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tvsadam.bsky.social
the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches
January 3, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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alamhigo.bsky.social
Today is the last day that you can repost this image
December 31, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
I hate these charts so much because they imply chatgpt is comparable to the internet or phones

You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet
steverattner.bsky.social Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 9d
In 2025, AI became pervasive in American life and the economy, with ChatGPT surging in adoption much faster than any other major technology in memory. @nytopinion.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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profaneannalist.bsky.social
...tbh "constantly rewriting characters and lines to appease the Fandom" is a set of actions I'd expect from a company whose execs hate their creative staff
December 17, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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catsharkchaireth.bsky.social
#ai #mozilla #firefox #fuckAI #genAI #fuckGenAI
December 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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misterabk.bsky.social
I write middle-grade whodunnits, so you might want to dismiss my opinion out of hand. But I think cosy games/crime sometimes miss the fact that blankets are only cosy when it's cold outside. A world without conflict / a story without stakes isn't cosy, it's just safe.
santaragione.com Santa Ragione @santaragione.com · Nov 27
We need to talk about the cozyfication of games because it’s a serious disease, possibly as bad as the edgyfication of the 90s and the grittyfication of the 00s.
October 27, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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beastgoddk.bsky.social
Shit fuck god man I just need to be held creepily and invasively by a big sister type entity in a loving way but ultimately one that is for her emotional fulfillment and not mine
beastgoddk.bsky.social Harley @beastgoddk.bsky.social · Oct 14
Big sis who comes home drunk late and shows you her PS2 games on emulator and you don't really get it but you love her and she's so so nice and you cling to each other a lot she's so cool
Low angle drawing of a tall lady with long dark hair walking toward the viewer while spilling a beer and smiling creepily
October 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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beastgoddk.bsky.social
Self advocating feels like violence but to exist you have to do it aggressively. Feels unfair.
October 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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vibingvalerie.bsky.social
Are women bourgeois?

Ari: WELL I AM
Ari Drennen @AriDrennen X.com Transsexualism as we conceive of it in America is bourgeois, the product of a society that venerates the freedom of an individual to choose. There is no designer vagina under communism, I'm sorry.
October 14, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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caseyexplosion.bsky.social
Incidentally, earlier this year Microsoft announced it was investing $80 billion in AI. EIGHTY BILLION DOLLARS.

They gobbled up half the games industry in a disastrous acquisition spree that never should've been allowed to happen, then saw something shinier and immediately fumbled the gaming bag.
shinobi602.bsky.social Shinobi602 @shinobi602.bsky.social · Oct 1
Microsoft is increasing the price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate by 50% to $30 a month ($360 annually)

➡️ news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/1...

New updates and changes to tiers, Essential, Premium, and Ultimate, Cloud streaming quality, etc

#Xbox #XboxGamePass
October 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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ela-bambust.bsky.social
I do have one criticism of the ending of clair obscur.

SPOILERS DON'T CLICK IF YOU HAVEN'T FINISHED IT AND PLAN TO

also gosh this turned out significantly longer than I intended. My one criticism is a big one I guess lmaoooo
The game is about grief. All of the characters grieve, it's central to their character and their plot. I'm not gonna do a full analysis here (though I might at some point lol) but for the most part, while the game has antagonists, it doesn't really have a "bad guy", not when you start to see their motives. Renoir does not want his family to die. Maman wants to keep the memory of her son alive. Papa just wants his daughter and wife back. Verso doesn't want to keep living a half life. All of these are real and true and morally justifiable motives. All except "bad end" Maelle, and that's where the story and the moral of the story kind of slam into each other at full force. For those who don't know (and you HAVE been warned), the two endings are "give up on the painted world, allow it to be destroyed" and "remain in the painting." The former is the thematically "correct" ending and I see why. The point is that you have to let go. The problem is that it's been established that the world of this game is Real to the people in it. There are a lot of SENTIENT, LIVING things in this world. So the question becomes: "should god destroy the universe to overcome her trauma?" And I don't think that's a very good question to ask, actually, not when you want to write a story about grief. The implication is that none of the painted people are "real" but they all sure do grieve and feel and experience the world around them. The idea of restoring the people in the painting is framed (lol) EXCLUSIVELY as a selfish act, and the ending then paints (tee hee) Maelle as a sort of monstrous controlling figure keeping them alive against their will, which feels, you know, thematically consistent, I GUESS, but again ignores the autonomy and existence of the REAL ACTUAL PEOPLE in this painted world. It's supposed to be about letting go but that one scene feels like it disregards a lot of what it did to argue that sometimes we need these escapes. In short: The game has a LOT of empathy for those who grieve. It understands that we make mistakes, that we are scared, that there are things we are not ready to give up. It extends a hand of love and empathy to all kinds of grief, all kinds of pain. Except to the main character, who is wrong and evil for not doing a genocide to get over her brother's death. And that doesn't sit right with me. The implication is that the only reason she doesn't want to kill everyone in Lumière is because she wants to dance them around like puppets instead of, as she literally puts it herself, "live the life we should have lived, together." I'm sorry but that doesn't sit right with me. It feels... cruel? Callous? The second reason it fails is because obviously Maelle is also kind of the stand-in for the player. Gustave is to us what Verso is to Maelle. We grieve Gustave and so, in the bad end, we get him back, because we, too, are incapable of letting go, instead consoling ourselves with a fake simulacrum of the real thing. Except that none of these characters are real. They're literally all fictional. Gustave is not less real at the end than he is at the start, nor are either of THOSE two less real than, like, real-world Maelle. They're all fictional. Gustave is a simulacrum of a simulacrum of a simulacrum. And that's where the medium and the narrative crash into each other. This is a story that demands you act as though the world it takes place in is real, but only the outside world, not the one inside it, but there is nothing to differentiate the two. Other than Maelle literally only having a voice in the painted world, all characters are the same. Am I supposed to think that a world in which Maelle is shunned and voiceless is superior because the game has told me it is "real", that her overcoming her grief is worth giving up her claimed freedom? So yeah, I think the game has given me a lot to chew on (I grieve a lot :3) but at the end of the day I'm sticking with the bad ending because the "good" ending is, in my opinion, a little vapid. It's five minutes of someone putting flowers on a grave and then remembering all the people she let die so she could grow as a person, I guess. Other than that, yeah, probably GOTY for me and one of the best RPG's I've had the pleasure of playing.
April 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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chimeracoder.bsky.social
RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.
August 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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caseyexplosion.bsky.social
Okay, how about this?

One reskeetle = one recommendation
July 30, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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beastgoddk.bsky.social
I just want to be held and loved so so so much. Even if I don't want it. Is that so much to ask for? Is it really really so much? Is it really really so horrible to ask for. I just want it. I just want it...
July 15, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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vanoreo.bsky.social
insane that mamdami is getting accused of being an antisemite with like 100x the furor of elon musk, who runs stormfront 2 and did a hitler salute on national television
June 25, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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lilytboywhocould.bsky.social
Replyslop ass tweet
May 26, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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headfallsoff.com
Someone asked why i don't vibe with the hashino games so i gave a more thought out earnest answer — neospring.org/+r/182119170...
generally speaking i find their narratives unsatisfying because they have a lot of ideas on the table that they flatten into feel good anime soup. so like for example in persona 3, it starts out with a lot of really loaded and powerful imagery about suicide and school and teenage pressures etc but then by the end the ultimate resolution of the apathy syndrome metaphor is that you shouldn't give up on the future because you'll wish the world to death. which is condescending to the imagery invoked (suicidal teenagers are not to blame for "giving up on the future" hashino) and more importantly unsatisfying narratively. you didn't make paranoia agent mate you made made tomorrowland. similarly in a more specific example in persona 4 i really like the opening hours with chie and yukiko and the slow reveal that they both fucking hate each other. in like, really personal ways too they have this powerful codependent resentment that in the hands of anyone else has enough spice to power a whole game but after the moment of realisation and the boss battle the conflict just disappears. you fight a boss and believe in yourself and then your self doubt disappears. its like anti narrative. i just watch them throw away the interesting part of the game, where characters have rough edges and conflict and no easy answers, for 80 hours of trite anime tropes about ooooh yukiko's cooking is bad. you removed the story! so yeah thats kinda my core problem. continued in metaphor with the first 8 hours being meeting your party members who are all immediately on your side, believe racism is bad, ready to save the world. but every random npc is the most insane racist evil cartoon bastard imaginable. and its like why is this in a Dark Fucked Up Fantasy World if everyone you meet immediately has all the answers and isn't compromised by it in any way and agrees with you about everything; all it does is make the villains more obviously evil. ff16 also a victim of this.
May 17, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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junlper.beer
democrats need to campaign on making this guy a eunuch in 2028
nymag.com New York Magazine @nymag.com · Mar 3
Broligarch Elon Musk and his Neuralink employee Shivon Zilis announced they had their fourth child together. Their son, named Seldon Lycurgus, is believed to be Musk’s 14th child.
Elon Musk Has Welcomed Yet Another Baby With Shivon Zilis
Broligarch Elon Musk and his Neuralink employee Shivon Zilis announced they had their fourth child together. Their son, named Seldon Lycurgus, is believed to be Musk’s 14th child.
www.thecut.com
March 3, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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caseyexplosion.bsky.social
It's willingly ignorant to assign blame for AAA games studios being shuttered at anything other than corporate mismanagement and incompetence from an avaricious executive class.

This is an industry where corporate suits saw monkey jpegs and thought "Yes, this is the future of gaming!"
a woman in a green dress is sitting in front of a man in a suit
Alt: Jimmy Fallon pulling out a picture of a Bored Ape NFT
media.tenor.com
February 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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jumpovertheage.com
Down with the bag of everything RPG, up with the incredibly specific weirdo RPG
February 23, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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zinniajones.com
It's World Pangolin Day, when we recognize and act to conserve the 8 species of pangolin (ground pangolins and arboreal pangolins) found in Asia and Africa! The pangolin is an insectivore scaly anteater, completely covered in hard keratin plate scales. They are widely poached and all endangered!
A photograph of a giant pangolin (Smutsia gigantea) walking on its back legs, balancing itself with its heavy tail, and slightly supporting itself by balancing on the tips of its front claws. This is a ground pangolin. Its head, neck, arms, back, legs, tail, and entire body are covered in a complete flexible plating of thick brown-olive hard keratin triangular scales - the material is the same as that of a very thick toenail. It is an adorable and non-aggressive animal with peaceful and kind eyes, and has no teeth, eating only ants and termites. Despite the presence of their sharp claws, their immediate defensive reflex is to curl themselves tightly into an armored ball and hold completely still until the threat has passed. This has unfortunately rendered them very vulnerable to poachers simply picking up the balled-up pangolin and carrying them away. A photo of a Sunda pangolin standing on all fours and carrying a baby pangolin (known as a pangopup) on its lower back and its long tail. This is an arboreal pangolin whose habitat spans Southeast Asia. A photo of Temminck's ground pangolin (Smutsia temminckii), a large African pangolin, seen here curled up into an armored defensive stationary ball when under perceived threat. A photo of a tree pangolin (white-bellied pangolin) (Phataginus tricuspis) climbing a tree branch. This is a small semi-arboreal pangolin native to equatorial Africa.
February 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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dragoncobolt.bsky.social
"cozy" is a toxic adjective now because it's a bunch of signifiers when it's trying to describe a mood, and that mood requires, like...actual stuff, some guts in there
February 15, 2025 at 5:08 AM