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Wick (Seth)

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"Unova's Best Loved Candle!" Music/Art/Gamedev person. Team Asano brainrot central. FF5 Four Job Fiesta fanatic. Spreading kindness and hope. <3 Reposts are not endorsements. Gen A/I = blocked. No F4F please. 23, they/he. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ https://wickbrstm.carrd.co/

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Wick (Seth) @wickbrstm.bsky.social · Apr 12

simple Bravely timeline for anyone coming into the series with the BD1 remaster on Switch 2:

A diagram that depicts a satirical timeline for the Bravely Default series. The timeline starts at the original Bravely Default, from which two branches are presented: one is labeled "french people are good" and leads to Bravely Second: End Layer, and the other is labeled "french people are evil" and leads to Bravely Default II.

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The Ghost Of Cohost. CoGhost. Gohosohssosost @ceresultra.bsky.social · 21h

How do I explain to offline people that my favorite Japanese mascot said "we can only be liberated from queer oppression if we are truly seen as human" and then started wielding fireworks like a rocket launcher on the side of a mountain without sounding like I've totally lost it?

Chiitan forever

Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 1d

Chiitan has a dream.
I hope that one day the term LGBT will become a thing of the past.
I will continue to spread my message until we live in a world where everyone can love freely and is free from persecution and discrimination.
Until then, let's all support each other🤍

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 19h

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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RPG Site @rpgsite.net · 11h

Bravely Default Flying Fairy HD Remaster for Nintendo Switch 2 has been updated to version 1.0.2 bringing in online connectivity improvements, lowering the number of tokens needed at the Exchange Shop, an achievement fix, and more: www.rpgsite.net/news/18672-b...

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Alex @axmdoes.bsky.social · 22h

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Wick (Seth) @wickbrstm.bsky.social · 18h

people trying to diss concurrent player counts for games that aren't online multiplayer just sound corny as hell lmao

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Foofarawr 🍂 @foofarawr.com · 1d

Happy spook month!
#pixelart #ドット絵

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錦桂すず🕊️ @conkei.bsky.social · 1d

#天空の日
この4人がなんか好きで1人描こうかと思いつついつも4人描いてしまいますw
陰陽の末っ子気質双子勇者と、兄ポジ6主と保護者枠5主っていう感じが好きなんだー🙌
天空シリーズ好きです⭐️

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driftingsea RL200 @driftingsea.bsky.social · 1d

some lil guys

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Snatz @snoodlenoodle.bsky.social · 1d

It’s that one kid from the quirky JRPG that inspired like half the indie scene!

#earthbound #ness #mother2 #fanart
#earthboundfanart #artistonbluesky

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Taylor Lyndis @mirby.bsky.social · 1d

This is a great post. Reassuring to see some of the points I made in that initial thread echoed in this one. Definitely worth a read for those on the fence considering what happened to see the steps they're making to improve for the future.

RetroAchievements @retroachievements.org · 1d

Our founder, Scott, would like to discuss the recent situation that happened on RetroAchievements as well as the measures we will be taking going forward to ensure a healthy, welcoming community for all enjoyers of retro games and achievements.

retroachievements.org/forums/topic...

Clarifying RetroAchievements’ Goals

TL;DR RetroAchievements supports openness and celebrating retro gaming, but we will not provide a platform for games that contain illegal, hateful, or otherwise abhorrent content. Achievement sets for...

retroachievements.org

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blackmoon111108888.bsky.social @blackmoon111108888.bsky.social · 1d

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𝕃𝕦𝕔𝕒𝕧𝕚 𓅰 🐱 @lucavi.bsky.social · 3d

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spoonyliger @spoonyliger.bsky.social · Sep 8

Teenage Mutant Ninja #Squirtle PMD PFPs.

Free for non-AI and non-commercial use with artist credit. #PokemonMysteryDungeon #Pokemon #TMNT

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Wick (Seth) @wickbrstm.bsky.social · 2d

super excited for this!

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Joy likes games with annoying mechanics 🏳️‍⚧️ 🐒 @joycontent.gay · 2d

here's what donkey kong bananza would've looked like on the game boy color!!!

Pixellated image of Donkey Kong Bananza displayed on a Game Boy Color

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Chris Higgins🔜 @higgins.games · 3d

go, now, and become rizzlers of men

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endr || absolute most irrelevant person you ever met @thatoneender.itch.io · 3d

thinking about the retroachievements situation earlier again and really frustrating how reactionary people got about it from people that dont use the site. people on here got to learn to do their own research when it comes to niche internet drama more man that shit was obnoxious

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teddyras from the computer @teddyras.bsky.social · 4d

I found a speedrun category where you have to film yourself going to mcdonalds right before the final boss. yes, it's a playstation game, no it's not a sonic

finny the fish McDonald's% speedrun category with 1 run of 53 minutes and 22 seconds

Right before you attempt the final boss you must pause the game and go to the nearest mcdonalds. You must order food (Cannot just be a drink) and return home where you finish the game. You may not remote into your console or emulator to complete the run.

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Wick (Seth) @wickbrstm.bsky.social · 4d

Great thread on the RA situation

It Jaye @ohheyitjaye.bsky.social · 4d

/1 So, now that I have taken the time to overview what I and others have been observing, taking into account the past couple of days, and gathering info, I can give a short story on what happened with @retroachievements.org:

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It Jaye @ohheyitjaye.bsky.social · 4d

/10 The next day, Scott responded with these in the RA Discord (Alt text is available for all images):

Scott: The past few days have been very challenging and eye opening, and very uncomfortable for all - I'm in the process of putting together something more concrete that I plan to share with the community soon, but I'd be glad to share the following with all patrons: RA will not be a place for hate speech, and will not be a place to encourage hate speech in any of it's forms. In order for RA to grow, we may need to adjust our direction slightly, to reflect the following values that I personally (and hopefully the team) share: inclusivity, patience, compassion and understanding, peace and respect. RA is for ALL people of all races, genders, ages, interests, sexualities and neuroidentities. The minimum requirement is respect. Respect of each others ideas and beliefs. Recently we have had to deal with an achievement set that promoted some very abhorrent ideas as parody (South Park-style humour but incredibly dark). This makes RA appear to recommend those abhorrent values. We don't. Unfortunately the distinction is hard to make, and together we've made a choice to not support that achievement set, and to stop development. While for 13 years we've been open to all possible avenues for using RA in all possible legal ways, we plan to put together stronger guidelines to prevent something like this from happening again. Thank-you for your understanding and patience while we ensure that RA continues to be something we can all be proud of ❤️

Scott: We were both involved in the original post, but I don't think nepiki or I either knew it was about Pokémon clover directly, and I certainly didn't know that the link to the news post would link directly to the clover forum page (that was a significant mistake)

Scott: There's been a ton of misunderstanding, misinformation, and it's shown RA to be in a really grubby light, and for that I take full responsibility. I'm resting up today, and hopefully tomorrow eve I'll be in a better place to help put into place some pillars we can stand by, so we can have an RA we can be more proud of. But you are right, there was definitely a misalignment in the messages, and we're taking steps to improve that process in particular.

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HakethKOTB @hakethkotb.bsky.social · 4d

Okay so RetroAchievements:

Removed the Romhack
Removed the staff member pushing for it from Admin
Banned a bunch of the chuds trying to pile on
Removed some other stuff that shouldn't have been there
Reinstated and unblocked accounts that shouldn't have been

I think they're handling this right tbh