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Susan Arendt

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Used to write about video games. Still talk about ‘em. I'm your basic, average girl, and I'm here to save the world. She/her

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Dan Stapleton's avatar Dan Stapleton @danstapleton.bsky.social
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If George Clooney ends up being the one to talk Biden down I will take back everything I ever said about Batman & Robin.

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Sean Thomason's avatar Sean Thomason @seanthomason.bsky.social
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Spencer's Gifts sounds like the name of a movie about a sweet little boy who is very sick.

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Wicked Ho's avatar Wicked Ho @nicebutnot.bsky.social
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i’ve been caffeine free for seven hours murder seems likely

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The Creatively Maladjusted's avatar The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social
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Lacking energy due to the heat? 🥵 Repeat after me: many things worth doing are worth doing badly. Half-assed toothbrushing is better than none. Eating ice cream is better than not eating. Do what you can, and try not to feel guilty about it. You don't deserve that.

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scott⚡️mccloud's avatar scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social
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Over the weekend, I found a tiny pink plastic shoe on the ground near my office. I placed it at eye level, on a wooden post, by the stairs. This morning, on that same post, was this picture.

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Damion Schubert's avatar Damion Schubert @zenofdesign.com
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If you want to know what's wrong with the world, it's that we're getting another non-GDT 'Hellboy' and not another 'Dungeons & Dragons' or 'Dredd' movie.

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Susan Arendt's avatar Susan Arendt @susanarendt.bsky.social
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Oh, it's awesome. As long as you don't, you know, pay attention to anything real.

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Susan Arendt's avatar Susan Arendt @susanarendt.bsky.social
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I could swear I've heard this before. Hmmmm....now what was it...

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Susan Arendt's avatar Susan Arendt @susanarendt.bsky.social
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I don't know how I'm not supposed to spiral into deep despair unless I completely disassociate. Like, just hide within my la-la land of a brain, where it's my own private Disney World at all times. Nothing matters anymore. There's simply no point in trying.

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merritt k's avatar merritt k @merrittk.com
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we live in an age in which we have near limitless storage for data. unfortunately at this time we must erase all works of culture to make room for the infinite sea of machine slop

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Susan Arendt's avatar Susan Arendt @susanarendt.bsky.social
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Also, not for nothing, but this kind of usage is really just indicative of the "terminally online" cohort. You could say 'it's giving [BLANK]" to plenty of people who'd have no idea what the heck you were on about.

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Susan Arendt's avatar Susan Arendt @susanarendt.bsky.social
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Or, and hear me out, what if slang is *still* performing its function of indicating who's a member of a certain group, it's just that the groups are changing?

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Susan Arendt's avatar Susan Arendt @susanarendt.bsky.social
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Thankfully no. But I'm definitely glad I work from home.

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Susan Arendt's avatar Susan Arendt @susanarendt.bsky.social
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I'm on this new medicine and the side effects include drowsiness and....farting. This is both frustrating and *hilarious*.

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Susan Arendt's avatar Susan Arendt @susanarendt.bsky.social
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I cannot FATHOM the amount of self-centered you have to be to think "I won't respect you in your own home" is a righteous flex.

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Cristian Farias's avatar Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com
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The uncertainty of whether this doggo is lost or wanted for murder is killing me.

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Susan Arendt's avatar Susan Arendt @susanarendt.bsky.social
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I don't actually know! I wonder if there's a "making of" featurette out there.

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Susan Arendt's avatar Susan Arendt @susanarendt.bsky.social
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I think about As Above, So Below more than is probably reasonable. For starters, how they actually filmed it so successfully in such cramped places. Also, the permits they needed.

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Susan Arendt's avatar Susan Arendt @susanarendt.bsky.social
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Other people were saying he was an outlier on the list, yeah.

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Susan Arendt's avatar Susan Arendt @susanarendt.bsky.social
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I, too, would like to live in the cheese department.

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Susan Arendt's avatar Susan Arendt @susanarendt.bsky.social
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Start by not consuming content that thrives on negativity.

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Susan Arendt's avatar Susan Arendt @susanarendt.bsky.social
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They say I'm Run, I'm number one, it's very complicated

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Susan Arendt's avatar Susan Arendt @susanarendt.bsky.social
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Ok, but that ended up being legitimately the coolest gamertag ever.

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Susan Arendt's avatar Susan Arendt @susanarendt.bsky.social
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I mean, yes, we had the Dr Scholl’s on the left, but no, I mean clogs. Typically leather uppers but wooden soles. Big, clompy shoes.

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Susan Arendt's avatar Susan Arendt @susanarendt.bsky.social
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When people bring up 80s fashion, they tend to reference the big hair, big shoulders, parachute pants, and leg warmers. They never, ever, bring up the clogs. WHY were clogs a thing? WHY?

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Susan Arendt's avatar Susan Arendt @susanarendt.bsky.social
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Just because you want something doesn't mean you should always get it.

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Susan Arendt's avatar Susan Arendt @susanarendt.bsky.social
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Part of the disconnect is that while a game is a piece of art, it's also a product. If I buy, I dunno, a shirt, I can do whatever I want with it. Dye it, cut it up, wear it on my feet, whatever. It's mine. And it's not wholly unreasonable to also want that from an interactive experience. BUT.

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Susan Arendt's avatar Susan Arendt @susanarendt.bsky.social
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"There's an entire thing I could get into on how like... I don't think games should always tell the player 'yes.' We need to go "nope, check this out. The characters have agency, and sometimes you need to accept a 'no.'"" I love this very much.

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Susan Arendt's avatar Susan Arendt @susanarendt.bsky.social
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To bring this back to DA, I love that you couldn't romance Varric. He's much more precious to me as a ride or die bestie than he would've been murmuring generic sweet nothings.

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Susan Arendt's avatar Susan Arendt @susanarendt.bsky.social
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Yep, absolutely see that. That said, Baldur's Gate engendered empathy and you could shag...pretty much everyone. But I absolutely agree with your core point that typically it's more about pushing the right buttons to get the love prize.

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Susan Arendt's avatar Susan Arendt @susanarendt.bsky.social
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On the one hand, I agree that it's nice that not *everyone* in the roster is ready to hop in bed with you. It forces you to view the ones who aren't into it as themselves as opposed to romance targets. On the other...meh, let people have their fun.

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Karl Bode's avatar Karl Bode @karlbode.bsky.social
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aging is knowing fewer and fewer band names on festival posters until it's just a wall of incomprehensible alien gibberish

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Susan Arendt's avatar Susan Arendt @susanarendt.bsky.social
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I don't have many professional rules, but the ones I have are inviolable. Rule #1 is don't lie to me. In related news, I'll never stop being gobsmacked by freelancers who think this is my first rodeo.

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Jason, ex Inferis's avatar Jason, ex Inferis @benedictsred.bsky.social
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Video games gave me very unrealistic expectations of the healing properties of rotisserie chicken.

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Frovo's avatar Frovo @frovo.bsky.social
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TOP TEN ILLAS: 10. van 9. flot 8. gor 7. scint 6. chinch 5. tort 4. quesad 3. sarspar 2. sinsem 1. godz

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TBSkyen's avatar TBSkyen @tbskyen.bsky.social
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I've been exercising and a problem I've noticed is that as I get into better and better shape I have to exercise more and more intensely and for longer in order to get a good workout in. I am being punished for success, this is terrible game design, please patch it out in the next update.

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Susan Arendt's avatar Susan Arendt @susanarendt.bsky.social
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So what are we doing for resume writing these days?

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Susan Arendt's avatar Susan Arendt @susanarendt.bsky.social
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Liking weed is not a substitute for actually having a personality.

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mattbaume's avatar mattbaume @mattbaume.bsky.social
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I genuinely miss when TV seasons were so long they were allowed to have "filler," like yes let's spend 11 and a half minutes playing poker with the Klingon ambassador, let's have an entire episode where Giles dreams Buffy is a cat

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Susan Arendt's avatar Susan Arendt @susanarendt.bsky.social
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We are rarely challenged to confront our own biases and assumptions; quite the opposite, in fact. It's such a valuable skill, to pause, back up, and say Ok, what do I actually *know* and how do I know it? Great reminder.

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