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It's impossible for me to watch, read or play any vampire thing without mapping characters on to Vampire: The Masquerade clans.

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Obviously a lot of things factor in to players not using consumables in games and there's all kinds of consumables. But I do think bad at percentages can play a part. Thinking there's no point taking +10% accuracy potion for a boss when you have 80% accuracy, because 80% is a "sure thing" afterall.

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Practicing social distancing rules around mortals so we can talk while making it clear I don't intend to bite into them and drain them like the delicious blood filled ribena cartons they are.

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Nightcrawler and Rogue's mothers being Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler must be fucking crazy for them. I dunno, it must be really weird reading them.

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Elizabeth in BioShock Infinite is meant to able to use her abilities to summon anything from across time and the multiverse and it's nearly entirely first aid kits and making big cargo hooks appear on wall. Which like, amazing lack of creativity.

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Neo-Western about 30-something transfem called The Last Catgirl.

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Silent Hill 3: A game for girls from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of boy who likes girls' games and books

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I remember BioShock: Infinite had people shipping Booker and Elizabeth then getting to the end and going uh oh uh oh. But then Burial at Sea introduces Elizabeth as a femme fatale entering Booker's office and asking for a light so like, man I don't know if I can believe it was an accident anymore.

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Bioshock Infinite was bad, but with the exception of the Ghost Boss Fight we were moving. It was passing at the rate it was happening. Burial at Sea Part 1 felt like I was in the crystal. It says it took 4 hours total, yet every combat encounter and scrounging section felt like it took an hour.

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Paris at the start of Bioshock Infinite Burial At Sea Episode 2 is so funny. A café by The Seine. Music playing, birds singing. A croissant, glass of wine and cigarette on the table in front of you. The Eiffel tower to your left. A boy dancing in circles with a baguette to your right. Serene.

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Should give me access to X-Men as a property, I'll put Jacqueline Gavin and/or Jessie Drake in it, obscure trans mutants from the 90s who were in one comic each in the 20s. You can trust me.

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

*punches man in a way that makes him get electrocuted, have his head explode, turn into a skeleton and collapse into dust* Slate: "Booker, I knew you were the one to grant my men the deaths they deserve as only a proper soldier can!"

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Very funny part of the start of BioShock Infinite is a fairground attraction about rooting out the anarchist rebels that infest the city being a few meters from free samples of possession vigor that makes cops kill themselves.

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Co-worker keeps asking if I've seen any elves then laughing at me. Every morning.

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hate how much discussion around Sinners focused on "Irish-American" instead of "Irish, actually from Ireland" Coogler is clearly an Éireboo. Like he was commenting on the actual real country of Ireland, specifically. Not just Irish-Americans.

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

No new Ghost in the Shell this week, yet bisexual trans women must continue on nevertheless. C'est la vie.

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Finished it and The Postman by David Brin might be my new favourite post-apocalytic novel. I like the plot, guy passing himself off as a postman, his lie slowly becoming real as he actually makes a postal network. His internal monologue. But really loved theme. Oh, societial connections are good.

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Really hoping the new Resident Evil film has a guy say "Resident... Evil!" on a title reveal.

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Brother: "Should remake Metal Gear Solid. Not Metal Gear, Metal Gear Solid." Me: "Ever play Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake?" Brother: "No." Me: "Know what game's pretty good?" Brother: "Fallout 2." Me: "Aww, you're so fucking right. God. Fallout 2. Aww, I'm going to go home and think about Fallout 2."

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Can you be gay in that new Fire Emblem? I want to know if I should be prepared for lesbians I follow on the internet to be talking about it for a month or not.

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We're a few decades off Chinese ships sailing up to the US saying "Open the country. Stop having it be closed."

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Gotta wonder how ignorant Ed Sheeran was getting majority Irish acts to play support and then being suppressed they oppose someone being fired for saying "Free Palestine." Will hear "Free Palestine!" about as often as "Hello Dublin!" at a gig here.

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"No you can't play with it! You won't enjoy it on as many levels as I do."

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Big theme of BioShock 2 is an abusive maternal relationship and the idea that "Children are not just memetic recepticals for their parents" Which rubs little strangely against how you literally become your daughter's conscious when she absorbs you. Though don't actually hate that part of the ending

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

BioShock 2 mentions there was a run on the banks after the New Years attacks, only about 10% of people got their money and the economy entirely collapsed. Which is a pretty mundane and fitting way for Rapture to go to shit. Ah, governments regulate for a reason. Well I see.

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Annoying thing with Trump's comments on United Ireland is people acting like any politician saying it is taboo and not, normal. I want a single non-sectarian state in Palestine. If I said that and people went "Oh, it's not your place to comment... the people must yadda yadda" be a bit silly, right?

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I haven't seen the ScarJo Ghost in the Shell since the cinema But something really awful I remember is when Hideo Kuze/Puppetmaster (he's a combo of both and like neither) is like hey babe, lets merge. Motoko goes "No! I know who I am" And like, come on. Saying "Yes" to that offer is why it's good

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If I told you there was a film, and at the first screening everyone who watched it killed themselves, would you think the film is: A) Scary or B) Bad

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My big take away from the BioShock series is that Ken Levine considers the Irish to be duplicitous lot, who will appeal to your sympathy then try to kill you the second you stop being useful.

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Final Buffy episode has Trogdor the Burninator reference in it. Hadn't considered how those two overlap.

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I don't really like how The Ghost in the Shell (2026) throws in fictional names for a lot of countries instead of just, yeah, it's the USSR, America, Israel, etc Leaning heavily into real world geopolitics has always been a strength of a series. And I think it makes events less legible for viewers.

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Gonna be strange not getting a PS6, but it'll be okay. Even if I do miss exclusives like that new Kojima game. Oh what's that? Probably won't even have the new Kojima game? Alright.

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I will always be talking about the Ravenous (1999) the homoerotic cannibalism horror western classic. *Not* a Nintendo game. So please keep that in mind moving forward.

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

*picks up Director's Commentary in BioShock* "Hey, I'm Geoff Keighley..." Man, there's no end to the amoral freaks in this place.

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Picked up two volumes of Book of the New Sun seperately and now it looks like I'm just really splitting the difference for how to label a science fantasy series.

The Book of the New Sun with Volume 1 as "Fantasy Masterworks" and Volume 2 "SF Masterworks"

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A trope I'm a sucker for is post-apocalypse or even just general dystopia where they have a celebrity show up as themselves. The Arnold Schwarzenegger version of The Running Man where they put Mick Fleetwood in old man makeup to play 2019's Mick Fleetwood, leader of a resistance cell.

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Onslaught isn't out here until December 😔

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Fallout: Tactics made me realise how important the even minor amount of dialogue options you're given in Icewind Dale were to me. Not everything is people talking at me, while my PC has seemingly no internality. Basically, the game I want Fallout: Tactics to be exists and it is called Wasteland 2.

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I feel sorry for AKOTSK how much it has to account for GOT not adapting things. Brienne & Dunk not being paralleled characters, not getting his shield. Bloodraven, one eyed albino with big birthmark. How will they underline "This is the guy in the cave Bran meets." if he looks nothing like him?

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Kinda just pacing back and forth bitching to nobody about how Intellectual Property and international treaties around it serve to uphold US hegemony. "The seeds! You can't replant your seeds!" You know, that sorta thing.

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Was worried my day would be total shite, like Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel. But instead seems to be okay, like Fallout Tactics.

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Shadowheart: "It’s important for Sharrans to operate in secret. We're trained to conceal our true allegiance." The woman who raised her every fight: "L'il alurl! For Shar!"

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Going through them both, seeing Nathan Fillion in Buffy S7 and now Gina Torres in Angel S4, does look like were looking for reasons to give Firefly cast work. Which hey, I don't complain when productions do that kinda thing.

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

You know back at the start of the year films were all about Bone Temples. Feel like I haven't seen a Bone Temple in months.

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The thing about that old Duke Nukem ad is that, I mean... I haven't played Duke Nukem 3D. And I do like men! So maybe he's onto something.

Advert declaring that If you don't play Duke Nukem 3D You Like Men!

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Manager was like "Riley, go home, you need to watch anime." And you know what, he's right.

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

You know for a Catholic he's awfully Protestant. "Oh we can bring about the end times" is classic Premillennialism which again, Protestant shit.

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I get it's all just marketing buzz and should not pay not attention. But if GTA 6 is gonna be a Bonnie & Clyde story then the romance stuff shouldn't be optional. I actually think as a hook, playing both sides of such a relationship is a good premise. But like, do it. Actually explore that in game

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