Helen C
@mermaidpirate.bsky.social
I love videogames and being extremely online.
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I'm old enough to remember when Stealth used to harass my colleagues at RPGFan (of course, mostly the women).
Y’all have GOT to stop uncritically sharing Stealth’s posts without checking your sources!
I can’t find a source for when and where Miyamoto supposedly said this or who translated it ANYWHERE and yet my timeline is flooded with takes on it.
I can’t find a source for when and where Miyamoto supposedly said this or who translated it ANYWHERE and yet my timeline is flooded with takes on it.
October 19, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I'm old enough to remember when Stealth used to harass my colleagues at RPGFan (of course, mostly the women).
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Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."
Cardiff set to tackle SUV 'carspreading' in UK first
Cardiff Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs and other heavy vehicles, in a move campaigners say will make city streets safer and f...
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October 16, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Driving a car in a city.
What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?
October 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Driving a car in a city.
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kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school
October 15, 2025 at 7:45 AM
kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school
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thank you person who community noted this lol…. 400k likes on a bot account reposting my art once again… fascinating
October 15, 2025 at 2:08 AM
thank you person who community noted this lol…. 400k likes on a bot account reposting my art once again… fascinating
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At least we get billions and billions in revenue from all this gas we let them sell, right? No, wait... turns out we saw zero royalties on $149 billion in gas exports over 2020-2024...
We don’t have a gas shortage, we have a gas export problem. Santos are gaming the system and pushing up the price of gas paid by 🇦🇺 households & industry.
We don’t need new projects, we need to reserve uncontracted export gas for 🇦🇺 now!
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
We don’t need new projects, we need to reserve uncontracted export gas for 🇦🇺 now!
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Why Santos is behind your soaring electricity and mortgage costs
It was a primary force behind Australia’s inflationary surge, it’s forced businesses either to the wall or to shift offshore, undermined national industry policy and resulted in the loss of countless ...
www.abc.net.au
October 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
At least we get billions and billions in revenue from all this gas we let them sell, right? No, wait... turns out we saw zero royalties on $149 billion in gas exports over 2020-2024...
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I’ve been working to hone my Tokyo breakfast-hunting skills the last few days with delightful results
September 28, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I’ve been working to hone my Tokyo breakfast-hunting skills the last few days with delightful results
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43% from PEOPLE'S HOUSES
September 23, 2025 at 8:26 PM
43% from PEOPLE'S HOUSES
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To be clear, it’s still really beautiful! But it’s like someone took the “water blueness” slider and slid it back down to 100% rather than 120%
September 23, 2025 at 1:18 PM
To be clear, it’s still really beautiful! But it’s like someone took the “water blueness” slider and slid it back down to 100% rather than 120%
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No disrespect to Slovenia, but it’s like they took New Zealand and said “let’s make this a bit more realistic”.
September 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
No disrespect to Slovenia, but it’s like they took New Zealand and said “let’s make this a bit more realistic”.
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"We're going to have to learn to live with [radical right wing demagoguery with all its associated violence]" is:
- An abdication of responsibility.
- An abandonment of hope.
- A position only available to those who feel safe enough with an ongoing catastrophe to begin the work of normalizing it
- An abdication of responsibility.
- An abandonment of hope.
- A position only available to those who feel safe enough with an ongoing catastrophe to begin the work of normalizing it
"Much of what I would describe as Kirk's worst moments were now just standard fair MAGA Republicanism. And the leader of MAGA Republicanism is the President of the United States...we are going to have to live here with each other believing what we believe. Disagreeing in the ways we disagree."
September 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM
"We're going to have to learn to live with [radical right wing demagoguery with all its associated violence]" is:
- An abdication of responsibility.
- An abandonment of hope.
- A position only available to those who feel safe enough with an ongoing catastrophe to begin the work of normalizing it
- An abdication of responsibility.
- An abandonment of hope.
- A position only available to those who feel safe enough with an ongoing catastrophe to begin the work of normalizing it
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About eight years ago my smart smoke detector randomly said “hello?” in the deepest hours of the night. Never again since. Rarely a day passes when I don’t think about that real life horror movie moment.
September 15, 2025 at 6:54 AM
About eight years ago my smart smoke detector randomly said “hello?” in the deepest hours of the night. Never again since. Rarely a day passes when I don’t think about that real life horror movie moment.
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The trouble with playing the We Love Katamari soundtrack at a four-year-old’s birthday party is all the parents looking at each other and mouthing “is this English?”
September 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The trouble with playing the We Love Katamari soundtrack at a four-year-old’s birthday party is all the parents looking at each other and mouthing “is this English?”
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This game is crazy because it's got *two* of the best covers ever and most games don't even manage one good one
September 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
This game is crazy because it's got *two* of the best covers ever and most games don't even manage one good one
I started a little bit later, still have the Half Life collection CDs that I touched recently looking to post a random game on Saturday.
October 13, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I started a little bit later, still have the Half Life collection CDs that I touched recently looking to post a random game on Saturday.
Post a random game from your collection, here on Saturday.
August 16, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Post a random game from your collection, here on Saturday.
Hey @player2au.bsky.social I'm the person that's about 6 months behind, and after listening to your defining games of the Switch ep, here to tell you missed Ring Fit Adventure!
Despite having absolutely no powers I'm deleting Pokemon from the list to make room for it, there are heaps of those. 🙂
Despite having absolutely no powers I'm deleting Pokemon from the list to make room for it, there are heaps of those. 🙂
August 9, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Hey @player2au.bsky.social I'm the person that's about 6 months behind, and after listening to your defining games of the Switch ep, here to tell you missed Ring Fit Adventure!
Despite having absolutely no powers I'm deleting Pokemon from the list to make room for it, there are heaps of those. 🙂
Despite having absolutely no powers I'm deleting Pokemon from the list to make room for it, there are heaps of those. 🙂
Post a random game from your collection, here on Saturday.
August 9, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Post a random game from your collection, here on Saturday.
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July 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Hey is it bad if google AI search results stop people from leaving google dot com 99% of the time? All our news and information creators can survive just fine with one percent of their previous search traffic right? I’m sure it’s fine. www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...
![Yesterday the Pew Research Center released a report based on the internet browsing activity of 900 U.S. adults which found that Google users who encounter an Al summary are less likely to click on links to other websites than use 's who don't encounter an Al summary. To be precise, only [my emphasis] 1 percent of users who encountered an Al summary clicked the link to the page Google is summarizing.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rfoctmk4guq56gensuermj7q/bafkreihrwrukrvisav54a24jeuv7tlhfwe62yvui5d27gxhnopbdworowe@jpeg)
July 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Hey is it bad if google AI search results stop people from leaving google dot com 99% of the time? All our news and information creators can survive just fine with one percent of their previous search traffic right? I’m sure it’s fine. www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...
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So AI-generated music is not only all over Spotify, spammers have figured out how to get AI songs onto the profiles of real artists, many of whom are dead. Reason #23723487849 to quit spotify and also a reminder we live in hell
www.404media.co/spotify-publ...
www.404media.co/spotify-publ...
Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission
"They could fix this problem. One of their talented software engineers could stop this fraudulent practice in its tracks, if they had the will to do so."
www.404media.co
July 21, 2025 at 6:48 PM
So AI-generated music is not only all over Spotify, spammers have figured out how to get AI songs onto the profiles of real artists, many of whom are dead. Reason #23723487849 to quit spotify and also a reminder we live in hell
www.404media.co/spotify-publ...
www.404media.co/spotify-publ...
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australia is weirdly and wildly underrepresented in video games. the fact the most authentic experience to date is probably this project gotham 2 level from 2003 is, in a way, damning
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkHQ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkHQ...
Project Gotham Racing 2 - Ford Focus RS at Sydney
YouTube video by testdrive426
www.youtube.com
July 20, 2025 at 11:55 PM
australia is weirdly and wildly underrepresented in video games. the fact the most authentic experience to date is probably this project gotham 2 level from 2003 is, in a way, damning
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkHQ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkHQ...
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Fundamentally if your game contains text that you're comfortable filling with LLM slop you're making a bad game. Good design doesn't include text as empty filler the player isn't meant to read, engage with, or care about.
July 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Fundamentally if your game contains text that you're comfortable filling with LLM slop you're making a bad game. Good design doesn't include text as empty filler the player isn't meant to read, engage with, or care about.