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airco @airco.bsky.social · 1m

Man, Precure is consistently such a beautiful series. I'm always down for lessons about the Power of Friendship, but seeing a series spread messages of forgiveness, acceptance of others, self-love, and more be met with such success really does warm the small part of my heart that has yet to rot.

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 53m

For the longest time I was genuinely disappointed by the "let's kill Literal Nazis games" because it was such a meaningless nothing target. A flimsy cardboard cartoon evil in contemporary context that you could actually do violence to in lieu of anything real and present....

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 1h

It’s kind of crazy that Nazis and the KKK have recently become controversial bad guys because a bunch of bitter online dorks assumed it was about them

DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 20h

Ubisoft canceled an ‘ASSASSINS CREED’ game set in the post-Civil War era

• Featured a Black Assassin who was formerly a slave

• Players would fight the emerging KKK

• Leadership canceled it after concerns with U.S. political climate & Yasuke backlash

(Source: www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...)

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John R'lyeh, where dead Cthulhu waits dreaming @johnryanwrites.bsky.social · 16d

*taps sign*

A sign saying "I'm not interested in competing with anyone. I hope we all make it."

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airco @airco.bsky.social · 1d

i don't think that euphemism works with girls

Hirogaru Sky Precure anime screenshot.
Text: "Tamaki Shinomiya is the pitcher,"

Hirogaru Sky Precure anime screenshot.
Text: "And Kaname Ougi is the catcher!"

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airco @airco.bsky.social · 1d

years of twitter counting kanji as two characters toward the post limit has been like hyperbolic time chamber training to ensuring i never consider it

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James GHOULizio @theswweet.blackskycomra.de · 1d

"There's something different about the subtitles this season. Namely, they're all ass now."

Isn't the problem that they're not .ass now?

Geoff Thew @mothersbasement.bsky.social · 2d

It's time to talk about the enshittification of Crunchyroll
youtu.be/B-DX0Zolr6g

The Enshittification of Crunchyroll

YouTube video by Mother's Basement

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airco @airco.bsky.social · 1d

yall we gotta just put down the entire live service industry at this point

Pat Stares At Clown World @patstaresat.bsky.social · 2d

BRUH

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

We really hit on something with the 12 year old theory of governance because that’s really the entire political project. It’s being 12 years old and not even normal 12 year olds but real pieces of shit 12 year olds

Texas GOP candidate
Shelley Luther complains that students can't make fun of transgender children
By Jay Root, Staff Writer
Updated Feb 9, 2022 6:02 a.m.

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airco @airco.bsky.social · 2d

watching a precure series for the first time in years (hirogaru) and getting choked up at the life lessons for kindergarteners, this franchise has still got it 😌

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Sean Seanson @seanseanson.bsky.social · 7d

Taito New Years Card 1994 by the developers of RayForce. text reads

'taito 1994, we are giving this game to you. for all of game freaks.'

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The Town That Dreaded Sundown McMoon @sundownmcmoon.bsky.social · 3d

Reminded of the 1984 amateur animation "Owa Farmer Combine", produced by Akita University's animation studies group. Agricultural punning on Dunbine's name just as relevant today as it was 40+ years ago.

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Cynthia 🐈 @cynthia.dev · 14d

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airco @airco.bsky.social · 3d

this goes for your freelancer friends as well (neither of us have any money)

Pike, Tiny Comet Fairy ☄️🍩 @redcomets.net · Aug 18

good morning and happy Monday!

Cima Garahau lounging on her ridiculous chair complete with tiger skin throw. She is fanning herself. The caption is "Your unemployed friend on Monday at 9:37 AM"

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New Video Game Advisor @newvgadvisor.bsky.social · 4d

Bully (2006)

Text appears that reads, "Kiss a girl and you'll get a 50% health bonus."

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straight male fujoshi @ribbiwawa.bsky.social · 3d

You know what? Screw this site! I’m going to make my OWN social media. We’re going to go back to good old forums! To fund it and ensure that people will act right around each other, I’ll set an entry fee of $10. And because it’s gonna be more sex positive than this site, we’ll call ourselves Goo—

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 3d

me, not wanting to do chores: i'm the best house cleaner in all of japan

out of nowhere, ken hayakawa:

the character ken hayakawa from 70s show kaiketsu zubat. an ongoing part of the show is characters declaring they are the greatest (golfer, billiards player, trumpet musician, etc) in japan and ken stepping up to declare they are only the second, and he is the best

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Slug 🐛 VTuber @vtuberloveslug.bsky.social · 4d

Sup Gen Z, Millennial here who got sold the lie and watched it blow up in 2008. This is a bunch of horseshit and your lack of "grindset" is not the issue. We're living through late stage capitalism and 5 evil bastards own all the wealth on the planet. You're doing as good as anyone could hope.

Fortune @fortune.com · 4d

“We millennials know that there’s no such thing as work-life balance. My career is my life, my life is my career. I would never be at peace if I wasn’t working so hard.” trib.al/suc3yU6

Astronaut says Gen Z often quits when things get uncomfortable—here’s the Jeff Bezos Blue Origin training that taught her to push through | Fortune

From space rockets to 13-hour workdays, this millennial astronaut reveals the mind trick that can make discomfort your secret weapon to success.

trib.al

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airco @airco.bsky.social · 4d

as a hater by nature i assure you that that's a good thing

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Sputnik34 🔜 BLFC @sputnik34.bsky.social · 5d

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airco @airco.bsky.social · 5d

man that's just what people *did* back in the day. you weren't a real typesetter if your script didn't crash someone's computer.

example of commie typesetting for Jojo's. This was entirely softsubbed for a cut that was zooming out the whole time.

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airco @airco.bsky.social · 5d

when i ask my girl to peel it back

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Alicia Haddick/アリシア @aliciahaddick.com · 6d

TGS was weird this year, and it took me a bit to get to the core of why

For GamesIndustry, I wrote about TGS, industry anxieties, free-to-play gaming, AI, and the economy

Because the event was a vector where the whole mess felt brutally exposed

GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social · 6d

"While respect for Japanese games and media is growing," says Alicia Haddick, "it's hard not to view Tokyo Game Show in 2025 as representing the anxieties of the industry and its players, rather than its virtues."

www.gamesindustry.biz/tokyo-game-s...

Tokyo Game Show: Flashy booths mask economic and industry anxiety | Opinion

The proliferation of free-to-play mobile titles at TGS reflected Japanese consumers' worries about spending

www.gamesindustry.biz

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Kazuma Hashimoto @kazuma.bsky.social · 5d

this is bad lol takaichi is a member of the nippon kaigi, supports the revision of article 9, and much like her idol, Margaret Thatcher, has extremely regressive views of women's rights, among other things.

Nikkei Asia (Official) @asia.nikkei.com · 5d

BREAKING: Sanae Takaichi elected first female leader of Japan’s ruling LDP
trib.al/lz8joW3

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mcc @dryad.technology · 5d

So I'd like to show a demonstration of what this "waffles" thing is. Here's a conversation between *this site's* CEO, some random guy, and the cofounder of "Tangled", a GitHub clone built on top of Bluesky's protocol.

Please take a moment to really think, about the shape of this thoughtlessness.

Jay.bsky.team:

Harassing the mods into banning someone has never worked. And harassing people in general has never changed their mind.

Steven:

Then you should probably stop trolling your user base.

Anirudh Oppiliappan:

bro got mad at waffles

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 5d

ok so the cost of living in america and western europe is too high and employers don't want to pay it. but they also want to raise prices of all consumer goods untiil nobody can afford them. what happens next may shock you

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