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My Name Is Aram @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social · 2h

Well, this is it, the game I've wanted since I was a kid. A cyberpunk Sim RPG. Nivalis Nights just released today. The voxel art is gorgeous. I get to manage a noodle stand. The soundtrack is dripping in 80s synth. It's beautiful. It's all so beautiful.

a screen shot from Nivalis Nights: a flying taxi shoots off into the cyberpunk sky

a screen shot from Nivalis Nights: the very busy menu of a greengrocer

a screen shot from Nivalis Nights: some people hanging out in a futuristic city

a screen shot from Nivalis Nights: looking out the window onto the rain-slick street below

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My Name Is Aram @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social · 6h

Tried to draw the Cigarette Smoking Man but he looks like a very dapper Mad Men type of character, so I had to stop.

rough rendering of the Cigarette Smoking Man from the X-Files television program

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My Name Is Aram @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social · 12h

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My Name Is Aram @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Customer support was already shit but boy did they find a way to make it shittier with The Robot That Answers Questions Wrong.

I'm not typing it all out. its an AI customer service chatbot not being helpful

more unhelpful AI chatbot nonsense, concluding with me saying "fuck this. fuck ai. fuck stripe. I'm taking my business elsewhere

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My Name Is Aram @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Texting the landlord to ask what day/time I can expect the plumber to arrive

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My Name Is Aram @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Have you enjoyed any of the free comics I've been posting online since 2011? Consider offering me an egg in these trying times. And by an egg I mean $5 buymeacoffee.com/mandatory

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My name is Aram and I make comics about life, love, and tacos.

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My Name Is Aram @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Backrooms? Whatever. Wake me up when somebody discovers the Snackrooms. Yum yum

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My Name Is Aram @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

At this point, though, if someone contends they've never even heard of "Toilet" or Clown Core, it may say more about the listener than the song.

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My Name Is Aram @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm at the autism I'm at the ADHD I'm at the combination autism and ADHD

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My Name Is Aram @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I feel like Nathan Fielder would be fun to sit in awkward silence with.

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My Name Is Aram @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Okay but what's the etiquette on bringing an iced coffee to the gangbang?

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My Name Is Aram @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If hot dogs are sausages, and sausages are a delicious breakfast food, why is the idea of a hot dog for breakfast so repellent?

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My Name Is Aram @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am happy to report that the first hour of Control Resonant is awesome.

screen shot from Control Resonant
Dylan is standing in the wreckage of the Oldest House

screen shot from Control Resonant
Dylan walks down a sunlit Manhattan street

screen shot from Control Resonant
Dylan is standing before a large painting

screen shot from Control Resonant
it's a giant head

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My Name Is Aram @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is a very niche and probably boring rant but I am cursed to see everything through a designer's eye, so... the Twitch UI/UX is atrocious. Maybe someone who has been on the platform since 2011 is used to it but it's a nightmare. As if someone looked at Discord and said: I can make this worse.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/09/2026

AI has not made us better, more productive, more successful or grown the economy outside of GPU sales and data center construction. It has also made the price of every single device of every kind more expensive, depressed the housing market, and increased literally everybody’s cost of debt.

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My Name Is Aram @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

For my whole life Dem politicians have been saying they can't make any meaningful change because *reasons* and now Zohran Mamdani is out here every day fixing potholes, making Doordash apologize and pay their workers what they earned, and basically fixing everything liberals say is unfixable.

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

🎉🥳🎉🥳🎉🥳🎉🥳🎉🥳

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Final Girl Sammie 🔪🩸 @sammie.gay · 23/09/2026

just had a therapy session about doing exactly this

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My Name Is Aram @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Celebrate making yourself a sandwich. Celebrate getting out of bed. Celebrate continuing to put one foot in front of the other. We're living in a fascist hellscape literally designed to kill us. Fuck that. Every second you're here and still breathing is a victory.

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My Name Is Aram @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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Remember the LMAO @ass.golf · 22/09/2026

I must once again emphasize that if you are putting art on the internet, you need your own website in case some fucking management ghoul decides the platform they paid too much money for isn't worth how much they paid for it

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My Name Is Aram @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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My Name Is Aram @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Pedro Pascal Luis Lua Guillermo BASIC Fernando C++ Hector JavaScript

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My Name Is Aram @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's concentration camps. Concentration camps and a secret police.

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My Name Is Aram @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Monday is new comic day around these parts. the comic: mandatoryrollercoaster.com/post/8283867... subscribe: patreon.com/mandatoryrollercoaster

$a Mandatory Roller Coaster comic: "Look! Look! It's alive!" "It's a calculator" "No no no - look! It can do complex equations! Do you know what 562 x 39 is?" "No" "Neither do I! It's smarter than both of us! Another couple years and this thing will be doing fractions! We definitely need to restructure the entire economy around it."$

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My Name Is Aram @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Monday is new comic day around these parts. the comic: mandatoryrollercoaster.com/post/8283867... subscribe: patreon.com/mandatoryrollercoaster

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My Name Is Aram @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

False. I very much want to buy LA's most famous midcentury house. I just need $20 million.

News headline: "No one wants to buy LA's most famous midcentury house"

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My Name Is Aram @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm pretty sure this is sarcasm, but the problem with talking about AI is some people have so fried their brains with it, they will 100% post nonsense like this in earnest.

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My Name Is Aram @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

What with the whole "not having any income" thing I've been trying to stretch my dollars with struggle meals. Saw this horribly depressing sardine ramen on reddit and challenged myself to make it delicious. Came out pretty good!

a horribly depressing ramen with tinned sardine resting atop it

my sardine ramen with kimchi, soy sauce, green onion and Aleppo pepper flakes

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My Name Is Aram @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My subscribers got a drawing of the Wizarding World's big bad (Voldemort, not JK Rowling) and my thoughts on why bad writing didn't do the character any favors. www.patreon.com/mandatoryrol...

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Welcome to the Wizarding World!

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My Name Is Aram @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Every now and again I like to share this Dollop episode about the Battle of Hayes Pond. In 1958 the Ku Klux Klan tried to hold a rally in Maxton, NC. They were quickly surrounded by several hundred Lumbee Indians who proceeded to beat the shit out of them. omny.fm/shows/the-do...

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244 - The Battle of Hayes Pond - The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds

Comedians Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds examine The Battle of Hayes Pond. SOURCES TOUR DATES REDBUBBLE MERCH

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My Name Is Aram @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Gas is $6/gal, lettuce gives you diarrhea, chocolate has lead in it, AI datacenters are taking all the fresh water and polluting the air so they can power email scams and make every website worse, but hey at least a decrepit old pedophile can build a giant monument to himself with taxpayer money.

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My Name Is Aram @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I should not have had a second hot dog.

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My Name Is Aram @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Harry Potter is a story about a guy who marries his high school girlfriend and never moves out of his hometown.

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My Name Is Aram @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My favorite way as an artist to draw a comic: 1. draw the comic 2. take some banana peels and coffee grounds and smear them all over my comic 3. evaluate the results and adjust the banana peels accordingly

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My Name Is Aram @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The other day I walked past a real estate office. It had a "for sale" sign out front. I said, man, you guys are good.

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My Name Is Aram @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'm not posting a pic of their shitass racist ad, but I do want to remind folks that Converse is owned by Nike, if anyone is interested in extending their boycott for maximum efficacy.

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My Name Is Aram @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Woke up last night with a thought I NEEDED to record. Grabbed my phone and, instead of my notes app, opened Bluesky, wrote it down and put into drafts. Behold:

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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 18/09/2026

Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol makes 1,700x more than the average barista. That same CEO claims a $9 coffee is affordable and commutes to work in a private jet. Meanwhile, many baristas struggle to afford getting to work. We're joining sbworkersunited.org in a Starbucks boycott.

Boycott Starbucks No Contract? No coffee. Period. Boycottstarbucks.net

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My Name Is Aram @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Harry Potter is the story of a guy who peaked in high school

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My Name Is Aram @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Rewatching Ghostbusters and maybe the most surprising thing is just how obnoxious Bill Murray is.

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My Name Is Aram @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Alright lets see what's in the ol' drafts folder today...

Inde Navarette somebody touch-a my spaghetti,
Fabulous Beasts of Grindelwald my favorite Redmayne: Eddie

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