Merk
LightNews LightNews
banner
merk94.bsky.social
Merk
@merk94.bsky.social
600 followers 200 following 2K posts
He/Him — Born Nov. 14, 199X

Writer, podcast host, gacha addict.
#Paragons
#Locacacast
#Nikke

Bots and bigots get blocked.
Minors DNI with my labeled posts.
I don’t do obligatory follow-backs.

https://linktr.ee/ChrisMerkelStudios
Posts Replies Media Videos
merk94.bsky.social
Your second point completely invalidates your entire argument. We don’t need to hear shit from defeatists on the side of the slop/churning plagiarism matrix.
December 22, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Reposted by Merk
triggerhappy938.bsky.social
www.escapistmagazine.com/news-indie-g...

Escapist may have done a libel
In a totally performative move, the Indie Game Awards stripped Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 of Game of the Year just to give it to another game that used gen AI - The Escapist
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was just stripped of its Indie Game Awards titles, just to give the awards to another game with AI.
www.escapistmagazine.com
December 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
merk94.bsky.social
Looks like some of that holiday spirit is getting into her, too.
December 21, 2025 at 6:57 PM
merk94.bsky.social
#Paragons
Sameko was imprisoned by Moonlighter as part of her backstory. Being a feral child that had already killed people, he deemed her too dangerous to release, so he adopted her. By kidnapping and subsequently re-training her. Dahlia was kidnapped—along with her best friend—by a murderer with the ability to silence any sound. She manages to get herself and her friend away. Dahlia was kidnapped a second time by the Brotherhood of Eternity, who intended to marry her to the concept of Death and then sacrifice her to achieve global immortality. All three of the boys from the Vol. 1 team end up in a metahuman detention facility (Mr. Q meets the Word and Moonlighter after they’re arrested, and only joins the team a while after the jailbreak. DJ ends up a prisoner of Maximilian Midas (the grandson of the man who designed him) in Vol. 2.
December 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
merk94.bsky.social
He’s just a little guy!
Smol rock boi
December 20, 2025 at 11:53 PM
merk94.bsky.social
This is a fun one to do for #Paragons, with it being a superhero story.
I haven’t actually thought of an in-universe answer to why Charlie Sinclair’s hero name is “The Word,” other than his powers being based on his writing. Dahlia Martinez’s hero name came from two of her classmates calling her “Black Dahlia,” like the murder victim, because her pale skin makes her “look like death.” So she sort of embraces that and makes it her own. Moonlighter was assigned his alias by the press in 1969, during the time when he was hunting down and murdering the people involved in the conspiracy that killed his parents. The press called him the Moonlighter Killer because his first victim was discovered on the day Apollo 11 landed on the moon and since then, every victim had been found displayed “under the moonlight.” Sameko doesn’t have a different hero name, but the name her adopted father gave her being a Japanese one comes from him finding her in the Sea of Japan. The name itself translates to “shark [same] child [ko].” DJ’s nickname is part of their serial number, and Dahlia picked it for them because their head is a radio. Plain Jane is another one without an actual in-universe reason beyond it being a reference to Jane Smith’s powers. Mr. Q picks his name while watching a soap opera called “The Nuke-Lear Family.” When a character named Mr. X is mentioned, it triggers a memory about someone calling him “Q,” so he decides to go by “Mr. Q.”
December 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
merk94.bsky.social
The Belgians and the French have differing opinions on that.

The first records of fried potatoes come from Chile in 1629, but as to where french fries as we know them today came from, it could be France, it could be Belgium, or even Spain.
December 16, 2025 at 1:45 AM
merk94.bsky.social
Wouldn’t be the first thing America got from the French.

Fries and the Statue of Liberty also come to mind.
December 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM