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Revealing my bias, here, and this won't come as a shock to anyone who knows me, but I cannot overstate how much I hate the concept of "immersion" as it exists in the gaming culture imaginary. Truly just an absolutely absurd idea.

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Bartle throwing hands at MMO design was very entertaining and then I heard the words "voice chat breaks immersion" and I immediately fell asleep

Huh. They remade (well, sequel'ed) A Different World? Interesting. Innnnnteresting. Has anyone seen it?

Fox Harper @foxharper.bsky.social · 5h

"We're never again going to be able to be dominated by officials saying 'trust the experts'." THAT IS WHAT EXPERTS ARE FOR. YOU IDIOT. YOU TINY AMOEBIC LUNCHBOX. JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.

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I'm FUNNY laugh at my FUNNY JOKES thank you

Fox Harper @foxharper.bsky.social · 5h

Okay I was busy yesterday so catching up, the big story was Republican senators trying to do a McCarthy and failing, using [puts on reading glasses] basketball?

Fox Harper @foxharper.bsky.social · 17h

For the FF14 crowd: one of the better bits I ever did was "FF14 Endwalker dungeons in a single line" and having been inspired today, I bring you DAWNTRAIL DUNGEONS IN A SINGLE LINE (spoilers, obv)

Ihuykatumu -- No. 1 killer of manatees: speedboats. No. 2 killer of manatees: ME.
Worqor Zormor -- ♫ The hiiiiiiiiills are aliiiiiiiive with the sooooound of murrrrrderrrrrrr
Skydeep Cenote -- Please keep all hands and arms inside this reality at all times.
Vanguard -- I think putting a weaponized Best Buy on your country's border feels extreme
Origenics -- Wonka factory got fucking sinister, dawg
Alexandria -- Oh shit, Norton Antivirus got hands
Tender Valley -- Why that cactus so caked up
Strayborough Deadwalk -- FUCK OFF
Yuweyuata Field Station -- RABBIT SEASON
Underkeep -- Bro your basement is not zoned for this addition
Meso Terminal -- Computer, end program
Mistwake -- Hope you like the FF9 combat music
Clyteum -- In Soviet Garlemald, demons summon you

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Fox Harper @foxharper.bsky.social · 20h

Sooooooooo what's goin' on with the Astarion book? I wasn't gonna read it so feel free to DM me to avoid spoilers.

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Fox Harper @foxharper.bsky.social · 20h

I love how much the SRW games love Domon Kasshu because I could probably watch the bit of G Gundam where the Final Burger King blows up Devil Gundam with the power of love on loop forever and never get tired

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Fox Harper @foxharper.bsky.social · 21h

There's an actual play podcast looking for folks w/performance or podcasting experience and I have to admit I'm VERY tempted, but two things are getting in my way 1. I don't know if it's in-person or online or not and I obv can't attend in person in Ohio and

I think a big problem with brainstorming ways to fix journalism in general and games journalism in specific as an industry is that the source of a lot of the issues -- and in an "only a few steps away" sense, not a "capitalism is to blame for everything" sense -- cannot be solved by ANY model

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Wait is the kid from Gunpowder Milkshake the daughter from D&D Honor Among Thieves? How did I never notice that?

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given lots of things that have happened today, in my field and in the field friends work in I just keep thinking "sometimes for new growth to happen you have to let the entire forest burn first" and I am fully clinging to that tiny plank of wood like a life raft

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Have any of y'all seen pieces critiquing (or at least analyzing) the KH in Fortnite thing, or just comprehensive looks at how Fortnite crossovers use other IP in general?

Ah, good. Another day where I know me saying one wrong thing is all that stands between me and people posting about how fat I am online. Great. Day going great.

I woke up, foolishly opened this stupid website, and this was the first thing I saw and now I’m just… overwhelmed emotionally. Usually this stuff makes me angry but right now I just want to not exist.

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God I FORGOT there was an actual GDC presentation that was just some guy photoshopping Dante into gay shit (like Brokeback Mountain or whatever) You ever just think about how EMBARASSING DmC Dante is, fundamentally

Eorzea Collection remains useless for wardrobe inspo because the first thing every gposer does is apply six pounds of digital vaseline to the lens so you have no idea what the real color, or in some cases SHAPE, of the clothing you're about to commit to actually IS.

Finished Stop! That! Train! (didn't realize all the !s are mandatory) It's... fine. It is an "Airplane!" ripoff from top to bottom and the problem with attempting to mimic a style as iconic as Kentucky Fried Theater's is that you are never going to get it entirely right and it shows.

Okay I DID enjoy "You just got a presidential address and it's 1600 Out-of-my-way-bitch Boulevard"

Was Soul Hackers 2 any good? I know some of you played it.

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Every once in a while, because I'm a narcissist I guess, I check my google scholar profile to see if/how my work is being cited in other people's work It is it a supremely strange experience

I am watching Stop That Train because I'm actually extremely fucking depressed today which makes me just a TINY bit desperate but I am not quite as desperate as these filmmakers are to rip off "Airplane!".

I mean you should listen to the ep but frankly at this POINT in the ep it was just us going "why did he DO that"

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Honestly that Aftermath article on Slow Roads just reminding me some weekend I need to get in the car and just drive into rural Maryland away from the city. Like the thing I have discovered now that I'm driving semi-regularly again after 13 years of not doing that is that driving is ANXIOUS AS FUCK

Okay what I have learned is that they rebooted Elm Street and everyone hated it so they ignore it.

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hold up, this is a legit question because I know nothing about most horror stuff -- nightmare on elm st is problematic? can I get some context on the situation

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In the first ep of every GBBO season I usually find and identify the baker who is just my antithesis, who I'm going to spend all season hating. This newest season's representative of the genre is the worst that's ever been. I just want to hurl them into a combine harvester.

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"The experience points they earn in combat are distributed among your units at the map's end." WOW INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS IT ONLY TOOK YOU LIKE THIRTY YEARS TO DO THIS.

The irony being, and sorry for what I'm about to say, that part of what's made it hard to deal with learning I have ADHD for example is how much the way we TALK about neurodivergence online seems focused on "I have [x] so I'm a delicate smol bean and you have to be SO CAREFUL with me"

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thinking about how fucking overtime my brain works to argue to me that rejection sensitivity isn't a thing. like, just the wide array of arguments and interpretations and questions that get used in my internal monologue for the sole purpose of assuring me that I'm an oversensitive porcelain doll

Bun @saltcrossbuns.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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Finally fall asleep, have an escaping-the-undead dream that has a whole sequence set to a jingle. 🎵"Getting hit with boulders does big damage; go rocks!"🎵

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Fox Harper @foxharper.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is me and Saints Row 4. Adding the superpower features where you can dash and super jump and glide everywhere does feel cool on its own but I ended up missing the simple joy of carjacking someone and driving irresponsibly across the city to get to my next destination.

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never mind I found the avswer

Fox Harper @foxharper.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

bitch what do you do if they say no

another baker got a great compliment on their cake and this bitch started snapping with one hand in the air they are FULLY my favorite and we're one challenge in

i was JUST sitting down for my favorite gbbo premiere sport, "which fuckers are gay," when they introduce the most they/them-looking individual with a mustache and two sausage dogs who's a drag queen in a polyam thruple with two masc-looking folks

He just said "just to add a little kick to me compote" and I'm LOSING MY MIND. Imagine 1992 Scott Thompson as Buddy Kohl, visually, saying this.

A tiny blond twink with a heavy Northern accent is SENDING ME

MPREG in the first [checks timestamp] 5 minutes of this GBBO season

How do you get over your attachment to characters when a game ends?

You know I keep thinking about this, b/c "hyper-empathy" comes up in it, and that was a thing I read about recently in a book called "Is It Autism?" (a recommended read from my therapist) which was focused on highlighting less stereotyped signs of autism. www.mothership.blog/how-do-you-g...

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"The game coming to an end almost feels like grief. There is an emptiness and sense of loss that I don't know how to fill..."

I have no horse in this race because the answer is always "depends on the context" but the "lady pantyhose/gentleman smoking" question is berserk to me. the rhetorical attempt feels like saying "demanding people not bring lattes into interviews is as old-fashioned as those things"? but like, is it?

Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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I do in fact send emails like this all the time haha. ( @nickstatt.bsky.social and I kind of had a good cop / bad cop routine going for a while with unreasonable requests lol but after a year of that, the requests mostly got more reasonable ) www.tiktok.com/@decoderpod/...

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a lot of what we do here is just saying no

TikTok video by Decoder with Nilay Patel

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It is 9am and so far everything I've done today has made me furious. This does not feel like a good omen.

I paid 5 mil for this hair and I dunno if it was worth it but I simply CANNOT do another run of the first pokémon gym farming it anymore. I really find Beastmaster astonishingly boring.

My ff14 femme au ra from the front. She's got dark red hair cut somewhat short, with slightly long and messy bangs and strands hanging down near both ears.

the same char from the back; she has a barrette in an "IX" shape just behind her right ear; the back of her hair is neck length and messy but is pulled up top into a small, tight bun

This might sound weird to say about a Netease game which is, as far as I can tell, a high-def testboard for applying soft body physics to titties, but I think (other than Midnight Suns and, weirdly, Tokon) Marvel Rivals might be one of the best-written Marvel representations of Deadpool?