im excited for the fighting game event this weekend but im NOT excited about no masking requirement. i hate that for so many events people just accept that covid will spread at them instead of even trying to get people to maybe inconvenience themselves a tiny bit for the good of the community

Our final registration numbers for Just Block 2025 GGST - 67 UNI2 - 49 Tekken 8 - 48 GBVSR - 35 P4U2 - 20 COTW - 13

I'll be running the es laf side bracket for this! Please come out if you have any sort of interest in the game I'd love to teach it to anybody with an interest

I should start carrying physical notes with all the door access codes I know, in case an imsim protag encounters me

Seattle: if you're near downtown and want a PAX-adjacent gaming thing to do, for FREE, the Seattle Indies Expo (SIX) at Motif Hotel is the best it's ever been. Two floors; dozens of playable, unique games. Open from now til 6 (plus some kind of connected party in the same space from 6-9).

Fighting game fans will know him as the voice of Slayer from Guilty Gear since Revelator in 2016. Rest in peace, his voice brought an unmatched kind of dignified aura to a fan favourite character.

Seeing the new strive patch lower damage and tone down the top tiers

Gonna do a backup of the normal_now thread…

The burrito bus can take me to fucking Guachau at this point as long as it's not more Saudi money at Evo.

Join me and @anklegator.bsky.social on comms as we watch some awesome exhibitions from our local UNI scene. Also stay tuned for the announcement it's super exciting!

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

Commission this month over on the bird site, featuring several players as part of the PNW UNI2 Danisen! May you all find your eternal rivalries! Thank you for the support! #inbirth #ChouComms #art #commission

"Trans people existing does literally nothing negative to your lives you crybaby wimps. Your life is getting harder and costlier because of the oligarchs, not trans people" Sticker spotted in Koreatown, Los Angeles, CA

despite everything, i still believe in the potential of humankind to create utopia. but it will require hard work, courage, and above all else extremely deep v-necks that go almost down to the dick

Hey, remember the anger and frustration at the mass layoffs and financing bombs in a genocide and the BDS boycott? Please please please don't conveniently forget those when a thing you like comes tied to them

Yes, Annihilation will stream on Paramount starting August 1. No, the movie wasn't much hated. No, it didn't flop in the usual way. The new Paramount leadership suffocated it by releasing on too few screens. Per screen take was robust. share.google/4PHbY6q65jJk...

Nice turnout for BB at the Seattle local yesterday! I ran a free side bracket and managed to win it 🥲 PNW anime stays goated, I love peer pressuring everyone into playing peak. Will do what I can to make sure the side tournament at Just Block is a great exp for all involved

I just registered for Just Block 2025 Community Tournaments via @startgg.bsky.social #JustBlock www.start.gg/tournament/j...

Coyote Vs. Acme releasing globally on August 28, 2026 deadline.com/2025/07/coyo...

Fantasies of Nuremberg On justice, punishment, and the Earth crying out for vengeance. youtu.be/n9Ay5tzHIBU

gofund.me/d23a91bf hey i very much like keeping my social life private but recently my mom has been at risk of losing her house due to paying off medical debt from when she had stage 4 colon cancer. i hate asking for money but if somehow you could help my mom id love you

Newsletter: This is the Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble: genAI is nothing like Uber or Amazon Web Services, there are no profitable genAI companies, agents do not and cannot exist, there is no AI SaaS story, and everything rides - and dies - on selling GPUs. www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...

Seattle has its own Zohran v Cuomo mayoral race going on: A young charismatic upstart who actually wants to make the city cooler vs an establishment dinosaur who once pulled a gun on a pregnant woman in a road rage incident. www.theurbanist.org/2025/06/29/o...

"SCPs that got hoovered up and regurgitated by chatbots end up giving tech executives schizophrenia" is perhaps fittingly a very SCP thing to happen

If you are a Seattle local please give a signature to this. This park has existed decades before the loudest millionaire with a waterfront property has lived there. This park belongs to the Seattle LGBTQI+ community. Help fight back against the oligarch lobbyists who hate queer people.

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

I don’t know what’s wrong with people who still use X. You’re getting your breaking news and sports chat from a Nazi site. Draw a line

Quit doomscrolling and fish that PSP or 3DS out of the closet: No Phone Summer means this is the summer of the retro handheld, Willa Rowe writes. www.endlessmode.com/video-games/...

come check out the big cute new queer owned thrift store i work at up in Shoreline, WA by the Town & Country Market. We have lots of awesome stuff coming in every day :3

Setting up the display on my new controller

it’s that time of year again

Jonesy

Anyway, unrelated: "-Cancel your Xbox Game Pass subscription. -Boycott Candy Crush, Minecraft and Call of Duty – flagship videogame franchises owned by Microsoft. -Boycott all Microsoft Gaming products..."

www.start.gg/tournament/v... Bracket on the side tonight! Vanilla GBVS for those who long for the distance past (2023)

A NEW CHALLENGER HAS ENTERED THE RING

One of my strongest beliefs is if they actually put this on Broadway it would absolutely destroy at the award shows and run for 20 years

PSA Seattle Eastside: There's a new weekly casuals event on Monday nights in the Bellevue/Redmond area. It's primarily a Smash thing but there is some space available to us to play as well. There is a venue fee of either $7 or buying something from the hotel market. www.start.gg/tournament/s...

How do you combine the online FGC with your offline local community/events? We talked with Kalma and Leon Ultra about how @hopon.bsky.social is working on making the netplay experience less impersonal while fueling their local scene. Read more on evo.gg: evo.gg/news/how-hop...

this lil idea that a bunch of us spent thursday evenings on to showcase locals has helped me find community in a scene that has so kind to me. ty everyone for spending time with us, seeing what we're up to. ty to everyone who signs up, commentates or watches at home. its worth it because of you guys

UFO 50, our collection of 50 games in one, is on sale for the #SteamSummerSale! A game for every mood (or at least fifty of them). Includes local multiplayer and ✅Verified on Deck! 🛸: store.steampowered.com/app/1147860/...

The mutual aid, Food Not Bombs, will be tabling at Beach Episode 2025. 💪 They're looking for donations of new and unused undergarments to help those in need. Donating on-site will enter you into a raffle for a Snack Box Micro! 🥏 start.gg/beach ⛵

Northernlion shows chat his favorite Under Night In-Birth II song

we need to bring DEI to gooning. we need initatives for more women gooners. we need to have gooner pronoun circles. we need to make gooning woke

vinyl shopping

if you want to buy wanderhome, it is *finally* available in print !