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Likes Games (Video/Board/Card) and Nachos. Prev: the #1 GoG review for Planescape Torment.

ICQ -> Now. Weary. Not actually Iron Man, but Marvel Ultimate Alliance is great, and so were Xbox 360 gamerpics.

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Apple stopped making them?!

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Coach Finstock's avatar Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social
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Should've jailed Trump and his cohorts immediately. Members of Congress. His advisors. It was literally an attempted coup. And we treated it like a rough day at the office. Some of the people already convicted might even go free because of SCOTUS! We fucked it up!

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Brendan Sinclair's avatar Brendan Sinclair @brendansinclair.bsky.social
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The worry was that Microsoft would get people to rely on subscription gaming completely and then enshittify the service beyond recognition, but they seem to be skipping that first part.

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Out of pocket, out of mind, as they say.

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Game Pass was cool if you want to dabble or play a lot of games. But you can also buy the games outright, on any platform including Xbox, and it won’t “leave gamepass” later. You can keep it.

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The core issue with most of the criticisms of project 2025 is that the "oh no, they're coming after x, y, z" is couched in ways online leftists would be upset and you need to couch then like this! "They're taking your Sunday NFL to force you to go to church" shit will work way better

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Jess Morrissette's avatar Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.bsky.social
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Kudos to Fortnite for really showcasing Wolverine's filthy feet with the new Weapon X skin.

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ChrisⓋ WhyGameDev.com's avatar ChrisⓋ WhyGameDev.com @chrisdeleon.bsky.social
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well we got the bloodsucking investment bankers on our side

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Joe Katz's avatar Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social
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"They're just fearmongering about Project 2025," brought to you by the people behind "They're just fearmongering about a coup" and "they're just fearmongering about abortion bans"

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Phokal's avatar Phokal @phokal.bsky.social
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The last line is a killer.

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Phokal's avatar Phokal @phokal.bsky.social
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Oh, paladin is a good one. There’s also the possibility they are a warlock and you are the patron.

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Phokal's avatar Phokal @phokal.bsky.social
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I’m thinking there’s at least one level of berserker and a few rogue. I’d think the rest is something charisma based but maybe instead it’s an unoptimized build.

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Hmm, we probably can’t rule out a multi class or dual class then…

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If he yells at you to do stuff while looking cute, maybe bard

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And if we complain loud enough, all poison will be that fast in an entirely poison souls game next time

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It’s a good thread, with a couple sources worth checking out incl Rolling Stone

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Charlie Stross's avatar Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social
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The scary bit is when you realize that Bond villains were invented by Ian Fleming—former journalist, secretary to the Chief of Naval Intelligence during WW2, and UPPER CLASS NOB WHO KNEW THESE PEOPLE IRL. (By "these people" I mean rich entitled bastards with hench-thugs.)

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Ow! What is this psychic damage.

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Looks like it’s something called a “public benefit corporation” but that’s better than I was expecting.

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Fabraz - Demon Turf's avatar Fabraz - Demon Turf @fabraz.bsky.social
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What if Elden Ring, Wind Waker and Mario Odyssey had a baby... 🤔

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Bruce Campbell and Nathan Fillion were robbed and deserved breakout roles.

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By the logic, we would all be using mastodon, right? And I mean that in a somewhat sad way. Like, why aren’t/can’t we…

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All three new trek shows are absolute bangers. It’s wild. This is the one I haven’t seen but I fully believe it given the other two.

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Al Petterson's avatar Al Petterson @eyelessgame.bsky.social
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It really is a weird symmetry that this year the UK elections are the 4th of July and the US elections are the 5th of November.

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I hear puzzmo is a good alternative

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Mx. Tiffany Leigh's avatar Mx. Tiffany Leigh @tiffanyleigh.bsky.social
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The stone cold move is to kill your subscription (addiction) to the NYT Crossword *and* dial back/fade out your Wordle, Connections, & Spelling Bee intake that helps fund the trash they print as iffy headlines and Op-Eds

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Unreleased OG Xbox Game 'The Invincible Ironman' Appears Online

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The CDC has finally acknowledged that SARS-CoV-2 is not a typical “winter” respiratory virus, and COVID-19 is a threat that can surge throughout the year.

Source: www.cdc.gov/ncird/whats-...

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Good thing it’s Friday

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J.M. Berger's avatar J.M. Berger @intelwire.bsky.social
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Everyone else is focused, rightly, on the threat, so let me just remind you that it will not remain bloodless, whatever the left decides to do or not to do.

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once I had my sea-legs, I could better drift in and out of the other titles. But learning it was like learning my first moba (another genre I had a lot of trouble groking after countless hours of RTS play).

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For me, it was finding a game that was compelling enough for me to learn the genre. In my case, it was Jedi Fallen Order, cause I like Jedi Knight and Prince of Persia and Star Wars. Cause soulslikes wear the skin of a character action game, but the punch-out-like pacing is weird and unique.

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Ben Ward's avatar Ben Ward @timegentleman.bsky.social
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All the Size Five games are in the Steam Sale! Get all four Dan & Ben games for less than £4 total! (Devil's Kiss comes bundled free with Lair Of The Clockwork God.) Throw in Kickmen and Swindle and the whole lot's just a little over £7!

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Don Moynihan's avatar Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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As a reminder, Trump was convicted for actions before he was President. He is seeking to use newly created *Presidential* immunity powers to have the conviction quashed even though he is not now President. What do you think he will do if he is actually President?

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The landmark reversal nullifies all previously lawful forms of right and makes it very difficult for Americans to make ethical decisions or be generally decent human beings without facing criminal charges.

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Phokal's avatar Phokal @phokal.bsky.social
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Shit I hadn’t accounted for the southern hemisphere. I wonder how the July “move over hot girl summer” memes translate there

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I hesitated and waffled on it being pride but I’m taking into consideration that it rotates and doesn’t seem to matter what the something is. Only that it’s hot now.

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Phokal's avatar Phokal @phokal.bsky.social
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Given every summer is ‘hot (something) summer’ I think we can infer an answer

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It’s true, he was a fun change from every other super serious Sam fisher, Cole Infamous, John-117, get it done marcus fenix, or angry Kratos. Video Dudes had to play it straight no matter how messed up stuff got, but not this guy.

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I misread this as PM’s and was like “it’s rough being in the UK”

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