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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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Taylor Lyndis @mirby.bsky.social · 8h

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 · 8h

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 · 12h

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𝕃𝕦𝕔𝕒𝕧𝕚 𓅰 🐱 @lucavi.bsky.social · 1d

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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 · 1d

super excited for this!

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Joy Content 🏳️‍⚧️ 🐒 @joycontent.gay · 1d

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 · 1d

go, now, and become rizzlers of men

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endr || absolute most irrelevant person you ever met @thatoneender.itch.io · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

Great thread on the RA situation

It Jaye @ohheyitjaye.bsky.social · 3d

/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 · 3d

/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 · 3d

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

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Hidakka @hidakka.bsky.social · Oct 29

Cube Live A Live

pencil sketch of 3 small round robots wearing square glasses, skates and backwards baseball caps with text on the screen saying "Why dont you 'Live'" "'A Live' with some bitches"

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Tool-Assisted Speedrun clips @tasnocontext.bsky.social · 3d

Game: Undertale (2015, Windows)
TAS Author: duuuuude5
Source: tasvideos.org/6060M

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Wick (Seth) @wickbrstm.bsky.social · 3d

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あの夏 @anonatsu.bsky.social · 3d

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Wick (Seth) @wickbrstm.bsky.social · 3d

some sins cannot be forgiven.

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taxiderby verified @taxiderby.coven.cafe · 4d

The most important step in becoming a pro character designer is accepting you will never come up with anything as good as Blaze the Cat

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Gaia_BentosZX5 @bento-bongos.bsky.social · 5d

With light of recent events, evergreen.

Society is a construct, designed to justify the cruel actions of the wealthy few to inflict harm on countless lives as much as possible. Therefore, I no longer need it.

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Programancer @programancer.com · 4d

Oh I have one of those fancy Scarlet/Violet SHINY KORAIDON/MIRAIDON codes that I don't need because I don't play POKEMON, so if anyone wants it uhhhh

I guess FOLLOW and REPOST and I'll send it to someone in like a week or so. Or go to GameStop and get one, idk

Pokemon Scarlet and Violet Shiny Koraidon and Shiny Miraidon code receipt with the code obscured by a stinky fingy

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

if it's not clear what you're looking at:
that black box at the bottom with the oddly placed blue stripes is supposed to be a text box

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Fanta/Abby @fantaseagal.bsky.social · 5d

Nonbinary cleric incoming! Menno is great and always reminds me how fun the regional cleric outfits are in CotC. I'd love to see another coastlands cleric someday

Menno looks out on the sea as ocean waves crash upon the rock they stand on

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

shoutout to when japanese runners were putting their famicoms on a fucking hotplate to fuck up DQ3's memory and beat the game in 20 minutes

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Spivzy @spivzy.bsky.social · 4d

it took about twelve hours for the discourse to shift from retroachievements admins are bad -> all achievements are bad -> ableist opinions on people who enjoy achievement hunting

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

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