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@bvigeant.bsky.social

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Goofy video game streamer: https://www.twitch.tv/ps_garak Goofy adventure game podcaster: https://zencastr.com/Quest-Quest Goofy comic writer: https://www.instagram.com/philcomic/ Plus Chicago gay.

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Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @bvigeant.bsky.social · Nov 13

at last, my years of being a social media real estate speculator paid off and I have a bunch of new follows. Here's an introduction of all the stuff I do, apologies to everyone who already knows me.

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Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @bvigeant.bsky.social · 5h

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Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @bvigeant.bsky.social · 6h

I'm the opposite of the Cubs in that I save all my work till the end of the day instead of frontloading my only runs and then nothing

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @bvigeant.bsky.social · 12h

A screenshot from the film True Stories during the fashion show sequence set to Dream Operator. A man and a woman in outfits made of grass

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Vampaya Chemist @papayachemist.bsky.social · 12h

Currently bingeing @decafjedi.com and @bvigeant.bsky.social's Quest Quest podcast at work (because I should have started listening to it a long time ago, tbh) and nodding sensibly at their Very Correct Opinions. Well, most of them.

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Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @bvigeant.bsky.social · 15h

Oh also I'm at 16 hours and probably at about the same spot give or take some stuff.

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @bvigeant.bsky.social · 15h

I think it still feels good, and I'm still adjusting to Mel's generally different playstyle (which clashes with my own default). The boon are... eh. But I haven't really started to critically engage with those, just randomly pick em.

I also haven't played H1 since 2021, so that helps.

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @bvigeant.bsky.social · 15h

I haven't given the game as much intense thought, mainly because the systems have just slid off my brain, but I'm having a fun time playing it. The problem is that I don't feel as strong a tug to return to it, or to keep doing runs which H1 had in spades.

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Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @bvigeant.bsky.social · 15h

I'd argue that H1 has the best of a long early access- it has good game feel which seems like it was entirely out of correctly tuning it by listening correctly to feedback (e.g. not listening to dumb ideas).

This has a bit more sweaty for the fans stuff.

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Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @bvigeant.bsky.social · 15h

... it might be a case of not filtering EA feedback correctly and listening more to hardcore fans that will dig through all that stuff.

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Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @bvigeant.bsky.social · 15h

I'm enjoying it ok, but it does feel like a 4 star game to the original's 5. Essentially all the ~stuff~ I just have stopped bothering focusing intently, and every now and again I check in on it. But it is silly. There's definitely so so much more everything and I think...

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 16h

There has been a lot of ICE activity in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago today. There has also been a lot of ICE watch and rapid response activity. We love our community, and we are showing up for each other.

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Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @bvigeant.bsky.social · 18h

Wolf Blitzer with a negative -$4,600 on celebrity jeopardy. Just off-screen, Andy Richter, a comedian, has $39,000.

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New York Shit Post @nyshitpost.com · 19h

Oh No! The Guy Carrying All The Epstein Files Just Dropped Them Into A Really Big Puddle

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Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @bvigeant.bsky.social · 21h

(watching Happiness Patrol)
"This Helen M has a lot of good ideas."

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @bvigeant.bsky.social · 21h

Yeah I was going to post this.

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Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @bvigeant.bsky.social · 1d

(win, Cubs)

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @bvigeant.bsky.social · 1d

That's a 🚾

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Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social · 5d

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is Now Playing at the Music Box, presented in 70MM!

Showtimes & Tickets: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...

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Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @bvigeant.bsky.social · 1d

Headed into therapy during the Cubs game, going to keep checking my phone like Tony Soprano during the busy season

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 1d

I’ve seen the videos, they ARE coming through you.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @bvigeant.bsky.social · 2d

This looks great!

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

It only happened once

New York Post headline “Beat the Meatles” about the Beatles doing sex stuff together

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Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @bvigeant.bsky.social · 2d

(scrolling)
horror.
horror.
horror.
pretty good joke.
out of context beef i have no idea about.
horror.
some guy's dick
completely baffling out of context beef
weather report

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @bvigeant.bsky.social · 2d

We're live!!! www.twitch.tv/ps_garak

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @bvigeant.bsky.social · 2d

Tonight at 8 PM Central, more PHANTASMAGORIA. In the 90s it was perfectly normal for a married couple of a magazine photographer and a one book novelist to purchase a sprawling Groverhaus style mansion. Join us on a real estate centric memory lane that's also an FMV horror. www.twitch.tv/ps_garak

An absurdly red and silly bedroom with a small staircase down and a large imposing portrait of a guy dressed like a dracula

A woman reaches to touch a spooky blob floating in the air over a crib.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 2d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

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Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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