"Some guy named Majide got kicked out of the heroic games" and now all I can imagine is the Kawaiikochans girls picking a fight in a Fire Emblem game

Throwing this out again at an hour where people might see it.

Fox Harper@foxharper.bsky.social · 22h ago

Fire Emblem girlies: what do the various weapon/magic skill icon COLORS mean. To me it seems like icons can be gold, grey, and blue (very pale blue). Am I right in guessing this is about innate talent and Gold = talented Grey = neutral Blue = weakness ?

[plays more Trails FC Remake] Okay I know this is the first game but how many games in do we find out that orbments/quartz are made out of like, ground-up baby bones or something

okay i have a question and i promise it's curiosity not sarcasm: am i the only person who feels awkward and bad being called "cutie" (especially by strangers)

Fire Emblem are we STILL gender-locking classes. Jesus christ.

oh the theater around the corner from my front door is playing varda's cleo from 5 to 7 in october, fuck yes who in baltimore and coming with me to that movie

"how's your morning going fox" i just sneezed on my monitor with a mouth full of cupcake

If I see one more ad for an AI service to help you prevent AI-generated text from sounding like AI, I’m going to blow up the fucking Earth. If they keep using the phrase “maintain your authentic voice” in the process I’m taking out the goddamned Moon too.

Fire Emblem girlies: what do the various weapon/magic skill icon COLORS mean. To me it seems like icons can be gold, grey, and blue (very pale blue). Am I right in guessing this is about innate talent and Gold = talented Grey = neutral Blue = weakness ?

Leda: "Here is my very grim and political story of revenge." Also Leda: "We will now take a break to play Ojyousama Connect Four"

Okay I had no idea Luviagelta Edelfelt was in Fortune's Weave but sure

I have gone to dive back into Fortune's Wig like 4 times today and each time I changed my mind and turned it off and I am trying to figure out why. Like, the game is fine.

To be clear: made a left in FRONT of me, into a gas station parking lot, not "attempted to go past me to make a left through the intersection"

Fox Harper@foxharper.bsky.social · yesterday

I almost died on my way home making a right (on a green arrow!) at an intersection where two motorcycle guys just sort of drove into my lane, which made me brake a bit, which was good because then someone literally MADE A LEFT IN FRONT OF ME. I was maybe a foot from his passenger side door.

I almost died on my way home making a right (on a green arrow!) at an intersection where two motorcycle guys just sort of drove into my lane, which made me brake a bit, which was good because then someone literally MADE A LEFT IN FRONT OF ME. I was maybe a foot from his passenger side door.

Fox Harper@foxharper.bsky.social · yesterday

Hey, Maryland drivers, WHAT is your FUCKING PROBLEM

Hey, Maryland drivers, WHAT is your FUCKING PROBLEM

That Converse ad REEKS of some designer having an "oh I'm SO clever" moment

Thanks to everyone who provided examples. I wanna explain why I needed them. Today was faculty colloquium, and I wanted to do a little interactive activity related to work I'm doing on how we operationalize(*) fatness in game chars (* fancy academic word meaning "define for research purposes")

Fox Harper@foxharper.bsky.social · 2d ago

REPLY WITH A CHARACTER IN VIDEO GAMES THAT YOU THINK IS FAT. Do not worry about if others would agree. Just give me your video game fat characters. FAMOUS GAMES FRIENDS WHO FOLLOW ME: this is for work so RTs are greatly appreciated thank you!

Realized I was about to say in a conversation, in complete seriousness, the phrase "Take titties, for example"

These two files have sat on my desktop since June and they just sit there, every day, taunting me. "It'd be so easy to release us!" they say. "You just have to not suck as a vocalist and overcome all of your internalized shame and doubt and self-hatred. Easy!"

God, the "Bashir was actually developmentally disabled but we fixed it with illegal gene therapy and that's why we have multiple episodes with the most offensive autism spectrum analogies imaginable" might be my LEAST favorite bit of what is otherwise an all-time favorite Trek show

I would lose my tenure if I did this.

Kelly@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d ago

This is straight out of Handmaids Tale. A high school trying to force girls to disclose the dates and lengths of their menstrual cycle. Don’t comply? You lose a grade. There’s absolutely no reason a school needs this information other than to exert control over our bodies.

NOPE. Frosting ended up not being a piping consistency and I’m on a time crunch. Maybe next time, lol.

Fox Harper@foxharper.bsky.social · 2d ago

Today I am going to pipe (rather than spread) icing onto cupcakes for the first time. I anticipate it being an unmitigated disaster.

Today I am going to pipe (rather than spread) icing onto cupcakes for the first time. I anticipate it being an unmitigated disaster.

Groaning because 1.) the base audio mix in Fortune's Weave is way off; voices are often hard to hear over background music and 2.) ANY scene with a villain has BGM that is basically an undifferentiated, atonal melange of high-pitched voices going "aaaaah"

Gonna try to say what I feel re: SNW this week without spoiling This whole season has been -- Pretty satisfying dialogue writing, all told -- Some interesting character beats -- ABSOLUTELY BATSHIT premises for every episode -- Obsessed with doing character development through metaphor

SORRY FOR THE SPOILERS FOR THE FIRST 5 MIN OF THE EPISODE BUT THEY'RE GOING TO FUCKING *DISCWORLD*? WHAT IS HAPPENING ON THIS SHOW.

SNW writers room. Listen. Listen to me. I do actually like your work, taken on an episode by episode basis. But can you EXPLAIN what you're DOING with this SEASON.

Only played a little of Fortune's Lacefront -- the prologue and one map of Leda's story -- but I am entertained at all the nods to other FEs in it. Sirocco is an obvious nod to Lewyn (and Ced by extension) and the 'dungeon' stuff is taken right out of Shadows of Valentia, which is surprising

"substitution is copyright's bete noir" is an amazing turn of phrase

Jason Kint@kint.bsky.social · 2d ago

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

[deep breath] Trails people. Okay. In 1st Ch I had a near-game-start sidequest hunt monster fight that was challenging but not extreme, managed to kill it... and it promptly blew up, with no warning it might do so, for more damage than either of my chars has max HP. This gonna keep happening?