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Mark Shatraw

@markshatraw.bsky.social

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Video games, politics, adorable animals. Reply friend. All opinions here are mine. He/him. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

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Mark Shatraw @markshatraw.bsky.social · 8m

I just saw this video and that's *precisely* the vibe. If you don't know that what you're doing is impossible, how could anything possibly stop you? bsky.app/profile/rodg...

Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 11h

Cam Skattebo had one of the greatest high school highlights of all time in the California state championship game (he had 393 yards and 3 TDs and they won)

Mark Shatraw @markshatraw.bsky.social · 54m

I assume that's at least part of the reasoning behind the Saudi sovereign wealth fund becoming part owners of EA

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Mark Shatraw @markshatraw.bsky.social · 8h

The frog knows Muay Thai?

emanuelbrown.bsky.social @emanuelbrown.bsky.social · 9h

Mood.

Mark Shatraw @markshatraw.bsky.social · 8h

At least when Kathy Hochul does it the result is usually pretty cool

Mark Shatraw @markshatraw.bsky.social · 11h

I bet a postmortem of The Initiative and Perfect Dark would have a very similar "trying to fly the plane before we build it" theme to it

Mark Shatraw @markshatraw.bsky.social · 12h

The Portland Chicken Explains Dot Ghost Dot IO

Mark Shatraw @markshatraw.bsky.social · 13h

It was often said of Frank Sinatra that once he sang a song, it became *his* song ("New York, New York" was originally a Liza Minelli tune, for example).

Now imagine you're 70 years old and you do that to Trent Reznor.

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Mark Shatraw @markshatraw.bsky.social · 15h

I wonder what happened to that single-player campaign. Was it just "this studio never came together so we gave 100 contractors $20, six months, and a large pizza to figure it out" or

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Mark Shatraw @markshatraw.bsky.social · 15h

"Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?" but for the 21st century

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Mark Shatraw @markshatraw.bsky.social · 15h

I can't believe we have these two and The Drizz

Mark Shatraw @markshatraw.bsky.social · 16h

Pope Francis was arguably the most successful politician of the 21st century

Mark Shatraw @markshatraw.bsky.social · 17h

I assume that's how the timing of these cases is decided: they wait until you're done and then they announce the results

Mark Shatraw @markshatraw.bsky.social · 19h

I really appreciate references that contain enough information to save me from having to look them up

Mark Shatraw @markshatraw.bsky.social · 19h

youtu.be/vFHBOKa_ZG0?...

Mark Shatraw @markshatraw.bsky.social · 19h

Liberty or one of those fake conservative universities will confer an honorary doctorate on him and he'll be giving his Secret Service detail cancer diagnoses on the ride home

Mark Shatraw @markshatraw.bsky.social · 20h

Yeah, you know: science

Mark Shatraw @markshatraw.bsky.social · 20h

Maldhound's hat is so big that I have no idea what Olivia is playing

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Mark Shatraw @markshatraw.bsky.social · 20h

I'm so sorry

Mark Shatraw @markshatraw.bsky.social · 23h

James Cameron walks into the producer's office, writes $AUL on the whiteboard

Mark Shatraw @markshatraw.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder if the munchkins these days still reach for Numb for their AMVs

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Mark Shatraw @markshatraw.bsky.social · 1d

And it's one thing for Mrs. Clinton to have done things to upset the left 15 years prior, sir, but Newsom is doing things that upset the left *today*.

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Mark Shatraw @markshatraw.bsky.social · 1d

@infinitebrians.neocities.org I feel like you should see this

Murdoink @murdoink.com · 1d

Anne Hathaway stuns in new picture

Mark Shatraw @markshatraw.bsky.social · 1d

It's sort of a shame that Keanu's name is going to draw people who don't really know what they're signing up for but I'm glad that he and Alex Winter seem to have discovered the spirit of it

Mark Shatraw @markshatraw.bsky.social · 1d

About 1 in 10,000 people can

Mark Shatraw @markshatraw.bsky.social · 1d

I *think* it is the case that the original starts in G and this starts in F but it's so thinly orchestrated in the beginning that it's hard to tell