Shimmersoft
@shimmersoft.bsky.social
Indie developer of visual novels, but mostly here to mock injustice and stupidity. Play our games here: https://shimmersoft.itch.io/. Tips appreciated: http://bit.ly/3nCbnP6. In the words of Ashley Graham, the president's daughter: Dios Bless.
the big problem for white christians is that they want race-blind capitalism (which benefits them economically) in a race-rigid theocracy (which benefits them socially). constitutional democracy exacerbates the inherent friction between those two goals, hence their hostility toward voting and law.
February 6, 2026 at 9:29 PM
the big problem for white christians is that they want race-blind capitalism (which benefits them economically) in a race-rigid theocracy (which benefits them socially). constitutional democracy exacerbates the inherent friction between those two goals, hence their hostility toward voting and law.
i have fondness for aspects of TP and SS, and BotW/TotKare very well made games, but in terms of trying to do interesting stuff with narrative and theme, second half doesn't really hold a candle to OoT/MM/WW. BoTW/TotK could have gotten there but just didn't commit.
Zelda series is 40 in 2026. Which half of the run has the edge?
1 ('86-'05)
- Z1/Z2
- Link tt Past
- Link’s Awakening
- Ocarina/Majora
- Oracles / Minish Cap
- Wind Waker
2 ('06-'25)
- T Princess
- Hourglass/Tracks
- Sky. Sword
- Between Worlds
- BotW/TotK
- Wisdom
- Remakes: Majora, Awakening
1 ('86-'05)
- Z1/Z2
- Link tt Past
- Link’s Awakening
- Ocarina/Majora
- Oracles / Minish Cap
- Wind Waker
2 ('06-'25)
- T Princess
- Hourglass/Tracks
- Sky. Sword
- Between Worlds
- BotW/TotK
- Wisdom
- Remakes: Majora, Awakening
February 6, 2026 at 6:43 PM
i have fondness for aspects of TP and SS, and BotW/TotKare very well made games, but in terms of trying to do interesting stuff with narrative and theme, second half doesn't really hold a candle to OoT/MM/WW. BoTW/TotK could have gotten there but just didn't commit.
there are no scuba divers in a hurricane
there are no eggos in a house fire
there are no philosophers in a twitch chat
there are no eggos in a house fire
there are no philosophers in a twitch chat
Since there are literally atheists in foxholes and in fact evidence shows that people in fact tend to double down on atheism or religion or whatever in foxholes, I propose we change the idiom to "there are no antivaxxers after an outbreak".
There are no atheists in foxholes.
February 6, 2026 at 6:06 PM
there are no scuba divers in a hurricane
there are no eggos in a house fire
there are no philosophers in a twitch chat
there are no eggos in a house fire
there are no philosophers in a twitch chat
I wish the trad larping wasn't so socially corrosive because otherwise it's funny as hell that the only people willing to sell it are the most unscrupulous freaks you've ever seen
I'm gonna just post some out of context quotes from this because uhhh
www.thebulwark.com/p/shocking-s...
www.thebulwark.com/p/shocking-s...
A Shocking Sex Scandal Rocks the Trad Right
Sex, lies, and audiotape—and the hypocrisy of the trad lifestyle project.
www.thebulwark.com
February 6, 2026 at 5:23 PM
I wish the trad larping wasn't so socially corrosive because otherwise it's funny as hell that the only people willing to sell it are the most unscrupulous freaks you've ever seen
Grandpa gonna need 2000 mules to pull him out of the quickslop he's fallen into
Over on X, the Everything App, serious conservative thinker Dinesh D'Souza shared a video of an AI-generated woman on a fake podcast he seemingly thought was real, telling the audience that young women should get with older men. Dude, wtf?
February 6, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Grandpa gonna need 2000 mules to pull him out of the quickslop he's fallen into
this is like the exact argument I would expect a libertarian to make (derogatory)
So, my liberal buds, my progressive pals: you know how you're beginning to realize that ICE (perhaps the whole of DHS?) is structured to allow abuses, riddled with career psychopaths, utterly beyond saving as an institution?
Now, consider, in the spirit of inquiry: the entire federal government
Now, consider, in the spirit of inquiry: the entire federal government
February 6, 2026 at 8:50 AM
this is like the exact argument I would expect a libertarian to make (derogatory)
does look like he's from copeland
Was this very mid-2000s emo person press-ganged into ICE servitude?
February 6, 2026 at 8:47 AM
does look like he's from copeland
gonna help the wagecucks by making the normgroids feed on the epstein shit like goyslop until they realize those christkike magas are all pedobears
Shoutout to my prog politics with 4chan cadence folks out here
that tweet about how vance has 4chan politics with tumblr cadence - "pretty problematic of you to want to tax the rich when there's literally a (checks notes) white genocide going on right now"
February 6, 2026 at 4:52 AM
gonna help the wagecucks by making the normgroids feed on the epstein shit like goyslop until they realize those christkike magas are all pedobears
coining the term tupperword to describe a word that is meant to be a container for fluid social consensus rather than express a distinct meaning. woke is a contemporary example. people fill the container with pieces of information and feeling so they can share that understanding with others.
February 5, 2026 at 11:08 PM
coining the term tupperword to describe a word that is meant to be a container for fluid social consensus rather than express a distinct meaning. woke is a contemporary example. people fill the container with pieces of information and feeling so they can share that understanding with others.
susie: [exhales slowly]
janet: suz? you ok?
susie: this customer service call is so... bland
janet: yeah of course but why are you fanning yourself
janet: suz? you ok?
susie: this customer service call is so... bland
janet: yeah of course but why are you fanning yourself
I legit don’t know if I will ever get past this ad I saw walking to an appt this morning in soho. And yes, it’s a company that uses human sounding AI voice bots to take over your customer service calls.
February 5, 2026 at 4:56 PM
susie: [exhales slowly]
janet: suz? you ok?
susie: this customer service call is so... bland
janet: yeah of course but why are you fanning yourself
janet: suz? you ok?
susie: this customer service call is so... bland
janet: yeah of course but why are you fanning yourself
lmao was literally telling my gf last night that it's probably gonna be something lame. i mean i'm not offended by the idea of more progressive media but it remains to be seen if the youths have considered how to avoid the missteps of other progressive orgs.
Apparently, the KamalaHQ accounts are rebranding as "Headquarters," a "new Gen-Z led progressive content hub."
February 5, 2026 at 4:48 PM
lmao was literally telling my gf last night that it's probably gonna be something lame. i mean i'm not offended by the idea of more progressive media but it remains to be seen if the youths have considered how to avoid the missteps of other progressive orgs.
[soft fade in to kamala harris as she peels an orange in her kitchen; she turns to the camera, a quizzical expression forming] can you believe the president pooped his pants the other day??? sorry i just had to say something about that
okay look, i support whatever she could plausibly say she's going to do here, but it would be really, really funny if It Happened tomorrow
February 5, 2026 at 6:10 AM
[soft fade in to kamala harris as she peels an orange in her kitchen; she turns to the camera, a quizzical expression forming] can you believe the president pooped his pants the other day??? sorry i just had to say something about that
If stephen miller isn't receiving your teeth in a dirty cloth like you're a victim of the blair witch are you really committed to the american experiment
If I die, I want my remains to be scattered at the US Capitol. Do not cremate me.
February 5, 2026 at 2:33 AM
If stephen miller isn't receiving your teeth in a dirty cloth like you're a victim of the blair witch are you really committed to the american experiment
I feel like this will get real stupid, real fast. Like they'll force Maduro to say he helped Joe Biden rig the election, and Trump will use that as a pretext to pressure Republicans to "nationalize the elections" and then... well I expect things would combust around there.
It was @asharangappa.bsky.social who first put this idea in my head, but really starting to feel like they're gonna try to get Maduro to cop to some insane 2020 election conspiracy in exchange for leniency
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Exclusive: US spy chief's office investigated voting machines in Puerto Rico
A team working for President Donald Trump's spy chief, Tulsi Gabbard, last spring led an investigation into Puerto Rico's voting machines, said Gabbard's office and three sources familiar with the pre...
www.reuters.com
February 5, 2026 at 2:29 AM
I feel like this will get real stupid, real fast. Like they'll force Maduro to say he helped Joe Biden rig the election, and Trump will use that as a pretext to pressure Republicans to "nationalize the elections" and then... well I expect things would combust around there.
terminal Aristocrat Brain is a condition that is woefully resistant to the reality of modern abundance, effectively binding one's self-concept to a pervasive belief that society's bountiful harvest must - first literally and then figuratively - flow toward the deserving and away from the undeserving
February 5, 2026 at 12:48 AM
terminal Aristocrat Brain is a condition that is woefully resistant to the reality of modern abundance, effectively binding one's self-concept to a pervasive belief that society's bountiful harvest must - first literally and then figuratively - flow toward the deserving and away from the undeserving
Reposted by Shimmersoft
![Comic. [Person talking to person with black hat.] PERSON 1: Historically, it refers to a ceremony to predict the weather using a rodent. But nowadays people often use it to mean “a time loop experienced by one person.” PERSON 2: …What. [caption] Easily our weirdest holiday.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreidknpywgj44ox6nphuyzs6si6lozn77jyx75nbh7v67wsjr6dssl4@jpeg)
February 4, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Echoing this. A lot of people operate on midwit logic, thinking that optimism reflects naivety (like in children). But optimism can also express adults' sense of clarity about themselves and the world. You need to see that simplicity is not always sagacious and also that sagacity is often simple.
Too many people on Bluesky think that relentless expressions of despair are a sign of intellectual sophistication.
February 5, 2026 at 12:11 AM
Echoing this. A lot of people operate on midwit logic, thinking that optimism reflects naivety (like in children). But optimism can also express adults' sense of clarity about themselves and the world. You need to see that simplicity is not always sagacious and also that sagacity is often simple.
you know what society needs? roving bands of street musicians who dress like they're in hamilton and randomly bust into hip hop renditions of romantic-era music with group names like WOLFGANG and BLUDWIGS
February 4, 2026 at 9:54 PM
you know what society needs? roving bands of street musicians who dress like they're in hamilton and randomly bust into hip hop renditions of romantic-era music with group names like WOLFGANG and BLUDWIGS
can't spell abominations without abs
February 4, 2026 at 5:33 PM
can't spell abominations without abs
The extension of this is that Trump didn't plan to lose in 2020. Epstein died in 2019 and then covid happened so there wasn't an opportunity to do a real cover up.
If we knew at the time what we know now, many more people would have seen Trump's 2024 campaign for what it was: A campaign of deception to CONCEAL the Epstein files, that gained support by promising to RELEASE them. www.offmessage.net/p/trump-2024...
Rethinking Trump 2024 As An Epstein Coverup Campaign
They knew they were in there. It wasn't projection. It was misdirection.
www.offmessage.net
February 4, 2026 at 4:13 PM
The extension of this is that Trump didn't plan to lose in 2020. Epstein died in 2019 and then covid happened so there wasn't an opportunity to do a real cover up.
30 years I've been on al gore's internet and I'm still shocked by people's willing admissions on it
February 4, 2026 at 8:03 AM
30 years I've been on al gore's internet and I'm still shocked by people's willing admissions on it
what do you MEAN the story of abolitionist john brown intersects with poet langston hughes (really fun thread)
I've told this story on ContrabandCamp but it's worth sharing for BHM because it's one of the greatest stories ever.
A thread.
A thread.
February 4, 2026 at 7:48 AM
what do you MEAN the story of abolitionist john brown intersects with poet langston hughes (really fun thread)
hilarious post and also I continue to believe that a lot of the dumbassery around stuff like raw milk and anti-vax is, aside from just good ol' ignorance, that some people are always looking for a biological basis for their social status. Believing you are immune to cow shit germs is one such way.
I live in Iowa so if you wanna see a cow up close, you have plenty of opportunities to do so. And when you do you understand exactly why pasteurization is an essential, life-saving process.
February 4, 2026 at 7:18 AM
hilarious post and also I continue to believe that a lot of the dumbassery around stuff like raw milk and anti-vax is, aside from just good ol' ignorance, that some people are always looking for a biological basis for their social status. Believing you are immune to cow shit germs is one such way.