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Dia Lacina

@dialacina.com

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · Oct 11

Oh we're doing pinned posts now?

Sup, I'm Dia. If you're new here...

I write about games: www.pastemagazine.com/author/dia-l...

I do Let's Plays of neat games (often with friends):
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And you can support my work (and get exclusive stuff) here:
www.patreon.com/dialacina

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creating Let's Plays and Games Criticism

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 18m

Damn. They never did put Dragon's Crown or Odin Sphere on the Switch? Sony really clamping down on that dick, huh?

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 20m

These last two posts might have been the biggest sell on this game for me yet.

Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 25m

Don't you dare come at me with, "Well it's because of online multiplayer...I don't want to play against someone's character named CuntWrecker9000" No, fuck you, you are an infant. Let me name my squad after my homies.

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 29m

Dear Vanillaware: Not allowing custom names for generic units in Unicorn Overlord is the kind of thing that makes me hate you forever.

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 1h

Damn. Congrats. You really picked a hell of a time for this.

Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 2h

Hades Fandom: IT'S SERIOUS ADULT LITERATURE ABOUT TRAUMA AND QUEER SEX THAT REALLY EXPLORES MYTHOLOGY

Grace: I think it falls short for these reasons...

Hades Fandom: [scoffs] Wow talk about going to a McDonald's and asking for Taco Bell!

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Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 3h

I'll probably do an updated version of this article now that the game is officially released outside of Japan, but if you're curious what Ys vs. Trails in the Sky: Alternative Saga even is, I've got you covered as of a couple of years ago.

It's new to me: Ys vs. Trails in the Sky: Alternative Saga

Ys vs. Sora no Kiseki, really, because this fighting game crossover between two Falcom JRPG franchises hasn't been officially released outside of Japan.

retroxp.beehiiv.com

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 3h

I can tell you right now this is going to be a 🔥🔥🧵🔥🔥

amr al-aaser @siegarettes.bsky.social · 3h

ABSOLUM is gearing up to be one of my favorite games of the year

so I'm making a thread to collect my thoughts on exactly why that is

it's a fantasy roguelike beat em up from the other half of the Streets of Rage 4 team, an alternative evolution of Capcom's DnD arcade brawlers

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 3h

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 3h

lmao once again Grace's pieces really become a honeypot to feed the blocklist

Endless Mode @endlessmode.bsky.social · 23h

Hades II demeans the mystery and grandeur of myth through its shallow writing and unserious tone, writes @gracemachine.bsky.social. www.endlessmode.com/video-games/...

Hades II's Ill-Defined, Unserious World Undermines the Depth and Power of Mythology

With its cardboard cutout characters, Hades II flattens the fearful, uneasy mystery of its mythic inspirations.

www.endlessmode.com

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 10h

Ancestors too fucking lenient with y'all now turned the whole goddamn continent into a police state for your own damn selves too. Jfc

Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 10h

When I see posts like this all I can think is..

Old timey illustration of a Native watching a settler ship that has been photoshopped to be vertical in the water as if it is halfway sinking

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 15h

Please enjoy this Jake Tapper jump scare.

Jake Tapper with his gross ear piece just laying on his shoulder and he's too close and head is too big.

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 15h

Just play Solar Jetman like a real boss.

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 17h

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 15h

Just in case anyone is still holding on out of nostalgia for what it used to be.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 15h

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 15h

Luna, you know they just source it from one movie -- Starship Troopers. Especially if they went to college.

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 16h

Dude I thought Christian Bale was doing another movie for a sec.

A photo of Justin Bieber with sleeve tats a beard and a shaved head looking rough

Headline: Now Justin Bieber's mom is praying for him

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Ebil @ebil.bsky.social · 1d

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 17h

"You say you put wires in my foot? I don't see any wires. Think you got the wrong guy."

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~ Ｍａｃｉｎｔｏｓｈ　Ｍｉｎｕｓ ~ @questfortori.bsky.social · 17h

did you know that the very first Digimon video game (Aside from the keychains) was a Sega Saturn-exclusive reimagining of the vpet keychains with a full simulated OS and internet in it?

I live for this stuff, it's SO cool

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 18h

Sometimes I'll even do triplet, so my sentence can be airtight

Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 18h

Hey so why aren't you guys dumping all of your cash into ads on every channel saying "Trump and the GOP are going to increase your premiums to $4k/mo unless you call your guys and tell them to change their behavior" really, why haven't you done this for months and months?

Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 19h

Premium increases notices will soon arrive in the mailboxes of Americans all over the US.

The average increase? 114%.

For some, the numbers are even higher:

A couple making $129,000 with two adult children at home in Savannah, GA, will pay $3,150 more per month for insurance.

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 18h

Does he make that face the entire time?

"Trump talks about his cognitive exam" over top of a photo of him with his mouth hanging open and his eyes dead and bleary

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Bergamot Jones @bergamohjones.bsky.social · 19h

Kidman: I want to be lettuce.
Vogue stylist: i—i don't know what that—
Kidman *throwing a glass ashtray*: I WANT TO BE LETTUCE!!!

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 1d

Nicole Kidman stuns for Vogue.

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