Ben Reed

@benreedd.bsky.social

Retro fighting game player constantly distracted by RPGs and old anime. Very occasionally I put pixels on top of each other and export to .png.

every single nintendo direct is written like its advertising the first video game ever made. in this “game of strategy” you can choose to attack with swords [8 second clip of a guy attacking with a sword] or with spells [8 second clip of a guy attacking with a spell]

If your installation instructions for a piece of software are "ask your chatbot to install it for you," I believe you need to "put a human in the loop," as they say. Ideally the loop in question should be made of a sturdy rope and fastened to something that can support the weight of a human body

jc denton: some forces feel inescapable. like gravity. jc: history feels this way too; but what is that? what's history that we make, and what's forced on us? street cat in heat: rrrrrow jc: what choices did i make, and what were made for me? street cat in heat: mrrrow jc: [solemnly eats chips]

GIRL SNAKE CATCHER. she makes a snug little income by securing reptiles for traveling shows SHE JUST GRABS THEM (The Washington Bee, Washington DC, November 8, 1902)

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started watching the bakshi directed seasons of the 60s spiderman cartoon & every so often there will just be a killer shot someone managed to throw their whole pussy into despite all the production limitations

Peter Parker, doused in shadow, at the docks at night. he is leaning on his knee and looking out into the water. the docks and sky are rendered with cool tones of green, blue, and violet in watercolor

we should go back to anime having 52 episodes a season because what do you mean goodbye lara is almost half over? like all modern anime it needs time for a beach episode, a christmas episode, a polarizing middle arc, an episode for the VAs to stealth-plug their pop group, and 4-6 “Nanami episodes”

A concise 12-13 episodes doesn’t give you any time for the baseball episode. An anime TV series is not complete without a baseball episode. We’ve got to do something about this

The new Melty Blood has Drive Rush? That's unfortunate, I guess, but I have a hard time getting mad about it because (1) I feel like I've dealt with far viler neutral-skip tools than Drive Rush in my long tenure, and more importantly (2) MBAACC is still right there for the Devil I Know.

I like having a house. Having a lawn, I'm less enthusiastic about. But at least there's neither sun nor rain right now as I mow (10 minute break to drink water, stop panting, and think of new profanities). Just the simple, soul-crushing humidity you would naturally expect of Florida in early August.

Keisuke Itagaki has drawn a guest art for the One Piece card game. I can't wait for someone who doesn't know Baki to pull this card and sit there quietly to process it

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