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Escritura, periodismo, fricciones discursivas Indie games enthusiast / preoccupied dialectical materialist 🖤🤍💙 (He/They) | AuDHD | árabe-mex | ESP/ENG ✍️ https://muckrack.com/ali-figueroa ( ◡̀_◡́) https://www.instagram.com/alirtifice/
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Listen I know shit sucks but PLEASE find the things that make you happy and keep doing them. It is not frivolous. It is how you survive.

submitted 6 days ago • 100 comments

One thing that still blows my mind is how ppl usually recall Ubisoft or EA when talking about awful corporate gaming practices, considering Nintendo and Capcom play in the same ballpark.... (context: OP is talking about Monhun Wilds)

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

overgrown #art

submitted 16 days ago • 14 comments

Editorial note: fascism is not insanity, and the language of mental illness should not be used to describe the hearts and minds of evil men.

submitted 9 days ago • 127 comments

Sick :C

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

tired: death of the author inspired: death to the author

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

In any given fromsoft game, the lore is murky, ambiguous, half-forgotten, shown in glimpses. Between fromsoft games, there are so many common elements that you get the impression you are seeing the same story, but told differently.

submitted 66 days ago • 3 comments

The idea that theory is some academic pursuit wholly divorced from real human existence is frankly a misologistic (and therefore misanthropic) take. It is simply untrue. You are lying.

submitted 63 days ago • 4 comments

Chaos is the cheapest ingredient in a revolution. It takes zero effort to destroy things. To sabatoge, throw a temper tantrum, & burn it all down. Chaos agents are weak & have too vapid of an ideology to build a functional system. Revolutionaries who come only with chaos, come with nothing.

submitted 66 days ago • 14 comments

*pretends to be shocked indeed*

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Hello there. Since I've been having an influx of new Palestinian followers lately, I just want to let you know I'm a Mexican journalist who writes about Gaza (in Spanish). If any of you amazing people want to reach me through voice or text, I'm available and willing to be your correspondent here.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

I will never forgive the world leaders, I will never forgive any person who caused us suffering, and I will never forgive any person who could have stopped this suffering and did not do so. We are human beings.

submitted 69 days ago • 5 comments

Hunter x Hunter is pronounced "Hunter ecks Hunter" btw

submitted 73 days ago • 4 comments

My opinions are ever shifting, but I think my GOTY top ten shortlist right now is (in no particular order) Selaco Nine Sols Lorn's Lure Angel At Dusk Arco UFO 50 Caves of Qud Path of Exile 2 Robotnik's Ring Racers Abiotic Factor Those are the ones that resonated with me, personally.

submitted 73 days ago • 30 comments

how can people deny the nearly ontological expression of class in capitalist society after Recent Events seriously, how are you not a marxist in 2024

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

The past week I was in loved and also I was rereading the hobbit, so I drew the company of dwarves (and Bilbo with the ring) to explain what chinches is a hobbit and why it's one of my favorites books to reread.

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submitted 77 days ago • 2 comments

Is this something? Short, narrative-heavy, experimental, existencial horror games with an strong visual identity... Need more of these!

submitted 78 days ago • 65 comments

Underdogs of the bsky, unite!

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

In the olden days, institutions often kept an educated person around. Their main activity was to investigate whatever suited their fancy, often with little visible benefit. The reason for keeping them around was to have an educated person at hand when shenanigans went down, which required the Lore

submitted 78 days ago • 2 comments

"es que los jóvenes ya no quieren trabajar ahora" Los trabajos de ahora:

submitted 78 days ago • 2 comments