cygames going heavy into genAI is pretty bad. if anything normalizes it, it'll be gacha. gacha shouldn't even be legal but you say that and people just say "gambling's cool, just don't spend money you idiot" ignoring such an insanely predatory thing

@punkskunkwillow.bsky.social Just wanna say Willow is a good name, which I suppose is why so many of us have it. 💛

i miss when this guy was the only LLM

A Wizard of Oz anime that followed the sequels exactly would probably be the queerest show of that year despite being written more than a century ago.

Today is the last day that you can repost this image

Y’all, the Castlevania: Awakening In The Moonlight musical by Takarazuka Revue is available legally on VOD with subtitles starting today until the end of March, this is a great adaptation and the women in this show are so good, PLUS this is a rare experiment globally Please see it if you’re curious

In general, it will strongly benefit you to experience art the "wrong" way from time to time. Watch a sequel first, read the funky scanlation, play the shitty port. See what you get out if it, and how that differs from what people normally get out of it.

periodic reminder that the crusade against MSG was just racism and it is actually just magical science salt that gets you More Yummy for Less Sodium

Could everyone please stop denigrating Pokémon programming as if it's uniquely terrible? Pretty much all *software* is full of bugs; the only strange thing about Pokémon is that people act like the most popular franchise on the planet would somehow avoid the level of scrutiny needed to reveal them.

This sign raises more questions than it answers

Metroid Prime 4 reviews are up. > "Over half of your playtime will have the same isolated atmosphere you love, without the chatter of your Federation Trooper Companions" *Half!?* What do you *mean* **HALF!?**

BIG Challenges 🐊

We get this weird ass effect in the kitchen w shadows off the counter. Irl graphics card on LOW lol

americans or usians or whatever we're calling thanksgiving celebrators today if you haven't already punched your turkey out of the street trash can or whipped it from the brick castle wall do it now or it won't have enough time to air out and lose the trash can/wall smell by dinner

Until I saw it get panned by a TTD player recently, I'd honestly never heard of Chris Sawyer's Locomotion. But you know? After seeing it in motion and finding out there's a fork of OpenRCT2 that supports it (openloco.io)? Easy six bucks on GOG. Delightful game.

It's objectively strange that Chrono Trigger is the name of a JRPG series about time travellers dealing with a crisis, and Time Crisis a series of light gun games.

By the way, it's National Editor Appreciation Day. Nobody ever reads a great article and thinks, "Dang, that was some tight editing." But editing is a big part of how it got to be great. So writers, if you've ever worked with a good editor, shout 'em out.

Post your main and a Dracula Flow line to go with them "THE VATICAN WANTS TO WET ME UP WITH SILVER BULLETS BUT I'M ON A GOD DAMN SAMURAI PILL!"

Fish have committed credit card fraud

This is a great concept with some amazing picks, but I can't help being a little hurt by the lack of Okami and Gravity Rush.

No one who disables the context menu or text selection on a website should ever be allowed a restful night's sleep again.

when I was at google, their class on licenses basically said "we can't use any license that's funny" so I suggest everyone license their software as funny as possible

"And the 2025 Gaming Oscar for 'Best Boss Fight of 2025' goes to..." The host opens the envelope. "'Big Moai Controlled By A Smaller Moai' from Salamander III!" The crowd erupts in applause. The camera cuts to the Roaring Knight in the audience, who is clapping politely but visibly perturbed

(Premium users can also converse with Satan.)

Legit want to ship a game that only has settings that make the game worse. "Mouse Latency" or "Upside Down Mode" or "Indie Level (Low/Medium/High)" (this one applies a mosaic filter to the frame until it becomes lower res than a tamagotchi)

girl who plays kh2 only for the STG/gummi ship sections

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

I somehow always forget that Shigesato Itoi, creator of Mother/EarthBound, has been arrested numerous times for protesting against police brutality and for progressive changes to the establishment in Japan's government. Makes that cop battle scene in the early game hit different, huh?

personality quiz idea: answer questions about what kind of shmup boss you would be and it tells you how milkable you are

ok so if you skip past the ending in the 9th the game will continue reading innings as normal; eventually this overflows the score buffer and you'll see by the pitch diagram that we've been writing very precise locations to memory aaand (Bad Apple suddenly manifests in the stadium, audience claps)

update: the tv has a screensaver where a rabbit hops back and forth eating falling vegetables under the night sky

Cancel Spotify www.nme.com/news/music/s...

@izve.lmaonice.com Here, you said you didn't have the full version radiusic.com/ost/anime/Sa...

The PS2 truly is the best console ever because it is constantly becoming more powerful. Each time we say something "looks like a PS2 game" we're talking about a game of a higher fidelity than the last. What the PS2 is capable of in 2025 is so far beyond what it was capable of in 2003. That's amazing

Dark Souls? Elevator action. Metroid Prime? Elevator action. SotN? Elevator action. Silksong? Elevator action. There are games with elevators that aren't elevator action, but it's unambiguous, like BioShock. Thankfully, no one has made a game called "Elevator Action" that isn't elevator action.

Let's just end the genre name charade: No more Metroidvania. No more search action. We're not even going with the slightly better "exploration platformer." What do these games *really* share? Not combat, not platforming, not backtracking, not locks and keys... Elevators. It's elevator action now.

“From people I’ve spoken with at multiple platforms, they’re just suddenly told, ‘Starting next week, you won’t be able to use our [payment] services anymore.’ And it’s not even communicated by Visa or Mastercard directly, it’s passed down indirectly" automaton-media.com/en/news/cred...

Blight Town was the best part of Dark Souls.

this time im getting around to it before october

referring to metroidvanias as "hollowslop" to simultaneously piss off people who like metroidvanias, people who like hollow knight, people who want a better genre name for "metroidvania", people who are sick of the word slop being misused, and gradius fans who want to see more checkpoint recoveries

I know everyone's playing Silksong, but today has been a great day to just vibe to Deadzone Rogue.

Joined a meeting because my boss wanted to talk about the work I've been doing. LOL JK LMAO, IT WAS BAIT, I GOT LAID OFF

What I want to know is this. These payment processors, *why* do they care? They make their money on transaction fees. Why do they care what purchases generate the transaction fees for them? They are literally leaving money on the table, and that’s something their shareholders should disapprove of.

this is nightmarish and should alarm you no matter what your opinions on pornography are

Not to drag this out anymore, but just to be clear: the problem with numbered console generations is that they're not *useful*. The numberings aren't descriptive, and the groupings are arbitrary and US-centric. That's why people who study game history don't use them

I have just been introduced to Bootleg Rayquaza and this is now one of my favorite things ever

Tsuneki Ikeda of CAVE on the value of hard games shmuplations.com/ikeda

"Bluesky is dying" Oh yeah? Then explain why this GIF always does numbers.