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@an-iteration.bsky.social

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Eggbug veteran, still refuses to engage with numbers. bleet > skeet Stay masked out there. (he)

A character from Shōgun saying "I don't have time for this Christian nonsense."
A Twitter thread by @jeeyon on June 25 2022. 1. Someone in a neighboring building is arguing loudly with her partner about today’s catastrophic SCOTUS ruling and she’s taking no prisoners, good for her 2. “So you’re trying to tell me that I can’t even make you wash your hands every time you use the bathroom, but you think you get to make me carry a pregnancy to term no matter what it might do to me?” Girl, dump him NOW 3. “You don’t think you hate women but you do, you hate us and you’re too stupid to even realize it” how is this man not just a pile of hissing cinders on the floor by now 4. “You won’t believe what he just said” — Onion (There are two pictures attached of a light-coloured cat, standing on the windowsill with the front paws: on the first looking outside, listening; on the second, looking to the side, into the room) 5. I thought they were done bc it got quiet enough I thought I’d be able to settle in for bedtime but she suddenly bellowed “THOMAS AQUINAS? That’s all you have to say, is Thomas FUCKING Aquinas???” so I think that he just failed whatever rhetorical gamble he attempted
Kombucha girl meme. In the first panel a white woman grimaces at the word "Arrakis" (desert planet from Frank Herbert's Dune). In the second panel she's intrigued by the word "Anarres" (desert planet from Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed).
Bleet by @tofeklund.bsky.social that says: "'Capital is dead labour that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more the more labour it sucks.' - Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia A notoriously difficult book, but this is as simple as it gets: capitalism sucks." It is followed immediately by a bleet by @mikebithell.bsky.social (who in the preceding week announced a video game revolving around vampires): "Been hanging out with our lawyers too much.. I've come up with a legal sim I wanna make. Sometime in the 2030s I suppose."
Marjane Satrapi's tribute to Mahsa Amini and the women protesters in 2022. Only the colours are inverted. Deep black background and white letters that read "IRAN". The "I" is a female figure with unruly hair. She's has scissors in one hand, cut-off ponytail in the other, held up high.
Roy Schneider in Sorcerer (1977), kneeling and hunched over in a forest understory, wearing drenched and mucky clothes, looking haggard.
Soon-to-be Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar sits in a courtyard with cats. A tabby he's holding is labelled "the Hungarian people." Next to him is another a black and white one, seemingly screaming, labelled "Orbán." A big gray cat is in the foreground, off-focus, staring morosely into the camera, labelled as "Vance." A fourth cat is half in the picture next to the black and white one, with the label cut off that reads "[Tr]ump."
Title page of a print book that reads: "Dostoyevski Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears László F. Földényi Translated from the Hungarian by Otilie Mulzet Yale University Press | New Haven & London"
Archaeological Game Design Video Game Archaeology as Interpretive Play and Play Preservation [In bright yellow letters:] THESIS SUBMITTED Florence Smith Nicholls Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
Untitled Goose Game's itemised list, lined paper with cursive, reading: "to do: work (dashed through) social thing movies clothes shoppi too fancy weed store cops if your quick (dashed through) friend ships (barely legible)"
A blurry photo of an island, with three prominent but indecipherable letters in the foreground.
Tweet from @vornietom aka Siobhan Thompson from 26 Januarny 2020: "There are currently three types of video game: 1) you are a special fighting shootboy who shoots things 2) oh I get it, it's a metaphor for depression 3) nintendo" Her follow-up tweet reads: "only Zelda is all three, and that is why it remains supreme"
A grayscale dialogue box from Sim City 2000. A portrait of a displeased-looking man with beard and glasses. The text says "You can't ship an incomplete game! You will regret this!
The "save me white girl" series of tweets, edited, so they read: white noise... save me... white noise save me white noise
The two panels of the dog from the "This is fine" meme, but instead of a flaming interior, the background is the Treachery of Images by Magritte. In the second comic panel the dog says "This is pipe."
Magritte's Treachery of Images, but the text reads "How to blow up a pipe."
two consecutive bleets about punk and kindness
[Caption above the panels:] How Standards Proliferate (See: A/C chargers, character encodings, instant messaging, etc.) [A text-only panel.] Situation: There are 14 competing standards. [Cueball and Ponytail stand facing each other.] Cueball: 14?! Ridiculous! We need to develop one universal standard that covers everyone's use cases. Ponytail: Yeah! [Another text-only panel. The word "Soon:" appears in its own box at the upper left of the panel.] Soon: Situation: There are 15 competing standards. [Title text reads: "Fortunately, the charging one has been solved now that we've all standardized on mini-USB. Or is it micro-USB? Shit."] [from eplainxkcd.com]
Dialogue screen in Pathologic 2. The NPC, Dora, says "Apologies. I thought you brought in a baby." The player's three options are the same line, but different words italicised for emphasis: You thought *I* brought in a baby? You thought I *brought in* a baby? You thought I brought in *a baby*?
Screenshot of a third-person game. A ginger-haired man in a grey onesie walking through a mountainous landscape. It was taken in the demo of Baby Steps.
A tweet from @an_iteration from Feb 6 2024 that says: I had a blast with the demo. I can't wait @MrGervaisWrites to make a video about it: – Pacific Northwest? Check. – Jalopy-like? Check. (@MinskWorks deserves the credit for establishing the genre) – Fucked-up landscape? You bet it's CHECK!
Grainy black and white photo of the band Godspeed You! Black Emperor, the members standing around some train lines.
an assemblage of the Galactic & Going Rogue and the Look Upon the Stars covers
While saluting, a person is looking at the deep blue sky where a moon orbiting another planet.
A Calvin & Hobbes comic strip with edited text. Panel 1. They are looking at a framed picture on a wall. Calvin: „A personal essay. Moving. Spiritually enriching. Sublime. … ’High’ art!” Panel 2. They are looking at an open newspaper. Calvin: „A video game. Vapid. Juvenile. Commercial hack work. … ’Low’ art.” Panel 3. They are looking at an open book. Calvin: „A personal essay on a video game. Sophisticated irony. Philosophically challenging. … ’High’ art. Panel 4. They have papers and drawing utensils splayed on the floor. Hobbes: „Suppose I draw a cartoon of a personal essay on a video game?” Calvin: „Sophomoric. Intellectually sterile. … ’Low’ art.”
Alt text for qud qumbo Quote by @aaronflint.bsky.social (reposted by @unormal.bsky.social) with the text “This is why flashbangs are so strong in Caves of Qud” The quoted bleet is a four-panel comic by @emilycartoons.bsky.social that reads: Huge multi-winged & eyed Being: BE NOT AFRAIDE Ow Waite I thinke I have something in mine Eye... Eyes... (smaller eyes all start saying "ow") One Momente.... Nun 1: Fetche It a Cloth, Sister Nun 2: Very good Sister This is immediately followed by a bleet from @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social (shared by @ditchpony.bsky.social) that reads: barista: what can i get ya? me: um, yeah, i’m going to need the stuff that’ll allow me to shoot lightning bolts out of my fingertips
a Bugs Bunny meme with the text "I wish all ZA/UM execs a very pleasant .and...he just...he tweeted it out."
John Topper bleeting: "Good Wednesday Morning from the Southern Coast." Tonya bleeting: "If you are over 30 like this post!" SummaTimge Fneee bleeting: "Tequila with Chardonnay type night" jazz mickle bleeting: "has IAN ever posted on this site"
Limmy waking up, raising his head off a pillow, slit-eyed, grimacing, and a harshly lit.
Frame from Porco Rosso (1992) of an officer and Porco sitting in a cinema. The subtitle reads "Better a pig than a Fascist."