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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · Aug 26

>kill a wild boar
>it drops 3 coins
Where do the coins come from?

Piggybank

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The Cat Hive @thecathive.bsky.social · 17h

The Criminal

Doodle of an orange cat with a piece of crumpled plastic in his mouth. He is running away quickly, wide-eyed. There is text from someone shouting "WHO IS EATING PLASTIC!!!"

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Hatok @hatok.bsky.social · 19h

despite everything it'sa you

NTom64_HFC @ntom64.bsky.social · 19h

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · Aug 21

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Nell Gwyn @ne11gwyn.bsky.social · 1d

Ooh, I have GOT to try this on my stream...

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 2d

Holy shit someone uploaded the entire stage play adaptation of the Yakuza videogame series with English subtitles and it’s glorious and 500x better than the Amazon show youtu.be/Z2Msr4si6dU?...

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · Aug 31

a great thing about using open-source software is when you want to use it in a way that seems obvious but is not documented and when you look into it not only is it impossible but the developer hates your specific use-case and built the entire application around not supporting it

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 1d

insane that we got so few seasons of bo jackson playing sports but you can kind of see why getting not very many seasons of bo jackson playing sports was kind of inevitable

Joel Zombied 🎃🦇 @velodus.bsky.social · 1d

That new Nike/Ken Griffey Jr. ad features a snippet of Bo Jackson running up the wall in 1990 and I think you could go all in if you wanted that this was the single coolest play in baseball history

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Tony @shintonty.bsky.social · 1d

many of you

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 2d

the whole tron setting doesn't really make sense. why is the computer run by a fascist dictator? (sees my laptop updates weren't installed because some background software refused to quit) kill that program. kill it now. kill that program immediately

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 1d

beginning to understand why these guys keep thinking everyone is going to want to use AI to do fun stuff like "creative writing" and "reading books" so you have more time to do work

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 1d

funniest part is at the end when you learn that "thiel"'s philosophical musings about comic books published in intellectual religious journal was outsourced to one of his assistants actually

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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ceej @ceej.online · 1d

the philosophical battle for the future of humanity is happening primarily in the chat logs of overwatch 2, which, purely coincidentally, I did play for 120 hours last week instead of developing any close personal relationships

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ceej @ceej.online · 1d

the disastrous refusal of the self-styled silicon valley technokings to keep anyone in their lives capable of questioning their increasingly incomprehensible politics has lead to a crisis of thinking so severe that a fifty-eight year old man believes something is important because he knows about it

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

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KZ @kzxcellent.live · 3d

The clip choice for TMR is killing me

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 3d

Alas, somebodye took the German holidaye fruit breade. It was stollen!

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 2d

It is the deepest of bummers to listen to John Smoltz broadcast a baseball game. He hates the game so intensely it almost makes *me* hate it!

Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 3d

He sets the lowest bar because no broadcaster radiates contempt for today’s game or his audience like Smoltz

Andrea @adfrts.bsky.social · 3d

I agree, with the caveat that that’s more of a testament to just how bad Smoltz is

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Bridget! | #ENVtuber @brisskitty.bsky.social · 2d

Talking with Cynthia about it and I kinda need KH4 to have worlds that are like half fantastical like Star Wars and half worlds that just have him do normal high school things

Like he goes to high school with Peter Parker and Zac Efron for a week and realises how not normal his life is

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Dani @daniexists6.bsky.social · 4d

I think it's funnier that someone got this signed by the original Turtles.

the ad from above, but signed by Renee Jacobs (April O'Neil, with a "guess not...", Barry Gordon (Donatello, with a "YEAH RIGHT!"), Townsend Coleman (Michelangelo, with a "Still here!"), Rob Paulsen (Raphael) and Cam Clarke (Leonardo, with a "Crystal Ball, anyone?")

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Bootleg Jones @bootlegjones64.bsky.social · 2d

Pannenkoek2012 and the rest of the talented people working on the A Button Challenge deserve a Nobel Prize in Mario

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 2d

Two well-known voice clips from Super Mario Sunshine are Mario saying "Aren't I done yet?!" and "There's more?!" in an exasperated way, long presumed unused. However, there is actually a way to hear them in-game, as they have a chance to play when he enters a level at low health.

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Nell Gwyn @ne11gwyn.bsky.social · 3d

It boggles my mind they went with that when "Thie4" would not only have looked better but also been pronounced the same.

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Darkonius Mavakar @darkonius-mavakar.itch.io · 3d

Simon Belmont: "ah dang, I have low health, what will i do?!"

The ever so useful wall chicken:

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Kallidora Rhosferatu 🩸 @kallidorarho.bsky.social · 3d

snakes truly are unmatched in terms of symbolism btw. it rules. life, death, immortality, eternity, medicine, sex, temptation, evil, gluttony, hypnosis - we've got it all babes

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psudonym @psudonym.bsky.social · 3d

Eat the older leftovers first.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 10d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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