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Alie - Monster Catgirl 🏳️‍⚧️ @aliecat.bsky.social · 1h

The core design of Destiny is inherently noncommital and the game is inherently flawed because of it.

And that's not even getting started on the game's on-boarding problem. Vaulting the Red War without something to take its place was a huge mistake. The game needs a campaign mode to build around.

Alie - Monster Catgirl 🏳️‍⚧️ @aliecat.bsky.social · 1h

To add to this: I don't even remember the last time I played Destiny. And it just makes me sad, rather than angry. So much of Destiny's potential is squandered for various reasons. But the only that's stuck out the longest is that it's trying to be an MMO without being an MMO.

Alie - Monster Catgirl 🏳️‍⚧️ @aliecat.bsky.social · 1h

I say sometimes Destiny because Bungie really has fucked up a lot of things about it in ways that could have been avoided, as well as ways inherent to its noncommital MMO-lite design.

If we ever see Destiny 3, they should make it online-optional like Borderlands.

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Alie - Monster Catgirl 🏳️‍⚧️ @aliecat.bsky.social · 1h

Same with a hypothetical The Division 3. Both existing Divison games could have easily been online-optional since the only time you can even see other random people outside of matchmaking is in safe houses. There's really no point to forcing online in The Division.

Alie - Monster Catgirl 🏳️‍⚧️ @aliecat.bsky.social · 1h

I say sometimes Destiny because Bungie really has fucked up a lot of things about it in ways that could have been avoided, as well as ways inherent to its noncommital MMO-lite design.

If we ever see Destiny 3, they should make it online-optional like Borderlands.

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Alie - Monster Catgirl 🏳️‍⚧️ @aliecat.bsky.social · 1h

If there is anything that I've learned from Reddit, it's that some fandoms will stop enjoying a thing, but refuse to stop engaging with it in favor of becoming as toxic as humanly possible.

Online "fans" of Halo, The Last of Us, Insomniac Spider-Man, and sometimes Destiny are *insufferable.*

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Alie - Monster Catgirl 🏳️‍⚧️ @aliecat.bsky.social · 2h

Is it bad that my entire associate with the name Cambria is with the band Coheed and Cambria?

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Alie - Monster Catgirl 🏳️‍⚧️ @aliecat.bsky.social · 15h

I like that the solo neck is longer than the regular one. That helps alleviate one of the problems I have with the CRKD Les Paul: It's too damn small.

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Alie - Monster Catgirl 🏳️‍⚧️ @aliecat.bsky.social · 16h

And that's not saying that I have no complaints about Pritzker, but then again, the people I'm referring to think I want a "purity test."

Alie - Monster Catgirl 🏳️‍⚧️ @aliecat.bsky.social · 16h

To all of the assholes lecturing the trans community about how we have to support Newsom:

Here's Pritzker standing up to Trump without the AI slop and without throwing trans people under the bus.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 17h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Alie - Monster Catgirl 🏳️‍⚧️ @aliecat.bsky.social · 18h

I'd say that I'd buy one if you ever tried bringing it back, but that is simply a promise I can't make under my current financial situation.

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Alie - Monster Catgirl 🏳️‍⚧️ @aliecat.bsky.social · 19h

I love Emma and some of my favorites of hers are when she talks about these kinds of movies.

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Alie - Monster Catgirl 🏳️‍⚧️ @aliecat.bsky.social · 19h

I find these movies to be fascinating, but I also don't want to sit through them because they're pretty much universally awful. They're just a really good in depth look at how their target audience views the world.

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Alie - Monster Catgirl 🏳️‍⚧️ @aliecat.bsky.social · 19h

You know what i miss? Youtubers doing reviews of the various Christploitation movies that have been a thing since God's Not Dead. The one I used to watch turned out to be kind of an asshole and I don't know anyone else that covers them on a regular basis.

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Alie - Monster Catgirl 🏳️‍⚧️ @aliecat.bsky.social · 21h

I only know his song from Red Dead II, but there is a reason why it's a recurring motif in the game.

RIP.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 21h

D'Angelo only released three studio albums in his lifetime, but each one was a classic that defined its moment in music.

Here are 12 essential songs from the late soul visionary, from hits to deep cuts, covers, and collaborations ↓

D'Angelo: 12 Essential Songs

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Alie - Monster Catgirl 🏳️‍⚧️ @aliecat.bsky.social · 23h

And I for one don't want to live in a world where we're not allowed to have characters in fantasy worlds talk about being queer.

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Alie - Monster Catgirl 🏳️‍⚧️ @aliecat.bsky.social · 23h

It comes across to me as people only liking queer representation when we shut up and make ourselves ignorable.

Why don't queer characters talk about being queer in Borderlands? Because that's not the story being told.

Why do they talk about in Veilguard? Because that IS the story being told.

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Alie - Monster Catgirl 🏳️‍⚧️ @aliecat.bsky.social · 23h

I always hate the framing of "good representation" only being when characters are queer, but don't talk about being queer. I truly appreciate when characters are just allowed exist as queer people (part of why I love Borderlands as much as I do), but queerness affects everything in our lives.

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Alie - Monster Catgirl 🏳️‍⚧️ @aliecat.bsky.social · 1d

The best Trails games back in stock.

Also, get the Switch versions over the PS4 versions if you can. They were made, and enhanced, in house by NISA, while the PS4 versions are Falcom's original work. The Switch versions look better and have several QoL features missing on PS4.

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 1d

The Legend of Heroes Trails to Azure Deluxe Edition / Trails from Zero Deluxe (Switch/PS4) reprints in-stock at VGP ($61/$64 US Dollars each or $114/$122 in 2-game bundle - free shipping) buff.ly/JIPRCwY #ad

Deals to add with free shipping (sorted by lowest) buff.ly/UrAC7jl

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Alie - Monster Catgirl 🏳️‍⚧️ @aliecat.bsky.social · 1d

Now that is a vintage meme.

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Alie - Monster Catgirl 🏳️‍⚧️ @aliecat.bsky.social · 1d

Update: looked up some pictures and, wow, yeah, this thing is so much more cleanly designed than the old one.

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Alie - Monster Catgirl 🏳️‍⚧️ @aliecat.bsky.social · 1d

It'll go great with the large scale Lego DeLorean I already have.

As well as the large scale Ecto-1 and minifig scale Ecto-1.

I wonder how this compares to the Ideas DeLorean from years ago (that I missed due to lacking money at the time).

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Alie - Monster Catgirl 🏳️‍⚧️ @aliecat.bsky.social · 1d

A minifig scale DeLorean? Yes, please.

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 1d

LEGO Speed Champions Time Machine from Back to The Future up for preorder on Amazon ($27.99) buff.ly/CkdezRy

LEGO Store buff.ly/QDuF8V2 #ad

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Alie - Monster Catgirl 🏳️‍⚧️ @aliecat.bsky.social · 1d

Well... this is better than i expected from Newsom?

Good glob, do not let this man be nominated for president.

Trans News Network @transnews.network · 1d

CA UPDATE:

Newsom has signed these queer rights bills:
- AB 82 / SB 497 (Medical privacy)
- AB 1084 / SB 59 (Name/Gender changes)
- SB 450 (Adoption access)

And vetoed these bills:
- SB 418 (HRT stockpile)
- AB 554 (PreP)

Final total: 8 bills signed, 2 vetoed.

transnews.network/p/california...

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Alie - Monster Catgirl 🏳️‍⚧️ @aliecat.bsky.social · 1d

Hell, if the take was "Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl is too unambitious," that would be something I'd actually agree with.

Alie - Monster Catgirl 🏳️‍⚧️ @aliecat.bsky.social · 1d

"Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl is the worst Pokémon game" is such a bizarre take to me. Especially since it released on the heels of Sword/Shield.

And I like Sword/Shield.

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