Mechalink
@mechalink.bsky.social
I code for work, I get varianced for fun. Also, I enjoy waffles. Genderfluid, he/any. 両刀使い
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Join us this afternoon as we kick off the Breath of Fire Relay! Starting today at 3PM EDT and running through the weekend.
Starting off will be Breath of Fire 1 Any%
www.twitch.tv/rpglimitbreak
www.youtube.com/RPGLimitBrea...
www.twitch.tv/Shauny7188
Starting off will be Breath of Fire 1 Any%
www.twitch.tv/rpglimitbreak
www.youtube.com/RPGLimitBrea...
www.twitch.tv/Shauny7188
November 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Join us this afternoon as we kick off the Breath of Fire Relay! Starting today at 3PM EDT and running through the weekend.
Starting off will be Breath of Fire 1 Any%
www.twitch.tv/rpglimitbreak
www.youtube.com/RPGLimitBrea...
www.twitch.tv/Shauny7188
Starting off will be Breath of Fire 1 Any%
www.twitch.tv/rpglimitbreak
www.youtube.com/RPGLimitBrea...
www.twitch.tv/Shauny7188
I saw www.gamesradar.com/games/platfo... and thought it was pretty fucking clear what team cherry meant: people fell over themselves to praise a French take on JRPGs which 'innovates' on them by using combat QTEs people find reminiscent of souls games with characters that aren't teenagers
Silksong devs "maybe" aren't going to The Game Awards and think they're "safe" from a GOTY win because of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, which is "exceptional and broadly palatable"
For those who skong after
www.gamesradar.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:31 AM
I saw www.gamesradar.com/games/platfo... and thought it was pretty fucking clear what team cherry meant: people fell over themselves to praise a French take on JRPGs which 'innovates' on them by using combat QTEs people find reminiscent of souls games with characters that aren't teenagers
So my brother and I picked up and played through RV There Yet? and it's a recommend as a somewhat challenging, solid but not perfect physics, co-operative task game where you and your drinking buddies coax your RV through a very unfinished detour. store.steampowered.com/app/3949040/...
RV There Yet? on Steam
A co-op adventure about driving your Recreational Vehicle home.
store.steampowered.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:06 AM
So my brother and I picked up and played through RV There Yet? and it's a recommend as a somewhat challenging, solid but not perfect physics, co-operative task game where you and your drinking buddies coax your RV through a very unfinished detour. store.steampowered.com/app/3949040/...
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News: TASVideos news feed (The Direction of TASVideos and an Apology to the TASers We Pushed Away)
https://tasvideos.org/Forum/Posts/539119
https://tasvideos.org/Forum/Posts/539119
November 27, 2025 at 6:14 PM
News: TASVideos news feed (The Direction of TASVideos and an Apology to the TASers We Pushed Away)
https://tasvideos.org/Forum/Posts/539119
https://tasvideos.org/Forum/Posts/539119
I'm done with Wizardry 1-2-3 (SNES) and 5 (SNES) fully and officially now, since the Retroachievements sets were fixed. There's a lot of stuff in there that was both ahead of, and behind, the times in various ways. It's no wonder Yuji Hori fell into them, and distilled dragon quest out of them.
November 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I'm done with Wizardry 1-2-3 (SNES) and 5 (SNES) fully and officially now, since the Retroachievements sets were fixed. There's a lot of stuff in there that was both ahead of, and behind, the times in various ways. It's no wonder Yuji Hori fell into them, and distilled dragon quest out of them.
So I saw someone make the (common) observation that 'generating the shipping label does not mean you've shipped it!'
Well, yes, but that's basically the only thing anyone has to work with. Let me introduce you to the humble ASN: what everyone uses to tell other businesses something's on the way
Well, yes, but that's basically the only thing anyone has to work with. Let me introduce you to the humble ASN: what everyone uses to tell other businesses something's on the way
November 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM
So I saw someone make the (common) observation that 'generating the shipping label does not mean you've shipped it!'
Well, yes, but that's basically the only thing anyone has to work with. Let me introduce you to the humble ASN: what everyone uses to tell other businesses something's on the way
Well, yes, but that's basically the only thing anyone has to work with. Let me introduce you to the humble ASN: what everyone uses to tell other businesses something's on the way
Okay, Guild Wars 2. I appreciate that 'you bought an expansion, you can't play expansions if you're not L80, so here's a L80 boost' has 1) a playtest of if that's something you're ready for 2) the playtest and the true permanent version have the same gear. HOWEVER.
That gear is absurd!
That gear is absurd!
November 25, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Okay, Guild Wars 2. I appreciate that 'you bought an expansion, you can't play expansions if you're not L80, so here's a L80 boost' has 1) a playtest of if that's something you're ready for 2) the playtest and the true permanent version have the same gear. HOWEVER.
That gear is absurd!
That gear is absurd!
From the article: 'more reliable, more performant and more scalable than what’s available anywhere else'
You can't double capacity every 6 months for 5 years straight. You don't have the hardware! And everyone's going to be trying to do this at the same time? And without raising costs?
Bullshit.
You can't double capacity every 6 months for 5 years straight. You don't have the hardware! And everyone's going to be trying to do this at the same time? And without raising costs?
Bullshit.
November 25, 2025 at 1:37 AM
From the article: 'more reliable, more performant and more scalable than what’s available anywhere else'
You can't double capacity every 6 months for 5 years straight. You don't have the hardware! And everyone's going to be trying to do this at the same time? And without raising costs?
Bullshit.
You can't double capacity every 6 months for 5 years straight. You don't have the hardware! And everyone's going to be trying to do this at the same time? And without raising costs?
Bullshit.
I want to draw back on this just a touch because I think it highlights a structural problem with econ 101. Not that there aren't many of them, but in particular, the idea that what people will pay is simply the correct and proper price for anything, with no moral weight to the statement.
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 24, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I want to draw back on this just a touch because I think it highlights a structural problem with econ 101. Not that there aren't many of them, but in particular, the idea that what people will pay is simply the correct and proper price for anything, with no moral weight to the statement.
*picks up each and everything thing he has been doing previously, then puts it down* Hm. Not feeling it.
Vexing.
Vexing.
November 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
*picks up each and everything thing he has been doing previously, then puts it down* Hm. Not feeling it.
Vexing.
Vexing.
On this, the Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember those who were driven to the edge by a world that wanted them dead, furious they didn't die fast enough.
We remember those who taken from us in so many ways, from denial of medical care and systemic harms to the violence levelled at the ousider.
We remember those who taken from us in so many ways, from denial of medical care and systemic harms to the violence levelled at the ousider.
November 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
On this, the Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember those who were driven to the edge by a world that wanted them dead, furious they didn't die fast enough.
We remember those who taken from us in so many ways, from denial of medical care and systemic harms to the violence levelled at the ousider.
We remember those who taken from us in so many ways, from denial of medical care and systemic harms to the violence levelled at the ousider.
Whuf. Later game Million Depth has hands.
November 20, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Whuf. Later game Million Depth has hands.
So I'm toying around with Guild Wars 2 for the first time a bit due to a friend getting back into it, and... like, it has swimming combat as a matter of course and it's... kinda decent? And flying/swimming combat isn't that common in MMOspace?
November 18, 2025 at 6:35 AM
So I'm toying around with Guild Wars 2 for the first time a bit due to a friend getting back into it, and... like, it has swimming combat as a matter of course and it's... kinda decent? And flying/swimming combat isn't that common in MMOspace?
Taking Aura's recommendations to heart has helped me move to a world where I successfully pick up new not-the-big-tentpole-anticipated games to play instead of being stuck in decision paralysis. There's a lot out there to enjoy!
If you're mad about the boring Game Awards nominees, consider: You could be buying and playing many of the games on this list right now
It's time!!! Independent Games Festival judging is wrapping up and thus comes my list of IGF Games I Want To Talk About for the year!
As usual, I'll threadpost this later (maybe tomorrow) but people willing to click on a link can read it in full right now on my blog! auratriolo.com/blog/2025/11...
As usual, I'll threadpost this later (maybe tomorrow) but people willing to click on a link can read it in full right now on my blog! auratriolo.com/blog/2025/11...
November 17, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Taking Aura's recommendations to heart has helped me move to a world where I successfully pick up new not-the-big-tentpole-anticipated games to play instead of being stuck in decision paralysis. There's a lot out there to enjoy!
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If you're mad about the boring Game Awards nominees, consider: You could be buying and playing many of the games on this list right now
It's time!!! Independent Games Festival judging is wrapping up and thus comes my list of IGF Games I Want To Talk About for the year!
As usual, I'll threadpost this later (maybe tomorrow) but people willing to click on a link can read it in full right now on my blog! auratriolo.com/blog/2025/11...
As usual, I'll threadpost this later (maybe tomorrow) but people willing to click on a link can read it in full right now on my blog! auratriolo.com/blog/2025/11...
IGF Games I Want To Talk About 2026 – AURAMBLES
auratriolo.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
If you're mad about the boring Game Awards nominees, consider: You could be buying and playing many of the games on this list right now
@dreamtimedrinne.bsky.social missing you and your ethonography work right now as I think about stuff brought up by @foxharper.bsky.social related to e-sports
November 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM
@dreamtimedrinne.bsky.social missing you and your ethonography work right now as I think about stuff brought up by @foxharper.bsky.social related to e-sports
Firmly in a mental space which refuses to latch on to something to do. Not a fan.
November 17, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Firmly in a mental space which refuses to latch on to something to do. Not a fan.
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Sharing some of the high-quality Breath of Fire III artwork by Tatsuya Yoshikawa that came from GamePro magazine press CDs preserved by @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social!
It's cool to see the Japanese key art separated between the background and Ryu/Nina/Rei/Garr group!
It's cool to see the Japanese key art separated between the background and Ryu/Nina/Rei/Garr group!
November 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Sharing some of the high-quality Breath of Fire III artwork by Tatsuya Yoshikawa that came from GamePro magazine press CDs preserved by @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social!
It's cool to see the Japanese key art separated between the background and Ryu/Nina/Rei/Garr group!
It's cool to see the Japanese key art separated between the background and Ryu/Nina/Rei/Garr group!
The admins of the IFPA discord, after prohibiting discussion of the OBX Fall Flippers event, and deleting several messages related to it, posted a link to someone approving of their actions. Bullshit.
November 15, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The admins of the IFPA discord, after prohibiting discussion of the OBX Fall Flippers event, and deleting several messages related to it, posted a link to someone approving of their actions. Bullshit.
Watching the WPPR channel in the IFPA discord is amazing because the asshole in charge keeps deleting messages, so it's always marked as 'unread messages'.
November 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Watching the WPPR channel in the IFPA discord is amazing because the asshole in charge keeps deleting messages, so it's always marked as 'unread messages'.
I don't remember what caused me to pick up my first pack. I remember what brought me back: people at Work playing post-college. As of Lorwyn block I was attending every prerealse I could in the area. As of Zendikar, I was trying to be competitive. As of Mirrodin Beseiged I got my first Pro Point.
November 15, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I don't remember what caused me to pick up my first pack. I remember what brought me back: people at Work playing post-college. As of Lorwyn block I was attending every prerealse I could in the area. As of Zendikar, I was trying to be competitive. As of Mirrodin Beseiged I got my first Pro Point.
This is the crushing nail in the coffin with the situation for me as well. The relevant rules state the event should not be sanctioned. 'what if someone was terrible enough to a marginalized group to make them never even try to sign up' is not a get out of jail free card for discrimination!
I am not a pinball player. I am legitimately cursed when it comes to Pinball, I cannot play it to save my life. But I have a lot of friends who do, and now their favorite hobby is ruined cause some guy decided he wanted to APPEAR woke by having trans inclusive rules, but he didnt want to follow them
November 15, 2025 at 5:03 AM
This is the crushing nail in the coffin with the situation for me as well. The relevant rules state the event should not be sanctioned. 'what if someone was terrible enough to a marginalized group to make them never even try to sign up' is not a get out of jail free card for discrimination!
As I know a number of people I interact with adjacent to games, gamers, tournament series, and trans rights, I am retweeting this regarding what's going on in Tournament Pinball in the last week.
Surprise, it's transphobia that the TO and sanctioning org are shitting the bed on.
Surprise, it's transphobia that the TO and sanctioning org are shitting the bed on.
As a lifelong event/community organizer I gotta say: the IFPA ignoring their entire women's league board and not make right on blatant hate-crime tier transphobia that biased against an entire group participating in a rated tournament is a sign of rot in the wood.
www.kineticist.com/post/ifpa-ob...
www.kineticist.com/post/ifpa-ob...
Developing: What’s Going on With the IFPA and the OBX Fall Flippers Event? | Kineticist
Tracking a developing story coming out of the recent OBX Fall Pinball Tournament.
www.kineticist.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:52 PM
As I know a number of people I interact with adjacent to games, gamers, tournament series, and trans rights, I am retweeting this regarding what's going on in Tournament Pinball in the last week.
Surprise, it's transphobia that the TO and sanctioning org are shitting the bed on.
Surprise, it's transphobia that the TO and sanctioning org are shitting the bed on.
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🔥 23rd Anniversary 🔥 Breath of Fire V: Dragon Quarter was released in Japan on PlayStation 2 on this day! Here's an action-packed cutscene where Ryu first encounters and saves Nina from a rogue Cyclops genic.
Stay tuned. We've got something fun to share for the anniversary!
Stay tuned. We've got something fun to share for the anniversary!
November 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
🔥 23rd Anniversary 🔥 Breath of Fire V: Dragon Quarter was released in Japan on PlayStation 2 on this day! Here's an action-packed cutscene where Ryu first encounters and saves Nina from a rogue Cyclops genic.
Stay tuned. We've got something fun to share for the anniversary!
Stay tuned. We've got something fun to share for the anniversary!
It's gotten a lot harder for me to stream lately for reasons, but one of them is that it's so much harder for me now, emotionally, to stream into the void. I don't know how to resolve that.
November 14, 2025 at 3:03 AM
It's gotten a lot harder for me to stream lately for reasons, but one of them is that it's so much harder for me now, emotionally, to stream into the void. I don't know how to resolve that.