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VGBees 🎮🐝🐝🐝 @vgbees.com · 2h

Big beefy ep of The VGBees Podcast with new permanent cohost @lotusloveslotus.bsky.social this week!

- Digimon!
- @nikigrayson.com's new computer!
- @floppyadult.com's Megabonk obsession!
- Baseball!
- Absolum is great!
- Hades II has some narrative challenges!

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The VGBees Podcast Episode 71 - Assassin's Creed: Roku City - VGBees

This week marks the beginning of the Lotus era at The VGBees Podcast. She joins John and Niki as the third permanent cohost of the...

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Bynine @bynine.bsky.social · 5h

MORMORMOR - ROCK/WATER
The heads always fight over food. Trainers may have to disentangle them.
MORAYAROM - ROCK/WATER
The heads swap places as they learn more about themselves.
MORAYAMOST - ROCK/DRAGON
The heads have a beautiful friendship that gives them perfect synchronicity.
#fakemon #pokemon

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悠哉【youzai】 @youzai.bsky.social · 15h

🌸 #digimon #デジモン

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Lotus 🤎🧡🤍🩷❤️ @lotusloveslotus.bsky.social · 23h

if you saw I, III, Liberation, Origins, Odyssey, and Shadows come and go then, as good a pitch as it is, I think this is just something you say to instantly express your disappointment in the concept behind a report but there are external factors to it keeping you from these games

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Lotus 🤎🧡🤍🩷❤️ @lotusloveslotus.bsky.social · 1d

lots of folks on socials saying the cancelled Assassin's Creed game *would* have been their first AC and *would* have been the thing that got them (back) into AC and I just don't think that that's true at all?

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Lotus 🤎🧡🤍🩷❤️ @lotusloveslotus.bsky.social · 1d

the batter can just put their hand in the way and get one for freesies?

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Lotus 🤎🧡🤍🩷❤️ @lotusloveslotus.bsky.social · 1d

do I not know what a hit by pitch is

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Lotus 🤎🧡🤍🩷❤️ @lotusloveslotus.bsky.social · 2d

consider:

A screenshot of Digimon Story: Time Stranger focusing on two cute Digimon, Lopmon and Terriermon, sitting side-by-side on the ground.

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Lotus 🤎🧡🤍🩷❤️ @lotusloveslotus.bsky.social · 2d

beyond excited to officially join the VGBees lineup this week!! love the knowledgeable and salient but also very dumb (compliment) conversations John and Niki (and Jordo!) facilitate. looking forward to bringing my usual indie propaganda to a new-ish audience (next week) (I've been nolifing Digimon)

John E Warren 🤠🐝♿️ @floppyadult.com · 3d

Excited to say that @lotusloveslotus.bsky.social is joining the @vgbees.com Podcast as a permanent host! If you know her then this is tremendously exciting news. If you do not know her then you are in for a treat!

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☁️MOTEL777☁️ @motel777.xyz · 2d

our october shop update is LIVE 🍂🎃🪾 new keychains, tees, & more!
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A promo ad for the MOTEL777 October Shop update! New keychains and tees, visit motel777.xyz/shop.

Front & back of the Black Shuck acrylic keychain.

How it looks when you press down on the Stoplight Clicker keychain - it lights up!

Various apparel, accessories & prints in the October MOTEL777 drop.

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like the thing I always find myself thinking when ppl are talking about "oh the gaming audience is awful" is that, like... i'm not sure i believe that so much as I believe that any unmoderated space will inevitably surface the most toxic people (who drive away more-reasonable ones)

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fia! @fiashouse.bsky.social · 3d

got no real addition to the indie game press conversation other than that it sucks, and I can't promise to cover anything, but I'm always looking for cool, weird, underground indies to cover on my news shifts at Rock Paper Shotgun!

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 3d

Ortiz was absolutely loving this sitting between AROD and Jeter

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Lotus 🤎🧡🤍🩷❤️ @lotusloveslotus.bsky.social · 4d

two different monitors! it's also sometimes accompanied by audio stuttering or freezing so I feel I've ruled them out. seems most likely this GPU has finally kicked the bucket but I'll try what you said here and get all the info I can before moving forward. thank you!!

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Lotus 🤎🧡🤍🩷❤️ @lotusloveslotus.bsky.social · 4d

this happens a lot more with intensive use, like running a game on high, but it's also happened while I'm just sitting around watching YouTube or something. as far as I can tell there's no indication (stuttering, heat, excessive noise, etc) of stress on the GPU or that it's going to happen

Lotus 🤎🧡🤍🩷❤️ @lotusloveslotus.bsky.social · 4d

at a loss and the internet doesn't work anymore so asking here: been getting this weird GPU crash lately, usually when playing games. everything up to date, clean installs. cleaned PC, reseated GPU and RAM. screen fills with this pattern and strobes before blackscreening and refreshing to normal

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jody @dyke.bsky.social · 4d

i still don't get why people are saying this site is evil and toxic. all i see is a bunch of subdued men in their 30s tweeting about lunch

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Count Doracula 🎃 @heyitsdora.com · 4d

Bumping this! I'm still searching for localizers for the following below. If that's you, or if you know someone who it fits, please reach out! This is a paid, short term, fully remote opportunity, though you must be in Ontario due to grant restrictions.

Count Doracula 🎃 @heyitsdora.com · Aug 21

Hey game dev! Looking for Ontario-based localization partners (either a company or individuals) for:
- French
- German
- Japanese
- Simplified Chinese
- Spanish

These do not all have to be done by the same person. Must be comfortable working with queer themes/pronouns and complex narratives! Thanks

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Lotus 🤎🧡🤍🩷❤️ @lotusloveslotus.bsky.social · 6d

I've read this dumb post like 10 times and I still don't understand how the QRTer has positioned themselves in opposition to OP with that opening "no" when they appear to be saying the exact same thing

For some reason the person who posted this screenshotted and then wrote in reply to a post instead of just quote reposting it, but then provided the entire post verbatim in the ALT text, so I guess I'm doing the same thing.

Original post, by @okbjgm.bsky.social: "there are many filmmakers whom i clearly recognize as major artists while remaining completely untouched and, frankly, annoyed by their work. learning the difference between "i hate", "it's bad", and "it just isn't for me" has been a crucial feature of my maturation as an artist and human being."

Quote repost by @carolynmichelle.bsky.social: "respectfully: no. develop your own taste, absolutely, but own it. it's fine to think that popular thing is bad. it's fine to not have an opinion too, but i see statements like this one all the time and i just want to push back a bit: there's nothing wrong with having the courage of your convictions."

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 6d

inventing a unit like scovilles but for games, where instead of the pain you experience from eating a spicy chili it's the amount of mental anguish you are experiencing from a sense of being compelled to continue playing the game despite wishing you were doing literally anything else

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Lotus 🤎🧡🤍🩷❤️ @lotusloveslotus.bsky.social · 6d

protein is a godsend for The Market because it has all the positives (for capitalism) of the resurgence of extreme diet culture but it's also totally gender neutral. there's protein in everything now because it's supposed to help men get huge AND to help women get skinny

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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 6d

you don't have to log onto someone else's bad website to post. make your own bad website

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 7d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Lotus 🤎🧡🤍🩷❤️ @lotusloveslotus.bsky.social · 6d

so how DO y'all be usin Mastodon

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Bynine @bynine.bsky.social · 8d

THROH-GALAR (NORMAL)
It raises Snom for silk to create blankets. Its great strength allows it to aid travelers in peril.
SAWK-GALAR (NORMAL)
They fill their socks with berries and hang them up for wildlife. Its long legs let it carry injured down mountains.
#pokemon #fakemon

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