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A_Raving_Loon @a-raving-loon.bsky.social · 13h

Lads'mas Afternoon

A Tuxedo Cat wearing harness and leash lounges on a concrete slab. He is prince of the yard.

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Zaki Fairer | 🦎 Commissions open! ☀️ @zakifairer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sora: What is the meaning behind this?? Emet-Selch: well BOY, the muppets are a Disney ip now Miss Piggy: oh~ hi Emet Emet-Selch: hello Piggy.

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minimatt.bsky.social @minimatt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is, to be fair, an accurate description in the strictest sense but it’s also like describing soup as “that food that’s mostly wet and comes in a bowl”

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Emily Aster @emilyaster.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

No one does it like Valve, but it's time for our weekly story update for Limbus Company! So it's like Fear and Hunger, right, but you're controlling the mc from The Stranger and the boulder sisyphus has to push up the hill is haute couture fashion trends. www.twitch.tv/EmilyAster

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riki 🌙 @nya.riki.zone · 29/09/2026

i’m feeling very autumnal 🍁🕺🦇 #rikinyart

riki dressed as morrigan from darkstalkers for halloween

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Emily Aster @emilyaster.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Rat King wasn't a joke???????????

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Marathon @marathonthegame.bungie.net · 28/09/2026

Gathering (less) intel. Nightfall Refresh begins October 6.

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🃏 Clip 🃏 @clipthejester.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Please, my Mareep, it has never eaten food in its life #art #fanart

A sketch of Clip standing behind a wooden fence, looking upon his Mareep, who has never subsisted on anything in its life despite lying directly next to a pile consisting of candy, with utter despair.

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fancy waddle dee @fivepoisonskid.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

George: She put Baldur’s Gate 3 on her “games that made me” 3x3! Jerry: So? You like that game. George: Don’t you see? It’s too new to have made her. I can’t be with a woman who doesn’t respect prompts. Kramer: Minnesota Fats Pool Legend, now that’s a game

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Emily Aster @emilyaster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Went 2-0, 2-0, 2-0 with time to spare every round. Gruul forever...! Realtalk it was a ton of fun and I got to handle a lot of cards, which is something I haven't done in ages! Maybe this is the start of my return to physical MTG...!

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YAY enjoyer @arcaneclaw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

trying to learn Mahjong genuinely feels like this

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Rue @lumpin.zone · 24/09/2026

I have gazed upon Sasha's sleeping face and recovered. #sashaposting

Photo. Sasha curled up contentedly in bed, one eye... perhaps cracked open slightly.

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My Name is Grant @mynameisgrant.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Go watch a launch day stream of the new action game from the guy who taught the world how to play Metal Gear Rising

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Emily Aster @emilyaster.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's time for Canto 10, I've heard it's about 6 hours long all told so I'm looking forward to a full day of Limbus' game maker horror chapter! www.twitch.tv/EmilyAster

Emily Aster sitting in the Chains of Others EGO art

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Emily Aster @emilyaster.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Bungie bringing back all the vaulted content for D2 is absolutely fantastic news, there was some real good stuff in there that I never got to show friends and the Red War was a solid intro to the city and the vanguard for new players. More than that, just so glad to see them still doing Destiny.

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 15/10/2025

WHEN THERE’S TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Oh wow. Yes, very clever! Waterfall treasure! No one’s ever done that before. Lazy jackass WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you

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Emily Aster @emilyaster.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

(Streaming Star Wars: Zero Company to friends in Discord) Me: Yeah it's like a Star Wars version of Mario and Rabbids, and- [Runa talks once] @sword.zone and Me in tandem: Is that Vic Michaelis????

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Emily Aster @emilyaster.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

(Streaming Star Wars: Zero Company to friends in Discord) Me: Yeah it's like a Star Wars version of Mario and Rabbids, and- [Runa talks once] @sword.zone and Me in tandem: Is that Vic Michaelis????

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Emily Aster @emilyaster.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

[Standing on a big box] YOU AND I ARE POLAR OPPOSITES IS SO GOOOOOD [carefully dismounting the big box] holy shit dude there are like splinters on this thing

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cassidy @schizmet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I wrote a story about love, the kind of love that makes you question if there is perhaps a remote monastic order for lesbians. It is sort of a true story and you can read the rest of it on either of these beautiful websites. schizmet.substack.com/p/amys-prison medium.com/@schizmet/am...

A crude drawing of a house with two large eyes, two legs, and one arm clutching a small person in its hand. There is a sun scribbled next to it and a smoke plume coming from its chimney shaped like a heart. The title at the top reads. "AMY'S PRISON," and the text at the bottom reads "@schizmet" and "CASSIDY G."

Love is real. I'd seen it all my life: in the movies, on the radio, how my parents would make up after a fight. One time I saw love getting head behind the McDonald's in Tukwila and it made eye contact with me. Some people go their whole lives without ever recognizing love, they grow old and die lonely. A chosen few are found by love, blind and shaking, wet with the fear of others, wet with their own dreams.
Amy and I had been dating a couple months when she asked me to come over to her place. I'd been over there every other day since we'd met, that wasn't out of the usual, but what threw me off was her backyard. I never thought about it before, we always just went inside and fooled around, so I had to ask if she'd always had the big cage.
Amy sat down on the steps of her porch. “You hate it.”
“No. No,” I said. “I love it. It's just not what I expected.” I have a healthy fear of big cages. It was something I only told my closest friends, but it very rarely comes up outside of zoos.
She rested her forehead on her knees. “You don't love it.” She was crestfallen. I had let one bad experience, something that happened fifteen years ago, color an entire person, a whole relationship.
“No, I do. I do love it.” I sat next to her on the porch. “I love the big cage. On the bus ride over I was hoping you'd have a big cage in the backyard. We used to have one when I was a kid. Big cages are my favorite kind.”
She glanced up at me. “...really?” Her eyes were huge. Freakishly so, but I loved her. I loved her and her huge, freakish eyes.
“Absolutely.”
She stood up and walked over to the cage, opening the door. “Okay,” she said. “Get in.” She wanted me to prove it to her. My love for her was now tied up in my love for the big cage. At that point there was nothing I wanted less than to see her sad, so I proved it – I proved my love for her.
Amy looked through the bars at me, her eyes empty. She might have even looked through me and at the bars behind me. Or maybe past thos…

The sun was going down now. I looked up as a plane buzzed overhead, then another. Amy was sat on the porch watching me. I don't know how much time had passed, but eventually she spoke. She said, “Dana, baby.”
“Yes, Amy?”
“Dana, baby. I love you so much.”
“I love you too, darlin.”
She stood up. “I'll bring you something to eat in the morning, okay?”
“Amy,” I said, “why are you doing this?”
She started back towards the house. “I already told you.”
“Told me what, Amy?”
She looked back. “That I love you.” And with that she went inside and shut the door.
There you have it. Love is real. I started to go through everything that had led me to that moment. The bus ride over, our first date, that thing at McDonald's – What could I have done differently? Probably nothing. How could anyone see this coming? I don't know. They probably couldn't.
The sun had sank completely and I could see lights blinking on and off in the night sky. There was no use in analyzing, I knew I needed to get out. The cage wasn't mounted to anything, it was just rested on the lawn. I bent down and grasped the bars, lifting carefully as to not let it topple over too hard lest it alert Amy to my leaving. I walked as quickly as I could out towards the street and hopped the first bus I saw back north towards Aurora.
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It was around midnight when I got home. Corey was laid up on the couch with some western playing on the TV. He sat upright and threw an arm over the back of the couch to look at me. “Ayy, how’d it go?”
I put a hand on the wall and started to kick off my sneakers. “Well. She put me in a cage, and then she told me, ‘I love you,’ and went back in the house.”
“And then what?”
“I fucked off.”
“Huh,” Corey said. “It wasn’t like a sex thing?”
I walked to the kitchen and sat down at the table. “No? I don’t think so? Everything was so normal for like two months. She was normal.”
Corey got on his knees and rested his elbows on the back of the couch. “First off,” he called out, “no…

He stood and started for the kitchen. “Do you hear yourself?”
“Yes!” I said. “I know! It’s crazy! But I thought she was the one.”
He sat down on the kitchen table and put a hand on my shoulder. “You thought she was the one? This woman that ate all my motherfuckin cereal when you brought her over.”
“Yeah.”
“Drank all my orange juice.”
“Yes.”
He jerked his hand off of me with a wave. “Get the fuck outta here.”
I sat with my elbows braced against my legs, my hands pulling my hair back. “What if I just ruined my whole relationship, man?”
Corey leaned down. “How?”
“Like, what if she was doing a bit?”
“A bit? What was the bit?” He hopped off the table. “Didn’t your mom used to put you in a cage when you was a kid?”
“I never told her about that.”
“Dana,” he said.
I looked up at him. “She told me she loves me.”
“Dana, beautiful.” He looked sorry for me. “You can’t go back.”
For weeks the cage was all I thought about but I knew I had to let it go. A couple of months passed and eventually my friends told me to get back out there. Don't let an old relationship define a new one. Move on. So I did. I matched on a dating app with a woman named Rachel and we ended up going to a show the same night. Her eyes were big, but not like Amy's eyes. They were big in a different way, plus her hair was a different color. It was longer, too.
She invited me back to her place – a little rental she had just moved into – and I hate to say it but I think I fell in love with her that night. After a few weeks I even told her as much. She said it back, and all was well. Great, actually. She texted me not long later saying she wanted me to come stay the night so I headed over that evening.
When I got there the sun was beginning to set and Rachel was already on the porch. She ran over, throwing her arms around my waist and said, "Dana! I have something for you!” She reached into my back pocket and took my phone out.
“Is it... my phone?”
“No!” she said smiling, and sat it down on th…

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Chip (aka Josh) @chipcheezum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hey folks, I made the launch trailer for CONTROL Resonant, please check it out I think it's good. And then also buy the videogame because I think that's good too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqvA...

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CONTROL Resonant - Launch Trailer

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sociohat @sociohat.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

omelas mayor: there's only one way to stop roko's basilisk.. you've trained for this, omelas baby omelas baby: heh.. that machine thinks eternal torment means anything to me?

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Emily Aster @emilyaster.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Live now with Session 3 of Silver Swallow! www.twitch.tv/EmilyAster

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Emily Aster @emilyaster.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"extended cut MHW:A trailer" look inside it's Teostra It's alright gang we didn't have to bring this one over

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Emily Aster @emilyaster.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Alright everyone, it's finally time- The Canto 10 Book Report starts now! www.twitch.tv/EmilyAster

Emily in place of Meursault in the Chains of Others EGO image

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ondy @ondydev.com · 14/09/2026

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 14/09/2026

It's TIME! TO! GET! HYPE! Today, I get to proudly unveil Steam Hype, the project I've been working on with the help of @hookshot.media for the past two and a half months. A new PC gaming site which aims to demystify PC gaming, cut through the 100+ daily releases and spotlight indies as much as AAA

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Steam Hype

Steam Hype is your go-to destination for discovering the latest, greatest, and most talked-about games on Steam.

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DrDubz @nuclearhog.farm · 14/09/2026

I'm reposting the Junkmech Jamboree because I wanna do another one sometime somehow and it's hands down one of the funniest streams I ever put on in no small part thanks to @tietuesday.bsky.social @emilyaster.bsky.social @wanderingnewbie.bsky.social and @sword.zone www.youtube.com/watch?v=ienz...

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JUNKMECH JAMBOREE AC6 RR Tourney with friends!

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slowbeef @effinslowbeef.com · 12/09/2026

shirt at a GameStop Radish: you have to get this, it’s so you So I did Radish: this is the smartest investment this family has ever made

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authorblues @authorblu.es · 13/09/2026

The return of Ace Attorney is happening now twitch.tv/authorblues

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Emily Aster @emilyaster.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The trailer for 'You Can See Everything' might be the best I've ever seen

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Emily Aster @emilyaster.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If they really wanted first person combat in StarCraft they should have made the next one a high budget Natural Selection send tweet

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Tie, Rapidly Approaching @tietuesday.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Welcome to [TIE]FLINE: Chat Action Adventure Starring TieTuesday and You! twitch.tv/tietuesday

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Emily Aster @emilyaster.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Bro that scream at 0:18 is so crispy and out of place that I legit looked to see what else was making noise

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sebmal @mrdo.pro · 11/09/2026

look man i'm sorry i'm not getting over this puzzle anytime soon www.twitch.tv/sebmal

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Emily Aster @emilyaster.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I'm gonna need more of my friends to get into Limbus, if for no other reason than I live off the reactions

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Shiburizu! @shib.live · 11/09/2026

If I ever had to choose one video for a hall of fame FGC out of context gallery it would be this one youtu.be/DT2739stEl8

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Japanese Sherry and IFC Yipes Voice Dub

YouTube video by AsianCrisis

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My Name is Grant @mynameisgrant.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“We feel it’s important to have agents with every skill focus in the book” said Director Patel, directly to people from the Something Awful Trad Games board.

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