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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 1d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

stark @seastark.com · 2d

"I am glad you have accepted the truth of gods light into your heart"
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You chose the right brand of chips at the store.

The fact that I think that way says a lot about me. But the fact that @shadowsinger.bsky.social understood says a lot about her. (Not really, but it's funny)

stark @seastark.com · 2d

My mind and body are slow and I am dealing with large streams of errors. My speech is slurred and my walking is unbalanced.

I'm not able to translate, so J is just getting the raw output of my mind. I'm saying terms and using language that is odd and hard to follow. Luckily she's used to it.

stark @seastark.com · 2d

My mind and body are slow and I am dealing with large streams of errors. My speech is slurred and my walking is unbalanced.

I'm not able to translate, so J is just getting the raw output of my mind. I'm saying terms and using language that is odd and hard to follow. Luckily she's used to it.

stark @seastark.com · 2d

I woke up to this, half in dream and half in action. Clutching a spear in my chest as I opened my eyes to see it's not there. I am not well. I am recovering.

It's odd when metaphors go in the direction of the dream to functionality instead of functionality being translated into a dream.

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stark @seastark.com · 2d

A spear of ember slammed into a station on the command deck. The ember shattered on impact and spread into other parts. I removed the spear and it broke into pieces on the floor. The pieces seem to still be causing issues and are hard to remove.

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stark @seastark.com · 2d

Also I get that the image says that Balatro did an update and colab, but it didn't really change much and the colab was just cardbacks. I think Balatro just breaks metrics due to some spacetime anomaly.

stark @seastark.com · 2d

I fear that all biz owners will take from this is the same thing they've taken from all recent sales stats:

Just do a Balatro.

No one quite knows what this means exactly, as Balatro has already been made. But you know someone is slapping this into the slack channel and just berating their team.

Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 2d

saw an article scroll by to the effect of "is blue prince in trouble since it won't win a game award due to not having non-english locs" and decided it would be interesting to see if winning a TGA last year affected anyone's sales at all

summary:
* Senua's saga saw a microscopic bump
* Black Myth Wukong had no noticable effect compared to a content patch the next week
* Frostpunk 2 no noticeable effect
* Baldur's Gate 3 no noticeable effect
* Balatro had a huge jump but also had a giant same-day content patch
* Neva had a noticable if small bump comparable with an accessibility patch bump the next week

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stark @seastark.com · 4d

The websites asking you to turn off your adblocker sound like forest spirits asking you to break the salt circle around your cabin.
You can trust these spirits, they're not going to steal your body! Come on!

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 4d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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stark @seastark.com · 5d

"I'm sure people will understand you[r writing]."

This is one of those phrases that can be a compliment, insult, or pitying. Based on word emphasis or surrounding language this can be reassuring that your ideas are beneficial or reminding you that everyone else is flawed too.

stark @seastark.com · 6d

Thousands of years later, the technoarcheologists would argue about the exact start and cause of The Great Change. But the general population would reference the following inscription when asked...

Foone @foone.bsky.social · 6d

ooh, that gives me an idea

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stark @seastark.com · 10d

Over the past few week, my mind has been unwieldy, in pain, disconnected, slow in movement and perception, and just filled with unordered chaos like lumps of clay.

But now I feel fine. Skittish because I'm worried what will happen next. But currently operational. I'm just left asking why?

stark @seastark.com · 10d

I've wondered if it's the detachment/lack of humans, or the physical darkness, or the time of the day, or the lack of expectations. But there's something that changes nearly instantly. Unsure how to test for sure. Not sure if I have the wherewithal to really go through the steps.

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stark @seastark.com · 10d

I've said it before, but I hate how good I feel when I'm alone in the darkness at night. I don't want to be some goth cliche and I don't want to fall into the stereotypes of schizo folks. But I feel free and alive and unburdened. Like a change of atmosphere to my body and crispness to my mind.

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stark @seastark.com · 10d

My mind is not doing well. Both in structural stability and in vibes. I have bubbles where I'm able to work, but its fleeting. I'm worried about how long it has taken and will take to return to functionality.

stark @seastark.com · 13d

I had a minor break yesterday. I'm experiencing slowness of thought and movement. Not like full catatonia, but I don't know better terms.
As of today I haven't recovered. I have small bubbles of lucidity.
I'll probably recover, but it still worries me. It's not a good/fun/helpful experience.

stark @seastark.com · 16d

I love the feeling when I create a metaphor and someone says it doesn't make sense, nor do they agree with or like it, but that it works/passes.

It feels like I breached some wall between realities.

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stark @seastark.com · 16d

One of the highest compliments you can get as a schizotypal person is seeing the term lexical gap come up when you search for a word that fails spell check.

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stark @seastark.com · 16d

We throw ableism around, but it's worth noting how your friends attack your common enemy. When they say the president is Fat, Slow, and Mentally Ill, they're saying those are inherently bad qualities.

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stark @seastark.com · 16d

Thank you! There are so many people 'on my side' that love to attack their enemies by saying they're mentally ill like me. They see evil actions and say it's like those terrible people with personality disorders.

They're really saying they hate me and this guy is bad by association.

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · 18d

Stephen Miller is not a psychopath. That’s not what this is.

Stephen Miller is a regular, homely, not particularly brilliant White guy who has been given unlimited power.

Why are folks always pretending that bullies have some sort of special mental illness when said bullies are just lowdown?

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stark @seastark.com · 17d

Ahhh, come on! Where are you? There were SO MANY stairs!

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stark @seastark.com · 17d

*I gently nudge the Drukhari guiding my chaos warband through the Dark City*

I sure hope there is a gift shop. I would love to pick up some Commoragh-tive plates!

[I am slowly skinned alive over the next 700 years]

stark @seastark.com · 19d

There was always 3 of my first name in all of my classes so most of us went by our last names to differentiate. But I nearly went by my middle name (like my father, who was the 3rd frank) instead.

Folks, this was decades before the MCU blew up... and I dodged a bullet.

stark @seastark.com · 19d

One of the reasons I use just Stark as my nym is because so many people think it's unique and my first name is so common. But I often forget that it's a real word. So it's even wilder that one of us was just literally 'Mr. Absolute Honesty'.

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stark @seastark.com · 19d

My brother reminded me just how odd our grandfathers name was. It sounds like someone a bad pulp writer would make up...

~"I went to the man I knew could give me the unfiltered word on the street. A man who really tells you like it is... Frank Stark."

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