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Merciless Grimmly (👻sPoOpY mOdE👹) @mercygrimm.bsky.social · Nov 10

The truth is that the happiest day of my life is not the day I had the most sex or got the most high or the day I experienced the highest volume of chemical reactions associated with happiness, it was the day when I realized that I was spiritually prepared to accept happiness and be worthy of it.

Merciless Grimmly (👻sPoOpY mOdE👹) @mercygrimm.bsky.social · 43m

Is it unsustainable or is it that corporate mismanagement at the AAA level is near total? Was Spider-Man 2 a $250,000,000 video game? Or did Insomniac waste a ton of money due to poor managerial oversite? Or maybe we don't need every game dev to be in the most expensive state in the union?

Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 3h

Blockbuster games are "not really sustainable", says former God of War exec, adding games should be "fun first"

www.eurogamer.net/blockbuster-...

Kratos, Freya and Atreus in God of War Ragnarok

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 5h

Christopher Lee with his cat, Renfield.

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 2h

Does anyone have any essays on what separates weird fantasy from other kinds of fantasy fiction? like what separates gormenghast, bas-lag, and viriconium from their contemporaries. I'd like to do some reading

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Out of the Past @filmclassics.bsky.social · 8h

Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1951)
DoP: Stanley Cortez

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MTGNerdGirl @mtgnerdgirl.bsky.social · 2h

Terms like "Virtue signal" and "White knight" are used to deflect after someone points out you are being a dick.

Stop being a dick.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 2h

"When Microsoft opened a data center in central Mexico last year, nearby residents said power cuts became more frequent. Water outages, which once lasted days, stretched for weeks. The shortages led to school cancellations and the spread of stomach bugs in the town of Las Cenizas..."

From Mexico to Ireland, Fury Mounts Over a Global A.I. Frenzy

www.nytimes.com

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Merciless Grimmly (👻sPoOpY mOdE👹) @mercygrimm.bsky.social · 1h

They intended for him to be like a new Regan they could manipulate (his dad was in the CIA and more than likely his mother was a CIA informant on counter culture revolutionary movements) and it's the only reason he isn't in jail for sex crimes.

Merciless Grimmly (👻sPoOpY mOdE👹) @mercygrimm.bsky.social · 1h

It's because A) 30secondstomars makes eleventy gajillion dollars a year, they have a slavish, raving fanbase obsessed with the Leto brothers that are guaranteed to buy tickets to his movies and B) Jared Leto is a CIA failed social movement seed leader who turned out all fucked up and weird.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 6h

I will never understand how Jared Leto has remained a working movie star for 30 years despite never starring in a good or successful film

Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.social · 22h

‘TRON: ARES’ is set to have a loss of $132.7M.

(via t.co/Odawcc3Zfr)

Merciless Grimmly (👻sPoOpY mOdE👹) @mercygrimm.bsky.social · 17h

It's like he wrote the book thinking he'd replace it with a better word and then didn't and because Millennials are twee losers we all adopted it instantly. Brought to you from the same minds that gave us "adulting".

Merciless Grimmly (👻sPoOpY mOdE👹) @mercygrimm.bsky.social · 18h

Oh lol my b. I was offline during that particular cultural touchpoint so I miss some of the cues. FWIW I absolutely I do not think anything is too woke or there are too many women in games or anything, some of the best people in games are women... like Samus! And Bayonetta!

Merciless Grimmly (👻sPoOpY mOdE👹) @mercygrimm.bsky.social · 19h

@acvalens.net leading the charge against censorship against sex games and wondering aloud where her support is, why isn't anyone else talking about it (if they are, it's not on my feed or any outlet I follow) is a great example of JOURNALISM, and not that he needs it but there's always Jason Schrier

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Merciless Grimmly (👻sPoOpY mOdE👹) @mercygrimm.bsky.social · 19h

I think if there were a stronger emphasis on ethics in games journalism then we'd have way more blogs in the style of Aftermath, or Kotaku style articles about the Microsoft boycot. Game reviews and previews are just toy commercials at the end of the day, journalism is different than product review.

Merciless Grimmly (👻sPoOpY mOdE👹) @mercygrimm.bsky.social · 19h

I personally don't understand how ethics factor into things like Reviews or Sponsored streams. I think there are probably, pound for pound, more talented and skilled women and NBF working in the industry writing about more nuanced things (I like Rebekah Valentine at IGN, Grace Benfell at Endless)

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Merciless Grimmly (👻sPoOpY mOdE👹) @mercygrimm.bsky.social · 20h

Then there are writers who are COOKING and you get a piece or a blog from one of them and the. You look over at some coverage in The Verge or Game Rant and it's just 500 commas without rhyme or reason and just go "what happened?"

Merciless Grimmly (👻sPoOpY mOdE👹) @mercygrimm.bsky.social · 20h

Something mean no one wants to say about modern games journalism is that maybe it's a lack of mentorship or education or lack of editors but there are MANY working gaming journos today who are bad writers. They don't understand grammar or punctuation and cannot articulate their points clearly.

Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 20h

An oft-overlooked aspect of the media implosion over the past 10-15 years is the fact that so many of the reporters now are so shallow and incompetent. It’s not only a function of them affecting “balance” and normalizing evil. Much of it is that they’re simply bad at their jobs.

utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1d

It you click through this quoted thread, you will get an extended lesson in how our media environment has largely carved itself out by firing seasoned beat reporters and replacing them with partisan generalists who often lack basic background knowledge on the topic they’re reporting on.

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alyssa mercante @alyssamerc.bsky.social · 20h

If you were at TwitchCon and experienced or witnessed harassment, especially from IRL streamers, I'd like to speak with you for a story.

Please signal boost.

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Merciless Grimmly (👻sPoOpY mOdE👹) @mercygrimm.bsky.social · 20h

First one that came to mind. We all love Fiona, but she does suck at basically everything.

Merciless Grimmly (👻sPoOpY mOdE👹) @mercygrimm.bsky.social · 1d

The last two years have been such a headscratcher, just me spinning in circles going "you all care about James Bond?" Huh? What?

Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 1d

007 First Light may have found its theme song singer, Bond fans speculate

www.eurogamer.net/007-first-li...

007: First Light trailer screenshot showing close up of James Bond in bellboy outfit smirking

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jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · Aug 3

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

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Merciless Grimmly (👻sPoOpY mOdE👹) @mercygrimm.bsky.social · 1d

Figured out how to get rid of the most annoying kind of post on Bluesky

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🪱𝔼𝕟𝕠𝕔𝕙🪱 -COMMISSIONS OPEN- @oddoblivion.bsky.social · 1d

Doodle

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 2d

The generals said "sir are you sure you want to fly the diarrhea bomber over the AI city with the nonsense billboards" and I said [zesty] we've got to shit the hell out of 'em. And no one has more loose stool than me. And actually that was very smart. Making myself the diarrhea president was smart.

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Merciless Grimmly (👻sPoOpY mOdE👹) @mercygrimm.bsky.social · 1d

It's the purest expression of the male form, make of that what you will. Tom of Finland style dudes fighting vampires and gangsters and Aztec zombie aliens

Merciless Grimmly (👻sPoOpY mOdE👹) @mercygrimm.bsky.social · 2d

lol my b. The only Cartoon Network dogs I know about are Courage and Two Stupid Dogs, both of which are goat'd

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Tele-Piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 2d

kushblazer666
cowboys were a sort of itinerant warrior class common in meiji-era texas

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