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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 7h

it can only good happen! everything is fine, nothing to see here, pay no attention to him setting the bar at "keeps airing" rather than "turns into a propaganda machine"

A post from media-knower Brian Stelter: "Anchor Richard Quest was doing the math on the air today, counting how many different owners CNN has had over the years/decades. And that's the thing, I said - CNN just keeps going, no matter the owner..."

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 8h

garlemald invented walking armor, for pete's sake, but nobody once thought "what if we put that on wheels?" the sharlayans build a bloody hyperspace-capable starship, but you've got to walk around labryinthos. zero public transit anywhere in their domain

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 8h

also: cid works on the regalia enough to get it working again and then... doesn't invent cars? it is such a funny world to me where airships -- flying warships, even! -- exist but nobody can figure out how to make a carriage go on its own without a flipping chocobo

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 8h

i've never played a healer really because i am not at all sure how one would do that with a ps5 controller, but i feel pretty confident you never need to heal npcs during instanced fights unless they're really customizing them for different roles and also having scions act real weird

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 8h

doing the seasonal ffxv crossover quests and the garuda fight is really annoying love when my target disappears and has to be reselected every ten seconds, especially with an npc on the field i NEVER want to select an npc during a fight. ever. let me turn that off!!!

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 8h

i thought about watching a tale of the secret saint, but after half an episode i'm pretty sure that, like maria bello in prime suspect, her character is mostly her hat (in this case, a stupid double bow) without which she would otherwise be entirely generic

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 12h

he stumbles over all of his big "clever" lines and delivers them like shit! i assumed dude was at least good on camera from his fox days but looooool nope

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 12h

just from the clips in bouie's video: how does anyone take this blowhard seriously? this preening pretty boy is wandering around the stage talking about testosterone and it's almost comical? like watching a 110-pounds-when-wet guy talk about the big fellas he's beat up. sure, pal. whatever you say

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

look, either you're good at hearing somebody's mouth sounds, figuring out which of 34 languages we borrowed those sounds from, and then knowing how to spell the mouth sounds based on that while accounting for people's terrible handwriting changing the spelling over time, or you're not. child's play

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

seems like it would be very possible to invent a fake award and give it to weiss at a big shindig where she and the host would sit on stage and do a little chit-chat and absolutely destroy her with backhanded questions "so tell us about your ratings collapse. what have you learned?" but better

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

in the midwest, at least, i would say because it goes best on warm pie

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

like my guy either 1) is friends with/being paid by the candidate or someone in their ideological orbit 2) agrees with the disenfranchising of all the minorites in town 3) doesn't think the disenfranchising idea speaks at all to what the candidate might do on school board and is box-of-rocks dumb

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

just saw this conversation happen: "this disruptor sounds like exactly the guy we need for school board" "that's the guy who wanted to disenfranchise all the minorities in the city" "well i don't agree with that, but that's far beyond the scope of a school board, and we need to try something new"

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Economic issues not cultural wars' produces a party that both loses elections and abandons moral causes and vulnerable people. That’s not a theoretical argument—it’s the story of the Democratic Party of my entire adulthood." newrepublic.com/article/2159...

newrepublic.com

Why Democrats Should Stop Using the Phrase “Culture Wars”

Texas’s Gina Hinojosa and others slamming the party for focusing too much on so-called cultural issues are pushing a flawed electoral and policy strategy.

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i always assumed he would resign midterm so the grandson could be appointed but i guess chuck just doesn't give a single shit about pat's career

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

this pepper is so jacked it's about to rip off its shirt and fight you, bro

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

please tell me you didn't just gift-of-prophecy "choosing texas celebrates its 87th week at number one"

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

i hear (the first three seconds of) it quite often on the car radio, but my impression from the little bits i get while frantically slapping at the buttons after switching into it mid-play is that it's assembled-in-a-lab country dreck and not, like, a kasey musgraves joint

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

this in particular feels like just another place where we're ceding the narrative to the loudest voices, even if they're a tiny minority and don't really explain what's actually happening "well it had the most streams" ok but also tell me something about the average number of streams per user

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

knowing the individual consumption of everything continues to be data i think we would be better off without you do not understand how dysfunctional newsrooms became and how bad media diets have gotten based on "everyone only clicks on accidents and crime news." we should not have eaten that apple

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

or even more broadly, people add a new song to their playlists and then those streams keep it "popular" long after the actual love affair (where you would call to request it) has faded maybe songs have always lingered this long on the charts, but i feel like they never go away now

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

like i think there's a swiftie problem, for lack of a better term here: if one teen girl with nothing better to do calls the radio station and requests opalite 500 times a day, it's still only gonna get played a dozen times. but homegirl can stream it all day every day

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

iowan here, and i don't know that i've talked to a single person who has been actually enthused about turek or sand -- in fact we shit-talk them all the time -- and yet we are prepared to crawl across broken glass to vote for them

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

three older and presumably retired gentlemen working out this morning having a discussion about their confusion over the need for a new rec center i dunno dawgs, maybe because most people can't work out during normal business hours like you are and it's super busy right before and right after then?

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

oh good lord, now there's a character named maria but it's said MAR-ee-uh. why is there no japanese voice acting option lol props to the three houses voice actors though, while i can usually ID their old characters, they're all doing different effects and registers quite well here

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

playing leda's story first, and buccar keeps calling her "milady" and saying it like "mee-lady" which is real odd also sirocco doesn't strike me as dumb, but he couldn't put her identity together on his own from all the things she and balboa said?

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

the thing i don't understand so far is when you get choices but there's only one choice. why? is it supposed to make you own what happens, even though you're railroaded into it? also the gap between statements when autoplay is on is just a smidge too short, especially when it's the same speaker

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

started fortune's weave and what the immediate fuck

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

driver getting road head so good their eyes are closed

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

me: what the fuck? is that a ghost? alphinaud: a g-g-ghost? oh gods, i see it too urianger: as do i, which means the man thither is not an apparition alphinaud: oh thank goodness me: what the hell. that cannot be ardbert. i am boiling with rage. who would *dare* urianger: i thinketh you knoweth

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

alphinaud: we should gather everyone together and tell them the truth about the warriors of light me: finally! ardbert was a good guy in the end alphinaud: and by we, we mean you me: oh, so that's how it is. fine, i'll handle it, gather the people

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

the quests don't, but the dungeons you have to complete to finish the quests do! rather than just do leveling duty over and over and getting halatali 47 times, i'm at least getting a little variety as i relive the greatest hits

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

g'raha: maybe it's just in my head, but lyna has seemed rather short with me. do you think she's still mad about the thing with the salmon fillet? me: what thing with a salmon fillet? g'raha: i -- haha -- shouldn't really say, she'd get -- hohoho -- even madder if i told you -- BAHAHA -- about it

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

me: gaius! grrrrrrr gaius: must we? didn't we do this once already? me: sorry, sorry, it's just instinct and this is only the second time we've met post-ass-kicking gaius: thanks for the reminder me: i'll stop growling at you soon, but i'll never stop reminding you of that particular outcome

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

raubahn: i hear you've been to another world, which i just don't understand. maybe if you explained it, though we don't really have time for that me: oh it wouldn't help even if we did. ask g'raha tia when he gets back, though it'll probably be harder to get without the projections...

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

estinien: black rose is gone, so my duties here are done. peace out tataru: what? with the others still passed out, can't you stay? estinien: nooooope, i have things to do krile: fair enough. i see why alphinaud is so taken with you, though estinien: ...nice try, but not enough this time

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

ok, gaius' run animation during the escape from the imperial palace is hilarious? THIS is the black wolf? THIS is the man who once threatened all of eorzea? loooooool

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

the biggest quality-of-life improvement i want from this game is two separate toggles for auto-advance in voiced cutscenes (yes, virtually always) and in text-only cutscenes (no, never, i just missed three panels because i didn't realize we'd started)

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

kai-shirr: you're leaving? seems like everything is changing. i need to figure out how to contribute to this new eulmore me: have you considered a job at the strip club? that seems very helpful and right up your alley kai-shirr: yeah, i could help run the place! me: tsk. not what i meant, but ok

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

alphinaud: what a wonderful speech, master chai dulia-chai: yes, wasn't it? reminded me of why i fell for you in the first place, dear. that and your roguish smile and that tight bod and-- SPEECH OVER, EVERYBODY OUT! me: oh gods, go, people, go! FASTER!

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"the only place big enough for the new mayor's speech is vauthry's old chambers" what are you talking about, dawg? you could... go outside? but not even thirty people attend anyway, there's so much space left in the room, could have done it literally anywhere

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

it has always killed me that news orgs will do stories on "gop candidate launches new attack ad" and then will simply describe the attack without weighing in on whether there's any truth to the whole thing "republicans say" is the assignment editor for far too much of our media

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

g'raha: ah, beq lugg! i'd like to SHAKE your hand beq: ooh g'raha: we BEG your assistance beq: oooh g'raha: won't you SIT and hear our plea? beq: ooooh me: we won't just ROLL OVER on this after coming all this way to FETCH you. won't you SPEAK with us? COME now, STAY with us beq: OOOOOOOOOH

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

alisaie: ex-CUSE me? g'raha: hahahaha i mean he's a hero! that's all, nothing more! nope, just that me: that is *not* what you were saying last nigh-- g'raha: LET'S SET OFF, SHALL WE? y'shtola: you're not fooling anyb-- <eyes the twins> ...you're not fooling me

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

g'raha: i suggest we essentially kick down the front doors me: word alisaie: you seem to rather be enjoying this, g'raha g'raha: haha do i? well, it beats forming a rut in the ocular waiting for you to come back with news alphinaud: also, the warrior of light is a security blanket for you both

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

g'raha: i would have us beg the aid of a mage who sequestered themselves in a palace on the far shore of the source me: the what now? g'raha: the source me: the world we come from? g'raha: oh, no, that's what the ocean here is called me: that's... unfortunate g'raha: for the seven of us, yes

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

alisaie: if the exarch tries to selflessly sacrifice himself one more time, i'm of a mind to grant him his wish me: hahaha right? but also don't you fucking dare alisaie: just a joke! what is the deal with you two? me: you haven't worked that out yet? THERE ARE COMPLICATED FEELINGS HERE

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

me: krile says your bodies are getting funky y'shtola: unsurprisingly g'raha: while i would like to keep living, there's one surefire method to get you home alisaie: you owe the warrior of light your life, he gets to decide when you go me: and it ain't gonna be soon. i cannot be clearer on this

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

tataru: AH, A GHOST! me: it's just me lol tataru: you seem different me: how could you possibly tell?? what sorts of secret skills do you have, woman? tataru: i could tell you, but then i would have to kill you me: lol tataru, leaning in close: i'm serious. and i could do it, too me: ...ahaha

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

urianger: tataru will surely be worriedeth me: ...you're just making words up now urianger: certainlyeth not me: ...right. well, let's work on this getting-back-home problem while i'm away, shall we? and remember, raha, you're coming too g'raha: haha sure. ...actually i would really like that

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