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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I'm old enough that I've started seeing videos like "10 Secrets in Chrono Trigger You Didn't Know About" and it has made clear that humanity has always been this way. Privilege of the young to have an idea/discovery and feel genius. Privilege of the old to ignore the young.
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Mega Man X Corrupted in development for at least 14 years, I don't care if I get to ever play it I just respect the dev's ability to stick to a project that long
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yeah I see articles like this and think the author just fell for an elaborate troll. I've seen people dumb enough to recalibrate my priors on human intelligence but not THIS bad and I just have to trust my anecdotal experience on this one.
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
AI execs agreeing to self-police is a tacit admission that they weren't doing so already or an empty gesture. Or both!
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Bravely Default is a final fantasy game and Agnes ought to show up alongside Cloud and Onion Knight in crossovers and I'll fight people about this
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is one of those games that I played endlessly when it was new and assumed I had Gotten Good. Like how Mega Man X is a trivial affair despite claims of its difficulty. But when I played it a few months ago, no, MMZ is still Not Fucking Around.
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Whenever someone says AI will destroy humanity I remind them that LLMs are _not_ AI, they only _look_ like AI. If anything, be scared that it's just one more tool in the toolbox of human CEOs and the capital class to put self-enrichment ahead of human life and dignity. That is happening _today_.
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I've been seeing "Zelda in Unreal Engine" demos for what feels like a decade on YouTube, this just looks like those. I've got no attention for it.
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Stew Smith @stewbiedoo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"Be strong enough to be gentle." If you're wondering why so many people are mourning the death of a guy who voiced a transforming cartoon robot truck it's because Peter Cullen spent 40 years with a real philosophy behind the voice. Even the silliest art can be meaningful if you care enough about it
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Peter Cullen explains how he created the voice for Optimus Prime
YouTube video by TFcon
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
When can we start reverse captchas to prove the entity we're communicating with is a human
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Chewy wants me to review the cat food I ordered. That's lunatic behavior. What could I possibly say about cat food that is useful to other cat owners.
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The problem isn't a -lack- of time, it's that all our free time is spent recuperating from fresh daily horrors. I've got 5 hours of free time after work and I can't unwind because AI is coming for my job, the president is a fascist, and nothing is affordable.
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Imagine generating just 2 or 3 clips and instead of being embarrassed to death you ask grok to make like 50 more. I can't believe how LONG this kept going!
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Oh hey my kitchen floor
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Wonder if dickhead Samaritans were mad at that one guy for sealing the brand in stone for all time
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I've got a device the size of a large highlighter that beeps and has lights that tell me if it's safe to Touch Wire and I'm still scared of electricity
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The Dean Blunt one is the closest for overall vibes, but I happen to have tracks from Archive and Steven Wilson in my playlists so it's fun to see them here too.
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Kiltro - Creatures of Habit
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
WHM is similar. You get Cure 2, but never want to use it because it's a 2s cast and 1000mp, but sometimes Cure 1 will give you a free cast of 2. If there's anything frustrating about the skill system it's that often "read the description" isn't enough, you need the context of ALL your other skills.
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
THM/BLM changes how it works WAY more often over the course of 100 levels than any other job. I never figured it out. The other classes all tend to build up in a predictable way. DRG at 100 has the same base combos as 15, by comparison
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I feel the same way about Neon Odyssey. Don't say you're inspired by nostalgia! It's already obvious to the people it caters to and it's false for anyone young enough to find it cool on its own merits!
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Beet stew is everyone's first cancer scare
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Is there a name for the "I'm successful professionally so I must always be right" fallacy? I don't think "tech bro" really captures the same idea correctly.
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Are the rings gifts, though? Now I'm trying to work out semantically if a bomb with a bow on it is a gift or merely presenting as one. Is poisoned food still nourishment?
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
So it's KotOR's morality system cranked to 11?
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
What the English teachers missed was the idea that it's very possible to just not engage critically at all, to just waltz through life passively believing whoever gets to you first
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I think the issue you'll run into is that the world doesn't have the language yet to deal with this yet. Anyone over 45 functionally grew up on another planet. They can "understand" the concept of "being online" maybe, but there's no way they can mentally map it to real world effects.
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Mr Bean as Malignant Narcissist seems like it might have legs in a less dire timeline
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Hilarious that after bragging that bsky is built with AI it's suddenly performing poorer than it has in recent memory
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Capital can never bear any responsibility, the buck will ALWAYS, eventually be passed to the individual.
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I can't for the life of me figure out why anyone would place bets knowing that some people with insider knowledge are also betting. It becomes a coin-toss. You're not betting on "US attacks Iran", you're betting on "someone is trying to profit off knowing the US is going to attack Iran".
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
This post is how I found out, even sans context I just knew who
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
damn, that one's bad too? what are the odds?
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
They should sell these in individually wrapped 4 packs because I never want 2 at once and I'm always Over Them by the 4th one in a box. The remaining 4 bring me no joy. But that first 1 or 2...
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Forcefemmed by Temu Airpods
"every single pair tested contained substances hazardous to human health, including [...] feminisation of males."
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Rooting for the blood clot again today You can do it little buddy! I believe in you!
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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
i often think about this review
Letterboxd screenshot
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022

Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
And may you have twice the number
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Why does Bob from Tekken 8 look like the Fat JD Vance meme
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
I like that the bottom tip of the shield doesn't match the curve of the sides even remotely
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
I hit a brick wall for about 10 hours when the mq requires you to kill the telvanni archmagister and his two dremora guards. My character build was uniquely unsuited but I came back with different tools and smoked him. That's the kind of experience that makes MW great.
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Weird that Morrowind appears in my timeline just as I'm rediscovering it. It absolutely holds up. 50 some hours in and I'm finally Hortator of all houses.
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Busy during Two Minutes Hate? Hate on your own schedule! (Do NOT Miss Two Minutes Hate)
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
"things are so divisive" is such a coward take. There's no unity possible with a fascist government that will kill you for disagreeing with them
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I'm not totally up to date on MotU lore, why is there an American flag in it?
A comic panel showing a statue of King Randor under what looks to be the US flag
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
...really it's just to inhibit mass movements. I could have worked through the JS but what's the point, they're all in on fascism anyway and the thoughts of the people they represent are clearly not a factor
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I thought about "contacting my representatives" but they're all Rs and also their website contact forms collect so much info I felt like it was dangerous to even try. I just know those forms get fed into a system that'll label me a dissident. Also they disabled copy pasting for "security" but...
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I hope It Happens soon
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Same. I haven't intentionally watched a marvel movie in years but I had to check myself after I thought "hey they're using the Jim Lee designs, maybe it'll be decent"
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Forktail @elanoides.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Do you mean such as "runs made after hitting the ball twice in the same pitch count double" vs "a new rule cannot directly counteract an existing rule"?
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