Turn Based Carl
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Turn Based Carl
@turnbasedcarl.bsky.social
I love video games. 🎮 Turn based RPGs are my favorite. Playing on Xbox, Switch 2, PS5 & PC now! Big MCU fan. D&D player. ⚔️ Proud dad.
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Lost Odyssey is $12.49 on XBL buff.ly/3CsyJ5j
February 12, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Plus Everwild & Project Blackbird gutted before launch after many years of development.
That’s 3 live-service games with a AAA budget (Concord, 2XKO, Highguard) that have been gutted less than a month after launch. It’s clear the money people have lost all patience, and if a game isn’t an overnight success, it must die immediately, with no time given to find an audience. Unsustainable.
Wildlight (Highguard) lays off staff according to a LinkedIn post

"Unfortunately, along with most of the team at Wildlight, I was laid off today.

This one really stings as there was a lot of unreleased content I was really looking forward to that I and others designed for Highguard."
February 12, 2026 at 12:04 AM
It's time to let Camelot out of the Nintendo sports mines.
Mario Tennis Fever once again shows that Nintendo sports games... Have lost their luster. 😬

Read Grubb's full review here ➡️ giantbomb.com/reviews/mari...
February 11, 2026 at 11:55 PM
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The Lord has arrived DICESummit !
February 10, 2026 at 11:20 PM
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whenever people talked about yakuza 3, i very very rarely saw anything positive said about it, i was even explicitly told to skip the entry and watch story beats on youtube, now the kiwami version is launching everyone is a revisionist and it was 'good actually' and now it's ruined!!
February 10, 2026 at 10:57 AM
When Trump was elected again I told my family that I believe concentration camps were coming, they didn't believe me then but they sure do believe it now.
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.

If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
www.ajc.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:18 AM
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honestly respect for the ad that’s just like “pokemon are cool.” they are cool
February 9, 2026 at 2:02 AM
Drake Maye will need a therapist on call for the next 24 to 48 hours.
February 9, 2026 at 3:03 AM
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Using the clean edit of Backstreet's Back for a fucking crypto commercial is grounds for a violent revolution
February 9, 2026 at 1:01 AM
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I was digging through some ancient hard drive backups and came upon this dubious gem I created with
@strawfoot.bsky.social during the Second Gulf War. Seems like an almost quaint complaint by modern standards. We stuck these up all over our Christian college campus. They got torn down fast.
February 8, 2026 at 11:11 PM
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‘Spartacus’ Creator on Killing [SPOILER] in the ‘House of Ashur’ Finale and His Advice for the ‘Buffy’ Reboot: ‘Swing for the Fences’

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from the Season 1 finale of “Spartacus: House of Ashur,” now available on Starz. Steven S. DeKnight …
#media #news #starz
‘Spartacus’ Creator on Killing [SPOILER] in the ‘House of Ashur’ Finale and His Advice for the ‘Buffy’ Reboot: ‘Swing for the Fences’
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from the Season 1 finale of “Spartacus: House of Ashur,” now available on Starz. Steven S. DeKnight has helped create several cinematic universes over the years. He wrote on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and the spinoff “Angel” in the early aughts, lent his talents to Superman on “Smallville,” ran […]
variety.com
February 8, 2026 at 3:25 AM
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February 8, 2026 at 3:24 AM
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7 days after cancer surgery. I will stand with @postguild.bsky.social til my lungs collapse.

also reunited with @karenattiah.bsky.social
February 5, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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Maybe it's just me, but I would be all-in on a modern Zelda game based on Yoshiaki Koizumi's early 90s designs from 'A Link to the Past'
February 4, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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PlayStation 5 has shipped 92.2 Million units worldwide as of December 31st, 2025 (8 million units last quarter)

• 132M monthly active users on Ps Network as of Sept 30, 2025,
• Officially outsold the PS3 and PS5/PS4 hardware sale launch alined.

www.gematsu.com/2026/02/ps5-...
February 5, 2026 at 5:57 AM
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wish lists helps us, share with anyone who likes trains, skating, anime, wild vibes, a bopping soundtrack and...multitrack drifting! 🙆🏻
February 4, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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BERNIE SANDERS: Do vaccines cause autism?

BHATTACHARYA: I do not believe that the measles vaccine causes autism

SANDERS: Nah. Uh uh. I didn't ask measles. Do vaccines cause autism?

BHATTACHARYA: I have not seen a study that suggests any single vaccine causes autism
February 3, 2026 at 3:59 PM
It's been clear for awhile that he does not want the elections in 2026 to be free & fair. I don't know what "nationalize the voting" would look like but surely it would be designed to help Republicans steal the election.

P.S. No one has ever brought immigrants to this country to vote.
Trump: "These people were brought to our country to vote, & they vote illegally. The Republicans should say, we should take over the voting in at least 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting. We have states that I won that show I didn't win. You're gonna see something in Georgia"
February 2, 2026 at 11:59 PM
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'Mega Man: Dual Override' Top 20 Robot Master Design Contest design revealed. Voting now open.

www.capcom-games.com/megaman/do/e...
February 1, 2026 at 2:25 PM
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Metaphor: ReFantazio Launch Edition (PS5) is $25.56 on Amazon (or $21.72 if you have a listed coupon) buff.ly/hmfkLgv

XSX $17.99 Woot buff.ly/nsqhTFT #ad

also on Game Pass Premium
February 1, 2026 at 1:54 AM
It's just amazing to see the big leap from the original game to the remake. I wish more remakes would do something like this. Can't wait to play it & excited for the 3rd chapter in 2027! 😅
Evoke the past. Embrace the future. ⚔️

Epic battles await when #Trails2ndChapter soars onto Steam, PS5, Nintendo Switch, and Nintendo Switch 2, Fall 2026!

Wishlist now: loom.ly/fEbumEk
January 31, 2026 at 12:36 PM
What an awesome special edition release!

I have the game on the Epic store because I got it during the exclusive early access period.

I used to question why this wouldn't get an Xbox version but physical game sales & hardware sales have been declining for a long time there. 😢
“Forward now, into oblivion's inky embrace.”

Get your very own papercraft stagecoach with the Darkest Dungeon II: Anniversary Edition.

The Darkest Dungeon II: Anniversary Edition releases on March 10! Pre-order your copy today from Amazon (store links in the comments!)

#darkestdungeon
January 30, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Fantastic write up here. Please read it if you have any questions about how the Switch 2 is performing in the market.
January 28, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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Steam allows anyone to leave a review regardless of the amount of time they’ve played, which is understandable, but it also leads to a flurry of negative reviews within an hour of the game being released for some bs reason, including basic stuff like server issues.

Might be time to change that.
this isn't a defense of highguard but i'm not sure why people STILL post screenshots of a new steam game being Overwhelmingly Negative as if it's a self-explanatory red flag anymore when steam users will mass-reviewbomb games if a woman is wearing pants in them
January 27, 2026 at 3:28 AM
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DrDisrespect Created A Fake Highguard Badge And Lied About Being Invited To The Preview
DrDisrespect Lies About Being Invited To Highguard Preview Event - Kotaku
The controversial streamer shared a post online claiming he was invited to a creator event for the new FPS
kotaku.com
January 26, 2026 at 8:55 PM