Mercy Grimm

Mercy Grimm

@mercygrimm.bsky.social

I cannot post myself into being loved but I will try

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The truth is that the happiest day of my life is not the day I had the most sex or got the most high or the day I experienced the highest volume of chemical reactions associated with happiness, it was the day when I realized that I was spiritually prepared to accept happiness and be worthy of it.

Having one of those days where I'm actually being extremely brave & resolute but I don't have a partner so it's like 9:30 AM and I wanna call someone just to brag about how I didn't relapse this morning.

This is me but with Kushner putting the hit out on Kashoggi

Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

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Games I've Beaten MEGATHREAD 2026: Hades II (2025) I love this series with all my heart and I feel like 2 has improved every mechanic save for the romances, of which there are more but of slightly lower quality. Buildcraft is deep and rewarding and the voice acting on display is peerless. 5/5

The transphobic YouTube ads attacking the Dem candidates in South Carolina are absolutely beyond the pale, some of the most vile and inhumane shit I've ever seen. I cannot stress enough how omnipresent these are, I am seeing the same bullshit about "Biological Males" literally 10 times a day.

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We tried "everyone is entitled to an opinion" for three straight decades and all we have to show for it is four thousand cases of measles and a death cult running the government. It's time for people who don't know what they're talking about to shut the fuck up.

Last year I had a Spontaneous Organ Failure that required multiple major surgeries done with the assistance of robots and my surgeon told me that even 30 years ago in the 90's I would've have probably died or at the very least required an external colostomy bag for the rest of my life so hell yeah.

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

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Replying to @juliusgoat.bsky.social

"You won't debate me because you can't beat my IDEAS"—no, loser, I won't debate you because your ideas have been considered and rejected and no longer warrant debate, and the very act of engaging in debate frames you as better than you are and your failed ideas as worthy of anything but contempt.

Bojack Horseman is probably my favorite western animated TV show and one of the best dramatic comedies ever produced, it truly changed my life, and I found LONG STORY SHORT completely impenetrable. I couldn't make it one episode in before the speed of the dialogue wore me down and I shut it off.

Gabriel Roth@gabrielroth.bsky.social

It’s understandable that the TV list doesn’t include LONG STORY SHORT, the animated novelistic family comedy now streaming on Netflix, because most people haven’t seen it and as a result have no idea how perfect and wonderful it is www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/a...

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One of the really fascinating things about Charlie Kirk is that his own people’s response to his death was so nakedly opportunistic that it’s like oh, ok, this guy is fair game for literally anything, he’s an object, and now his soul is trapped inside Grok for eternity.

Genuinely if I were Charlie I would make my life's work throwing my audience at Asmongold's audience until there was only one of you left standing. Greasy Hair: Total War edition.

Mercy Grimm@mercygrimm.bsky.social

I cannot tell you how long it took me to realize Penguinz0 and Asmongold were two completely different men.

I couldn't stop thinking about this when I was reading Eyepatch Wolf's book about haunted video games. "Cozy Horror" is just "Horror for Children With the Corners Sanded Down"... but Children's Horror exists in very scary, spooky spaces now, (ex. FNAF & TADC) but this is just "Pumpkin Spice Horror".

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- want to desperately be part of the conversation around Dark Souls but they cannot/dont actually play the games because they are too hard/challenging/frustrating. Theres a sacrifice you need to make to be part of the club (playing the game/allowing yourself to become frightened or uncomfortable)

-but it's not another person gatekeeping you from a community, it's the person gatekeeping THEMSELVES from the experience they want and trying to find a way to moralize or excuse their justification for not simply putting themselves in the challenging position. They want the reward without the work.

I couldn't stop thinking about this when I was reading Eyepatch Wolf's book about haunted video games. "Cozy Horror" is just "Horror for Children With the Corners Sanded Down"... but Children's Horror exists in very scary, spooky spaces now, (ex. FNAF & TADC) but this is just "Pumpkin Spice Horror".

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I think this relates to difficulty discourse RE souls games. There exist people who want to make indulge and experience "horror" BUT they don't want to be scared or uncomfortable while engaging with the material, they just want to become subsumed by the aesthetic the same way there are people who

Watching V for Vendetta for the first time in years and being really slammed by how relevant and poignant it is and how prescient it would be. There's a moment in the film where this old queer talks about hiding for so long that he doesn't even feel gay anymore and I totally missed that as a teen.

Really making me feel insane. Literally no one wants this. It's a product without a market.

Kotaku@kotaku.com

The PlayStation 6's Memory Components Alone Could Cost More Than $700 https://kotaku.com/the-playstation-6s-memory-components-alone-could-cost-more-than-700-2000747289

#Primetime was deliciously upsetting, a supremely indulgent and greasy look at the dark side of show business and the fragile psyche of the creative mind. Genuinely gross and tense and gut busting funny. The Year of Pattinson continues unabated. 5/5 generational run.

Imagining a silly but voraciously talented British author who logs on to socials each day to ask Americans if our giant cars can even fit in our tiny "petrol" stations just to stir up the anthill and realizing that I'm wishing Terry Pratchett were alive and posting on BlueSky

Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social

I mean, I like British people but I refuse to microwave my tea just because Doctor Who and Jean-Luc Picard prefer it that way.

Really bears mentioning that Bari is so galactically inept that all of her instruction and hands-on managerial language is codified like a teacher trying to talk to 3rd graders. "Our job... is words... so words are important" like she seriously has the brain of a baby duck.

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my complicated feelings on the objectification of women in video games aside, if they tone down the great fairy in the remake art is dead

Sorkin has always been Cilantro to me: I don't have the necessary genetic makeup up required to think that he's good or talented. Every Sorkin property, every scene is so cringe-inducing uncomfortable for me that I have to sit down. Any clip of "The Newsroom" could put me in the hospital.

headfallsoff@headfallsoff.com

the rosetta stone of aaron sorkin is that his breakthrough was a play about abuses at guantanamo bay a decade before regular people knew what that was; but it was about abuses towards US soldiers lol

This buffoon thinks that people just have an account called "lifetime earnings". I don't understand how someone could purport to be an academic but have such poor research chops that he couldn't figure out how stupid and insane this is on his own. You have to ignorant to class in a new, bizarre way.

Matt Darling@besttrousers.bsky.social

I don't think $30k is a life-changing amount of money. Median American born in 1980 will have $2m in income in their lifetime. It's a 1% increase in earnings.

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Palestinian skateboarder in Gaza doing a kickflip over an unexploded US-made (in Garland, Texas) Mk. 84 2000lb aerial bomb, provided to Israel as one of many tens of thousands of aerial bombs in the 1,000 and 2,000lb class included in US military assistance.

You have to be truly dumb and extremely incurious to think that computer programs are alive, intelligent, or capable of feeling distress. We couldn't even program a robot to feel pain if we wanted to.

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Excited to see how the various games media outlets decide to cover this. EVERYONE can't shut the fuck up about Xbox and everyone LOVED Big Walk, but who has the balls to cover this, I wonder...

House House@househouse.com

An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox

Venba is so beautiful and heartfelt and you can finish it in a weekend if you want and you absolutely WILL start looking for Indian restaurants or grocery stores in your area because the food in this game is so colorful and delicious you can practically smell it.

We're Visai Games! 👋 We made Venba, an award winning narrative cooking game. As outsiders to the industry, we found our following in twitter but logging into it now means coming face to face with a lot of South Asian racism. If you like Venba, Follow us here so we don't have to login to twitter!

I listen to a lot of different video game podcasts and the reason this one is special is that the conversation is largely coming from experience as opposed to critical review or wish-casting. It's people who have made video games talking about them in a way that makes them seem accessible.

Alanah Pearce@alanahpearce.bsky.social

Long live @playwatchlisten.bsky.social! With an extra special thanks to those who support the show on Patreon - it genuinely would not exist without them, and I could not be more thankful that we continue to get to make a very anti-clickbait, anti-trending show: www.patreon.com/c/alanahpearce

This morning I was bummed I didn't have a deadlock code but now that I know it has Creep-Stealing//Last Hits I know I can safely ignore it forever.

JessEviltelli@mamavitelli.bsky.social

This is the best explanation of deadlock I’ve ever seen

The absolute end of my support of Epic and my use of Epic Game Store.

Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social

NEW: Epic Games has delayed its upcoming (not yet announced) Star Wars + Marvel shooter as it pivots to complete AI game development. "No more hand-written code," a director told staff. All art "generated with full AI workflows." Full scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

One of the reasons is that viral wave of "crowdwork" videos a few years ago that successfully conflated "stand up comedy" with "bullying strangers" and gave a lot of very cruel and stupid people the idea that they could be successful comics.

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Hancock could have been literally anything, its plot could have gone absolutely anywhere and somehow I think the "twist" in that film is maybe the hardest I've ever stopped enjoying something without simply turning it off.

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This show simply does not have the awareness of many US/CA audiences and that is a crime. I know that there are Final Fantasy anime shows but there has maybe never been a single season of anime that feels or resonates more with Final Fantasy than "The Vision of Escaflowne" does. Absolutely gorgeous!

Pedro Soares@peachflavor3d.bsky.social

The artwork of Tenkuu no Escaflowne by Masaki Tanaka/Hiroshi Osaka used for a promotional poster. Usual upscale/clean/retouch process applied.

I didn't realize how much I loved him before this moment. He just like me for real.

Sahoni, Official Re(a)d Wolf@sahoni.bsky.social

Magic creative just said Cruelclaw is bi as part of the trans lifeline fundraiser when asked about some of their favorite lgbtq+ mtg characters and I'm taking it. He's ours now.