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Absolutely everyone everywhere if you mention you're having an issue with Windows 11: Update!

Me, last weekend: I fucking hate updates, they always fuck something up, but my computer is acting wonky so... *updates*

Computer: Immediately becomes unusable. Not in a "god I hate the way they changed X and Y" but in a "my computer is randomly restarting and blue screening to hell and back". Took me two hours of trying and failing to fix it before I just rolled back the update (thank fuck that was an option).

Anyway fuck Microsoft and fuck Windows and if there were valid way of playing video games without having Windows I'd be seriously looking into it.

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Free Epic Games (til 2 May 2024, 10am ct)

INDUSTRIA is a first-person shooter that takes you from East Berlin into a parallel reality, shortly before the end of the Cold War. On the search for a missing work colleague, you decypher a dark past in a mysterious parallel dimension.

Explore Olathe and unmask its twisted secrets with LISA: The Definitive Edition, including the original narrative-driven RPG LISA: The Painful and its sequel LISA: The Joyful.

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Back to embroidery!

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My shoulder decided to, very slightly, fall a little out of its socket and, honestly, it's incredibly rude and inconvenient and I wish it would stop.

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Should I have bought the incredibly poofy elegant gothic lolita petticoat even though it's way poofier than my 50s aesthetic? Maybe not but, y'all, it's a petticoat for 25 fucking dollars at a secondhand store. A gothic lolita one at that. Holy shit.

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@keyofjetwolf THE DOG'S TAIL IS NOT WAGGING IT HELICOPTERING, OHMYGOD

Some more pictures + vid for @fenrir-kin

And anyone else who might need a visit from Dogtor Mop.

Sorry for lack of image descriptions, the migraine brain fog is Bad.

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Epic Free Games (til 25 Apt 2024, 10a ct)

Hustle and grift your way across America in the ‘90s as a teenage con artist on a crime-filled road trip adventure! Play as Ali, a curious and sarcastic high schooler who ditches band camp to go on a cross-country road trip to save her family video store.

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Thanks again for the great map, Garrett. Especially love that basement bit.

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@docholligay

A small sailor moon comic about destiny. (AU)

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The maps in the original Thief game are so good.

Where you're at is highlighted blue. As you can see, things are going well for Garrett.

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Mars' snake is babysitting some baby dragons while she's at school today.

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"She's not dead. I wouldn't let her." -Xena about Gabriel, season 1

Basically the tag line to the show.

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Epic Free Game (til 18 Apr 2024, 10am)

Ghostrunner offers a unique single-player experience: fast-paced, violent combat, and an original setting that blends science fiction with post-apocalyptic themes. It tells the story of a world that has already ended and its inhabitants who fight to survive.

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Thinking about The Great and how at the end Marial, who has been there since the beginning, balks and that it's Velementov, the last main conspirator to join and who had the least confidence in Catherine, that stands beside her.

About how the desire for revenge, status, and money couldn't carry Marial through the end. About how she certain she was that, at the beginning, that she would get her status back. About how at the end she looked around and saw nothing but despair and gave up. About how thinking about only of herself, even if it's understandable, made her world so much smaller and darker than it could be. About how courage doesn't just mean taking that first step but taking the final one as well.

About how bad Velementov wanted to do right by his soldiers, by his people, but felt like he couldn't. About how, unlike Marial in the beginning, he gave up and just accepted not only his slow death, but the death of all those he was supposed to protect. About how he looked at Catherine and couldn't stop himself from thinking "What if". About how he looked not just at the soldiers but at the people. About how Velementov, the man that had given up, looked around when everything seemed lost and saw hope.

About how the person standing with Catherine at the end had to be Velementov. How it couldn't be anyone else.

It had to be him because he knew what he was asking her to do. He knew it meant to condemn people to death. He knew what it meant to have to live with that. It had to be him not because he was a soldier but because he was a leader. It had to be him because he knew what it was to be dragged unwillingly out of despair and finally, finally, be given the chance to make the world a better place.

In the end, revenge wasn't enough. Neither was bitterness, greed, or anger. Those emotions can only carry someone so far.

In the end, the fierce burning of knowing that the world can be better, that there is hope, is what wins the day.

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Listen, if you're going to hate characters (especially characters that are specifically made to be unlikeable), that is completely valid.

But at least get your facts right and hate them for things they actually did.

(Reading some particularly weird takes on characters in Beef, the tv show. "I hate her for doing this." Okay but.... she never did that? "I hate him for doing X for Y reason." Okay, but like, he didn't do it for Y reason, he did it for a completely different (imo more understandable) reason?)

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If Switzerland can hit all the notes it needs to and it doesn't win, my friend, who will be forced to listen to me rant about this for months, will go on a killing a spreed.

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Epic Free Games (til 11 Apr 2024, 10am ct)

Lost in transit while on a colonist ship bound for the edge of the galaxy, you awake decades later only to find yourself in the midst of a deep conspiracy threatening to destroy the colony. Explore the various planets and locations of Halcyon, including the mysterious Gorgon Asteroid and delightful distilleries of Eridanos. As you encounter various factions, all vying for power, the character you decide to become will determine how this player-driven story unfolds.

Thief is a 1st person stealth-action game by Eidos-Montréal. In this reimagination of the cult classic Thief franchise, steal, stealth and infiltrate your way through the treacherous City as Garrett, the Master Thief.

(Geeky notes on The Outer Worlds: If you like open world fps rpgs, then I cannot recommend this game enough. I will note that the strength of this game is definitely the character work vs the story. Also, important tip, go immediately to town and get your first companion. Companions often have comments on things and you'll miss them otherwise.)

(Geeky notes on Thief: No. This game rips all the best, most interesting, and most charming parts of the games away. Especially the lore which is incredibly interesting. Go find the original games (and a program that helps you cheat if you find the first game as hard as I did). The games still hold up, imo, in both play style, graphics, and story. I know this is free compared to the other ones but please trust me on this: those are cheap and significantly better.)