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Kabanaw

@kabanaweso.me
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He/Him. I'm Kabanaw. I make music stuff in a big video game you've probably heard of. I don't really stream much anymore but pretty often guest on Pit Crew stuff!

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EvilToaster @eviltoaster.bsky.social · 20h
I've seen a lot of programmers really disrespect themselves thinking that genAI is "fine" when it comes to coding or w/e because it's not "art" Programming is an art. It requires creativity. And you're literally programming graphics, it's visual art. It's just art. It counts. AI coding is AI "art"
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Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 05/10/2026
one thing you learn from making a lot of things is that the nitty gritty details, the millions of tiny invisible decisions, ARE the art. The "higher level ideas" are not nearly as important or interesting
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Kabanaw @kabanaweso.me · 06/10/2026
Grottie has been hard at work @kcg.bsky.social
Greatures Level One inside cover with a signed drawing of Grottie
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Brandon Miracle @brandon.gvg.io · 05/10/2026
Remember when King Neptune AI slopped his hundreds of awful burgers in seconds and SpongeBob painstakingly made one delicious burger by hand
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minimatt.bsky.social @minimatt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Don’t weigh in on the ethics of child punching if you haven’t even punched a child today!!“ - man talking to pope
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Slio9 @slio9.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Big Walk: Big Orb www.twitch.tv/slio9
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Kabanaw @kabanaweso.me · 30/09/2026
If I can help it it'll be another 15 years at least but there's dark forces at play here I don't know if I can bestall
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Kabanaw @kabanaweso.me · 30/09/2026
Being from Massachusetts means being a hater and I'm glad she's leaning into her heritage early
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Kabanaw @kabanaweso.me · 30/09/2026
We're thinking that our kid's first word is "bubble" because she's been very into bubbles lately and keeps asking for us to open the bubble bottles (and blow them, I guess). Coming in close second is "boooo" because I was booing the cowboys during the ravens game and she joined in
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Kabanaw @kabanaweso.me · 30/09/2026
What are the odds that you could go back into this dude's post history and find something from "2-3 generations ago" saying almost the exact same thing
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Kabanaw @kabanaweso.me · 30/09/2026
Well that was a fun night of deadlock, I stayed up too late, back to just watching deadlock
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Kabanaw @kabanaweso.me · 28/09/2026
A nice bonus about the metered out release of Steel Ball Run is that I get regular reminders that my gender is Johnny Joestar
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Kabanaw @kabanaweso.me · 28/09/2026
one of the "it's so over we're so back" games of all time
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Kabanaw @kabanaweso.me · 28/09/2026
I jumped ship this year from the patriots to the ravens and I'm feeling pretty good about that tonight
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Kabanaw @kabanaweso.me · 24/09/2026
I had this exact thought earlier this week and wasn't brave enough to post it
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Kabanaw @kabanaweso.me · 22/09/2026
That all sounds really cool, I think one of the great things about ds9 is how it doesn't take place on a luxury cruiser. Though I've heard the show also makes you forget good acting exists
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Kabanaw @kabanaweso.me · 22/09/2026
This television show is going to drive me insane when I get there in my watch
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Kabanaw @kabanaweso.me · 21/09/2026
I do desperately want the seasons to come back though, all the stories with Caitl, Mithrax, Eris and Drifter, that's the good shit
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Kabanaw @kabanaweso.me · 21/09/2026
This is also my major concern, but also they have the red war, curse of osiris, warmind, forsaken, and all related destinations to do first, we'll see if they make it that far first lmao
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Kabanaw @kabanaweso.me · 21/09/2026
Also Bungie, you'd better hire back any staff that still trusts you, I want this chill period of unvaulting to be a chance for the stellar game devs you laid off to make something new and wonderful
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Kabanaw @kabanaweso.me · 21/09/2026
Wow, they're actually going to do this after the final update got a bigger pop than they thought, maybe there's hope for the future after all
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Kabanaw @kabanaweso.me · 18/09/2026
Birthday magfest... after 12 years of attending, finally a birthday magfest...
MAGFest registration completion page screenshot
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alexis nedd @alexisthenedd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
congrats to ed sheeran on his achievement
screenshot of an achievement from the game Disco Elysium. The achievement is titled "the world's most laughable centrist" for defending the political centre 7 times. 23.6% of players achieved this.
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Kabanaw @kabanaweso.me · 16/09/2026
I've seen people confused by him saying "I'm not complicit" and I have to assume he's responding to the idea that he's complicit in genocide, that's one of the only times you'd use that word. He's upset that people would say that his choices aide genocide (they do but he doesn't like it)
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Kabanaw @kabanaweso.me · 15/09/2026
It's so funny. Clearly bothered by their insta getting bombarded by comments calling them a piece of shit but too stubborn to actually consider that they have a point
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Kabanaw @kabanaweso.me · 15/09/2026
Don't say I'm complicit no guys please I want to stay on the fence please let me still be friends with billionaires while also not being mad at me :(
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Kabanaw @kabanaweso.me · 15/09/2026
Ed Sheeran has made $400 million from being a spineless coward who never pushes the buttons of people in power. Macklemore pushed him off the fence and he's so fucking mad that he's going to fall off.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…
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Kabanaw @kabanaweso.me · 14/09/2026
The Rays, Yankees, and Red Sox have the three best records in the American League. The Orioles and Blue Jays would probably have the next two best as well if they didn't have to play the first teams I mentioned more often than any other team
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Kabanaw @kabanaweso.me · 14/09/2026
It's a bummer that it looks like the red sox and yankees will face off in the wild card round of the playoffs. Not because I don't want the sox to have to beat them to advance, because both teams have significantly better records than the white sox and it's kinda silly how divisions work
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Kabanaw @kabanaweso.me · 14/09/2026
I continue to hate to be a wet blanket but all flavors of wow are still under the BDS boycott. Sorry to my friends that are very excited for it and my friends who work on it but I don't play wow anyways so the only way I can try to move the numbers is to remind y'all the boycott still exists
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Kabanaw @kabanaweso.me · 14/09/2026
Colm Meaney is a wonderful actor and we love to see him act :)
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Kabanaw @kabanaweso.me · 12/09/2026
I spent an hour and a half taking care of my baby by myself this morning, my reward is that I get to go swing a big stick around in a park now
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Kabanaw @kabanaweso.me · 12/09/2026
It really speaks to a profound lack of imagination, I could make up half a dozen ways an AI capable of breaking all human security could at least cause incredible societal turmoil. If they really fear this thing coming then shouldn't they be ideating what it might do and how to mitigate it?
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Topher Florence @topherflorence.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
nintendo direct announcer guy orders lunch
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Kabanaw @kabanaweso.me · 03/09/2026
I'm still thinking about this. They labeled the $80 package as "Best Value" despite the fact that none of the packages contain in-game currency. "Best Value" is supposed to mean that the conversion of dollars -> in-game currency is the lowest rate. The best value package gets you a third cowboy hat.
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Kelsey 💙 @rosella.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“For sale: baby shoes; never worn” *really* loses its tragedy when you’re a parent. Yeah, I’m also on my 5th pair trying to find one she’ll tolerate, and they’re like $45 so I get you trying to make some of that money back.
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Kabanaw @kabanaweso.me · 03/09/2026
I was so stoked to finally get into the monster hunter grind at the same time as my friends and then it took basically no time to get best in slot weapons. What a bummer of a game in pretty much every respect
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Kabanaw @kabanaweso.me · 03/09/2026
Yeah at the end of the day 1. Saves me 30 bux 2. It'll be more fun to start with everyone who's interested but gives less of a shit
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Kabanaw @kabanaweso.me · 03/09/2026
Maplestory was the game that taught me that gambling does great harm to the human spirit so the idea that they're charging this much for an early access period is just nostalgic honestly
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Kabanaw @kabanaweso.me · 03/09/2026
YEAH
Founder packages for maplestory classic world, the cheapest of which does not include founder access
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Kabanaw @kabanaweso.me · 03/09/2026
Lmao the $30 package doesn't get you access you need to pay 60 American dollars for two weeks of early access no thanks!!!
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Brian @kaboobi.com · 02/09/2026
add another one to the tally
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Kabanaw @kabanaweso.me · 01/09/2026
I did not feel particular joy voting for Markey because he's old as shit and should have endorsed a new progressive to take his place, but let me tell you. I felt immense joy not voting for that fucking worm Moulton
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Kabanaw @kabanaweso.me · 31/08/2026
Looks like MA ballot initiatives have been flooded with regressive bullshit this year. Limits on taxes, de-legalizing weed, and open primaries. The polling on these don't look great but also I hope people will learn more about it when anyone but the people funding it are talking about it.
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Kabanaw @kabanaweso.me · 31/08/2026
A hoonter is a hoonter
The Hunter archetype from Witchfire, a new shooter roguelike
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Kabanaw @kabanaweso.me · 31/08/2026
I'm just glad they didn't go for $40 (time to do some soul searching) or $50 (truly I would hope that I wouldn't but god help me I might)
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Kabanaw @kabanaweso.me · 31/08/2026
They announced you can get classic maplestory two weeks early for as low as $30. Unfortunately that was the price for me to buy it (begrudgingly). I was hoping it would be $20, the price for me to buy it (gladly)
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Kabanaw @kabanaweso.me · 31/08/2026
I don't follow AEW atm but it fills my heart with so much joy that Austin Creed and Kofi made their way out of WWE they deserve to do some non-maga wrestling
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Kabanaw @kabanaweso.me · 30/08/2026
Lmao as if people in Boston aren't still mad about arod slapping the glove
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