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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 11h

I swear this has gotten way worse lately. Like true many games are releasing in bad states. But fan discussion is like 90% campaigning groups to fix or change a game.

Debate mindset mixed with fornite/mobile game update speed has warped people's brains.

PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 11h

It was very odd to see everyone go FINALLY A COMPETITOR TO POKEMON, and it was a dull early access survival game instead of one of the many turn based rpgs.

I'm half convinced the mass hysteria was to justify an obsession with that slop genre.

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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 12h

All fiction is just a twist on Kagurabachi when you get down to it.

"So basically think of Excalibur like a British Yoto, oh gomen Enchanted Blade"

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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 15h

To me what defined SNK was style, and it really feels like they've lost any sense of their modern identity.

Obari and a dump truck full of cash could save their reputation, instead they get the guy who made a movie with worse dialogue than a Borderlands game.

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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 17h

Action games are fighting games, no wait
Action games include some platforming, hang on
Action games are about real time strategy, nevermind
Action games involve search actions...

Well they're not RPGs cause those are about the spectacle of character, fuck

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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 18h

The books had the same effect really. The wave of fantasy writing largely suffered from not looking into Tolkien's influences. That was just the way things were, till the movies made fantasy the way it is.

Not to say the derivatives are all bad. Just wish the genre could be bolder.

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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 18h

You fool, the game should be free but there are multiple expensive battle passes and dlcs but if you only play this game you'll earn about enough free currency to buy some of the content but the game may also be updated to something unrecognisable at any point.

This is a good model.

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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 1d

a cartoon character says hello in front of a museum

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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 1d

Caught between feeling like a fraud cause I haven't finished Killer 7, and making split second calls on if telling someone I like Zelda is going a bit too far for them.

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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 1d

Pikmin 1's calendar is interesting in theory, but in practice it doesn't really force you to make decisions. Restarts (and in ports rewind) and the shortness of days mean a bad situation is never forced on you. The day timer makes you plan things out, but the calendar is more of a vibe than a threat

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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 1d

Repeatedly we see those in authority go too far. But Denji and Asa haven't found the right balance either. Maybe they won't and there is no right answer. I think their resolution though is going to beat at least fighting for what they want in the face of a system primed against them.

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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 1d

A recurring idea in Chainsaw Man is you got to be at least a little bit selfish. Not so much that you become entirely numb to the pain of others, that's what the villains do. But in a world where so many bad things will happen, you need something to anchor you. Though you can choose poorly.

#csm217

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Tirk @handle.invalid · 1d

"data mining and leak culture has ruined the wonder and joy of discovery in new (pokemon) games" there's one easy solution to this and that's just playing random indie games nobody cares about instead

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Will BOO-rows 🖖🍞🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 2d

A photo of three people in inflatable frog suits outside an ICE detention center in Portland, overlaid with an excerpt from Exodus 8:2-6

"But if you refuse to let them go, I will
plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on
your people and on all your officials."

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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 1d

Anger at spoilers is a natural part of hype cycles now, so the behaviour gets transplanted onto Nintendo games even when the spoilers are unimportant.

Same with getting really tetchy about lore, though in that case they made up half of it and are mad when it is wrong.

PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 1d

Go for it

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Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 2d

i really hate when we talk about books like they're shopping lists of tropes

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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 2d

If full of dopamine you wish to be, then pick one of my options 3

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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 2d

Nextfest is becoming a bit like steam greenlight where it is getting harder and harder to swim through the slop

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LIMART🌸 @limart05.bsky.social · 2d

Barara Peor

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ellen ✨commissions open! @ellenent.bsky.social · 14d

Hornet dressed like her idols, Metroid & Vania
#silksong #art #metroid #castlevania

Digital art of Hornet from the game Hollow Knigiht dressed with the Varia Suit, from Metroid.

Digital art of Hornet from the game Hollow Knigiht dressed as Alucard, from the game Castlevania.

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 2d

This is how I imagine JK Rowling when she posts.

JK Rowling says "ha ha.. h-heh. I won! I won!" She sits alone in the dark, bathed in the late of her computer screen. We pull back to see her in a large dark empty room. She continues "I won." Seeing the full scope of her cavernous workplace, she appears small and alone. She says, once again, "I won..."

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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 2d

Pikmin's post apocalypse fan theory being taken as canon, and that being used to get mad at a random short. Really cements how I dislike the discussion around game lore.

But more than ever, this case would be solved by people going outside and seeing trees and trash exist without all humans dying.

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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 3d

Would you mind refunding the money you took instead of sending everyone an automated email?

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☆「ＹＡＳＥ」IdolismJ ☆ @idolismj.yase.world · 3d

That green base wasn't the only color that ended up looking washed out in the final design

Fighting-Games Daily @fgcdaily.bsky.social · 3d

🎨Bayonetta's character designer, Mari Shimazaki made Miary Zo's Costume 03!

“The combination of a green base with red accents was inspired by the Madagascar flag, and from an early stage onwards, a white inner layer was incorporated to highlight Miariz's dark skin.”

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