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Calliope @gdcalliope.northsky.social · 01/10/2026

@firefox.com you see how I turned your LLM shit *off* but a bunch of your LLM shit is *on* despite that? Go fuck yourself

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Calliope @gdcalliope.northsky.social · 11/09/2026

Now I've got #TolkienTide sewn up for... for the foreseeable future

Photo of two books, noth by Tolkien. The first is an omnibus titled The History of Middle Earth Part Three. The second is Unfinished Tales.

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Calliope @gdcalliope.northsky.social · 10/09/2026

Fromsoft's little "please pay attention to us while we drop a little dlc as a treat" event may be silly, but also it got me and a friend to finally suck it up and start INT main characters. Here's Hondor the Great. It wouldn't let me put Hondor the Magnificient, but in our hearts, that's her name

A bloodied character in Elden Ring, holding a shield, wearing a green and red tabard. Her hair is white and she has a page boy cut.

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Calliope @gdcalliope.northsky.social · 04/09/2026

I think this is the first one of these that actually got it right The image is harder to read on its own. It landed on Kentucky, correctly mydialect.us/quiz-standar...

Dialect map of the US: Kentucky is the most strongly red shaded, indicating I sound like I'm from there.

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Calliope @gdcalliope.northsky.social · 14/07/2026

I actually click the menu and hit "Don't Recommend Channel" for clickbait bullshit like this -- and I think everyone needs to start. Coming at an Ultima retrospective with the idea that "no one talks about it" is both ludicrous and unhelpful.

screenshot of a youtube recommendation. The thumbnail says "The Ultima Story." The actual title is "The Most Important RPG Nobody Talks About"

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Calliope @gdcalliope.northsky.social · 07/07/2026

I was excited for the new GitS but I hadn't caught until now that it's on Amazon. So I had to stop watching anything on Prime video because it all looks like this Does anyone know how to fix this? I've searched and searched and all the support assumes one is using an app. This is just in firefox.

screenshot of the first minute of Science Saru's Ghost in the Shell. All the colors are swapped like a photo negative, and also the subtitle menu popped up right before I took the screenshot for no reason.

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Calliope @gdcalliope.northsky.social · 10/06/2026

someone in chat told me my victory screen looked like a meme, and that Hondor and Radahn should be captioned. I'm drawing a blank though, so I bequeath to you the uncaptioned image. Go, and let inspiration carry you to new heights

Screenshot from Elden Ring. PC's back is to camera; she's wearing a cape and a giant clay pot on her head. Facing us, past the PC, is a giant dumbass in fancy lion armor, holding a sword. Their creepy boo's luminous hair is visible behind them; they've been giving their boo uppies.

Radahn, the idiot, is stumbling backwards in a comical way, bent at the waist and back but with both feet still planted on the ground. The usual detritus of a Fromsoft game's UI is around.

Hondor used the Fingerprint Shield and the Antspur Rapier, I know one of you sickos is going to ask. You can see them equipped in the bottom left corner of the UI.

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Calliope @gdcalliope.northsky.social · 10/05/2026

Something that baffles me is all the directors and actors and fans obsessed with "method acting" (despite not knowing what it actually means) who won't frame or laud shots like this

Photo of Yojimbo, where Mifune is midly disgusted stage right while three geisha dance and flirt at the camera and their madam smirks at Mifune

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Calliope @gdcalliope.northsky.social · 09/05/2026

For what it's worth it certainly is "does your dog bite" according to the songwriter, who sells vinyl albums now with the lyrics on a custom sheet

A lyrics sheet including the line "does your dog bite"

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Calliope @gdcalliope.northsky.social · 29/04/2026

At certain angles, the Analogue screen is very reflective, I've learned

A yellow Analogue Pocket (a modern FPGA Gameboy console) sits on a partly filled crossword printout. Jeff Gerstmann's face is reflected upside down in the Pocket's screen.

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Calliope @gdcalliope.northsky.social · 21/04/2026

Can anyone identify this truck? I got to trying to remember it and it's just about the only photo I have. I think it was a Ford but I'm not certain. It's possible I'm mixing it up with an older truck

A photo of a red truck inconveniently parked behind a large spray of flowers so you can't see the badge.

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Calliope @gdcalliope.northsky.social · 16/04/2026

I had one of those shouty "we don't make them like this" moments and this was the frame

Photo of my TV with a still frame of The Long Goodbye. A beat up bus has arrived in a small Mexican town with tree-covered hills prominently rising in the background

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Calliope @gdcalliope.northsky.social · 10/04/2026

I can't tell you how many times I've told my partner some variation of "you could have won a gentleman"

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Calliope @gdcalliope.northsky.social · 12/03/2026

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Screenshot of the title page of the trailer of the Laid Back Camp game on steam

Screenshot of the recommendations / relevancy on the same page, suggesting I'd be interested because it is similar to Elden Ring and Sea of Thieves

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Calliope @gdcalliope.northsky.social · 09/02/2026

LLM Ghouls understand anything even once challenge, failed.

screenshot of an email I received at my institutional address. The text reads:

We’ll also cover:

How to align innovation with institutional priorities like equity, access, and retention.
How to automate the drudgery of feedback and reclaim your time.
Creating motivation-rich spaces using Self-Determination Theory.
Redesigning assignments to focus on inquiry over final products.
Real examples from the field: What’s working, what’s failing, and what’s next.

It’s time to stop fighting the "AI arms race" and start building a future that works for both you and your students.

The point about the drudgery of feedback has been underlined.

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Calliope @gdcalliope.northsky.social · 09/01/2026

G-Warrior my beloved www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Ut...

my WoL sitting on the shoulder of the G-Warrior

screenshot of two characters sitting on the shoulders of Alphonse, a mech from Patlabor

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Calliope @gdcalliope.northsky.social · 01/01/2026

Getting in a round of my top rogue like of 2025

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Calliope @gdcalliope.northsky.social · 31/12/2025

A... feckless traveler who doesn't seem to work freeloading on his friend who is landed gentry and therefore absolutely does not work (Irving, Bracebridge Hall)

A green square with white text reading: You are now forced to have the same job as the main character in the last book you read. What is the job?

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Calliope @gdcalliope.northsky.social · 21/12/2025

remind me why I use crunchyroll? (monopoly shit I know) I have English set to my default subtitle language in my profile settings and not only is it displaying in German for some reason, but I *can't choose English at all* This would have been easier for them to just put all languages in this menu

crunchy subs menu showing German, French, and Italian, and absolutely nothing else

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Calliope @gdcalliope.northsky.social · 16/12/2025

I scrolled through every game I played on steam this year and I think "fox" is Dungeons of Aether

image of Fleet from Dungeons of Aether, an anthropomorphic fox grinning with his eyes closed

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Calliope @gdcalliope.northsky.social · 16/12/2025

oh yeah right what the fuck is "fox?" Also these numbers are unfortunately kind of bullshit because ff14 isn't included, nor is Grim Dawn which I spent the summer replaying. And I'm playing a lot of the og Doom games atm

Calliope's Steam Replay 2025. 77 games played, 24 fewer than last year. 420 achievements unlocked (haha it's the funny number), 261 fewer than last year.

12% played with mouse and keyboard. 88% with controller.

Elden Ring is 19% of my playtime, 176 sessions played.

Hades 2 is 9% of my play time, 73 sessions played.

Monster Hunter Wilds is 8% of my playtime, 51 sessions played.

a heat map thingie shows that I played a lot of souls-like games, as well a a number of hunting, action roguelike, tactical rpg, and roguelike deckbuilder games. also I didn't play much of a category labeled only as "fox."

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Calliope @gdcalliope.northsky.social · 14/12/2025

the way bsky displays threads led me to initially read this very differently lol

bsky skipped the skeet upthread that has the actual punchline

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Calliope @gdcalliope.northsky.social · 11/12/2025

"Wow, something went wrong with my yoyo." *Opens it, peers through bifocals at the axle housing. "Wait hold on"

Half a yoyo with the response pad badly torn off the surface

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Calliope @gdcalliope.northsky.social · 09/11/2025

I don't know what to tell you I bought it and it's soooooo good (but they still did one of my favorite game dialogue lines dirty so I quote the OG)

Mamdani sign meme generator reading "BLAME YOURSELF or god," a quotation from the original translation of Final Fantasy Tactics

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Calliope @gdcalliope.northsky.social · 30/10/2025

I cannot sufficiently explain in words the delights that come from having subscribed to Terry Cavanagh on Itch (here's the game link: terrycavanagh.itch.io/egg )

screenshot of an email announcement of Cavanagh's new game, Egg. It says, "Why not be an egg" and "egg, egg, egg , egg"

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Calliope @gdcalliope.northsky.social · 25/10/2025

I'm pretty sure it's the back of Gomez's chair, you can see the support sticking up as well

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Calliope @gdcalliope.northsky.social · 17/10/2025

Ya girl (gender tbd) is wiped out by an illness or allergies or fucking something so

Album sleeve for Wussy's What Heaven Is Like

Disc of Wussy's What Heaven Is Like sitting on a turntable.

A teapot and bowl shaped tea cup sitting on a table.

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Calliope @gdcalliope.northsky.social · 11/10/2025

it comes with a cd too let's gooooo

I bought the Pete & Pete soundtrack on vinyl right after making these skeets

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Calliope @gdcalliope.northsky.social · 28/09/2025

a vinyl rerelease of Blueberry Boat and NO ONE TOLD ME until it was ALREADY SOLD OUT

Spock looking very sad clutching at a computer

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Calliope @gdcalliope.northsky.social · 13/09/2025

I love the work you're doing! Also I think the css on the site is borked, at least for one of the modes? Dark or light? Also every time I try to put in alt text my page resets alt text: screenshot of Northsky signup confirmation page with most of the text white on a white background

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Calliope @gdcalliope.northsky.social · 05/09/2025

I cannot express to you how loud my partner got when I posted this in group chat (a couple of months ago to be clear, I just realized I never posted here)

screenshot of my character in Final Fantasy 14. The game's giant "Level Up!" text is visible, and I am a frog, meaning I am unable to fight or perform actions. I am famous amongst our free company for being delighted any time a boss turns me into a frog, because the model and animation are so funny. She had eagerly anticipated this moment in the main scenario quest, but to her total astonishment I leveled up via the xp given when entering a new area.

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Calliope @gdcalliope.northsky.social · 26/08/2025

Hellllooooo unseasonable weather

Photo of my backyard and stuff on a picnic table including a tea pot, radio, and book.

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Calliope @gdcalliope.northsky.social · 20/08/2025

I had to go sideways to fit enough on screen but I'm not seeing that. Did you turn off the LLM shit in ddg settings?

Screenshot of ddg search result for Chartreuse that is not being summed up in marketing speak

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Calliope @gdcalliope.northsky.social · 15/08/2025

I have no idea why Audiosurf isn't showing up, it's the first thing I ever purchased on Steam. Also why are these out of order?

in reverse order:

Humble Indie Bundle
Humble Indie Bundle 2 - retail
Civilization 5 - Digital Deluxe
Team Fortress 2 - In-Game Upgrade
Sid Meier's Civilization III: Complete
Humble Indie Bundle 3
Magicka
Terraria
Monkey Island: Special Edition
Half-Life 2 Classic

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Calliope @gdcalliope.northsky.social · 09/07/2025

sometimes I wonder who is filling in the alt text on gifs that we, quite rightly, expect to be done already

screenshot of a gif playing while the alt text reads "a close up of a man 's face in front of a screen that says ' dna '" while it is absolutely not that in any way; it's O'Brien in Deep Space 9 saying "he wasn't just a hero, he was a union man"

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Calliope @gdcalliope.northsky.social · 02/07/2025

holy fucking shit en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...

Congratulations! You have decided to read the Wikipedia article on the book If on a winter's night a traveler (Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore), a novel published in 1979 by Italo Calvino. To get here you forced your way through the thick barricade of Wikipedia entries on completely unrelated topics, ignoring the massed forces of the Articles on Topics About Which You Know Nothing and Care Even Less, pushing past the glowering acres of Articles You Feel a Vague Inclination to Read, Perhaps This Sunday. This having been done, you find yourself assaulted by the footmen of the Articles Regarding Subjects You Pretend to Have Expertise In But In Fact Do Not, who advance upon you together with the Articles On Something Everyone Else Understands Thus Leaving You With A Vague And Sinking Feeling Of Guilt, and the Articles On Subjects You Would Love To Understand Better But Unfortunately You Are Not Immortal. Having eluded these perils, you reach the phalanxes of:

1. the Articles On Things You've Been Really Meaning To Get Better At;
2. the Articles Whose Subject Matter You Once Knew, And Now Wish To Recall;
3. the Articles On Things That Seem Rather Useful;
4. the Articles About Things You Need To Do Relatively Soon;

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Calliope @gdcalliope.northsky.social · 25/06/2025

Ask me tomorrow, get a different answer.

Fave games of the 21stC

Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
2. Hades
3. Shadow of the Colossus
4. Team Fortress 2
5. Portal
6. Morrowind
7. Hitman 2: Silent Assassin
8. Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker
9. Mario Odyssey
10. Undertale

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Calliope @gdcalliope.northsky.social · 19/06/2025

I'm taking the plunge and putting my fiction online after years of the cop in my head telling me that it ruins your chances of ever getting "really published." Fuck that shit! Read my story for 3 bucks! That's cheap! gconleymagicart.itch.io/there-are-mi... Spread this around! Notes in a comment

A transgender sysadmin is startled by the appearance of a magical city floating over the port and yearns to somehow arrive in its untarnished streets. A tale of near-future cyberpunk ennui, fantasy, and coming out aggressively to bigots online.

But it was spring, and I felt pretty good, like when you're up at two am drifting through back alleys until you have to clean the shit out of your hand before it seizes up. That feeling where you're gonna do something stupid but you don't care yet. The sky was that color it gets when the humidity isn't up yet but the air's finally warm. I had my beer in one of those fall-apart plastic sacks from China, the safe ones, and you know how quickly they tear up. But I took a long route home that landed me outside the port as the sun set.

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Calliope @gdcalliope.northsky.social · 12/06/2025

This is actually not all my unread book queue

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