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Esme Rylan
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Trans woman, nursing home social worker, obsessive music nerd, undisputed Jump Showdown champion. She/her
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My comment on current events: I don't mourn Nazis.
Unlocked a potion recipe in Brighter Shores that requires the potent potion station instead of the standard one, and it's an actual minigame where you have to do things instead of just waiting for a meter to fill up. 😲
People in the comments for the latest Ranking the NES seem... upset about the Castlevania III segment. 🤔
A lot of these stories kind of blend together, but the piece by Adam Schatz from Japanese Breakfast is extraordinary, a short meditation on death and memory held together by a favorite breakfast sandwich. It's a beautiful piece of writing.
Longest alt text I've ever written and I still left out the 3 floating notes by the guitar and the lemon slice in oysters eating guy's right hand.
Could've sworn I posted this picture the last time I was at B&N but apparently not. Anyway, I'm reading more of this book now.
Funny they had the Icon of Sin front and center when everything else is promoting Quake, also I'd forgotten id used what I think of as the Diablo font (years earlier!) for a bunch of promotional stuff in that era.
Also one theater nearby has it in IMAX, not sure why I'd need to see (an actor playing) Bruce on that giant of a screen but I'm sure someone does.
I wasn't even thinking about that, looks like the movie's actually out now (I see showtimes at a couple of theaters near me) so that's got to be it!
Once again I'm trying to parse the logic of what box sets or expanded reissues make their way to streaming in full, why is the entirety of the Springsteen Nebraska set available but the Elvis Costello King of America set is represented only by a highlights collection?
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if you want to defend the working class? buy out a street vendor’s cart so they don’t have to choose between their income or kidnapping by ICE
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the needs of the anxious comfortable white male doing midcentury working class drag are at the very bottom of my list right now
So I don't know how far back this idea goes but it was definitely something I heard people talk about when I was in college in the late 80s-early 90s. But I was never in a class where the professor was that late so I never saw anyone actually leave for that reason!
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among all the other reasons to hate “AI,” the term was created to speculate what our responsibilities would be if machines developed a soul; now it’s a phrase used by assholes who want to take the soul out of everything.
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trans women have nazi phases aahhh the trannies are all nazis

oh a politician i like has a nazi tattoo? im sure there's a good reason for that cmon don't purity test guys
Oh yeah, it's Saturday morning. There's a new Techmoan, but I'm still in music listening mode so I'm not watching it with my coffee right now. But I always post these links, so here you go. youtu.be/tRFrnwrwyxk?...
Sony RM-65 - Probably the least relevant video you’ll watch today.
YouTube video by Techmoan
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I feel like there used to be something like that, am I just misremembering? Or is Google continuing to gut its apps' functionality in the name of shoehorning genAI into everything?
I've never played SWC but just reading a plot summary I'm struggling to find any resemblance to SH2, not just in terms of themes but also the way SH2 handled them.
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In my latest essay, I talk about heightening contradictions, the terror of living in someone else's story, why Monika from Doki Doki Literature Club is really a tragic figure, and why Maria from Silent Hill 2 is one of the most horrifying relatable characters I've ever encountered
Constructed Realities Part I
Or: Monika and Maria Did Nothing Wrong
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On this subject: while Brighter Shores has only been on Steam for a year or so, I've come across some other MMOs that are still in "early access" after years, even a full decade in one case. Not really sure what to make of that!
You wouldn't know this from looking at the subreddit, of course, people there are calling it a "dead game" even though it's still in early access (and nowhere near finished) and every time I've logged on there are plenty of other players, it seems pretty active to me.
Between this and my experiences of the Fall Guys sub, I've decided the worst way to gauge the health of a game and the state of its community is its subreddit. Very strong "I played 1000+ hours and I hate this game" energy from these communities. (See also: the PoE subreddit.)
You wouldn't know this from looking at the subreddit, of course, people there are calling it a "dead game" even though it's still in early access (and nowhere near finished) and every time I've logged on there are plenty of other players, it seems pretty active to me.
I've still found Brighter Shores way more engaging than other MMOs I've tried and abandoned, which explains the nearly 30 hours I've played so far. It's not overwhelming, the systems make sense without having to resort to a wiki, you can mostly ignore the main quest and spend all your time cooking.
Also needed to check in on my passive foraging activity in Brighter Shores, which was still in progress so I'm leaving it alone for now. I love the idea of being able to leave your character gathering resources while you're logged out, though in practice it doesn't reduce the grind much at all.
Anyway, I woke up at 5:30 because I wanted to make sure the update I knew my phone was scheduled to run actually installed correctly and didn't brick the phone, because I don't trust any technology to work the way it's supposed to work anymore.
Sounds like they're going towards the intersection by the shopping centers and the Hardee's, so someone probably ran a red light and combined with the bridge openings and the detour that's going to make everything more of a mess than usual.