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Rebekah Valentine

@duckvalentine.bsky.social

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Multi-award-winning senior reporter at IGN, proudly @ignunion.bsky.social. kansas city kansas city. She/her. Exuberant, always. [email protected], Signal: duckvalentine.25

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · Jan 6

please read the words i wrote in my post before replying to it. thank you.

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ceej @ceej.online · 40m

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 1h

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 3h

alright how about there’s no foul territory but everyone in attendance is an eligible fielder

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 6h

One cool feature of Steam is they provide a Harassment Zone for each game you announce. It's a place for people who hate progress to come and crap all over games they haven't even played. No, they won't help you moderate it, but hey, at least you can't delete it!

Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 17h

Classic Steam forums

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 12h

billionaires will never throw money at this sort of thing in a real, meaningful way because they've never had to take out the trash or wash a dish in their lives and have no concept of it being a barrier to anything someone would want to do

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 12h

call me when the robot can do my dishes and laundry for me and put them all away in the correct drawers/cabinets/closets without my input. that would give me more time to write, the thing AI keeps trying to do (poorly) for me instead.

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 12h

Copilot notification on work laptop this morning: "Let's make progress on a project! Ask me how to tackle the first step." bud if i didn't know how to do the first step of a project all by myself like a big girl i'm not sure anyone would've hired me to begin with.

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ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 1d

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

Screenshot of David Simon interview
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Charlie the Half Time Orange @clementinedanger.bsky.social · 18h

work work

Tumblr post:

video games are all about meeting a little elf
outside the city gates that says 'ah... the pernicious
weed!' when you give him a healing herb and then
finding yourself fifteen years later saying "ah... the
pernicious weed!" to yourself in the shower

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 1d

WWII "Friend" poster series from the Allied Forces, originally demonstrating the various Allied forces (British, Australian, Chinese, French, Dutch, etc.) and their appearances

It reads:

"This man is your FRIEND

He fights for FREEDOM"

The image is a sepia/black and white toned image of the Portland Frog protester, simply labelled FROG

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 13h

Of course @aetataureate.bsky.social did the star sign study and of course I enjoyed every word

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Luis Aguasvivas 🔜 TGS @aguaspoints.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, I agree Mario should be punished! André Breton was so right about him, it's not even funny.

Also, my Super Mario Zodiac is Birdo (with a Luigi rising). This explains everything about me.

Gamers with Glasses @gamerswithglasses.bsky.social · 3d

Mario fought his way to forty, so we fixed a fancy fête. Enjoy the Super Mario Zodiac, new directions in Mario Studies, crying over fake Yoshi, and, of course, André Breton.
www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/sup...

Super Midlife Brothers: Thoughts on Mario at Forty — Gamers with Glasses

It’s-a Mario’s birthday! Sort of. So here’s a Mario bonanza from your friends at Gamers with Glasses, which in typical fashion includes a scientific* study on Mario and the zodiac, elegiac expressions...

www.gamerswithglasses.com

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 15h

Today's breakfast includes banana melon, which I'm trying for the first time. I got a banana melon because the farm box had no fruit in it and it was the last piece of fruit left at one of the little market stalls. It looked like a big gourd, but tastes like cantaloupe.

A photo of a plate with two slices of banana melon, a hard boiled egg cut in half and topped with chili crisp, two slices of toast, a mug, and a French press of coffee

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leyla spoopydova 🎃✨ @leylses.bsky.social · 1d

idk when i will internalize the valuable lessons of "it is okay to be upset after a traumatic event happens and you cannot just work through it actually" and "it is important to do creative intake in order to maintain creative outputs" but god i hope it's soon.

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 1d

Went out for groceries, came home to this

Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 1d

A shower curtain that is a screenshot of Ocarina of Time where the text “Water Temple” is on the screen, hung up over a shower.

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 1d

i will not be taking questions at this time

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 1d

Arkansas, the river, not the state

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 25d

sorry! I locked in but on the wrong thing

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 1d

some of the better advice i've seen out there for players like me who like this kind of game but usually need a good 10-15 runs at a boss to take it down is to spend the first several attempts not even trying to hit it - just practice not BEING hit for as long as possible. helps me a lot!

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 1d

but then i just watched back the footage of one boss fight, and it's FAST! i was so fast! look at me go!

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 1d

one of the most satisfying things about silksong for me is how i feel time start to slow down on each subsequent boss attempt until i kill it. they start out too fast to follow, but with practice, i can feel each second tick by in slow motion between each attack.

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 1d

it's that or the flea caravan

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 2d

trrrrrrrobbiooo!!

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leyla spoopydova 🎃✨ @leylses.bsky.social · 1d

if you want your audience to feel the Pervasive Melancholy of your world you do occasionally have to make them laugh. sometimes that involves an opera bug in a feather boa playing dead very badly

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leyla spoopydova 🎃✨ @leylses.bsky.social · 1d

[silksong act 2 spoilers] this is one of my favorite little touches in the entire game

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 1d

I guess this is a general travel thread. Wizz Air states that you are not allow to carry either sharp objects or blunt objects with you on board the flight. I struggle a little with this, ontologically.

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