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"A You Know What Moment" - An A Few Quick Matches Eureka Combo Clip

ALT: In this clip from the video-game A Few Quick Matches, the spellcaster hat-wearing lavender stick figure named Eureka, whom I am controlling, combos to death Rend, the red stick figure wielding a silver two-handed sword whom my opponent is controlling. Their fight takes place in a low-poly forested area that has "Dim theme" color choices.

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⚠️Please Help my children ‼️

✅️Vetted by @gazavetters, my number verified on the list is ( #641 )✅️

Please donate and share

Hello friends, I am Abdullah Salem Abdullah Jaafar, 26 years old, a graduate of the University College with a degree in Information Technology - Multimedia. I used to have a beautiful family; I’m married and have four children, and my wife is pregnant.

I previously worked at a multimedia company, but because of the war, I lost my job, my home, my car, and now I have no place to live or work.

During the war, we were forced to evacuate more than four times. Each time, we had to leave everything behind without taking any of our personal belongings.

I live in northern Gaza.

We were displaced to southern Gaza, then to Deir al-Balah, then to Rafah, and now we live in an uninhabitable tent that is not suitable for living.

My daughter Rahaf was martyred in the war due to Israeli airstrikes. Now I have Iman, Malak, Basel, and my wife is in her seventh month of pregnancy.

Please, I am in desperate need of your help just to provide food and water for my children.

I lost my home and we have become homeless."

Please donate and share

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Stand Against Steam's Submission to Corporate Censorship!

This month, Steam's publishing rules and guidelines were updated, which lay out what should and should not be distributed on the storefront. Its new rule reads:

"Content that may violate the rules and standards set forth by Steam’s payment processors and related card networks and banks, or internet network providers. In particular, certain kinds of adult only content."*

If this change continues to exist, then every creator will need to be fearful of what these companies deem appropriate. However, this policy can be killed before that future comes to pass. By creating messages about it of your own and/or sharing messages about it from others, the hate against it can be kept alive and well, allowing more and more ideas about how to put an end to it to be shared. I urge you to take such action and convince those you know to do the same.

*Here is a link to the source of that quote: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/gettingstarted/onboarding?language=english#5

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Stand Against the Social Security Administration's Propaganda!

Warning(s) for: infrequent strong language.

On July 3rd, 2025, I received the following e-mail from the Social Security Administration that attempts to reframe the passage of the latest GOP budget bill as a momentous money-saving occasion:

Thankfully, there are articles like the one from the Associated Press entitled "What’s in Trump’s big bill that passed Congress and will soon become law" that's written by Kevin Freking and Lisa Mascaro that expose it for the fascist-funding fuckery that it really is in a section of it subtitled "GOP bill includes reductions for businesses and new tax breaks":

"The bill would provide some $350 billion for Trump’s border and national security agenda, including for the U.S.-Mexico border wall and for 100,000 migrant detention facility beds, as he aims to fulfill his promise of the largest mass deportation operation in U.S. history.

Money would go for hiring 10,000 new Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, with $10,000 signing bonuses and a surge of Border Patrol officers, as well. The goal is to deport some 1 million people per year.

To help pay for it, immigrants would face various new fees, including when seeking asylum protections.

For the Pentagon, the bill would provide billions for ship building, munitions systems, and quality of life measures for servicemen and women, as well as $25 billion for the development of the Golden Dome missile defense system. The Defense Department would have $1 billion for border security."

Misinformation must be killed swiftly with the truth. I urge you to (continue to) wield the truth loudly and convince others to do the same.

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CALL YOUR CONGRESSPERSON and tell them to VOTE NO on the budget bill. The cuts to Medicaid mean that 1 in 4 nursing homes and rural hospitals are at imminent risk of being forced to close, meaning it's not just the 17-20 million on Medicaid who would lose their insurance but EVERY PERSON who relies on these hospitals and nursing homes will lose access to that care. THIS IS LITERALLY A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH. CALL NOW! The Congressional Switchboard number is (202) 224-3121.

If you're reading this on Tuesday, July 1st, there's still time! Call now!

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Rebuilding What Was Erased – A Message from Abedmajed in Gaza

My name is Abedmajed, and I live in Gaza with what remains of my once large and loving family.

In a single missile strike, we lost over 25 members of our family. They were not just names. They were mothers, daughters, sons, grandparents — people we shared meals with, laughed with, and built dreams with.

The missile hit our family home — the heart of everything we knew.

Among those killed were: 🕊️ My mother 🕊️ My sister 🕊️ My older brother His wife and their three daughters 🕊️ My uncle, his wife, and all their sons and grandchildren

We were left with nothing but rubble and grief. Yet somehow, my brother and I survived. And now, we carry the responsibility of rebuilding what was taken — not just for ourselves, but for our father, our surviving siblings, and the memory of those we lost.

💔 Why We’re Fundraising

This campaign is not just about survival. It’s about rebuilding a future — A family home, a shared life, a place where our father can rest safely, Where the next generation of our family can grow up knowing peace instead of trauma.

💬 The funds raised will help us:

🏗️ Rebuild our family home — which was completely destroyed 🛠️ Provide basic support for our father and siblings 🏡 Create safe, livable conditions for a family shattered by loss

🔒 How the Funds Are Managed

Due to the collapse of Gaza’s financial system, all donations are processed through my brother, who has a U.S. registered Stripe account. Funds are securely transferred to Gaza and distributed in cash here on the ground. We are transparent and ready to provide proof of every step.

🌱 Why Your Support Matters

We are not asking for charity. We’re asking for a chance to stand again, To rebuild something we can pass on to the children who survived.

Vetted By @gazavetters No:537

Your support gives us the strength not just to remember the ones we lost — but to honor them by continuing.

💬 If you can’t donate, a reblog means the world. 🕊️ From Gaza, with hope and dignity — thank you.

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licensed from @morggo

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A Couple of Additional, Miscellaneously Formatted Suggestions

There should also be warnings for how Chapter 1 contains jump-scares and flashing lights on its store page (and perhaps in-game, too). Ideally, there'd also be an option to disable its flashing lights and, mature-content-wise, its depictions of blood.

On a related note, subtitles for longer lines of dialogue are not fully displayed on the screen when its resolution is set to be at 1280x720p.

Problems like these oughta fixed in the future so that more players can comfortably experience Chapter 1 and Chapter 2.

Asinine Inaccessibility: Indigo Park: Chapter 1

Warning(s) for: intense violence, blood, gore, and spoilers.

Despite how developer UniqueGeese deserves some credit for having remappable controls and keeping players prone to motion sickness in mind by including options in Chapter 1 for them to disable the first-person camera's bobbing and a "camera delay effect" that moves the camera and the protagonist's flashlight at different speeds, the omission of a content warning on its store page for its mature content is too egregious for it to be written about positively.

Specifically, Chapter 1 contains intense violence, blood, and gore which rear their ugly heads the most in a scene where an antagonist gets bloodily decapitated shockingly, shock that could have caused me, someone with heart problems, to experience chest pain -- as has happened when playing other titles with unexpected levels of horror like Minecraft -- and could trigger players who are sensitive to seeing such content.

If these elements were limited to having a moderate presence like they do in this chapter's sole jump-scare and game-over screen, then them existing without a warning would not be (as much of) a problem as it is now. So, here's to hoping that how it is now will not be how it is in future chapters.

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Asinine Inaccessibility: Indigo Park: Chapter 1

Warning(s) for: intense violence, blood, gore, and spoilers.

Despite how developer UniqueGeese deserves some credit for having remappable controls and keeping players prone to motion sickness in mind by including options in Chapter 1 for them to disable the first-person camera's bobbing and a "camera delay effect" that moves the camera and the protagonist's flashlight at different speeds, the omission of a content warning on its store page for its mature content is too egregious for it to be written about positively.

Specifically, Chapter 1 contains intense violence, blood, and gore which rear their ugly heads the most in a scene where an antagonist gets bloodily decapitated shockingly, shock that could have caused me, someone with heart problems, to experience chest pain -- as has happened when playing other titles with unexpected levels of horror like Minecraft -- and could trigger players who are sensitive to seeing such content.

If these elements were limited to having a moderate presence like they do in this chapter's sole jump-scare and game-over screen, then them existing without a warning would not be (as much of) a problem as it is now. So, here's to hoping that how it is now will not be how it is in future chapters.

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It's important to remember that Luigi Mangione is being framed for murder. The "evidence" they have on him is absolute clown shoes absurd.

They're trying to win this by swaying public opinion. That's why they're doing movie deals about it and staging ridiculous photo ops.

They're gonna try to give this kid the death penalty to cover up for their own gross incompetence and in the hopes that they scare the working class out of trying to fight back.

Please don't help them do this by using his name as a synonym for political assassinations. Please do not perpetuate the idea that he's guilty.

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I can't find the post I read yesterday (or Sunday?) about the DOE's attempt to ram through a "direct final rule" to rescind the part of §504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 that mandates the construction of federally-funded buildings make them accessible, but here's Disability Scoop's article on that. 《 Under existing regulations, facilities constructed or altered after June 13, 1980 that receive federal financial assistance must be “readily accessible to and useable by handicapped persons.” Buildings are considered to meet that standard if they comply with what are known as Uniform Federal Accessibility Standards.

But now the Energy Department is calling this requirement “unnecessary and unduly burdensome.”》

(And no, I don't understand why this is under the DOE, but it appears to apply to all federally funded construction, not just for that department.)

Please read and share and most importantly go to the links below to comment - the comment period is open ONLY UNTIL JUNE 16TH and the rule would go into effect on July 15th, so this is urgent. They need as many comments as possible to keep this from being pushed through with virtually no opportunity for the public to comment.

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De-Emphasized Emphasis - My Thoughts on Kentaro Miura's Berserk, Vol. 1 - 2

Onomatopoeias serve to emphasize actions in narratives to help bring them to life. From the volumes of it that I've read, Berserk's English translation by Dark Horse Comics and Digital Manga Publishing overlooks their function by leaving them untranslated and, thus, indecipherable at a glance…:

…plainly translating them without any regard for Miura's artistry...:

…or both, in the case of Vol. 1's onomatopoeic differences between its print (above) and digital (below) editions:

If there is any silver lining of my encounter with these aversive qualities, it is an increased appreciation for the existence of adaptations.

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Progress Takes Patience - My Thoughts on The Casting of Frank Stone

Warning(s) for: spoilers.

Horror of your choosing in this game transpires within an omniversal narrative framework that is deserving of recognition for recontextualizing what are unsatisfying erasures of already-experienced plots elsewhere as a lore-friendly exploration of divergences here. Remaining aware of the improvement that has been made to this sort of story's structure within the confines of this fiction, it is my hope that its potential that is tarnished now due to an inability to initiate those explorations scene by scene is fully realized by future titles of this ilk.

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Since this fundraiser has been vetted, I'm sharing a post about it again to ask that it be donated to, if possible, and/or shared with others.

✅️Vetted by @gazavetters, my number verified on the list is ( #594)✅️

Help my family in Gaza and give them hope to live in peace 💔🚨

Hi, I am Ahmed from Palestine, from the northern part of Gaza City. I am 33 years old, married, and a father of two children. I live in the Jabalia refugee camp with my family, which consists of 19 members, in a four-story house.

Since the beginning of the war on Gaza on October 7th, life in northern Gaza has been extremely difficult, lacking basic necessities due to the siege imposed by the Israeli army on the northern part of the Gaza Strip. The occupation has blocked food, medicine, water, electricity, and even communication networks. Thousands of airstrikes have been carried out, and hundreds of massacres have been committed, mostly affecting innocent civilians, the majority of whom are children and women. The infrastructure, thousands of homes, and civilian facilities have been destroyed.

On May 12th, 2024, the Israeli army besieged the Jabalia camp for the second time and ordered us to evacuate, informing us that it was a military operation zone and a dangerous combat area. We were forced to leave our homes in the camp and flee under heavy bombardment and intense gunfire, navigating through the rubble and bodies lying in the streets and on the roads. We became homeless, with no food or water. During this difficult siege, I lost two of my brothers, Abdullah, 30 years old, and Atallah, 26 years old, due to random shelling and airstrikes on the camp.

Why am I collecting donations?

After more than 15 months of war, on January 19th, 2025, the ceasefire came into effect, and we returned to the camp to check on our home. However, we were shocked by the extent of the destruction and devastation in the camp. The homes had turned into piles of rubble, and we could no longer recognize the places or roads due to the scale of the damage. Our house was completely destroyed, leaving us homeless. Now, my family and I live in a small tent that is insufficient for the number of family members. It offers no privacy, no bathroom, no kitchen, and it does not protect us from the summer heat or the winter cold. We are living in an overcrowded environment with displaced people, chaos, piles of garbage, and the spread of diseases, especially among the displaced children.

This war has forced us to live in extremely harsh conditions and an environment that is unfit for human life. We continue to suffer every day from the ongoing war, repeated displacement, lack of resources and essentials, fear, pain, and oppression. Not to mention the hardship of fetching water, standing in long queues for basic needs, and struggling to find food—another challenge added to our suffering in this devastating war that is destroying people, buildings, trees, and animals. All of this has exhausted our bodies and deeply affected our mental well-being.

Therefore, I am reaching out to you through this humanitarian platform to help me support my family, rebuild our destroyed home, and contribute to providing the basic necessities of life so that I can live with my family with dignity and freedom.

• How will these donations be used?

1) An apartment will be rented to temporarily house my family until the reconstruction of the destroyed house is completed, as an alternative to a tent, at a cost of $600 per month for at least two years. (An estimated total cost of $14,000 over the two years.)

2) Purchase the basic tools and equipment necessary to furnish the rented apartment at an estimated cost of $5,000.

3) Purchase clothing and basic necessities for all family members at an estimated cost of $6,000.

4) Remove the rubble of the destroyed house and rebuild it at an estimated cost of $140,000.

5) Purchase the tools and equipment necessary to furnish all apartments in the new house at an estimated cost of $35,000.

• How does your donation and support make a difference?

Your support and donation is a noble humanitarian cause that supports and strengthens our resilience during the war. This contribution, even if it is small, will make a huge difference in my life and the life of my family.

Please help us to live in safety and peace, to start over to achieve our ambitions and dreams, and to create a safe environment for our children that will provide them with a bright future.

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(Somewhat) Astute Accessibility: OneShot

Warning(s) for: language.

If OneShot, in its original state, was played by me today, then maybe it'd be getting viewed in a more negative light, given how its accessibility options were patched in nearly a month after its initial release and how treating disabled people as afterthoughts to any extent, intentionally or not, pisses me off.

However, having already played games that don't do what it does -- include remappable controls or a toggle option for an input that's normally held by default and not take years to implement a colorblind mode -- I feel like I can relax enough to express that I recognize and appreciate the efforts that have gone into making sure it can be experienced by more players… even though it should really have content warnings that are in-game and not in an easily-missable fifth-wall break and an option for the screen to be automatically dimmed when its occasional screen flashes occur.

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To those who keep scrolling... this is not just another link ⚠️.

This is my home—bombed and reduced to rubble🏡❤️‍🩹.

This is my room—crushed until its height became less than 30 cm💔 🧱.

This is my teddy bear and the cover of my bed—pulled from under the debris with my own hands🧸🥹.

We spent over a month clearing rubble just to build a tent beside the ruins ⛺.

But even the tent wasn’t allowed to stay... ❌

We were forced to leave—by an order from the occupation ⚠️🥹.

It feels like every trace of life is being taken from us, again and again 😔 .

I’ve shared. I’ve begged. I’ve screamed💔.

But the silence around me is louder than my pain🥹.

This isn’t just a donation campaign—this is a cry for life ✊.

If you can’t donate, share 🤝.

And if you can’t share—don’t look away like nothing is happening👌🏻.

Some of us are being buried alive—under the world’s silence🔥.