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amr al-aaser @siegarettes.bsky.social · 1d

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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Teone @teonergt.bsky.social · 3d

é que eu tive uma fase muito muito fissurada em twin peaks, daí pesquisando fui descobrindo essas coisas :p lembro que a globo até transmite twin peaks aqui, e se nao me engaaaaano é logo depois que acaba a novela (?) algo assi

twin peaks depois q ce assiste ce começa a ver em tudo, é doidera... .

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Teone @teonergt.bsky.social · 3d

quantos vão pegar a ref...

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Teone @teonergt.bsky.social · 3d

literalmente sim, o sucesso de twin peaks influenciou diretamente a novela na epoca e tals :p

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Teone @teonergt.bsky.social · 3d

@sushi.jogabilida.de @majin.jogabilida.de !!!!

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Teone @teonergt.bsky.social · 3d

THE PROTOMEN: ACT III IS HERE!!!

"New tracks added weekly until the final Bandcamp Friday of 2025! Just refresh your app every week and listen to the drama unfold."

YESSSSSSSSSssssss (!)

theprotomen.bandcamp.com/album/act-ii...

Act III: This City Made Us, by The Protomen

4 track album

theprotomen.bandcamp.com

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Richard Troupe @richardtroupe.bsky.social · 4d

This is an extremely disappointing statement from Bitmap Books. Their books are extremely high quality with fantastic writing... This recent SNES RPG release has the writing style of a confused 14 year old.

That's not the problem though - the problem sits with the continued support of a racist.

Bitmap Books @bitmapbooks.com · 4d

Monday 6th October 2025

Dear supporters of Bitmap Books,

Although I stand by the fact that Moses’ comments were ill-advised and insensitive, the whole thing blew up and was made much bigger than it needed to be. Moses has publicly apologised for any offence caused, as has the original poster of the comments who did not intend to cause this much trouble. I do not feel that this warrants an author losing his livelihood and ruining years of hard work to produce the book.

Despite multiple accusations to the contrary, Moses freely agreed to donate his royalties to charity. There was no coercion from me, however we both recognise that due to an increasingly stressful situation that decisions were rushed on both sides. I’m pleased to say that Moses and I have spoken again today, we stand together, and have agreed that he will receive 100% of his royalties.

Maybe I was hasty in my response, and I’m happy to admit to that. At the time I sincerely thought I was doing the right thing to diffuse an increasingly difficult situation. I will commit to donating all company profits from this first print run to the charity, Special Effect.

The bottom line is that is that Moses has apologised for his original comments, and will now be paid the royalties that are rightfully his.

Moses and myself have received a large amount of personal abuse and threats over the past few days. We hope that this statement will bring some closure to what has happened.

Sam Dyer, founder of Bitmap Books

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fred de harness @freddeharness.bsky.social · 4d

ABSOLUTE NOVELA

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George J. Horvath @landofobscusion.bsky.social · 5d

I would if I could... and that applies to both a girlfriend & a Guardian Force.

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Teone @teonergt.bsky.social · 6d

So what happens now is that SotN turned into an "I just want to move foward and hit some random dudes showing up in front of me" experience. It's much more about the feel of the controls and act up in a relaxed sensorial trance, enjoying the aesthetics. And that's what beat em ups are about for us.

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Teone @teonergt.bsky.social · 6d

The thing we talked about was how we are always coming back to it, like, for decades now, and we're in a point that we know that castle so well, the enemies etc, that the exploration, the mystery, the RPG "build" strategy, all of it just isn't on our minds, perception, and interest anymore. +

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Teone @teonergt.bsky.social · 6d

I mean, we could discuss if books, songs and movies are really static, "finished" objects, but I think you know what I'm talking about... games need our actions to "happen" and to keep going one way or another. They're in many ways experiences less controlled by their makers.

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Teone @teonergt.bsky.social · 6d

Of course we're considering beat em ups also as some kind of subjective experience, instead of the result of having a number of formal characteristics put together in a game. Seems to be just like the man/woman/trans discussions. Because games are not static as a movie or book. They're performative.

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Teone @teonergt.bsky.social · 6d

Talking with a friend about our relationship with Symphony of the Night, it made me think of how games are intrinsically genderfluid. Like, it can propose itself as a metroidvania at first, but as games are also what we make them to be, it was transformed into a beat em up experience along the years

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Krokodyl @krokodyl.bsky.social · 9d

I often joke that most video essays should have been blog posts, but this book really reads like a glorified blog post, both in style and tone. I find the phrasing verbose and vapid at the same time. That 1st paragraph abt Chrono Trigger hurts my brain, it's almost unparsable. 550 pages of that...

Many of the traditional Final Fantasy principles are here, including the most central theme of them all: the crystals.
As with many other Final Fantasy games, in case there was ever any doubt about the integrity of Mystic Quest as a Final Fantasy game, the magic crystals represent the elemental powers of nature. Restoring the power and freedom of these crystals carries Benjamin through the story, as he fights to prevent a forest from dying, lift a drought, calm a raging volcano and bring the wind back.

The eco-centric nature of Final Fantasy is paramount to understanding the series.
Environmentalism is key for FF, expressed in terms of living in harmony with the forces of nature, not taking advantage of it for personal gain and wealth. That means you, Shinra! The crystals of FFMQ must be left to exist in peace, in perpetuity, free from the meddling and captivity of those who would use the elemental powers for selfish puposes.

That sets the stage for Chrono Trigger. How? By dismissing the argument that Chrono Trigger is not Final Fantasy-ish enough. If we cannot define what Final Fantasy is, beyond tradition and change, then Chrono Trigger fits rather nicely: Consider that its rampant similarities place it alongside its Final Fantasy peers, as do its differences. It is not unlike Final Fantasy for not having summons, let's say. It is more like it for trying something different: techs, dual and triple. There's plenty of room in Final Fantasy for being different as well as being similar.

Secondly, there's the Active Time Battle (ATB) system mentioned earlier. Nowhere is the mechanical resemblance to Final Fantasy clearer in Chrono Trigger than with ATB. Though it's called "ATB 2.0", it appears with little modification. A battle system that emphasises timing fits in a game about time. Trigger simply adds a peripherical or proximity-based element in the system, affecting how much damage characters deal or take depending on their locations on the battlefield. Am I suggesting that a game's mere possession of the ATB system makes it a Final Fantasy? Of course not. It's more cumulative than that. I am saying that there's a line of tradition present in Chrono Trigger, but this is just one of several reasons I've got to list.

Thirdly, we can't forget about Daddy Final Fantasy himself, a core member of the Dream Team. Beginning with something as coincidental as travelling together, Sakaguchi, Horii and Toriyama decided to create "something that no one had done before", kicking off what would become the kind of passion project you typically see in the indie sphere these days. Not every Final Fantasy spinoff, pretender, clone or knock-off can boast this kind of pedigree. Heck, not even every numerical FF can!

Fourthly, I have heard it said that Chrono Trigger can't be a Final Fantasy because they share no thematic, conceptual or ideological motifs.

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Sean Seanson @seanseanson.bsky.social · 7d

Honestly imagine being dumb enough to start a war with Brazil of all places, that'll always come back to haunt you.

St1ka @st1ka.bsky.social · 9d

Let's hope the book doesn't have a section on Brazil or "third world countries"

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Yuri Suetsugu | Social Media, Writer & Creator @yurisuetsugu.bsky.social · 10d

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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 11d

#Florida woman wins Mortal Kombat tournament playing with newborn baby in arms. You know, like you do. www.dexerto.com/mortal-komba...

Florida woman wins Mortal Kombat tournament playing with newborn baby in arms - Dexerto

A mother is going viral after winning a Mortal Kombat tournament while holding her five-day-old daughter in her arms.

www.dexerto.com

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Teone @teonergt.bsky.social · 13d

Love is attention.

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Teone @teonergt.bsky.social · 16d

I was checking out this thread about bootleg cartridges and some of them are wild:

forum.pegasus-gry.com/index.php?ac...