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your neighborhood feminist crank // freelance media critic // Community mod for @Aftermath.site // game photographer // appleciderwitch on twitter (she/they) av: @pugcrumbs.bsky.social #overwatch #gamephotography https://muckrack.com/appleciderwitch

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season of the apple cider witch 🍎🎃 @applecider.bsky.social · Jul 29

My newest piece for @aftermath.site is up and it's about how much fun the slapstick comedy of @landfall.se and @aggrocrabgames.bsky.social 's PEAK is, especially with friends (gift link!)

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Peak Is A Playground For Slapstick Comedy - Aftermath

Peak creates space for players to really fuck around, punctuated by a swift emphasis on finding out

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 10h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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season of the apple cider witch 🍎🎃 @applecider.bsky.social · 4h

I also hate AI and I definitely wrote stress-induced deadline papers but now I'm on medication and I'm trying to undo the years of frying my nervous system

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 6h

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

season of the apple cider witch 🍎🎃 @applecider.bsky.social · 4h

Ah yes, March. The one month that was left that wasn't jam packed with gaming stuff

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Draculanna 🧛🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 6h

I gotta hand it to whatever advertising firm Informa hired to make these, there really is something almost poetic about GDC's advertising being "an AI-looking depiction of an industry staple being destroyed with no clear elaboration of what comes after." Masterclass in unintentionally nailing it.

Game Developers Conference @officialgdc.bsky.social · 12h

A New Era Awaits!

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 8h

Ubisoft could not have handled a Reconstruction Era Assassin's Creed:

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season of the apple cider witch 🍎🎃 @applecider.bsky.social · 8h

I've written posts like that except that I tell people we can DM but that's because I definitely had editors who I was friends with lol

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Jacob (He/They) 🏳️‍⚧️ @casualjacob.bsky.social · 9h

OK my mic is working for now, but I fear it may be dying. I can use a headset mic if need be so I'm going ahead with a very low-key and relaxed Overwatch stream! Going to work on event challenges and just take it easy before tomorrow's drives.

twitch.tv/casual_jacob_

Twitch

Twitch is the world

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 12h

I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

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Tyler @tylercolp.bsky.social · 13h

The Megabonk patch notes cracked me up lol www.pcgamer.com/games/roguel...

A screenshot of a PC Gamer story written by Tyler Colp. The headline reads: After cheaters broke Steam's most popular roguelike's leaderboards, its dev issued a fix and a warning: 'Cheaters you better watch your ass or I'm clapping your cheeks back to the shadow realm where you belong'

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Sarah @sarahjen.bsky.social · 13h

my emotional support rotisserie chicken

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season of the apple cider witch 🍎🎃 @applecider.bsky.social · 9h

That being said, not sure Ubisoft would have pulled it off

season of the apple cider witch 🍎🎃 @applecider.bsky.social · 9h

Judging by how viral that Read Dead Redemption 2 streamer went for that clip where he kills Klan members, Ubisoft leaving money on the table

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season of the apple cider witch 🍎🎃 @applecider.bsky.social · 13h

gold freckles do sound very cool so I advocate for this

season of the apple cider witch 🍎🎃 @applecider.bsky.social · 13h

it's not valor to genetically have freckles, people give themselves makeup freckles all the time

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Endless Mode @endlessmode.bsky.social · 1d

Despite some obvious similarities, Ghost of Yōtei and Assassin's Creed Shadows are very different games with very different heroines, writes @midimyers.com. www.endlessmode.com/video-games/...

Ghost of Yōtei and Assassin's Creed Shadows Have Refreshingly Different Heroines

Despite some obvious similarities, Ghost of Yōtei and Assassin's Creed Shadows are very different games with very different heroines.

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john wilmes @wilmes.bsky.social · 16h

This Milwaukee suburb is the only community in America that broadly watched Eddington

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 17h

Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal for a data center in a Milwaukee suburbs after community pushback.

After opposition from area residents and elected officials the 244 acre Caledonia project will not proceed.

Microsoft drops Caledonia data center after facing opposition. Company looking for new site

Outcry from residents and elected officials caused Microsoft to drop the Caledonia plan. But the company is seeking an alternative site.

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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 17h

Irregular reminder that alt text on images is a valuable accessibility tool, and also lets your images show in search results or respect mute lists. For instance, I found the below image by searching "capybara alt text".

A brief guide on writing good alt text for images, which suggests including
1. Who or what
2. Their expression or emotion
3. A description of the image
4. Notable colors
5. Interesting features

The included example image and description: "A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara's head."

Dan's addition: saving the "interesting thing" for last is a bit like writing a joke - end with the memorable punchline!

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season of the apple cider witch 🍎🎃 @applecider.bsky.social · 20h

It's stupid how good protein and oils and fats are for ADHD brains. I hate it.

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season of the apple cider witch 🍎🎃 @applecider.bsky.social · 20h

Treating myself better with real self-care (hydrating, eating regularly, enforcing better bedtime, movement, hygiene) has actually helped me develop better self-esteem, I'm so annoyed

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maddie ★ othatsraspberry @othatsraspberry.com · 1d

🤏🌟

Hades II comic
Melinoë (she looks very cool and powerful)
Melinoë when Selene calls her “little star” (she is a cute baby star being held by Selene)

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Robert Yang @radiatoryang.bsky.social · 1d

new vlog: dropping heavy loads in the creek vt.tiktok.com/ZSU2UyWrf/

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molly ✨ @brat.fm · 1d

wrote about tattoos and remembrance

Carved Bark

Personally, I would never carve my initials into the trunk of a tree. I tried once when I was much younger, still acclimating to the weight of the world carried in fragile branches. I went second, wai...

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macnult @macnult.com · 9d

bro you look like you drop common items

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season of the apple cider witch 🍎🎃 @applecider.bsky.social · 20h

This is what Gender Trouble is actually about

season of the apple cider witch 🍎🎃 @applecider.bsky.social · 20h

Oh like me

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 1d

Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.

A highland cow having a little nap on a boulder on Dartmoor (ok, it was actually scratching its head)

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