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nermerner.bsky.social @nermerner.bsky.social · Sep 17

Do it before you collapse into a drawing black hole and drawings can only escape once a year via Hawking radiation

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nermerner.bsky.social @nermerner.bsky.social · Sep 13

You can't build the Basilisk if you're being wedgied from a flagpole

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nermerner.bsky.social @nermerner.bsky.social · Aug 30

Big if true

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nermerner.bsky.social @nermerner.bsky.social · Aug 28

I think my sickest coding move was when I needed to paste some code somewhere and just blindly went for it, hoping that I still had it copied from a few minutes ago

Friend watching was in awe

Needless to say, it was NOT on the clipboard

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nermerner.bsky.social @nermerner.bsky.social · Aug 27

Fur but with sharp shiny highlights

Hff hff HFF *feral dog noises*

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nermerner.bsky.social @nermerner.bsky.social · Aug 24

Dogs are just humans that get free food and don't need to wear clothes, if anything it's an upgrade

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nermerner.bsky.social @nermerner.bsky.social · Aug 21

The long-awaited sequel to "hating things isn't a personality"

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nermerner.bsky.social @nermerner.bsky.social · Aug 16

"for better or worse" I sincerely hope I'm in the "worse" category, your honor

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bug spray cody @aevris.bsky.social · Jun 14

old art repost of the night

Comic of an anthropogmpic eagle and coyote character. The coyote is holding a baby photo of the eagle - his bulging eyes are closed and his face is covered in meat juice. An arrow is pointed to a bulge in his throat captioned “crop full of meat chunks.”

The coyote looks fondly at the photo and says “Aww, babe.”

In the next panel, he turns to the eagle and says “You looked like shit.”

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nermerner.bsky.social @nermerner.bsky.social · Aug 3

Breathstrogen

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🎃 Kilometers 🎃 @kilometers92.bsky.social · Jul 31

*David Attenborough voice* “and so the rubber wolves retreat into their caves as the temperatures rise. The furry community will not see them until the frost returns.”

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Circe [Rat] @pankallisti.bsky.social · Jul 25

A few times now, close 'friends' attacked and unpersoned me over some kink art I drew. Years of friendship thrown in the trash, over some drawings.

Kinda permanently made me more anxious about new people, always worried they'll blow up like that too if they ever happen to go through my gallery xwx

Mish Solomon 🔞 | journalist ✒️ | activist 💜 | gamer 🎮 @mishadventure.blog · Jul 24

No, don't apologise. You're exactly right.

In fact, I encourage *EVERYONE* who's experienced abuse at the hands of fandom fascists to QP/reply and tell your stories of the violence you've experienced at their hands over *fiction* and *pixels*.

And call them what they are: anti-queer fascists.

💙 TRIBS 👽💙 @tribs.bsky.social · Jul 24

Apologies for kind of just tossing this vent on your post but GOD, I'm relating hard. I wish I could get justice. I wish we ALL could get justice. This wasn't just "shipping drama" or whatever people want to label it, it was fascist-lite violence.

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nermerner.bsky.social @nermerner.bsky.social · Jul 22

TL;DR: Mobile players expect a free game that they can pay to play faster, but can either way get all content; nope, some is completely locked behind DLC in a very Console-y way

Console players are mad they have to pay for a "free on mobile" game, even though they get more functionality by default

nermerner.bsky.social @nermerner.bsky.social · Jul 22

Like dang, I know this is old-fashioned in today's market, but just sell me a full lemonade for $6

If I had to pay for a full cup in 3 installments of $2, I'd be paying the same amount but now I'm less happy

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nermerner.bsky.social @nermerner.bsky.social · Jul 22

Switch players will be upset because it's fed to them in three seperate purchases, rather than just as a full game (which, again, I feel it deserves to be called!)

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nermerner.bsky.social @nermerner.bsky.social · Jul 22

Mobile players will be upset because it's advertised like a freemium game, but some content is completely locked behind the DLC, rather than just time-gated

Not to mention the psychological effect of presenting it as a free game, but locking standard functionality (unlimited) unless you pay

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nermerner.bsky.social @nermerner.bsky.social · Jul 22

I could see it like how Pokemon Art Academy had mons up to XY, and then down the line if it got a sequel with the Alola mons, I'd rather get a small DLC than a whole new game?

I just find it interesting overall that Pokemon has to mix and match these monetization strategies in today's market

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nermerner.bsky.social @nermerner.bsky.social · Jul 22

(maybe I'm posting this in the vain hopes that a Pokemon rep is scanning for feedback, but)

I say all this with the caveat that in 2025, I don't think you can fund a big puzzle game with more updates for a one-time $35; devs are expensive and it's a smaller audience

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nermerner.bsky.social @nermerner.bsky.social · Jul 22

I guess the model I'm used to from PC games is getting a game for maybe $40 that gets a few free content updates once the devs have that initial influx of money to keep going

Now, I don't know if every year, my $35 dollar puzzle game will be dangling more Pokemon in front of me for another $15?

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nermerner.bsky.social @nermerner.bsky.social · Jul 22

I may end up buying it because I think a Pokemon-themed puzzle game I can play whenever is totally worth it!

But one big drawback to this mix of models is: now I don't know if future Pokemon are going to be gated behind more paid packs too? What's the lifetime cost of this game going to be?

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nermerner.bsky.social @nermerner.bsky.social · Jul 22

I think Pokemon Friends is in this funny position where it'll reach more people this way (low barrier to entry), but also make more people upset overall, which feels paradoxical but describes the current feel of game advertising, lol

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nermerner.bsky.social @nermerner.bsky.social · Jul 22

But then this runs against the gacha expectation that all content (including future updates) is available, you just have to play enough to unlock it (but if you pay, then you can do that faster)

I don't think the full set of puzzles and Pokemon are ever available to free players?

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nermerner.bsky.social @nermerner.bsky.social · Jul 22

I think the full 30 puzzle types and Pokemon is worth the $35 price tag! It's got a really fun loop: puzzle, decorate, puzzle

But I know in today's game market, people turn away if they see a price tag above $20, so Pokemon probably has to sell it piecemeal like this to get any interest

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nermerner.bsky.social @nermerner.bsky.social · Jul 22

Buuuuuut in both console and mobile, it also launched with two ~$13 dollar DLCs which each unlock 10 more puzzle types and more Pokemon to collect, and I think that's where I'm not so happy

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nermerner.bsky.social @nermerner.bsky.social · Jul 22

So on mobile, there's 10 puzzles in the base game, and you can only play it once per day, like a daily pack/pull/gacha

Buuut you can pay $10 to play it unlimited times per day, like a full game? And in fact on console, it comes like this by default for $10, no free daily option

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