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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German)

@thehellfridge.bsky.social
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Mid 30s | he/him | De/en translator & editor | (cat) dad | speedrunner | games cool | gamers™ trash | YT stuff | feminism | trans rights | bi & polyam

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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I won my first local Pokémon League Challenge* at age 35, so never let them tell you what you can or cannot do. You're the pokemaster of your own pokedestiny! Don't let your pokedreams be pokedreams. *(there were 4 participants lol)
Screen from the official play pokemon app, showing a win at a league challenge at a local card store
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The best thing is this guy right here.
Face of the Kokiri shopkeeper from the OoT remake, who's got weird and perfect bedroom eyes.
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Video games, folks
German results screen from Star Fox 2026 showing the hard route on Expert difficulty with medals in each level and 1513 points.
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Going into Lylat late so I could go to Paradise early.
Star Fox and Rhythm Paradise Groove for Switch
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Thoroughly enjoyed my time with Forbidden Solitaire. Neat approach at giving the whole Solitaire system a bit more depth and friction, but the highlight is definitely the aesthetics and framing. A lot of camp, a lot of love for games, a lot of my type of cheese. Highly recommend.
The starting screen of Forbidden Solitaire which is a mock windows desktop screen with different software icons, Forbidden Solitaire being one of them, because the game is doing this meta thing.
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I already think Monopoly is the worst thing that happened to board games alongside Ludo. But this must be the worst version - unless there's like a Marx Monopoly, which, if there is, please don't show me.
One Piece Monopoly at a library.
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
What kind of Pokémon are you? 🎵
Screen from Pokémon Champions showing that I made it to Master Ball Tier Rank 3 with my team of Hatterene, Garchomp, Sneasler, Milotic, Manectric and Volcarona.
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Oh no, it's HIM!!!!
Screenshot from pokemon go of a Kricketune with 666 battle points.
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
CN dead rodents, butt stuff In this household we eat ass! *cat religiously only drops the upper halves of mice and rats on our terrace* Eww, not like that.
Alucard, the eater of asses of rats and mice.
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Seriously, how does this game keep getting better?!
Screenshot from Titanium Court with the musical number and the salmon. I really can't say more, if you're intrigued, get that game, friend.
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
I did the thing. Just off the top of my head representing where I'm at in my life (i.e. today lol). Originally didn't want any doubles, but I was like "Heck, Undertale has earned that." Also Mario Bros 3 should be All-Stars on the SNES but for some reason that's not on that list.
"About Me: Video Games" grid
Favorite Game: Undertale
Best Story: Pathologic 3
Favorite Art Style: Okami
Biggest Personal Impact: Undertale
Best Combat: God Hand
Overhated: Daikatana
Underrated: Wonderful 101
Overrated: Clair Obscur Expedition 33
Needs a Remake: Linda³ Again
Criminally Overlooked: Terranigma
Favorite Protagonist: Boku no Natsuyasumi 2
Favorite Antagonist: Metal Gear Rising Revengance
Best Soundtrack: Smash Ultimate
Best Multiplayer: Mario Party Jamboree
Not Usually My Thing, but: Final Fantasy 14
Turn My Brain Off: Stardew Valley
Best With Friends: Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
Best Retro Game: Super Mario Bros. 3
Nostalgic Childhood Game: Mario Paint
Game Everyone Should Play: Baba is You
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
My cat. That's my cat in this game!
Screenshot from the video game "Titanium Court" where there is a picture of a cat accompanied by a title card that reads "The cat responds to this question by falling asleep on your lap."
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Shout-out to the youths, who I totally get and am totally "with" as they say.
The Tomb Labyrinth from Final Fantasy 8 where you find the lost students ID. The ID Number is 6 7. A sequence of number that becomes funnier and funnier the more often I repeat it at people a third of my age.
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Kolonialismus :(
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
So unless the any% route turns out to be absurdly long, I think I have found my next speed game. Loving #BigHops so far!
Leaderboard for the second challenge in the indie game big hops showing me at the #1 Rank with 21.72 seconds.
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
So, a good friend gifted me the new 3d platformer with a frog, which means I am now morally obligated to learn how to speedrun it. Let's get frogging!
RazzleDazzle, a good egg, gifted me Big Hops on Steam.
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
#JoyCons Nintendo man: "Yo, check this out. I bought a purple car!" The purple car:
A completely black car with purple rims.
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
a comedian telling an increasingly large audience about the non-impact of avatar
Dathon from the Darmok episode of star trek
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
"Mami, Mami, können wir Weihnachten?" "Wir haben Weihnachten zu Hause." Weihnachten zu Hause:
Thumbnail der Netflix Serie "Weihnachten zu Hause."
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
This game got so many MOMENTS, it's an utter joy. Just a barrage of completely optional and gameplay-wise utterly USELESS bits to discover that make you go... yeah... video games. (go play @angelineera.bsky.social if you like video games is what I'm trying to say)
Screenshot from Angeline Era, where the main character Tets felt a divine presence and took some time for reflection.
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
That's a burger
Panel from "the anime club" with one of the kids angrily saying "you uncultured swine" because somebody said porn instead of (the correct term) "hentai"
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Mike Litt
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn't a selfie.
Dude with a chicken (?) costume from the game Pentiment looking silly and sticking their tongue out.
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
I am not merely angry. In fact, I...
German street sign reading "am Anger"
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Just bought Horses by @santaragione.com (alongside two classics) on GOG. Thank you @steampowered.com for putting this interesting game on my radar by arguably being rather awful about art and censorship on your platform.
receipt from GOG showing Horses, Normality and Thief Gold being bought
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Dear parents. If your kid has a REALLY cool little scooter, you should do the responsible thing and NOT cruise it down a hill of uncertain boardwalk quality, unless you want to act as a bad example for your kid to learn from. I just so happened to have tested that out for you.
Me holding a thumbs up with a bloody lip and a bandaid on my nose.
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I have realized something about the mustache. A power I hadn't recognized before. I basically have a one-time-use instant fountain of youth in my face. Right now I look my age, mature, obviously ruggedly masculine in a Bob Burger kind of way. If I ever shave it? BOOM, 10 years off the clock!
Me, feeling handsome with my mustache, playfully looking away from the camera. Hip young people would say that I am serving something.
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
One of my favorite things about #BlakeManor is having conversations about people who are standing not even a meter away. There's a lot of (unintentional?) comedy gold in this game. Mild spoilers.
Screenshot from The Séance at Blake Manor. The main character is talking to Miss McLeod about a big revelation, while her confidant and gay lover Missus Lau is standing right next to them (but is not part of this gameplay interaction).Crop from that prior screenshot highlighting dialog.
Declan Ward (main character): I hope Missus Lau is handling the situation well?"

Miss McCleod: "She is more calm than I."Close-up Miss Missus Lau, staring blankly off into the distance.
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Imagine going as hard at trying to lick your own neck as this guy does.
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Dunno if @oniongames.bsky.social is already aware of this but there's a softlock in the Gastrobaron fight in #StrayChildren If you're outside the light cone when the treasure drops, you're stuck in the shadows.
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Ignore the dreamy bed room eyes for just one second (please!) and tell me honestly.... mustache yes or no?
It is me, with very dreamy eyes and a mustache.
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Gamers. Do yourself a favor and get #StrayChildren. I'm an hour in and can already tell, this is gonna be a special game for me. And it's not just bc of the Kafka, it also has a lot of emotional honesty, weird characters, and big themes going on.
Screenshot from Stray Children. Main character talks to a slime who says: "I awoke one morning from uneasy dreams..."Continued dialogue from the last screenshot: "And found myself in my bed transformed into a slyme!"
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Finally ready to become a REAL gamer.
The intro video of Heroes of Might and Magic 3 Complete on a laptop screen next to the printed out tutorial in a binder.
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I love him. He's my dongus. The most dongus of em all.
Alucard the cat, sleeping peacfully. Lying in his back. Paws dangling in front of his face, mouth slightly open si the lil teeth a visible. So dongus.
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
I feel like this is a hugely underrated JoJo quote and should be the retort to so many more things.
Quote from JoJo Steel Ball Run:
"Do you know why the dinosaurs perished when they were prospering on this earth? It's because they were idiots whl didn't understand the concept of respect!"
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Seltener deutscher Post aus Übersetzungsfaulheit. Meine Takes zu FF7 Rebirth:
Bin zwiegespalten. Einerseits ist das Spiel ein gewaltiges Werk und mehr und besser als ich es mir hätte vorstellen können, als das erste Remake damals angekündigt wurde. Es ist quasi alles da, was eins sich wünschen würde an set pieces, sequenzen und momenten. Das Versprechen "Wir geben euch (das zweite Drittel) FF7 in modern wurde absolut erfüllt.

Andererseits hat das Spiel gefühlt keinen richtigen Fokus. Es will alles machen, am besten gleichzeitig. Die Menge an Minispielen ist schon gnadenlos drüber und wenn die Hälfte davon gekickt worden wär, dem Spiel würde nichts fehlen.
Das Kampfsystem ist an sich gut und hat viel Potenzial, allerdings sindo beinahe 100% der Kämpfe derartig trivial, dass man nie wirklich ein Gefühl für die zig Werkzeuge entwickelt, die einem das Spiel gibt. Wenn dann doch vereinzelt Kämpfe auftauchen, bei denen strategisches Vorgehen notwendig ist, steht man plötzlich vor einem riesigen Difficulty Spike. Das wäre nicht so schlimm, wenn das Ausprobieren neuer Strategien mit umständlichem Menüherumgewusel einhergehen würde. Das fühlt sich eher nach Arbeit an als nach spaßigem Herumexperimentieren. Im Vergleich dazu hat ein DMC dieses Problem beispielsweise nicht. Das Ausprobieren unterschiedlicher Moves und Strategien geht fast komplett menüfrei. Höchstens das Umstellen von Waffenshortcuts ist nötig, alle anderen Tools sind halt mittem im Gameplay abrufbar. 
Wie gut ich die Story finden würde, hing vor allen Dingen vom Ende ab für mich. Remake hat uns implizit versprochen, dass die Dinge in dieser Iteration von FF7 ANDERS werden würde. Das Potenzial dieses Versprechens seh ich bisher als verpulvert. Nomura hat sich im Prinzip einen Freifahrtschein gegeben, alles Mögliche zu machen und die Welt von FF7 aus komplett anderen Perspektiven zu erforschen, doch im Prinzip hält sich Rebirth zum Großteil an den Fahrplan, den das PSX-Original vorgibt. /tbcDas wäre nicht so schlimm, wenn Remake nicht diese Erwartungen an große Veränderungen eingepflanzt hätte. Dazu kommt, dass Rebirth einem diese möglichen Veränderungen dauernd wie ein Köder vor den Augen vorführt. So viel Spielzeit dacht ich mir "boah, da wartet bestimmt ein großer Brummer, Nomura der Schlingel spielt wie ein Maestro mit unseren Gefühlen." Vor allen Dingen in den letzten 2-3 Stunden gaukelt einem das Spiel einen Twist nach dem anderen vor. Cloud tötet Aerith? Nein. Cloud rettet Aerith? Nein. Aerith ist tot? Nein.. oder doch? Oder nein? Durch dieses ganze Wirrwarr an Was-passiert-grad-wirklich-und-was-nicht geht jede Dramatik verloren und die Auflösung von allem schmeckt fade und enttäuschend. Aerith ist tot, ole ole, aber es gibt eine andere Welt da ist sie nicht tot und Zack auch nicht und vielleicht überschneiden die sich nochmal, vielleicht aber auch nicht, ist egal, tschüss aerith, zurück zur normalen FF7-Tour. Viel verschwendetes Potenzial und gefühlt wäre die Umsetzung eines beliebigen Fanfic spannender gewesen. Vielleicht hebt sich Nomura den dicken Käse für das Finale auf, aber so wie es steht ist es iwie sehr meh.

Mal schauen ob Hard Mode die Gameplay-Probleme ein bisschen relativiert. Bei Remake war Hard Mode ein Highlight für mich, aber das war auch ein wesentlich fokussierteres Spiel.||Ich weiß auch nicht, für wen dieses Spiel bzw. diese Geschichte sein soll. 

Für Fans von Original ist es seltsam bis enttäuschend, weil diese ganzen Anspielungen an mögliche Änderungen kein wirkliches Payoff haben. Wie hart es Spekulationen von Fans gab, dass man Aerith ja vielleicht doch retten könnte und wie witzig wäre es gewesen, den großen Twist vom OG auf den Kopf zu stellen. Idk. Vorm Spielen dachte ich mir "aerith lebt" wäre ein etwas offensichtlicher Twist, jetzt wäre es mir sehr willkommen gewesen. 

Für Leute, die das Original nie gespielt haben, ist es jedoch einfach nur verwirrend. Dauernd passieren Dinge und Sachen werden angespielt, zu denen es keinen Kontext gibt. Zack einfach so ein Typ der manchmal auftaucht und Cloud kennt. Hä, mehrere Welten? Klar. Hä? Dunno. Alles seltsam.

Auch das Theming einfach komplett verdreht zu Remake.

In Remake geht es darum, sich gegen das Schicksal zu wehren und sich neue Pfade zu schaffen.

In Rebirth geht es darum, sich dem Schicksal zu beugen. Aber man kommt zwischendurch Fenster zu anderen Realitäten, wo man mal durchgucken kann
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Frohlocke, @ziaddd.bsky.social, denn...
Thumbnail of renowned Youtube personality wondermagenta with an automatically translated video title below: "SCHALTER 2 IS FAST DA.", which translates to "Switch 2 is almost there." Dunno, maybe YT should not do that, it's kinda silly.
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
A delighted, dare I say jubilant Ninja Turtle from the Coming Out of The Shell cassette tape, cropped that you only see the turtle's ecstatic face and the word coming below
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Simons head from Boku no Natsuyasumi 2 with the words "Bonzo Schlonzo" above his head taken from the german localization of Paper Mario.
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Shit, the cat is developing AI artifacts.
Alucard, a brown cat with black striped and spots, is lying on his back. However, his spine is turned in such a way thst it looks like it's a mix of two cats lying in different ways and it's really weird.
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
My first brilliant chess move. 🥲 Also won the game afterwards.
Chess.com screenshot with a brilliant move that I can't accurately describe atm bc I also still suck at notation, but basically my black bishop was moved to h3, defending the queen on g2 being attacked by the other queen on f3.
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Shoutouts to the German translator of Paper Mario who accurately captured the zeitgeist of the late 90s in Germany, where all the cool things were called "Bonzo Schlonzo"
Screenshot from the German version of Paper Mario where one of the Koopa brothers is saying: "Wir sind die Super-Ultra-Hyper-Giga-Hippen-Krassen-Fetten-Bonzo-Schlonzo-Fantastic-Bombastik-Koopa Brüder!!!"
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Started learning chess this year (at 34) to be able to play with the elementary school kids I work with now. I can now confidently say that I can almost always beat a 3rd grader. Same does NOT go for all the 4th graders... So yeah, slow and steady.
Jake the Dog from Adventure Time saying: "dude, sucking at something is the first step towards being sort of good at something"
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
My Steam replay stats.
66 Games played.
631 achievements.
790 sessions
36 new games.

Most played games:
Metaphor Re:Fantazio (14%)
UFO 50 (10%)
Frogun Encore (8%)
Armored Core VI (8%)
Baldurs Gate 3 (7%)
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Screenshot from metaphor re: fantazio with the mission objective "get to the anus!"
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The Hellfridge (wants to translate your silly game to German) @thehellfridge.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
So my partner just sent me this and I'm not sure who of us feels more busted.
Cute bi girl with the caption "happy bi visibility day; to all the stereotype gals of 'Bi, afraid of women and in a relationship with a nerdy, golden retriever cis man'
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