Merve

@merve2.bsky.social

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I play video games and eat ice cream. [he/him]

Tai Kamiya of Digimon Adventure looking at a calendar that says “1 August 1999.” The calendar page has a black cat on it. Happy Odaiba Memorial Day!
A subheading from the article that says "South of Midnight - AT RISK"
Diana, the little girl android from Pragmata, triumphantly holding a water gun and exclaiming, "Yeah! I did it!"
Game From This Year — Paranormasight: The Mermaid's Curse Game From Before 1990 — Tetris Had The Guidebook For This One — Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 Passes The Bechdel Test — 1000xRESIST Schmoovement — Neon White Chicken Soup For The Gamer's Soul — Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 Please Come Back... — Sleeping Dogs Would Replay It, But There's That One Part — Dragon Age: Origins No Official English Translation — Mario's Super Picross They Fucked His Sandwich Up 4 Times — Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones I'll Get Around To It Some Day — Immortals of Aveum Get Julius Caesar Addicted To Hentai — Katawa Shoujo Y'all Lied, This Sucks — Chicory: A Colorful Tale I See It In My Dreams — Astral Chain Still The Peak Of The Series — Yakuza 0 Almost Perfect — RollerCoaster Tycoon Listening To The OST Right Now — The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood All Killer No Filler — Portal Made me Cry — OPUS: Echo of Starsong OK Now Let's Do A Silly One — Golf With Your Friends
A pair of memes, one above the other. The upper meme shows the original design of Sonic the Hedgehog for the 2020 film with the text "Binocular Sonic IS A COP." The lower meme shows Sonic's classic design with the text "Sequiocular Sonic IS ANTIFA."
Screenshot of a CBC News headline: Ottawa Bluesfest 2026 features Gwen Stefani, Limp Bizkit and Ella Langley
A screenshot from the opening credits of Earth Must Die, displaying Ben Starr's name against the backdrop of a starry sky with a light blue planet off to the right
A subset of sans-serif font options for a Paragraph block in the WordPress editor, including Epilogue, Figtree, and (highlighted) something called "Fahkwang"
The first comment in the YouTube comments section under the Whitest Kids U' Know sketch "It's Illegal to Say," which reads: "you know why you're here."
A man holds a bottle of ketchup labelled "ETHYLENE" in his left hand and a bottle of catsup labelled "ETHENE" in his right hand.
The album cover of Stuff by Holly McNarland, where McNarland sits crouched inside a dog's mouth.
Inori Misono from Digimon Story Time Stranger: “Oh—I'm fine. But I have no idea what's going on.”
A corporate stooge from the Simpsons episode “Hungry, Hungry Homer” saying, “Death is a part of baseball” to Marge.
Hiroko from Digimon Story Time Stranger lies on the ground unconscious while Inori hovers over her. Minervamon remarks, “We should leave her here. We can't have her fainting every two seconds.”
Lune and Verso from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 are speaking to each other. Lune says, "Feet? Really?"
A Frinkiac meme featuring a screenshot from the Simpsons episode "New Kids on the Blecch" captioned to read "Hey, you! Play Strange Jigsaws!"
Screenshot of a thread title on the gaming forum ResetEra: "Is Donkey Kong Bananza a sad dad game?"
A crude MS Paint collage of a standee of Donald Trump with airplane wings crashing into twin towers made of the word "STONKS"
A famous Tweet from games critic Austin Walker: "y'all ever see a take so bad you are forced to immediately go to sleep?"
Goro Majima from Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii: "Bein' honest, it was a pain in the ass gettin' over the language barrier, but for yer sakes, I'll skip that part."
Molly (on guitar), Fern (on vocals), and Francine (on drums) from the band U Stink in the Arthur special "It's Only Rock 'n' Roll"
Three unconscious Nazis in a tent in the Gizeh level of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
A screenshot from Quibi's The Golden Arm, showing Rachel Brosnahan's character looking at her titular golden arm
The Onion's famous "sickos" cartoon, where a stubbly man with a t-shirt bearing the word "SICKOS" looks through a window, saying, "Yes... ha ha ha... yes!"
An argument between two Bluesky users over parrying mechanics in video games. One compares parrying unfavourably to QTEs. The other says the first has never played a game with good parrying mechanics. The first says that such games don't exist.
A crappy drawing of a cob of corn made in MS Paint
A spider graph from Merve's 2024 Steam replay, showing time spent on LGBTQ+, fast-paced, surreal, FPS, and visual novel games, with the maximum time spent on a genre called "Dwarf"
Gallica from Metaphor: ReFantazio speaking to Hulkenberg, Strohl, and the protagonist: "This bounty leads a pack of wild dogs, but it's something called a 'manjula'..."
Hulkenberg from Metaphor: ReFantazio running her sword through a bandit's torso
Dungeons of Hinterberg: A mine cart ride
Desuhiko Thunderbolt from Master Detective Archives: Rain Code: “No way! Why would I be in hell?! Even when it cones to women, I always stopped just shy of criminal activity!”
An automod post from r/GamingLeaksAndRumours explaining that Midori is a "Tier 1 - Very Reliable Source."
Dragonite
Morgana from Persona 5 rudely telling the protagonist from Metaphor: ReFantazio to go to bed
A parody of the promotional campaign for The Snowman, featuring Detective Pikachu
A gaslight/gatekeep/girlboss chart based on Kingdom Hearts gaslight: Xehanort gaskeep: Genie gasboss: Ursula gatelight: Sora gatekeep: Yen Sid gateboss: Riku girllight: Kairi girlkeep: Aqua girlboss: Maleficent
A man in swimming trunks in Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth realizing he might have depression after complaining about being unlucky both in love and in darts.
A vending machine labelled "GAUSS LEMONADE" on a Halo Infinite multiplayer map
A planet visible in the Pandoran sky
A 3x3 alignment chart for the works of Square Enix
The external façade of Pâtisserie le miel in Osaka's Sotenbori district in Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name
Barrett from Starfield saying, "Gross. I hate it here."
The famous "sickos" meme by Stan Kelly
A list of 25 video games: RollerCoaster Tycoon; Worms 2; Commander Keen 4; SimCity 2000; Mass Effect; Sleeping Dogs; Deus Ex: Psychonauts; Marble Drop; Persona 4; Super Mario 64; Perfect Dark; NieR: Automata; Prey; Fract OSC; Parallax; Portal; Hitman: World of Assassination; Ori and the Will of the Wisps; Pentiment; Halo 2; Deep Rock Galactic; Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3; Super Smash Bros.; and Full Tilt! Pinball
An idiot standing on top of a streetlight, just because she can.
Mona Lisa Saperstein from Parks and Recreation asking for "money please"