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Aki's Perspectives

@akisperspectives.bsky.social

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(they/them) makes: ttrpgs, essays, analysis and other angles. the profile picture is of my grandma’s tom yum soup

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Aki's Perspectives @akisperspectives.bsky.social · Dec 29

Rising Action, the first ttrpg I've ever completed, is out now!

It's a duet game where you play a pair of rivals having an ever-escalating battle where their past and passions collide.
Inspired by action anime/games and uses a deck of playing cards!
akis-perspectives.itch.io/rising-action

Rising Action by aki's perspectives

A duet game of escalating battles between rivals where pasts and passions collide

akis-perspectives.itch.io

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Aki's Perspectives @akisperspectives.bsky.social · 2d

rebirth also has some serious tonal issues a plot that feels like it’s treading water more than moving forward a lot of the time which adds to the fatigue i think

Aki's Perspectives @akisperspectives.bsky.social · 2d

or i could consider doing 2 games at once…

Aki's Perspectives @akisperspectives.bsky.social · 2d

i might just only do main/side quests and try to get to the end because i have some other rpgs i want to get to now

Aki's Perspectives @akisperspectives.bsky.social · 2d

i’m at the end of chapter 9 of ff7 rebirth and i’m a little… tired? gongaga is definitely one of the most elaborate and beautiful areas but it also highlights a lot of the rough edges of the game - the map being hard to read, the repetitive nature of the world quests so i almost

Aki's Perspectives @akisperspectives.bsky.social · 3d

coffee mints

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Unwritten Earths Symposium @unwrittenearths.bsky.social · 4d

⚔️ The Season of Swords is upon us! Swords Without Master is coming out of the pages of Worlds Without Master Issue 3 into a full, stand-alone release!

🔮 Follow the Kickstarter page to get notified on launch in early 2026

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Coming soon: Swords Without Master

A ttrpg of strange sorceries, brutal violence and astounding wonder by Epidiah Ravachol.

www.kickstarter.com

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Aki's Perspectives @akisperspectives.bsky.social · 6d

i am suddenly drawn to try wuthering waves…

Aki's Perspectives @akisperspectives.bsky.social · 9d

there is a small park near my home that i can hear from my room and this time of the year the cries of birds are joyously unending

Aki's Perspectives @akisperspectives.bsky.social · 11d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=azSs... toe on first take and it's a legendary one their post-rock is a great fit for the format tbh

toe - Goodbye feat. Asako Toki + Seigen Tokuzawa / THE FIRST TAKE

YouTube video by THE FIRST TAKE

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 12d

I had to expunge my thoughts on Bluesky's current, uh, choppy waters into a proper blog post (which jay can't take down for being too mean or saying 'lol' in a threatening way)

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Delusions of a Protocol

On vaporware as an ideological product.

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Aki's Perspectives @akisperspectives.bsky.social · 12d

not to miss a chance to plug my own stuff my (free!) game The Retrieval Process is about exploring the evolving state of information on the internet akis-perspectives.itch.io/the-retrieva...

The Retrieval Process by aki's perspectives

Group reviewed retrieval of genuine and meaningful media from contaminated archives of the open internet

akis-perspectives.itch.io

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Aki's Perspectives @akisperspectives.bsky.social · 12d

like i eventually as i got older was able to see the world and even move abroad but much of my motivation came from seeing it first through the lenses of other real people...

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Aki's Perspectives @akisperspectives.bsky.social · 12d

growing up on an island much of my visual understanding of things like mountains, valleys, seasons, stars, etc came from watching videos on the internet. which i think adds to the absolute horror and also facination with the way slop destroys the fidelity to reality that internet video once had

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Aki's Perspectives @akisperspectives.bsky.social · 13d

so bluesky is also ramping up AI integration……. are we speed running the lifecycle of a platform or

Aki's Perspectives @akisperspectives.bsky.social · 17d

is it just one sentence? most of it lives in your head

Aki's Perspectives @akisperspectives.bsky.social · 17d

game in a sentence: When You Roll The World Moves Ten Years Into the Future

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Aki's Perspectives @akisperspectives.bsky.social · 18d

on a dice browsing streak suddenly

Aki's Perspectives @akisperspectives.bsky.social · 18d

aaaa the new atelier is out and it looks like a more back to roots take on the series (I really wanted to like yumia but had my fill after a bunch of hours)

Aki's Perspectives @akisperspectives.bsky.social · 20d

what if horse_ebooks was a kind of proto-vtuber in the twitter dimension

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 21d

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

In early 2025, beaver activity in the Brdy Protected Landscape Area, Czech Republic, contributed to the restoration of a wetland ecosystem. A family of beavers constructed a series of dams that coincidentally accomplished environmental goals of the Czech government, which had delayed its proposed project since 2018 for bureaucratic and financial reasons. The beaver-built dams saved the Czech government approximately US$1.2 million,

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Aki's Perspectives @akisperspectives.bsky.social · 22d

Shattered City really pushes the limits of the pbta framework it uses there are so many layers and intersecting procedures that model the individual hero actions, player controlled faction level politics and intrigue and boarder events that take place across years

Aki's Perspectives @akisperspectives.bsky.social · 23d

in the game
but now with the genre of farming sims having been more established we have a shorthand of 'yeah this tool does axe and hammer stuff' because the metaphors have been established and now we can put our attention to other things

Aki's Perspectives @akisperspectives.bsky.social · 23d

that genre itself? when your game has to establish the mechanical relationship between the tools and the environment from scratch it makes sense to give your character a separate axe and hammer because they would do different things in real life and thus it would make sense they do different things

Aki's Perspectives @akisperspectives.bsky.social · 23d

listening to someone talk about how they've streamlined the items in this farming sim now that you have a combination axe and hammer, while in the older games they would be seperate items you had to switch between

how much of that 'streamlining' is a result of the progress of games and

Aki's Perspectives @akisperspectives.bsky.social · 24d

got the demo version of dragon reactor to the table today! i had a lot of fun with this one, very much looking forward to reading the full game when it’s out

a low table with sheets for dragon reactor strewn across it. dice and pens and a notebook stacked on top of a tablet’s screen