Great stream! Did a nice long Hytale session. Explored the desert mines and the wintery wastes. Checked out how the dimensions are going - only 2 really run smoothly, sadly. Raided by Drac! Raided into @rukaerika.bsky.social and Cora!

Time for some Hytale adventures! www.twitch.tv/dominicbytes

Mixtape is definitely becoming a dividing line of those who are fine with billion dollar companies wearing the "indie" title like a skin suit and those are not fine with that. (I am not fine with it, personally.)

Great stream! Explored 3 new games from #Keymailer: #Talystro, #AirportContraband, and #BelowtheCrown. Talystro in particular had me sucked in deep. Raided by @arikado.bsky.social! Raided into @lululewd.bsky.social!

Knocking out some #Keymailer games! www.twitch.tv/dominicbytes

My mom right here. Dad, too. They always made sure I had what I needed, even if it meant less for themselves, as we often didn't have enough to go around.

I don't think I ever posted one of my most viral Sailor Moon comics here

Butter is pretty great. That is all.

Upcoming schedule! Mon 5/11 - #Keymailer games on Lucko! Got a sudden influx of new titles, so I need to get through my backlog. Tue 5/12 - Hytale!

"The same people who bought you Stray and Outer Wilds are producing Mixtape!" Wrong. In Aug 2024 Annapurna Interactive had mass resignations. Everyone involved in promoting those titles left. The blatant bribery to promote Mixtape is an approach by the new people. 2 different entities, basically.

Assume any reviewer or content creator claiming Mixtape is amazing is being paid off by Larry Ellison and values money over their reputation. I haven't seen corpo asturfing on this scale in a bit.

The fraud and nepotism around Mixtape is quite concerning. I do not like how large studios are creating shell corporations to subvert the indie label. You can see the large corporate backing in the music licensing, marketing, and the flood of paid shills. It's best to avoid the game entirely.

Tagging me in drama is a quick block.

Hytale Pre-Release Update 5 is great. They fixed several bugs - such as the light source blocks - that had stymied several of my ideas for builds. Raided into Grizz.

Trying out Pre-Rlease Update 5 of Hytale! Sounds like they fixed some of the issues that were bugging me! twitch.tv/dominicbytes

Great stream! Tried out all the Game Jam games. I wasn't able to finish all of them. Several due to jank. There were a lot more games submitted this time, which is always nice to see. Raided by @arikado.bsky.social! Raided into @naomieecat.bsky.social and @skabvt.bsky.social!

Spring 2026 Game Jam time! www.twitch.tv/dominicbytes

A summary of some arguments I've seen about Mimi Yanagi: General: "The art was disgusting, so they deserve prison." Right leaning: "They're trans, so they deserve prison." Left leaning: "Ana Valens supports them, so they deserve prison." Both support and opposition has been spread evenly, too.

Upcoming schedule! Mon 5/4 - Spring 2026 #GameJam games on Lucko! Tue 5/5 - No Byte Club Cinema. #Hytale instead.

There is no time in human history where a government has stopped with only arresting a single artist for their work. It's always a process of starting at the fringes and then working their way in, until none who defy authority are left. The Visa/MC payment crackdowns illustrated this exact method.

Post your warning sign

Some areas in Paper Mario feature a rim lighting effect that is achieved in a manner that is extremely simple for the surprisingly effective results it produces, being simply shifting around a shadow copy of the sprite.

I genuinely can't tell if some of the psychotic posts I've gotten on the red-blue button thing are real people who are very unhealthy or AI bots. The blue button side has a lock on all of the worst takes, ranging from supporting enshittification to endorsing genocide. But these could be AI bots.

The AI bots brigading the red-blue button thing are really terrible.

A productive grind session in #FF6. Only 3 characters left to max out the Espers with and then we can resume the story. Raided into @hidracorp.bsky.social!

Realm Reborn? Dawntrail? Evercold? What are you talking about? It's 1994. Time to kick some clown ass. Final Fantasy 6, by community vote. www.twitch.tv/dominicbytes

Man I'd have loved to see this in high school.

Concluded the #Napoleon 2023 movie. It's quite a bumpy road, with some good scenes mixed with very badly done scenes. Raided into Axelnotl and Minka!

Short stream, but got some work done. Everything moved to the new base, so I will be using it from now on. Raided by @mrjmezz.bsky.social! Raided into @pandajessie.bsky.social, @latecustomer.bsky.social, and Prof. Grass!

Probably a short Hytale stream, just to get some time in and relax. www.twitch.tv/dominicbytes

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis, or Ghibli IT WAS RELEASED AS "THE MOVIE" IN THE US, IT COUNTS!

Upcoming schedule! Having recovered from my car accident, I will be getting back to streaming as I work on other things. Mon 4/27 - Hytale! Tue 4/28 - Napoleon 2023 Part 2! Wed 4/29 - Community pick! Poll will be in my Discord server. Thu 4/30 - #Keymailer games on Lucko!

Pragmata has some of the smartest marketing I've seen from a AAA studio in a while. They understood the assignment.

This has been a really good year for anime. This season I'm enjoying: Re:Zero S4 Bookworm S4 Liar Game Daemons Witch Hat Atelier Also doubling back to enjoy Kaya-Chan and Sentenced to be a Hero.

Doing better today. Fogginess from the concussion is better, but still there. Soreness is pretty much gone. No streaming today. I have off from work for a while, so I will do some streams to distract me from the loss once my head is better.

Have a meme in lieu of a stream. #youtube #clanker

Head's up: had a car accident last night. I was t-boned into the driver side. I am mostly okay. Sore muscles, stiff neck, and headache. My car of nearly 20 years is totaled, however. No stream tonight. I am dealing with the fallout of this. To say I am now in dire straits is putting it mildly.

Diana finds a cartridge #Pragmata

Face reveal, wrong answers only

Part 1 of the Napoleon movie done. It's such a mixed bag. Some very good scenes, mainly involving the politics and history of the era. And some very weird and off putting scenes, mainly everything with the "romance." I can see why this was panned. Part 2 next Tuesday. It's too long for 1 stream.

Anthropic: Claude Design is the best thing in design ever! Claude Design: That's a nice logo you have there. Be a shame if I hallucinated a brand new one, wouldn't it?

COMING MAY 2ND! 👀 The Yomi Quinnley Plush is real, brought to you all by @Youtooz ! Just look at this cute little scientist, she's so big, soft, and squishable!🧪💙

1000 Day Celebration had some scuff: one game crashed everything before stream even began and required a reboot. The other crashed multiple times. But we got through a little. Raided by @arikado.bsky.social! Raided into @kmbus.bsky.social and Scruffy!

We wrapped up Chapter 1, and then I got blueballed by Kojima when trying to rizz up my waifu with my natural musk! We raided @dominicbytes.vtubers.social, who's playing Phasmophobia! My quest for some Quiet lovin' continues on Wednesday! #vtuber #vsky #eldenwood #streamend #transstreamer #twitch

I've hit 400 subs on Youtube! Thank you to everyone who has helped me hit this milestone. Now I'm just waiting for Twitch to hit 600; I'm 13 away. Tonight will be my 1000 Day Celebration!

Upcoming schedule! Mon 4/20 - Celebrating 1000 Days as Dominic Bytes! I'll be diving back to some old games with new twists. Tue 4/21 - Napoleon 2023 Director's Cut on Byte Club Cinema! Thur 4/23 - Hytale!

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