Check out RJL'sreading project for #JanuaryinJapan 2026. 31 days of free-to-read short stories or excerpts from novels, encompassing a short history of modern Japanese fiction. I'll post a new short story every day, and you're welcome to read along!

It's fascinating to read a book about a niche online hobbyist community like The Forge, with analysis of topics like "the drama when the admin said Vampire The Masquerade gives brain damage" lol I feel the RPG Codex would fit a similar book if it also died in the early 2010s. Its survival doomed it

wagner moura falando em português e obrigando americanos a fazerem as duas coisas que mais odeiam: ler legenda e respeitar soberania

Ersatz is OUT! The indie pilot I've been solo-animating for 1.5 years is now on youtube. Check it out! youtu.be/yf2tBjHvx9s?...

Emputecido q fui jantar com um grupo de gringos e quase todos achavam q açaí era do Havaí.

Glad I got some Anthem screenshots last year, before it was gone forever... shame on EA for not doing an offline mode. I regret not getting them in 4K, but alas...

I know a group of Game Developers with threat of deportation from USA. Are any games journalists interested in being connected up?

I have countless criticisms of Dragon Age: Inquisition, but seeing that dragon in The Hinterlands for the first time in 2014 was crazy

Oh, this look amazing! store.steampowered.com/app/4285930/... Not only it's a RPG set in modern-day India, exploring their folklore & myths, it's also made by a team of Indians who have a channel of animated videos on Asian history: www.youtube.com/channel/UCpZ...

Damn, the studio making that Indian RPG I just shared (Rakshasa) has some lit history videos on Youtube: youtu.be/gIzQxNZfGM4?... Very relevant for current days, when colonial rule by "civilized" Western democracies is back on topic.

Oh, this look amazing! store.steampowered.com/app/4285930/... Not only it's a RPG set in modern-day India, exploring their folklore & myths, it's also made by a team of Indians who have a channel of animated videos on Asian history: www.youtube.com/channel/UCpZ...

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I do like how they just come out and say this stuff now. The reason there was a Venezuela plot line in the Jack Ryan series, wherein it was portrayed as the greatest threat to the world, is because the CIA helped them write the script on how they were actually planning an assault on the country.

estadunidense pode ver a merda mais estadunidense do mundo acontecer e eles sempre vão ter as mesmas 3 reações sempre né: 1) what are we? a bunch of asians??? 2) I can't believe that even the latinos are doing better than us 3) what is happening now must be a russian psyops conspiracy

FFXII menu UI appreciation post

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Desabafo de nicho, mas eu fico indignado como tem "coach de imigração" por aí. Tá cheio de papinho "é só querer!", vendendo assessoria mas omitindo informação importante sobre duração de visto, requisitos e coisas q podem fuder sua vida. Aí dá merda, mandam o clássico "não se esforçou o suficiente"

Feeling better now, since Steam sale is about to end and @dominictarason.com got me some new followers looking for cool games, here's a personal selection of stuff that's REALLY CHEAP right now - like under $4-5, some under $1 (at least with my regional pricing) I'll highlight some below 🧵

ELEX is a mess but looking back it honestly gave me some of my most memorable gaming moments this decade. It's an open-world RPG full of deadly encounters, but also reactive NPCs, fun tools & tons of jank. So you're like "I can come back later when I'm stronger... OR exploit my way to victory! :D"

Feeling better now, since Steam sale is about to end and @dominictarason.com got me some new followers looking for cool games, here's a personal selection of stuff that's REALLY CHEAP right now - like under $4-5, some under $1 (at least with my regional pricing) I'll highlight some below 🧵

Good question! Bonus thread! Other cool people to follow! Starting with @caseyexplosion.bsky.social, who has been doing great sale recommendation threads along with me. Runs a cool curator page. She's a lot more chill than I am, and skews towards slower sims store.steampowered.com/curator/2834...

The third Quake Brutalism Jam - launched last night. Largest community project of its kind. The biggest surprise: It's available both as a mod or as a FULLY STANDALONE FREE GAME. 77 one-shot Quake adventures using a whole new set of weapons, enemies and a whole lot of concrete. qbj3.slipseer.com

Jan 2007 → Jan 2026 #pixelart

Already time to go back to work... I was actually feeling rested & refreshed on Saturday, but this whole US thing got me in a very dark place. The absolute lack of consequences, a friend sending me AI Venezuelans celebrating, & idiots here already going "the left failed Venezuela", it looks grim...

🚨 Estou denunciando a inteligência artificial "Grok" e a rede social X ao Ministério Público Federal e à Agência Nacional de Proteção de Dados. O motivo? Ambas estão gerando, e publicando abertamente, imagens eróticas de mulheres e CRIANÇAS reais, sem consentimento algum. +👇🏽

Just gonna leave a book recommendation here. Chávez wanted you all to read it too.

A lot of people are going to preface tu-tutting tweets with variants on the theme of "Maduro was no angel" and it's very important to have the moral clarity to understand that these people are the lowest form of coward imaginable

Nem tem oq comentar, só espero q viva o bastante pra ver esse país de merda se auto-destruir.

Now to shine a spotlight on others! It takes many, many communities to do the great work of game history - and they should be celebrated, dammit! Here are some places and people that deserve a highlight, along with things they put out this year.

In 2026 is gonna be 10 years that I moved from Brazil to Japan... but I still get emotional every time it snows ❄️

Fuck yeah, snow in Tokyo! ❄️

Trying to understand if I should actually get into Dungeon Travelers 2 or if that's just a really niche meme

Very happy that so many people enjoyed my article! Let's see if I can get that new book sorted out in 2026, the drafts I received so far are really promising :D

A message for you all to carry through the year

Uma meta de 2026 é ver mais filmes clássicos, especialmente nacionais. Coisas tipo 'Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol' são muito diferentes do cinema hollywoodiano, é importante pra abrir a cabeça pra diferentes estilos. Fora q ainda é fortíssimo. Ele e vários outros foram remasterizados recentemente

The year barely started and I already defeated Ubisoft and rescued the Might & Magic series 🥲

Nice, @theycreateworlds.bsky.social just released a new episode on the history of New World Computing open.spotify.com/episode/0yoo... Highly influential studio, Jon Van Caneghem is probably only second to Richard Garriott as a legend in 80s & 90s CRPGs. Shame it was all run to the ground by 3DO :/

It's officially 2026 here, happy new year everyone!

To sum it up: Sword & Fairy 4 had combat QTEs since 2007. The remake's art direction is exactly the same since its reveal in Dec 2024. The combat UI is every modern JRPG ever, from Trails of Cold Steel III to Persona 5 to Star Rail. Goddamn those sneaky Chinese stealing from the saviors of JRPGs!

"You guys have one of the most important & popular left-wing leaders of the past 50 years beating the far-right on the polls... He should step down."

A fun thing of going back to Might & Magic X is being reminded of when they got Olivier Ledroit to redesign the series' visual identity for HoMM5. Impossibly cool lol

If you saw the new Sword and Fairy remake and want to learn more about Chinese & Taiwanese RPGs, I wrote an overview of their history & stand-out games back in 2021: felipepepe.medium.com/before-gensh... And the thread below has recommendations of games available in English you can start with :)

I randomly went back to Might & Magic X and it's such a early-2010s-ass game. It's loudly an "old-school RPG revival" with lots of passion, but feels more nostalgic than a great game by itself... shame the team could never do a M&M XI. Also, it supports widescreen but still feels better in 4:3 lol

O William Jeffrey era âncora de TV nos EUA e veio morar no Brasil. Ele tem uma página no Instagram chamada Diacho de Gringo onde ele conta a experiência dele vivendo aqui. Adorei esse vídeo dele falando como a relação dele com a comida mudou depois que veio morar aqui.

If you saw the new Sword and Fairy remake and want to learn more about Chinese & Taiwanese RPGs, I wrote an overview of their history & stand-out games back in 2021: felipepepe.medium.com/before-gensh... And the thread below has recommendations of games available in English you can start with :)

I really hate how games media handles anything out of China: www.thegamer.com/clair-obscur... We're getting a gorgeous remake of one of their best RPGs ever, but the clown does zero research about it and just goes "I'm getting a lot of Boss Baby vibes from this..."

This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...