#ffxi #gart Pacifist VS Immortal

There is no reason to immediately invalidate an entire group's licenses other than to be cruel. There is no possible argument, even from their warped perspective, for it being in the interest of public good to not even give people advanced warning. Just unapologetically evil.

Now that CNN and WBD are set to become state media in a sale to Paramount/Oracle/TikTok, it is especially important to support independent media. Off the top of my head: www.thehandbasket.co 404media.co www.garbageday.email Add your favorites in the replies. Fuck state-backed media monopolies.

of the two articles currently circulating about Sheri’s Ranch which feature Jupiter Jetson, this one is way more worth your time. there is a fascinating and important story in the unfolding workers’ rights movement in Nevada’s legal brothels that will resonate with anyone who’s been a contractor

Start going to thrift stores and pick up as much physical media as you can. You do not own digital copies of media. They can alter or remove them at any time.

This week we have guest @oceanity.live to discuss furry games! Want to ask/tell us about your favorite platformer mascots, anthropomorphic video game crushes, whatever! Use the form below. forms.gle/wTxM9VLjY81r...

With news of more games media layoffs, this seems like a good time to share my Indie Games Media starter kit — it’s more important than ever that readers directly support their favourite publications and writers.

Ohh, so THAT'S where all of the new followers are coming from this week. (You should subscribe to this starter pack btw if you haven't already)

but here i am, drinking coffee and eating eggs, injecting estradiol, kissing my gay wife, flirting with other trans people online, taking care of my cat, paying taxes, sharing art. we’re just people, and we’ll happily keep being people. just let us.

i’m trans. i live in Ohio, which is not so different from Kansas; it, too, has massive vibrant cities that get shit on by the rest of the country for comedy value, alongside untouched wilderness and paved commercialism. deeply American states, ones I love that lawmakers want me kept out of.

i’ve spent two nights in kansas, one in KC and one in Hays, the center of everywhere and the middle of nowhere. both beautiful, strange, American places. these nights were part of the most consequential trip of my whole life. i eagerly await the souls of Kansas lawmakers eternal burning in hell.

It's FunFactor Fuuuuuuuuuuesday! In the season finale, we review EVERY Final Fantasy 7 review in '97 gaming mags... and even drop a few perfect 10s. Who got it right? Wrong? "Did it live up to the hype?" And how many times was THE spoiler spoiled before release day? "The podcast's playin', Cloud!"

This is what I need cis folks to understand. It's been a decade. Imagine living TEN FUCKING YEARS watching as a blatant, artificial campaign to erase your personhood, your identity and your safety chugs along, increasing in power every single day, and most people don't care or dismiss it

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. tcpipeline.org

This is exactly the same rhetoric that the Klan, White League, & other white conservative paramilitary organizations used to destroy multiracial democracy during Reconstruction, disfranchising Black voters & murdering anyone who got in their way.

I believe the government shouldn’t get to decide what is and isn’t legal for people to draw or write about. I also think some people are gross as fuck and I don’t want them around me. These two opinions can exist side by side.

The Constitution clearly gives Congress the power to spend taxpayer funds, and no law allows the president to halt if he feels some US states aren’t being “good stewards” of the money. In case there’s any confusion on this, the Impoundment Control Act forbids it. Taxation without representation.

I worked hard on this video, and @tyschalter.com busted his ass on the audio version, so if you've been thinking of giving FF a shot, this would be a great jumping on point. Shares, likes, bells, subs, etc., all very much appreciated!

Starting up the Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix postgame with the Cavern of Remembrance! Stop in and hang out! www.twitch.tv/lorddrubie

So good news and bad news! Good news is I'm starting my new job next month! Bad news is I don't have enough money for rent and I'm still waiting on the okay for uemployment! So if you could donate and/or share my Ko-Fi, that'd be great! :D ko-fi.com/jazzyoliver

(Sigh) Hold on. "AI algorithms are weighted by programmers toward recommending nuclear strikes because they place lower value on complex solutions." There you go. Next time you'll know not to assign these things autonomy, sport. You're welcome.

Gen Z is reviving DVDs and Blu-rays, with local video rental shops reporting record months and membership numbers as young people embrace physical media. Read more: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Perfect Organism: The Assembly Cut - The story of Alien: Isolation's creation - Deep dives into design, art, AI, and more - Huge level-by-level analysis of the entire game - Cut content and behind-the-scenes secrets - New chapters, insights, and illustrations 🔗 www.lostincult.co.uk/perfectorgan...

you should keep drying up their user revenue source in the middle of trying to take the company public

KH2FM stream tomorrow. Commencing with the postgame.

Don't do that. Don't give me hope.

Currently between jobs due to the move so I'm promoting these again in the meantime. Reminder I'm not currently monetized on YouTube (long story) so places like Patreon and Ko-Fi are the only ways I (currently) make money off my videos so if you like what I do, consider supporting through them.

The Space Ghost, the Zorak, the Moltar, and the Brak

First we taught rocks to think. Then we taught them the n-word.

We've got some pretty amazing stuff planned to wrap up season one before we head into season two, but, for now, catch the season finale, which is absolutely BURSTING with as many reviews of Final Fantasy 7 as we could fit before Ty would be late for his thing. Then: Help. us. spread. the. word.

The biggest news of the night is that Trump’s effort to steer control of CNN to a lackey by threatening the corrupt use of regulatory power is moving closer to reality. www.mediamatters.org/cnn/trump-es...

I doubt they're telling the truth. Keep up the bullying campaign and keep nitro canceled.

In other news, I've added a long-requested feature to our archive, the ability to sort interviews by the date we translated them. The front page highlights our most recent ~2 months worth of work, but if you're wanting to catch up further this is a convenient tool. shmuplations.com/archive/

reminder this may be who you're arguing with and a significant amount of activity your relatives or coworkers (and us on bsky, any site with enough real users that supports free accounts will be targeted) are seeing as normalized opinions, reactions and attitudes to things going on that affect money

New episode of @funfactorpod.com is imminent! Get on over to the FunFactor YouTube channel and smash and subscribe all those buttons so you can grab the video version when it hits, or subscribe in your favourite podcast app. This one's a doozy.

When the hell did FF4 creep up to nearly 300k??? It's the third most viewed FF video! (4th on the whole channel; KH1 beats all of the FF vids)

I don't really care about any lingering plot threads from any of the various series or expanding the mythology or whatever. However, I do care about how any Evangelion creator would respond to "How much do you relate to Shinji?" That's what makes things interesting.

I wrote about how Evangelion serves as a very clear inkblot test for how creators feel about Evangelion: www.crunchyroll.com/news/feature...

This was literally me when they announced Thirteen was going to be meeting Mary Shelley.

Congrats, Drubie!

Patiently waiting for Majuular's Ultima VIII Retrospective.

Gonna write a m/m romance about a dude whose dick's so big he's a top AND a bottom.

Here's hoping he talks about his work on XI in this. I'm reading it either way, and the book will most certainly get into how he was feeling about his work at the turn of the millennium, but it would be nice to hear about XI specifically.

Took a little bit longer than expected, but the Final Fantasy X Retrospective just cracked 100k views! Once again, all of the FF retrospectives are firmly in the six-digit club.

Hey. Tell people when they do good job. When you like the stuff they make. When you like the characters they’ve created. The stories they’ve told. Nobody hears it as often as you think bc everyone thinks everyone hears it all the time. Trust. They don’t. Tell. Them.

"Don't you understand, Brigadier? These trucks are killers, mostly of the poor fools inside them. They must be stopped!"

It's the Aftershow with special guest @regularpat.bsky.social, talking about Kingdom Hearts, our history with the franchise, the state of the fandom and discourse, and what makes KH1 in particular so wonderful! www.patreon.com/posts/151475...

“I just don’t get the kind of engagement on Bluesky that I get on X” the engagement: