what it means to be Japanese vs American horror. Most SH games have streets built for cars and trucks, so encounters are avoidable due to their size. This is not the case for the small, old, winding roads of Ebisugaoka.
November 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
This could potentially be read as part of SH’s greater interrogation of what it means to be Japanese vs American horror. Most SH games have streets built for cars and trucks, so encounters are avoidable due to their size. This is not the case for the small, old, winding roads of Ebisugaoka.
The argument is always that Silent Hill games never have good combat, but I think Silent Hill F suffers from its combat MOST approaching conventional while not quite hitting the mark, a gap further highlighted by a high rate of forced encounters.
November 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The argument is always that Silent Hill games never have good combat, but I think Silent Hill F suffers from its combat MOST approaching conventional while not quite hitting the mark, a gap further highlighted by a high rate of forced encounters.
Silent Hill F is beautiful; I’m still chewing on the story and will probably go back and play again now that the combat has been patched. I’m leaning towards it being a series best?
November 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Silent Hill F is beautiful; I’m still chewing on the story and will probably go back and play again now that the combat has been patched. I’m leaning towards it being a series best?
I finally started #silenthillf last night. I am already mourning my cancelled soundtrack pre-order.
October 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I finally started #silenthillf last night. I am already mourning my cancelled soundtrack pre-order.
And I guess the other big defining feature of Death Stranding is all-caps AUDACITY, and DS2 has that in spades.
Some of the things Kojima gets these famous people to say are w i l d
Some of the things Kojima gets these famous people to say are w i l d
October 12, 2025 at 3:41 AM
And I guess the other big defining feature of Death Stranding is all-caps AUDACITY, and DS2 has that in spades.
Some of the things Kojima gets these famous people to say are w i l d
Some of the things Kojima gets these famous people to say are w i l d
To be fair, I don’t think there’s a way to capture that feeling of walking into the unknown again unless they started again from the ground up.
October 12, 2025 at 3:41 AM
To be fair, I don’t think there’s a way to capture that feeling of walking into the unknown again unless they started again from the ground up.
Death Stranding 2’s world opens much earlier. I understand it’s a sequel, and some people were turned off by just how slow the first was, but I miss that slow build. Still, it felt like once I unlocked roads I was off to the races. I barely experimented with other transportation methods.
October 12, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Death Stranding 2’s world opens much earlier. I understand it’s a sequel, and some people were turned off by just how slow the first was, but I miss that slow build. Still, it felt like once I unlocked roads I was off to the races. I barely experimented with other transportation methods.
In my mind, DS is most characterized by its interesting balance of the inherent loneliness of exploration with a cooperative spirit. In the first, there was a real sense of work and discovery when first entering an area, and it was so satisfying to finally connect and see other player structures.
October 12, 2025 at 3:41 AM
In my mind, DS is most characterized by its interesting balance of the inherent loneliness of exploration with a cooperative spirit. In the first, there was a real sense of work and discovery when first entering an area, and it was so satisfying to finally connect and see other player structures.
90ish hours later, I finished the story in Death Stranding 2. Mostly enjoyed it (clearly), but I think I liked the first one better as a whole?
October 12, 2025 at 3:41 AM
90ish hours later, I finished the story in Death Stranding 2. Mostly enjoyed it (clearly), but I think I liked the first one better as a whole?
Apple Music: we should do a monthly visualization that helps our users appreciate the breadth of selection they might not have listened to without our service!
Me:
Me:
October 3, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Apple Music: we should do a monthly visualization that helps our users appreciate the breadth of selection they might not have listened to without our service!
Me:
Me:
This message is for porters on my Death Stranding 2 server and those porters only: I’m 80 hours in and NEED to finish the story so I can play Silent Hill F. I can’t be the only one maintaining our roads, guys. Help a porter out.
September 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
This message is for porters on my Death Stranding 2 server and those porters only: I’m 80 hours in and NEED to finish the story so I can play Silent Hill F. I can’t be the only one maintaining our roads, guys. Help a porter out.
And then AKB48—who, sure, I’d consider legacy now—is straight up just releasing an AI-written single trained on one of their usual songwriters, because AKB48 has always been about ruthless calculus at its core. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Japanese girl group AKB48 release AI-assisted single after fan vote
Pop group AKB48 asked fans to pick their next single from a song written by humans and another by AI.
www.bbc.com
September 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
And then AKB48—who, sure, I’d consider legacy now—is straight up just releasing an AI-written single trained on one of their usual songwriters, because AKB48 has always been about ruthless calculus at its core. www.bbc.com/news/article...
…while Yumi Matsutoya is celebrating her 40th anniversary by producing an album with AI to sound like her younger self; the gimmick being it’s an album recorded using a sci fi “Chrono Recording System” that can reach an alternate universe version herself. yuming-wormhole.jp
Wormhole / Yumi AraI 特設サイト
松任谷由実 40th Original Album 「Wormhole / Yumi AraI」
yuming-wormhole.jp
September 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
…while Yumi Matsutoya is celebrating her 40th anniversary by producing an album with AI to sound like her younger self; the gimmick being it’s an album recorded using a sci fi “Chrono Recording System” that can reach an alternate universe version herself. yuming-wormhole.jp
Two of the big uses of it seem to be interacting with their younger selves. Ayu did it earlier this year in a video depicting her modern self walking through a living museum of the past 27 years. youtu.be/d4NXu86Q3DE
浜崎あゆみ / mimosa
YouTube video by ayu
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September 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Two of the big uses of it seem to be interacting with their younger selves. Ayu did it earlier this year in a video depicting her modern self walking through a living museum of the past 27 years. youtu.be/d4NXu86Q3DE