Good morning! Just a reminder that the video games you play are made by living and real people who deserve to be treated as such and you need to demand for better and safer conditions for the devs behind your favorite games, especially if you ever want good games and not corporate slop!

Ninja Gaiden 2 innovating in dogshit boss fights by having you mash a button for the entire duration of one just to move around.

"Beat em ups are button mashing quarter munchers, but this new one is really good because it's about learning and getting good" is the beat em up version of "Unlike other mecha shows, this one is about the characters."

every clip people post about northernlion is him saying some "you need to touch grass. engage in earthly virtues, the pleasures of the spirit and the mind. reject dopamine. seek transcendence" while he plays 'Subway Surfers But It Makes You Addicted to Slot Machines' in the background

I think critics,devs,audiences should treasure & protect unintuitive genre abstractions. Like static cameras in survival horror games. The fact that its tied to a genre makes it a known language to players. & that's a beautiful thing cuz devs wont have to do the teaching every time they use it

We shouldn't hate on Breath of the Wild's success because it "ruined Zelda" or whatever. We should hate on it because it led to Genshin Impact

i am not against machine-learning technologies as such, but i will always be opposed to the use of such technologies to generate simulations of the products of human thought and creativity. i will never willingly interact with a counterfeit human.

Lucca went really well aside from the return trip, big thanks to @gabitime.bsky.social.

One of my beliefs is every public establishment should have a ping pong table. You should be able to drop in anywhere for a quick Pong

Altered Beast (1988)

couldn't be me. they put me in a new collection with arcade-perfect gameplay, incredibly low input lag, excellent practice features, and a brand-new sequel to me that they made themselves for the fun of it

I think the most psychopathic thing about NGB is something no one ever mentions, the game will frequently have rooms where killing 60 enemies in a row nets you a reward, and that reward is often a health extension. Finding this out has done psychic damage to me because now I feel compelled to do it.

you should play FINAL FIGHT

I think few if any videogame series can even come close to how immaculate Streets of Rage is. Four games with pristine game design, art direction, and music. All of them extremely different and all excellent. I even love SoR3's procedural music weirdness.

Heartwarming: Zangief helps his lifelong friend Blue Zangief reach the cookie jar on the top shelf

Gaming

Oh, it's PS2 North America's launch anniversary

This idiot got FAT

being flatly opposed to remakes in videogames is very much a reactionary impulse- after all you don't get stuff like John Carpenter's The Thing without remakes, and they should ideally just be judged on their own merits- but OH BOY is it an understandable impulse

it was me, btw. I did the Louvre heist. I was looking to steal all their tour guide 3DSes, but I could only find Crown Jewels. What am I going to do with a bunch of sparkly rocks that can't play Kid Icarus: Uprising

Honestly nah it's very easy to not care about the horse gacha considering it's tied to the actual real-life gambling scheme of horse betting. No matter how moe you make it, I'll never be favorable to horse racing from both an animal rights and anti-gambling stance.

still cant believe team cherry didnt know what jira was. they didn't even know tubu. i got a blank stare when i told them about heebee. they dont use poodee or dippy. they said whats weeno. dude they were unaware of gumpy. they dont have a pheebo subscription. they don't even use poob. not even poob

pretty funny bit to include a BDS solidarity acknowledgement in your review of a microsoft published game you gotta admit

The voices are winning I think I might get Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines 2. The stealth-focused Lasombra playthrough is materializing in my brainspace.

do any ninja gaiden 4 reviews mention that its publisher is facilitating an ongoing occupation?

Playing Earthbound for the first time ever in 2025 is fascinating, actually. You're just a kid and the world's gone mad. All the adults are useless at best or trying to kill you at worst. Everyone talks like a crazy person. Everything's too expensive. Your next door neighbor wants to be a dictator.

Hit some fat Izuna Drops today. RIP.

I know the original RE games did end up on GOG but this mentality is why it is your sacred duty to Steal Old Video Games

Octopath Traveler was the biggest waste of playtime I've ever completed, one of the most hollow and vapid games out there. This is what a game with zero substance looks like.

What the fuck do you mean they're adding another Goku to DBFZ in 2026

it's not FOR us

“Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.” ~Jack Kerouac

Strider Hiryu 2 (1999)

Streets of Rage 4

They should make a game where you play as an aspiring alchemist that's cursed to turn into a werewolf at night, call that Atelier Beast

Perfected this nerd

feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak

Got the OG under my belt too, hard to tell if I leveled up so much due to Reloaded or this is just easier, but I think it might just be easier overall. Gold Mine is still definitely the hardest stage in the game.

They're the best to ever do it... this new stage in Wild Guns Reloaded is so peak.

Imagine yearning for any of this bullshit and not the Bionicle aisle.

These streets ain't cheap no more.

the political policy cure for “male loneliness” is - more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week) - more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages) - more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)

LIARS will tell you today's the only day you can listen to Earth, Wind & Fire's September, but it's not true. You can listen to this banger any time you want, nobody can stop you.

Yooo are we back??? A faithful sequel in this day and age?????

Who up playing with they Platypussy Reclayed