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brand @sadvillain.bsky.social · 1h

corgan is a corncob for sure but god the original run of smashing pumpkins records and a lot of their numerous b-sides are just fucking great.

brand @sadvillain.bsky.social · 1h

I really would like to have a proper digital release of the full set and I'd happily buy a box set consisting of the 48 song album tracklist to cap off my collection.

in other things that won't happen, I sure would like a repress of the Aeroplane Flies High box set.

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brand @sadvillain.bsky.social · 2h

it appears that a rip of that smashing pumpkins machina box set is floating around if in your soul you know where to seek.

so far it's pretty sick. I have the regular 2LP of the remaster released by UMG, but I'm kind of wishing I had the cash for the box set now if only for the full arrangement.

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brand @sadvillain.bsky.social · 2h

put these on steam you cowards

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 2h

Lost Odyssey is $8.24 on XBL buff.ly/3CsyJ5j
Blue Dragon is $6.59 buff.ly/3OfKAWN

brand @sadvillain.bsky.social · 9h

ahhhhhhh @ghoul-interrupted.bsky.social scored us NIN tickets for February.

let’s gooooooo

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brand @sadvillain.bsky.social · 11h

radiation went well today. chemo is finally getting going. Long day ahead.

Tacos for lunch tho 👀

brand @sadvillain.bsky.social · 14h

okay. time for radiation attempt #2 and the second part of this round of chemo.

at least gf will be with me all day today so hopefully that helps.

no nausea yet. I'm really hoping that holds.

cancer sucks.

brand @sadvillain.bsky.social · 14h

one of my friends keeps posting about her baby being in some "baby of the year" competition and all I can think of is the ITYSL sketch.

unsure if baby is the bart harley jarvis of the bunch

a baby in a pirate outfit is sitting on a throne

Alt: I Think You Should Leave baby of the year screenshot of Bart Harley Jarvis, the "bad boy" of the competition in a pirate hat and leather jacket. He sucks. IHYFDHJ

media.tenor.com

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brand @sadvillain.bsky.social · 14h

okay. time for radiation attempt #2 and the second part of this round of chemo.

at least gf will be with me all day today so hopefully that helps.

no nausea yet. I'm really hoping that holds.

cancer sucks.

brand @sadvillain.bsky.social · 1d

holy fuck chemo is awful. tomorrow we try radiation again.

I just want to get through all of this.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao not anymore Snake

Metal Gear Solid Image Bot @randommetalgear.bsky.social · 1d

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brand @sadvillain.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve already got the books packed but it’s been almost two decades since I’ve read Book of Ti’ana and Book of D’ni (I re-read Book of Atrus a couple years ago after finding it in HPB years after my copy went missing) and I kind of want to dig them out even though I have chemo reading plans already.

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Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · 3d

the words every girl wants to hear

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brand @sadvillain.bsky.social · 2d

did the mechanical age, had little trouble with it this time because I was patient and just learned the sound cues like I was supposed to.

I'll save the selenitic age for tomorrow after chemo, not in the mood for the maze tonight.

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brand @sadvillain.bsky.social · 2d

I love looking at comment sections on local media before immediately retching and remembering we as people are not supposed to deal with an influx of so much stupid bullshit all at once.

our brains are designed for eating berries, we were not supposed to make the rocks connect to one another

brand @sadvillain.bsky.social · 2d

top five are pretty stable, occasionally the top three move around. the bottom three all have good songs on them and I don't think any of them are outright awful records, but the first ten with bill berry are all good to great to all-timer.

brand @sadvillain.bsky.social · 2d

still listening to a lot of rem at the moment, so let's do some album rankings:

1. document
2. automatic...
3. new adventures...
4. reckoning
5. life's rich pageant
6. fables...
7. murmur
8. green
9. monster
10. out of time
11. accelerate
12. collapse into now
13. up
14. reveal
15. around the sun

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brand @sadvillain.bsky.social · 2d

new adventures in hi-fi is such a good record.

R.E.M. - Leave (Official Audio)

YouTube video by remhq

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brand @sadvillain.bsky.social · 2d

I think Global Tetrahedron should acquire the west coast with some of that walking around money.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

Doing some back of the napkin math on the Free Press acquisition, I've determined The Onion is worth $2 trillion.

brand @sadvillain.bsky.social · 3d

the compass puzzle isn't hard I'm just a dumbass

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brand @sadvillain.bsky.social · 3d

was torn between playing the original or 2021 myst remake, decided on remake. I've also got realmyst and never played that one.

channelwood is still probably my favorite age in the game to visit, next would be stoneship aside from that (imo) kinda finicky compass puzzle.

love this game so much.

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brand @sadvillain.bsky.social · 3d

packed a few boxes, read a couple chapters of tommy pinecone's prose labyrinth, gonna eat breakfast, then off to the island of buttons and levers.

weekend off to a good start.

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brand @sadvillain.bsky.social · 4d

looking forward to playing Myst or Riven and drinking tea in the morning instead of completely crashing out.

brand @sadvillain.bsky.social · 4d

I feel like crashing out and I have important things to do over the next several days.

tomorrow morning I'm gonna play video games.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 4d

"A.I." is the tool of and the prevailing aesthetic of fascists leading to a world devoid of meaning or art.

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brand @sadvillain.bsky.social · 4d

I wish the staff here had the same concerns for the safety of trans people as they do for fucking AI.

hailey @hailey.at · 4d

an unfortunate irony about this post - and even if you are the staunchest anti-ai critic out there, i think you’d agree - is that some of the most bigoted things are being said to respond to this. copy/pasting phrasing and terminology used by bigots but replacing “dna” with “bits” doesn’t make it ok

⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 7d

i’m completely serious when i say that much of the dismissive ai discourse on here fires the bigotry neuron

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