Steve

@stevetown.bsky.social

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I blog at stevetown.blog and also at stevetown.tumblr.com

Excerpt from the article that reads "But there are 40 years of leather history between Tallwing McCarthy then and me now, so I go digging, to try to see how our community has navigated the knife’s edge of visibility and survival. What I find are fragments: personal blogs, partially digitized archives of defunct publications, camcorder rips with fuzzy sound, HTML jank, and lots of dead links and dead ends."
Excerpt from the article reading "“My office is committed to supporting and recognizing the leather community for its exceptional contributions,” said none other than Gavin Newsom, offering attendees at the Holiday Inn Golden Gateway his warmest regards. Years later, as governor, he would veto protections for trans Californians, while calling for his political party to be more “culturally normal.”"
Screenshot that reads “I love Final Fantasy X for showing me myself. It makes the strange ethereal process of casting off religion feel less lonely. It showed me that the process of turning away takes time. The realization you've been duped doesn't just snap your belief overnight. Deconversion is a slow, bargaining process with yourself until you come to your own truth. It takes multiple failures of institution and relentless questioning of tenets that you were told to just take for granted. It's work. When you finally realize there's a whole other world that doesn't live like that and you can be a part of it, what's left of the religion in your heart is a pathetic creature, a pale ghost of an idea that doesn't even offer up a proper defense of its own existence. It needs others to heal it and attack for it and sacrifice themselves to it. It deserves to die and you deserve to really, truly live.”
We still hire artists, designers, editors, photographers, actors, and artisans. When we generate or use human likenesses, they are based on real people who are compensated.
Excerpt reading: In that sense, Star Fox 64 reminds me of a favorite book. The pleasure of rereading Pride and Prejudice isn’t discovering that Jane Austen added new DLC, but finding more within what was already there.
A screenshot from the article which the interviewer asks “A very different question, but can you tell me anything about the sand in Gen Atlas? I'm curious if there are systemic interactions with wind, or if the environment changes a lot.” And the description reads: “Ueda gets quite animated about this; apparently no one has asked about sand.”
Clip of a preview from Game Player magazine that says “Dragon Ball Z 3: Publisher: Bandai. $99.99. Genre: Fighting. System: Super Famicom”
A clip from Game Player magazine that says “Reality Set Up: Virtual Reality is hotter than ever and more accessible to home players than it has ever been before.”