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Rose of Battle

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Splatoon Streamer, Captain of Malibu Rising, cosplayer, wants to pet every cat 🐈
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Rose of Battle @roseofbattle.com · Oct 17

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I'm Rose, and I post about Splatoon a lot, but I also love cosplay, magical girls, and cats! If you follow me, you will see many photos of my cats.

I stream on Twitch over: www.twitch.tv/roseofbattle
And I post videos to YouTube when I'm able: www.youtube.com/c/roseofbattle

Rose of Battle

@roseofbattle.com

Valentine's present for us! (Art by @/popitosa)

February 14, 2026 at 10:16 PM

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ellielotus

@ellielotus.bsky.social

Happy Valentine's Day!!! 💛✨

#splatoon #fanart

February 14, 2026 at 6:04 PM

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Otsogune

@otsogune.bsky.social

For me, Valentine's Day should not be named after a christian saint. Nor should it focus on romantic couples. My 14th of February is for celebrating those people and pets who fill us with love every single day. Happy Love Day everyone!

February 14, 2026 at 2:33 PM

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🌐TORI.PNG🌐 @ KATSUCON E1/E2

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I'm at Katsucon this weekend! Booth E1/E2!

#artistalley #katsucon

February 14, 2026 at 2:16 PM

Rose of Battle

@roseofbattle.com

Dinner time: Dillon's favorite time of day. (And yet, the curry is not for him!)

February 13, 2026 at 11:26 PM

Rose of Battle

@roseofbattle.com

If you want some hype Malibu moments and aura, I've got our action-packed sets from our win in A41 Rainmaker:
youtu.be/DDsB22Uh9zM
#compSplatoon

How Malibu Rising Became Rainmaker Champions

YouTube video by Rose of Battle

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February 13, 2026 at 4:54 PM

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Jinko_神子

@jinkoika.bsky.social

アオリちゃん🍫💝

February 13, 2026 at 2:22 PM

Rose of Battle

@roseofbattle.com

Moments before disaster

February 13, 2026 at 4:58 AM

Rose of Battle

@roseofbattle.com

The duality of cat snuggles

February 12, 2026 at 10:31 PM

Rose of Battle

@roseofbattle.com

ANOTHER WIN FOR THE PINK INKLINGS!

🌐TORI.PNG🌐 @ KATSUCON E1/E2 @toripng.com · 3d

And if you happened to see the relisting of the Ink Tank Ita Bag, that preorder is real! and unlimitted! and live right now! AND PINK!

I won't have a detailed timeline but bags will likely make it to me in June this year so keep that in mind.

shop.toripng.com/product/ink-...

#merch #splatoon

February 11, 2026 at 11:02 PM

Rose of Battle

@roseofbattle.com

Shout out to the NAACP mail I got today for a great laugh and an even greater sticker

P.S. tell your political representatives that the SAVE Act is bullshit and against voting rights and a blatant attempt from the Republicans to stop people from voting

A sticker from the NAACP that is on a black background and says "WE SUING EVERYBODY" in all caps with "everybody" underlined

February 11, 2026 at 11:01 PM

Rose of Battle

@roseofbattle.com

to all of my soloQ teammates

please stop rushing the objective alone

Had Enough Child In Rain GIF

ALT: Had Enough Child In Rain GIF

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February 11, 2026 at 9:19 PM

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ARCdraws

@arcdraws.bsky.social

electric dog

February 11, 2026 at 12:54 PM

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Erin Biba

@erinbiba.bsky.social

The pronoun labeler, which was by far the most useful labeler on the site, was deleted by its creator. But thanks to @ripperoni.com there’s a new one available. I highly recommend it. It’s a great way to share your pronouns or see someone else’s pronouns at a glance.

bsky.app/profile/pron...

bsky.app

February 11, 2026 at 6:39 AM

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Dylan Macri, Cadhla182, Commissions Open

@dylanmacri.bsky.social

Brennan Lee Mulligan on the set of game changer looking slightly unhinged with a speech bubble implying he's saying the quoted post.

February 11, 2026 at 3:27 AM

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Emmy

@emmy.dollz.one

No joke it should be A Concern for the community that the ratio of cis men to *everyone else* skews more and more towards cis men with every div you go up. This isnt like other communities where marginalized people arent present at all, so it isnt a pipeline issue. Its social and cultural.

February 10, 2026 at 3:39 PM

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Allister Jones 🐦 アリスタ

@allisteranim.bsky.social

Kinda Fucked Up that in our lifetimes we've gone from "never share personal info on the internet" to "hand over your identity to the most incompetent corporations imaginable".

February 9, 2026 at 6:25 PM

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Stella

@antlervel.vet

Tubi is such a crazy streaming service. It’s like if the Criterion Closet was in a gas station

December 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM

Rose of Battle

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(don't even get me started on why I think the plus servers have been a net negative on the competitive splatoon culture and done more to discourage people from learning than it has to encourage ego building which is also why they historically have been pretty oppressive to minorities)

February 10, 2026 at 2:06 PM

Rose of Battle

@roseofbattle.com

I'm not midlevel, but I do wanna add my two cents to the conversation about people being stuck in midlevel.

At the end of the day, you need to *enjoy* playing the game to improve. If you don't, you'll burn out. And to enjoy the game, you need to play for more than results.
#compSplatoon

February 10, 2026 at 1:59 PM

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zyf

@zyfetc.bsky.social

itd be nice if we could create actual change, so on the topic of this + pika's qrt about resulting--
in the past i couldn't figure out how mentality/ego could be improved

but in hindsight the answer was straightforward: surround yourself with solid people and build the right culture internally \

Jared @isjared.bsky.social · 5d

My Midlevel Experience #compsplatoon

After playing 40+ hours with midlevel, I can confidently say it was the most miserable experience I’ve had playing this game mostly because I skipped this part of the scene back in S2 and didn’t realize how bad it could actually be. It’s not miserable because of overall skill level, because yeah everything is gonna feel worse outside of top level after being in it for long. The biggest thing hurting this part of the scene is ego. I had over 60 tryouts, and almost all of them said it’s hard for them to even get four people to try out with. That genuinely confused me, because for the most part everyone I played with felt extremely similar in skill, and I could easily see these players scrimming each other regularly and figuring out how to mesh over time.

This explains a lot of why midlevel feels weaker as a whole. A lot of these players simply don’t get enough meaningful playtime outside of rare pickups or X Rank, so they’re missing the constant feedback loop that actually drives improvement. Playing against people at a similar level forces you to recognize patterns, and improve through adaptions. Over time, that raises the average skill for everyone involved.

There were so many situations in games where I had to explain why we were losing or what we needed to change to win and I honestly think most of these players would’ve figured it out themselves eventually if they were consistently playing each other instead of isolating themselves or waiting for “better” lobbies. when players actually PLAY THE GAME, the average skill level naturally rises.

This isn't entirely mid levels fault though, I think top level players can do a better job at providing knowledge to mid level players to improve but better questions need to be asked to top players too, all the time I see questions like oh what special is best or how do i play "insert weapon here" these are terrible questions and we need to move on to better questions like "what should i have done in this scenario here" b…

February 9, 2026 at 9:16 PM

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Brian M

@legendofnerd.bsky.social

Discord is already starting to walk things back a little, so people should keep doing what they're doing (cancel Nitro, leave feedback/criticism, direct contact through support tickets/phone/email/etc)

Tl;dr: The vast majority of adults will never have to interact with our age assurance systems and their experience won't change, because we know Discord and how people use it, so we're designing to respect privacy and deliver a safer experience while minimizing friction for adults.

Hey folks –

I’ve been on Discord since very early 2016 and actually joined the company in 2017. Safety is one of my areas, so today’s announcement on our blog is something I’ve been pretty involved with. I’ve always cared about Discord's approach to privacy (E2EE for A/V was another of my projects here), so I figured I’d add some more context to today's news.

I can say confidently that the vast majority of people will never see age verification. I say this because we launched age assurance in the UK and Australia in 2025, and we have some pretty good data on this now. The idea here is that we can pre-identify most adults based on what we already know (not including your messages!), and that looks to get us pretty far here. No face scans, no IDs, for the vast majority of adults.

And if you are one of the smaller subset of folks that we can't definitively pre-identify, then still, you only have to do it if you're accessing age-restricted servers or channels, or changing certain settings. That's really not most users. (Altho... might be more Redditors, tbh.)

Last, I know that there is concern about privacy and data leaks. That's a real concern. The selfie system is built purely client-side, it never leaves your device, and we did that intentionally. That'll work for a bunch of users who aren't pre-identified as adults. But if you do end up in the ID bucket, then yeah, you're right that has some risk. We're doing what we can to minimize this by working with our range of partners (who are different partners than the data leak you read about), and if it's any help, we learned a lot internally from the last issue. But I get if that doesn't necessarily inspire more confidence.

Anyway, we’ll be sharing more next month as we get closer to the global roll out about the system, including the technology behind it in March. I honestly wouldn't be happy if we didn't build something good and I am excited about what we’re launching, but please let us know what you think when we share more details.

And I really appreciate everybody's feedback here today. We’re definitely reading it!

February 10, 2026 at 1:43 AM

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falco

@falcoflyer.bsky.social

We are trying something new this time around with scheduling.

Having additional help will help us get more matches (and give Kyon and myself more time to, you know, breath).

We truly appreciate anyone who can help out.

SplatoonTourney @splatoontourney.bsky.social · 5d

LUTI Tonight is looking to fill more leadership positions!

We are looking for people who can assist with scheduling matches to broadcast on LUTI Tonight, this entails:

- Seeking out matches to stream
- Communicating with teams
- Slating emergency day-of commentators
- Assisting the streamer

February 10, 2026 at 2:36 AM

Rose of Battle

@roseofbattle.com

No stream tonight because I've got a big assignment to finish for work, so I'll be working late tonight. But I've got our A41 winning run on my VODS channel now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVS4...