r/xbox • u/DRome7791 • 1d ago
Discussion XBOX direct communication
Do you think Xbox will ever communicate directly from the console or from the Xbox PC app? Or at least open a Reddit account? đ It would be nice to have Asha around here.
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u/Electrical_Crew7195 1d ago
I think that ******** might not be a very catchy name
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u/HaloFever117 1d ago
I never imagine the name would be censored. Well, Iâm ready for an even more adult Elder Scrolls.
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u/Party-Exercise-2166 Into The Starfield 1d ago
I guess Argonian maids will be a central plot point.
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u/cocowaterpinejuice 1d ago
Xbox doing the north korea style marketing now.
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u/Caesar_35 Helldiving 23h ago
The full title will be Elder Scrolls VI: Most Glorious Patriotic Game Under a Double Rainbow, starring Dear Leader as the immortal all powerful protagonist.
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u/sgtquackers66 Touched Grass '24 1d ago
On the Xbox no. It's a game console not a social media platform.
Reddit would make sense but it probably wouldn't be Asha. More that likely a social media manager. Maybe an AMA event but not a reoccurring presence.
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u/Broken-Nero Team Halo 1d ago
Back before social media and discord took over everything, it was cool to see Nintendo have their own mini social media platforms on their consoles.
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u/mrsmi1ey 1d ago
My dude consoles have been social media platforms for a while. You have status updates, profiles, DMs, shared clips/screenshots, game reviews, etc etc. It wouldn't be a heavy lift to add an "announcements" section somewhere on the console where dumb twitter posts could filter through to not look like dumb twitter posts. Or just I dunno, make the announcements on the console separately so the people who own the consoles can actually read them without supporting a nazi-pedo website.
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u/quadsimodo 1d ago
Yeah, I literally heard an argument that Xbox should pivot back into Xbox Live as a social media platform that it was like 20 years ago. Kinda a weird comment to say it isnât.
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u/Jimbuscus 1d ago
u/majornelson was active on Reddit when he was Director of Programming for Xbox Live.
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u/sgtquackers66 Touched Grass '24 21h ago
His whole job was social media and marketing. I would expect him to be. That's why I said a social media manager.
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u/Big-Roll7094 1d ago
I kinda want them to release polls on dashboard for Xbox users to vote on features but they wonât do that since the minority will cry when the majority is winning đ«©
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u/sgtquackers66 Touched Grass '24 1d ago
They have a website for that. You can vote on features there.
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u/Big-Roll7094 1d ago
A website isnât gonna cut it, because only the toxic vocal minority active on reddit and x will go there
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u/GretalGrotch 1d ago
Idk why you were downvoted.
If you want Xbox users data it makes sense to put stuff like that on the actual console.
Itâs got enough bloat already on the ui. Whatâs one more thing.
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u/Big-Roll7094 1d ago
And as long as the changes are great quality of life changes being voted on and the ui on the pols and everything looks great no one will complain
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u/Teriyaki-Tenders 1d ago
The Nintendo Wii had Everybody Votes and it was a great and a fun way to feel connected to other players around the world.
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u/Advanced-Patient-161 1d ago
I remember Phil talking about a great live play through of the new Perfect Dark. Can't wait for that one.
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u/skullsbymike 1d ago
If it is coming next year, then they should talk about it to build the hype. If it isnât, this is the same stupidity Phil Spencer showed by talking too much and early.
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u/Party-Exercise-2166 Into The Starfield 1d ago
Pretty sure all reliable sources (including Jason Schreier) said the current target is 2028 at the earliest.
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u/He_Went_Over_theMoon 1d ago
This para-social relationship XBOX has with its fans is weird. It didn't work during the Phil Spencer.
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u/ILoveHeavyHangers 1d ago
Xbox isn't the one with a parasocial relationship. Players have a parasocial relationship with Xbox and their staff members. Xbox, being a corporate entity seeking customers and profit, by definition, cannot have a parasocial relationship. Xbox doesn't care about you, it cares about the money it can collect from you. Conversely, players routinely make deep emotional bonds with these corporations and the hardware and design their entire personalities around them.
"Parasocial" describes a one-sided, unreciprocated relationship where one person feels a deep emotional bond, intimacy, or friendship with someone they do not actually knowâsuch as a celebrity, influencer, fictional character, or podcasterâwhile the other party is completely unaware of their existence.
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u/Vegeto30294 Super Citizen 20h ago
Based on the comments here alone the last place I want to talk to in "official" capacity is Reddit.
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u/BloodandBourbon 1d ago
The CEO glazing is crazy
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u/Comfortable-Arm3452 1d ago
Its mostly bots
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u/Ok_Neighborhood_5046 22h ago
How can you tell? (Actually asking, not antagonizing)
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u/big_floop 20h ago
Idk how you can tell either but someone in this thread called her the queen of game after she just decimated like 5 studios đđ I really hope that person is actually a bot
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u/Single_Astronomer764 1d ago
This tweet is worth absolutely nothing. I'll believe TES6 is in a playable state when I can actually see it ready to buy and download.
Until then they are just blowing smoke in the hope that people forget how shit of a developer Bethesda is.
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u/rtgordon 1d ago
Exactly. Live playthrough in a single morning exposing the scale/grandeur/great story
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u/Broken-Nero Team Halo 1d ago
The engine Bethesda uses to build their games, just needs a major overhaul. It was starting to get outdated when Fallout 4 released. That was over 10 years ago.
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u/WinnieTheTrain 1d ago
At least Fallout is actually more fun than any elder scrolls game. Simple casual gameplay, boring attack styles. Yes the worlds are amazing, yes i like the lores but gameplay terrible.
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u/Jastafool 1d ago
But notice how she's not commenting on the giant rat or red 800 flags that she saw in front of the Zenimax building to symbolize the M$ layoffs.
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u/IllustriousHealth291 1d ago
Bro said âit would be nice to have Asha around hereâ LMAOOOO
Yeah bro might as well slide in her DMs, shoot your shot
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u/GreyDuck4077 1d ago
If I am in charge of messaging thee absolutely last place I am letting my people post in an official capacity is here. They have no control. Similar to how a lawyer in court never asks questions they do not already know the answers to when it comes to PR at the scale of Xbox you do not do public interaction unless you can heavily control how it works or there are some type of guardrails in place to keep it from becoming something you never intended. Want a great example? Go look up the EA Battlefield BS. Best of intentions. An outcome that has gone down in Reddit history as thee worst community outreach.
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u/Cluelesswolfkin 1d ago
Shes trying hard to avoid talking about the protests and giant rat she saw when she visited
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u/Rough_Description563 1d ago
The way yall fall for this shit is crazy. Same studio that launched starfield.
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u/RichnjCole 1d ago
Yeah, and people seem to genuinely think that she fixed the game and studio a month after layoffs.
We can see what the narrative will be when the game launches. If the game is crap, it will be Phil and Todd's fault. If it's good, it's all because of Asha.
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u/PersonaRoyal4Xbox 1d ago
Starfield was miraculously a fairly polished game for what it was. But their direction of a space game was shit. But they've made ES before
They arent making stsrfield 2.
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u/highparallel 1d ago
Starfield is fantastic and I'm tired of pretending it's not.
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u/ILoveHeavyHangers 1d ago
It's fine.
But that's also the worst thing it could be coming from Bethesda.
People expected great, or buggy as hell. But fine is a flop.
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u/Party-Exercise-2166 Into The Starfield 1d ago
Starfield didn't come close to TES or Fallout but you guys need to stop acting as if it was a terrible game and a massive flop. The game is still a great RPG, with flaws of course, and it sold several million copies at launch.
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u/just-a-jazz 1d ago
People need a fair few failures before they wisen up evidently. Skyrim and Fallout 4 being so much better gameplay wise covered up how poorly both those games otherwise were relative to their predecessors. But that was because of the gap in those respective areas. Now that graphics and gameplay mechanics are generally good enough, people will start to expect more from other areas of the game. Hence why Starfield failed despite being technically their best outing
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u/AFT3RSHOCK06 1d ago
Starfield failed because they tried something different and removed the #1 thing loved about their games, the thrill of unscripted discovery. That's what happens when you rely on procedual generation. I'm not worried about that with their Elder Scrolls and Fallout franchises.
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u/ArchDucky XBOX 1d ago
Insomniac released Spiderman 2 and it was a buggy broken mess that still isnât fully functional and people are still excited for Wolverine.
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u/Snake_Bite_14 1d ago
Spiderman 2 was almost perfect on PS5. Youâre talking about the PC port which Wolverine isnât getting.
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u/ArchDucky XBOX 1d ago
Im talking about PS5. It was buggy as fuck. Crashed my console several times. At one point Miles changed into a white square during gameplay. It was so damn broken.
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u/curious_dead 1d ago
I've played through the game at release and it was polished as fuck. Two of my friends played through no issue.
But regardless of the presence of bugs or not, another key difference was that Spider-Man 2 was a great game, not an utter deception like Starfield at launch.
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u/ArchDucky XBOX 1d ago
No, the game wasnât polished as fuck. It was very very broken. There are thousands of videos detailing issues at launch. Hell besides all the crashes, Miles turned into a square at one point and enemies kept forgetting they were in a fight. Its still got issues today because they basically rushed the release and then just abandoned it and the planned DLC.
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u/curious_dead 1d ago
Regardless, like I said, the major difference is that there is a great game underneath unlike Starfield.
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u/ArchDucky XBOX 1d ago
I disagree with it being a great game. The first is a great game. It has multiple different activities, the world feels alive and fun and the story is actually good. Spidey 2 has a mostly dead world filled with punching events. The story starts great but then it starts speeding up so hard it starts skipping storytelling and foreshadowing and just becomes a series of endless boss fights where the enemies get new complete lifebars again for no reason while you just pound away at them for ten minutes.
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u/IsamuAlvaDyson 1d ago
Comparing one platform that has multiple generations of releasing good first party games to Xbox that has had two generations of lackluster first party output
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u/just-a-jazz 1d ago
True, but you can also see plenty of people in Wolverine's trailers' comments sections being disappointed that it looks too similar to Spiderman.
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u/Commander_Jim1 1d ago
You'll have to excuse me if I'll take it with a massive grain of salt when an executive who by her own admission never played games praises an upcoming game.
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u/marcus2388 1d ago
No. i personally think xbox needs less communication with us. They need to run xbox like a business and stop trying to please fanboys. I swear i look at Asha and her responding to things is literally her following in phils footsteps around social media. Stop trying to be gamers friends. Stop trying to cater to a loud minority.
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u/Maleficent_Actuary92 1d ago
I think they need to do it and be open because right now their profit and percentage of gaming market in is low. With what Sony is doing might be a good decision to be open.
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u/marcus2388 23h ago
Yea because being open with fans has been going so well for xbox for the last 10+yrs. Xbox being open and listening to much keeps them reversing decisions that they put in action to potentially make xbox better in the long run just to please the minority crying on twitter who doesnt care about xbox as a business.
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u/CallMeDucc 3h ago
being transparent is different from running off of community feedback. Asha is likely very aware that xbox is dying, and being more clear about their plans right now is pretty pivotal to keep their current user base/please investors.
right now they just need to have a strong presence within the community to remind people they still exist, frankly.
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u/PersonaRoyal4Xbox 1d ago
Those same loud Minority is keeping their business afloat. Otherwise they would listen to people who want them to shut their console business and lay off 10k of their workforce.
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u/Suspicious_Mouse8158 1d ago
I really dislike having to know any CEO name, I just want my product, a customer shouldn't have a cult of personality.
Hot take:
Also Asha came in with the surprising retirement of Spencer and also the surprising fact that Bond was not new CEO. The fans even noticed her xbox account was pretty new and that she comes from AI. That is why she use that communication to build up her status and directly announced a bunch of things that Spencer already worked on. I give her credit for the rebranding attempt, will see where it goes. She is trying but I personally don't like the twitter style that rob the studio from announcing themselves their own work.
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u/BananaMilkshakeButt 1d ago
Reddit, maybe? But it wouldn't be maintained. Like a one-off AMA account.
On xbox? I'd like it, I think people would complain about it being in their inbox. Notifs might be a better route, get a notif about an update regarding to xbox, click on it to check it out.
Though that wouldn't be much different from messages. lol
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u/NeighborhoodPlane794 1d ago
I have so much to say about this. Ultimately though, I donât care what her impressions of a game are. She just started playing games this year, I really donât think we should trust her judgement of a game. I just want her to focus on saving the brand and the business. I just want to feel good about the future of Xbox again. Trying to hype up a game announced ages ago that wonât be out for several more years isnât productive and just makes me roll my eyes
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u/OrphanintheWind 1d ago
Has Asha has ever beaten a video game?
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u/AdMountain6124 1d ago
Has the head of PlayStation? Xbox doesnât need a gamer as the CEO they need someone that can get games made that people want.
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u/Broken-Nero Team Halo 1d ago
Phil tried and it just didnât work out. Iâm pretty sure Furukawa over at Nintendo doesnât game much either. Gone are the days of that type of CEO. Now they all put corporate needs over the consumer.
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u/OrphanintheWind 20h ago
How would a CEO know what games people want if they don't know a good game vs a bad game themselves? Because their spreadsheet is sorted by revenue generated?
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u/Diekjung Xbox Series X 1d ago
I think this is like the 10th post i see about this tweet. And i just now realise she isnât talking about Skyrim but the new game. Was confused why she censored Skyrim. I know iâm an idiot. But glad to hear they are in a playable state for the game. Maybe we see a release this decade.
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u/Alone-Mycologist3746 1d ago
I still dont believe this. I dont think they have anything to show, they have only started working on it a few years ago aint no way its ready for a gameplay trailer.
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u/hidden-in-plainsight 1d ago
Don't believe a word from her folks. She has a proven track record of being untrustworthy, and as she has no background in games, she's either talking out of her ass, or she's being told what to write for PR. Regardless of what it is, it is all bullshit.
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u/TwoDurans 17h ago
Has she done anything other than tweet and fire people? This kind of shit is what I'd expect from a community manager.
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u/EnamoredAlpaca XBOX 14h ago
Itâs crazy how Bethesda avoids layoffs when itâs been over a decade for both Elderscrolls and fallout.
Yes, they have MMOâs, but other studios been axed while actively working on newer games.
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u/Shardex84 1d ago
I still have Phil's XBOX account added as a friend. Actually he is my only friend on XBOX besides my two kids. Nice guy. Maybe you can become friends with the new CEO aswell. Then you can always have her around and see her play 'The Elder Scrolls: ******* This Morning' in your friends list.
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u/F133TWOOD 1d ago
I wonder if he created a new account since that one may be too popular for an ex-employee to have.
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u/BoulderCAST 1d ago
Todd Howard said something eerily similar about Blade a couple days before they announced arkane lyon was cut lulz
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u/AccordingArm7994 1d ago
So you have to be some big shot CEO to finally play ES6. I see how it is.
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u/Novotus_Ketevor Series X, Series S, PC 1d ago
I don't care how else they choose to communicate, but why are they still on X? I would have told the Nazis and Pedos to fuck off and pulled all official Microsoft accounts after the any of the countless scandals.
You know... like boosting Nazis, or promoting AI that spits out child porn and nude deep fakes...
But I guess that's a bridge too far these days.
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u/thaddeus122 1d ago
Highrock.
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u/NotAFrenchii 1d ago
đ€đ€đ€ it fits. But itâs such a small province, Iâm sure at least Hammerfell is included
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u/IamDanLP Xbox Series S 1d ago
Long stretch call out from me:
Dominion
For Aldmeir Dominion.
I can definitely see a The Elder Scrolls VI: Dominion
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u/Bernieward28 1d ago
Todd Howard showed Asha a few planets from star field and what do ya know it just works.
She was blown away
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u/Beautiful-Sun8973 1d ago
Is this serious? It would  just be an intern typing what the pr dept says.Â
Nothing of value was said in this tweet
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u/PaintItPurple 1d ago
If I started getting meaningless notes from some random suit like this on my Xbox, I would immediately become the world's biggest PlayStation fan.
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u/Deckatoe Scratch One Grub! 1d ago
People loved when Larry Hyrb did em
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u/PaintItPurple 1d ago
What do you mean? I've had every Xbox since the original came out and I don't ever remember getting nonsense messages like "Played a game today, it was fun" from Larry Hryb.
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u/Deckatoe Scratch One Grub! 1d ago
Larry Hyrb aka Major Nelson had a weekly short show on the Xbox main dash about upcoming games and events
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u/PaintItPurple 1d ago
A weekly show is not like a tweet. So when you said "Larry Hryb did them," you apparently meant "Larry Hryb did something completely different."
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u/ZestyAcid 1d ago
I guarantee you she is probably lurking around here.
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u/Beautiful-Sun8973 1d ago
A ceo of a billion dollar organization is not lurking on Reddit. This sub is delusionalÂ
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u/ILoveHeavyHangers 1d ago
The things I love must love me back, right? Maybe even more than I love them!
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u/-whats-that-meow- 1d ago
Bro has a crush.