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Ashpolt

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Officially the first person to mention Front Mission 5 on Bluesky. I like robots and games, especially ones that are turn based and where I can make numbers go big. he/him

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Ashpolt @ashpolt.bsky.social · 14h

"OK Pokémon Legends Z-A character designers, next up is a detective. What have you got for me?"

"Collared jacket."

"Obviously. Next?"

"Gloves, for handling evidence."

"Nice, makes sense. What else?"

"Fully caked up."

"Hold on, what was that last one?"

"Gloves."

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Jay Rigdon @jayrigdon.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure the folks at NBC/Peacock thought this one through

Two announcers, Jason Garrett and Dan Hicks, stand in front of a sign that reads "Big Turd" thanks to how they are blocking it

Ashpolt @ashpolt.bsky.social · 2d

Winning a battle in Pokémon and being told "you got 2 Great Balls" will never not be funny to me

Ashpolt @ashpolt.bsky.social · 2d

Doing the lord's work

Ashpolt @ashpolt.bsky.social · 2d

The guy is still in office. None of what you're posting is working. You're making my point for me.

Ashpolt @ashpolt.bsky.social · 2d

Ah yes, this thing you posted about 7 months ago will surely be the thing which stops Trump! Now let's just take a big swig of coffee and check to see how that's going...

Ashpolt @ashpolt.bsky.social · 2d

Get outta here! You're banned from this chippy and you know why!

Ashpolt @ashpolt.bsky.social · 2d

Sadly, half of them have moved on to shitty AI memes now

Ashpolt @ashpolt.bsky.social · 2d

If I had a nickel for every RPG I've played this year which is set in a fictionalised version of Paris I'd have two nickels which isn't a lot etc etc

Ashpolt @ashpolt.bsky.social · 2d

There are still people who think they can vote this away next year! I want to know what drugs they're on and where I can get some!

Ashpolt @ashpolt.bsky.social · 2d

Americans, witnessing the failure of yet another one of checks and balances that was supposed to prevent fascism:

"Oh dear, that's bad! Nevertheless, we live in a system of checks and balances, and they will surely save us any day now!"

Ashpolt @ashpolt.bsky.social · 2d

And as of right this moment, I have seen nothing - nothing - to make me believe the military would go against orders coming from SecDef, at least not in numbers large enough to matter.

Ashpolt @ashpolt.bsky.social · 2d

...trigger-happy morons on his side. So the only way the anti-Trump citizenry could successfully overthrow a government who refused to leave office would be with the aid of the military, and so...we're back to square one.

Either you have the military on your side and win or you don't and you lose.

Ashpolt @ashpolt.bsky.social · 2d

The military can't police every inch of the blue and purple states 24/7, but it doesn't need to do so. A few displays of violence and a lot of the "we the people" would be cowed into submission, no matter how much they (rightly) hate Trump.

Plus in addition to the military, Trump has hordes of...

Ashpolt @ashpolt.bsky.social · 2d

There's no evidence against it either, and given that the military didn't turn against Trump the second he gave the authorisation to use "full force" on US citizens, it seems they've already crossed a very dangerous line.

As for your second point: yes , the US military is big enough. It just is.

Ashpolt @ashpolt.bsky.social · 2d

You don't have to be an expert, just use your own eyes and your own judgement. It looks nothing like a totenkopf.

Ashpolt @ashpolt.bsky.social · 2d

Cornetto

Ashpolt @ashpolt.bsky.social · 2d

Why are people online so keen to tell us they used AI to look up something basic?

*If* I used AI to look things up - I don't, but *if* - I wouldn't proudly announce "hey I got the machine to think for me"

Especially given that the machine is frequently wrong

Ashpolt @ashpolt.bsky.social · 2d

OK but this doesn't look anything like a totenkopf either, and if you looked up stuff yourself rather than just trusting what AI tells you, you would have realised that

Ashpolt @ashpolt.bsky.social · 2d

Well we know Mamdani won't have time to attend parades, and Sliwa wants to attend every parade, so....

Ashpolt @ashpolt.bsky.social · 2d

I'll believe that when I see noncompliance

And not just quitting, but actually standing up to superiors

Ashpolt @ashpolt.bsky.social · 2d

ah yeah I'm sure once Vance is President, Pete Hegseth will become totally woke and stop going along with the atrocities

Ashpolt @ashpolt.bsky.social · 2d

explain exactly how you intend to wield that power against a government that controls a military that has tanks and planes

Ashpolt @ashpolt.bsky.social · 2d

Same tbh

Ashpolt @ashpolt.bsky.social · 2d

The Color Before The Sun turned 10 yesterday!