Posting this thumbnail not even a month after we had a community discussion about misogyny is a crazy decision btw Im not giving it a view to find out if its "sarcastic" or "a joke" because there is no world in which the "joke" is anything other than shock value or misogyny #compsplatoon

I understand that semantic drift is a thing and words can change meaning overtime but I refuse to accept "meta" as a word for "optimal strategy" in single player games. None of the decisions you make in a single player game exist on a context outside the game!!! They are not meta!!!

I think Froslass + Sand has some fun lines!

male socialisation is when they hold you down and [cut footage of trans girl’s entire childhood and teen years] and after a while you stop even crying because what would be the point

As an enjoyer of both feminism and slay the spire im like actually really curious what Anita's contributions were?? Like does she do sexism sensitivity readings for games? Did she remind people that female skeletons dont have calcified boobs? I wanna know the details!!

Theres a lot of silly things about this premise but the most cishet-brain thing is thinking that if this was the law that people would broadly abide by it 😑 "laws controlling sexuality are very easy to implement and people never break them" -straightest man you know

Top 300 placement in a competition of- WHAT DO YOU MEAN 700,000 PARTICIPANTS??? For real though feels very validating to come back to VGC after a 3 year break and hit the ground running 😌 very happy with the team i built so I did a breakdown of the strategy on reddit! www.reddit.com/r/VGC/commen...

The (Very Unoptimized) Sauce My queen tsareena has yet to hit the field so probably gotta swap her but otherwise we are gaming! Hit masterball tier with it, now the real work starts 🙂‍↕️

Day 1 champions thoughts: 1. Sun is busted and not enough sun teams are teching for the mirror 2. Rain is pretty cool too and pelli/basc is a strong combo that slots in easily 3. This is close to what VGC 2014 would have looked like if Kang wasnt busted

Okay first champions hot take before I try to sleep and not think of team building: its probably good to start with a lower number of items and pokemon. It brings the number of new things that a new player has to learn about down a lot. Looking forward to updates tho this is a v low power level meta

With Pokemon Champions releasing later today, I wanna put out there to my competitive splatoon mutuals: if you are interested in playing VGC and want to chat about the game, you should hit me up here or on discord!! Ive been playing VGC for 15 years (yikes 😳) and have some decent results!

Hey chat should I drop from this tournament? I feel like I still have a shot if I lock in 😕

The Locked Tomb series is NOT real wtf do you mean its two main influences are The Bible and Homestuck and you honestly can't pick which one is more influential 😭😭😭

Everytime we say "lesbians are underrepresented in romance" we are told: "romance is written by women! Women are choosing to write M/M & M/F! YOU are the misogynist for trying to MAKE women write about lesbians!" Then someone writes F/F using their free will and they crash out. Gives it away huh 🙄?

I manifested this shit youre welcome everyone 😌

I cannot believe we are a week and a half from April and still dont have a Pokémon Champions release date 😐 this game is supposedly out sometime in the next 4 weeks, we don't have a date.... why? I really hope its not a buggy mess on release, that really sapped a lot of my SV hype

Of the 7 weapons that got main weapon buffs this patch, 5 do not have a 3rd kit yet. Potential prepping for Sheldon/Kensa weapons this summer 🤔?

Today's episode: Im scrolling a certain "adult" social media site. Reading a post which is presumably someone's human thoughts about sex (a notably human activity). See the phrase "Let's dive deeper" VERBATIM in the post. No surprise: its AI slop 🤦‍♀️ WHAT ARE WE DOING??????????

Today's episode of AI is Going Great and There are No Problems: I click on a YouTube video of an actress interview. The video is already subtitled like most short form content. YouTube flags the actress as speaking Portuguese so "helpfully" activates their soulless auto dub voice...

Truly the only bad part about finally reading the Locked Tomb series (and really enjoying it!) is learning that in a series packed with dynamic and interesting lesbians, im most similar to the one relevant man 😔 Palamedes heads rise up ✊️

I think the last team being coolerless would be more interesting if it wasnt just 3 HP tanks + insane paint 😔

Me when my product definitely isnt part of an overhyped bubble: you should let me pay you with this actually

Two bows in top 4 area cup chat we have arrived 😌

Getting hit with a comment ratio + quote ratio + reply ratio this big, DEEP in a reply chain, is actually so funny 😂 it might not translate to real world impact but its nice to know that the NYT is appropriately hated here at the very least.

"APRIL" WITH NO ACTUAL RELEASE DATE WHAT ARE WE DOING?????????? ITS BASICALLY MARCH AND YALL DONT HAVE A DATE PICKED IN APRIL????? Ranting besides I am actually very excited to get my hands on this game and wish they had given us something more than another trailer and a 30 day release window!!!!

"Don't Hug Me I'm Scared TV series is streaming on College Humor's indie platform" is a sentence that sounds like a fever dream from 2012. I mean that as a complement!

"Here at the NYT, we view fundamental human rights as an 'issue' that we can't take sides on. Also we spend twice as much time explaining the position of literal fascists as we do normal trans people trying to live their lives. Please give us money and play our stupid puzzle games 🙏"

My driver's ed teacher had the strangest racist belief that traffic lights were only used because they were propped up by the government as like an affirmative action scheme for the Black inventor. Im 100% serious 🤦‍♀️

I understand the utility of exclusive practice servers but we gotta remove voting as the mechanism of membership. We keep having this discussion over and over somethings gotta change folks. #compsplatoon

14% buff to arrow hits is so sick and the 2.5% aoe buff is a little cherry on top omgggg

Bow can vertical tap shot for 60 from this distance now and dart combo for 1 shot btw #compsplatoon

I've got a lot of *potential* flow aura thoughts that depend on how the mechanic feels in practice, but for now I'll just say: a lot of the depth of Splatoon comes from quick decision making around spending resources, and adding another resource to manage opens up new potentials.

Main -> special -> sub 3 piece, this is a bulbz kit propaganda clip #splatoonclips #splatclips

More LI #splatoonclips! When you're 1-1 with bracket placement on the line and your team dives for shallow lead, you gotta clutch up and stop that overtime push before it starts 😤

My POV, I spent like a solid minute of game time in their court before finally getting the lead and KO 😌 #splatoonclips

My favorite moment from our Low Ink run yesterday NEVER GIVE UP! IF ANYONE GOT MY BACK, IT'S @emmy.dollz.one!!! #splatoonclips

Love this trend so had to jump on!! - Preference to the long range bows and aggressive kits - support kits feel well designed & milk flux is a killer kit - strong specials but weak subs make the launch bows feel disjointed to me - rat bow is fun but not for me!

Pokemon champions is supposed to be the game that VGC worlds 2026 is played on this summer and we dont have a release date yet WHAT ARE WE DOING??? If we dont get a release date next month im going to go feral holy shit

I don't think something actionable has to happen *now*, but I wanna start a discussion about how we handle a fully enshittified Discord (ads, telemetry, further monetization). Because this is the best Discord will be for the rest of its lifespan. short thread🧵

I rarely clip things in tournament cause I focus on the match but I couldn't miss this crazy KO streak from FTIU 🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹 #compsplatoon #splatclips

SO PROUD OF MY TEAM!!! The mental game we had to keep up in this tournament was crazy! Late tournament start into facing a 3k XP player into waiting forever for our last set into a game 5- BUT WE CLENCHED IT!!!

Over 275 authors, editors, critics and diehard readers came together over the last month to vote on their favorite transfeminine books of the year. It's my honor to present the 2025 TFR Reader's Choice Awards! Congratulations to the winners, and thank you to everyone who voted 🩷

As of this month, I've played Splatoon competitively for 3 years!! Here is my 2025 review! Looking forward to next year 💕 #compsplatoon

I have a lot of thoughts, but only one I want to publically share atm: Gem did right by the community by stepping away until he could share his side. It would have been a dangerous precedent to ask for blind support despite serious allegations and Im glad he didnt.

I like being in Beyblade group chats because youll get discord notifications like "Bro it does NOT burst 😭😭" with a video attachment and you know its SFW

This might be one of, if not the, best comp splatoon videos ever!! Truly fantastic mix of story telling, gameplay, and metagaming, AND the perspective shifts and commentary moments make it so polished! Huge congrats to everyone involved in production and of course to Moonlight for their run 💗

People have misused ASAB language and weaponized it so much that I honestly get a jump scare anytime I see it

Ive accepted that chump bow is probably the "better" kit (at least in zones) and i do flex it sometimes but dart feels too good on bow to give up bulbz as my main pick. Either way i take a W for the main weapon i believe in this weapon so hard 😌

This is maybe a hot take as a bulbz bow main, but im probably more interested in an inkjet buff than a bow or dart buff! Dart works fine for what bow wants (though im fine if they wanna give it more 👀) and main weapon buffs are tricky to design for bows imo #compsplatoon

Pokemon ZA DLC looks interesting and I'll probably get the game at some point, but the more new mega evos that they release the more im just desperate for Pokémon Champions 😭😭 what are the abilities??? I want to play them in VGC!!! GIVE ME A RELEASE DATE!!!!!!!!