Twisted Override

One foot in the grave, one on a banana peel. Surviving Anxiety through Video Games. PC, PS3, PS5 Pro, Steam Deck. Will call out bullshit LOL.

[Twisted Override @TwistedOverride]

Some of the best people I know, friends for a decade+, folks who literally saved me from kicking the bucket just by being warm welcoming and accepting;

I watched them tacitly or vehemently support an open racist, who crafted policy to abandon the weakest in society. (1/n)

[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

Okay. I can't lie. This one really hurt me. This was a post from a guy I've known for nearly 40 years. We fought fires in Detroit together for over 30+ years. I considered him a friend. I felt a kinship with this person.

When challenged by his post about Trump and Trump's cruelty toward Black Americans by other Detroit firefighters, he said, "You guys are gonna throw away over 35 years of friendship over politics?" Then you weren't really my friends, to hell with you.

I'd never thought I'd hear these words from a man who i respected and worked with black firefighters on a daily basis until he retired a couple of years ago. He'd even achieved the rank of Battalion Chief.

I don't get it. Was it Trump who's emboldened him, or was he just good at hiding who he really was?

[Mads @europemaxxed]

Would you please not vape your fruity flavor around my kids? my wife and i are raising them organically on Marlboro reds

[mass ave curmudgeon @mass_ave]

If this ain’t it in a nutshell

[Dear Self. @Dearme2_]

NO BAD DAYS IN JULY 🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿

You will end JUNE with a BIG WIN. 🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿

[𐌌𐌀𐌋ᕓ𐌉𐌀 @malviaivory]

oh my god i need to smoke today

[David @Justtdavid_]

the way life continues after someone dies is one of the most humbling and frightening realities.

[Alex Kraus @alexfkraus.bsky.social @alexfkraus]

I went to Yamada Denki Kuki so I could pretend it was 2011 again (and it wasn't so bad)

[Kylie Chi 季 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @TheKylieChi]

Some confirmation from someone on the inside that these data centers are actually mass surveillance centers (and once again, that they use Palestinians as guinea pigs for what they will do to us. I know a lot of you fucks only care when something start to threaten you personally)

[Nades @Nades]

I’m not paying a subscription to borrow a PC and if cloud gaming ever becomes the standard that’s me done with gaming.

[Bx @bx_on_x]

The head of a major social media platform is here to tell us that surveillance is good, actually, and that VPN users are untrustworthy. Surely there are no ulterior motives here.

[SXR123 (Dave) @SXR123]

🚨Might be a waste of time posting this, but I'mma do it anyway. Long post incoming.

The internet is our Library of Alexandria.

The internet as we've been using it up to this point has been relatively free to use in terms of what you could do, with very few limitations.

Instant communication around the world, being able to speak with other languages in a back and forth dialogue, content making and sharing, shopping, gaming, information gathering and sharing, a place to learn and so on.

You have the freedom and ability to speak your mind on something and a chance for that something to be seen and heard INSTANTLY.

Should the powers that be decide to change the rules, things as we have now will never be the same.

The list:
-Speaking to someone outside of your country without proper clearance, like a digital passport. Something you will likely have to pay for, should it ever happen.

-Slowed communications. No longer instant for whatever arbitrary reason they decide to give.

-Country gates. You may not even be allowed to visit certain websites outside your country's jurisdiction, without said digital passport.

-Paying for time spent on foreign websites, like long distance calls used to cost money.

-Content making and gathering. If you make something that they deem unsafe, even if it's not, you are subject to their laws—This includes speaking out against an injustice. Or criticizing your government.

-Information gathering, sharing, learning. You may not be allowed easy access to information as you do now.

To wrap it all up. Some of these things sound absurd and you'd be right to say so. But all they have to do is decide that they want more control and we have to live with it.

If you think you are safe because you don't do anything "bad", all they have to do is change what that means and suddenly you're in trouble.

[Abier @abierkhatib]

Julian Casablancas said it btw

[Óscar @TheRealOxcar]

Comprarte una Xbox te cuesta 1.000,00€ por gilipollas como estos.

[★ yas ★ @yasminesummanx]

sigh

[borkedsys @borkedsys]

Capitalism calls itself adult because it speaks in markets, budgets, discipline, and responsibility. But its deepest values are childish... hoard more, beat others, own more, grow bigger, dominate the room. It’s not maturity. It’s arrested development with a bank account.

[dead domain (OF 50% OFF 🏳️‍🌈) @DomainDead]

I love Kojima, man. He can have nothing to say about an acclaimed genre piece and then roll up to a mid superhero cinematic universe project and sniff out the western/classic influences like a bomb sniffing dog working for extra treats.

Genuinely just sees the world differently.

[PotatoMcWhiskey @PotatoMcWhiskey]

A lot of people who pirated games were kids without the ability to pay for things

[f4mi ‼️ @f4micom]

waiting for the inevitable LLM dieselgate to be a thing (models tweaked to appear slightly stupider than they are when tested by government entities)

[vids that go hard @vidsthatgohard]

Dude was so traumatized by Berserk that he lost weight, Shakespeare couldn’t come up with shit like this 😭🤣

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

It is physically painful to watch society become less intelligent and more strange, wicked, and devoid of empathy by the day.

[Billifer 🇨🇦 @billifer1973]

No religion should be taught in public schools. Period. If you want your child to learn Christianity, that’s what churches, parents, and after-school programs are for. Imposing one religion on all students simply because you believe in it is absurd.