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[alt text: a post on twitter by @Ranting_Trans, posted in June 2022. The text in the post says: “People only ask ‘what is a woman’ and not ‘what is a man’, because that question was already answered by the greatest philosopher of our time: Dracula”. Below the text is a screenshot from the game Castlevania: Symphony...

Tanooki Mario (comfy man in pajamas), and uhhhh…well i don’t really have a Smash main, I like to play all kinds of different styles. Which I guess also fits the question…

[alt text: an illustration of an elderly man and a middle-aged man standing side-by-side and looking into an open garage. The old man is saying, “One day Son, all this will be yours.” The garage is filled floor-to-ceiling with old video game boxes, discs, and cartridges. ]

[alt text: a screenshot of a headline that says, “Concord Players Have Started Killing Themselves”.]

[alt text: several screenshots of posts on twitter. The bottom post is a tweet from @DrDisrespect on twitter, which says, “LIVE in 30 minutes. I just installed Deadlock… what the hell is this game? If it’s from Valve, I must know. I must… understand the future of multiplayer gaming.” This Dr Disrespect tweet is a...

The format of these posts is simple: let’s discuss a specific game or series!...

[alt text: a semi-surreal meme image on a plain white background. Two characters from Dark Souls are saying, “My lord, we have absolutely ESSENTIAL lore information for the player. Should we make a cutscrene for it?”. They are looking at Hidetaka Miyazaki, who has the From Software logo emblazoned over him, and he is...

[alt text: text that says, “When your girlfriend says, ‘it’s either me or runescape’”. Below the text is a stock photo of a man and woman sitting next to each other on a couch and looking away from each other. Between them, there is a floating screenshot from the crafting menu in Runescape, and the cursor is...

[alt text: text that says, “when your friend is in an argument online and asks you for memes”. Below the text is a screenshot from The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim, where the shopkeeper Ulfberth War-Bear is looking at the player character and saying, “Looking to protect yourself, or deal some damage?”]

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[alt text: a pair of posts by strudel-fatpaws on tumblr. The first post says, “who was the guy who said every indie game is named either ‘empoisoned’ or ‘swumbles big jumble’. i swear this is a real thing someone said”. The second post says, “gonna start sorting my steam library like this”. Included with the...

[alt text: a screenshot from an unspecified Mario game. In the screenshot, Bowser is standing behind Donkey Kong, and Donkey Kong has a dramatic expression with eyes closed and mouth wide open like he is yelling or groaning.]

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A teenager has been arrested after a masked attacker stabbed five people at an open-air cafe in Turkey and broadcast the rampage on social media....

[alt text: a screenshot of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. The player is on the create-a-class screen, and a pop-up prompt says, “Are you sure you want to be a Crackhead?”.]

[alt text: a screenshot of a tweet from @KHframes on Twitter. The tweet is sharing an image with no text, and the image is a frame from a spinoff Kingdom Hearts game. The frame shows Sora talking to the Genie from Aladdin, and Sora is saying, “I wish this world had fewer problems!”]

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[alt text: two screenshots from the Sims, which appear to recreate an infamous scene from the movie “The Room”. In the first frame, a Sim that looks like Tommy Wiseau is standing in front of a rooftop entryway and looking very angry. In the second panel, the camera has panned out, and “Tommy” is looking calmly at another...

[alt text: an image of Link and Zelda sitting on a couch, which looks like a screenshot from a Nintendo 64 game. Zelda is smoking a bong, and there’s text on screen that says “That’s good Deku Leaf”.]

The format of these posts is simple: let’s discuss a specific game or series!...

[alt text: a screenshot from “Mario Super Sluggers” (a Mario baseball game for the Wii), showing Goomba stepping up to the plate and Wario on the pitcher’s mound. Goomba has no hands, yet the baseball bat appears to be emerging from somewhere between their chin and their feet, which creates a suggestive image.]

[alt text: an illustration of Jarl Balgruuf the Greater from The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim, in which the Jarl appears to have been woken up very early in the morning. There is text on screen in the style of the dialogue options in Skyrim, which says, “I need your help. I need to trap a dragon in your palace.”]

[alt text: a screenshot from Mario Golf. Daisy is preparing to tee off, and King Bob-omb is waiting behind here. King appears to be staring intently at Daisy’s butt.]