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Hello! I'm a cartoon squirrel/moogle who lives on the internet! [She/her.] I come from a time of text. I love adventure and open-world games. I love exploration and puzzles, even if I'm terrible at t...

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Kate Banshee from the Haunted Roller Rink @ksantillus.bsky.social · 20h

"It's a pity you had to leave the stage so early."
#villainsmonth #villainsmonth2025

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Xyzzifer K. Q. Sqrlmoggington @xyzzysqrl.bsky.social · 21h

We're going through the Dragon Trials! Again! Kind of, with a totally different context and set of stakes. I like when sequels do that.
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Xyzzifer K. Q. Sqrlmoggington @xyzzysqrl.bsky.social · 22h

Hi. Former game journalist. You've misunderstood this post.

Good Graphics Homestar Runner

Xyzzifer K. Q. Sqrlmoggington @xyzzysqrl.bsky.social · 23h

We are a handful of days out from playing every shiny brand new video game demo in the entire world, but right now here's a 1998 Playstation JRPG! Lunar 2 continues tonight! Tomorrow, you're gettin' a GBA game! Only after that do you unlock new things, and then only for a week! FOMO, baby! 9:30 PM.

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Xyzzifer K. Q. Sqrlmoggington @xyzzysqrl.bsky.social · 23h

"It's got like. A jerbillion spaceships! And you're gonna pay me for every single one of 'em!"

Xyzzifer K. Q. Sqrlmoggington @xyzzysqrl.bsky.social · 23h

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Xyzzifer K. Q. Sqrlmoggington @xyzzysqrl.bsky.social · 23h

I didn't do it.

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Xyzzifer K. Q. Sqrlmoggington @xyzzysqrl.bsky.social · 23h

I swear to the unearthly power of karate, if one more motherfuckin' youtuber looks at me through the monitor and says shit like "Now because they didn't understand Game Design in the 90s, they made a lot of collectathon platformers" I'm going to start collecting testicles with a goddamn chainsaw.

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 2d

A peek at GAME FREAK (Yep, *that* Game Freak!) tips 'zine issue 22 from 1985 where the solution to arcade Time Gal is lovingly and painstakingly illustrated and written out scene-by scene. 💜

A scan of the photocopied zine with an illustration of protag Reikas sat coly with legs crossed and a marker pen held in one hand, with cheeky doodles drawn over the game's villain's face and a piece of paper. "Time Stop!"

A snap of one of the pages, with painstakingly drawn recreations of hte various scenes of the QTE based animated footage gameplay with directional inputs for each of them.

Another snap of inked illustrations of Reika in one scene and line artworks in the other. Directional inputs can be seen below.

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 2d

fiction is a safe space to think of unsafe things

if you feel it's messing you up, step away. don't assume it's messing everyone up and you need to eradicate it because you caught a case of the feel-bads from something. go sit with that and think about why instead of pissing in everyone else's cheerios.

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Xyzzifer K. Q. Sqrlmoggington @xyzzysqrl.bsky.social · 1d

We're into the Holy City of Pentaguila as we traipse onward in Lunar 2.
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Donate to Help Sword and Their Housemates Overcome Hardship, organized by Brian Porbansky

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The Ghost Of Cohost. CoGhost. Gohosohssosost @ceresultra.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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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Xyzzifer K. Q. Sqrlmoggington @xyzzysqrl.bsky.social · 1d

Greetings, sentient creatures capable of literacy. We're about four days out from Next Fest and I just knocked a demo off the "to-play" list by buying the game attached. Great, except I replaced it with three others. Que sera. Anyway, we're on Disc 2 of Lunar 2 now. 9:30 PM we're continuing that.

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Flare Sword @flaresword.bsky.social · 2d

I'm beating the drum yet again, unfortunately. Electric is asking for us to pay off $250 more by the 15th, we're behind $400 on the rent, and if the government shutdown keeps up, we'll be even further behind since we can't rely on SNAP and SSI to help us keep afloat.

Please help.

Flare Sword @flaresword.bsky.social · Aug 29

I don't like having to rely on Yet Another Payment Processor at this point in time when payment processors want to tell people how they can and can't live, but unfortunately we live in a society and it hates my family.

gofund.me/f2594eb0

My name is Brian. I don't like being referred to by that name, and o… Brian Porbansky needs your support for Help Sword and Their Housemates Overcome Hardship

gofund.me

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Xyzzifer K. Q. Sqrlmoggington @xyzzysqrl.bsky.social · 2d

I'll certainly be streaming it! ... Just given I stream Next Fest games out of a random draw pool I have no idea when during Next Fest I'll be streaming it.
Good luck out there, though!

Xyzzifer K. Q. Sqrlmoggington @xyzzysqrl.bsky.social · 2d

Forgot I could make blog posts for a while. Posted a little thing about WoW Legion Remix.

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Xyzzifer K. Q. Sqrlmoggington @xyzzysqrl.bsky.social · 2d

First though, obviously, we have to loot the city. This is clearly our top priority.
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Xyzzifer K. Q. Sqrlmoggington @xyzzysqrl.bsky.social · 2d

Fun as it would be to just be a huge piece of crap all night long and play Legion Remix for 16 hours I -do- have a stream to do! Lunar 2 left off with us parked in the magic city library, and Lemina's mom kidnapped by Baron Hark-- uh, Borgan. I guess we're launching a rescue mission! 9:30 PM!

Xyzzifer K. Q. Sqrlmoggington @xyzzysqrl.bsky.social · 3d

Let's get in and out of jail so fast you'd think the entire party has lawyers for parents.
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Xyzzifer K. Q. Sqrlmoggington @xyzzysqrl.bsky.social · 3d

Yosh, my ikuzos. Tonight we're back into Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete. Last time we climbed a mountain and we turned around and saw our reflection on the snow-covered hills as the landslide brought us down. I'm just relieved THAT'S over with, I've been afraid of changes. Anyway, 9:30 PM Eastern.

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Zid & Zniw Chronicles @zidandzniw.bsky.social · 4d

Zniw Adventure, but it's 1997, and you just got home from school and decided to check that tape with cartoon dinosaurs.

(a small VCR test, just in time for #TrailerTuesday!)

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Dana Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @danacorn.bsky.social · 4d

I did this, for @peanutscollab.bsky.social! Redraw of one of my favorite strips. (The Schulz original ran on September 9, 1965.)

It was a lot of fun! Obviously, like every cartoonist/sentient person, I love Peanuts.

Charlie Brown meets Linus, in the dark, with a candle.

CB: What’s this?
L: I have heard that it is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.
CB: that’s true…although there will always be those who will disagree with you.

Lucy, elsewhere: YOU STUPID DARKNESS!

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Firingwall @firingwall.bsky.social · Dec 11

Found the hot new furry reaction image.

Guy in animal costume says he's ready to forsake his humanity.

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Xyzzifer K. Q. Sqrlmoggington @xyzzysqrl.bsky.social · 5d

The strategic layer of Shining Force is as much about long-term management as moment-to-moment choices. Inefficiently dole out experience and it's wasted on characters you bench, leaving you weak in harder battles where you need built-up units. I'm REALLY BAD AT MANAGEMENT.
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