Rick Smitherman

The Everyman. I don’t exist I’m just a front for another Rick Smitherman. This loop continues. he/him

[Rick Smitherman @SmithermanRick]

Citizens for Sanity being a maga org that mostly funds batshit insane attack ads is a good bit.

[Reagan Reese @reaganreese_]

NEW: The Trump-aligned org Citizens for Sanity is dropping a six-figure ad buy in the Texas Senate race.

The ad is a 15 second clip of AI-generated James Talarico singing a "trans kids" rendition of “Favorite Things."

Obtained first by @DailyCaller:

[Rick Smitherman @SmithermanRick]

Pratices attested to have been phased out.

This cultural transformation even stuck despite a cycle of imperial decline and reassertion under the Medes.

[Rick Smitherman @SmithermanRick]

It’s probably not complete intentional but honestly Skyrim as it’s shown is basically the end state of what was happening in Morrowind in terms of imperial integration.

The pantheon has been replaced local elites have been largely integrated and most of the lurid cultural -

[Lesbian Rod Serling 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇮🇷 @LRSerling]

A key part of morrowind is the story of how the province is being slowly bought out by the merchant clan House Hlaalu and the foreign East Empire Company, and how this is undermining the traditions and stability of the aristocratic government. None of that in Skyrim! How boring!!

[Rick Smitherman @SmithermanRick]

Boonta Eve is a great holiday because it celebrates one evil empire destroying a different evil empire so you just kinda shrug your shoulders and get plastered on jawa juice

[Rick Smitherman @SmithermanRick]

Kinda crazy how much random EU stuff sprawls out of these books written before the OG Trilogy even finished. Fondor, Vibrobaldes, Disruptors.

[Rick Smitherman @SmithermanRick]

Indulging in junk food this week

[Rick Smitherman @SmithermanRick]

Indulging in junk food this week

[Rick Smitherman @SmithermanRick]

I pogged at Rotta I guess but that’s the closest I approached to feeling

[Rick Smitherman @SmithermanRick]

Watched mando and Grogu and felt nothing.

[Rick Smitherman @SmithermanRick]

@LRSerling Thank you so much!

[Rick Smitherman @SmithermanRick]

#Ilovemywife

[Rick Smitherman @SmithermanRick]

Got married today :)

[Rick Smitherman @SmithermanRick]

What should be obvious is that when you take away this weird ass framing the developers are clearly the normal ones here.

Like the devs are saying “here’s a game with a similar core loop but has killing which fits.” Thats not a crazy thing to say at all.

[frostzy @lmkifiwin]

DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT JUST HAPPENED TO SUBNAUTICA 2..

> be Subnautica 2 developers
> player politely asks why you can’t kill most creatures
> level designer snaps back: "This is not a killing game, go play Sons of the Forest if you want violence"
> another dev adds that big creatures will stay safe because "the game should feel right"

The first Subnautica let you stab leviathans with a knife.
Now they want you to peacefully coexist with 50-meter monsters like it’s a underwater yoga class.

Why do developers treat their most loyal fans like this?
Why can’t they just answer normally without being condescending and aggressive?

Loyal players are the ones who supported you for years.
If you keep talking down to them, they’ll simply stop playing.

And in the end, you - the developers - will be the ones who lose the most.

Peak "go touch grass" energy in 2026.

You think this approach will help the game long-term or are we watching it slowly die?

[Emperor Trioculus 👁️👁️👁️ @TrioculusSWRP]

They made another one with the other Imperial warlords.

[Rick Smitherman @SmithermanRick]

Republicans can only understand hypotheticals like “imagine if you had to kill 1 million monkeys” or “imagine if you had to say a slur”

Anything more nuanced than that is simply beyond their cognitive capability.

[taoki @justalexoki]

this is an argument i will never get. "it's deserved" i didn't do shit to get born here. it's not deserved. it's luck. and most people are unlucky as hell

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has allowed Alabama to select a different map for this year’s congressional elections in a stunning, last-minute move to interfere with another state primary election that has already begun. https://t.co/doS2poc2Mz

[Rick Smitherman @SmithermanRick]

Like Vader will cut up (for his own amusement) with random imperial functionary B1-A because his position already gives him power.

Likewise his cloud city bullshit is purely a personal jaunt being lampshaded by the rebel hunt.

[Rick Smitherman @SmithermanRick]

I think most of the variance in Vader from sassy to aura monster can be encompassed under work personality vs normal personality.

[Rick Smitherman @SmithermanRick]

He needs time to marinate with the hints in all the other dlcs and the rising stakes of the main story. Otherwise his sophistry falls pretty flat.

[Rick Smitherman @SmithermanRick]

What’s funny about Ulysses is that his existence in an optional dlc area means you can accidentally obliterate any chance of him being interesting by playing LR to early.

[멜라토닌 @melatonin_dokki]

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