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Merciless Grimmly (👻sPoOpY mOdE👹) @mercygrimm.bsky.social · Nov 10

The truth is that the happiest day of my life is not the day I had the most sex or got the most high or the day I experienced the highest volume of chemical reactions associated with happiness, it was the day when I realized that I was spiritually prepared to accept happiness and be worthy of it.

Merciless Grimmly (👻sPoOpY mOdE👹) @mercygrimm.bsky.social · 5h

It's like he wrote the book thinking he'd replace it with a better word and then didn't and because Millennials are twee losers we all adopted it instantly. Brought to you from the same minds that gave us "adulting".

Merciless Grimmly (👻sPoOpY mOdE👹) @mercygrimm.bsky.social · 6h

Oh lol my b. I was offline during that particular cultural touchpoint so I miss some of the cues. FWIW I absolutely I do not think anything is too woke or there are too many women in games or anything, some of the best people in games are women... like Samus! And Bayonetta!

Merciless Grimmly (👻sPoOpY mOdE👹) @mercygrimm.bsky.social · 7h

@acvalens.net leading the charge against censorship against sex games and wondering aloud where her support is, why isn't anyone else talking about it (if they are, it's not on my feed or any outlet I follow) is a great example of JOURNALISM, and not that he needs it but there's always Jason Schrier

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Merciless Grimmly (👻sPoOpY mOdE👹) @mercygrimm.bsky.social · 7h

I think if there were a stronger emphasis on ethics in games journalism then we'd have way more blogs in the style of Aftermath, or Kotaku style articles about the Microsoft boycot. Game reviews and previews are just toy commercials at the end of the day, journalism is different than product review.

Merciless Grimmly (👻sPoOpY mOdE👹) @mercygrimm.bsky.social · 7h

I personally don't understand how ethics factor into things like Reviews or Sponsored streams. I think there are probably, pound for pound, more talented and skilled women and NBF working in the industry writing about more nuanced things (I like Rebekah Valentine at IGN, Grace Benfell at Endless)

Merciless Grimmly (👻sPoOpY mOdE👹) @mercygrimm.bsky.social · 7h

Then there are writers who are COOKING and you get a piece or a blog from one of them and the. You look over at some coverage in The Verge or Game Rant and it's just 500 commas without rhyme or reason and just go "what happened?"

Merciless Grimmly (👻sPoOpY mOdE👹) @mercygrimm.bsky.social · 7h

Something mean no one wants to say about modern games journalism is that maybe it's a lack of mentorship or education or lack of editors but there are MANY working gaming journos today who are bad writers. They don't understand grammar or punctuation and cannot articulate their points clearly.

Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 8h

An oft-overlooked aspect of the media implosion over the past 10-15 years is the fact that so many of the reporters now are so shallow and incompetent. It’s not only a function of them affecting “balance” and normalizing evil. Much of it is that they’re simply bad at their jobs.

utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 21h

It you click through this quoted thread, you will get an extended lesson in how our media environment has largely carved itself out by firing seasoned beat reporters and replacing them with partisan generalists who often lack basic background knowledge on the topic they’re reporting on.

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alyssa mercante @alyssamerc.bsky.social · 8h

If you were at TwitchCon and experienced or witnessed harassment, especially from IRL streamers, I'd like to speak with you for a story.

Please signal boost.

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Merciless Grimmly (👻sPoOpY mOdE👹) @mercygrimm.bsky.social · 8h

First one that came to mind. We all love Fiona, but she does suck at basically everything.

Merciless Grimmly (👻sPoOpY mOdE👹) @mercygrimm.bsky.social · 12h

The last two years have been such a headscratcher, just me spinning in circles going "you all care about James Bond?" Huh? What?

Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 14h

007 First Light may have found its theme song singer, Bond fans speculate

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007: First Light trailer screenshot showing close up of James Bond in bellboy outfit smirking

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jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · Aug 3

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

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Merciless Grimmly (👻sPoOpY mOdE👹) @mercygrimm.bsky.social · 12h

Figured out how to get rid of the most annoying kind of post on Bluesky

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🪱𝔼𝕟𝕠𝕔𝕙🪱 -COMMISSIONS OPEN- @oddoblivion.bsky.social · 23h

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 1d

The generals said "sir are you sure you want to fly the diarrhea bomber over the AI city with the nonsense billboards" and I said [zesty] we've got to shit the hell out of 'em. And no one has more loose stool than me. And actually that was very smart. Making myself the diarrhea president was smart.

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Merciless Grimmly (👻sPoOpY mOdE👹) @mercygrimm.bsky.social · 1d

It's the purest expression of the male form, make of that what you will. Tom of Finland style dudes fighting vampires and gangsters and Aztec zombie aliens

Merciless Grimmly (👻sPoOpY mOdE👹) @mercygrimm.bsky.social · 1d

lol my b. The only Cartoon Network dogs I know about are Courage and Two Stupid Dogs, both of which are goat'd

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 2d

kushblazer666
cowboys were a sort of itinerant warrior class common in meiji-era texas

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Merciless Grimmly (👻sPoOpY mOdE👹) @mercygrimm.bsky.social · 1d

I was literally eternally scared by the original Dexter's Lab reboot from my childhood and so I don't watch anything from Cartoon Network until months or years and later and the quality has been vetted.

I have no idea who Moxy is.

Merciless Grimmly (👻sPoOpY mOdE👹) @mercygrimm.bsky.social · 1d

Platonic ideal of a pokemon to me is a creature that is composed of organic traits recognizable as animal parts but combined in a way that suits its aesthetic needs before its evolutionary or physical needs. Gen 1 designs feel too simplified (ex Charmander, Squirtle), but Mudkip is a little weirder.

Merciless Grimmly (👻sPoOpY mOdE👹) @mercygrimm.bsky.social · 1d

Taking my dog to a different, less muscular doctor because I'm concerned about "Vet-Roid-Mania"

Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 1d

Taking things to a lower level by insisting everyone refer to this weapon as a "metroidchainia"

Merciless Grimmly (👻sPoOpY mOdE👹) @mercygrimm.bsky.social · 1d

All this to say there is not and will never be a unified American COVID experience, and that means that we will never, as a culture, arrive at the same conclusion about the pandemic. We all spent two-three years doing SOMETHING but some of us never stopped doing ANYTHING.

Merciless Grimmly (👻sPoOpY mOdE👹) @mercygrimm.bsky.social · 1d

Point being that I'm in SC and my Covid experience was basically Florida's (no lockdown, society just stopped but nobody was locked in and we were all just partying at the beach whenever we felt like it, meanwhile states like Jersey or New York had radically different time frames for quarantine.

Merciless Grimmly (👻sPoOpY mOdE👹) @mercygrimm.bsky.social · 1d

One thing possibly unique to the US is that each state had its own Covid lockdown mandates, so for example here in South Carolina our "lockdown" never happened. Restaurants and schools closed, sure, people were opening up their stores and doing anti-mask/anti-vaxx propaganda within a month or two.

ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 1d

there is a lot of intentional minimization of the pandemic but i am really more interested in the unintentional sort.

like, how does unmarked grief and suppressed fear sort of get digested and forgotten?

how does the memory of lockdown for most people end up leaving those things out?

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Etherington Brothers @etheringtonbros.bsky.social · 1d

Our feature artist/tutorial today is this ESSENTIAL reference on FORESHORTENING ARMS, by the talented @kato_anatomy! It’s IMPOSSIBLE to foreshorten accurately unless you understand the CHANGING CROSS-SECTIONS of the forms you’re LOOKING ALONG, so this guide is PURE GOLD! #manga

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