Esme Rylan
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Esme Rylan
@esmerylan.bsky.social
· Sep 10
My comment on current events: I don't mourn Nazis.
So that was the red key fight. The yellow key fight is considerably harder- it also includes a Cyberdemon and a Spider Mastermind, plus loads of Barons and Cacos, and there are lots of Pinkies that close in fast and make facerocketing a serious danger.
Played a little of E1M6 and it's got the wildest fight yet, with a Spider Mastermind and just massive amounts of Imps, Barons, Cacos, and Lost Souls, and at some point a Cyberdemon shows up but I'm not sure exactly when or where he comes from.
Played E1M4 and E1M5 of Tek On Me, a Doom 1 episode that demonstrates you can actually make compelling slaughter fights without Doom II's expanded monster roster. E1M5 in particular has a couple of great setpieces, especially the final room with a Cyberdemon on a pillar and hordes of fodder.
December 18, 2025 at 2:50 AM
So that was the red key fight. The yellow key fight is considerably harder- it also includes a Cyberdemon and a Spider Mastermind, plus loads of Barons and Cacos, and there are lots of Pinkies that close in fast and make facerocketing a serious danger.
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sheesh, the only thing worse than getting kicked out of the polycule is finding out via jira ticket 😣
![Screenshot of an email:
Subject: [PIPEXP-1192] Login Access Request
To: me
Good morning Kimberly! =^uwu^=;;
I’m sorry to hear that you’re having trouble logging into Jellyfin! It looks like your SSO account was indeed deactivated on 2025 Dec 15.
According to our records,
1. On or about 2025 Nov 15, you were broken up with by ___, who noted this as a “final break” on vis event report sheet. I’m also seeing that Ve ticked the “Unilateral” box, meaning it isn’t contestable.
2. Our Salesforce shows you aren’t close to any other polycule members
Unfortunately, our solo-poly access policy doesn’t allow us to extend resources to unpartnered members after the 30 day grace period following your break. This includes entertainment resources (Jellyfin / *darr / nzbget / Pornhub for Enterprise™ seat), as well as O365™, Adobe CC™, and shell access on the Nix clusters. We’re so sorry for your loss, cutie!! 😭💜
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December 17, 2025 at 2:49 PM
sheesh, the only thing worse than getting kicked out of the polycule is finding out via jira ticket 😣
Got to work and found out one of the residents has COVID so that's a great start to the day. 🙃
December 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Got to work and found out one of the residents has COVID so that's a great start to the day. 🙃
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“try water fox or ice weasel” try chill penguin. install flame mammoth. you just download bubble crab. literally just use boomer kuwanger. sting chameleon has a search bar, use it to find toxic seahorse.
I asked what I should use instead of firefox and someone said “floorp” and I legitimately thought it was a bit for like five minutes. tech has gone beyond making the torment nexus real to making poob real.
December 17, 2025 at 3:37 AM
“try water fox or ice weasel” try chill penguin. install flame mammoth. you just download bubble crab. literally just use boomer kuwanger. sting chameleon has a search bar, use it to find toxic seahorse.
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised there's no official physical version of the complete series (just the first 3 seasons), but considering how successful this show was, you'd think there would be. 😐
‘She-Ra and the Princesses of Power’ is scheduled to leave Netflix on February 21, 2026.
(source: www.whats-on-netflix.com/leaving-soon...)
(source: www.whats-on-netflix.com/leaving-soon...)
December 17, 2025 at 5:26 AM
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised there's no official physical version of the complete series (just the first 3 seasons), but considering how successful this show was, you'd think there would be. 😐
This is great. It's exactly how I'd imagine Duke would be in this scenario: well-meaning, clumsy, an embarrassment to his daughter, but also a deeply caring dad trying to do the right thing. Until he's kidnapped by aliens. 😝
Anyway, for no reason, SAD DAD, the story of Duke Nukem and his trans daughter forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/sad-...
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You are the trans daughter of a sad dad.
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December 17, 2025 at 4:18 AM
This is great. It's exactly how I'd imagine Duke would be in this scenario: well-meaning, clumsy, an embarrassment to his daughter, but also a deeply caring dad trying to do the right thing. Until he's kidnapped by aliens. 😝
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I think it's a good thing that the full context for this got published. I also think having a journalist tell you to your face that the market sees your trajectory as a net negative and continuing to just push past it makes this whole thing look even worse.
If I had known the two paragraphs about genAI in my article today would be so controversial, I would have expanded them a bit! Here's a rough transcript of the relevant portion of my interview with Swen Vincke, so everyone has all the context. (Full article here: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...)
December 17, 2025 at 3:01 AM
I think it's a good thing that the full context for this got published. I also think having a journalist tell you to your face that the market sees your trajectory as a net negative and continuing to just push past it makes this whole thing look even worse.
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God I love a mean restaurant review, especially of a place owned by rich guys from a football team that I hate.
Delighted to have @lizcookkc.bsky.social writing for us and she is in her damn wheelhouse defector.com/two-nights-p...
Two Nights Playing With Fire At Patrick Mahomes And Travis Kelce's Steakhouse | Defector
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — As celebrity restaurant mascots, athletes offer a tidy sense of vertical integration: Why not supply the very calories they need to expend on the field? I’m surprised there are so f...
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December 16, 2025 at 7:21 PM
God I love a mean restaurant review, especially of a place owned by rich guys from a football team that I hate.
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you are not owed the affection of your children, but they are owed yours. if this seems unfair to you you are not fit to have kids. they don't get the choice that you do
December 16, 2025 at 10:58 PM
you are not owed the affection of your children, but they are owed yours. if this seems unfair to you you are not fit to have kids. they don't get the choice that you do
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bucket list !!!
1. The Home Depot 5 Gallon Orange Homer Bucket 05GLHD2
2. ULINE Plastic Pail - 5 Gallon, Purple S-7914PUR
3. Sherwin-Williams All-Purpose Mixing Container with Ratios 02R3SWB
4. 5-Gallon White Bucket Pail Container with Lid | Food Grade | Heavy-Duty 90MIL Extra Durable | Metal H
1. The Home Depot 5 Gallon Orange Homer Bucket 05GLHD2
2. ULINE Plastic Pail - 5 Gallon, Purple S-7914PUR
3. Sherwin-Williams All-Purpose Mixing Container with Ratios 02R3SWB
4. 5-Gallon White Bucket Pail Container with Lid | Food Grade | Heavy-Duty 90MIL Extra Durable | Metal H
December 16, 2025 at 11:50 PM
bucket list !!!
1. The Home Depot 5 Gallon Orange Homer Bucket 05GLHD2
2. ULINE Plastic Pail - 5 Gallon, Purple S-7914PUR
3. Sherwin-Williams All-Purpose Mixing Container with Ratios 02R3SWB
4. 5-Gallon White Bucket Pail Container with Lid | Food Grade | Heavy-Duty 90MIL Extra Durable | Metal H
1. The Home Depot 5 Gallon Orange Homer Bucket 05GLHD2
2. ULINE Plastic Pail - 5 Gallon, Purple S-7914PUR
3. Sherwin-Williams All-Purpose Mixing Container with Ratios 02R3SWB
4. 5-Gallon White Bucket Pail Container with Lid | Food Grade | Heavy-Duty 90MIL Extra Durable | Metal H
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in other news agent cooper remains one of the most interesting characters in all of fiction
December 17, 2025 at 1:32 AM
in other news agent cooper remains one of the most interesting characters in all of fiction
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im thinking about the parental estrangement forums and shit and it feels like such a natural thing to come from a culture that doesn't see children as full human beings with agency, to extend the status of problem child past the age of majority and allow publishing and media to be complicit in abuse
December 17, 2025 at 12:58 AM
im thinking about the parental estrangement forums and shit and it feels like such a natural thing to come from a culture that doesn't see children as full human beings with agency, to extend the status of problem child past the age of majority and allow publishing and media to be complicit in abuse
Trying Vivaldi now, took a little fiddling to get Web Scrobbler working properly but it seems to be functioning properly now.
December 17, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Trying Vivaldi now, took a little fiddling to get Web Scrobbler working properly but it seems to be functioning properly now.
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The thing that surprises me the most is that the highest levels of executives genuinely seem to think none of us talk to one another? All us devs are cursed with yap, there was no way any of this wasn't going to get around.
December 16, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The thing that surprises me the most is that the highest levels of executives genuinely seem to think none of us talk to one another? All us devs are cursed with yap, there was no way any of this wasn't going to get around.
December 16, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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House of Representatives votes for trafficking and sexually assaulting children.
December 16, 2025 at 11:48 PM
House of Representatives votes for trafficking and sexually assaulting children.
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i think a lot of big publishers and devs are going to and are trying to hook up to the slop machine and if that is the case i think it is important for me personally to see which publishers are willing to step back, apologize, and stop that shit when they realize it's all gibberish.
December 16, 2025 at 11:46 PM
i think a lot of big publishers and devs are going to and are trying to hook up to the slop machine and if that is the case i think it is important for me personally to see which publishers are willing to step back, apologize, and stop that shit when they realize it's all gibberish.
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guy who just learned it's not polite to call an artist's work "content": hey man it's cool to meet you i'm a huge fan of your slop
December 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
guy who just learned it's not polite to call an artist's work "content": hey man it's cool to meet you i'm a huge fan of your slop
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If you don't want to be hated for being a member of the secret police black bagging people and dragging them off to concentration camps, there is a very simple solution.
don't become one.
don't become one.
"I think that’s one of the things that broke him was being hated by so many people."
Parents of notorious Border Patrol agent blame public backlash for his overdose death
It’s the first time they’ve spoken out since their son’s controversial arrest of a U.S. citizen and his drunken confrontation with police drew intense scrutiny.
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December 16, 2025 at 9:59 PM
If you don't want to be hated for being a member of the secret police black bagging people and dragging them off to concentration camps, there is a very simple solution.
don't become one.
don't become one.
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We really need to wring the idea that parents are entitled to their children (first as property, then as a captive audience) out of the fabric of American society.
No, don't do that. It would have been easier to write "I am an enabler who wants to platform abuse." Professionals who study and work in fields related to abuse recovery etc would be much better sources if you are wanting to understand and spread awareness of the mentality at work
December 16, 2025 at 11:16 PM
We really need to wring the idea that parents are entitled to their children (first as property, then as a captive audience) out of the fabric of American society.
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Mentions here they're replacing the *reference* part with AI and I just want to re-iterate that receiving an AI ref sheet as an artist is literally worse than handing over a blank sheet of paper. It tells us *nothing*. Literally just tell us the prompt you put into AI, we can find something better.
Cmon man maybe you should double check your posts before towing the company line.
December 16, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Mentions here they're replacing the *reference* part with AI and I just want to re-iterate that receiving an AI ref sheet as an artist is literally worse than handing over a blank sheet of paper. It tells us *nothing*. Literally just tell us the prompt you put into AI, we can find something better.
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Using gen ai for text and asset placeholders is not solving a problem; games have been made for decades with regular placeholders. studios using AI this way are just testing the water to see what more they can get away with - which will inevitably mean laying off skilled workers, to make worse games
December 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Using gen ai for text and asset placeholders is not solving a problem; games have been made for decades with regular placeholders. studios using AI this way are just testing the water to see what more they can get away with - which will inevitably mean laying off skilled workers, to make worse games
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The very act of looking at the most passive form of entertainment now requires an exhausting amount of hypervigilance because these assholes are trying to inflate an economic bubble and cut labor costs even more than the insanity of the past 50 years. Fuck all of this.
December 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The very act of looking at the most passive form of entertainment now requires an exhausting amount of hypervigilance because these assholes are trying to inflate an economic bubble and cut labor costs even more than the insanity of the past 50 years. Fuck all of this.
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Regardless of how it’s used, a company has to give someone like Sam Altman money to use their AI bullshit so at best you’re just bankrolling the world getting worse
December 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Regardless of how it’s used, a company has to give someone like Sam Altman money to use their AI bullshit so at best you’re just bankrolling the world getting worse