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Rem(She/They) @remspeedwagon.bsky.social · 6h

I am officially short on rent this month and I've got utility bills to pay, please help a cute girl stay safe for her birthday

Rem(She/They) @remspeedwagon.bsky.social · 3d

Posting my ko-fi again because I'm struggling under a lot of work related expenses this month and am worried about rent. Also it's my birthday soon please help me stop having money related panic attacks

ko-fi.com/remspeedwagon

Support Rem

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Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk @fourwholemoons.bsky.social · 20h

in Mass Effect Andromeda's case you were correct but it's out of my love for a different video game

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The Friendship Factory @friendshipfactory.bsky.social · 1d

Until then, however, why not honor his memory with a listen to our season 2 premiere! I'm assured by sources that it's "got it all" and is definitely "a podcast episode." Don't miss it!— CE

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Putting the 'Harm' in Harmony

Holy fucking shit, we're alive! And not just alive, but still watching My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic! I'm not sure if that's better or worse than the alternative. In any case: opening the seaso...

pnc.st

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Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk @fourwholemoons.bsky.social · 1d

I need to be so fucking for real I've played multiple Calls of Duty to completion and I would still throw Andromeda into the wood chipper first

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Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk @fourwholemoons.bsky.social · 1d

remember how the dialogue

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Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk @fourwholemoons.bsky.social · 1d

remember how the game fucks up its queer characters so bad it's arguably more homophobic than the BioWare titles that straight-up forgot to have gay romance options

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Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk @fourwholemoons.bsky.social · 1d

remember how they decided to make party members use their powers at random instead of your command

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Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk @fourwholemoons.bsky.social · 1d

remember how the final decision of Peebee's loyalty mission makes no fucking sense once you remember how almost everyone (and potentially everyone) in that scene is a biotic

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Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk @fourwholemoons.bsky.social · 1d

remember how 90% of the characters are just the Mass Effect 1 party again but done worse

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Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk @fourwholemoons.bsky.social · 1d

hey remember how the tutorial mission opens with the AI fixing your cracked helmet, and then your helmet cracks again at the end of the mission but this time the only way to save you is for Clancy Brown to sacrifice himself

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Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk @fourwholemoons.bsky.social · 1d

sorry but if I had to take myself out to rid the world of Mass Effect Andromeda it would be worth the sacrifice

lex luddy (ichiban appreciator) @lexluddy.xyz · 1d

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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Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk @fourwholemoons.bsky.social · 1d

the Somme ain't got shit on this

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Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk @fourwholemoons.bsky.social · 1d

the fun thing about Sonic CrossWorlds is how not a Goddamn thing matters in that race until the final fifteen seconds, at which you take a fun vacation to the Purge dimension

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Jeff Stormer @jeffstormer.gobirds.online · 2d

WE'LL SEE YOU BITCHES IN BALTIMORE

The Moonshot Podcast Network @moonshotpods.bsky.social · 2d

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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Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk @fourwholemoons.bsky.social · 2d

to frame this another way, it'd be super easy to write a grown adult who sucks ass while still acting like someone you've met at your day job, but if I defended my choices with "well that's how adults are in real life!" I would be dunked in a lake

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Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk @fourwholemoons.bsky.social · 2d

okay to make this slightly more hinged: I am 3000% a YA defender, I think it has the exact same quality/dogshit ratio as Adult, but I have more than once seen "well that's how teens are in real life!" as defense for bad character writing. like, no, you can make them realistic and also compelling

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Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk @fourwholemoons.bsky.social · 2d

YA protagonists acting like realistic teenagers is not automatically good writing

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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The Moonshot Podcast Network @moonshotpods.bsky.social · 3d

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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The Friendship Factory @friendshipfactory.bsky.social · 3d

Haha! Oh, Shadowban.

Without further ado, we hope you enjoy as Cain & Theo get into the first episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic S2! I'm told this one got a little chaotic, if you catch my drift. Wink! — CE

pnc.st/s/the-friend...

Putting the 'Harm' in Harmony

Holy fucking shit, we're alive! And not just alive, but still watching My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic! I'm not sure if that's better or worse than the alternative. In any case: opening the seaso...

pnc.st

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Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk @fourwholemoons.bsky.social · 3d

did you not remember to start eating mini-dogs and work your way up to the 3-foot coney so you could build an immunity

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Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk @fourwholemoons.bsky.social · 6d

idk @risquips.bsky.social what about you

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 8d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 6d

this is the classic power move of a manager who works about an hour a day but wants to create the impression they are working from sunrise to sunset

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 6d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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The Friendship Factory @friendshipfactory.bsky.social · 6d

Wow! Sounds like we've really got something to look forward to.

In the meantime, YOU certainly have something to look forward to: the first episode of our new season, this Monday! Remember: if you're not getting your MLP recaps from the Friendship Factory, you're not getting a recap at all. — CE

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The Friendship Factory @friendshipfactory.bsky.social · 7d

an incredibly low-resolution, roughly drawn and colored image of a pink pegasus. she has purple wings with red-violet eyes, as well as a red bandana on her head; her one arm is up and held in the famous Rosie the Riveter stance, with a speech bubble over her head reading "WE CAN IT"

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Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk @fourwholemoons.bsky.social · 7d

it's been nice knowing everyone, if you need me I'll be in Mexico under an assumed identity

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