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Ryedestructor @ryedestructor.bsky.social · 14h
Something like Dynasty Warriors is exclusively compelling for how it asks you to engage with its timing: by choosing which fires to put out when, and when you can ignore the fires to make a push forward, but if you're *only* talking about the combat itself, then, yeah, the timing is less compelling.
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Ryedestructor @ryedestructor.bsky.social · 14h
Does "on top of the design" mean everything outside of the core action loop in a vacuum? Because, while I largely agree that spacing is more compelling more often, I think timing can be incredibly compelling in immersive sims, action/stealth games, and action/strategy games.
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Ryedestructor @ryedestructor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
There's so many awful people out there with so much beauty and insight to express; there's probably an even greater wealth of good-hearted people with as much or more beauty and insight, but the two groups are largely indistinguishable until it's too late.
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Ryedestructor @ryedestructor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Afroman is a huge piece of shit for being a right-wing pick-me and getting into ai slop, but I mean, fuck, have you listened to "Play Me Some Music"? Genuinely one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sca5...
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Afroman - Play Me Some Music (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)
YouTube video by ogafroman
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Ryedestructor @ryedestructor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I will probably never watch the rest of Spike Lee's movies now that he has done a polymarket ad, and I get the impression that I will forever be missing *something* from my life for having not seen "Do the Right Thing"
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Ryedestructor @ryedestructor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
*So* many artists I have looked up to or enjoyed the works of or wanted to experience have turned out like this. I would not have engaged with any of Boots Riley's art if I knew that he would take Ellison blood money to make a movie, but I think my life is much better for having done so beforehand.
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Ryedestructor @ryedestructor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I wonder if people will feel a growing urgency to engage with artists' work that they're looking forward to so that it can enrich their lives and worldviews before something happens or is revealed that makes their art tarnished and/or immoral to support.
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Ryedestructor @ryedestructor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Strongly agree; Y2K throwback nostalgia is sorely missing the unbelievable level of style from people like Missy Elliot www.youtube.com/watch?v=opkR... Too much microsoft-fanboying in Y2K nostalgia when people should be tripping over themselves to try and recapture this instead
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Missy Elliott - She's A B**ch [Official Music Video]
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Ryedestructor @ryedestructor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Obviously much less harmful, but it does give the same vibe as "liberals" jumping to be bigoted when someone of a minority turns out to be shitty, as if attacking them on their morals and actions isn't enough.
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Ryedestructor @ryedestructor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
-- but I think you can make that point *without* spitting on other artists. This kinda ties into the broader issue with people using art as connotatively positive instead of as just a description of human expression. He can both be a bad person and an artist.
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Ryedestructor @ryedestructor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Honestly weirdest part of the discourse around Jacob Geller rn is seeing people heel turn on games-as-art and journalism-as-art in a want to insult him / point out his non-essentiality. Like yeah, fuck him, rehabilitated or not, he doesn't need a platform/community, and we don't need him as a voice-
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Ryedestructor @ryedestructor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It does help that the bots that operate by just spam following from "liked by" lists on hit posts seem to signpost really obviously on their profile that they do not fw leftists/freaks. being followed by an anti-porn liberal bot when I've reposted art of rat dudes with their cocks out was funny
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Ryedestructor @ryedestructor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
-- 16k+ people and then do not seem like they fw your vibe at all. Like, you especially, post a really particular niche blend of politics and porn that should make it really really easy to guess who from your following does not gaf at all and just wants you to see their page.
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Ryedestructor @ryedestructor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
assuming you meant not entirely sure how: just click on people's profiles and see their following count vs if the stuff they post/repost seems like they align with your vibe. Bots on here, or at least people automating their following list, are really easy to spot because they follow like --
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Dr. Z's Tomb of Terror @zigmenthotep.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yes, Gary Gygax was a horrible person, but playing or otherwise supporting D&D doesn't automatically mean you support his terribly views and actions. It means you support the terrible views and action of Hasbro.
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🔞⛧𝕲𝖚𝖙𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖇𝖚𝖓𝖓𝖞⛧🔞 @gutterbunny.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I have to raise an eyebrow when certain vocal trans people balk at someone who's earnestly gender non conforming. If you think it's not worth taking seriously because it's a prominent porn category... Go fuck yourself? I have issues with femboys for being so fucking stuck on Amazon basics tho.
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Laura Knetzger @lauraknetzger.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Hey guys meta announced a new policy where they send a killer to get you so be sure to go to settings>my account > killer> disable killer to turn that off
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NEW ESSAY on last week's deluge of Dems embracing anti-trans positions. let's stop fixating on trans ppl & instead recognize that Dems have a cisgender problem. pls share! Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-democra...
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On Democrats Who Cave in Response to Anti-Trans Attack Ads
and more importantly: a response to all the cis people responding to the way that trans people are responding to said Democrats’ responses
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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
woke up today thinking about how reagan ignored the aids crisis and publicly abandoned his close friend rock hudson to die, and how a lot of democrats today would see that and say "well he was just making the pragmatic electable decision"
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🔞Good Girl Elliotte🔞 @elliotte-draws.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
The debate about horny outfits in videogames sucks because on the one hand I genuinely don't think there should have to be a justification for nudity and stuff in games, but the side who's arguing that is doing it because they also believe a bunch of other horrendous shit about women.
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Hāsa ~ 🎉 transgender for everybody! 🎉 @khanti.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Isn’t like, most porn for straight people just sissy porn where the woman is the sissy? Like it’s so normalized people can’t even see it. The real sissy hypno is just the patriarchy
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🔞 Umber 🔞 @metallicboobage.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
be annoying about the things that make you happy. anyone who leaves or complains never cared and was never worth your time in the first place. be yourself and be loud about what you love and the right people will be drawn to you
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𝔰𝔞𝔩𝔢𝔪 ☾ @w0lfertinger666.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
black waltz
image of a black person in a blue headwrap and waist wrap dancing with a black bunny wearing a red Head wrap and waist wrap. they are both in water and the crescent moon is behind them.
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Ryedestructor @ryedestructor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
You should make art that's truest to yourself; this is gorgeous.
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Ryedestructor @ryedestructor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
40 pages dedicated to characterization/story makes it so much better anyways for real. (Also welcome back from funny jail)
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Ryedestructor @ryedestructor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If you logically applied this argument at all you wouldn't even stand for anthro furry porn because the kink is tied undeniably to real world animals, but you and the rest of us can separate those things. They are not meaningfully morally different aside from your personal view towards them.
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Ryedestructor @ryedestructor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We, as a species, are capable of enjoying video games about committing violent crimes while finding them abhorrent, we can watch revenge-plot movies that end with a euphoric murder scene while disagreeing with that kind of action and belief system irl. I think cub/loli/shota artists can do the same.
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Ryedestructor @ryedestructor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I do because extensive work in the psychology field shows that people are very capable of separating fiction from reality. I believe that people into fictional children don't carry that over into real life any more than any of us liking furries doesn't carry over into liking real animals.
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Ryedestructor @ryedestructor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
also the "and whatever" was because bluesky has harsh character limits and I didn't wanna waste 50 characters on exhaustively listing ever non-con kink
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Ryedestructor @ryedestructor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'm not, I'm defending kink artists that have never inflicted harm on anyone in the real world nor expressed desire to do so. I think actual offending/aspiring pedophiles are abhorrent and should seek necessary rehabilitation and be kept away from children.
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Ryedestructor @ryedestructor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Feral and whatever artists are very hardline vocal about how their art doesn't reflect their actual opinions on consent (and that they value consent deeply), you're just revealing that you respect consent less in the real world than the people you're calling creepy.
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Ryedestructor @ryedestructor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Okay but the implicit appeal of the intox art you do is leering at someone who is way too intoxicated to consent. You can't do a callout post on the morality of people based on their kinks when you draw art from a similarly morally-deprived framing.
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VƎX Werewolf @vexwerewolf.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I do not accept any argument that Talarico or any other red-state Dem has to "triangulate" to appeal to voters. The average Republican voter thinks all Democrats are Satanic pedophiles who barbecue cats. They are not going to be swayed to your side by reconsidering your stances on trans people.
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VƎX Werewolf @vexwerewolf.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
When centrist politicians take up right-wing talking points ("small boats," "trans surgeries," "men in women's sports"), it doesn't sway right-wing voters to your side. What it does is legitimize the right-wing talking points. "See, even the libs are coming to their senses on trans."
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Ryedestructor @ryedestructor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Great read, as always. "Root was a rebuttal to all of the low-interaction games that styled themselves as conflict games." Curious, was Scythe one of them? In my experience it's a middling Eurogame pretending (*badly*) to be an American wargame. Rozalski's illustrations for it kick ass, at least.
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 11/09/2026
Phew, what a relief.
Headline from cosmopolitan.com:
No, it’s not just you — animated foxes actually *are* hot as hell
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Jaeden @jaeden.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Salad Days
A warm scene with warm golden light spilling onto a desk. A handheld gaming device is in focus on the left side of the image, resting on a nondescript red box. In the foreground out of focus are hot wheel cars. An orange car with a black top, a blue car with white stripes, and a green car with white stripes. In the background are a stack of playing card boxes, and a small mint tin on top.

By Jaeden Montero.
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Jilled Cheese 🔞 @jillhuty.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I’m urging people to play 1000xRESIST. It’s a game laser targeted to the Asian American/Canadian/child of immigrant kid you know. I’ve taken permanent poison damage from it. It makes me think of all the conversations I wish I could have with my parents but can’t because they’re so stubborn.
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Ryedestructor @ryedestructor.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
At least with board games the average person knows a few different ones, so there's fewer assumptions primed when you have to go "Like catan or monopoly" to explain it. Issue there is that people only know family/children's boardgames, which is agonizing in different ways than "like D&D" is.
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Ryedestructor @ryedestructor.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Absolutely. Even worse when someone you play with does it on your behalf to translate your explanation to their friend, feels like being a court jester pelted with tomatoes. Mutual patronization aside, it just really flattens the outsider perspective of what the hobby can be.
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Ryedestructor @ryedestructor.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
pawesome color fr (#fabbdc is my personal favorite)
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Tyson @lscpunk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
If Dolly was our constant reminder that it was Good to be Good, Tim Curry was our reminder that it was Good to be Weird. Embrace your strangeness, sing with Muppets, wear your lingerie with a leather jacket, and fuck with uptight people who hate anything that makes them remotely uncomfortable.
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Ryedestructor @ryedestructor.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Happy birthday !!!!!!!
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Cole Wehrle @colewehrle.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This weekend I had the privilege of grappling with some very big and difficult games with a spotlight on Michael Lorino's Imperial Elegy. As usual, the whole experience got me thinking about big games, what they demand of their players and the rewards to be found in their exploration. 🧵
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Cole Wehrle @colewehrle.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
But, there is something special about the long, complex titles. They offer things that simply cannot be replicated elsewhere in the hobby. They are our great ludic symphonies, operas and novels. Gaming maximalism.
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Cole Wehrle @colewehrle.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I went through a period of several years where I hardly touched games longer than a couple hours. This was a good time for me as a player. I learned a lot of games and met wonderful folks. But, it also introduced a lot of small points of friction and waste into my life as a player.
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Cole Wehrle @colewehrle.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I hardly noticed at a time that, because I wasn't often repeating games, I was spending a lot of time learning many games and not really developing any kind of prolonged relationship with a title.
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Ryedestructor @ryedestructor.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
If you have a group that are willing to try it out and whoever would gm is at least somewhat comfortable with rulings-over-rules adjudication (Anything PBtA or Polymorph), I *highly* recommend trying one of the Free-RPG-Day module clearings put out by Magpie Games; I personally recommend Talon Hill.
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Ryedestructor @ryedestructor.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
It is a phenomenal game if you care for any mix of: revolutionary theming, roguish/swashbuckling action, faction-based-politicking, low fantasy adventures, and/or desperate, attrition-focused stories about mercenaries/vagabonds balancing what they believe in with what they need to do to get by.
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Delete System32 @delete-system32.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
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