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matara @mataramg.itch.io · 1d

My partner's playing it rn and every time she tells me something about it, I'm like "woah they can do that in a pokemon game?" lol

Like the realtime battle, trainers getting hurt, cooldown-based healing items, it all sounds so good and fresh.

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official nikk account @nikk.ca · 1d

absolute workhorse of a reaction image from over 100 years ago

elegant woman blasting a suitor in the face with the NO gun

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matara @mataramg.itch.io · 1d

i don't know what over/under is and at this point i'm afraid to ask

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 2d

When you are pure of heart no amount of earnestness is Cringe. When you are a malevolent little freak no amount of sarcasm is enough to make you cool

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2d

Vibe shift in the culture towards earnestness

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Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 2d

Where can I buy this, chat?

Photo of a cap with the text: hello, 1am fleeing the American century of humiliation. Can you show me where to buy White Monster Energy Drinks?

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Nathan Anderson @nathanandersonart.bsky.social · 4d

Repostin' The Autumnal. Manifesting my seasonal mood.

A skeletal figure floats off the ground, wrapped in a cape made of autumn leaves. It wields a scythe adorned with a harvest of gourds.

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matara @mataramg.itch.io · 4d

non-euclidian dice lookin table globules

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 4d

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

GUYS

GUYS THIS IS IS SEISMIC

GUYS I CAN'T EVEN TELL YOU

OPUS DEI IS THE SCIENTOLOGY OF CATHOLICISM THEY ARE THE ONLY THING "THE DA VINCI CODE" GOT RIGHT THEY ARE AWFUL AND THEY ARE EVIL AND THEY HAVE ENORMOUS POWER AND THEY ARE INTEGRAL TO TRADFASH CATHOLICISM

Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.

This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.

NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei

If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 4d

Dell Buds have Treble Boost (tm) technology to emphasise the thin, nasal voices of your coworkers during meaningless Zoom meetings. If you try to play music on them they release a potent neurotoxin.

alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 4d

I can’t believe these are real

holy shit imagine wearing Dell buds
imagine being the hot bitch on your street wearing the Dell buds

(image attached of Dell-branded earbuds)

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matara @mataramg.itch.io · 4d

Honestly they're probably very cool and useful for someone who writes exclusively for themselves. But like. I was really, really hoping to be able to add tooltip functionality to public-facing stuff.

Like that was kinda the whole appeal, to me, was the large library of community plugins...

matara @mataramg.itch.io · 4d

also the fantasy calendar i'd been configuring for like an hour just disappeared when i had to log out and back in for something ouuuughghghhhhh i am going to bed i cannot take this disappointment

matara @mataramg.itch.io · 4d

Ouuuugghhh i am a fool. i didn't realize community plugins you install for your local obsidian instance wouldn't translate to obsidian publish. so now i have a bunch of custom markdown stuff (tooltips) that look super cool on my computer and then they're just bald text strings on the site lol

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Noah Caldwell-Gervais @noahgervais.bsky.social · 5d

Morning Moobles Timeline Cleanse

Maybe, a miniature blue heeler, looking fancy.

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matara @mataramg.itch.io · 5d

Get this! As far as I can tell, each box also only contains 2 playable characters? I think??

Screenshot from the product page of one of the Elden Ring board game products, reading "Play as the Confessor or Prisoner, unique to this set."

Screenshot from the product page of one of the Elden Ring board game products, reading "Play as the Hero or Bandit, unique to this set."

matara @mataramg.itch.io · 5d

At gencon with a friend this year, we literally—not doing this for the bit—spent 6 minutes standing around SFG's Elden Ring board game booth reading the looping screens and looking at the boxes, desperately trying to figure out what we'd need to buy to play. We ended up buying nothing. lol

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matara @mataramg.itch.io · 5d

It is presently rocking my world imagining the meetings that led to this

matara @mataramg.itch.io · 5d

I don't envy the task of trying to distill a meaningful quantum of Elden Ring into a board game experience, but this is wild, man.

"What's the core set? I see these ones labeled 'expansion' or 'upgrade' but none labeled 'core'."

"lol you're not gonna believe this but there are kinda either 3 or 0"

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matara @mataramg.itch.io · 5d

Took a second to try to figure out how the steamforged Elden Ring board game actually works, because there are like 15 boxes and none of them seemed to be, like, *the* core set, and the answer was... interesting.

Screenshot of a "Buyer's Guide" for the Elden Ring board game by Steamforged Games. It shows a flowchart of different game boxes, indicating a recommended path of progression from one game box to the next, with supplemental game boxes in between. Each one of these boxes is like 150 dollars.

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Dulse Yeen @yeen.paw.bs · 6d

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maddie ★ othatsraspberry @othatsraspberry.com · 14d

🤏🌟

Hades II comic
Melinoë (she looks very cool and powerful)
Melinoë when Selene calls her “little star” (she is a cute baby star being held by Selene)

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matara @mataramg.itch.io · 7d

I found this thing because I googled a fantasy word I made up to see if it actually existed (it was made from latin roots, so like, better than even odds), and it only seems to have ever been used in this book, by an insane person.

matara @mataramg.itch.io · 7d

This thing seems to be mostly a glossary, and like 2/3rds of the entries just say "see -Ism" or "see -Ismus".

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matara @mataramg.itch.io · 7d

I like how book titles used to just be like 325 words, we should go back to doing that

Screenshot of a book with an extremely long title, which is about to fire off here in a second, so if you're using a screen-reader, you were warned: "The basic outline of universology. An introduction to the newly discovered science of the universe; its elementary principles; and the first stages of their development in the special sciences. Together with preliminary notices of alwato (ahl-wah-to), the newly discovered scientific universal language, resulting from the principles of universology. By Stephen Pearl Andrews, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Ethnological Society, the New York Liberal Club, etc; Author of The Science of Society, Discoveries in Chinese, etc."

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witchunic @witchunic.moe · 8d

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Thursday Garreau @keftiu.bsky.social · 8d

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