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'Grand Theft Auto: Vice City' was released on the PlayStation 2 23 years ago today.

Kirk mirrored the nod. He was still hunched over. Spock, as usual, sat straight as a board. "It's been two months of watching over me, every day, making sure nobody did anything to me," Kirk continued, "What was that like?" "You are attempting to ask why by establishing a connection of empathy," Spock's words were almost accusatory, and coming from anyone else they probably would be. Kirk laughed mirthlessly, sitting up, "Always right to the heart of things with you, isn't it?" "And you continue to deflect, as always," Spock said by way of answer. "Yah," Kirk's smile dimmed, "My track record with women is probably evidence enough that I'm not as comfortable here as I am in the captain's chair." "Your track record with me is all the evidence I need to draw that conclusion."

Spirk really does write itself doesnt it? These two are so cosmically gay for each other that it just happens- even when that’s not the intention

#startrek #spirk #kirk #spock #ao3 #writer #DS9

Chapter 22 – Declawing the Birds of Prey The battle against the Birds of Prey was a grim business, and it wasn’t won by charm or personality –  Vice Admiral Amelia Bridges The efforts to end the threat posed by the Birds of Pre…

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In the Raptor's Claws: Earth, Romulus, and the War that Birthed the Federation Part of the Earth-Romulan War Project

Happy anniversary to #StarTrekEnterprise! If you’re interested in what Archer and the rest of Our Heroes got up to after the show was over, please check out intheraptorsclaws.wordpress.com

Oswald’s such a special character that even Black Ops has Mason, in one of his many delirium fueled mumblings, call out “Oswald!!… compromised!!“ and in that universe it could mean like fifteen different things (and in that universe Oswald probably DID all fifteen different things)

One of those episodes that seems like a throwaway in the grander scheme but, like basically all of Enterprise, it means so much to the characters and the universe. A hopeless mission in uncharted space reminding them they’re never alone.

Plus my wife loves the episode for its T’Pol arc so…

Captain Archer looking at a much older version of the NX-01 Enterprise in the viewscreen, in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode “E2”.

(1/4) “E2” may be a riff on “Children of Time”, but in the Xindi Arc, with the crew all alone in the Expanse, it has quite a different tone. It also has a moving scene for T’Pol, which crucially is the first step for her in learning to live with the onslaught of emotions she’s been struggling with.

Good post and article. Also, coming as someone who travels a lot and listened to the entirety of “MiG Alley” on audiobook, the fact that we are now back around to the air superiority argument and how planes can do everything is just… Something else.

Protest movements that stop as soon as they start seeing results fail.

Protest movements that keep going until your whole squad is across the finish line win.

It’s disgusting. A small group of open bigots in Australia being favored over an entire medium and at least tens of thousands of people.

This is real censorship. Not the version perceived by the free speech warriors who are silent/celebratory on this. May their phone lines be swamped forever.

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If you (yes you!) haven’t called yet… please do! We need you!! 💪

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I didn’t realize there is an entire genre of wehraboo talk on substack and I was just reading one that called the Wehrmacht’s response to D-Day “one of the most impressive operational schemes of 20th century warfare” and I was like:

KOSA is back. This is the internet censorship bill!

And it's not just coming for SWers, it'll be coming for all LGBTQ content, because the people in charge view LGBTQ people as inherently pornagraphic!

We must push back even harder than we did last time we killed this bill 🔥

The point of calling credit card companies isn't to make John Visa have moment of introspection and go "aw shucks I was wrong!" it's to grind business to a halt for such an extended period of time that all the higher ups who are real people with names and addresses decide that this isn't worth it

I didn’t realize this until paying our electric bills last month! Hitting a bunch of wrong inputs automatically tells the machines to connect you to an agent- especially if you do it before they can complete their “sorry can you try that again” part!

Keep pushing and drown them out!

Friendly reminder for those that don't know it in the midst of this #Visa and #MasterCard situation.

Their automated systems rely on inputs to do their job, but repeated entry of a completion key when prompted (such as the #) will usually result in your call being pushed through to a person.
🙏🏻😎🩷

Call call call. Visa is literally begging us to stop calling and send emails. Calls cost them way more money and they can't use key words to filter them out

Call your credit card processor and complain about the pressure on Itch.io and Steam. It is extremely easy. Tell them that if you can't use your credit card for purchasing art from award winning game developers, then you will cancel it and switch to other methods of payment.

DON'T STOP CALLING.

email them if you want, sure, but the fact that they are requesting people to *email them instead* (presumably because emails are much easier to ignore) means that the calls are WORKING, i.e. becoming a massive nuisance and interrupting workflow.

once again, DON'T STOP CALLING.

If you want to actually solve the problem, instead of punishing itch, start calling payment cos

Collective Shout, which is run by people who get published by Spinifex, a very terf-seeming organization, apparently needed 1,000 people to yell at visa to get this done.

We got more than 1000 people.

ok then. one angle of attack then needs to be actively bombarding Visa and Mastercard's phone numbers and emails.

are customer support phone numbers/emails the best avenue to start with or is there a better option?

Pretty damn stellar work for riffing! Romulan political history has always been fascinating since I first read about Ael, so this project has been amazing to follow. It all flows so naturally and really builds up a relatively murky area of the universe

The greatest thing about the Romulan Empire is how secretive it is. You never know what’s going on beneath the curtain of the raptor’s wing- which is why From The Ashes has been such a stellar work every step of the way.

Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.

preaching to the choir, but this would obviously be financially devastating to many independent comic and game artists using itch to release queer or adult works, myself included - around half of my annual income comes from itch comic sales every year

Chapter Four The Plan It was with great confidence that director Vreha t’Ravlahk stood in front of the Senate and gave her case. With a seasoned lecturer’s panache and a seeming non-ending confidence in her...

Chapter Four: Llaetus’le

As the Romulan Senate embarkes on an audacious plan, they trigger a crisis that will threaten the survival of the Star Empire and an Invasion by a species called Llaetus’le - The Borg

The article was taken down "due to concerns about the controversial subject matter" - luckily, it was archived and can be read here!

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Persona 5 is, without a doubt, the worst video game I’ve played in a decade. Terrible exposition dumps, empty yet cartoonish characters, over-reliance on the anime, unreadable UI, and a dungeon re-design that, while admirable, falls flat for me.

What in the hell happened to this video game???

One Day In A Very Long Dominion War “A Bad Day is a Bad Day to the End.” – Legate Damar, 10th March 2375. Stardate 52194 – the 15th of March 2375 – was just one day in the titanic galactic struggle that was the Domi…

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