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Sam Skopp

@eighthcircuit.bsky.social

voice actor and writer. lakers fan, obsessed with wrestling, unusual food lover, video game guy, cat owner. new era of power. he/him

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Sam Skopp@eighthcircuit.bsky.social · 2mo ago

the melodrama of small guy's big heart beating large guy's casual cruelty was the perfect medium for a genuine story of earning career recognition after chasing it for literal decades I haven't even kept up with Dragongate for a year and this moved me deeply. pro wrestling is good, DG time forever

Kzy sitting down in the middle of the Kobe World ring, patting his newly won Dream Gate belt, eyes shut, sobbing in joy.
Sam Skopp@eighthcircuit.bsky.social · 7mo ago

stephen king’s fourth dark tower book follows up about 700 pages of meticulous, plodding exposition with 200 pages of ridiculousness that could only come from the mind of a madman. I didn’t enjoy the experience of reading most of the book. yet by the end I loved it

Sam Skopp@eighthcircuit.bsky.social · 9mo ago

there’s more game left and I’m afraid it’s gonna get even harder, but for now, finishing this level with all collectibles is in my all-time video game achievement hall of fame Windswept continuously makes me feel like a gamer god, incredibly cool game

a screenshot of the fourth Lamp’s Shade level on the Windswept world map showing I finished it with all collectibles
Sam Skopp@eighthcircuit.bsky.social · 10mo ago

man, lebron james has me teary eyed. after the game, mike trudell asked rui about his game-winner, and it sounded like he was failing to find words to describe magic. what bron did was exactly that

Sam Skopp@eighthcircuit.bsky.social · 12mo ago

there's not much that hits quite like clive barker's understanding of the metaphysical, coupled with his interest in deep depravity. I really loved this passage near the end of "the great and secret show," making a case for the reality of the immaterial

text that reads: "have given the twentieth century's answer to that question. There was no justice because justice was a human construct and had no place in a system of matter. But mind was in matter, always. That was the revelation of Quiddity. The sea was the crossroads, and from it all possibilities sprang. Before everything, Quiddity. Before life, the dream of life. Before the things solid, the solid thing dreamt. And mind, dreaming or awake, new justice, which was therefore as natural as matter, its absence in any exchange deserving of more than a fatalistic shrug. It merited a howl of outrage; and a passionate pursuit of why. If she wished"