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Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · 17d

any silent hill f tweets i make will be tagged with #DogEnding, i will do my best to graphic tag images+rot13 mega spoilers but just be aware of what to mute. i will be there the second it unlocks

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Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · 47m

the day this part was supposed to arrive the brake pads wore through and it started squealing every time i used them so i am going to take it to the shop anyways. time to die

Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · 2d

my innate midwesternness finally took the wheel. it's a $25 part. there have to be youtube tutorials. i will die before i beg this week

Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · 2d

i will be eating repair costs but the car still runs and it seems like i'll need a replacement for a light's casing, i will see what the estimated bill is and might have to do e-begging. life is great

Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · 59m

yea same lmfao everybody rightfully hated all the orb shop shit in dmc5 but the pre-order bonus giving me enough to immediately jc off that big fat guy nero fights was very nice

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Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · 1h

just in case the person in lrp deletes their tweet because i just saw it blow up in real-time, source is this www.gamedeveloper.com/business/-ga...

How the EA buyout diverges from the playbook

Analysts explain how the high-risk leveraged buyout will impact Electronic Arts and the video game industry.

www.gamedeveloper.com

Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · 1h

i think having a slimmer moveset is good for onboarding - being a selectable upgrade highlights importance, and in DMC, JCing being extremely expensive is a way to sell that it's a powerful but highly advanced technique - but that only works for your first DMC and gets tedious afterwards

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Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · 1h

i think in general as i play more games i get closer to wanting minimal moveset changes throughout the game or at least very rapid and clear onboarding for your kit, i've actually been of two minds as i work through shit like Battle Circuit too because it violates this lol

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Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · 1h

my go-to is always "you have to do a level in a dmc game before you can buy stinger" even if they're a lot less bad about it than a lot of others given how short a mission is

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Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · 1h

pretty funny to do an international film class and literally all of them go "this nation had a burgeoning cinema1 culture that created some fascinating movi- and then WW2 broke out and they made heavily censored propaganda until the next generation"

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Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · 1h

Leapfrogging off of lrp but this conclusion is also wildly bleak and something I was immediately worried about - the role of video games as an explicitly national project doesn't make for good art in times of war

Saudi Arabia has a notoriously bad human rights record, according to Amnesty International. The Saudi government has been accused of murdering journalist Jamal Khashoggi (allegedly at the order of Crown Prince and Public Investment Fund chairman Mohammed bin Salman), quashing free speech, discriminating against women and members of the LGBTQ+ community (LGBTQI+ rights are not legally recognized or protected in Saudi Arabia), and outlawing protests and demonstrations.

What all this adds up to is the potential for "more sovereign money in the sandbox," van Dreunen said. "Once state-backed investors treat games as geopolitical assets, the floodgates open," he continued.

"That means bigger budgets, fewer exits, and politics embedded in content decisions. For developers, that means deeper pockets but heightened scrutiny over cultural representation. Recent tariffs and barriers to high-skilled talent entering the U.S. also create openings for markets like Europe to expand their gaming footprint. The center of gravity in gaming is shifting from market dynamics to geopolitical power plays."

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VI VI VI @volty.bsky.social · 11h

this article just sort of casually mentions that the only real way to pay off the debt they saddled EA with is through new revenue streams like sports betting

Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 14h

'Gaming is the new oil:' How the EA buyout 'diverges from the traditional playbook'

Analysts explain how the high-risk leveraged buyout will impact Electronic Arts and the video game industry.

www.gamedeveloper.com

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Kenza @kenzamaka.sheath.church · 25d

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Doodle Dip @doodledipart.bsky.social · May 27

I'm a good girl, aren't I?

I'm finally getting back into the swing of art and I decided on some horny fursona doodles

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Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · 3h

Wyler Birthday Only Tournament with capcom pro tour prize pools right next to the buriki one grudge matches

Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · 4h

hugg

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Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · 4h

she's settled on real bout 2. the die has been cast and we will find out this sunday

Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · 4h

the autism prevents her from cleaning the knife

Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · 4h

she cuts a tylenol in half for her headaches and some of the residue gets on the knife

Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · 4h

making oomf decide between kof xi, real bout 2, or art of fighting 3. neither of us have played any of them. i fear this may decide our lives without knowing

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Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · 4h

do we know who that silent hill wiki editor guy is? what have his contributions been looking like since february

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 7h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · 4h

i mean i'm ngl i just don't think that itsuno era dmc is really gonna be a good fit for that desire in the first place

Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · 4h

this seems like it's basically tekken 4 but without the expectation of following up tekken 3; hype moments and aura and a whole lot of weird jank shit, i'm way more down than i actually was for t4 lol

Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · 4h

this shit got a $100k tournament recently and i am definitely doing a beer-and-pretzels night because this does not look like a game you play for money, i'm fascinated

Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · 5h

lmfao if you play a match on one of the characters' birthdays they have a permanent 20% damage buff and the tournament banned character isn't even a top tier but is just so unfun to play that they kicked him out for being a buzzkill

Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · 5h

reading the art of fighting 3 mizuumi faq and this game sounds like it'd be pretty fun to try out in casual matches with pals

Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · 5h

i didn't get super far in the rulebook because the art was really bad but it being a more narrative-driven system makes me worried that it'll be tied to that era in some way that's difficult to genericize

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Ashcan @ashcan.bsky.social · 5h

wow my posts are all over the place today even by my standards lmfao