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Iris @ifdots.bsky.social · 6h

i am so sensitive when i'm streaming. dunno how to even uh, solve that. probably just 'stream less' is the solution! c'est la vie

Iris @ifdots.bsky.social · 6h

i think most video games commentary on the internet is hyperbolic to get clicks/humor/etc. it does look fun!

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John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago - no kings

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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 1d

No King but King Swiftie

Flavor Flav holding a King Swiftie Shirt

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Iris @ifdots.bsky.social · 3d

i figured out why. HP is the worst and their weird "helper" software was actually reducing my framerate for some godforsaken reason

Iris @ifdots.bsky.social · 3d

!!! this is great!! fantastic job

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Iris @ifdots.bsky.social · 3d

why play magic when i can do something more fun and more /interesting/, instead?

... anyways. just musing about it and all.

Iris @ifdots.bsky.social · 3d

so maybe the reason I don't play magic anymore and don't enjoy it is because there are just more games. or maybe magic itself has changed. or maybe i've changed. but, idk. it's different.
i'm sure it would be fun to get a large group of likeminded people to play edh but ... why?

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Iris @ifdots.bsky.social · 3d

but then the game has to compete with other games, other points of interests, and i don't know if it does anymore.

my favorite part of magic has always been building decks. the theorycrafting. why do this in a competitive game when so many others exist, that reward you for said crafting?

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Iris @ifdots.bsky.social · 3d

i think i replaced the magic the gathering in my live with DND; then after that fell apart, watching dnd. occasionally I play arena. there you don't have to smell the people around you, or deal with the terror of being alone shuffling a deck yourself, surrounded by people who didn't come alone.

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Iris @ifdots.bsky.social · 3d

a few years back a friend of mine tried to get me into EDH. I found some of my old cards, sold some, made a bunch of decks. too many decks. And then I played some EDH games and the power level was weird, the people seemed very disconnected. it just ... wasn't a good experience?

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Iris @ifdots.bsky.social · 3d

then i didn't play for ... a long time. i realized that i hadn't really made friendships or anything in mtg; i'd barely interacted with people.
(this isn't to cast shade at the people i played with, who i'm sure were fine or not fine, respectively. i had some things i needed to sort out.)

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Iris @ifdots.bsky.social · 3d

just thinking about my relationship to magic: the gathering recently.
i used to play the game a lot. when i was a teenager, i went to my local store a ton. i even went to regionals once (i went 4-4 playing skullclamp zombies because I just like it when cards give you more cards, OK?!?).

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Iris @ifdots.bsky.social · 4d

my music process:
fucking around > finding out > song?

Iris @ifdots.bsky.social · 6d

i think this is what i was thinking too! (though, I didn't know of lisa lisa until now, but it's definitely the same vibe!!)

Iris @ifdots.bsky.social · 7d

why don't criminals use this one simple trick

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Iris @ifdots.bsky.social · 7d

is jimmy fallon the effie trinket of our age?

Iris @ifdots.bsky.social · 8d

(I just switched to using google’s learning simulator thing built on GCP that auto-destroys your environments for you. no possibility of it there.)

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Iris @ifdots.bsky.social · 8d

And Google cloud doesn’t have any settable hard spending limits basically, afaik. I was learning GCP on the free tier and wandered into the reddit for it and every post on the reddit was basically “oops I owe Google $8000”. … almost as if it’s by design

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Iris @ifdots.bsky.social · 8d

you know ... who decided that good friday was good? what if it's good friday but you're having a pretty shitty day? you can't just holiday your way out of depression, christians

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U_U @anoldwishbone.bsky.social · Sep 12

my piece for the Two Girl Revolution zine! :)

#art #revolutionarygirlutena

Utena and Anthy sit on a grassy hill against a backdrop of the Ohtori dorms and a blue, cloudy sky. Utena yawns, spent from her day of activity. She wears her PE uniform, and her basketball rests between her feet. Anthy sits behind her in her own school uniform, braiding flowers into Utena's hair as she has in her own. Chu-chu sits by Anthy on the edge of the ground sheet, wildflowers strewn about. He is crafting a flower chain. In the distance, the faint silhouette of the castle in the sky is framed by clouds.

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Iris @ifdots.bsky.social · 9d

do i just start posting my (i don't think they're very good, i don't like my voice) vocal songs to my youtube? i think i might have to to keep it real(tm)

Iris @ifdots.bsky.social · 10d

I’m an adult! I can eat candy whenever I want, but it makes me feel gross

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Iris @ifdots.bsky.social · 11d

brilliant

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Iris @ifdots.bsky.social · 12d

playing ufo50 bingo and getting absolutely demolished every game is an experience lol.
eventually I’ll figure out why my game lags when I stream on discord. but eventually isn’t now (and the lagging is not costing me games really)

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