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(ENG/GER) Some kind of video game critic (he/him)ㅣbusiness email: bjoern.balg@speckobst.de

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Premium actually has that feature now lol

01.03.2026 13:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

i have no personal involvement here but i have been working on a theory as i observe discourse around marathon and all other live service shooters and it can be summed up as this: everyone just wants to play team deathmatch

01.03.2026 13:31 — 👍 268    🔁 39    💬 21    📌 3

People are going to keep insisting that UK anti-trans politics is really composed of jilted lefty feminists even as its leaders are literally running as Tory candidates.

27.02.2026 23:01 — 👍 444    🔁 99    💬 2    📌 1
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While we sit around to find out how bad exactly it all is, a bit of cheer: the best baguette of Paris competition was won by a Sri Lankan who appears to have started as a dish washer in restaurants and eventually trained as a Boulanger.

www.paris.fr/pages/la-mei...

28.02.2026 21:49 — 👍 5885    🔁 870    💬 74    📌 57

I follow this account. I know this exact seen. I still looked at this for like 10 seconds thinking it was about Stephen Miller.

01.03.2026 06:33 — 👍 31    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

if they were courageous they would quit. there's nothing brave about killing kids at the whim of an irrational old pedophile

01.03.2026 03:19 — 👍 6917    🔁 1374    💬 50    📌 14

This game is such a mess

Please let Nakanishiki never touch this franchise again Capcom please I beg you

28.02.2026 20:15 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

They completely removed the stagger after Leon enters Raccoon City I can't lmao

28.02.2026 20:13 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 4    📌 0
24.02.2026 20:39 — 👍 324    🔁 87    💬 7    📌 0

Was ist bloß aus Megamind geworden 😔

27.02.2026 15:27 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Altman afraid of marrying his own pants

27.02.2026 15:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

THIS IS WHAT SAM ALTMAN WANTS TO TAKE FROM YOU

27.02.2026 13:48 — 👍 12546    🔁 4719    💬 34    📌 34

ich fühle browt so sehr

27.02.2026 15:04 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I don't really care about Pokemon but these starters look amazing.

27.02.2026 15:02 — 👍 29    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

So glad I spent last year making extensive lists of every retro system with every game I *might* want to play in the future.

Now I can just download every title one by one from myrient without having to manage complete full sets. Still a huge pain though.

27.02.2026 14:06 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Two black-and-white tuxedo cats sitting close together. One is sitting upright and looking alert, while the other is resting lower inside a box

Two black-and-white tuxedo cats sitting close together. One is sitting upright and looking alert, while the other is resting lower inside a box

Yoru: “I’ll protect my little kitten”

27.02.2026 13:38 — 👍 2825    🔁 385    💬 13    📌 8

I think they should stop

27.02.2026 13:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

How is that a valid comparison, if you don’t eat the shell? It’s not touching the food and probably just some dirt.

It’s okay to find that weird, but it’s not harmful 😅

27.02.2026 13:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

it is increasingly terrifying and depressing that independent journalism is truly, not an exaggeration, all we fucking have now

and good luck earning a living in independent journalism

26.02.2026 23:45 — 👍 108    🔁 30    💬 1    📌 0

my understanding of UK politics is that labor got put in power cuz people we fed up with the right and for some reason labor decided "we have to be exactly like the right. or maybe even worse." and are now surprised that they lost to the left because they went right

27.02.2026 11:52 — 👍 1157    🔁 153    💬 49    📌 7
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generative ai could never have made soul hackers 2's only lasting legacy in the cultural zeitgeist: breaking bad family mart parody

27.02.2026 07:57 — 👍 967    🔁 136    💬 3    📌 0

We cannot and should not let generative AI take away these tiny, insignificant, but probably fun as hell jobs from artists

27.02.2026 06:11 — 👍 10738    🔁 3019    💬 54    📌 38

This is what I need cis folks to understand.

It's been a decade.

Imagine living TEN FUCKING YEARS watching as a blatant, artificial campaign to erase your personhood, your identity and your safety chugs along, increasing in power every single day, and most people don't care or dismiss it

26.02.2026 05:28 — 👍 7278    🔁 3374    💬 25    📌 31
26.02.2026 22:47 — 👍 729    🔁 186    💬 10    📌 1

Trans people want to have sex and make art and talk about sports and do all the shit everyone likes, and instead we have to think about Nazi freaks all day. This sucks eggs.

26.02.2026 16:29 — 👍 4338    🔁 809    💬 12    📌 14

it cannot be overstated that myrient solved emulation and archival. invaluable resource. weird virus laden romsites were just useless overnight and also everyone was good with shutting da fuck up about it. unfortunately you’re gonna learn now that the word went out that fight club is shutting down

26.02.2026 22:37 — 👍 357    🔁 48    💬 2    📌 1

For people asking, "How?" It's not complicated and it's fun!

Try indie streamers like Nebula, or Dropout

Commission fan art

Buy an album on Bandcamp Friday

Donate in your favorite creator's stream

I guarantee your money will be more meaningful AND bring you more joy than one month of Netflix

27.02.2026 02:04 — 👍 649    🔁 318    💬 13    📌 9
Septum ring theory "the theory that conservative men dislike women with septum piercings due to a person generally needing to be over 18 in order to get one"

Septum ring theory "the theory that conservative men dislike women with septum piercings due to a person generally needing to be over 18 in order to get one"

26.02.2026 22:34 — 👍 977    🔁 245    💬 7    📌 4

Stephen King has Maine character syndrome

27.02.2026 02:44 — 👍 26    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

it is, with no exaggeration or underestimation of the word, fucking bleak out here

26.02.2026 22:39 — 👍 31    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0