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Andrew Sherman @cohostsherms.bsky.social · 7h

That or Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood, which spent its whole runtime aaaaaaalmost being interesting before crashing on me during one of the worst endings I've ever played.

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Andrew Sherman @cohostsherms.bsky.social · 7h

I have no problem dropping a game I don't like, so probably Dragon Age: Veilguard

lex luddy (ichiban appreciator) @lexluddy.xyz · 9h

What's the worst game you finished/rolled credits on?

(games media folks, it can't be something you were assigned to review; this has to be something you subjected yourself to of your own free will)

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 8h

oh AI chatbots are useless? bro i'm literally having cybersex with walmart

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 13h

The angriest I’ve ever been in my life was when the Jeremy Renner app shut down before I could download the last DMs my dad sent me before he died

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Kam Konek @kamkonek.bsky.social · 14h

excited for my first time being at moonshot ground control raising money for @casaforall.bsky.social!!!!

mark your calendars!!!

The Moonshot Podcast Network @moonshotpods.bsky.social · 14h

On NOVEMBER 8TH, join Moonshot hosts for GROUND CONTROL 2025!

We'll be streaming live from Baltimore for 24 uninterrupted hours to raise funds for @casaforall.bsky.social and their invaluable immigrant justice work. Only on moonshot.mov!

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onion person @junlper.beer · 13h

these people know how extreme they are

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The Moonshot Podcast Network @moonshotpods.bsky.social · 14h

On NOVEMBER 8TH, join Moonshot hosts for GROUND CONTROL 2025!

We'll be streaming live from Baltimore for 24 uninterrupted hours to raise funds for @casaforall.bsky.social and their invaluable immigrant justice work. Only on moonshot.mov!

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Andrew Sherman @cohostsherms.bsky.social · 1d

You're supposed to win souls games though. They're so easy souls game players can beat them

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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely absurd. Who's making games for them? Who's going to buy one? Both current consoles cost *more* than they did at launch just five years ago.

VGC @videogameschronicle.com · 1d

Both PS6 and the next Xbox are planned for a 2027 release, according to separate reports.

www.videogameschronicle.com/news/ps6-and...

PS6 and next Xbox console are both aiming for 2027 release, separate reports claim | VGC

Both companies are reportedly planning to release their next-gen consoles within two years…

www.videogameschronicle.com

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The Moonshot Podcast Network @moonshotpods.bsky.social · 1d

Mystery approaches! INTERSTITIAL INVESTIGATIONS, the all-new season of Riley Hopkins and Their Amazing Friends, begins releasing this Friday, with early episodes released in batches for $3 patrons at patreon.com/moonshotnetwork!

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Andrew Sherman @cohostsherms.bsky.social · 1d

I'm Mr. Manager.

The Moonshot Podcast Network @moonshotpods.bsky.social · 1d

30 Bosses. 21 Different Games. 8+ Hours. 1 Gamer. Raising funds for the Kickstarter Union Solidarity Fund. It should be a Boss Appreciation Day to remember.

Working 9 to 5 on Thursday, October 16th at moonshot.mov.

Oct. 16th is National Boss's Day. To celebrate, Andrew is going to kick the asses of over 25 video game final bosses, live on the Moonshot Twitch channel.

Boss Appreciation Day: Our Vision. Andrew and his friends have gathered 25+ video game save files that stop just before the final boss encounter. On October 16th on Moonshot.mov, Andrew will be Appreciating all of those bosses, one after the other.

Kicksterter United's Resounding YES to strike.

"On September 26, 2025, 85% of Kickstarter United (OPEIU Local 153) members voted to authorize a strike beginning Thursday, October 2 at 8 a.m. unless management reacheds a fair contgract agreement.

Our demands are simple:
-Protect the 32-hour, 4-day workweek that's been in place for over three years.
-Establish a minimum salary that provides a livable wage for all workers.

Read the full press release from OPEIU here: (link)

WE ARE NOT asking people to boycot kickstarter.com or withold support from creators.

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The Moonshot Podcast Network @moonshotpods.bsky.social · 1d

30 Bosses. 21 Different Games. 8+ Hours. 1 Gamer. Raising funds for the Kickstarter Union Solidarity Fund. It should be a Boss Appreciation Day to remember.

Working 9 to 5 on Thursday, October 16th at moonshot.mov.

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Andrew Sherman @cohostsherms.bsky.social · 1d

The number is now 30 bosses.

The Moonshot Podcast Network @moonshotpods.bsky.social · Sep 12

On October 16th, get ready for Boss Appreciation Day! @cohostsherms.bsky.social has played through 20+ video games so far this year, and will be beating their final bosses live on moonshot.mov.

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Andrew Sherman @cohostsherms.bsky.social · 1d

We would be remiss if we didn't spend part of Boss Appreciation Day appreciating our highest performers.

Simon.
Isshin the Sword Saint.
Promised Consort Radahn.
Sans Undertale (First Attempt Ever).

It is time for us to be deeply appreciative THIS THURSDAY at moonshot.mov, working 9 to 5 est.

Isshin the Sword Saint from Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

Promised Consort Radahn from Elden Ring: Shadows of the Erdtree

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 26d

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 26d

If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there

This predates the social media wars of the late 2010s: One Trump appointee told me that a radicalizing experience was being booted out of the Gawker comments section, way back in the day. But as progressive movements swept through social media, others were tossed off Twitter and Facebook for stepping over a variety of lines, from allegations of harassment to claims of election misinformation. Pandemic era public health rules and fevered enforcement cost others their accounts.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

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Andrew Sherman @cohostsherms.bsky.social · 2d

Ok I think we solved the issues, we're back with more Mashup Magic.

The Moonshot Podcast Network @moonshotpods.bsky.social · 4d

This Sunday on Moonshot! Andrew, Riley and Kam are seeing what one of El Horso's own has cooked up for their latest Clone Hero/Mash-Up album!

Come join us, with special guest Trixie (of El Horso Council Fame) on Moonshot.mov!

Twitch

Twitch is the world

Moonshot.mov

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niko oneshot but they’re duen @riolu.gay · 2d

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Kam Konek @kamkonek.bsky.social · 2d

GET IN HERE NERDS IT'S MASHUP TIME

The Moonshot Podcast Network @moonshotpods.bsky.social · 4d

This Sunday on Moonshot! Andrew, Riley and Kam are seeing what one of El Horso's own has cooked up for their latest Clone Hero/Mash-Up album!

Come join us, with special guest Trixie (of El Horso Council Fame) on Moonshot.mov!

Twitch

Twitch is the world

Moonshot.mov

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Riley L Hopkins @badfuckinpodcasts.com · 2d

it's TIME for CLONE HERO MAGIC

moonshot.mov

MoonshotNetwork - Twitch

Your favorite podcasters, now live on Twitch! Come check out streams built on creative collabs and far-out ideas!

moonshot.mov

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LK CORVUS @lkcorvus.bsky.social · 2d

how I've waited for the day i get to subject my moonshot friends to more of my personal brand of chaos. well...

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Andrew Sherman @cohostsherms.bsky.social · 2d

As we start closing in on the week of Boss Appreciation Day, we'd like to shoutout the amazing bosses who are keeping things going over in our Lordran division. Friede, Gael, Gwyn, and the Soul of Cinder to excellent work and we look forward to appreciating each of them THIS THURSDAY at MOONSHOT.MOV

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 2d

We do not have to pretend that there's anything particularly profound about this guy experiencing adolescence at the age of 58

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 2d

Starting to think this Thiel guy is a big idiot

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Emmett Watkins Jr @ejsponge61.com · 3d

I understand MTV hasn't aired music videos for a long time now so it's a bit silly to point it out but it's wild that like only 10% of this sale at GameStop is for games.

The same ad with all sections not showing actual video games scribbled over, leaving one small "10% off select video games" segment

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