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entering my “do i look like i know what a jpeg is” era

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atleast1000snakes @atleast1000snakes.bsky.social · Jul 6

an egyptian trying to ask his wife about going on a walk in front of their excitable dog but having to spell it out because he knows that word: honey, would you like to go on a kneeling man-heron with wings raised-scarab-standing man-barley?

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atleast1000snakes @atleast1000snakes.bsky.social · 11h

he was bustin’ my chops, he was bustin’ my ass - hell, he was even bustin’ my balls! i’m telling ya man, there’s NUTHIN’ this guy won’t bust!

atleast1000snakes @atleast1000snakes.bsky.social · 11h

those who make quiet farts impossible make loud farts inevitable

lao tzu

atleast1000snakes @atleast1000snakes.bsky.social · 18h

kinda silly to give a tiger saber teeth if you think about it. he’s already a tiger, give those saber teeth to animals that could use it.

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atleast1000snakes @atleast1000snakes.bsky.social · 18h

hey siri collapsing mines near me

atleast1000snakes @atleast1000snakes.bsky.social · 18h

i want a safety helmet that’s in the shape of a cowboy hat

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atleast1000snakes @atleast1000snakes.bsky.social · 19h

do you think nuremburg II will be behind a paywall or do you think they’ll just stream it with ads

atleast1000snakes @atleast1000snakes.bsky.social · 19h

gnomes have rows of teeth like sharks

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atleast1000snakes @atleast1000snakes.bsky.social · 20h

driving my blade into the heart of the dragon terrorizing the townsfolk could fix me

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 2d

I was pretty sure I had interviewed Marc Maron at some point. I could not have told you when it was or even what publication it was for never mind what we talked about. But the actual interview is nowhere to be found. So much of my past work is gone. So much of everything is gone.

No lessons learned

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atleast1000snakes @atleast1000snakes.bsky.social · 21h

*radio click, static* this is foxtrot actual to unidentified aircraft, you are entering restricted airspace, go on now, git, over

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atleast1000snakes @atleast1000snakes.bsky.social · 21h

with the government shut down, helicopters are landing all over my yard! i keep having to shoo them away!

atleast1000snakes @atleast1000snakes.bsky.social · 21h

postal workers travel around collecting nectar and pollen from them, it’s how they get their food

atleast1000snakes @atleast1000snakes.bsky.social · 23h

aliens are cooler

atleast1000snakes @atleast1000snakes.bsky.social · 1d

everyone has subconscious biases except for me b/c i’m an empath and i would know if i was having a bias

atleast1000snakes @atleast1000snakes.bsky.social · 1d

food, or as some might call it: “pre-poop”

atleast1000snakes @atleast1000snakes.bsky.social · 1d

so basically: skyrim good. there’s no easy way to tell you that elder scrolls vi will probably be bad. sorry to rip that bandaid off like this as a surprise here at the end, but capital is a cancer that eats everything good.

atleast1000snakes @atleast1000snakes.bsky.social · 1d

honestly minecraft is kind of the closest thing i can compare it to, both are ancient in videogame years, and both have fanbases and communities that have lasted longer than some nations. even games like WoW that have been around that long are nothing like their 2011 selves.

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atleast1000snakes @atleast1000snakes.bsky.social · 1d

regardless, i think skyrim is special. even the vanilla version, plagued by bugs and glitches and silly physics tho it may be, is still enjoyable and engaging to this day. and when you broaden your scope to include modders and the wider community around the game, you find just how special it is.

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atleast1000snakes @atleast1000snakes.bsky.social · 1d

maybe in some twisted ironic way it was skyrim’s success that spread it through mainstream audiences and caught the eye of vulture capitalists, like a shitty tech-bro eldritch monstrosity.

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atleast1000snakes @atleast1000snakes.bsky.social · 1d

skyrim, in my opinion, couldn’t have existed if it came out any later. it would have been gutted and sold back you piecemeal through dlc packs. i really think it was right before the tipping point, that point being the insatiable maw of venture capital opening wide to devour the medium as a whole

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atleast1000snakes @atleast1000snakes.bsky.social · 1d

you can see in their subsequent titles and also in their treatment of skyrim (creator club, etc) that bethesda fucking hates that they can’t sell battle passes and loot boxes for skyrim. they hate that they can’t force you to subscribe to skyrim. they hate that they have to sell you a whole game.

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atleast1000snakes @atleast1000snakes.bsky.social · 1d

in my mind, i think of it as one of the Last Good Games: the final crash of that magnificent wave of creativity that peaked during the ps2’s life, the last hoorah of artists before the Owning Class dug their hooks into the medium of videosgames and sucked out all its blood

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atleast1000snakes @atleast1000snakes.bsky.social · 1d

and in 2011 no less!!! they really captured lightning in a bottle with this one.

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atleast1000snakes @atleast1000snakes.bsky.social · 1d

i don’t want to *ign voice* “it has a little something for everyone” the game, but you could crawl a dungeon, go on a trek through the mountains and fight a dragon, or get married start a farm and play dress up all day. and none of it really clashes, i’d say it all works together very well

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atleast1000snakes @atleast1000snakes.bsky.social · 1d

i think skyrim is like my platonic ideal of a videosgame. yeah yeah yeah, bugs, todd howard, etc, and i’m not trying to die anywhere near the hill claiming it’s the best game ever by any means, but *marge voice* i just think it’s neat

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