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Iro | Obsidian Moonshine @iro.obsidianmoonshine.com · 13h

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

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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.

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Curious Quail @curiousquail.com · 5h

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

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The other night's moon

It's been a while tbh

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Loke @lokeloski.bsky.social · 6h

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 · 7d

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 · 10h

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 · 11h

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 · 12h

honest answer: cheat engine

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Iro | Obsidian Moonshine @iro.obsidianmoonshine.com · 12h

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 · 12h

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 · 13h

999 making prosopagnosia the quicksand of the pictochat generation

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The GLORIO Blog @glorioblog.bsky.social · 18h

Fuck AI.

First Look: Mechanical Marie

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

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Iro | Obsidian Moonshine @iro.obsidianmoonshine.com · 13h

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

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Artemis Octavio @stopcar.ing · 14h

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.

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Amaranth M @jazzelves.bsky.social · 13h

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

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Iro | Obsidian Moonshine @iro.obsidianmoonshine.com · 13h

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 · 15h

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 · 3d

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.

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Blog Post

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Eric @mokkograd.net · 3d

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

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Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · 15h

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 · 7d

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.

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RyougaSaotome @ryougasaotome.bsky.social · 16h

Excellent excellent game

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 16h

Tsukihime -A Piece of Blue Glass Moon- is $29.99 on US eShop buff.ly/gFKoiFK
US PSN buff.ly/dPhttvz

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Osmose @osmose.bsky.social · 16h

Dragon Ball characters are named after food that's why Goku's rival is named Fajita

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Iro | Obsidian Moonshine @iro.obsidianmoonshine.com · 16h

New 7th Stand User update, where we finally begin the climactic confrontation with Dio Brando.

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43 - ZA WARUDO, Part 1 - Mixed Metaphors

Let's Play A JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Fangame

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Iro | Obsidian Moonshine @iro.obsidianmoonshine.com · 16h

IMO my Tsukihime Remake review is some of my best work

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

still have not forgiven kamen rider build for giving an actually quite funny wacky t-shirt bit to the wrong character and completely defanging his pathos in the back third of the show by making him a joke

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

i feel like being really into brandon sanderson books in my 20s caused me immeasurable creative harm by convincing me i needed to follow a specific paradigm of worldbuilding if i wanted to write fantasy and making that my default mode of thinking
anxiety and moral scrupulosity prob don't help either

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rowan kaiser @rowan.monster · 1d

I'd really appreciate if writers these days took a look at their characters doing therapyspeak and whether that's appropriate for their work and their world.

By "therapyspeak" I mean speaking like this: "This is the emotion I'm feeling, and feeling that emotion makes me want to act in a way"

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