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~ Etiquette for Gentlemen; or, Short Rules and Reflections for Conduct in Society, by A Gentleman, 1847

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Makeaterriblecomicday2025

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Please listen to No Drum & Bass in the Jazz Room by Clever Girl

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Help I put two pounds of pork shoulder into a crock pot not realizing that in eight hours I would have two pounds of pulled pork. When the amount of pulled pork I actually wanted was like. Two tacos' worth

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Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past - Link’s House

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would you let him spin around

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Y'all ever think about the way video game bosses are designed to lose? How the bombastic soundtracks, the impressive displays of villainy, the teeth-rattling power of their attacks, are at once engineered not just to sell you on how unfathomably strong and vile they are, but also to make the player's inevitable victory all the sweeter?

Viewed this way, a boss battle is more like a choreographed dance - they call, you respond and counter-call. The trick is to learn the steps - once you know where to move, when to strike, when to defend and how to best allocate your resources, victory is not just achievable but actually almost impossible to avoid. You cannot help but recite the winning plays, over and again, because that is what the dance demands of you both - and is there not a savage sort of beauty in such a thing?

Is it any wonder then that we look back on these bosses so fondly, almost as if they were old friends? We danced together once, and oh what fun we had while doing it!

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Sisters of Battle an instant top-3 favorite boss fight, shame it's gated behind so many things that are WAY harder. At least I now have it unlocked in one (1) file if I wanna go fight All Three Of Them sometime

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Illustration by Sophie Lucido Johnson

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Fflewddur Fflam guy of all time btw. Type of dude who will neither 1. stop bullshitting nor 2. stop carrying around the magical object that fact-checks him in real time. Every time I revisit these books I'm like "hell yeah that's my boy"

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Who dares me to try and make a cashew juice sorbet this summer

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Meeting of the Professors

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so I ended up beating the Trial of the Fool on Thursday and the Radiance this morning. Hollow Knight 112% clear or something

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Just kidding. I'm at least as Unwell as I am Bad at Video Games. I am probably going to keep running into this wall for another week or two before I finally ragequit

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Yeah I tried it five times this morning and it just fucking sucks to do and I never made it more than halfway in. I'm done

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Hollow Knight 111% complete. 111 is a cool number. I don't need to do the Trial of the Fool. I don't need to do the Trial of the Fool. I will NOT try to git gud at the Trial of the Fool