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[watches FE direct] Sorry who is this Gilles de Rais-looking motherfucker

oh my god I'm reading the memory alpha entry for "Author, Author" since Starter Trek did an ep on it They have, in the quotes section, the Doctor saying "As far as I know, captain, you haven't executed any of my patients." But "executed" links to the entry on Tuvix

You should be able to go to school for a “monetarily worthless“ degree (no such thing but you get my meaning) and not only should that be free to citizens on the state’s dime, they should also support your living needs while you do it.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

Love to wake up and instantly become incandescent with fury

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

A thought I have routinely that I can't tell if it's healthy or not Is "I wish I could reintroduce the version of myself who can actually draw boundaries and not feel as responsible for other people's emotions to [choose one: people from my childhood, people who ghosted me as an adult]

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

EVERYTHING about this intensely PR-workshopped canned response truly sounds like doom coming to this platform. Prioritizing civility over justice is how EVERY OTHER social media platform (and frankly, this one too) has become, to some degree, an unmanageable cognitohazard

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

If you react to news about the government’s current literal war on higher ed as if every university in the US is a private school with a garden campus and an endowment with lots of decimal points then this is a sign to me that you know fuck all about higher ed.

Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2d ago

“Including all 8 Ivy League colleges” [cleans glasses idly]

Time to add another formerly respected institution to the garbage pile, this time @aau.edu, which just worked with the Trump admin to endorse resegregation in high education, embedding MAGA fraudsters as faculty, and banning student expression. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Education Secretary Linda McMahon is sending a letter Monday to the leaders of US universities asking them to commit to a slate of campus reforms by the end of 2026 in the Trump administration’s latest effort to overhaul higher education.

The letter, which was reviewed by Bloomberg News, asks schools to publicly pledge to make sweeping changes that include reexamining admissions practices, hiring more conservative faculty, cracking down on student protests, combating grade inflation, reducing foreign donations and lowering tuition.

Fox Harper @foxharper.bsky.social · 3d ago

I'm somehow making myself work on my BG3 Artificer mod despite Some Bullshit happening about it on Friday And I gotta tell you, I keep having to compromise on stuff b/c of the way the game is coded, and I don't blame Larian for that, but it DOES make writing a mod feel extremely bad

Type-Moon: "A foundation of our mobile gacha's combat is leveraging Pokémon-style class advantage. Part of the fun is pulling for and collecting your favorite Servants." Also Type-Moon, about 2yrs ago: "We are never going to let you build your own party again. We will force class disadv constantly"

Fox Harper@foxharper.bsky.social · 4d ago

You may recall a week and change ago I said seeing old pics of myself beardless felt a little dysphoric, and uh... seeing NEW pics of myself beardless feels a little dysphoric. Honestly though, I haven't been clean shaven entirely since the 2010s, and I part of me kinda... wanted to see anyway?

For whatever reason the madness took me this morning and I made A Decision

Yours truly clean-shaven for the first time since the 2010s

For whatever reason the madness took me this morning and I made A Decision

I'm not gonna comment directly on "deny cheesing" b/c the post itself feels like it's riding a line between self-parody and self-serious so closely that I'm at risk of sounding like a dipshit no matter which one I choose to come down on It DID make me think about a thing that gnaws at me, though

Is it the "deny cheesing" blog post that people are talking around and not naming but responding to? I'm too old and tired to spend all day guessing so I'm just gonna ask.

Fox Harper@foxharper.bsky.social · 4d ago

My opinion on the matter, coincidentally, is that if Chrono Cross had NOT been connected to CT in any way, I doubt it would have received as much of the flak from players that it did, for precisely this reason -- framing it as a CT "sequel" invited unfavorable comparison from the jump.

I'm in a similar place with Chrono Cross -- the game's systems are internally cohesive, and the game's structure works. But it exists in a cultural context where it was billed as a Chrono Trigger sequel and given how large CT looms in the genre space, I think it's reasonable to consider it!

Mechalink@mechalink.bsky.social · 5d ago

So, I don't necessarily disagree here (and I wish I wasn't having these thoughts at 7am on a Saturday after waking up way before my alarm, meaning nobody will see any of this) But I do want to draw a distinction between "critique" and "opinions," if that makes any sense.

Chrono Cross is a much more complicated story that includes, a main character body swap, music as a weapon, a complicated magic/element system, numerous characters, and a triumph that saves a character that was a fan favorite, and more, but it wasn't chrono trigger 2 meet media where they are

Fox Harper@foxharper.bsky.social · 5d ago

Read back in the thread and compare the videos so you can see this too but here's the business card summary anyhow watch Bayo Studies Year One on youtube and listen to us be Extremely Correct about Bayo a long time ago

It truly feels like US marketers truly did not understand that Bayonetta was going to become a power fantasy for femmes and queers at a CONSIDERABLY higher level than she was a sex fantasy for cishet gamer bros The US trailer feels so bro-y, it's wild. As @joshuafoust.com says: so much gender here!

Before I go to bed: Platinum had an arena brawler game called Anarchy Reigns/Max Anarchy, and it was pretty... not great. The pre-order DLC bonus was Bayonetta playable, though, so I bought it. This is the US trailer for that: www.youtube.com/watch?v=78xX...

Anarchy Reigns - Bayonetta Pre-Order DLC trailer

Get Bayonetta Bayonetta as a playable character when you pre-order ...

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Need to get into a PF2e game, play a Runesmith, take Glyph Familiar, and make my familiar Literally Clippy