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it’s Liam @flowtaro.bsky.social · 9h

it’s jigjid jfriday

PolarBair @polarbair.bsky.social · 9h

Play Fighting Layer

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 11h

Absolutely rules that the recipient is actually almost as bad a choice as Trump

Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 11h

S/o to the Nobel peace prize going to a vociferous supporter of genocide I guess

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 12h

The Nobel Peace Prize IS for war criminals. That's who they give it to!

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The Argyro System @cadillacdesert.bsky.social · 18h

Then it could only have been because of Kingdom Hearts II

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty confused by how TRON became a big-budget movie franchise. Was it a bit hit when it came out? No. Did it become a big hit on video/TV? Also no. Do people have fond nostalgic memories of it? Eh kinda but not really. Was it secretly great and critically acclaimed? No again

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 1d

Nobody believes me, but I swear to God that Punisher can be saved. But no one wants to save him but me.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 7d

3c) Want to take the opportunity to share this great article from @truthout.org about racism/fascism and The Punisher character

Marvel’s “Punisher” Was a Hate Symbol Long Before Police Co-opted His Character

The Punisher has long been embraced as a classic superhero, but his comics spread reactionary ideology.

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it’s Liam @flowtaro.bsky.social · 14h

nobel prizes for regime change

it’s Liam @flowtaro.bsky.social · 22h

better than marvel toukon

PolarBair @polarbair.bsky.social · 23h

ancient clip from my twitter

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Kyle Hebert @kylehebert.com · 1d

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DIO @danielirizarri.bsky.social · 1d

I think what's impressive about TRON is that, visually, it's still so much more interesting than any of it's sequels. It's crazy that they tried update this digital world by making it as 'realistically rendered' as possible. It's a complete misunderstanding of the original's charm.

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Eri :03 ΘΔ @mandateofheaven.bsky.social · 1d

People will tell you "oh yeah if you just block the okizeme mixup then the character is free after that." But then you get to the okizeme mixup and it looks like this.

Rob Friedman @pitchingninja.com · 1d

All 8 of the Blue Jays Pitchers from Yesterday (overlay)

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it’s Liam @flowtaro.bsky.social · 1d

jesus man

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it’s Liam @flowtaro.bsky.social · 1d

mega man x sex

Khayyaam #LIUKANGGANG @khayyaamb.bsky.social · 1d

Look if you're really serious about hating parryslop and I-frame abus and wanting less passive enemies and games that respect your ability then why aren't you playing Mega Man X6

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Khayyaam #LIUKANGGANG @khayyaamb.bsky.social · 1d

Look if you're really serious about hating parryslop and I-frame abus and wanting less passive enemies and games that respect your ability then why aren't you playing Mega Man X6

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Moss @soothemoss.bsky.social · 1d

running out of food rn, need help with the groceries

Moss @soothemoss.bsky.social · 3d

we were given a cat that was rescued to shelter for the time being and we need to get him checked which adds even more expenses + 300cad for the room + expenses for food for the month. please help if you are able #MutualAid #TransCrowdFund paypal.me/soothingmoss

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 1d

honestly fu** you if you think gazans are only allowed to ask for help to cover their very basic necessities when they’re starving or being killed, calling a gazan a grifter for trying to secure her education proves that you don’t see gazans as humans who deserve to live equally.

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it’s Liam @flowtaro.bsky.social · 1d

goated movie

𝚂𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚝𝚘𝚌𝚘𝚕 @2ndaryprotocol.bsky.social · 1d

Director Kathryn Bigelow’s cult future noir thriller ‘Strange Days’ starring Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, and Tom Sizemore premiered at the New York Film Festival 30 years ago this week. 💿🧠🚔 #OTD

"𝙾𝚗𝚎 𝚖𝚊𝚗'𝚜 𝚖𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚊𝚗𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚍𝚎𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚎𝚡𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚖𝚊𝚗'𝚜 𝚃𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚒𝚌𝚘𝚕𝚘𝚛."

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HakethKOTB @hakethkotb.bsky.social · 1d

I love this movie so much

𝚂𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚝𝚘𝚌𝚘𝚕 @2ndaryprotocol.bsky.social · 1d

Director Kathryn Bigelow’s cult future noir thriller ‘Strange Days’ starring Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, and Tom Sizemore premiered at the New York Film Festival 30 years ago this week. 💿🧠🚔 #OTD

"𝙾𝚗𝚎 𝚖𝚊𝚗'𝚜 𝚖𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚊𝚗𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚍𝚎𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚎𝚡𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚖𝚊𝚗'𝚜 𝚃𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚒𝚌𝚘𝚕𝚘𝚛."

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Noah @smellycandle42.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sorry but it's extremely funny to chalk this up to modern game design being inherently manipulative. This is just Ghosts n Goblins

TESTAMENT✙ENJOYMENT @testamentenjoyment.net · 1d

Spoilers for Absolum, but you actually might want to spoil yourself on this, because this is some of the worst meta-progression bait I've ever heard of

(Also a great review overall, one that's for once made from the perspective who gave beat 'em ups a deeper shot)

If you don’t believe that Absolum prioritizes the grind above all else, then I’ll have to pull out my trump card and talk about the last boss of the game. Don’t read the next paragraph if you don’t want that spoiled. Or do, honestly, because I recommend knowing this ahead of time so you don’t make the same mistake I did.

Once you complete the game once, you find out that actually you need to beat the game again to fight the real final boss. Kind of obnoxious already, but sure. I immediately started another run, but died early due to the game introducing a new extra-hard challenge that I wanted to try out. No problem, I had unlocked one extra from the progression system. I decided to carry on and actually ended up all the way at the end to fight the final boss.

Just before the fight, a merchant warned me that the boss had a fatal scream and recommended that I purchase an absurdly expensive extra life. I kind of figured that merchant was referring to some difficult to dodge attack and braced myself for it. No such luck - the final boss seemingly just instantly and unavoidably kills you at the start of the fight, so my run where I was otherwise super powerful and at full health ended right there. This more or less killed my interest in playing further.

The goal of this decision seems clear enough: the developers didn’t want you beating Absolum too fast and this insta-kill gimmick was a good way to keep you in the hamster wheel. Wouldn’t you know it, my very next permanent upgrade gave me another extra life on top of the two I had, so my next run would have definitely been the run! If I were the kind of person who got addicted to the progression system, I could easily see myself getting sucked by this bait, hook line and sinker. Sadly for Absolum, I am not that kind of person. I don’t have an addictive personality. Most of the psychological tricks that modern video games employ don’t work on me – I don’t need things to be addicted to, I want things that enrich my life or give me some personal satisfaction.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

“The first thing you have to realize is that a nuclear-armed serial killer masquerading as a nation state, with the full backing of the United States, has failed to impose a surrender on Palestinians wearing Adidas flip-flops, track suits, and operating with largely domestically manufactured...

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Bryan Based International Order 🇨🇦 @bryanpeeler.bsky.social · 1d

To the surprise of no one...

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 1d

Israel's Ben Gvir: 'We are happy about the release of all the hostages, but we will vote against the release of murderers. The Prime Minister committed to me that Hamas will be dismantled. If it doesn't happen? We will dismantle the government'

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it’s Liam @flowtaro.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think it’s “padding the game” to prompt people to play the game again but this time better/more skillfully, as every coinop beatemup has ever existed as. i do think the meta progression stuff might just dumpster the game for me though. hopefully they add a more streamlined beatemup mode 🥴

it’s Liam @flowtaro.bsky.social · 1d

i have no desire to grind and if progression of core abilities in Absolum is slow as hell, I will prob hate it (which I already felt in the demo, and told the devs as such!) but the last boss thing is very funny and great. there’s no reason the game should be “fair” w the story it’s trying to tell

TESTAMENT✙ENJOYMENT @testamentenjoyment.net · 1d

Spoilers for Absolum, but you actually might want to spoil yourself on this, because this is some of the worst meta-progression bait I've ever heard of

(Also a great review overall, one that's for once made from the perspective who gave beat 'em ups a deeper shot)

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Fantasy Football Draft Dodger @liberationnow.bsky.social · 1d

Fun fact: Obama remains the only Nobel winner to order a drone strike on another Nobel winner

Jason Dogwood 💙 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @jasondogwood.bsky.social · 1d

Happy anniversary to the day Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. Somewhere, Trump is rage-Googling “how to win Nobel without doing peace.”

#TrumpTantrum

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 1d

This is where you can tell the IPA board exactly what you think about their decision to pull out of one of the most important 1A lawsuits of my lifetime: www.illinoispress.org/AboutUs/Cont...

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1d

Joining the ranks of media capitulation and cowardice is the Illinois Press Association. Under CEO Don Craven, the group joined a lawsuit against ICE’s attacks on the local press and protesters in the Chicago area. But his board ordered him to withdraw from the suit, and he resigned. 1/2

Illinois Press Association CEO Resigns After Dispute Over ICE Lawsuit

The CEO of the Illinois Press Association, who had joined a lawsuit against the Trump administration for actions toward journalists outside a Chicago-area ICE facility, resigned this week following a ...

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HakethKOTB @hakethkotb.bsky.social · 2d

Hate to see it but I still need some help on this

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September was a bit of a heavy month and I need some help getting through the week after rent+utilities, any help is appreciated

Venmo: HakethKOTB
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