MOBA Boy (Savage)
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I oscillate periodically between making/eating the games.
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i can draw anything
January 8, 2026 at 12:01 AM
i can draw anything
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CW: Flashing Lights
Elegant creature
Elegant creature
January 4, 2026 at 12:33 AM
CW: Flashing Lights
Elegant creature
Elegant creature
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this isn't even everyone ROFLLL nor are these really final designs but
at least i got this much done before i have to go back to work orz
at least i got this much done before i have to go back to work orz
January 3, 2026 at 9:48 PM
this isn't even everyone ROFLLL nor are these really final designs but
at least i got this much done before i have to go back to work orz
at least i got this much done before i have to go back to work orz
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happy new year and happy birthday Erin!! 🎉✨
January 1, 2026 at 3:03 AM
happy new year and happy birthday Erin!! 🎉✨
I'm very grateful for all the little indie games and demos I got to play this year. There are a couple interesting AAA titles on the horizon, but it really feels like everything worth getting excited about is mostly coming from smaller devs who are just making the things they want to make.
January 1, 2026 at 1:47 AM
I'm very grateful for all the little indie games and demos I got to play this year. There are a couple interesting AAA titles on the horizon, but it really feels like everything worth getting excited about is mostly coming from smaller devs who are just making the things they want to make.
Haven't touched Silksong since I beat it but I can still remember the structure of each area on the map and their general relationship to each other, and even sequences of obstacles in many cases. Do you understand how good your level design has to be to do that to me.
January 1, 2026 at 12:22 AM
Haven't touched Silksong since I beat it but I can still remember the structure of each area on the map and their general relationship to each other, and even sequences of obstacles in many cases. Do you understand how good your level design has to be to do that to me.
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i spent 5 hours today rendering this stupid shield AMA
December 30, 2025 at 2:39 AM
i spent 5 hours today rendering this stupid shield AMA
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Do you folks like my kobolds? :3 #CosyDungeon
December 15, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Do you folks like my kobolds? :3 #CosyDungeon
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Legend of Hei 2 was good
December 14, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Legend of Hei 2 was good
In Metaphor: ReFantazio, one of the most gripping games I've played in the past decade, you're...going from town to town, picking up side quests, beating a dungeon to Solve The Problem, then moving on to the next town. There are S-Links, a coliseum, time management activities, and That's It.
you're becoming mayor of a town of fairies, you're sand sailing and white water rafting and switching PoVs with an ancient resurrected emperor. Your party is getting split every which way in FF9, you start out playing as your dad at the start of Mother 3 and play as a monkey partway through it.
December 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
In Metaphor: ReFantazio, one of the most gripping games I've played in the past decade, you're...going from town to town, picking up side quests, beating a dungeon to Solve The Problem, then moving on to the next town. There are S-Links, a coliseum, time management activities, and That's It.
But bring it back to your FF7s and 9s, or your Earthbounds, or your BoF4s, and the nature of what you're doing is constantly changing. Every section of those games feels distinct from those before and after them. You are always feeling the friction of the world and story as you move through them.
Even most of our modern greats - Metaphor/Persona, Octopath/BD, Xenoblade, Tales Of, E33, Battle Chasers, etc. - are just the raw formula with good writing and maybe some interesting wrinkles to combat/encounter/progression design. FF7R only escapes this by virtue of its faithfulness to its source.
December 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
But bring it back to your FF7s and 9s, or your Earthbounds, or your BoF4s, and the nature of what you're doing is constantly changing. Every section of those games feels distinct from those before and after them. You are always feeling the friction of the world and story as you move through them.
I've loved JRPGs ever since I got my hands on my aunt's copy of Pokémon Yellow before I was old enough to read, but I never ended up playing the classics until recently, and it really is surprising to see how much the genre has been boiled down to its most featureless components over time.
December 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I've loved JRPGs ever since I got my hands on my aunt's copy of Pokémon Yellow before I was old enough to read, but I never ended up playing the classics until recently, and it really is surprising to see how much the genre has been boiled down to its most featureless components over time.
It's just appalling to me that we ended up in a future where much of the genre has ended up trying to dryly emulate SMT, DQ, and FF8 instead of attempting something half as ambitious as BoF4. If you have access to the Internet and $10, I urge you to grab it off of GoG so you can see what I mean.
Fresher character designs, a more vivid and interesting and nuanced world, a combat system so ahead of its time that it took until 2017 to recapture even part of it, the best JRPG party period, a more inventive and compelling narrative structure, an even higher volume of gameplay switch-ups...
December 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
It's just appalling to me that we ended up in a future where much of the genre has ended up trying to dryly emulate SMT, DQ, and FF8 instead of attempting something half as ambitious as BoF4. If you have access to the Internet and $10, I urge you to grab it off of GoG so you can see what I mean.
Decided to restart and marathon Breath of Fire IV and every subsequent hour I play of this game only makes the fact that it was so criminally slept upon more ridiculous to me. Like this is actually one of the best even to this day and it's not even close.
December 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Decided to restart and marathon Breath of Fire IV and every subsequent hour I play of this game only makes the fact that it was so criminally slept upon more ridiculous to me. Like this is actually one of the best even to this day and it's not even close.
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Today I give you: overly indulgent deadlock OC bullshit that's only interesting to me
Tomorrow: who knows
Tomorrow: who knows
November 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Today I give you: overly indulgent deadlock OC bullshit that's only interesting to me
Tomorrow: who knows
Tomorrow: who knows
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unfortunately this is the sickest shit i’ve ever seen in my life
YOU GUYS WANNA SEE SOMETHING CURSED???? HOW ABOUT NEON GENESIS LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS HOCKEY?????
November 17, 2025 at 2:10 AM
unfortunately this is the sickest shit i’ve ever seen in my life
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Gimmie Swag wants to turn me into a marketable plushie, for $2 you could make their dream come true
November 14, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Gimmie Swag wants to turn me into a marketable plushie, for $2 you could make their dream come true
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