Umbra

Umbra

@umbraviolet.bsky.social

video games and art // 33 // she/they; closeted trans ♀// icon by @lizardsnot on twitter // FFXIV - Excalibur // HRT since 11/17/2022 🏳️‍⚧️💊 Denver, CO

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Dark Messiah: Community Edition is now available for wishlist on Steam. - new game modes (NG+, co-op, trials) - new mechanics (sliding, relics, spells, weapons, transformations) - updated Source engine (Linux, Win64, CSM) - achievements, cloud saves, workshop, controller support

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Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com

We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.

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Only a few episodes in, but I’ve noticed that when the Rules™ are broken in Star Trek, it’s accompanied by a lot of anxiety and reluctance, but in Babylon 5 people will break them with little fanfare or even just a smirk about how “clever” it is

I’m enjoying the show, I just think it’a interesting to observe the differences in Star Trek’s politics and Babylon 5’s politics

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The CGI ship scenes feel like a pretty good transitional evolution toward the stuff we would see years later with Battlestar Galactica

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I had to go on Twitter to confirm this was real because Ship Awesome Games In A Weekend having a hand with six fingers was so on the nose I was about to pass out

Cale Michael@xjustified.bsky.social

This shit just writes itself at this point. Just the name "Epic AI MegaJam" is a joke that best describes what is going on with these companies.

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What could be more Halloween than a BAT? How about a bat colored like a JACK-O-LANTERN? Let's meet the Painted Bat (Kerivoula picta), also called the butterfly bat, native to SE Asia. 🦇🎃 (📷: MerlinTuttle.org)

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Another one. The premise: Young people are cutting off their parents for minor mistakes and misunderstandings. The lead anecdote: A woman severs ties with her family for refusing to get vaccinated before her wedding — to a man who *lost his mother and brother to COVID*

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🪶 Rainbow Lorikeet family having some breakfast apple, young on left, dad in middle. Young one tries using its foot to hold food towards clip end. They originally had 2 babies, unfortunately there's been several birds of prey around lately so one may have been taken. #Wildlife #Birds

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He had to take his daughter out of school! I wonder what that must feel like for a kid, to be yanked from school unceremoniously because of ICE

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

The ICE officer who faces charges for road raging in Minneapolis (pulling a gun on a random motorist who blocked him from driving his unmarked SUV on the shoulder) broke into tears on the stand and said he was under a lot of stress, ok?

At one of my last jobs, at a truly horrible place, I was given a PIP with a one week deadline. I literally tried to tap into the “Volumetric Shit Compressor” to turn things around but I should have known that they had essentially already fired me

Disco Elysium Quotes@discoelysiumbot.bsky.social

KIM KITSURAGI - “You need to get your shit together.” YOU - “But I don't wanna get my shit together!” KIM KITSURAGI - “Then the world will turn away from you, and leave you behind.”

Place was extremely stressful, full of awful people who often stated their horrible politics, but after working there about half of a year, they didn’t seem to like my vibe and made stuff up to fire me over

I was given some occasional critique about some work things, I made some mistakes, but never got a major warning until that PIP

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Annie Andrews, running in SC with a real chance to beat Lindsey Graham's dipshit sister, decided with less than a month to go to put out an anti-trans ad. Which even Republicans are now acknowledging don't work. Either she's already showing poor judgement, or those are her heartfelt convictions.

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I'm dying laughing at how the cat has conformed to her flower shaped bed today