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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.bsky.social · Apr 30

an edited screenshot of a dril tweet that reads “it is with a heavy heart that I must announce that Labour are at it again”

Further context: the original tweet, dated September 24th, 2014, read “it is with a heavy heart that I must announce that the celebs are at it again”

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.bsky.social · 6h

It’s funny/depressing when people expect community resources for a new game to be as comprehensive as they are for games that have been out for a while

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.bsky.social · 7h

I’m not sure if it’s revenue or sales, but it’s a heavily skewed figure that includes micro transactions, DLC, and mobile games. The industry is a bit opaque with sales data, but an Insomniac leak a few years back suggested the physical/digital split had basically plateaued around 50/50

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.bsky.social · 7h

Case in point: the premium edition of Outer Worlds 2 can currently be pre-ordered on Amazon for £70 (and the standard for £55). On the PS store, the premium is £90 and the standard is £60

(A shame that, ‘cos it’s a Microsoft release, the disc will just be a glorified download code)

Julianna 💎 @batariangal.bsky.social · 8h

Even without the Insomniac leak a few years back that showed digital growth had plateaued, this should be intuitive to anyone who’s actually compared launch prices on the PS store to physical launch prices.

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.bsky.social · 8h

Dear God, the “less than 20% of game sales are physical” stat just refuses to die. That’s not the ratio at launch! Which is when most games will actually make money

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.bsky.social · 8h

Congratulations!

Julianna 💎 @batariangal.bsky.social · 21h

Fair, lmao

Julianna 💎 @batariangal.bsky.social · 21h

What's she done now?

Julianna 💎 @batariangal.bsky.social · 1d

Public health bodies fussing about how much sugar people are having whilst this shit is going on, it’s insane

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.bsky.social · 1d

When you’re liberal about pretty much everything except gambling, Britain can be a maddening place to live in

Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 3d

Exc: High street slot machine shops pay bonuses linked to how much gamblers lose.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

High street slot machine shops pay staff bonuses linked to how much gamblers lose

Exclusive: MPs and campaigners condemn ‘appalling’ reward scheme for Merkur venue managers

www.theguardian.com

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.bsky.social · 1d

Happy birthday!

Julianna 💎 @batariangal.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t get having a guest judge who doesn’t get a score

Julianna 💎 @batariangal.bsky.social · 1d

lmao

Julianna 💎 @batariangal.bsky.social · 1d

Booo, they changed it

Claudia Winkleman’s Wikipedia page updated with a new, more normal picture from 2013

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.bsky.social · 1d

Oh no

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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 1d

Tess is behind you. 🙃

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.bsky.social · 1d

We’ve got it on now and it’s weird hearing it in surround sound

Julianna 💎 @batariangal.bsky.social · 1d

Niece is asking to have Strictly on whilst other niece is opening her presents, my Dad suggests putting it on without sound…

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.bsky.social · 1d

Niece is asking to have Strictly on whilst other niece is opening her presents, my Dad suggests putting it on without sound…

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.bsky.social · 2d

It’s also, admittedly, easier for me not to give it the benefit of the doubt because the DLC kinda sucks anyway

Julianna 💎 @batariangal.bsky.social · 2d

There’s a joke in one of the smaller DLCs where Hammerlock calls one a savage and the guy responds saying he has a degree, but it feels unearned now I realise this is a faction they’ve used twice

Julianna 💎 @batariangal.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, this is them. A fair amount of them are white, as you can see in the picture, so I guess it’s not quite as bad as RE5, but it’s still very much leaning into a stereotype in a way that feels like it’s trying to be satirical, but isn’t

Lucy Kwiatek @lucykwiatek.bsky.social · 2d

...huh. borderlands.fandom.com/wiki/Savages

Savages

Savages are human enemies in Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt and Sir Hammerlock vs. the Son of Crawmerax, and can be found throughout the continent of Aegrus and on Wam Bam Island. How exactly the sava...

borderlands.fandom.com

Julianna 💎 @batariangal.bsky.social · 2d

It was bad enough when Resident Evil 5 had you traversing a swamp fighting stereotypical tribal warriors in 2009, why was Borderlands doing it in 2013? Was it meant to be a dig at RE5? I don’t get it

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.bsky.social · 2d

The one Borderlands 2 DLC I’ve not played before is Hammerlock’s Big Game Hunt and now that I’ve played some of it…

An image of Ta-Nehisi Coates looking shocked, with a subtitle that reads: “Wow, that was really racist”

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Colin Elves @colinelves.bsky.social · 3d

Ah, now, we’re not so bad.

Just because Leigh has different pronunciations depending on whether you’re referring to the village in Kent or the town outside Manchester and neither of them are phonetic.

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