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Nick Capozzoli

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 18h

New blog post up. It's about a few things—chiefly, the impulse to jettison literary criticism as if it were ballast. www.arcadence.com/abundance-re...

Abundance Reigns!

The Reminder is a watchword: though it may ascribe a problem to us, the offenders are assuredly others.

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 14h

I'm on to nested parentheticals, baby. The double IPAs of writing.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 1d

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 15h

Best bet I've found is to set up (and pay for) an advanced call filter that allows blocking unknown numbers by area code (in my experience they seem to come from certain codes in bulk) , then turning those notifications off. But they'll still fill up your voicemail, no way around that AFAIK.

Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 15h

Short answer: Ajit Pai

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 15h

This administration is a dull-minded, paranoid, gullible old man surrounded by twenty cranks, thousand-year-reich zealots, and single-issue lunatics, all with phones, running around saying, "Show him this! He'll like this! Make sure he sees this!"

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 18h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 16h

If there's one thing I'm very jealous of brit crits for it's their preternatural ability to euphemize self-serious video game terms. You can be as po-faced abt your milsim as possible but you can't stop those lads from calling your operators "naughty kittens" www.rockpapershotgun.com/battlefield-...

Battlefield 6 review

Battlefield 6 is a tale as old as the FPS genre: a vapid military fable salvaged from total irrelevance by a robust but fundamentally unadventurous multiplayer.

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 18h

New blog post up. It's about a few things—chiefly, the impulse to jettison literary criticism as if it were ballast. www.arcadence.com/abundance-re...

Abundance Reigns!

The Reminder is a watchword: though it may ascribe a problem to us, the offenders are assuredly others.

www.arcadence.com

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 17h

I guess if his is corkscrew shaped like a pigs that's your bottle opener covered at least

Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 17h

trying to imagine what the "16 function" Swiss army-dick must look like

Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 17h

Feel like if circumcision caused autism, it would have made the signs at the intactivist parade.

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 18h

(very much back-on-my bullshit with this one, which also means "doing fussy stuff with footnotes," hopefully they actually work)

Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 18h

New blog post up. It's about a few things—chiefly, the impulse to jettison literary criticism as if it were ballast. www.arcadence.com/abundance-re...

Abundance Reigns!

The Reminder is a watchword: though it may ascribe a problem to us, the offenders are assuredly others.

www.arcadence.com

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · Jul 30

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 23h

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · Jul 20

art but make it Subterfuge

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 1d

We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Scans of parking lots, antennas, and pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 1d

Many of these “illustrations” aren’t based on verified intelligence at all.

Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 2d

same energy as that time the Jonas Brothers played with Stevie Wonder and the one kid tried throwing it to him by saying "take it away Stevie!" or w/e but his voice cracked

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 3d

i suppose you could say that I too have a meta storyline that's a little on-the-nose and probably going nowhere but that i'm contractually obligated to perpetuate

Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 3d

ah shit they got us, the ubisoftlikes

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 3d

they've done a very specific thing right when by the end of the game I sidle up to some ridiculous looking climb, with obvious mudslide traps and nasty trip-ups, and instead of getting mad, I laugh, knowing it's going to fuck me

Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 3d

they def. seed the field. I think the power is in doing everything ad absurdum, with enough commitment that they become leitmotif—so that the player can find character development in "getting stuck in a pit" for the 3rd time, or "falling and losing progress" instead of feeling 1st impulse responses.

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 3d

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 6d

*record scratch* yep that's me

Nate, stuck in the middle of the planks of a water wheel at the top of its rotation. Only his ass and legs are visible.

Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 3d

You're thinking he doesn't see himself the way that you see him, and then suddenly it's reframed as if: he's seen himself that way for a lot longer than you have, and he feels it so much more acutely. I honestly felt a real pang of guilt.

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 3d

Uncanny or hyperreal?

Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 3d

And much to the game's credit, it doesn't linger on it. The characters in this land aren't here for that, they quickly move right past it. It trusts that you, the player, knew what it meant—and know what it means that everyone wanted to move along without confronting it face-on.