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Yeet Kune Do

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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 14d

Okay. Story spoilers for Hades 2. Run away if you don’t want those. You’ve been warned.

cel 🌻 @duooftwo.bsky.social · 15d

Hades 2 ending the way it did leaves a sour taste. I've always gotten the impression that sgg cares not only about creating a great game but writing a well story along with it. So I can't believe they greenlit and ending that feels so out of place. Did no one in the team had second thoughts?

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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 2h

tl;dr disney should really get a clu

iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 1d

it’s crazy to think that TRON is still named after Bruce Boxleitner’s character in the first movie, who has not appeared since, rather than Jeff Bridges’ character, who has been in all three. The franchise ought to be called KEVIN

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 8h

“Israeli” ceasefires only ever apply to the other party. They’ll continue to kill whomever they want, whenever they want until they are stopped. They see themselves as occupying an altogether different moral plane than their enemies, like any colonizer.

Tweet from Quds News Network @QudsNen
BREAKING: Three Palestinians were killed after Israeli quadcopter drones opened fire on residents inspecting their homes in the Shujaiyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 1d

is this how CBS is gonna work now? using bari weiss's personal blog to launder poorly sourced and lightly edited stories (complete with a misspelling of mamdani's name in the headline) that would never pass muster if reported directly by a real news source?

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1d

CBS News would never put a thinly sourced 'story' by a rookie blogger like this on it's air. Until now. The Free Press isn't a journalism outlet, it's bloggers aren't reporters. This piece is more NYPost than Tiffany Network but I guess that's the goal.

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Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming the NYC mayor, The Free Press reports

The Free Press spoke to several New York City Police Department officers who are worried about Zohran Mamdani becoming mayor. Olivia Reingold joins CBS News with more.

www.cbsnews.com

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GoldenboyFTW 🇵🇷 @goldenboy.pro · 7h

This conservative takeover of CBS News and the bigger influence of the Ellison family (aka Paramoint) is a much bigger deal than it appears to be

It’s also quite telling that Paramount is trying to acquire WBD (which is the company who runs this guys stuff) 👇🏽

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Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 2h

because consoles need more gachaslop, right

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☆「ＹＡＳＥ」IdolismJ ☆ @idolismj.yase.world · 7h

They have fully disintegrated Dissidia into gachaslop, this looks like fucking garbage

RPG Site @rpgsite.net · 8h

Square Enix has revealed Dissidia Duellum Final Fantasy, the newest entry in the Dissidia series, for 2026 release on iOS and Android: www.rpgsite.net/news/18701-d...

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 18h

"We have an economy where a handful of modern-day robber barons wield extraordinary power. They hold enormous control over our paychecks, our bills, our time, and our futures.

...But the good news is that nothing about any of this is inevitable." - Lina Khan

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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 2h

I find it very odd how mass media outlets routinely fail to understand that the distrust of millions of viewers and readers will cost them far more than the investment of the obscenely wealthy will ever manage to provide.

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 7h

This from the great @sulliview.bsky.social on the media's anemic (or non-) coverage of the massive No Kings movement is such a great point

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Diamond Hands: Master Bag Holder @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 15h

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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 6h

This is the primary driver of why Yotei feels like a game where its aspirations of being greater than its predecessor isn’t enough to successfully escape the shadow that Tsushima casts over it. Maybe after a content update or two, I don’t know.

But it’s very pretty. Unimaginably pretty.

Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 6h

It’s…not good. Not bad, necessarily, but much like most of Ghost of Yotei’s parts, they don’t sum up to something greater, and that’s something Ghost of Tsushima can boast about.

Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 6h

Jin’s story was much more meaningful, the internal and external conflicts had greater stakes that intertwined in a very tragic way. Atsu’s story is just kinda…there. The losses feel forced, cheap, by the numbers. The gains feel scheduled.

Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 6h

Every interesting idea it brings to the table, it squanders by way of not committing hard to anything except forcing the audience to care by making them witness repeated acts of profound cruelty against children. It touches off on the trauma that creates, but never actually explores it.

Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 6h

There’s parts of it I absolutely love, but I’d be lying to you if I said that it was a better overall package than Tsushima Director’s Cut. It’s not, or at least it’s not in any truly meaningful way. I kept my criticism of the narrative light because I want to avoid spoiling people, but it’s weak.

Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 6h

But it’s ultimately too much of the same thing, and what it changes for the better doesn’t really make much of an impact when everything it either failed to change or changed for the worse winds up outweighing the gains, which only became glaringly apparent after 40ish hours, and moreso beyond.

Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 6h

I was so excited for this game because Tsushima was the most fun I’ve had with an AssCreed-like, ever. To the point where Tsushima-like should honestly be the name for it, now. It nailed the formula to near-pitch perfect pacing & design; its sequel should have been an improvement on all fronts.

Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 6h

And the wolf…is emblematic of everything wrong with Yotei. An incredible idea shoehorned into something that feels random & unreliable, and only through finding enough skill point doodads can one turn it into something marginally impactful, but still outside of the player’s direct locus of control.

Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 6h

It became even more of a collectathon, while gating much of the game’s temporal progression behind the same forced climbing / parkour segments as the last game, alongside combat that got more visually diverse but less mechanically diverse as a result of forcing “rock beats scissors” design schema.

Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 6h

I think the thing that frustrates me the most is that with every meaningful step forward Yotei takes over its predecessor, the other foot rarely takes a step back, but is often rooted in place out of nothing but what seems like fear of breaking convention. This works against Yotei in profound ways.

Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 6h

We should also not be forced to have combat specializations locked behind specific armor sets, or at least have the ability to wear a cosmetic setup while equipping the buffs of another armor set. This, again, restricts player expression and therefore negatively impactful on the overall experience.

Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 7h

Also, and this is such a minor nitpick, but if you’re going to introduce multiple dye merchants, the least you could do is offer a plethora of customization options for your look, instead of giving useful armor sets a few choices and giving the most visually boring outfit in the game FIFTEEN.

Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 7h

Tsushima was an Ubisoft style open world game done more than right, it was done better. Yotei…is an Ubisoft style open world game done prettier. And it pains me to say that, because this game had the potential to be better on all fronts, but it can’t manage to break free of its own shackles.

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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 7h

Exploration is also very “more of the same.”

Ride horse across beautiful vistas. Climb things. Ride more horse, climb more things. Climb some more things. Find invisible wall that locks you into falling animation. Lose health. Climb things. Ride more horse. Parkour. Climb. Ride.

It gets…boring.

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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 7h

There are three different telegraphed strike types, some have far more warning for no real reason, while some have next to no warning, while others have a fair amount of warning but you don’t have time to actively counter it while also fighting off seven other guys. It’s messy where Tsushima wasn’t.

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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 7h

The changes to parry / dodge timing are also extraordinarily bad, and make for a game where being good at the prior game’s combat will cause you to have a far more frustrating time than you’re expecting to.

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