A Bean
@thetoughestbean.bsky.social
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A Bean
@thetoughestbean.bsky.social
· Oct 18
Had a very good conversation with a customer in which I gently suggested that if you think that One Piece has the best storytelling of its era, you probably should read more genres than shonen action
Sometimes I think about how Filipinos tried to describe why they didn’t like the Tekken character Josie Rival by going “okay imagine that there was a character named Georgina Washington who was a busty woman who dressed in the US flag” only for every American to go “wtf that would rule”
December 2, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Sometimes I think about how Filipinos tried to describe why they didn’t like the Tekken character Josie Rival by going “okay imagine that there was a character named Georgina Washington who was a busty woman who dressed in the US flag” only for every American to go “wtf that would rule”
I really liked this video. I occasionally think about how games use difficulty and obtuseness as a way to build community—think how secrets are hidden in Dark Souls or how Pokémon evolution methods aren’t listed in game
youtu.be/tiqdGop4DxA?...
youtu.be/tiqdGop4DxA?...
Team Cherry Wants You To Suffer. Here's Why
YouTube video by Indie Game Oasis
youtu.be
December 1, 2025 at 7:49 AM
I really liked this video. I occasionally think about how games use difficulty and obtuseness as a way to build community—think how secrets are hidden in Dark Souls or how Pokémon evolution methods aren’t listed in game
youtu.be/tiqdGop4DxA?...
youtu.be/tiqdGop4DxA?...
“The Greens need to start picking fights!” says man who has lost every fight he’s ever taken part of
It’s very funny to me that people who leave the Labour Party whether from the left or the right will invariably define everything they do again in relation to the Labour Party including trying to replicate some of its most toxic internal dynamics wherever they go
The Green party’s time is now, but it needs to stop being polite – and start picking some fights | Owen Jones
You only need look at its dire social media presence to see where this party, so full of potential, is going wrong, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:12 PM
“The Greens need to start picking fights!” says man who has lost every fight he’s ever taken part of
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Dr. Light: Mega Man, the experimental robots with an expiration date programmed have started an uprising! Who could be behind such a terrifying incident?
The Despicable Dr. Wily:
The Despicable Dr. Wily:
November 29, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Dr. Light: Mega Man, the experimental robots with an expiration date programmed have started an uprising! Who could be behind such a terrifying incident?
The Despicable Dr. Wily:
The Despicable Dr. Wily:
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The devs of Silksong agree
November 30, 2025 at 6:18 AM
The devs of Silksong agree
This is one of the sillier premises I’ve seen for BL. “Hey remember that girl you maybe got teen pregnant? Well her will says she wants you to shack up with her other potential baby daddy.”
November 30, 2025 at 12:09 AM
This is one of the sillier premises I’ve seen for BL. “Hey remember that girl you maybe got teen pregnant? Well her will says she wants you to shack up with her other potential baby daddy.”
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November 29, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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i take frenzy damage every time i see someone go "well i just use it for the boring stuff". what are you TALKING about? if it's boring or unimportant, why are you putting it in? NPC dialogue is fertile ground for worldbuilding, creating verisimilitude, conveying important information, and hijinks!!
Buy a solo indie dev's game because I want to support them.
Find out it uses OpenAI to write "non-important NPC dialogue".
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Find out it uses OpenAI to write "non-important NPC dialogue".
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November 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
i take frenzy damage every time i see someone go "well i just use it for the boring stuff". what are you TALKING about? if it's boring or unimportant, why are you putting it in? NPC dialogue is fertile ground for worldbuilding, creating verisimilitude, conveying important information, and hijinks!!
I was watching a video and it called Brennan Lee Mulligan “the second most important person in D&D” and I threw up a little in my mouth
November 29, 2025 at 7:08 AM
I was watching a video and it called Brennan Lee Mulligan “the second most important person in D&D” and I threw up a little in my mouth
It’s kind of impressive how much less charming the colored version is
November 29, 2025 at 2:38 AM
It’s kind of impressive how much less charming the colored version is
Wow they wrote a book about me
November 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Wow they wrote a book about me
Got to the Pure Vessel in Pantheon of Hallownest! Died halfway through but my hands were shaking pretty bad from adrenaline
November 28, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Got to the Pure Vessel in Pantheon of Hallownest! Died halfway through but my hands were shaking pretty bad from adrenaline
Well I had a lovely Thanksgiving
November 28, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Well I had a lovely Thanksgiving
Hanging out with some children on Thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Hanging out with some children on Thanksgiving
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Ferdinand von Reznicek - Polterabend (1908)
November 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Ferdinand von Reznicek - Polterabend (1908)
You’re telling me that the Pope’s Catholic?
In a new doctrinal note, Pope Leo and the Vatican sharply reject polygamy and growing Western polyamory, praising monogamy as an exclusive union between one man and one woman.
Pope Leo and the Vatican reject polygamy in sweeping doctrinal praise of monogamy
In a new doctrinal note, Pope Leo and the Vatican sharply reject polygamy and growing Western polyamory, praising monogamy as an exclusive union between one man and one woman.
www.sltrib.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:23 PM
You’re telling me that the Pope’s Catholic?
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Happy Victory for US Arms and Down With Treasonous Slavers Day!
Uncomfortable with the First Thanksgiving Narrative? Good News, it’s Actually a Civil War Holiday
Take heart, all you who grow unsettled at the time of year where the narrative of friendly Pilgrims and American Indians is spread around to make us feel good about a brief moment in American histo…
angrystaffofficer.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Happy Victory for US Arms and Down With Treasonous Slavers Day!
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one of the many reasons that Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday is that it is a rare instance of Yankee culture being imposed upon perfidious Dixie, instead of the lamentable and much more common other way around
For Decades, Southern States Considered Thanksgiving an Act of Northern Aggression
In the 19th century, pumpkin pie ignited a culture war.
www.atlasobscura.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 PM
one of the many reasons that Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday is that it is a rare instance of Yankee culture being imposed upon perfidious Dixie, instead of the lamentable and much more common other way around
I’ve resumed trying to beat the Pantheon of Hallownest in Hollow Knight.
Markoth is a giant fucker
Markoth is a giant fucker
November 27, 2025 at 5:02 AM
I’ve resumed trying to beat the Pantheon of Hallownest in Hollow Knight.
Markoth is a giant fucker
Markoth is a giant fucker
There are *tons* of people who go “these suckers will never get my $20”, I’m in Discords with them
if you internalize codes of conduct that apply only to the working class you're on a dismal road. no one pirates a movie or book or game or album they love and pats their empty wallet thinking "ha ha! these suckers will never get my $20." they think "I can only support this through word of mouth."
November 27, 2025 at 12:35 AM
There are *tons* of people who go “these suckers will never get my $20”, I’m in Discords with them
Let’s just get rid of Dr. Make everyone a Mr
"only MDs are allowed to go by doctor" discourse is negatively polarizing me into being one of those "actually they STOLE the title from academics cranks"
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Let’s just get rid of Dr. Make everyone a Mr
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"leftism is when other people's labor is less valuable than my disposable income" is a rotted take and people should be shamed for having it
REMINDER: if you think your right-on lefty/socialist/communist/etc. politics justifies pirating books, well guess what? Most writers don't make a living wage from their books or writing work, and stealing from them makes you a class traitor.
November 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM
"leftism is when other people's labor is less valuable than my disposable income" is a rotted take and people should be shamed for having it
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I'm going to go one step further:
Please don't steal a physical book, even from a "big box store".
My experience working in a big bookstore was that the theft counted against our store, not corporate, and determined available payroll hours.
Ask your library to buy the book if you can't afford it.
Please don't steal a physical book, even from a "big box store".
My experience working in a big bookstore was that the theft counted against our store, not corporate, and determined available payroll hours.
Ask your library to buy the book if you can't afford it.
REMINDER: if you think your right-on lefty/socialist/communist/etc. politics justifies pirating books, well guess what? Most writers don't make a living wage from their books or writing work, and stealing from them makes you a class traitor.
November 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I'm going to go one step further:
Please don't steal a physical book, even from a "big box store".
My experience working in a big bookstore was that the theft counted against our store, not corporate, and determined available payroll hours.
Ask your library to buy the book if you can't afford it.
Please don't steal a physical book, even from a "big box store".
My experience working in a big bookstore was that the theft counted against our store, not corporate, and determined available payroll hours.
Ask your library to buy the book if you can't afford it.
The student protesters weren’t all antisemites but there was a pretty large minority of them that were
The Gaza protests not only “provoked intense political conflict.” Liberal and Dem leaders are still calling them antisemites for caring about liberal principles like human rights and international law…and they expect these same kids to come defend liberal democracy!
November 26, 2025 at 12:45 AM
The student protesters weren’t all antisemites but there was a pretty large minority of them that were