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mandoqueer (Hypnobait)

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game dev | hypnosis enthusiast | Ask for my trigger if you're cute 24 | minors dni | sometimes posts nsfw things at work

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mandoqueer (Hypnobait) @mandoqueer.itch.io · Jul 27

reminder @gifti3.bsky.social and I are attempting to keep track of games which have been removed from itch and attempting to help in knowing where authors of this content are moving.

We have registered 100 games and counting
spread the word
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Itch.io Delisted Games

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 1d

I have been enjoying Silent Hill f so much I decided to do some terrible fanart.

#silenthillf #silenthill

The protagonist of Silent Hill f Hinako, a Japanese girl in a blue school uniform, with one beefy arm and holding a sledge hammer, but all drawn really poorly in MS Paint.

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mandoqueer (Hypnobait) @mandoqueer.itch.io · 12h

(I'm still thinking this is about Venezuela)

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mandoqueer (Hypnobait) @mandoqueer.itch.io · 12h

imagine growing up in that and then being exposed to US politics where everyone is all like "Bipartisanship!"

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mandoqueer (Hypnobait) @mandoqueer.itch.io · 12h

...ok I don't wanna start discourse but oh my god why is Jay following this guy lmao (I went in the profile to block him)

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 13h

Yeah, difficulty in games is ultimately about what behaviors you want to reward and punish. What gets the rat a bite of cheese and what gets it a little shock. I'm all for a hardcore roleplaying experience, but it's reasonable to want to play your role in the game in a roleplaying game.

Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 13h

I love the "it's realistic.. Real life is brutal that is why you starve to death if you don't eat an entire roast chicken every 15 minutes" as a gaming philosophy.

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mandoqueer (Hypnobait) @mandoqueer.itch.io · 12h

I remember getting to college as a baby socialist in Canada and wanting to get involved with the campus leftoids when my first question was "what is y'all's position on Venezuela" and recoiling immediately because this is how I filter lefties worth listening to from lefties that are dumb

mandoqueer (Hypnobait) @mandoqueer.itch.io · 12h

not a venezuelan expert just a guy who lives here but ignores local politics cause nothing interesting ever happens but also I hear stuff down the grapevine:

yeah can confirm he does that

mandoqueer (Hypnobait) @mandoqueer.itch.io · 12h

(and rich enough that they had a Wikipedia page for me to find any of this shit out)

mandoqueer (Hypnobait) @mandoqueer.itch.io · 12h

and also they were Jewish iirc

mandoqueer (Hypnobait) @mandoqueer.itch.io · 12h

Turns out Venezuela has had a lot of German immigrants because we have immigrants from all over the damn place

mandoqueer (Hypnobait) @mandoqueer.itch.io · 12h

I actually went to high school with someone who was at the receiving end of this once, I never knew any of this when I knew her but she had a bulletproof car cause she was worried about crime lmao
but yeah everyone assumed the typical stuff and I ended up finding out her family lived here before WW2

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You Call Yourself a Film Critic @filmcriticmaybe.bsky.social · 16h

Ryan Murphy is an absolute cunt

Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 23h

apparently the new Netflix show Monster: The Ed Gein Story invented an "autogynephilia" backstory for their serial killer (because of course they did!). so time to re-up my collection of writings on this pseudoscientific zombie theory...
juliaserano.medium.com/autogynephil...

Autogynephilia, Junk Science, and Pseudoscience

plus links to my academic articles, online essays, and explainers on the topic

juliaserano.medium.com

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mandoqueer (Hypnobait) @mandoqueer.itch.io · 12h

like maybe she's a normal president or maybe she engages in a campaign of suppression against communists 20th century style or she doesn't have to because she becomes popular for being the lady who got rid of Maduro and just wins 10 presidential terms fair and square, I legit couldn't say

mandoqueer (Hypnobait) @mandoqueer.itch.io · 12h

yeah I *really* wouldn't go that far if only cause we're comparing an actual dictatorship to a lady who for all her faults has broadly sought power electorally and hasn't held enough institutional power that I feel confident predicting what she might do if she got the big chair

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 1d

In an impressive bit of technical artistry, Apple has hidden the actual things I want to see on my lock screen.

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone should go watch Innocent Blood if you want something fun for Halloween, this is an absolutely incredible schlocky horror movie. What's it about? A vampire who only feeds on criminals accidentally turns a mafia boss who starts making a whole syndicate of vampire mobsters.

VAMPIRE.
MOBSTERS.

Innocent Blood (1992) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]

YouTube video by HD Retro Trailers

www.youtube.com

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 1d

So the absolute insane stupidity of this is the idea that he could set up a theocratic state and also get a 'significantly smaller government.'

The folks on the authoritarian right do really seem to be believe there is a secret government liberalizer ray they can just switch off to change society.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1d

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

Douthat: So that’s the first purpose of your political project, for America to stop making God angry.

Wilson: Yes. And most people think that when they are confronted with that project, they think that we want to get our tentacles into everything and start controlling everything. I actually think we need limited government. The government should be significantly smaller than it is, and we need to curtail a lot of the busybodyness that we have. That’s why I would call myself a theocratic libertarian. There is a true libertarian element in this, and yet, the transcendent grounding for what we’re talking about means that we acknowledge the authority of God.

We have racked up quite a body count of awful crimes, and I believe the only way out is for us to repent and turn to Christ. This would be things like no more Pride parades, no more drag queen story hours, no more abortion on demand, no more legalized same-sex unions — all of that, done. That’s the repentance part.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 1d

Weird right wing people are not interesting because they’re mainly just stupid or racist. Weird left wing people are insane in interesting ways. This is why we will wins

jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 1d

one thing that's funny is the weirdo canadians/nazis on x the everything app increasingly have to monitor this place to get their rage fix now. you won! enjoy your cool app with your cool friends

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Natsuka @octopodeeznuts.bsky.social · 1d

for real this seems like SUCH a positive sign

Will Stancil
In the Portland Uber for maybe 20 seconds before the driver starts making cracks about the war ravaging the city

Natsuka
Did you give indicators that you'd be a safe audience, or do you just emit that aura?

Natsuka
because if i'm driving a white cis het Minnesotan man, i don't know if i make those jokes unless i already have a pretty good idea

Will Stancil
No clues whatsoever, I was astonished

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mandoqueer (Hypnobait) @mandoqueer.itch.io · 1d

Lmao I hate that after like 20 years of repression the only person left standing as an opposition leader in Venezuela is a Thatcher clone but i have always firmly believed that our land is cursed so like, appropriate i guess

Ann7837 @ann7837.bsky.social · 1d

Seemingly, she really did

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 1d

I continue to think this is one of the most important and underappreciated media dynamics.

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Scary Modrens (and Super Creeps) @modren.gay · 1d

they want you to think this girl is straight

Picture of a TV playing Dirty Pair episode 4. Kei is admiring the arms of a female wrestler. "Such muscular arms! These belong to a real woman!"

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mandoqueer (Hypnobait) @mandoqueer.itch.io · 1d

I already threw him under the bus for this after his *last* reelection
My man's crusty, he's gonna be 90 by the time he's got to run for reelection, and i ain't confident he survives his current term even though he looks pretty healthy by 84 year old standards :v

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

Yes ultimately many Dem electeds are afraid to give police under their command lawful orders because they think they will not be obeyed and the consequences that fact would have for them and for their state.

illbleed for sego dreancas @impemboganecue.bsky.social · 1d

It’s easy to call out Pritzker on this but something darker may be happening here. I’m not sure if he is secretly helping Trump behind the scenes. I think he’s terrified to test whether state police would obey him at all if he used them against the feds

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Several Illinois state troopers out here now with pepper ball launchers of their own.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 1d

And @microsoft.com's MSN bows to religious fascism, whitewashing content from outlets like Christian Post that portray LGBTQ+ people as violent, controlling and focused on converting children.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

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