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Cayman Pumpkins

@caymanwent.bsky.social

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Queer alley cat. Millennial. Socialist. Hi-fi guy, record collector, indie comics fan, booze expert, biker, barfly, foodie, antifascist, troublemaker, Denverite. We can make a better world together. Music I Like: https://tidal.com/@caymanwent

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Cayman Pumpkins @caymanwent.bsky.social · Apr 30

This is me.

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Cayman Pumpkins @caymanwent.bsky.social · 20m

In a world that’s mean, be average

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Cayman Pumpkins @caymanwent.bsky.social · 8h

If the world series ends up being Mariners vs. Dodgers I'm going to instantly become a Mariners fan

Cayman Pumpkins @caymanwent.bsky.social · 8h

I still have nightmares about that "do your laundry before the cops catch you" part. Playable panic attack

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 13h

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 14h

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Cayman Pumpkins @caymanwent.bsky.social · 9h

Typically weak points are glowing eyes or flashing buttcheeks or something but for me it's one particularly itchy spot in the middle of my back where if you get it just right I fold like a wet paper bag

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 1d

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Cayman Pumpkins @caymanwent.bsky.social · 11h

You and me both!!

Cayman Pumpkins @caymanwent.bsky.social · 11h

I will say my most underrated game that everyone loves to hate but I had an absolute blast with it: Final Fantasy XIII Lightning Returns. Stupid as fuck story, but the combat and exploration were top notch. I actually loved the time limit mechanic, thought the dress system was a cool way to do jobs

Cayman Pumpkins @caymanwent.bsky.social · 11h

The motion controls were a huge frustration and turn-off, especially since they weren't optional, but my main complaint is...it's just a remake of 64, basically. As someone craving more from the series, it just felt like I was playing the same game I'd played 50 times before

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Cayman Pumpkins @caymanwent.bsky.social · 11h

-ToZ: saccharine, forgettable cast, asinine plot, mediocre combat, boring dungeons. Glad Berseria and Arise redeemed it.

-XS2: whaaaat a mess. Weird shift in art style, tone, and extremely slow, frustrating combat. None of the first's charm.

-Q64: the only N64 JRPG. It is what it is.

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Cayman Pumpkins @caymanwent.bsky.social · 11h

-EM: fun concept, underwhelming gameplay, one too many frustrating jumping puzzles, gasping and wheezing in Mario's shadow

-TN: beautiful pixel art, hooked me in the first half, completely falls apart with its bizarre twist in the second

-SZ: IYKYK. Great music though, best in the series

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Cayman Pumpkins @caymanwent.bsky.social · 11h

I fall into the category of “doesn’t finish games they don’t enjoy,” but a few honorable mentions for games I’ve beaten and thought “that was underwhelming:

-Epic Mickey
-Tails Noir (formerly Backbone)
-Starfox Zero
-Tales of Zestiria
-Xenosaga Ep. 2
-Quest 64

lex luddy (ichiban appreciator) @lexluddy.xyz · 18h

What's the worst game you finished/rolled credits on?

(games media folks, it can't be something you were assigned to review; this has to be something you subjected yourself to of your own free will)

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Cayman Pumpkins @caymanwent.bsky.social · 13h

Disband ICE, prosecute the thugs, dismantle the DHS. None of this GOP Nazi shit is protecting us in any way. I hope some pols start running on that platform.

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Cayman Pumpkins @caymanwent.bsky.social · 13h

So we just have nazi brownshirt thugs kidnapping protestors and bringing them across state lines now? While the cops sent in to “protect” protestors just watch??

America is a Nazi state until someone starts doing something about this.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 14h

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Cayman Pumpkins @caymanwent.bsky.social · 14h

Commissioning a study on the psychiatric and social effects of the weather swinging from high seventies during the day to low forties at night on Coloradans

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 20h

#OtD 14 Oct 1977 anti-gay crusader Anita Bryant was "pied" by Thom Higgins, a gay rights activist. She then began praying and burst into tears. Following a boycott, she lost her job as brand ambassador for Florida orange juice. More LGBT+ history here: workingclasshistory.com/tag/lgbtq/

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Cayman Pumpkins @caymanwent.bsky.social · 19h

“Blue city democracy” in action.

Cayman Pumpkins @caymanwent.bsky.social · 19h

Let it be known that the Denver city council voted 12-0 to BLOCK funding for surveillance devices from this particular torment nexus. Mayor Johnston simply dropped the requisitioned amount from $500K to $499K, below the threshold for a vote, and pushed it through anyways

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 19h

“Flock is the $7.5 billion company whose cameras capture license plate data for Denver Police and other agencies across the nation. It has drawn criticism because immigration enforcement agents have tapped into its national network.”

Denver Police has a contract with Flock for drone first responders

The company’s surveillance cameras have drawn civil rights concerns.

denverite.com

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Cayman Pumpkins @caymanwent.bsky.social · 21h

My flow has been completely disrupted. I seek purpose.

Cayman Pumpkins @caymanwent.bsky.social · 1d

Ngl I really like this whole “FF characters in a modern day AU” concept, but it’s a shame that it’s a weird mobile gacha that SE will inevitably kill off in a year

Hatok @hatok.bsky.social · 1d

we haven't gotten portraits like this for Dissidia in ages

Cayman Pumpkins @caymanwent.bsky.social · 1d

Sure feels like it?

Cayman Pumpkins @caymanwent.bsky.social · 1d

Has anyone looked into why there are like 800 different brands of “whole body deodorant” that all popped up in the last year?

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Cayman Pumpkins @caymanwent.bsky.social · 1d

Teetering on the precipice of running away into the woods and becoming a subsistence farmer who makes just enough for the goat food by carving wooden ducks

Cayman Pumpkins @caymanwent.bsky.social · 1d

They're analyzing you for elemental weaknesses in the comments