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TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup,

@tvsadam.bsky.social

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Video games, covid, and neurosis, not necessarily in that order. Providing 100 words when 10 would suffice since the mid-1980s. He/him would like to talk about dragon quest pfal.us (podcast i used to make) youtube.com/@tvsmusic6398 (music i used to play)

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TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · Oct 17

i just want a moderate number of people to pay modestly positive attention to things i say and/or do and then immediately forget i exist and leave me alone is that really too much to ask

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TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 1h

i know i say this a lot but i really and truly cannot fucking wait to not vote for john fetterman

they could run hitler's jarred brain against him and i'll still be like "too bad they didn't primary that massive sack of shit; oh well, maybe an intern will drop the brain 🤞"

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2h

John Fetterman, ladies and gentlemen

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 2h

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 1h

i do look at this info sometimes even though it's stupid and unhealthy because it's interesting to be able to tell which posts make people want me to disappear

(the most i've ever been blocked was after i said something mean about kingdom hearts)

(in my defense, kingdom hearts is trash)

TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 1h

i got added to a block list that's called "Drama" but there's 180,000 other people on it so i'm not special 😔

if i'm ever on a block list of 12 people that's like "fuck these 12 particular guys" i'll know i've made it

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TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 1h

(i should clarify that i was a kid at the time the hot air balloon thing happened; i think as an adult i would go see it but i have also replayed dragon quest iv literally dozens of times since then so i've mostly gotten it out of my system)

a man and a girl are standing next to each other and the girl is crying and the man is saying mostly .

Alt: a gif of Newt from Aliens saying "mostly" to Ripley (there was pre-written alt text here and it was the wrongest shit i've ever seen in my entire life, jesus christ where does that text come from)

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TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 1h

it's been part of my life since i played the first game on NES when i was 8, and i have loved it with my whole entire heart ever since

one time a hot air balloon accidentally landed in my neighborhood and i didn't go see it because i was too busy (re)playing dragon quest iv

thank you for your time

TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 1h

ultimately it's just a really, really good classic jRPG series that paved the way for much of what we know the genre to be today, with iconic monster designs by the late, great akira toriyama (and some admittedly excellent music by a dead war crime enthusiast we try not to think about anymore)

TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 1h

also, a *very* strong remake of the third game came out late last year and it serves as a perfect entry point, especially for fans of the HD-2D style of more recent games like Octopath Traveler, while a similarly styled remake of the first two games is also due out later this month

hopes are high

TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 1h

unfortunately neither of these games is easily accessible, but the most recent entry (DQ11) is a fantastic game in its own right that stays true to the series' roots while also employing a number of quality-of-life improvements that help to modernize a franchise that admittedly shows its age

TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 1h

a close second is dragon quest iv, which featured four chapters with four different playable characters that culminate in a much larger fifth chapter where all the characters come together under the banner of the game's true protagonist, having already changed the world with their earlier actions

TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 1h

ok where was i

so the best entry in the series is dragon quest v, which follows the entire course of its protagonist's life, from a small child accompanying his father on an adventure he doesn't fully understand to an adult with a family of his own who help him to finish what his father began

TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 2h

might spend like a *real* long time in the middle east too

like if you don't see me make any public appearance for the next two, maybe three weeks, just assume i decided to go to the middle east like i said and i'm just out there doing my thing

(my thing is being very healthy and alive)

TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 6h

I have to make dinner and give the baby a bath and then teach a class but please know I am deeply grateful for this opportunity you’ve given me and will not let it go to waste

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TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 6h

the joy I feel in this moment

IMMIGRANTS MATTER. @shinery.bsky.social · 6h

Adam, what is dragon quest

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TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 6h

thank you for asking dear heart

nbd just an incredibly influential rpg franchise with a 40-year pedigree representing the pinnacle of the genre when at its best and a still pretty damned solid game in the classic turn-based space when at its worst that’s still putting out top-tier stuff to this day

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TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 6h

with every molecule of my being I wish I hadn’t used “seem” twice but in my defense I was simultaneously preparing and administering a baby bottle

now she sleeps and I am left only with regret

TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 6h

they certainly seem to be keeping a pretty close watch over people asking too many questions about their seeming enthusiasm for right-wing dipshits

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TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 7h

if I were monitoring all the grossest accounts on my social media platform I’d probably make a burner account to do it with so people didn’t get the wrong idea about me actually really liking all these reprehensible goblins I’m just keeping an eye on

but I’m just some fuckin guy what do I know

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TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 7h

let me get out in front of it this time:

would any of the people engaging with this post like to talk about dragon quest

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TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 7h

If you’re concerned about the optics of following the Heritage Foundation what if you just didn’t follow the Heritage Foundation idk

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TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 7h

this reminds me very much of how musk would complain about twitter features needing to be fixed or removed whenever they posed a problem for him and/or the chuds he increasingly molded the site to serve

not saying

just saying

screenshot of a post from Rose, a member of the Bluesky team who’s been called out recently for following the Heritage Foundation

post text: “The ‘follow’ button confounds ‘I’m looking at your content’ and ‘I endorse this content.’ We need two different ways to signal the difference between the two.”

Fun little side note is that one of my labelers indicates her as a JD Vance follower because of course she is

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TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 9h

ah yes that did the job nicely

but is this really what i wanted

TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 9h

the baby takes 25 to 30-minute naps with *astonishing* precision but right now she's napping so hard i periodically zoom the monitor in to make sure she's still breathing

we're closing in on 2 hours; this is unprecedented

i am almost certainly jinxing it but frankly she's starting to freak me out

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TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 23h

Heat 2: Heat Hotter

TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 23h

"can i get 10,000 likes for my 90th birthday?" -old man holding a typed sign in his withered, seven-fingered hands

TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 1d

praying for the protection of their future victims would be like sitting around the table at thanksgiving and solemnly praying that nothing bad happens to the turkey