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Jaconian
@jaconian.bsky.social
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He/Him.
I listen to various genres of metal and video game music. I'm an omnivore, a gamer, a drinker of beer & mead, a musician & was the ENFORCER JDub at PAX '08-'10.

http://www.StageSelectStart.blogspot.com
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jaconian.bsky.social
This paragraph got my eyes to well up while sitting at my desk at work.

My thoughts went to my best friend whom I've known since I was 2 & he was 1. Thoughts of my kid who made a sign I have on my office door that reads "Love not hate" in lightsaber colors, 'but not red, because red is bad guys.'
January 27, 2026 at 10:39 PM
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applecider.bsky.social
Was a little busy this morning watching the new Mothership Discord get filled with new subscribers, but my first piece for Mothership went up at launch - not a fun one to write, but an important one that I am glad Mothership supports.

CW: IPV/abuse

www.mothership.blog/if-your-roma...
If your romantic partner purposefully breaks your gaming equipment, that's abuse
A shattered Switch can be a big red flag
www.mothership.blog
January 26, 2026 at 2:59 PM
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bvigaming.bsky.social
The BViG Black History Month Showcase is coming soon! We're putting out a call for game trailers, tag a game developer or studio you think would be a great fit for the show!!

Submit your trailers before January 29th!

tr.ee/UH3LmU

#gamedeveloper #gametrailer #BViG
January 23, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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briannareadsbooks.bsky.social
Hey @chuckwendig.bsky.social very uncool of you to make me cry with something so beautifully profound and relevant right now in one of your books.
A book page reading “Thanks for coming down here. You didn’t have to. It means a lot.” “Friends are a light in dark times, Emily. We try to be brighter together so that the darkness doesn’t take us alone.”
January 27, 2026 at 1:25 AM
jaconian.bsky.social
Last week we had an article for the beautiful and short indie game MANDAGON, a platformer that takes visual and narrative cues from Tibetan mythology and philosophy.

stageselectstart.blogspot.com/2026/01/game...

#MANDAGON #BlindSkyStudios #TibetanMythology #IndieGames #StageSelectStart
Game EXP: MANDAGON (PC)
A blog about video games. Game Reviews, analysis, thoughts, sentiments, stories, anecdotes.
stageselectstart.blogspot.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:30 AM
jaconian.bsky.social
We're past doom scrolling ar 1:30 in the morning right? It's just rage scrolling. .
right?
January 26, 2026 at 7:08 AM
jaconian.bsky.social
Our MIDI Week Single today takes us to the town of Springfield and the home of one C. Montgomery Burns, with music by Christopher Tyng.

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#MIDIWeekSingles #TheSimpsonsWrestling #ChristopherTyng #PlayStation #StageSelectStart
stageselectstart.blogspot.com
January 21, 2026 at 5:40 PM
jaconian.bsky.social
Something I hadn't anticipated playing LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga in couch co-op, was getting motion sick from inadvertently watching two vertical screens on the Switch 2 handheld screen.

🤷‍♂️🤢
January 19, 2026 at 2:48 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
sometime this year, donald trump is going to say the money we took from other countries in the form of tariffs will be used to pay for greenland and the right-wing propaganda machine will repeat it. it won't matter that this makes no sense at all bc nothing matters.
January 19, 2026 at 1:54 AM
jaconian.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

Analysis from multiple angles of Jonathan Ross putting himself in front of Renee Good's vehicle, hitting the front with his hand/allowing the car to hit his hand/arm, then murdering Renee Nicole Good.

Video analysis is free to watch w/out a subscription.
Video: Video Analysis of ICE Shooting Sheds Light on Contested Moments
Newly available videos and existing footage synchronized and assessed by The Times provides a frame-by-frame look at how an ICE officer ended up shooting and killing a motorist in Minneapolis.
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 6:21 PM
jaconian.bsky.social
LucasFilm/Disney should give Project Aces Star Wars assets and let them make an Ace Combat game in the Star Wars/Strangereal Universe.

#LucasFilm #ProjectAces #StarWars #Strangereal
January 16, 2026 at 12:57 AM
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whodat35.bsky.social
This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars.

ictnews.org/news/north-c...
Four Oglala detainees located, three still in ICE custody - ICT
The four Lakota detainees were reportedly sent to a former concentration camp used during the Dakota Wars
ictnews.org
January 14, 2026 at 10:31 PM
jaconian.bsky.social
Just in case anyone else needs an adorable dog clip this morning/week/month/year/decade/epoch as a brain cleanse
weratedogs.com WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 12d
This is Dumpling. She got her very first sweater and promptly deactivated. 12/10 (TT: jmw495)
January 15, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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statuscoupnews.bsky.social
🚨"This is nuts! What the f*ck is going on, this is insane! ICE is just trying to scare people; they tell you it's only immigrants—it's f*cking anybody!" -furious Minneapolis resident tells our @zdroberts.bsky.social after ICE shot a man in the leg tonight. LIVE NOW ⬇️
January 15, 2026 at 3:59 AM
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propublica.org
16-year-old Arnoldo Bazan and his father were getting McDonald’s before school when immigration agents pulled them over.

They slammed his father to the ground and put the teen in a chokehold. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” he said.

Read the full story: https://propub.li/4qSnVkQ
January 15, 2026 at 1:16 AM
jaconian.bsky.social
Our MIDI Week Single today is from an unintentionally obscure title, released on the Game Boy Color in Japan in 2000.

stageselectstart.blogspot.com/2026/01/midi...

#MIDIWeekSingles #GontaNoOkirakuDaibouken #GameBoyColor #VideoGameMusic #StageSelectStart
MIDI Week Singles: "BGM #09" - Gonta no Okiraku Daibouken (GBC)
A blog about video games. Game Reviews, analysis, thoughts, sentiments, stories, anecdotes.
stageselectstart.blogspot.com
January 14, 2026 at 9:26 PM
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billcorbett.bsky.social
People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .
Text: “A friend said those of us who live in Minneapolis should write about what's going on here for folks who live elsewhere. You need to know that whether you're a Republican, Independent or Democrat, the Constitution is being violated by our federal government. This is not about catching criminals, or even deporting people. It is about punishing an entire state, including citizens, for not supporting the president. Everyone in my part of Minneapolis is affected. On our streets, ICE is stopping people of color and demanding their papers. In America. US citizens do not have to prove citizenship to ICE. Yet people are being intimidated, some cases beaten up and detained, for requiring ICE to follow the law. ICE needs a judicial warrant to enter homes. Yet there are documented cases of them ignoring the law - violating a bedrock constitutional principle. Americans of color are staying home, afraid to go to work, school, to grocery shop, or fill their cars with gas. This isn't just "illegals" or immigrants with valid work permits, it is citizens who have had their cars rammed by ICE for merely looking Hispanic. Businesses are closing. Schools are 50 percent full. When they are open, fascists are calling in bomb threats because the president decided to make us a meme. After a daycare teacher with a valid work permit (through 2030) was snatched from her workplace, parents (and grandparents) have had to organize to watch their SCHOOLS, to make sure conditional rights are observed. This is being repeated throughout Minnesota. Imagine trying to do your job or live you life while also taking volunteer shifts to make sure the federal government doesn't act extrajudicially. Because of ICE's documented abuses, neighbors have organized to monitor federal actions. This observation is legal, as long as it doesn't interfere with a valid action. Yet since ICE killed Renee Good, they are increasingly stopping this observation, breaking car windows and …”
January 13, 2026 at 10:38 PM
jaconian.bsky.social
A great and terrifying piece by @laurajedeed.bsky.social about the ICE during process in late 2024.

slate.com/news-and-pol...
You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof.
What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We're all finding out.
slate.com
January 13, 2026 at 7:18 PM
jaconian.bsky.social
We have an impromptu First Impressions article for ACE COMBAT 7: Skies Unknown on the Steam Deck. In short, a return to form in what I love about games from Project Aces.

stageselectstart.blogspot.com/2026/01/firs...

#ACECOMBAT7SkiesUnknown #ProjectAces #SteamDeck #FlightSim #StageSelectStart
First Impressions: ACE COMBAT 7: Skies Unknown (VSD)
A blog about video games. Game Reviews, analysis, thoughts, sentiments, stories, anecdotes.
stageselectstart.blogspot.com
January 13, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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laurajedeed.bsky.social
Trump does not need you to believe that Renee Nicole Good rammed an ICE agent with her car and sent him to the hospital

What they want you to believe—what they NEED you to believe—is that if you don’t behave the way they want you to behave, they will fucking kill you
January 10, 2026 at 4:21 AM
jaconian.bsky.social
Our First Impressions article today is about the recent port of Romancing SaGa - Minstrel Song - Remastered International.

[Disc: I rec'd a review key from Keymailer]

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#RomancingSaGaMinstrelSongRemasteredInternational #Keymailer #StageSelectStart
First Impressions: Romancing SaGa - Minstrel Song - Remasterd International (NS2)
A blog about video games. Game Reviews, analysis, thoughts, sentiments, stories, anecdotes.
stageselectstart.blogspot.com
January 9, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
🚨 NEW VIDEO 👇🏽This puts an end to all the lies. Horrific.

They were having a calm exchange seconds before he murdered Renee Good, and she was barely moving and clearly avoiding him.

Stop the lies.
January 9, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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bynum.house.gov
Stop fucking with us.
January 9, 2026 at 12:32 AM
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petemrogers.bsky.social
January 8, 2026 at 1:45 AM
jaconian.bsky.social
DHS Warns Any Action By Americans Will Be Treated As Domestic Terrorism — theonion.com/dhs-warns-an...
DHS Warns Any Action By Americans Will Be Treated As Domestic Terrorism
WASHINGTON—Claiming that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who fatally shot 37-year-old Minneapolis resident Renee Good as she drove away from him was “fully justified,” Homeland Security ...
theonion.com
January 8, 2026 at 10:38 PM