Kate
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Podcast co-host/editor | Trans girl uwuuuu | metal as hecc | I really like video games a bunch. yeah
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Hardcore Gaming 101: Excite Truck (and Scooter's Magic Castle!)
Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank an incredibly exciting Wii launch title. Then stick around for Scooter's Magic Castle, an edutainment game featuring several minigames strewn through a mag...
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Check out our episode on Excite Truck! Also on this episode, my fellow #HG101 hosts cover Scooter's Magic Castle!
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Okay, gonna try crowdsourcing this one. Anybody have any idea what カドゥー as a monster name might be a reference to? It's a yellow blob tyle monster with a single big eye. Photo attached.
December 1, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Okay, gonna try crowdsourcing this one. Anybody have any idea what カドゥー as a monster name might be a reference to? It's a yellow blob tyle monster with a single big eye. Photo attached.
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Here's a first look at our English patch for Gunslinger Girl on PS2.
November 30, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Here's a first look at our English patch for Gunslinger Girl on PS2.
I dreamed that I started up Magic Knight Rayearth again... but that friends told me to skip the last 300+ episodes, and instead see the 4+ hour movie "End of Escaflowne", which remakes them, and also clarifies story elements that enraged fans for years after the original show's conclusion
November 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I dreamed that I started up Magic Knight Rayearth again... but that friends told me to skip the last 300+ episodes, and instead see the 4+ hour movie "End of Escaflowne", which remakes them, and also clarifies story elements that enraged fans for years after the original show's conclusion
November 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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November 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Today (11/29) marks the 25th anniversary of "Metal Slader Glory: Director's Cut", the Super Famicom remake of the cult classic Famicom ADV. This ver. featured updated sprites redrawn by Yoshimiru + extra story scenes. An English fan translation released earlier this year.
November 29, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Today (11/29) marks the 25th anniversary of "Metal Slader Glory: Director's Cut", the Super Famicom remake of the cult classic Famicom ADV. This ver. featured updated sprites redrawn by Yoshimiru + extra story scenes. An English fan translation released earlier this year.
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November 29, 2025 at 6:35 AM
The original dub cast for Pokemon were great, and played a big part in what got me so into Pokemon as a kid.
Amazon has rolled out AI dubbed anime and I’m truly appalled. Like it or loathe it, the medium has a rich, incredible history of English performances. There’s already a million reasons to hate Amazon, but fuck me.
I wanna hear about your fav dub. Your fav VA. Let’s celebrate these folks. 💜
I wanna hear about your fav dub. Your fav VA. Let’s celebrate these folks. 💜
November 29, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The original dub cast for Pokemon were great, and played a big part in what got me so into Pokemon as a kid.
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Teddy Hug🧸✨
Millium Orion (Trails of Cold Steel)💙
Updated, cleaner version~ (+ added details)
Makes me happy to draw her. I should draw her more often
Millium Orion (Trails of Cold Steel)💙
Updated, cleaner version~ (+ added details)
Makes me happy to draw her. I should draw her more often
November 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Teddy Hug🧸✨
Millium Orion (Trails of Cold Steel)💙
Updated, cleaner version~ (+ added details)
Makes me happy to draw her. I should draw her more often
Millium Orion (Trails of Cold Steel)💙
Updated, cleaner version~ (+ added details)
Makes me happy to draw her. I should draw her more often
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Wazy comm for TakoSobaYaki! 💚
November 29, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Wazy comm for TakoSobaYaki! 💚
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Lost Kefin Update: I fixed the Magic Stones menu!
I *think* the game is currently playable fully in English in some form. I'll need to do some testing on my end just to be sure.
It's incredible to finally see this game in English!
I *think* the game is currently playable fully in English in some form. I'll need to do some testing on my end just to be sure.
It's incredible to finally see this game in English!
November 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Lost Kefin Update: I fixed the Magic Stones menu!
I *think* the game is currently playable fully in English in some form. I'll need to do some testing on my end just to be sure.
It's incredible to finally see this game in English!
I *think* the game is currently playable fully in English in some form. I'll need to do some testing on my end just to be sure.
It's incredible to finally see this game in English!
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Getting stuck causes players to explore the world.
Dying causes players to think about what they're doing.
An "impossible" situation causes players to learn how the game works and eventually achieve the impossible.
We need to be able to design *some* games around these fundamental ideas.
Dying causes players to think about what they're doing.
An "impossible" situation causes players to learn how the game works and eventually achieve the impossible.
We need to be able to design *some* games around these fundamental ideas.
November 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Getting stuck causes players to explore the world.
Dying causes players to think about what they're doing.
An "impossible" situation causes players to learn how the game works and eventually achieve the impossible.
We need to be able to design *some* games around these fundamental ideas.
Dying causes players to think about what they're doing.
An "impossible" situation causes players to learn how the game works and eventually achieve the impossible.
We need to be able to design *some* games around these fundamental ideas.
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Part of me feels like Dark Souls wouldn't have caught on if the first game had difficulty settings. It'd be "cheap", "pointless", etc.
Arcade games had a relatively granular difficulty option via credit feeding and it played a big part in them written off as "button mashers"/"quarter munchers".
Arcade games had a relatively granular difficulty option via credit feeding and it played a big part in them written off as "button mashers"/"quarter munchers".
November 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Part of me feels like Dark Souls wouldn't have caught on if the first game had difficulty settings. It'd be "cheap", "pointless", etc.
Arcade games had a relatively granular difficulty option via credit feeding and it played a big part in them written off as "button mashers"/"quarter munchers".
Arcade games had a relatively granular difficulty option via credit feeding and it played a big part in them written off as "button mashers"/"quarter munchers".
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random shit, but this was me when i accidentally spilled candle wax on my hand once
like i expected it to HURT and it did not and.. yeah
like i expected it to HURT and it did not and.. yeah
November 27, 2025 at 10:57 PM
random shit, but this was me when i accidentally spilled candle wax on my hand once
like i expected it to HURT and it did not and.. yeah
like i expected it to HURT and it did not and.. yeah
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"whatever happened to that guy fawkes guy who made undertale" -my dad during thanksgiving dinner
November 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
"whatever happened to that guy fawkes guy who made undertale" -my dad during thanksgiving dinner
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LMAO Estelle, they just wanted to play with you...😭
November 28, 2025 at 1:09 AM
LMAO Estelle, they just wanted to play with you...😭
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Happy 15th birthday to a story very dear to my heart.
Thank you @lynnsenpai.bsky.social for #15YearsOfRain!
Thank you @lynnsenpai.bsky.social for #15YearsOfRain!
November 28, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Happy 15th birthday to a story very dear to my heart.
Thank you @lynnsenpai.bsky.social for #15YearsOfRain!
Thank you @lynnsenpai.bsky.social for #15YearsOfRain!
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akira yamaoka viewed his role in that game as a way to introduce hundreds of indie musicians to people in hopes that even just one would resonate with each player and let them find a new favorite. this is a disgusting and depressing repudiation of one of the few human and good things about the OG
November 28, 2025 at 2:16 AM
akira yamaoka viewed his role in that game as a way to introduce hundreds of indie musicians to people in hopes that even just one would resonate with each player and let them find a new favorite. this is a disgusting and depressing repudiation of one of the few human and good things about the OG
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One thing I’ve learned from 8 years of Atari Archive research: 70s gaming, whether computer, coin op or console based, informed a vast swath of stuff that hit in the 80s and onward. They are foundational works and in a number of cases, still pretty damn fun!
November 28, 2025 at 12:23 AM
One thing I’ve learned from 8 years of Atari Archive research: 70s gaming, whether computer, coin op or console based, informed a vast swath of stuff that hit in the 80s and onward. They are foundational works and in a number of cases, still pretty damn fun!
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42 years later and I think maybe a dozen or so 70s TTL games are playable via mame or fpga platforms. The process is tricky and needs very specialized skills and specific information… but frankly I don’t know how many more decades these surviving machines still have in them.
This line from Video Games (Apr 83) was too prescient. One of the more frustrating things to me about the state of video game preservation is what feels like a general lack of interest in pre-'80s games; I will never stop banging the drum about the importance of '70s games (especially Death Race).
November 28, 2025 at 12:21 AM
42 years later and I think maybe a dozen or so 70s TTL games are playable via mame or fpga platforms. The process is tricky and needs very specialized skills and specific information… but frankly I don’t know how many more decades these surviving machines still have in them.