Keract
@keract.bsky.social
Writer girl and Gamer boy. What happens when you combined a Barbie doll and a Ken doll.
Pronouns: she/her, he/him
AO3 Account: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Keract/works
Itchio account: keract.itch.io
tumblr: tumblr.com/keract
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Pronouns: she/her, he/him
AO3 Account: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Keract/works
Itchio account: keract.itch.io
tumblr: tumblr.com/keract
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cathy photobash false screencap of uhhhh that one game #noimnotahuman
November 2, 2025 at 1:13 AM
cathy photobash false screencap of uhhhh that one game #noimnotahuman
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It's unbelievable that THE great legitimate progressive political fear of this administration was that they could consolidate REAL hard-right institutional power in the face of neoliberal complacency simply by "NOT f---ing with people's treats"...
...and they just KEEP. F---ING. WITH. THE TREATS.
...and they just KEEP. F---ING. WITH. THE TREATS.
Heard from a friend at Disney+ that there are multiple levels of freakout internally, both from internal dissatisfaction, concerns about subscription cancelations, and of course the big one: concern about a boycott spilling over into parks and cruises.
September 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
It's unbelievable that THE great legitimate progressive political fear of this administration was that they could consolidate REAL hard-right institutional power in the face of neoliberal complacency simply by "NOT f---ing with people's treats"...
...and they just KEEP. F---ING. WITH. THE TREATS.
...and they just KEEP. F---ING. WITH. THE TREATS.
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RAM 1.0 in 1 week!
3D Steeltoe by the amazing @bayg.bsky.social
3D Steeltoe by the amazing @bayg.bsky.social
September 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
RAM 1.0 in 1 week!
3D Steeltoe by the amazing @bayg.bsky.social
3D Steeltoe by the amazing @bayg.bsky.social
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September 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Something that's always helped me parse this is that improving the lives of the people is the #2 priority for a lot of socialists.
Replacing the system with socialism in the #1 priority, and they viscerally resist anything that makes that harder.
If it does #2, but not #1, they don't want it.
Replacing the system with socialism in the #1 priority, and they viscerally resist anything that makes that harder.
If it does #2, but not #1, they don't want it.
'democrats are obliged to govern but republicans get a pass' is bizarrely the mentality of both establishment institutions and a lot of leftist posting.
the demand is always expressed in terms of blue state governments step in and keep rural hospitals open. but why can't red rural county governments step in and keep rural hospitals open?
August 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Something that's always helped me parse this is that improving the lives of the people is the #2 priority for a lot of socialists.
Replacing the system with socialism in the #1 priority, and they viscerally resist anything that makes that harder.
If it does #2, but not #1, they don't want it.
Replacing the system with socialism in the #1 priority, and they viscerally resist anything that makes that harder.
If it does #2, but not #1, they don't want it.
Shit spewed form my mouth as easily as spittle, completely directionless, seeking to only silence those who had been nagging me.
August 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Shit spewed form my mouth as easily as spittle, completely directionless, seeking to only silence those who had been nagging me.
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August 4, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Again, people in fandom can clock the conservative perspectives behind "actually I'm okay with x being censored bcuz I find y disgusting" but not the ones behind "ao3 wasn't made to give you people representation or protect it"
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July 31, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Again, people in fandom can clock the conservative perspectives behind "actually I'm okay with x being censored bcuz I find y disgusting" but not the ones behind "ao3 wasn't made to give you people representation or protect it"
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"It is a sharp mind that feels sympathy for one who suffers unnecessarily, not a soft heart" is the first line in this game to make me sit back and go "Huh..."
This is gonna be really handy to keep in mind for another video I'm working on.
This is gonna be really handy to keep in mind for another video I'm working on.
July 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
"It is a sharp mind that feels sympathy for one who suffers unnecessarily, not a soft heart" is the first line in this game to make me sit back and go "Huh..."
This is gonna be really handy to keep in mind for another video I'm working on.
This is gonna be really handy to keep in mind for another video I'm working on.
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Getting through all the companion quests now, and wrt critiquing the characters I'm struggling on what curve to use.
Do I critique them in relation to each other (the best and worst comps get an S/F respectively) or in relation to the BG2 companions (A/D respectively).
Thought experiment incoming
Do I critique them in relation to each other (the best and worst comps get an S/F respectively) or in relation to the BG2 companions (A/D respectively).
Thought experiment incoming
July 22, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Getting through all the companion quests now, and wrt critiquing the characters I'm struggling on what curve to use.
Do I critique them in relation to each other (the best and worst comps get an S/F respectively) or in relation to the BG2 companions (A/D respectively).
Thought experiment incoming
Do I critique them in relation to each other (the best and worst comps get an S/F respectively) or in relation to the BG2 companions (A/D respectively).
Thought experiment incoming
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If not for vulturine jackasses like Andrew Wilson and his cronies, there would be *so much* money for the industry to thrive with.
It’s all gone though, stripmined by freeloaders who hoard it as part of a treasure pile where it helps nothing and nobody.
What an utter waste.
It’s all gone though, stripmined by freeloaders who hoard it as part of a treasure pile where it helps nothing and nobody.
What an utter waste.
June 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
If not for vulturine jackasses like Andrew Wilson and his cronies, there would be *so much* money for the industry to thrive with.
It’s all gone though, stripmined by freeloaders who hoard it as part of a treasure pile where it helps nothing and nobody.
What an utter waste.
It’s all gone though, stripmined by freeloaders who hoard it as part of a treasure pile where it helps nothing and nobody.
What an utter waste.
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I cannot do enough to stress how much money the executive class simply helps itself to, and how much it really is just that - helping themselves.
Once again I say - the problem with “AAA” game dev is not “games are too expensive to make.”
It’s that game execs are too expensive to pay.
Once again I say - the problem with “AAA” game dev is not “games are too expensive to make.”
It’s that game execs are too expensive to pay.
NEW: EA CEO Andrew Wilson was paid $30.5 million in cash and stock this past year, up about $5m from a year ago
Since the U.S. requires companies to compare CEO pay to employee pay, I made an EA pay chart
To make it work, I had to make it VERY TALL
Take a look: www.gamefile.news/p/ea-ceo-and...
Since the U.S. requires companies to compare CEO pay to employee pay, I made an EA pay chart
To make it work, I had to make it VERY TALL
Take a look: www.gamefile.news/p/ea-ceo-and...
EA CEO’s pay is up, as EA worker median income drops
Behold, the tallest chart in Game File history. PLUS: EA execs were paid (a little) more for boosting generative AI
www.gamefile.news
June 28, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I cannot do enough to stress how much money the executive class simply helps itself to, and how much it really is just that - helping themselves.
Once again I say - the problem with “AAA” game dev is not “games are too expensive to make.”
It’s that game execs are too expensive to pay.
Once again I say - the problem with “AAA” game dev is not “games are too expensive to make.”
It’s that game execs are too expensive to pay.
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For all of it's faults, when WoW decided they we were going to start deliberately making characters gay or trans, the first ones were major lore character the player has gone on dozens of adventures with like Shaw and Chromie.
Literally "go big or go home."
I respect that more than other RPGs.
Literally "go big or go home."
I respect that more than other RPGs.
June 25, 2025 at 6:56 AM
For all of it's faults, when WoW decided they we were going to start deliberately making characters gay or trans, the first ones were major lore character the player has gone on dozens of adventures with like Shaw and Chromie.
Literally "go big or go home."
I respect that more than other RPGs.
Literally "go big or go home."
I respect that more than other RPGs.
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I love this nutjob so much
June 14, 2025 at 1:18 AM
I love this nutjob so much
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Ugh I have so many thoughts because people will (more or less adequately) ping increasing sex negative perspectives in fandom as conservatism to push against... While openly sneering at and harassing Black people in fandom who give a shit about racism. To the point of defending racists here.
June 11, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Ugh I have so many thoughts because people will (more or less adequately) ping increasing sex negative perspectives in fandom as conservatism to push against... While openly sneering at and harassing Black people in fandom who give a shit about racism. To the point of defending racists here.
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I saw a tiktok of someone hyping up "freaks in fandom" (like the perverts writing and drawing pervert shit) for somehow "holding the line against the rise of conservatism" and again, people do not understand how queer fandom (and I know how big that is) has radicalized itself INTO defending bigotry
"Oh, who cares about fandom?"
Well, one of the wealthiest and loudest and most-platformed figureheads of a global gender-retrenchment project that seeks trans elimination is funding her campaign off the back of calcified consumption patterns and people who refuse to interrogate their complicity.
Well, one of the wealthiest and loudest and most-platformed figureheads of a global gender-retrenchment project that seeks trans elimination is funding her campaign off the back of calcified consumption patterns and people who refuse to interrogate their complicity.
June 11, 2025 at 9:47 AM
I saw a tiktok of someone hyping up "freaks in fandom" (like the perverts writing and drawing pervert shit) for somehow "holding the line against the rise of conservatism" and again, people do not understand how queer fandom (and I know how big that is) has radicalized itself INTO defending bigotry
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guest strip - Mikaila
🔗 https://another-piece-of-candy.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/2427666/
🏷️ #anotherpieceofcandy #nomnomnami
🔗 https://another-piece-of-candy.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/2427666/
🏷️ #anotherpieceofcandy #nomnomnami
June 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
guest strip - Mikaila
🔗 https://another-piece-of-candy.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/2427666/
🏷️ #anotherpieceofcandy #nomnomnami
🔗 https://another-piece-of-candy.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/2427666/
🏷️ #anotherpieceofcandy #nomnomnami
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I really don't like this mentality I've been seeing around leaks where people go "Nintendo has every right to take those down". What? No?? Why the hell is it my responsibility to keep Nintendo's secrets, if Nintendo told more people than they should have trusted then gosh sucks to suck
May 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I really don't like this mentality I've been seeing around leaks where people go "Nintendo has every right to take those down". What? No?? Why the hell is it my responsibility to keep Nintendo's secrets, if Nintendo told more people than they should have trusted then gosh sucks to suck
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Why do the people who make KH2 and KH3 character movesets have such a vendetta against visual clarity?
Xion, Vanitas, Roxas or Aqua lean to the side and particle effects are filling the screen like it's Canada Day at an artillery depot.
Xion, Vanitas, Roxas or Aqua lean to the side and particle effects are filling the screen like it's Canada Day at an artillery depot.
May 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Why do the people who make KH2 and KH3 character movesets have such a vendetta against visual clarity?
Xion, Vanitas, Roxas or Aqua lean to the side and particle effects are filling the screen like it's Canada Day at an artillery depot.
Xion, Vanitas, Roxas or Aqua lean to the side and particle effects are filling the screen like it's Canada Day at an artillery depot.
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May 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Actually just checked, FF.Net's entire archive of 12 million fanfics is 115GB.
AO3 has 7 million fanfics.
AO3 would fit on a $50 thumb drive, and the amount of data sent in rich text requires extremely low bandwidth.
So again: AO3's money hoarding is one big scam.
AO3 has 7 million fanfics.
AO3 would fit on a $50 thumb drive, and the amount of data sent in rich text requires extremely low bandwidth.
So again: AO3's money hoarding is one big scam.
April 26, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Actually just checked, FF.Net's entire archive of 12 million fanfics is 115GB.
AO3 has 7 million fanfics.
AO3 would fit on a $50 thumb drive, and the amount of data sent in rich text requires extremely low bandwidth.
So again: AO3's money hoarding is one big scam.
AO3 has 7 million fanfics.
AO3 would fit on a $50 thumb drive, and the amount of data sent in rich text requires extremely low bandwidth.
So again: AO3's money hoarding is one big scam.
You know, maybe it's just me, but I find it annoying how people are talking about how the nintendo price hikes are justified with inflaiton and all other kinds of crap when the fact of the matter is the video game industry fucking BLEEDS money overpaying executives and shit
April 20, 2025 at 12:24 AM
You know, maybe it's just me, but I find it annoying how people are talking about how the nintendo price hikes are justified with inflaiton and all other kinds of crap when the fact of the matter is the video game industry fucking BLEEDS money overpaying executives and shit