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The Capybaron @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 4h

I follow more people from Seattle on here than I realized.

The Capybaron @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 6h

Death to Chronos.
#HadesII #Hades2

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The Capybaron @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 8h

he already won that prize… for da freakin russian pee tape!!!

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The Capybaron @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 14h

Me listening to Springsteen: "Well that was some perfectly nice 80's pop-rock. Always like creative instrumentation."
Some people, for some reason: "This is AMERICA! And also SEX! He's turned YEARNING into MUSIC ITSELF! TRANSCENDENCE! Also DENIM is a big part of it somehow!"

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The Capybaron @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 14h

It really must be a cultural thing, bc I am extremely not from the tri-state area and I've tried giving Springsteen a shot and it not only doesn't speak to me, I hear people talk about how it *does* speak to them and its like they're speaking a different language, or see colors different than me.

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The Capybaron @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 14h

Me listening to Springsteen: "Well that was some perfectly nice 80's pop-rock. Always like creative instrumentation."
Some people, for some reason: "This is AMERICA! And also SEX! He's turned YEARNING into MUSIC ITSELF! TRANSCENDENCE! Also DENIM is a big part of it somehow!"

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The Capybaron @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 14h

It really must be a cultural thing, bc I am extremely not from the tri-state area and I've tried giving Springsteen a shot and it not only doesn't speak to me, I hear people talk about how it *does* speak to them and its like they're speaking a different language, or see colors different than me.

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The Capybaron @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 16h

Sometimes I still have "Yeah, smash the ship! Smash the ship! Bellbots are Baaaaaad!" pop into my head, almost 30 years later.

Amazing Digital Carcass @amagire.bsky.social · 16h

I'm going to tell my kids this was ChatGPT

krage the bellbot from starship titanic. he's standing in a very shiny lobby looking a bit like an art deco lamp with arms and legs

The Capybaron @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 16h

I'm hardly the first person to point out that the technical limitations of old games meant that the good ones relied on art and using the limitations to their advantage to create a vibes-based experience in the player's mind that is sometimes richer than the one created by being "realistic."

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The Capybaron @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 16h

The art and design and the (for the time) open-ended nature of the text-based interaction system did a great job of hinting at something bigger and richer than the technical limitations could actually allow you to engage with, and the slightly uncanny pre-rendered CGI added to the dreaminess.

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The Capybaron @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 16h

Played a ton of this game on a family PC that could barely run it, the CD drive absolutely screaming trying to keep up.
I never really "got" it, but I thought it was funny, and enjoyed the semi-accidentally spooky vibes of exploring what the kids today will not-quite-correctly call "liminal spaces."

𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕥 @thatsgoodweb.bsky.social · 18h

Oscar Chichoni, art for Starship Titanic, 1998

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 18h

You can always tell people who didn't work their way up through real jobs and manage based on the dumbest ideas they've heard of other terrible bosses doing.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 19h

Here's the full memo.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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The Capybaron @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 1d

... So, I am perhaps just now realizing that I have been conflating "Kiss of the Spider Woman" and "M. Butterfly" for decades.
Just vaguely "a show that was on Broadway in the early 90's and is about a gay dude in a foreign country and also there's a bug in the title."

The Capybaron @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 1d

All I am saying is I have met some people, and learned some interesting things from some of them about trains, or birds, or the Muppets, and I do not see the correlation.

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The Capybaron @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 1d

Listen. I may not have collected the biggest sample size in the world, but I can tell you that my informal review of the data shows that it is *not* determinative.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

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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The Capybaron @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 1d

The silver lining every time Rubio does this is that you can tell he's not one of the True Believers, just a dutiful toady with a desperate addiction to power, and you can see in his eyes that he's embarrassed.

The Capybaron @thecapybaron.bsky.social · Mar 14

He will say and do anything for a sniff of power, but unlike most of these guys, there's a tiny shard of a still-human soul in there that is humiliated by what he has to do every day.
I'm not saying this to praise him, but rather, because it is very funny to imagine how miserable he is

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 1d

of the moral conundrums you will be presented with, as an adult, "stop buying these specific children's toys" is like. the easiest possible

Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 1d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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The Capybaron @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 1d

It would be incredible if it turns into a Bizarro Fetterman situation. Medical treatment from an actual doctor instead of the Munchausen-by-Proxy daughter, some non-beef nutrients from a few days of hospital food, and his brain corrects itself and he is suddenly capable of empathy.

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The Capybaron @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 1d

In the 10 years since he said this, it's become clear he meant it as a compliment:

Screenshot of a CNN headline about Donald Trump and Ben Carson:
"Trump liken's Carson's 'pathology' to that of a child molester."

The Capybaron @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 1d

*Eight* different "limited edition" variants of the same album at launch?
*Eight*?!

Screenshot from the Defector review of the new Taylor Swift album:
"As it has been for her past few releases, Swift's business acumen has been on display in full force for the promotion for The Life of a Showgirl. Upon announcing the album, Swift put up a vinyl for pre-order on her site, and then another, and then another. Before the album was even released, she had promoted and sold on her site eight exclusive vinyl variants in different colors with different names ("Sweat And Vanilla Perfume Edition," "Baby, That’s Show Business Edition," etc.), and eight CDs, and one sweater which comes with a CD. The vinyls cost $34. The CDs cost $20. The sweater/CD costs $70. And one of those was a Target exclusive edition! Don’t forget Target! The marketing scheme for each of these releases (which came one after another) was scarcity. They will sell out! You will never have another opportunity! Hurry! Show your love and devotion!"

The Capybaron @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 1d

Being a Retvrn guy, but for this:

The old GamePro game rating system which rated "Graphics" "Sound" "Control" "Fun Factor" and "Challenge" using little smiley-faced cartoons.

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The Capybaron @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 1d

Woof. I've never been an outright hater, I like some of the catchier singles, but this is absolutely brutal and feels correct to me.
This album launch isn't an artist making a creative statement, it's a content brand pushing out its 2025 collection.

Defector @defector.com · 3d

"'The Life of a Showgirl' is the weakest and least interesting album Swift has ever made. It has no heart, no purpose, no emotional core." defector.com/taylor-swift...

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it…

defector.com

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The Capybaron @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 2d

This is exactly the guy I was hoping would run.

Free Parking 🚘 @free-parking.bsky.social · 2d

This is exactly what we need. This is it.

"New York City Council member Chi Ossé, a close ally of Zohran Mamdani, is privately discussing a run against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)"

Scoop: Mamdani ally weighs challenging Hakeem Jeffries

Just talking about a potential campaign could drive a further wedge between Mamdani — the democratic socialist in line to be New York's next mayor — and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

www.axios.com

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Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social · 2d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

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