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An FF7 mobile microtransaction game that's run the past few years added an original character in the past who could also be his daddy, but again there were no explicit answers either way.

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Mike @mikech.bsky.social · 5h

An unconfirmed fan theory is because President Shinra gets freaky at the Honeybee Inn, and Cloud grew up with a single Mom in a nice town just outside Shinra's family manor, a theory is he's the President's illegitimate son and Rufus's half brother. Square has never confirmed or denied.

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Mike @mikech.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

According to the spokesperson in the article, this is because these states don't operate their own ACA exchanges and relied on HealthCare.gov. That seems easily verifiable. I know Nevada is a purple state where they have a governor in a tight race, but we have NV Health Link. No checks.

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Mike @mikech.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

But it's also pretty difficult to grow as a movie platform behind the point of "we have Guillermo Del Toro, Rian Johnson, and Martin Scorsese generating dozens of Oscar noms."

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Mike @mikech.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Binge model over bleeding users over multiple subscription windows to see one show is about the one good thing Netflix does?

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Mike @mikech.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The sad thing to me is dropping into a video to immediately thumbs down and evacuate is counted by the new system. I have done that to so many "our once-proud hyper masculine history has been ruined by millennial sensitivity" videos that show up when I search.

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Mike @mikech.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I feel it's a combination of: 1. Anything that is not talking about physical discs. 2. In an era where roughly two major non-franchise blockbusters happen per year, setting a game concept in the Destiny universe gives it more eyeballs over the ocean of indie games.

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Mike @mikech.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's good, but I don't understand playing the original 90s release. The translation was so terrible that it periodically undermines the storytelling. This was the time where you asked random 19 year olds on the internet who understood Japanese enough to tell you what some scenes were really about.

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Mike @mikech.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

But Kingdom Hearts is a Nomura soap opera that happens while barging through movies I saw before. Don't get me wrong, I think it's hilarious to see Vanitas get owned by James P Sullivan. But it's not like Mickey Mouse and Cloud Strife were a natural match to begin with.

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Mike @mikech.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's Kingdom Hearts. It's very existence is because of Disney playing it a bit looser than they once did with the childhood icons.

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Mike @mikech.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Mario did, with Rabbids. And Link did, with Soul Calibur. And Metroid was a Dead Or Alive stage, similar to Halo adding a Spartan to DOA years earlier. It has more to do with never seeing their characters rendered outside their hardware's walled garden.

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Mike @mikech.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Kingdom Hearts is itself a result of 1930s cartoons sharing oxygen with angsty Final Fantasy characters who are Eco-Terrorists and Soldiers of Fortune in their own T-rated games. It wouldn't exist if Disney was in it's 1960-80s mindset of making saccharine Love Bug movies until bankruptcy.

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Mike @mikech.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Why would you publish the equivalent of a "STOP HAVING FUN" editorial from someone losing it over branding and long-term intellectual property capitalization. Basically in defense of something pretty much nobody can stand about the current game (or wider entertainment) industry.

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Mike @mikech.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The high Not Sure in the last question means this isn't the great attack vector it's being made to be. (Putting aside that things like safety are nebulous concepts that mean different things to different audiences.) It's a symptom of the core problem of corruption.

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Mike @mikech.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Best intro I've seen since Build. But I'm kind of a sucker for flamboyantly arrogant main Riders as long as they get their ego checked (Build, Zero-One) and not allowed to just Always Be Right and Just That Good (Kabuto, Geats).

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Mike @mikech.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

They want to believe folk logic solves over science because that means the problem is not evolving or changing, and your Granny figured this stuff out years ago and her beliefs still apply. It's kind of an outgrowth of the conservative collective pining for the 1950s. "It was all so simple."

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Mike @mikech.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

But vaccines are a product of expertise, and the right generally hates expertise. It's like using the Farmers Almanac for the weather over NOAA, without the problem of historical data showing you which is more accurate.

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Mike @mikech.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Given what we have learned about concussions the line "turn down these voices inside my head" suddenly feels like desperate pleading.

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Mike @mikech.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I hardly ever post any more but I went to the One Letter App to tell DHH to go fuck himself. I never think that particularly productive use of time, but mostly because I want tech-oriented people who follow both me and him over there to realize the kind of guy he is.

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Mike @mikech.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

How the fuck does anyone listen to this guy, hell even just do what I did and play it silently while reading the captions and looking at his manner of speaking, and think he is worth taking seriously. It's like he's internally screaming something he knows he can't say out loud.

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Mike @mikech.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It's far more efficient in that each hardware unit is used by many users day and night. Which is the same reason for the datacenter shit with AI today; it's not cost effective to have that equipment scaled down to a single person's use and gets turned off when you're done.

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Mike @mikech.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Xbox cloud has been useful for keeping my Final Fantasy XIV house when I'm travelling for months, particularly in this age when even a Series S isn't really in the budget. Unfortunately with these limits, walking into my house and logging off will be about the only thing that I do.

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Mike @mikech.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

He likely knew people who went to space and repaired ships. The T16 shared a manufacturer and a lot of parts with the X-Wing, which is the canon explanation why he didn't need any training. (Well that and force magic, but I can't stand the weird genealogy side of Star Wars.)

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Mike @mikech.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

We don't need corn subsidies anymore because he's producing so much of it.

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Topher Florence @topherflorence.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

look its simple: if roger rabbit is exonerated the toons gain control of the acme corporation leading to "coyote vs acme". if roger rabbit is convicted, humans retain control as seen in "looney tunes: back in action". if marvin acme is never killed then chip and dale rescue rangers (2022) happens

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Mike @mikech.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

(I'll also point out that the era that powers DL nostalgia for quality was an era when the park wasn't open every day for the full year like WDW. Stuff like B-Mode Yeti running for 20 years doesn't happen if the park has to close for a while.)

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Mike @mikech.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This only makes sense if there's a laser focus on year round operation. The biggest market opening is an all ages park to compete with Cedar Fair in Indiana or Ohio. Run a seasonal summer park with WDWCP style staffing during peak demand season, but directs people back to WDW/DLR in winter.

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Mike @mikech.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

As much as I love TLK, Hakuna Matata, Be Prepared, and Circle of Life are the only songs I'd really fight for. Snowman is more quietly singable. Is there any way to see current brackets? I don't log on BlueSky much so I think my favorites might already be gone.

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Mike @mikech.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This TLK track is weird because I have a way higher opinion of the Elton 90s soft rock track over the version that's bolted into the plot of the story. Voted for Moana after switching Elton with Nathan Lane.

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Mike @mikech.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I didn't buy it (still on my wishlist), but I watched streamers when it was new, and it seems like cooperative and combative people got matched with each other deliberately. This likely led to people who work well with strangers to meet all their goals and finish.

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Mike @mikech.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The stick of dynamite that deletes your entire work in Kid Pix can't be beat. It has multiple ways of throwing your art away, and I'll always remember that knew has a voice that sounds like Big Bird saying "woooooow".

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Mike @mikech.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Orange Julius Is Still A Treat

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Mike @mikech.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Sadly my House member sucks, but voting against I'm Joe will be one of my last acts before I have to leave this place. I think the point seems to be getting businesses that have zero employees because everyone's a SNAP 'volunteer'. Because at 20 hours a week, that's just $2/hr.

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Mike @mikech.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Buying the 360 version of that game instead of PS3 is one of my great regrets. It made sense at the time (no dongle!) but aged like milk (the dongle works on PC and would let me use the guitar with Fortnite.)

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Mike @mikech.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I've been in a community with people like this. They see it as women fetishizing their lifestyle. Yes, girls were most yaoi fans when men were afraid of coming out, but they wanted to "take ownership". And all of that, I get it. But I left because it evolved into "no femboys" and other shit.

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Mike @mikech.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Hit em in the wallet, not in the health outcomes. Take away their air traffic control money, since Congress will pass seemingly anything as long as timely air travel is contingent on it.

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Mike @mikech.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I'm not born and raised in Las Vegas as Harper was, I just moved there decades ago. I still think expecting horror and shame at the existence of gambling from a local is kind of odd. Harper almost certainly knows people who work in the industry even if he does not partake.

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Mike @mikech.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

These things aren't usually dog whistles, they feel like they are in context of the many other showstopping fuckups surrounding this guy.

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Mike @mikech.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Completely not related to Platner, but I think people generally believe you can dig too far back. Like the Romney high school bullying thing felt like we were voting for a K-Pop idol rather than head of state. But also "smoothgroin" is the worst word of the 2020s and needs to be forgotten.

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Mike @mikech.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Preview of late next season:

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Mike @mikech.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

"People like consequential story developments in expansion campaigns that remain instead of in seasonal content that gets thrown out" is probably something AI would have understood before the people above the game producer did.

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Mike @mikech.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

If they had replaced management with an AI, though...

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Mike @mikech.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Even in the original they're kind of people who keep a second method of annihilating all life on the entire globe, just in case the first one is faulty.

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Mike @mikech.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Not only did the orchestral version become something of an unofficial anthem for Disney villains, but villains stopped having songs until Princess & the Frog, because how in the world do you top that.

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Mike @mikech.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I'll spare you all the tall jokes about your body as a costume for a 5'3 twink.

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Mike @mikech.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

"Ah yes, the *real* FF [insert whichever two digit number disappointed you most]."

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Mike @mikech.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Any chance you can let Linux people play now that the game is dead

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