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Sismrnoth

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Video games, art, books, linguistics, etc. Working on PhD in genre studies. She/her 🇿🇦 🇫🇷

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Sismrnoth @sismrnoth.bsky.social · Aug 14

My current folly is this oil painting copy of the Revachol key art from Disco Elysium, originally by @rostovjanka.bsky.social

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 7h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 7h

Instead of competing for limited resources, other humanities disciplines should accept that they are all essentially branches of literary criticism

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Sismrnoth @sismrnoth.bsky.social · 7h

Strong laaaady

Sismrnoth @sismrnoth.bsky.social · 8h

In the older ones, I didn't like how a lot of the 'girl' cross-set armour combinations just meant you had nothing on in the waist/crotch, and not in a pretty way

Sismrnoth @sismrnoth.bsky.social · 8h

Coming back to MH Rise, I still love how they stopped gender-locking armour. You now get two looks for each piece of armour, and so many fashion choices!

Sismrnoth @sismrnoth.bsky.social · 1d

Monster Hunter outfit dump.

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Sismrnoth @sismrnoth.bsky.social · 9h

Not to suggest that writers need Nerd Qualifications to be able to do what they are good at doing, though! Let them cook

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RPGFan @rpgfan.bsky.social · 14h

Dengeki Faminico Gamer surveyed ~2,900 readers about what games they'd "eternal sunshine" to forget, and enjoy like it's the first time. 🧠 We've covered 9/10 titles on this great list (but this editor does recommend 'em all!👍).

Article DL: news./kikakuthetow...

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Sismrnoth @sismrnoth.bsky.social · 9h

Nice! And if she played TTRPGs, she probably already understood what a game story needed in a practical sense.

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Claire Ingelow @claireingelow.bsky.social · 11h

#WindowsOnWednesday in the city

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Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage.bsky.social · 11h

A view of Johannesburg's CBD before sunrise today

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 16h

I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Sismrnoth @sismrnoth.bsky.social · 10h

My fish! 😭 #MHRise

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Gary Alexander @garyalexander.bsky.social · 11h

Walton Goggins, best known for his role as Border Worlds Pilot #3 (callsign "Moose") in the video game Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom (1995).

A young Walton Goggins flying a space fighter, his face mostly obscured by a helmet with the label MOOSE.

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · Oct 1

Anne T. Donahue (@annetdonahue) tweets:

in 2007 if you wore a long sleeve t-
shirt under a regular t-shirt it meant
that you liked music

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 1d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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🦇Klovar🦇 @klovar.cc · 1d

Stray Cat update:

stray cat on the roof, no flash. cat is silhouetted against a light morning sky

stray cat on the roof, illuminated by a flashlight. cat is lit up against a dark and cloudy morning sky

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Sismrnoth @sismrnoth.bsky.social · 1d

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 1d

almost always ignore them.

Kids are always being *made* to look up and look around, and adults rarely are, so kids are just used to the necessity - and the airport is one of those times adults would be good to remember to do so, too.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 1d

9) People are, all things considered, pretty good.

I see twenty thousand people a day, and maybe two of them are assholes. Even on a stressful day, even in an unfamiliar environment, even hungry and tired and on a timer.

That's a *much* better ratio than folks realize.

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Sismrnoth @sismrnoth.bsky.social · 1d

Monster Hunter outfit dump.

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Sismrnoth @sismrnoth.bsky.social · 1d

It's nice to finally have a hunt in MH Rise that absolutely kicks my ass.

Sismrnoth @sismrnoth.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, she was clearly writing this in the context of the US wars in the aftermath of 9/11, but this way of thinking, and the popular stories that teach it, remain. People fighting to take the role of the hero, which justifies all.

Sismrnoth @sismrnoth.bsky.social · 1d

To clarify her point, she isn't saying there is no good and evil, but that your goodness should be determined by your actions, not your preordained role in the drama as the Good Guy.

Assumption 3: Fantasy by definition concerns a Battle Between Good and Evil. This is the one where the cover copywriters shine. There are lots of fantasies about the Battle Between Good and Evil, the BBGE, sure. In them, you can tell the good guys from the evil guys by their white hats, or their white teeth, but not by what they do. They all behave exactly alike, with mindless and incessant violence, until the Problem of Evil is solved in a final orgy of savagery and a win for the good team.

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Sismrnoth @sismrnoth.bsky.social · 1d

Ursula K Le Guin being right again here.
www.ursulakleguin.com/some-assumpt...

Immature people crave and demand moral certainty: This is bad, this is good. Kids and adolescents struggle to find a sure moral foothold in this bewildering world; they long to feel they’re on the winning side, or at least a member of the team. To them, heroic fantasy may offer a vision of moral clarity. Unfortunately, the pretended Battle Between (unquestioned) Good and (unexamined) Evil obscures instead of clarifying, serving as a mere excuse for violence — as brainless, useless, and base as aggressive war in the real world.

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