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They also said Rewind was "new tooling". So presumably he's been remade from CAD to divorce him from the Blaster tools. So you have to factor him into the tooling speculation too.

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That seems plausible! But generally, my point is that the Takara guys are artistically motivated (not just business motivated) to maximize the output of every steel tool they can get their hands on.

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No where. This is comprehensively bullshit. What's happening is people without home economic skills making up ridiculous stories in which their own poor spending habits are Good Actually

Ain't that howlback a girl?

Jack @kuuga.bsky.social · 14h

I think it's because they had a budget for one new steel tooling and the people at Takara are crazy Auteurs who love playing Tooling Tetris and ekeing as much new toy out of the budget as possible. See also: Legacy Cosmos.

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Not all of us are spending huge amounts of time over on X the Everything App. Competent adults have the ability and responsibility to remove themselves from situations that emotionally dysregulate them, especially when that dysregulation leads to posts like these.

Jack @kuuga.bsky.social · 17h

1) becoming a forever GM is an easy pit to fall into and it's important that your players don't take you for granted 2) there are lots of ways to reduce the workload, such as playing other games with less demanding prep and/or structurally incentivized player participation

Jack @kuuga.bsky.social · 18h

You can much more easily point to our demented president, his tariff obsession, and his energy-crisis-inducing dipshit wars.

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Jack @kuuga.bsky.social · 19h

I also know a lot of unemployed and underemployed people! They are mostly queer, disabled, otherwise marginalized, or some combination. But that's because I run in atypical, marginalized circles. Their suffering and plight is very real, but it is not *representative* of a pan-American plight.

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Jack @kuuga.bsky.social · 19h

But also: I don't know how old you are. But were you a working adult in 2019? In 2009? How much of your life was even eligible to be aware of unemployment among your peers? This is why individual human recall and sentiment is unreliable. Data and rigor is how we become serious & informed thinkers.

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Jack @kuuga.bsky.social · 19h

Right now =/= 2023 and 2024 when the peak divergence happened. It's frustrating to explain this over and over again. Trump is now, actually, making the economy bad. it was not bad 2-3 years ago.

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Jack @kuuga.bsky.social · 20h

And I think a lot of people became very dependent on subsidized luxuries like food delivery and lashed out when rising service-industry wages and decreased Venture Capital subsidies made those extravagant services less ridiculously cheap. I think it's a multivalent epistemic crisis.

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Jack @kuuga.bsky.social · 20h

But I also think a lot of young people, who were impressionable children during and after the 2008 crash, have mental models of prices that are "sticky". I think people react disproportionately to a price increase from $9 to $10 vs. a price increase from $7 to $9, because of Emotional Numbers

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Jack @kuuga.bsky.social · 20h

Why can't I say social media? I think it contributes the same way it contributes to all sorts of other sociopolitical phenomena (racial paranoia, trans panic, etc). You have influencers creating unrealistic expectations of median QoL, and a neverending deluge of depressing stories in the algorithm.

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In the last 50 years, the public perception of the US economy has never been as pessimistic as it was during the past ~3 years of historically good metrics

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we've been robble robble'd of justice for too long

Raven Lyn Clemens @ravenlynclemens.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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most people don't want to save the world and would rather masturbate to transformers porn instead

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In the years following COVID

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Did the percentage of people making the federal minimum wage increase, decrease, or stay the same since 2009?

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Or indeed Shadow generations.

The Lexorcist @lexidarlingxoxo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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I’m at the Pizza Hut. I’m at the house of leaves. I’m at the combi s n e a v t a i e o l n fo esuoh & tuh azzip

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Also, as ever, a large cohort of distinctly reactionary personalities who only caucus here because their demographic memberships exclude them from the right-wing communities for which they are more temperamentally suited.

In theory it should be a really great toy and I have both of its existing decos. But the severe lack of heel support, the issues with torso compression, and shoulder ratchets that feel like they tear themselves apart... It's less than the sum of its parts.

BA Roth Spooktacular 🏳️‍⚧️ @uncannyzuck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I can hear John's voice from JL/U perfectly in my head.

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So, I uh started drawing up a crossover. Here's a one-page gag

Five-panel comic:
Panels 1-2: panning shot from left to right of Green Lantern Jon Stewart eating lunch in the Watchtower cafeteria. Across the table (panel 2), sits the Flash, Wally West. Between them, oddly enough, is a Robot Master, Quickman. He's just watching
Jon, talking to Wally: "I can't believe a kid like you had never played a Megaman game. I know I still fire up my copy of Megaman 2 on my days off. Even if I still can't get past those lasers without the Time Stopper."
Wally: "Listen GL, I was a Sonic kid because Genesis does what Nintendon't."
Panel 3: Batman approaches their table, holding a tray.
Batman: "I did a Buster-only speedrun for Gotham's All Games Done Quick."
Panel 4: the other three characters staring in shock
Panel 5: Closeup on Batman
Batman: "It was for charity."

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 07/10/2026

A huge number of people do not have the emotional self regulation skills necessary to safely operate a motor vehicle.

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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 08/10/2026

disingenuous and utterly misleading reporting by RPS here: Discord did not suffer any kind of breach this is a completely-unaffiliated-with-Discord service

Gaming chat app Discord has suffered another user data breach, with a suspected 1 million email addresses stolen alongside (potentially many more) user IDs and IP addresses. While Discord was not targeted directly, third party security service Double Counter have reported a "deliberate, multi-stage attack" wherein hackers spent nearly six hours poking around their infrastructure before the vulnerability was closed.

Double Counter essentially acts as a bouncer bot for Discord servers, promising to detect and block unsanctioned alt accounts and prevent hostile 'raids' by large groups of malicious users. While its efficacy in that mission is debated by Discord users, and the service has previously been accused of selling user data for revenue, the fact is that Double Counter can collect and store personal info of the users that visit its 'protected' servers. Info that, now, has been partly or entirely nicked by Internet miscreants.

By Double Counter’s own estimates, around 1 million user email addresses have been affected, with databases of Discord IDs, usernames, IP addresses, and even location info for up to 28 million users also "partly" copied by the hackers. Security breach trackers Have I Been Pwned further report that 275,000 of the pinched emails and usernames have since been posted publicly.

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This headline is extremely misleading. Neither Discord, nor any entity affiliated with or trusted by Discord, was hacked. The hack was against an unofficial 3rd party moderation service that some server operators use. Discord gave them zero sensitive information. It all came from willing users.

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Because telling the truth is always correct and lying because you hate a company is always wrong.

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Discord didn't trust these guys. Discord didn't give them anything. It's a third party that operates moderation bots in individual servers.

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Also I think right wing and centrist concern trolls, by JAQing off and feigning concern, successfully poisoned an entire generation against *actually* asking questions or considering side-effects.

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It's all almost proudly juvenile. There's this ridiculous sentiment that moral authority automagically exempts you from the hard work of determining what's true, being an effective tactician, or making sacrifices.

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Or the mythology that taxing billionaires is sufficient to bring about an expansive welfare state without taxing the middle class. Or that "companies cause climate change" rather than consumption.

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