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@aescling @coriander honestly if your goal is to communicate messages to people you should pick a different medium than participatory performance art

i’m not saying games can’t contain messages, or that it’s bad to think about the messages in games

but if you don’t want people throwing the whole narrative in the rubbish bin for their any% speedrun, or if it hurts your feelings when players routinely play the game the “wrong way” because they really like the animation for this one mechanic and hate all the others, or (importantly) if it bothers you when people play your game without really thinking on the bus ride to work or school instead of in devoted hourslong sessions dedicated entirely to understanding your vision as an artist, maybe you’re in the wrong business

@noelle honestly before like the iPhone 6 because jailbreaking used to be a household term

re: “that’s how most people adopt cats! you find one you like—” 

“that’s how most people adopt cats! you find one you like—” 

“—and then you rent it a U-Haul”

re: air purifier made out of computer fans 

@aschmitz we have a cleanairkits.com/products/lugg and it’s fine i just constantly catch myself wondering why my laptop is working so hard before (1) remembering my laptop is an M1 mac and virtually never gets hot and (2) realizing it’s not my laptop at all

air purifier made out of computer fans 

it sounds like computer fans

yes i used an alpha unicode codepoint even though it has not yet been approved via an ISO Proposed Draft Amendment (PDAM) technical ballot

@aescling i have explorers of sky you can play it if you move in

and the thing is like, i’m not mad about scarlet and violet?? it’s a good story and i enjoyed experiencing it?? certainly it’s better than either of the switch zelda games

but it’s also like, just a visually buggy game with a good story that happens to use pokémon mechanics. and that’s fine but not what makes a Pokémon Game

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honestly the monkey paw curling with regards to pokémon plots is so wild; scarlet and violet have far and away the best writing of any pokémon game short of Explorers of Sky etc, but they are also undoubtedly the worst Pokémon Games

cohost re: womanhood; whiteness; queerness; being online 

cohost is/has been failing because of the identities of the people who founded it, because of the communities those people are in, and because of the failings of those communities. absolutely. it’s failing because of tech people and tech culture, it’s failing because of online leftists and online leftist culture, it’s failing because of furries and furry culture, and it’s failing because of neurodivergent queers and neurodivergent queer culture. and other reasons besides! if you are invested in any of those communities, it’s necessary that you recognize those failings, realize that they come from inside the house, and work on yourself and the people around you to fix that shit and get better. that’s the only way you will grow, and the only way your community will get to a place where it is effective, or even healthy

but it’s also fine to say nah. it’s also fine to not give a shit. because at the end of the day, these are just friends of friends, not a political organization or movement, and you don’t owe them anything. you can not associate and you can spend your time instead on those who have earned your care

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womanhood; whiteness; queerness; being online 

as a white trans woman who has been very online, of course i care about what other online white trans women think or say and what the general cultural currents are like in that space. those are my people, to some extent

but it’s very important not to mistake that personal sentiment for the idea that this microdemographic of white womanhood is remotely important, relevant, or even coherent on any kind of political scale. or that a culture which is steeped in white protestant ideas of gender, western european orientalism and racism, and feelings of exclusivity and sometimes outright bigotry inherited from forums like somethingawful or 4chan is actually, on the whole, a good or progressive force

it’s okay to recognize your personal attachments to these communities and still criticize them. it’s more than okay, even healthy, to recognize your personal attachments to these communities while deciding you don’t give a fuck what they think or whether their current Discourse has takes which are right or wrong. it’s absolutely crucial that you do form other commitments, to other cultures and communities which ARE politically meaningful and DO matter, if you want to get anything done

@coriander @Taweret@octodon.social it was only added for All Eevee in sword & shield and later games

it was introduced in let’s go!, but just for the partner eevee (presumably, to match pikachu)

list of mastodon admins who have generally correct opinions but aren’t dealing with multiple unresolved mental illnesses

@aescling right after the tackle

ASH: Cross!
CROSS: I’ve gotta do this! Go!

[this is what he’s shouting over his shoulder in the second screenshot]

CROSS: You bit me on the day that we met, too, remember? Remember?
CROSS: Lycanroc, REMEMBER!!

@aescling the “i have to do this!!” dialogue was extremely choice also but unfortunately the subs for that movie are severely off‐sync

@aescling the Bite was a pan there wasn’t a good single frame of it

pokémon the movie: i choose you is not a GOOD movie but it does go all in on the fanservice

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