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name's ash, i write sometimes and i take photos slightly more often | 🔞🔞🔞🔞 | she/her/it | minors and LLM imagery will be blocked | dogslop with catjank characteristics | profile picture by @dizzyisverydizzy.bsky.social

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Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · 18d

any silent hill f tweets i make will be tagged with #DogEnding, i will do my best to graphic tag images+rot13 mega spoilers but just be aware of what to mute. i will be there the second it unlocks

Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · 4h

just remembered the plot point in ciconia about chloevil, which is framed as half-serious

Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · 4h

lrp would fix me

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Mae @spiderpolice.bsky.social · 6h

yuritober day 9 but there's a bunch of doggies this time

A sign reads "Dog Girl Club -- Meeting today. A Room of three anthro wolves and a doggirl sit on the floor together. Two of the anthros howl, the dog girl blushes, ogling a wolf, while another wolf says "Welcome to the pack!"

Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · 4h

it's definitely a major component of mass media but i think that it being a very direct and explicit arm of the government with zero obfuscation matters a lot (even if the DoD prevents you from being too anti-war if they let you scan their helicopters, it's still a world of difference from ww2 film)

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max. @maxidango.bsky.social · 9h

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Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · 5h

if i do get it and i start crashing out i need you all to post this picture at me until i stop ok

a dog getting blasted with a hose

Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · 5h

i'm pretty sure i'm under the weather and i have a three day vacation up north planned once i finish up my name change hearing tomorrow. the voices kind of want me to get absolom for the deck and see if i fuck with it even with its issues

Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · 5h

if i can catch a break for a year straight i really want to eventually swap out my robot for an Argos. this shit is so pretty and while i adore the control a lever machine affords me having a water heater built-in+a steam wand is a nice get

an espresso machine

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Ember @emberswords.bsky.social · 6h

boy in a bunnysuit

Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · 6h

every so often i go "wow the discourse on this really evaporated overnight" and then remember that it's because i aggressively wordfiltered everything related to it

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Ebil @ebil.bsky.social · 22h

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Eve @everotten.bsky.social · 8h

gay

Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · 8h

the day this part was supposed to arrive the brake pads wore through and it started squealing every time i used them so i am going to take it to the shop anyways. time to die

Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · 2d

my innate midwesternness finally took the wheel. it's a $25 part. there have to be youtube tutorials. i will die before i beg this week

Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · 2d

i will be eating repair costs but the car still runs and it seems like i'll need a replacement for a light's casing, i will see what the estimated bill is and might have to do e-begging. life is great

Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · 8h

yea same lmfao everybody rightfully hated all the orb shop shit in dmc5 but the pre-order bonus giving me enough to immediately jc off that big fat guy nero fights was very nice

Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · 8h

just in case the person in lrp deletes their tweet because i just saw it blow up in real-time, source is this www.gamedeveloper.com/business/-ga...

How the EA buyout diverges from the playbook

Analysts explain how the high-risk leveraged buyout will impact Electronic Arts and the video game industry.

www.gamedeveloper.com

Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · 8h

i think having a slimmer moveset is good for onboarding - being a selectable upgrade highlights importance, and in DMC, JCing being extremely expensive is a way to sell that it's a powerful but highly advanced technique - but that only works for your first DMC and gets tedious afterwards

Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · 8h

i think in general as i play more games i get closer to wanting minimal moveset changes throughout the game or at least very rapid and clear onboarding for your kit, i've actually been of two minds as i work through shit like Battle Circuit too because it violates this lol

Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · 9h

my go-to is always "you have to do a level in a dmc game before you can buy stinger" even if they're a lot less bad about it than a lot of others given how short a mission is

Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · 9h

pretty funny to do an international film class and literally all of them go "this nation had a burgeoning cinema1 culture that created some fascinating movi- and then WW2 broke out and they made heavily censored propaganda until the next generation"

Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · 9h

Leapfrogging off of lrp but this conclusion is also wildly bleak and something I was immediately worried about - the role of video games as an explicitly national project doesn't make for good art in times of war

Saudi Arabia has a notoriously bad human rights record, according to Amnesty International. The Saudi government has been accused of murdering journalist Jamal Khashoggi (allegedly at the order of Crown Prince and Public Investment Fund chairman Mohammed bin Salman), quashing free speech, discriminating against women and members of the LGBTQ+ community (LGBTQI+ rights are not legally recognized or protected in Saudi Arabia), and outlawing protests and demonstrations.

What all this adds up to is the potential for "more sovereign money in the sandbox," van Dreunen said. "Once state-backed investors treat games as geopolitical assets, the floodgates open," he continued.

"That means bigger budgets, fewer exits, and politics embedded in content decisions. For developers, that means deeper pockets but heightened scrutiny over cultural representation. Recent tariffs and barriers to high-skilled talent entering the U.S. also create openings for markets like Europe to expand their gaming footprint. The center of gravity in gaming is shifting from market dynamics to geopolitical power plays."

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VI VI VI @volty.bsky.social · 19h

this article just sort of casually mentions that the only real way to pay off the debt they saddled EA with is through new revenue streams like sports betting

Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 22h

'Gaming is the new oil:' How the EA buyout 'diverges from the traditional playbook'

'Gaming is the new oil:' How the EA buyout 'diverges from the traditional playbook'

Analysts explain how the high-risk leveraged buyout will impact Electronic Arts and the video game industry.

www.gamedeveloper.com

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Kenza @kenzamaka.sheath.church · 26d

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Doodle Dip @doodledipart.bsky.social · May 27

I'm a good girl, aren't I?

I'm finally getting back into the swing of art and I decided on some horny fursona doodles

Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · 10h

Wyler Birthday Only Tournament with capcom pro tour prize pools right next to the buriki one grudge matches

Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · 11h

hugg