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RyougaSaotome @ryougasaotome.bsky.social · 34m

We need to talk about one of the greatest line reads in the history of video games.

DIE THE DEATH

SENTENCE TO DEATH

GREAT EQUALIZER IS THE DEATH

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Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 36m

i am very powerful btw

💥 🏠

Chloe Appleby @chloeappleby.bsky.social · 51m

This is today, excited to chat to these powerhouses and ask very specific questions on their work @samwinkler.bsky.social @jesawyer.bsky.social and Lis Moberly! On at 12:30pm in the main theatre PAX AUS

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 6h

The Last Guardian (PS4) is $14.30 US Dollars at VGP buff.ly/Pd8nZVV

All VGP deals buff.ly/B2wm2B6 #ad

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Iro | Obsidian Moonshine @iro.obsidianmoonshine.com · 8h

all new battle dialogue in FFT remaster:
Villain: "Do you not care of the commonfolk? We must burn down this corrupt society of haves and have-nots!"
Hero: "You're part of a demonic death cult using populist rhetoric to justify a power grab in a world you *already control*!"
Villain: "shut up WOMAN"

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Iro | Obsidian Moonshine @iro.obsidianmoonshine.com · 1d

I wrote about how Hades II is a good game that left me cold and wanting despite its abundance of Content.

obsidianmoonshine.com/public/1-blo...

Hades II feels like Purgatory

Hades But More is just about the least interesting thing Supergiant could have put out, and it being a solidly good game doesn't change that.

obsidianmoonshine.com

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Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 9h

Poetry. 1800 GMT/UTC. Two hours.
www.twitch.tv/thaliarchus

thaliarchus - Twitch

Games, poems, oddments.

www.twitch.tv

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sarantine @sarantine.bsky.social · 10h

Rushed to hospital after playing my incredibly ill advised drinking game where I take a shot whenever they mention family in Hades II.

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Peyton @gee-man.bsky.social · 1d

I haven't talked about it much but I'm in the Hades 2 postgame and while I would say it's undeniably a well made game, nearly every facet of it feels less exciting this time around. Which is to be expected from a sequel, but I don't think I was ready for just *how* safe of a sequel Hades 2 is.

Iro | Obsidian Moonshine @iro.obsidianmoonshine.com · 1d

I wrote about how Hades II is a good game that left me cold and wanting despite its abundance of Content.

obsidianmoonshine.com/public/1-blo...

Hades II feels like Purgatory

Hades But More is just about the least interesting thing Supergiant could have put out, and it being a solidly good game doesn't change that.

obsidianmoonshine.com

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Curious Quail @curiousquail.com · 22h

Oh hey I forgot to share these moon photos from the other night. Please enjoy (or don’t, I don’t know your life)

blog.curiousquail.com/the-other-ni...

The other night's moon

It's been a while tbh

blog.curiousquail.com

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Loke @lokeloski.bsky.social · 22h

Life is hard, stuff takes time, plans don't work out, the sun is trying to kill you, do not talk shit about younger generations.
Take it easy.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 8d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Iro | Obsidian Moonshine @iro.obsidianmoonshine.com · 1d

I wrote the post with the entire game in mind, not just its post-game, but I understand how that might not be 100% clear considering how I worded some things. I felt that way throughout the game

I guess by that tack I'd say most of Hades 2 feels like I'm grinding out postgame content for Hades 1

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Joe @joe-byron.bsky.social · 1d

I’m really taken with Judero: the writing, the music, the setting, not so much the combat which is admittedly, and literally, ‘hit and miss’, but everything else is really fantastic! Very warm and inviting a game. #blutoid #judero

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Iro | Obsidian Moonshine @iro.obsidianmoonshine.com · 1d

honest answer: cheat engine

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Iro | Obsidian Moonshine @iro.obsidianmoonshine.com · 1d

jojo's bizarre adventure "it's finally a friday... yes... finally here... friday..." meme image

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Iro | Obsidian Moonshine @iro.obsidianmoonshine.com · 1d

Screenshot from Mother 3 where the party is checking a mailbox.
Text is: "The mailbox lid is open... Peek inside?"

(At this point in the game the party is tripping on mushrooms or something and the mailboxes in this area all contain surreal or horrifying things.)

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Alex Zandra @zandravandra.com · 1d

999 making prosopagnosia the quicksand of the pictochat generation

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The GLORIO Blog @glorioblog.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck AI.

First Look: Mechanical Marie

This anime probably used AI images and that's all I want to talk about.

theglorioblog.com

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Iro | Obsidian Moonshine @iro.obsidianmoonshine.com · 1d

i need to get better at finding Angles rather than simply writing what i think

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Artemis Octavio @stopcar.ing · 1d

New article is live on Stop Caring

This one from @otomeniki.bsky.social, who argues that Final Fantasy Tactics memes engages audiences in a unique form of reader-response theory. Which *is* art criticism, even if it doesn't *look* like art criticism.

Give it a read and a share!

Final Fantasy Tactics Memes Prove Video Games are Art

Final Fantasy Tactics memes engage audiences in an unique form of reader-response.

www.stopcar.ing

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Amaranth M @jazzelves.bsky.social · 1d

Transit Guy from simcity 2000 announcing “YOU CANT GAMIFY SAMSARA! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!”

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Iro | Obsidian Moonshine @iro.obsidianmoonshine.com · 1d

I wrote about how Hades II is a good game that left me cold and wanting despite its abundance of Content.

obsidianmoonshine.com/public/1-blo...

Hades II feels like Purgatory

Hades But More is just about the least interesting thing Supergiant could have put out, and it being a solidly good game doesn't change that.

obsidianmoonshine.com

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Eric @mokkograd.net · 1d

I'm going to keep boosting this, because it's been a while since I was last happy about something I've written.

Eric @mokkograd.net · 4d

New Blog Post!

Anything Can Be A Battle (If you want it to be!)

2300 words about how game design talk often too prescriptive, musing on the nature of abstract turn based battle systems and the various ways how you might make your fights more exciting.

mokkograd.net/posts/2025-1...

Blog Post

mokkograd.net

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Eric @mokkograd.net · 4d

New Blog Post!

Anything Can Be A Battle (If you want it to be!)

2300 words about how game design talk often too prescriptive, musing on the nature of abstract turn based battle systems and the various ways how you might make your fights more exciting.

mokkograd.net/posts/2025-1...

Blog Post

mokkograd.net

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Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · 1d

Jason (and you) should read my piece the California Problem that talks in detail about my feelings on the past, present and future of videogames as an art form ellaguro.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-...

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Harper Jay @dreamcastaway.bsky.social · 8d

Oh, hey! I'm *writing* again!

Let's talk about a man named named Ramza Beoulve. Let's talk about the "ease at which men are branded heretics..."

Let's talk about revolution.

www.eurogamer.net/the-revoluti...

The revolutionary politics of Final Fantasy Tactics, and why Ramza Beoulve is a hero for our times

Final Fantasy Tactics' original writer-director Yasumi Matsuno signalled the timeliness of this remake for a reason: its hero offers a model of resistance.

www.eurogamer.net

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