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username is bluesky account / freelance writer / game photographer / lead @ #hotgamercollective + OW Capture Club / av: @L0VERSEYES
Joined September 2010
Everywhere you can find me:. 🌲 🪽 ✏️ 📰 📽️ 💜 applecider (Discord).
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Warren is not a mommy come to fix the fucking country and show up with cute pics of her dog and she's not Hermione, she's a real person and also don't talk about women like they exist to be weird maternal figures instead of occupying extremely important positions of power.
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IM SORRY BUT EVERYONE MAKING FUN OF THIS HAS CLEARLY NEVER HAD TO CARRY A PURSE ON THEIR ARM OR DEAL WITH THEIR BOOBS GETTING IN THE WAY OF A CROSS BODY BAG.
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I think it's about time we admitted something to ourselves
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ME: *vaguely stirs in morning*.CAT: WAKE UP. WAKE UP. I HAVE NOT BEEN FED. I AM STARVING. YOU ARE WORSE THAN MARIE ANTOINETTE. YOU LIE THERE ON SILKEN PILLOWS WHILE I, THE UNDERCLASS, STARVE. YOU HAG. YOU HARRIDAN. YOU TINY VILE WOMAN.
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love the idea that millennials are still predominantly sub-25 and lawless teenagers and not near or older than 30 and doing the best to be settled down adults despite having poverty wages and no house buying prospects.
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I'm hanging out here until the site 404s.
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This the third cop skin in Overwatch.
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Looking at Romantic era artworks just to see what kind of shit inspired Elden Ring and whatnot, just great. Love art!!!. Knight at the Crossroads, Viktor Vasnetsov (1882)
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Activision-Blizzard hiring two co-leaders, one of them being an Asian-American woman who is gay, and then not paying her as much as the other dude is just like, too on the nose for gaming as an industry.
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DOCTOR: read letters off the wall please.ME: 2. B? 9. S. everything else is too blurry. DOCTOR: You have bad vision.ME: I'm nier sighted.
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me and the squad going out after the pandemic is over
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All of these villains have something else in common - can you spot what it is?!.
Disney please give us back villains who are evil and they know it no generational trauma or morally grey “villains” just pure evil
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Something no social media site has been able to replicate other than clones is Livejournal's capacity for letting you swap your user icon out per comment in order to effectively indicate what your tone was.
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I'm glad we've reduced a term that PTSD and trauma sufferers needed for talking about the effects of such and watered it down into a meme that brands can hop onto now
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Racist World of Warcraft Players Mad that Black People Exist in Azeroth Now, Citing Accuracy For Video Game That Has Mechanical Gnomes.
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I never thought I'd have a need to use this again
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hades brings all gamers together: solid mechanics, story progression and absolutely fuckable characters for every single kind of pervert.
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Sorry but men tweeting like this is Fucking Weird
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this is kind of unreal for Overwatch as a brand.
Overwatch 2 x LE SSERAFIM M/V Teaser 🎶📺. Featuring our first look at possible legendary skins for Brigitte, DVa, Sombra, Kiriko and Tracer! The collaboration single will debut on Thursday, October 26!. This looks AMAZING! 👀
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NO JUNKRAT, DON'T DRINK THE GRIMACE SHA--. oh you're fine, you survived radiation exposure
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twitch you cannot have kids, you are a website.
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Since Overwatch League will be broadcast on ESPN and ESPN is owned by Disney that means Geguri is a Disney princess, sorry I don't make the rules.
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We thought that Misato was part of the show's obvious Christian iconography but did we ever think that maybe she just loves Excel
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Given the latest debacle in fandom zines, can we just stop calling them zines. You're running a small press business. You need to start an LLC. You're not mods. You're employees.
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I've been writing about Blizzard's treatment of women for 11 years now so I feel like I've been training my entire career for this piece about women villains in Blizz games. I go three rounds and a KO on their entire narrative history for @waypoint :.
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It's Bisexual Awareness Week - please drive slowly as we might be leaping across the roads in huge flocks.
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any woman will do, no need to explicate a platform or ideology. do you even hear yourself.
I'm still stunned Biden pledged to pick a woman VP and Sanders hedged. Vote for Biden and a woman will be on the ticket. Period.
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I'm SO GLAD NETFLIX IS CANCELLING THE REALLY GOOD SHOW ABOUT TWO BIRD LADIES THAT WAS COMPLICATED AND OPTIMISTIC SO WE CAN GET ANOTHER ORIGINAL SHOW About SERIAl Killers or oil TYCOONs.
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This skin cannot be used if there are women characters in your game unfortunately.
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McCree isn't just shooting when he ults, remember that his screen goes sepia and there's a tumbleweed. he's actually pulling himself into the cowboy dimension.
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This part of the Geguri video that went up during Watchpoint made me cry a little. It feels really different from when Geguri first joined the Overwatch League.
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I am loudly guffawing at this "icebreaker" survey response
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she's SO gorgeous, MORE older ladies in cinematics PLEASE
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Ana has never, ever been blonde or light/white skinned.
I can finally release this!! Here's my Commission from @Blizzard_Ent to help celebrate their Anniversary Event for Overwatch! I wanted to portray Shrike Ana a little younger and with her mask off. Hope you guys dig it! ❄️🦅
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This took me awhile due to health problems, but my big feature today on Polygon is about Fromsoft's struggle with portraying women, and the impact it has on the Soulsborne community respectively.
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I've never shot Baptiste regularly so I did take a ton of pics of him last night for Pride 🏳️🌈 #Overwatch2
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If your zine is a bound hard cover BOOK, it's not a zine. It's a book. You're running a business selling a limited run book. If your head mod, aka the organizer, aka the boss can embezzle 27k in funds then that's not a small fandom thing, that's a felony theft.
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Captain Vivian Chase (Callsign: Sojourn) goes on the hardest undercover mission yet - managing a coffee shop. Having hundreds of hours in dangerous military operations, she can handle a customer wanting a latte to be remade. #overwatch2
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Mob Boss Junker Queen. It's nicely styled, nice color, love the undercut.
Best haircut in Overwatch? State your case now ✂️🧑🦰.
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So it's not hanging out in a reply, I managed to scrape a screenshot of @joomla69 's response to crimzii9 in case people wanted to save it. I'm also typing it up in duplicate to Google Docs so people don't have to deal with saving an image somewhere.
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@TheGayChingy It says a lot about the direction too, like I know Dunst talked about how she'd get help from the director and the other actors about how she should react to stuff and it's truly astonishing.
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@IronPineapple_ As someone who writes about games a lot, I've really found more value about talking about how Souls games are demanding vs. difficult - there's absolutely a difficulty curve based on your experience with them but they are moreso demanding - time, attention, resources, etc.
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Zenyatta and Kiriko having timekeeper cosmetics was a natural choice for a cool looking photoset. #overwatch2 #Zenyatta #kiriko
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@xoxogossipgita there's also just the fact that she also just hates journalists and newspapers and thinks all of them are crazy or have an agenda/slant/fake stuff.
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HEARTWARMING: Every night at 7 PM, citizens of Yharnam spitefully laugh from inside their homes at the essential workers who are hunting outside.
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I hate to platform this fucking washed-up cornball loser, but this dude is straight up harassing a journalist as an April Fool's Joke, all because these people are trying to do another stupid culture war in games, again. He's been trying to do this for 10 years.
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@gillianmsmith this feels really sad for parents who have a legitimate reason to get rid of a child from an app.
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honestly I would think a "dream mommy" game would be interesting because typically older women are not allowed to be sexy/dateable.
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hey folks this is literally not how game development works and this hero/battle pass has been available to press for several weeks, if not months ahead of time because this has been roadmapped since launch.
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this is such a smart design if you can use it on your legs, especially if you have to carry shit in your arms!!!!! my GOD.
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I just want people online to stop describing public offices lying to the public as gaslighting when we have legal definitions for what they do - fraud, malfeasance, widespread harm, etc. because their relationship to us is not on a personal level, it's institutional.
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HEY Y'ALL:. I am organizing a MASSIVE 24-HR STREAM to help raise money for COVID-19 RELIEF via ActBlue. If you are behind @SenSanders and want to help out and ALSO see some RAD GAMES on TWITCH, come hang out this Saturday, starting 12 midnight CENTRAL!.
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much love going out to CP2077 reviewers who are basically going to crunch playing a game for a review to come out day of for people who already were going to buy it and will be mad at you no matter what you publish.
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Baptiste finally lands at Gibraltar, and gets the grand tour from Cole Cassidy himself. #Overwatch2
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Did anyone check before engaging the Queen to see if she had a second health bar.
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A really interesting counterpoint to "stimulant addiction is bad" is how many undiagnosed ADHD people pick up impulsive behaviors like gambling or hard drugs, or self-medicate with high amounts of caffeine, smoking, etc. and how all of it is wrapped around stigmatizing it.
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happy Overwatch 2 alpha embargo date to all the content creators who were pretending they weren't under NDA.
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no girl bosses, only girl comrades. seize the means of girl production.
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they literally highlighted plays from ALL MALE PLAYERS, didn't show anything from their *1* female pro player (Geguri) and didn't highlight any of their female desk casters (1).
Two truths in the Overwatch League:. 1. Anybody can be a hero 👩🚒. 2. The world needs more of them 🌎 . #OWL2020 #InternationalWomensDay
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*long, dead stare*. we all know how this is gonna end
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I find the assertions here that two queer critics are biphobic by pointing out what feels like an obvious heteronormative change to the story (btw, which is what Maddy's review used, instead of "made Bayo straight", quotes have a purpose) is a very gutsy assertion.
Several queer critics voiced dismay at Bayonetta's relationship status in Bayonetta 3, but we need to contend with the biphobic and erasing implications these reactions carry:
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anyways, a good tip is like, make sure you do stretches before you exercise, like if you are throwing something heavy like a brick.
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My takeaway from the Bad Art friend story is just that if you're going to dunk on someone in a fictional piece of writing, you need to figure out how to cover your tracks because picking someone who is very self-involved is just going to end poorly.
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did you know you can upload screenshots of Overwatch characters to eyeglasses websites to try them on
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@IronPineapple_ but the idea that you can "cheat" at a single player game against yourself (barring say, PVP) is very funny to me.
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I don't play FFXIV but every picture of Emet-Selch always looks like he's 5 seconds away from getting into a fight with another Eorzea beauty blogger.
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WHY DOES EVERYONE HATE MERCY.A treatise on misogyny, design and whatever one-tricking is in #overwatch .
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I'm very smart and I think if I don't like a publication that big video game corporations should be allowed to deprive them of review copies, like scolding a naughty child instead of, idk, just not reading the site.
Nintendo did the right thing in fact I encourage more video game companies to blacklist Kotaku from ever reviewing their video games
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When we were doing the custom game last night, we TRIED to use Torb magma for like, hell fire but it was sort of hard with someone dual-boxing, but it's cute
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Ana Amari's Ultimate is she calls you up from across the map to tell you that you've disappointed her.
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My latest for @Kotaku is finally, finally up. I reported how some of Overwatch's most visible fans felt about the Academy skin and the deeper problems in Korean culture with "schoolgirl uniforms":.
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I don't know if enough people are aware of what a staggering change this is in terms of legacy content just vanishing. I would highly suggest people who want to remember what this stuff looks like in the future (since even a lot of 2016 stuff is gone) start backing up stuff now.
Overwatch 2 will fully replace the original Overwatch at launch, meaning that the original game will no longer be playable from October.
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I got way into Overwatch game photography in 2022, here is a thread of my favorites
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