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twenty seven | genderless | ttrpgs and mmos
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sorry i can't go to that thing tonight. yeah im gonna be busy taking poison damage and cycling through the same three grunting sound effects. yeah.
November 28, 2025 at 2:54 AM
starting to think my poor little PC isn’t going to survive much longer… it’s kind of hard to tell if its performance issues are caused by age (it’s six years old, so it’s not super old but not NEW) or if it’s just all of the current BS going on with windows 11.
November 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM
god i’m exhausted
November 10, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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still thinking about this article today. so many societal ills are caused by people white-washing what actually happens. it's awful to see games do it too.

can't wait for cozy domestic violence simulator or cozy kkk simulator
a wholesome plane has hit the second cozy tower
more like no thoughts to declare
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October 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
gritting my teeth. from the pyre is in thirteen days. there is good music in my immediate future
October 5, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i refuse to say more publicly about Her and invite discourse that i did not ask for but: are the pop bangers in the room with us right now
October 3, 2025 at 4:48 AM
me sitting here with a frown on my face staying up past my bedtime to see if the rep vault track clowning was right
October 3, 2025 at 4:28 AM
oh this album is NOT good.
October 3, 2025 at 4:23 AM
anyways this has been eating me alive for like a month straight (longer if we count the three years it took me to work up the nerve) and it feels good to have confirmation and a checklist of things to do next.
October 1, 2025 at 3:07 AM
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: i’m officially going back to school! the local university just got back to me with my acceptance letter 😎

i need to talk to my advisor about putting my existing film studies credits towards either a proper film major or minor, but i’m officially going for art history!
October 1, 2025 at 2:59 AM
regret to inform everybody i’m once again experiencing gender envy for a taskmaster contestant
September 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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What an expertly called shot
September 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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The eye exam is the perfect game design. That big E is a great tutorial that teaches you the basic mechanic. But it doesn't baby you and quickly gets hard as they introduce the small and blurry enemies.
September 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
it is so weird transitioning from a regional school without any doctoral programs to an R1 research campus with 10,000+ more students. what do you mean some of the funding goes to things that aren’t the football team???
August 26, 2025 at 4:19 AM
big things in store for your local mal. will try not to make any announcements until it’s official (as though i haven’t been yapping about this on my tumblr), but know that i’m very, very excited
August 25, 2025 at 8:54 PM
having a very weird time in which i recently (within in the last three days) recovered from 2.5 weeks of respiratory illness but the recovery is definitely overlapping with the sore throat experience of my voice dropping from six months of t.

my vocal cords really said “figure it out :/“
August 16, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Men in video games should be sluttier
discourse of today not really hitting tbh, can yall do a different one
August 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
adding to the kylan playlist: youtu.be/kPFmrVKXcvM?...
August 11, 2025 at 12:15 AM
i can’t believe the next round of elite specs includes slime time, the rat wizard, AND my favorite nonbinary mists entity

nothing but wins for mal
August 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
RAZAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Channel the past, find your familiar, and go on a power drip! Take a closer look at the new elite specs for our revenant, elementalist, and engineer professions now: www.guildwars2.com/news/the-fin... #GW2 #VoE
August 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
for the record, since originally posting that, this series has taken over my life. its all murderbot in my brain all of the time. network effect made me so so so unwell and i am clawing at the walls waiting for platform decay
first order of business: all systems red is fun and has me REALLY excited to dive into the rest of the murderbot diaries when i get home, and especially the meatier novels. murderbot is a miserable freak and i love it so much.
August 6, 2025 at 3:16 AM
lrt lol. lmao even.
August 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Remember these are the same pitiless motherfuckers who axed the vastly superior Chronicles of Darkness
It's been brought to my attention by a friend that the folks at Renegade/World of Darkness are using AI art now, though I reckon this has been going on for a bit longer (gestures to my review of the V5 Players Guide).

The Art director is incompetent & WoD STILL does not care about quality control.
July 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
okay okay i’m normal now. i’m so normal.
August 4, 2025 at 9:23 PM
HALSEY’S OFFICIALLY RELEASING GARDEN?????????????????? FOR THE TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF BADLANDS??????
August 4, 2025 at 8:59 PM