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Fragile female ego 2.0 @miyamoris.bsky.social · 12h

let it be clear this game still has a great sense of humor. #MaryPlaysSaltShadow

Fragile female ego 2.0 @miyamoris.bsky.social · 12h

it's a very, very unique game unlike anything I have seen in the fangame scene. I've been meaning to play this for ages but I knew I had to be in the right head space for it - so far, it's been super worth it. #MaryPlaysSaltShadow

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Fragile female ego 2.0 @miyamoris.bsky.social · 12h

+so the game is always handing you huge amounts of pokeballs and healing items, plus allowing you to run from trainer battles as a way of scouting so you should be very strategic about your resources. #MaryPlaysSaltShadow

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Fragile female ego 2.0 @miyamoris.bsky.social · 13h

Pokemon are also taken as disposable - they're children of a mother of the sea and the game hints multiple times at them literally flooding the world. (those hints could be misleading though!)
You have a limited times you can rest and heal before the time of apocalypse arrives+ #MaryPlaysSaltShadow

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Fragile female ego 2.0 @miyamoris.bsky.social · 13h

Trainers turn to... salt? after you beat them, all unclear if they're even real people or just ghosts of the past lingering. There are allusions to a more normal Pokemon world before this surreal existence came to be. Also lots of environmental storytelling to piece together. #MaryPlaysSaltShadow

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Fragile female ego 2.0 @miyamoris.bsky.social · 13h

Now I have not played Dark Souls, so what I'll describe here might be familiar, but you basically unfold little by little about this world through cryptic pieces of writing and NPC stories. It's all very non-linear and evocative. #MaryPlaysSaltShadow

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Fragile female ego 2.0 @miyamoris.bsky.social · 13h

The gist of the plot is you're some sort of "wanderer" born from the sea trying to summon dormant legends to save the world from an inevitable apocalypse.
Said world is nothing like a traditional pokemon world - it is ruled by a Champion who choose to sacrifice the world. #MaryPlaysSaltShadow

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Fragile female ego 2.0 @miyamoris.bsky.social · 13h

#MaryPlaysSaltShadow
Okay so let's talk about this game properly.
This is Pokemon Salt and Shadow, a fairly known fangame pitched as "Pokemon meets Dark Souls". It was made by a team composed of professional devs - I think at least one of them worked on Riot.

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merritt @merrittk.com · 1d

thinking about the guy running the us govt bluesky accounts. thats his friday, trying to troll people on a relatively niche social media site because they won twitter and it made them miserable. catastrophic loser energy

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Fragile female ego 2.0 @miyamoris.bsky.social · 1d

#MarysLPs

Fragile female ego 2.0 @miyamoris.bsky.social · 1d

#MaryPlaysSaltShadow this game's writing is simply harrowing at times.

Fragile female ego 2.0 @miyamoris.bsky.social · 1d

#MaryPlaysSaltShadow this game's writing is simply harrowing at times.

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Fragile female ego 2.0 @miyamoris.bsky.social · 1d

poor Bananinha, never becoming his favorite brazilian

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1d

BREAKING: Trump commutes sentence of disgraced former congressman George Santos.

“I just signed a Commutation, releasing George Santos from prison, IMMEDIATELY. Good luck George, have a great life!”

Fragile female ego 2.0 @miyamoris.bsky.social · 1d

been puzzled that I've been so tired during this first week of vacations then I realized that 1) body is adjusting to less caffeine on a daily basis and 2) it's time for period to say Hi

Fragile female ego 2.0 @miyamoris.bsky.social · 1d

let's get it.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 1d

Block. Do not engage.

They are here ONLY to get engagement, why the fuck would you give them the one thing they came here to get

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Fragile female ego 2.0 @miyamoris.bsky.social · 1d

lmfao

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Sam Benc 🐟 @nonvieta.bsky.social · 2d

SO much of the cultural and artistic nostalgia that society chases was just art made when people got paid to do it. Lavish movie posters made by human artists, video games made by people without sixteen different investment companies breathing down their neck, movies made by studios taking a chance.

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Fragile female ego 2.0 @miyamoris.bsky.social · 1d

definitely don't underestimate it - it's getting popular for good reason. but it also does feel like the kind of anti-meta thing that will fall off once gardevoir and dragapult are out of the game.

Fragile female ego 2.0 @miyamoris.bsky.social · 1d

I was using Ceruledge as you can see and as a deck that plays super aggressively I can see it being tricky to manage your resources while keeping an eye on their disruption, but one well-timed Turo helped me here

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Fragile female ego 2.0 @miyamoris.bsky.social · 1d

played against the Mega Absol deck that got popular on official torunaments and from here it feels hard to pilot. Like your main method of energy acceleration is turbo energize, meaning you likely don't attack on your first attacking turn, and you can't self-damage to activate the munkis quickly

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Fragile female ego 2.0 @miyamoris.bsky.social · 1d

the way they were talking about it definitely didnt' sound like someone who could it so easily.

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 1d

for all the issues with modern pokemon the one thing it's been unbelievably good about is the character design of the women. so much Variety its wild. take is a genius

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 1d

like if i have to spend a bunch of my time teaching it to not be wrong, it's not really a tool helping me, is it. i'm a tool helping it

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 1d

i've asked an llm one question, about something i know about, and it made up a bunch of incorrect bullshit that i knew to be false. what am i supposed to do with that

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 2d

There are basically only two positions in the debate about AI.
1. I’ve barely invested any time in learning how to use it effectively. AI sucks.
2. I’ve invested in learning how to use this tool. Holy cow, it’s transformational.

Position #1 has lower barriers to entry.

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Stephen King’s KAYLEIGH @ronchronchronch.bsky.social · 2d

I was married, but I'm not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle.

Spider-Man and the very silly Spider-Mobile.

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