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leachjus.bsky.social @leachjus.bsky.social · 20h

Black Clover is a series of OPs tied loosely together by story beats and I won’t have anyone convince me otherwise

leachjus.bsky.social @leachjus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I wear my love for the Final Fantasy set on my chest to people know I’m aware of my hypocrisy, but it does feel like UB was best served as a circuit of precons rather than draftable sets and also jumpstart and also precons and also etc etc And 40k kind of confirms that, yeah

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leachjus.bsky.social @leachjus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s terrifying — especially when they’re smaller — but it’s immensely gratifying when you get to hear them pushing back against those kinds of behaviors from the other room, contesting things that would have gone untouched in our generation. The work is scary but I’m so glad to not be alone in it.

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leachjus.bsky.social @leachjus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’m lucky enough to dodge spam messages in my inbox, but I still get enough of them through text. I like to think this one actually had a person on the other end somehow.

A text exchange where TPUSA is trying to get me to pledge support for some reason, to which I respond *uncharitably* rather than just saying STOP. This works, incredibly, and I have now been unsubscribed.

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leachjus.bsky.social @leachjus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

sure beats whatever the irl version of horny posting is

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leachjus.bsky.social @leachjus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The work is important, idk how else to say it I would never have come across this story (for better and for worse) but for the reporting

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leachjus.bsky.social @leachjus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Article thumbnail wouldn’t load for me Could’ve been a reference to a half dozen games, or the hunter x hunter manga for that matter

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leachjus.bsky.social @leachjus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This was the moment that made me and my wife gasp, ty for attacking life full force

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leachjus.bsky.social @leachjus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

mannn, I barely want to be *one* thing half the time, how do you have the energy to contain multitudes

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leachjus.bsky.social @leachjus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“My lawn is currently overrun by 30-50 spectral hogs. No, I don’t need help, I’m just letting you know what a magical day I’m having.”

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leachjus.bsky.social @leachjus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The size of the in-group is so much larger now. In high school, I was more inclined to interact with people I didn’t necessarily find particularly interesting or enjoyable simply because we Venn Diagramed on video games. Knowing I don’t have to do that now is so freeing — acceptance abounds.

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leachjus.bsky.social @leachjus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Great job framing expectations for this one — I’m still a big fan of stories that present interesting questions well, even if they don’t land the answers on their own. Getting the player to draw meaningful conclusions is the big work, so hopefully Townfall tees up some discourse (affectionate).

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leachjus.bsky.social @leachjus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Most especially you don’t have to do that if their advice is to attack a community that is already under attack from every angle! That’s weak, pandering, centrist shit that gives the lie to anything you said before on the topic — undermining the position that you could persuade anyone.

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leachjus.bsky.social @leachjus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It’s completely valid to hear “your people” say that you should throw some sector of the population (ostensibly your voters!) to the wolves and decide that they are not, in fact, who you should be listening to. This shit isn’t hard, you don’t have to do everything your advisers recommend!

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leachjus.bsky.social @leachjus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Only when they learn that there’s a difference between screen actor and voice actor

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leachjus.bsky.social @leachjus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

As a games journalist, how difficult is it to balance staying up-to-date on recent releases with indulging in old favorites or comfort games? Does being independent change that calculus for you at all?

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leachjus.bsky.social @leachjus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Am I trying to win? Pearl, my win rate with W/X or MonoW aggro decks FAR outpaces anything fancy I try to do. Am I just vibing? Jet opens so many doors.

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leachjus.bsky.social @leachjus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It wasn’t even close — she cleaned up and the takeaway (at the time) was that running on restricting trans rights was a losing proposition. Amazing what a full-court press from the media and consultancy fields can do to rewrite history.

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leachjus.bsky.social @leachjus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Putting on the shelf all my thoughts on year 1 of a Spanberger administration, her decision to barely engage with trans issues amidst a deluge of Winsome Earle-Sears ads whose *only points* were “I’m not as crazy as people say” and “trans people BAD” was one of the smartest things she did.

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leachjus.bsky.social @leachjus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

What a dang delight, the finished product looks even better than what the WIPs hinted at

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

this is so fucking crazy. huge huge huge scoop www.404media.co/inside-proje...

In a dashboard available to the workers, human reviewers are able to select which “task” they want to take on. Once they click that, they are presented with the real ChatGPT user’s prompt. 404 Media has seen multiple real prompts but is not quoting any of them for source protection reasons. Some of the prompts indicate the ChatGPT user does not expect that a human may end up reading their conversation, because they ask ChatGPT to keep the content to themselves.

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leachjus.bsky.social @leachjus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Now hang on, he disrespects women characters with the best of em

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leachjus.bsky.social @leachjus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“We can always tell” has entered the gameoverse

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leachjus.bsky.social @leachjus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

article is the FIRST thing I thought of when the boy showed up on the direct, this one changed the way I look at things

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leachjus.bsky.social @leachjus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I don’t know. This is probably why I lose when I draft Urza lol

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leachjus.bsky.social @leachjus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Reasonably sure that most of the positive association I have with the show is placed squarely on The Pillows’ shoulders and that I’d have been just as well-served if a friend had loaned me the OST instead

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leachjus.bsky.social @leachjus.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

“They like you in part because you make them laugh and they like laughing, you don’t have to pull the ripcord before you say something they don’t like — you’re probably just gonna make them laugh some more and they’re gonna keep liking it” would have gone down smooth in 2004

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leachjus.bsky.social @leachjus.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

If high school me understood the deep truth running through this statement I’d have well, exactly the same number of problems, probably, but I’d have had a much more socially-productive late teens/early twenties, that’s for damned sure

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leachjus.bsky.social @leachjus.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

and you even made the game free what did you THINK was gonna happen, your whales are currently dropping $5k on the T1 Riftbound bundles on eBay they don’t have time to spend hundreds on skins for your fighting game you aren’t supporting

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leachjus.bsky.social @leachjus.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Who is in charge of determining what ‘success’ looks like is a key factor in whether or not these games get to live or not and as long as they’re intrinsically tied to those outside perspectives? We may as well stop hoping.

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leachjus.bsky.social @leachjus.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The exhaustion of the fight game enthusiast comes from watching a dev cycle of like, a decade, come down to roughly 12-18 months of assessing success against a measuring stick of being both the best game they’ve ever developed and also, somehow, the most popular fighting game (ever? At the moment?)

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leachjus.bsky.social @leachjus.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

When I go to agree with someone I usually delete it because I think “why do they need to see that” When I go to disagree with someone I usually delete it because I think “why do they need to see that” Maybe I need to teach a course or something because chronic disagree-posting is weirdo shit

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leachjus.bsky.social @leachjus.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Never had a “X meets Y” hit me in the face quite so hard, what a sales pitch

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leachjus.bsky.social @leachjus.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Cucumber Cilantro Gimlet got me off my ass and into the kitchen to make a drink, tyvm

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leachjus.bsky.social @leachjus.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The dorks have a long held perception that if a) you read it; and b) you didn’t understand it the way they understood it, then you must not actually have read it. “Only one answer” theory out here killing media literacy

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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

OI! This bundle has over 100 games including the extremely very good Arranger. Check it out! it goes to a good cause

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leachjus.bsky.social @leachjus.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It’s probably both. My brother and sister in law are ostensibly into country music and I’d surely have heard this in passing if it were truly a “biggest song of the year” kind of thing, but also I don’t want to become one of those “Geese is a psy-op” kind of people about it

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leachjus.bsky.social @leachjus.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Cannot wait for this man to link up with a quality QB (or for Shough to level up) because you’re right — he has been a delight to watch

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leachjus.bsky.social @leachjus.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

never been more certain this strip is drawn by the actual Swan Boy than this message tbh

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leachjus.bsky.social @leachjus.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Can’t wait for Heater to show up as a Vtuber wearing the watermelon hat

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leachjus.bsky.social @leachjus.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I haven’t gone into this particular swimming pool yet but the way this post hit me as I scrolled past felt like I didn’t jump far enough away from the diving board

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leachjus.bsky.social @leachjus.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

not breaking new ground here but as any 90s kid can tell you: the surest way to know that it was not cool or popular to be into video games or anime was by taking a look at the kind of friend you had to put up with whole ass Breakfast Club group dynamics just to talk about Metal Gear or FLCL

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leachjus.bsky.social @leachjus.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

My brain lies to me enough about what’s real and what isn’t, I don’t need the general public trying to double team me on that kind of thing

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leachjus.bsky.social @leachjus.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The Guilty Gear pie chart is: - 40% Queer - 40% Music - 20% That unshakable feeling that after my fifteenth attempt to get into the game I’ll finally understand what a Roman Cancel is

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leachjus.bsky.social @leachjus.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

They announced a Buc-ee’s near me a couple years ago and this post made me check up on it Wdym it’s slated to open sometime between 2029 and 2031 is this a gas station or a professional sports stadium

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Greenie! 🔜 MCAtlanta26 @greensuitgirl.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

A small reminder from a Deaf Magic player: MTG Arena STILL does not have a visual cue for if an opponent chooses to shuffle off a Ponder. Wotc Staff has EXPLICITLY told players to just "turn your in-game sound up". This problem was brought to their attention 6 months ago. NOTHING has changed.

A discord message from WOTC_Abar (Alex):
What Jared said. If you are playing against an opponent with ponder,k I would encourage you to turn your in-game sound up for maximum information.

If the player chooses to shuffle, the game will make the shuffle sound effect. If they keep on top, you will not hear the shuffle sound effect.

It's obviously not an ideal solution, but hopefully that's at least a helpful tip for now.

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