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karlgerm

@karlgerm.com

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video games player • twitch streamer • dark souls speedrunner • friend of cats • Every F’n FF podcast host • aspiring kaizo fella • trans rights • free Palestine • 💜💍frostwad

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karlgerm @karlgerm.com · Oct 17

introduction! hey, I’m karl. I have a Final Fantasy podcast called Every Fn FF. I’m a twitch variety streamer who also speedruns Dark Souls. I’m breaking into Kaizo Mario ROM Hacks. I did a run at AGDQ2021. I was in an Andrew WK music video. I was also in an episode of Orange is the New Black.

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karlgerm @karlgerm.com · 9h

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karlgerm @karlgerm.com · 10h

McDonald’s Crispy Ranch Snack Wrap. I can still remember the taste vividly. they used a Chicken Select (also discontinued and missed) for it and they were incredible. they re-released them apparently but in name only and the recipe is apparently way worse

karlgerm @karlgerm.com · 17h

guys I have a confession to make…I was SmarterChild on AIM. when you thought you were talking to a robot, it was actually me pretending to be one. I apologize if this is difficult to hear

karlgerm @karlgerm.com · 23h

hell yeah this is the one I got

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karlgerm @karlgerm.com · 1d

just remembered I recently had a sales guy cold call me for my IT job saying “I see you’re a musician, I’ve been playing guitar for 3 years now”

karlgerm @karlgerm.com · 1d

I’ve been doing a first ever playthrough of Super Metroid on stream and keep forgetting to post about it. been having a blast and will continue it tomorrow. VODs available on YouTube if anyone was interested

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karlgerm @karlgerm.com · 1d

damn me and Marx out here catching strays wtf

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karlgerm @karlgerm.com · 2d

I feel like up until very recently, this was just being a Philly fan and we have been very spoiled the past decade. maybe could even go so far as to say since 08

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 2d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 2d

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karlgerm @karlgerm.com · 2d

cc: @bbmercy.bsky.social !!

karlgerm @karlgerm.com · 2d

I think AGDQ 2025 is absolutely going to be the year I get another run in :)

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karlgerm @karlgerm.com · 2d

I have a personalized song from Nick Lutsko and it’s one of my greatest treasures

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karlgerm @karlgerm.com · 3d

I’m excited for the day you post a selfie after you’ve crossed the finish line

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karlgerm @karlgerm.com · 3d

I was going to mention how one day I need to get a Dark Souls run in a marathon but rumor has it Dan’s Nightreign Duo submission would be pretty close to that

karlgerm @karlgerm.com · 3d

it’s so sad how people constantly get so close to getting it. “oh so you’re telling me that because I didn’t learn from history, I am doomed to repeat it??”

karlgerm @karlgerm.com · 3d

I think a wise use of Adam Johnson’s platform would be talking about this exact sort of thing, in detail, for the past decade.

Citations Needed podcast episode from July 2019 titled “How Claims of ‘Sowing Discord’ Are Used to Silence Criticism of Power” where Adam Johnson and Nima Shirazi discussed, in detail, how valid criticism aimed at people in Power was constantly redirected and dismissed under the guise of “we have an election to win.”

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karlgerm @karlgerm.com · 4d

seeing his arc on Instagram as a new cat guy since he adopted a kitten has been extremely good

karlgerm @karlgerm.com · 4d

this is a bummer to hear. anytime I’d visit LA, this was the only place to get something that tasted like an actual Philly Cheesesteak. flew in Amorosa Rolls and everything

Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 4d

The final day Boo’s on Fountain is open. Goodbye Boo’s on Fountain

karlgerm @karlgerm.com · 5d

my buddy just tried telling me he sunk “125 hours into a game” like that was outrageous and I was like brother…..you have no idea how deep this well goes

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karlgerm @karlgerm.com · 5d

an excited update on this story that my best friend Theo just reminded me of was we were supposed to go as Wolverine and Sabertooth and he showed up as Sabertooth and I said “hey I’m Walter White now!” and he was very upset.

karlgerm @karlgerm.com · 5d

one time, at the height of Breaking Bad’s popularity, my brothers, sister-in-law and I were invited to a Halloween party and we had no plans of what to go as. so we all slowly realized how funny it would be to go as different iterations of Walter White together, assuming there’d be a lot of those

Steph Germ, Erik Germ, Karl Germ and Tommy Germ as different stages of Walter White, each shittier than the last. as a bit

karlgerm @karlgerm.com · 5d

oh good news that’s usually what I do but it hasn’t worked yet, I’ll keep trying

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karlgerm @karlgerm.com · 5d

hmm. I think the constant onslaught of bad news for the past 5 years straight might be effecting my brain in a negative manner. who’s to say though

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karlgerm @karlgerm.com · 6d

the conductor is from Philly and he said Go Birds and there was an E-A-G-L-E-S EAGLES! chant at the Stardew Valley orchestra symphony we bout to be 5-0

karlgerm @karlgerm.com · 6d

got to go last year too and absolutely loved it! very excited to go again