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Can you send them my way
This can be anon, though in some cases that may be difficult
If someone wants to post this on the hell site with my email (alyssamerc at gmail) plz feel free
I’d greatly appreciate it!
He disparages you in a livestream. What happens next? The thesis is pretty obvious, but I want to weave a large, undeniable tapestry.
I am looking to chat with people who have been disparagingly featured in Zack “Asmongold” Hoyt’s content. I would like to see how this affected you, especially if you can provide ample receipts and clear timelines. Please signal boost this anywhere you’d like, as I’m not on Twitter anymore.
I really want to start playing Peak on stream but need people who can get online at like 1:30 pm ET today or Thurs…any takers?
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Some more interesting takes 1) I’m fat 2) I have a flat ass 3) I am M to F trans 4) I am F to M trans
Okay I forgot that one and it’s perfect
Other lies that are weird or incongruous with each other and varying degrees of damaging: 1) I have STDs 2) I was a prostitute 3) my parents don’t love me 4) my parents give me money/pay my rent 5) I don’t play video games 6) I’m 40
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Literally the only Alyssa I know who isn’t is Alyssa Thompson
Idk how any part of my name sounds ethnic unless it’s the 1910s NYC and you think Italians are POC lmak
The “she changed her name from Melissa Merchant to sound more ethnic” is INSANE ahahahah
One of the weirdest things about this last year and a half is how much lore people have invented about me and how quickly that spread and became “truth.” So many outright strangers think they know me and it’s fucking weird.
RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.
I was thisclose to feeding the groundhog
Arboretum date 💕🌸🌺
I will
LMAO the ride back on that will be amazing because it’s on the bike and away from there
I think she might be mine chat
Just test drove her and HOO BOY that’s a spicy meatball
Rudy Giuliani has been released from hospital after doctors realized he just looks like that
universe loading the bases for a walkoff grand slam
I'm late to this one because I specifically wanted to avoid the ~internet drama~ surrounding it, but I asked 20 game devs what they thought about Stop Killing Games. Some of these answers were genuinely fascinating - huge thanks to all the devs who helped out! youtu.be/ZtHPFvQ1Puw?...
“Don’t Google me” is my usual final line
No literally ahaha
I love having to explain what I do and why I’m freelance to normies ahaha
Our country is being destroyed. But hey, look at these eight Maine Coon kittens.
An activist has started using artificial intelligence to identify ICE agents beneath their masks — a use of the technology sparking new political concerns over AI-powered surveillance. Can Washington do anything about it?
My boyfriend says “things have changed” because he found out I was a leash baby (it was one time)
Thank you for all your advice
I think I’m sollllld
Yes!! I’ve read a lot of people saying it’s super low maintenance with low likelihood of issues
It doesn’t have a chain! But this is all great advice
Ofc!!
Oooo tell me more
He’s asking $2500, 23k miles
700
Some background: I learned to ride three years ago, and bought a 2019 Royal Enfield INT 650. When I left my job I sold it, but I’ve really been missing the ride.
@poolontheruf.gg talk to me
Going out to LI and may stop to see this beauty… chat do I get it
Such a good-looking piercing and so annoying to have—especially if you play contact sports
I’ve had both nipples pierced and redone over the last ten years, the left one I redid in 2023. I took the jewelry out while in a hotel shower with my bf this January. He was like, “it’s time” (never healed). That left one is now what we call my “slow one” for reasons I’m sure you can understand.
Undertale
I’m just saying that when it happens I’m jumping out of bed, running to my window, and tossing a coin to a boy to buy the biggest goose in town
But also I bet it’s fucking hilarious over there right now
If he goes the first weekend after I leave Twitter it’ll be the most coherent sign that I should have left earlier
the streets are saying trump is dead
Wait thunderbolts is great
an annoying problem the games industry has is that absolutely no one wants to give a quote about anything other than the game they are currently promoting.
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great piece on something that’s been bothering me for a while and i think it’s part of a larger conversation about how capital repackages the spaces that die hard fans build into something to be sold to the highest bidder
There are 902 billionaires in America right now that presumably don’t want to be seen as soulless
Seems bad
I think all the same of you. What you deal with is crueler, and denies you basic rights you should have. Too many people left you to fend for yourself. I’m sorry.
Finally someone has put into words a lot of what I’ve felt every day since seeing Springsteen in the winter of 2023
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I feel for Alyssa. I still have a presence on Twitter, but I’ve really been limiting my time on there. Thinking recently about how, you know, life is short and we have to look out for where we put our time, energy, thoughts.
Dude I tweeted that out amongst friends after a few kolsch at Gamescom it ain’t that fucking deep
Wrote about my Mayhem Ball experience, which turned into me ideating on how to ensure real fans get tickets, not just people with money. www.jezebel.com/auto-draft-122
Once again the right exploits a tragedy to push their anti-LGBTQ+ agenda. They don't care about protecting kids and are fine with spreading hate that leads to violence against children even if a shooters motives have nothing to do with their identity www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlIN...
The belief that trans people should be discriminated against because they are inherently predatory, as opposed to the cis strangers that parents allow their children to share a bathroom with, is in fact a crystal clear example of anti-trans bigotry (and mirrors other forms of bigotry, I might add)
Conversely, had a blast bartending trivia last night and being around human beings who laughed, sang, and playfully argued over All Dogs Go To Heaven.
Covid and social media platforms' free speech absolutism has cooked brains across several generations. I am truly fearful.
When the Battlefield 6 beta ended, I saw some folks say that they liked the lack of outside IPs, but let's be honest: It won't stay that way. However, there are ways to insert outside IP and keep the military sim vibe intact. For @gamespot.com, I explore it a bit. www.gamespot.com/articles/enj...
Do you guys know about vasovagal syncope? I have it, and every time I get blood work and walk out upright, I'm thrilled.
Honestly girl speak on it
Going to have a funeral for it on twitch next week
I still struggle to wrap my brain around how people can be so ignorant and cruel and combative when consistently shown the facts but I don’t have psychosis so
I finally quit Twitter. For too long I thought I could sway people with truth, convince with logic but that place is lost. I’m stubborn, it took too long, but I’m done!
Lmfaoooo
not quite sure who this candidate is but she seems to have a lot of energy behind her
As as we 😬
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This is profoundly creepy. Also, on Instagram the "likes" section will show accounts you interact with the most which means that Michael Grim (of Hershey, PA) has an instagram burner he uses to stalk Alyssa and used it to stalk my page. This is fucking weird.
PEAK ENCOURAGES CANNIBALISM
Obsidian taught me how to pick locks, I am now on death row
The Sims encourages people to do construction without proper permits, this is wildly dangerous and we should sue the devs
Arrest Daisy Mae for insider trading on the stalk market
My car was stolen because of Grand Theft Auto
Mass Effect 2 promotes genocide (Rachni queen)
They have been harassing and stalking an indie studio working on a game about migrants
Cancel Skyrim because it promotes pickpockets
Getting mad over a game about migrants because it's promoting "illegal immigration" is one of the baddest bad faith takes they've tried yet, considering you do illegal shit in tons of video games, and many of them glorify it. BFFR.
thirsty thursday live right now!! internet HARASSER gets arrested! i played OUTER WORLDS 2! more layoffs! IGN union talk! gooner 9/11! get in here! twitch.tv/alyssamerc
JAIL AHAHA
I live in a country that’s currently finding a genocide and I have to work to live sorry babes it’s everywhere
a frustrating side effect of the gradual enshittification of everything is that, as a reporter, it's increasingly difficult to get ahold of people to give them the opportunity to comment on things, esp at big companies. everything is filtered through call centers and contact forms.
Loved chatting with Wizordum's sole dev Primož Vovk (who also made Vexlands!) about its '90s FPS inspo and the way fans have embraced the game's level builder. store.epicgames.com/en-US/news/w...
Perhaps my favorite of the entire show: Vexlands, a crafting game with a brilliant twist that I didn't want to put down. I cannot *wait* for this game. store.epicgames.com/en-US/news/v...
Played some John Carpenter's Toxic Commando, a four-person co-op zombie shooter from the team behind WWZ. store.epicgames.com/en-US/news/j...
A chat with an Apogee producer and hands-on with Rising Heat, a twin-stick survival roguelike that feels like Geometry Wars meets Enter the Gungeon meets Vampire Survivors, with some interesting flair. store.epicgames.com/en-US/news/r...
Hands-on and chat with the team behind Bloober Team's Control x The Thing x Dead Space love child, Cronos: The New Dawn, which has a frankly WILD enemy mechanic whereby enemies can absorb the abilities of dead ones if you don't torch the corpses. store.epicgames.com/en-US/news/c...
Hands-off Warhammer 40K: Dark Heresy demo & chat with producer Anatoly Shestov, who says you'll play an Imperial Inquisitor investigating murders, "not because we give a shit, but because someone is making decisions without the Imperium’s say.” store.epicgames.com/en-US/news/w...
Hands-on with Pragmata, Resident Evil: Requiem, and Onimusha: Way of the Sword. www.endlessmode.com/article/capc...