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@jgnagain.bsky.social

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just an amateur artist guy who plays video games, I'm p good at 3d beat em ups, shooting games, and rhythm games 19y/o, he/him

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dadonpachi 2 - the absolute plus @jgnagain.bsky.social · Jun 10

OH YEAH I GOT SCAMMED OUT OF MY PAST ACCOUNT (@jgntaken.bsky.social)

I draw cute blorbos and play hard games, oomfs please RT

c4l4m4r from splatoon 3, he's holding an ultra stamp

completion of ninja gaiden 3 razor's edge on master ninja mode

dyscontrolled galaxy MXM 19 clear in sound voltex

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Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️, but spooky 🦇 @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 2h

New day, new article! Here's a fresh piece on Dreamcast delight Virtual On: Oratorio Tangram, "...a riot of metal and lasers conveyed via clean lines and vivid colours":

ko-fi.com/post/Virtual...

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 16h

In Super Smash Bros., the skeletons visible when characters are hurt by electric attacks are not tied to specific animations, and instead are a form that can be toggled on and off at any time, including in cutscenes. Below are excerpts of the game's intro, with skeletons.

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Ton @toniluvsgm.bsky.social · 8d

The Greatest Paranormal investigator
needs a shave.
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#Inktober2025 #Hellboy

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 5d

The average hellboy comic is like “hellboy meets with his old friend Professor Cornelius Bottomsworth of Oxford University to discuss an Assyrian artifact..something something something, Hellboy gets pummeled within an inch of his life by Pazuzu. Small inset panel showing two lilacs.”

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Jason Fanelli 🔜 NYCC @jasonfanelli.com · 12h

Cecil Stedman is a new playable character in Invincible Vs, which is cool, but he’s a human in a superhuman world. How’s that work?

To find out, I sat down with members of the Quarter Up dev team, along with Robert Kirkman himself, to talk Cecil in Invincible Vs!

www.gamespot.com/articles/inv...

Invincible Vs Roster Adds Cecil Stedman, A "Regular Guy With Government Funds"

We sit down with Robert Kirkman and the Quarter Up team to discuss Cecil joining the 3v3 fighter's roster.

www.gamespot.com

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JOOT @thejoot.bsky.social · Oct 14

the purplest boy i have... his name is melinoe 🤲

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emby 🦑 @ sh🍤p open 😋 @mcsquiddies.serball.net · 10h

spectober day ❄️ nine ❄️ - cirno is the smartest!
#東方Project

Cirno from TOuhou Project wearing swirly glasses. bruh all of these descriptions end in "wearing swirly glasses" at this point

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 11h

I’m not kidding when I say these weird ass costumes and antics are actually an extremely effective tactic from a media standpoint bc when enough people do them, the media can’t fully scrub them out

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 12h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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dadonpachi 2 - the absolute plus @jgnagain.bsky.social · 10h

ngl I think ppl from 1975-1995 should be banned from the internet

remember that cockroach incarnate asmongold was born in 1990

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K'eeg @armormodekeeg.blacksky.app · 10h

what modern rhythm games are missing is max difficulty songs that open with a siren sample so you know you're getting into some nightmare shit before you even start hitting notes

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 12h

Drake sitting there reading about how good the judge thought the song was and how everyone really enjoyed it

The song contains lyrics explicitly accusing Drake of being a pedophile, set to a catchy beat and propulsive
bassline. "Not Like Us" went on to become a cultural sensation.

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JOOT @thejoot.bsky.social · Oct 21

i don't think i've posted this yet??? maybe???

the demonic transformation of my boy melinoe

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dadonpachi 2 - the absolute plus @jgnagain.bsky.social · 12h

unlike other modern beat em ups, this one has zero depth (there is no z-axis movement present in-game)

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dadonpachi 2 - the absolute plus @jgnagain.bsky.social · 13h

and it doesn't describe anything like the former

dadonpachi 2 - the absolute plus @jgnagain.bsky.social · 13h

there's a stark difference between a game having another harder loop that players can enter if they're skilled enough and a game booting the player out of a run because they've haven't filled up the metaprogression battle pass bar that only reflects how many hours a player has logged

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padoo @quimeshine.bsky.social · 1d

Damn, RemyWiki works fast huh??

An entry on the Pretty Dick debacle on RemyWiki's Inside Jokes page. It reads:

Pretty Dick

On October 9th, 2025, the pop'n music staff Twitter account posted a graphic celebrating the birthdays of the pop'n music characters pretty and DICK.

The post received widespread attention in the English-speaking BEMANI community, due to the word "dick" being a slang term for male genitals.

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cite but fucked up and scary @citationneeded.bsky.social · 16h

i feel like skateboarding culture/lore both irl and in video games almost has a strange sense of mysticism to it that it's so perfectly fitting for a game like this. i'm so happy to see Weird Sports Games.

Skate Story | OUT DECEMBER 8 🛹

YouTube video by DevolverDigital

www.youtube.com

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Brian Clark (bclarkomp) @onemillionpower.com · 17h

This is the story of Sega's R360: The legendary arcade cabinet that spun players around and left arcade floors far too early. Exclusive interviews, developer quotes, and more!
I'd appreciate not only everyone watching, but also sharing this post and the video!
youtu.be/I-LnKFILB5I

Sega R360: Spinning Dreams in the Arcade

YouTube video by One Million Power

youtu.be

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TESTAMENT✙ENJOYMENT @testamentenjoyment.net · 18h

Spoilers for Absolum, but you actually might want to spoil yourself on this, because this is some of the worst meta-progression bait I've ever heard of

(Also a great review overall, one that's for once made from the perspective who gave beat 'em ups a deeper shot)

If you don’t believe that Absolum prioritizes the grind above all else, then I’ll have to pull out my trump card and talk about the last boss of the game. Don’t read the next paragraph if you don’t want that spoiled. Or do, honestly, because I recommend knowing this ahead of time so you don’t make the same mistake I did.

Once you complete the game once, you find out that actually you need to beat the game again to fight the real final boss. Kind of obnoxious already, but sure. I immediately started another run, but died early due to the game introducing a new extra-hard challenge that I wanted to try out. No problem, I had unlocked one extra from the progression system. I decided to carry on and actually ended up all the way at the end to fight the final boss.

Just before the fight, a merchant warned me that the boss had a fatal scream and recommended that I purchase an absurdly expensive extra life. I kind of figured that merchant was referring to some difficult to dodge attack and braced myself for it. No such luck - the final boss seemingly just instantly and unavoidably kills you at the start of the fight, so my run where I was otherwise super powerful and at full health ended right there. This more or less killed my interest in playing further.

The goal of this decision seems clear enough: the developers didn’t want you beating Absolum too fast and this insta-kill gimmick was a good way to keep you in the hamster wheel. Wouldn’t you know it, my very next permanent upgrade gave me another extra life on top of the two I had, so my next run would have definitely been the run! If I were the kind of person who got addicted to the progression system, I could easily see myself getting sucked by this bait, hook line and sinker. Sadly for Absolum, I am not that kind of person. I don’t have an addictive personality. Most of the psychological tricks that modern video games employ don’t work on me – I don’t need things to be addicted to, I want things that enrich my life or give me some personal satisfaction.

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dadonpachi 2 - the absolute plus @jgnagain.bsky.social · 1d

as someone who has beaten sekiro, just play a rhythm game instead - they're just better

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vaugna16 @vaugna16.bsky.social · 1d

cracking open my vizbig dragon ball volumes and you know, it's kinda crazy we don't see more "og" dragon ball videogame adaptations it's one of the most videogame ass manga ever. Granted the modernish ones we do have like Advanced Adventure are pretty good

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dadonpachi 2 - the absolute plus @jgnagain.bsky.social · 1d

I should hop on more old fighters that already had their last balance patch, like blazblue centralfiction and/or the KOF entires on fightcade

dadonpachi 2 - the absolute plus @jgnagain.bsky.social · 1d

(I haven't played league of legends but this is what a fair amount of their playerbase says, take it with a grain of salt)

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dadonpachi 2 - the absolute plus @jgnagain.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like the riot update cycle will be appreciated by the FGC at first because they're responding to issues quickly, but then years later the FGC will grow to hate relearning the entire game every couple of weeks because the devs will never stop with their frequent and drastic balance patches

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dadonpachi 2 - the absolute plus @jgnagain.bsky.social · 1d

I have made my opponent rage quit on my first 2xko early access match, I'm kinda sorry for cooking them