March 10th is a day where we all celebrate the little red-hatted, portly hero of gaming who single-handedly popularised the entire platformer genre for years to come

That's right. You got no leg to stand on, Newsom supporters. Shut your hole. We don't need anti trans anti homeless greaseball shit. North Carolina is purple, it's not some blue stronghold.

You know, with all the retro wrestling Youtuber stuff out there, i'm surprised nobody's been enough of a sicko to do a full Coliseum Video tier list Smack 'Em Whack 'Em would be the GOAT for sure, that has the 1st ladder match (Bret vs. Shawn!) & Bret's world title win from Flair

Let's raise some money for Lud's freedom. Sunday, March 8th at 2PM EST/8PM CET in the RRC Discord, I am hosting an Xrd charity bracket. Send me proof a donation of any amount and you can be entered. Winner gets art by @congealeddairy.bsky.social

"Why rollback and netplay events are good for locals, actually" Last night I hosted a sweet locals session out of my garage and then after cleaning up I read one of the worst fighting game takes in recent memory, so here's my attempt to upcycle it. www.patreon.com/posts/why-ro...

The article briefly mentions it, but personally I don't care what Lud's status was. Every post about his situation has wriggling weirdos underneath asking about it & I reject the xenophobic premise of their question. Immigrants are a positive good and Lud should be celebrated, safe, & protected

I will say this any chance I get: Itoi was part of far left student protests in the ‘60s - ‘70s where he physically clashed with police, was arrested 5 times, and ultimately dropped out of law school from his disillusionment so he indeed knows how they work

One of the Rosetta Stones for understanding social media right here, took me waaaaaayyyyyy too long to realize this lol

"The new Evo calendar and the grassroots/corpo split" I wrote about the new Evo event calendar, its effects on locally owned events, and how the mutually beneficial relationship between grassroots and "main game" funded FGC may be approaching a fracture point. www.patreon.com/posts/151654...

so this happened under Carter. the policy was probably planned under Ford. interesting that Ford rarely gets talked about and Carter pretty much exclusively gets talked about positively, yet something they did lead to this. probably nothing worth interrogating though, hahaha

TC Pipeline is a trans relocation org located in Colorado which is near Kansas It would be helpful if you could signal boost them. They could use funding and volunteers, and trans folks in Kansas may want to contact them if they need extraction Also: the letters sent may be illegal tcpipeline.org

This is the side of the ~dirtbag left~ that's deserved to lose its cultural cachet - think Fetterman exposed how much of it all was just cosplay

Thread of news articles painting Cuba as the aggressor when a Florida registered speedboat illegally entered Cuban waters and opened fire, injuring a border guard:

i've been staying out of the recent Tourette's discourse, but now that we know the BBC lied to Davidson about editing out all of his swears & slurs... i'm betting this was an intentional move to distract the public from Prince Andrew getting arrested, considering Prince William is BAFTA's president

JUST IN: Judge Murphy has ruled that the Trump administration's policy of sending deported immigrants to third countries without notice or a chance to challenge is illegal and unconstitutional. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

People saying "10 EVOs is good! You're just hating because it's gonna give people opportunities!" is hyper reminding me of the last time I had to argue that, when all the best MKX players from around the US got flown to a compound in ATL and lived there for months/years as a front for selling drugs.

Good news, Link! A wonderful man named Calypso has asked me to participate in a fun tournament, and the prize is a single wish! This is going to be so much fun!

This might come off as biased, but Climax of Night started out with less than 200 people and there were 1,000+ of us in the building when it wrapped up last year. Several of us were bawling our eyes out. There is so much that can still be done without EVO that will matter to a whole lot of people.

The past couple of days have been a reminder of how even some self-proclaimed "leftists" in the FGC fail the Saudi Test That's not such a shocker to me since i've been involved in political organizing and seen how that happens with basically every issue, but if ur new to this it hits too hard =(

"We'll put an Evo in every country and price out the regional events" is definitely a plan you make when you don't know that Evo is nobody's favorite tournament.

maybe, but honestly I think we weren't nearly critical enough of the idea of needing developer support for a game to have a healthy scene. that's more or less where corporate stewardship became normalized imo.

Yep, not watching Evo now oop aww Bringing back the early-2000s UFGT format of tallying points across multiple fighting games could've perhaps been interesting in a different environment, but it just feels tacky for something as established as Evo (not to mention all the other issues)

After a long wait, my annual week long online charity supermajor: Alexalchemy's Charity Thing, finally returns for it's 8th edition as me and my friends return to play some dope games for a dope cause!!!!!! This time to benefit Waves Ahead PR to help queer folk in Puerto Rico (More info below vvv)

I just wanted to remind BSKY that Texas Showdown is a month away! A twenty-five year old, grass roots fighting game tournament celebrating fighting games both modern and classic. Even if you can't make it, I hope you can tune in and celebrate with us. txshowdown.com

you know, i feel like the odd one out anymore for thinking street fighter EX1's soundtrack clears 2's like i'd rather listen to guile + d.dark + garuda + skullo's themes from 1 than anything from 2 prob another reason 3 is by far my fav EX game, they used 1's themes for everyone

More ways to help: bsky.app/profile/ref5... #helpsky

ICE ignored the judge's orders and moved lud to another detention center in Louisiana if you happen to have ties to any local or state government in Maryland, please contact the organizers immediately this is a marathon; not a sprint. we gotta stay focused. 🙏 • www.gofundme.com/f/support-lu...

Holy shit, i remember when Lud was one of the best USA Chun players in SF4 Abolish ICE

DMV FGC cornerstone and friend of mine Ludovic Mbock has unfortunately been detained by ICE. Folks are trying to raise money for his legal fees, please donate if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/support-lu...

You don’t get secrets like this from an expert in the field very often, treasure it

while us cultural hegemony has no doubt influenced the globe, i think a more internationalized multicultural world as opposed to intl. us cultural hegemony is probably going to be a more productive one in terms of artistic creation, including the art made in the us as well

Prince of Persia was an experiment in rotoscoping. It put lifelike animation on '80s home computers. Designer Jordan Mechner converted VHS tapes and movie footage into pixels -- and went way beyond the tech of his time. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-the-li...

Too many to choose from but for now i'll go with this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-g0...

Oh here's the poll referenced in my previous repost, this is esp encouraging when you consider that this was *before* the most recent Epstein files release!

The US & the UK really do work in tandem on a lot of this stuff, don't they...

For those who missed it, a thread on how all new info re: a lot of the far right being a psyop has already made the vtuber fandom much less chud-heavy and how that's started causing problems for Phase Connect Maybe should've mentioned Froot but folks already started turning around on her before

There has never been a video game remake that "replaced the original" tank controls are fantastic, actually, and some games would be better with them at this point new consoles are a waste and should go away; we need a new paradigm

man i haven't kept up with vtuber weirdness in ages and uh this could take a bit to explain, but Phase Connect is a smaller agency that's had at least some financial success for a few years since their most famous member (Pipkin Pippa) started openly saying Gamergate/4chan conspiracy bullshit

Great timing on this, i've been thinking about how much the Epstein saga goes full circle with Elevatorgate (same core dynamics of powerful men abusing women, a lot of the same people involved even)

LOL. Who needs whistles for their community groups, their PTAs, those Magic: The Gathering nights at the game store, their church organizations, outreach programs, whatever. The roving band of whistle goblins will get you whistles, for free, 100-1000. Drop a line: linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

you don't say? at some point we're going to acknowledge what every study ever on this subject has said, right? right? www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

Yep, stuff like this is why i'm such a hardass about opsec whenever the topic comes up - the feds have a demonstrated history of infiltrating even small "left" groups that are harmless to them, how do you think they'd treat more confrontational ones?

i was saying for years that this wasn't feasible, but i actually think things are getting desperate enough now for more of the masses to hop back on this train "Collect the bag" doesn't hit when people CAN'T collect the bag even with what worked in the recent past, y'know?

Now HERE'S a story worth keeping an eye on...guess someone had to take action somewhere!

certain activist groups have to realize that ICE does not remotely fear people who want to de-escalate and do non-confrontation, and in fact they're almost banking on that tenor of resistance to successfully conduct their operations at this point

this latest will stancil shit is just perfect, snitching on protesters because they lit a dumpster on fire also bsky continues to hold that L when it comes to security in organizing - extremely obvious to see who's actually done it IRL and who's done politics exclusively online

The only trans people mentioned in the epstein files are victims. Hundreds of known anti-trans people are in them, though, either rubbing shoulders with the rape-cult, an active part of the clique, or trying to gain access. Are you getting it yet?

Blizzard QA workers' newly ratified union contract locks in pay increases, better benefits aftermath.site/blizzard-qa-wo...

every time someone has asked me the last week or so about priorities it is rental assistance. please please please people need rent to stay in their homes. scroll down to rent relief funds and pick something www.standwithminnesota.com