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gita jackson (they/them) journalist and critic ~ cofounder of @Aftermath_site ~ tips: gita at aftermath dot site ~ formerly: @motherboard @kotaku

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My incredible friend @Boringstein , who supported our love from the very start, took this beautiful picture of me and @davidgross_man yesterday
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So funny that read commentary about GTA “going woke” when those games have really been about a deep hatred of America for many many years
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The way Martin Scorsese is just a nice old man who loves movies but Disney has convinced people he’s some kind of conservative regressive gatekeeper
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the current strain of anti-creativity seems to be based on the premise that creative thought and labor is calculable and can be turned into a formula, when it is in fact the closest thing to magic that we have in this world
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literally how is this still just fucking true!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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stranger things would honestly be a better show if it was just about teenagers in the 80s that like D&D
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Dude Chris Pine is on the picket line to support the writers I’m VERY curious about how the SAG strike vote is gonna go 👀
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It’s absolutely wild to watch people pretend that everyone who beats any of the Souls games did it by themselves without any outside help
@verge
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Elden Ring’s world is full of mystery, but I’d rather wait for a guide
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No joke I think editors for YouTubers and streamers should unionize
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Is there any particular reason why women characters in video games need to be hot? What happens if women characters in video games aren’t hot? Does the world end?
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Did the Democratic Party become more left wing by inches or has the entire country become so conservative that Roe v. Wade is crumbling before our eyes and one state made it illegal to talk about being gay in school. Who’s to say.
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Kratos is GREEK
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@Megan_Nicolett You don't need to play them to notice the woke BS. GoW literally putting a black chick in a Norse setting. C'mon, it's woke bullshit and you know it.
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Can anyone explain if magic is real or not in this franchise I HAVE to know
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Film Updates
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‘NOW YOU SEE ME 3’ begins filming this year. ()
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Benoit Blanc can be inserted into most animes and he would improve the final product
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Instead of dating I think for like a year Taylor should get really into Warhammer 40k and write a bunch of songs about that instead
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The entire game is about the horror of pregnancy, menstruation and child birth. Like extremely literally.
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💛🤍 Skele₊ 💜🖤
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Rightoids are saying Bloodborne isn't about womenhood again 💀 They're bringing it up because “Bloodborne isn't 'woke' because I like it!!”-reasons. (BG3 go woke go broke)
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David is constantly astonished by how bad the Harry Potter worldbuilding is so please drop your favorite nugget of completely nonsensical potter lore here because I’ve forgotten as much as I’ve remembered
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somerton was making $170,000/yr on patreon apparently and continue to belabor this point but: that is more money annually than i have EVER made in my entire career. and he did it, in part, by ripping me off.
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John Carpenter’s The Thing is a perfect movie
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I’m sorry this is actually fine. This is some above average to good comedy writing. Can’t speak for the rest of the game but the lead’s voice acting sells it.
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I present to you *actual* dialogue from Forspoken
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First thing Musk gonna do is ban every account that posts “I send a the calzone into space!! I don’t pay a the taxes!! Ohhhhhh!!!”
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I said yes
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Jon Woo made a movie about one guy getting his face transplanted onto another guy’s face
@ScarletJeffy
It’s Jeff! (waiting for new pfp)
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me when I only watch a 3 hour long black and white movie about how Isaac Newton took his first poop because I don’t think fun superhero movies are “real cinema”
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alien as a franchise is good because it's mostly about working class people being fucked over by bosses in unsafe working environments
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This does actually feel racist to Italians
@DiscussingFilm
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Chris Pratt says he has been working hard at the voice for Mario.
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Lockheed Martin is like just an all time place to not work. Pretty much a gimme if you have a soul to not work there.
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Everyone who has built up the mythology of Goncharov, a fake Martin Scorsese movie, has clearly never seen a real Martin Scorsese movie, and I love that for them.
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it's very funny that frodo is trending because in about an hour we are also going to see many of those people discover that the person who wrote the tweet in question is a murderer
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I asked David what actually differentiates Lowtax from Musk at this point and David pointed out that Lowtax, despite being horrible, actually did build something whereas Musk never has
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@WeedGoku420 i just keep thinking about the depravity of trevor, as a character. it's like they're saying, only america could produce a person like this.
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Breaking News: guy who has never left his home town and tweets like sephiroth is here to explain how game development works
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as a gambit appreciator, i have to say: you don't end up a gambit fan because he's powerful. you end up a gambit fan because you think it's extremely funny that the x-men is a paramilitary organization full of human gods and this one guy who's there to bone.
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The most overrated mutant is Gambit! Take away the charisma and he’s just a glorified poker dealer. Storm is powerful af.
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It looks like so many actors in SAG are already on the picket because they are either already members of the WGA or supporting their friends and colleagues. The SAG strike seems almost inevitable at this point.
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Also never think too hard about the British wizarding system of justice, where if you’re wrongly convicted there’s so recourse and you’re sent to an island where monsters suck out your soul
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What is wrong with everyone on this app
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“I plagiarized a ton of people cause I have adhd” is so wild. I also have adhd and mostly it makes me have bonkers mood swings and be chronically late.
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harry™ 🏳️‍🌈
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i am in disbelief
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Something I have been thinking about a lot: millennials really threw incredible parties
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It's kind of fascinating--the more abuse and harassment Meghan Markle recieves in the UK, the more the public everywhere else just loves her.
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the fact that deathloop, a good game that with a horseshit story, is nominated for best narrative at the game awards pretty much tells you everything you need to know about this stupid awards show
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tbh we should definitely talk about how cool john brown was way more often
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Marcille is just an effortlessly written lesbian. Almost all of why she’s Like That can be explained by her being a lesbian generally and super gay for Falin in specific.
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The most recent example is the map of the wizarding world, which made me scream “JOANNE I HAVE QUESTIONS” at the top of my lungs
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I was just laid off
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Consumer boycotts are useless. Boycotts only really work if there’s a strong ask, and “we don’t want anyone to buy this” isn’t really an ask.
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leftists what’s your leftist opinion that will have leftists leftisting at you like this lefistly on the leftist compound?
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????????????????????????????
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every single fucking thing that people tell me is only possible in the metaverse i have already done in final fantasy xiv
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David Grossman
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The thing with millennials and the Metaverse is that we've seen literally the exact same concept implemented over a decade ago. It's like if Facebook changed it's name to Micro and promised the future was microblogging
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When will it fucking stop
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Also I saw someone referring to Jorts the cat as “one of the most beloved leftists” and I’m sorry if an orange cat from the internet is one of the most significant figures in left wing politics to you, you do actually NEED to read a book.
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i shouldn't pick on this guy but here he is straight up saying that he does not believe anyone is playing final fantasy 7 rebirth for the story, a sentence so mind boggling that i have to take a break from twitter i am sorry
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🔥John Lee🔥
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@JoeyMcTighe @kinematografi @xoxogossipgita I'm just staying the obvious. Gamer target audience are nerdy male virgins. You want to sell to them? You better cater to demand. Come on, you think FF7 - Rebirth made historical sale bc of good story? great gameplay? pphsstt... nah...
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“The Scorsese fandom”
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an encouraging thing i keep seeing in response to harry's video is people saying "well, i'm a way better writer than this other guy, i should give it a shot" and emphatically yes, please do
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What albums are perfect 10s for you? No skipped songs, pure bangers from back to start, on top of being genre defining and/or moving and personal pieces of art?
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If you only read this website you’d believe that Scorsese only makes movies about the mafia and has only ever done so. He directed ~40 films, and under ten deal with crime or the criminal lifestyle.
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You’re okay with a video game about murdering a HIGHLY MODIFIED version of the Norse pantheon as a Greek guy with a black man’s voice. But if u black person shows up, that’s bad. Okay!
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You’re welcome! It sucks.
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Fullmetal Alchemist’s complete understanding of the mechanics of a fascist state and the systems that degrade the people victimized by the state continues to surprise and impress me
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The Matrix Resurrections is a movie about how the best way to make a reboot or distant sequel is to not care at all if the people who obsessively fill out the fan wiki will be satisfied
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Arguing with your parents is a Soulslike. In order to convince my mom I’m right I need to defeat her with nine perfect parries in a row.
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@horrolivia Everyone in those books are dumb as rocks. If you knocked on Harry’s head it would echo.
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I can’t believe my dad just told me he watches @hasanthehun
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I stopped shaving my armpits and legs and pubes like ten years ago and got laid constantly. People straight up do not even notice. Anyone who thinks it’s nasty is a child.
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New York Post
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Rachel McAdams’ armpit hair sparks mixed reaction: ‘That’s just nasty’
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something i ponder frequently: so, so, so many adults watch children's entertainment and then get upset that it does not appeal to adult sensibilities. why????
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"there's no game to win, that's not what art is."
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Kevin Brackett
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Going to reply to every stupid discourse about superhero movies with this video from Ethan Hawke
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Also those mafia movies??? Are GREAT!!!
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This game is fucking hilarious lmao last night this happened to me three times in a row
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hi! i am gita jackson. i'm a journalist and critic with around ten years of experience, and I am looking for work. here's a thread of some of the stories i'm most proud of.
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It’s so so so so so funny how much it bothers him
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Going forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying “parody” will be permanently suspended
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If you are over 25 and thinking about life in terms of high school you are the loser
@TimSweeneyEpic
Tim Sweeney
1 year
People in this #BlockTheBlue pressure campaign are losers and goons. They're the cool kids from junior high who worked to exclude we nerds from cool kid events, plus the losers who joined in to gain cred. The elite-only verification system sucked, been criticizing it since 2018.
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“You’ll never be bored again, ever!” Was more of a threat than we realized.”
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Jon Erlichman
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On this day in 2006: Twitter launches
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It’s stupid but I loved my job. I loved the people I worked with. But I’m looking for work now. Gita.sonti.jackson at gmail.
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I love that right wingers never update their stereotypes. A blue hair with pronouns is ordering a multi hyphenate coffee from Starbucks? What is this, 2008?
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I honestly can’t figure out why he agreed to do this interview it makes him look like a predator
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someone QRTed this to say "isn't admitting that you've never made this much money in your career a self own" buddy we have definitely got to get a better understanding of the economics of journalism and writing on the internet, 170k/yr is a bonkers high salary
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somerton was making $170,000/yr on patreon apparently and continue to belabor this point but: that is more money annually than i have EVER made in my entire career. and he did it, in part, by ripping me off.
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the souls games simply do not get enough credit for being as funny as they are. there is a recurring character whose entire thing is to push you into a big hole.
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one time brianna wu called me unprofessional for not being able to fix the unfixable problem of having audio leak from my apple earpods while recording the three hour game of the year podcast she scheduled for the day after christmas
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why do these people make meghan markle sound so much cooler than she actually is
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@MIDImyers Maddy the sorting hat is never wrong. Our personhood is determined at birth and can never change, the hat can tell.
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So gamergate 2 has made targets out of: a consulting company founded by a black woman, a black artist working at that company, a black developer, and an organization advocating for black girl gamers. Wonder what all these things have in common!!!!
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Fight Club is about dudes fucking and not even in a subtle way
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Lon Harris
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Honestly not sure how it's even possible to still not get FIGHT CLUB in 2023.
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This is horrible advice, but I also gotta mention that whatever vibe she’s putting out there is just fucking….. rancid
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like, i like all these characters as i return to them. i like their little melodramas. why do we need demogorgons. why can't they just be adjusting to how their former nerd friend joined the basketball team.
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Oh no! YouTube downvotes :( sorry I guess all women need to be conventionally attractive now pack it in :(
@ChanvaX_
ChanvaX
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@xoxogossipgita Yeah they can be ugly but be ready to face the people's preferences.
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if the oscars did this you'd all call them cowards and you'd be right
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Kotaku
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The Game Awards won't take sides on Activision fallout to focus on reveals:
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One thing I hope happens because of Elden Ring’s popularity well eclipsing the extant fandom for FromSoft is that people realize you can play any of these games any way you want
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I need to go back in time to prevent mostly female Star Trek fic writers from writing the parody story about the obvious self insert character Mary Sue because weird dudes online ruined the joke
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Lenny Burnham - abolish ICE, abolish the police
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Bo Peep.
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Brianna Wu is honestly lucky she’s never succeeded at anything because she has so many skeletons in her closet
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Also, an accurate portrayal of a very very sexist world does not mean the show or it’s creators are sexist.
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Every platform on the internet is a bar that might become a nazi bar
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@xoxogossipgita since the original is too broken up to qrt as a thread, the whole thing together. it applies to everything
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the cowboy bebop show looks fine--nothing special, nothing disastrous, a fine way to pass an afternoon or a couple evenings--but this marketing campaign is committing the sin of "reminding me of better things i could be watching"
@bebopnetflix
Cowboy Bebop
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It’s time to wake up.
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This is how I fucking found out god dammit
@BBCBweaking
Bweaking NuwuS
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Huohhhh. US Pwesident Joe Biden haz tested positive fow Covid-19 and is expewiencing miwd symptoms, White House sez >_<
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When I think of Akira Toriyama, I think of every time I’ve been on public transportation and overheard two children talking about who Goku could beat in a fight. An enduring legacy.
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Noticing a trend in the Dragon’s Dogma 2 subreddit. People who have taken their time with it are having a good time just exploring and fucking around. People who have already reached the ending have a lot of complaints. How are you playing, what do you think?
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