kybard

kybard

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i've been working in sports media for quite a long time now, but i'll be honest, i've never bothered to learn the names of any of the players in any sport. i have no idea who the hell any of these people are. i just look at the ball

another random thought about FFVII REBIRTH: making every town in this game into a bustling tourist trap is incredibly weird! it flattens the pacing and variety but also does really odd things to the underlying storytelling especially in places like cosmo canyon

cosmo canyon in particular hits me very strangely as it has some of the most beautifully rendered stuff in it but also has very confused ideas about what cosmo canyon is even supposed to be in the context of this world/story, because it wants every town to also have the vibe of a shopping mall

so far remake/rebirth's biggest problems to my mind have been in the chronic assumption that smallness or constraints in the original were always technical limitations or failures and never artistic choices

how is it that FFVII REBIRTH can have 7,000 mods like "tifa realistic boobs photorealistic areolas" but not a single mod I can find that lets me kill chadley

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Replying to @briellebear.bsky.social

Please look after yourself and your mental health but don’t forget that if you want a village you need to be a villager too. The only way we get through all of this is together

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I enjoyed The Odyssey (2026) but I have one historical nitpick. The phrase “Jiminy Christmas” is a minced oath for “Jesus Christ”. As the story is set around 1200 B.C. it is unlikely that Odysseus would have said the phrase even once, let alone the dozens of times he says it in the film

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I truly believe "mean girl vibes" has to be one of the worst phrases to gain popularity over the last few years. For when you've chosen to hate a woman (always a woman; there's no "mean guy vibes" phrase equivalent!) for no discernible reason and you've decided that makes it her fault

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People always call it difficulty, but what people appreciate about silksong, dark souls, mina, is just that it actually asks you to interact with the game mechanics(i.e. you WILL learn how this boss fight works, or you won't play anymore) and that's in contrast to AAA games that smooth out the ride

"can't cook with cold grease" has been written on the chalkboards at my gym more than once. indeed. love this place may die here

this style of cherub sculpture looks like nothing to me more than an incredulous Maya Rudolph

trying to will into existence that there's a 10-minute one-shot in SUPER MARIO GALAXY in which mario eats a bad mushroom and shits, vomits, and sobs himself to death. will never see the movie, will always insist this scene is in there

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i wish i could describe the sort of posts i wanted to see, and then some sort of coding agent would build the feed i described. i wish an orb of mercury would grow enough blades to pierce the heart of every person who ever wronged me. i hope that if i die with enough hate in my heart god will go mad

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A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

scared the shit out of my cat reacting to the end of duke-uconn, maybe the craziest thing I've ever seen in college ball?

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being catholic and transphobic is so corny dawg you think your god turned himself into sourdough you can’t be acting like that

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it's all just art. "porn" is just art that makes you horny, in precisely the way that "horror" is art that makes you scared and "metroidvania" is art that makes you write video essays

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I think I’m gonna dump this communist nonsense and become a centrist. I agree that there are problems, but we need to find solutions that are fair to both the victims and the perpetrators

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Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.