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Gwen @topmarx.bsky.social · 5h

The Mike Lindell playbook

Gwen @topmarx.bsky.social · 6h

Don't worry, they still have Dorchester to scratch that itch

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Gwen @topmarx.bsky.social · 6h

Boston made it *so* easy to pronounce Worcestershire Sauce and people still constantly trip over it. It was our gift to the world and they snub their noses at it.

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Himbo Blacksmith🇿🇦🇮🇹 @himboblacksmith.bsky.social · 12h

The tank's role is to draw aggro

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Gwen @topmarx.bsky.social · 6h

I grew up in Massachusetts. It's Worcester. It's always Worcester.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 10h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Gwen @topmarx.bsky.social · 6h

For sure, Wolfenstein just has the mild cover of being an alternate history power fantasy. RDR2 and Mafia 3 are straight historical fiction.

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Gwen @topmarx.bsky.social · 6h

The game's entire second act and largest city is in Not-Louisiana and practically every enemy in that region is a white supremacist militia. The main questline pits you against a plantation estate allied with Confederate Lost Causers literally wearing their greys. It is a huge part of the game.

Gwen @topmarx.bsky.social · 11h

I would still buy a perfectly-middling klan killer! Ubisoft makes one game over and over and if the wrapper they put around this time it is shoving a knife into a klansman's neck then yeah I'm still game.

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Gwen @topmarx.bsky.social · 11h

That isn't even treading new ground! RDR2 and Mafia 3 *both* have you tearing through klansmen! And they're explicitly political about it! Any excuse to backslide, I guess 🙄

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 19h

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.

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Gwen @topmarx.bsky.social · 16h

Wait no it's the 1984 calendar meme and Marx lifts the page and it's 18th Brumaire

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Gwen @topmarx.bsky.social · 16h

Marx tapping the sign meme and it's 18th Brumaire again

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Gwen @topmarx.bsky.social · 16h

It's the US military, doing heinous shit is the mission statement.

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Gwen @topmarx.bsky.social · 16h

Also the tactile experience of rolling two dice is better than a single loose die imo. The feel is *so* important for me. That's half of what makes Dogs in the Vineyard dice so engaging (I'll admit this is a niche point lol)

Gwen @topmarx.bsky.social · 16h

Lots of games play with moves like "if you one of your dice is a 6 (or whatever) then trigger Weird Thing" which could be an uncommon luck-based move, exploding dice, a hold to reroll on 1s, etc.

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Gwen @topmarx.bsky.social · 16h

If this is your interpretation of the US military after everything we've done since 2001 then you are part of the fucking problem.

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Gwen @topmarx.bsky.social · 17h

"Just following orders" is an acceptable legal military defense in bssically every military, unfortunately. Nuremberg was a rugpull bc it was *supposed* to work and everyone collectively decided nah fuck that actually.

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