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A drifter of Internet and SF/F writer/enjoyer. Not trying to be based; simply striving to be reasonable and nonpartisan.

Joined September 2009
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Here's a competitive storytelling game for 2-4 players about doing your liege's bidding. All of the rules fit in one A4 sheet. ulet.itch.io/all-kings-will Have fun! @OnePageRPGJam #1pRPG
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My most elitist opinion is that needing to relate to characters is for tiny babies
Do people really need to "see themselves" in a protagonist to like a book? Its a story about people who arent me in situations I am.not in. Why would I need to self insert into everything.
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Started a November 50,000 words novel challenge by @ProWritingAid today. Completely pantsing it.
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#HSRSpecialProgram I have less incentive to add the joker lady to my roster now than when her drip marketing was revealed.
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Replying to @WillowMouseDoll
Here's an overview of the retardedness
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Sometimes, hunger builds up in me together with a growing, silent sadness. It's a quiet, slow-burning kind of bad thoughts. I find myself thinking "what things must have went wrong for me to arrive here?" even though it didn't make sense.
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One of the many tests of character and intellect that people are sometimes subjected to in life is whether they can absorb something new without changing into it entirely. Subsuming it into oneself is alright, though.
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The internet could benefit from random incidental fight clubs for its denizens once in a while.
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Replying to @Oceaniz96
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Airplane Chefs' Sydney isn't playing around.
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Americans tend to put periods and commas INSIDE the quotation marks. “Hello.” The British tend to put periods and commas OUTSIDE the quotation marks. They also tend to use single quotation marks. ‘Hello’. Why are the periods in different places? 🧵⬇️
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A big part of why media literacy is so bad rn is because many people can’t imagine someone writing a character or scene that doesn’t exactly align with their personal beliefs. A woman’s corpse is not featured in the movie because the writer hates women.
The shot in Obsession of Sarah’s dead body in the house is the image that’s lingered with me from that movie the most because of how misogynistic and mean-spirited it is. Basically every time I think about that movie I like it less
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First time three-starring everything in HSR's Anomaly Arbitration. Yes, I went in full with Elation (the SW999 path, at least). I feel like, as a F2P player, having a strategy on what new chars you Warp is essential if you care about clearing endgame modes.
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I skipped Remembrance in version 3 and had a hard time for the entire first half of 2025, but still three-starred MoC, PF, and AS (PF with nota bene constant difficulty). I don't like your direction with new path shilling every versions, Hoyoverse.
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It’s true but not for the reasons Ebert gave. Gamers want games to be respected and legitimized as art, but a large majority don’t want to engage and critique them as art, or even make the effort to understand art in general.
Still one of the most dumbass statements of all time
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I don't enjoy slice-of-life fiction set in the real world as much as I enjoy grand fantasy and science fiction stories, but I'm happy there are books for every taste. But the moment someone says the former is better than the latter, I go to war.
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Playing Airplane Chefs makes me realize those women in Instagram reels ain't playing around; the game is indeed breakneck-paced like that.
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Came back from a week-long trip kinda exhausted. But there's Purrchena story in Endfield and HSR's v4.6 to look forward to, and a short story to work on. Pretty energized to start the end of the month.
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Sharing this to get myself a free tile design.
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I WILL beat Octopath Traveler 2's Galdera.
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