My disassociation has been crazy lately. I'll turn on a 50 minute podcast and it will take me nearly three hours to get through it.

Because Sony and Microsoft are terrible companies does not make Nintendo the good one. It doesn't even make them a lesser evil. None of these companies are your friends and are providing cover for each other to degrade consumer rights. I'ts 2026. Stop doing console wars shit. This is a war on you.

Oh! I also was sent Fantasian Neo Dimension by a friend and it is STELLAR. Very inspired by the PS1 era RPGs but with some unique features. There is a great gimmick that lets you "stock" random battles and then do them all at once, with most attacks doing AOEs to facilitate this.

The list of games I want to replay is growing much faster than I can actually finish them. Really want to revisit Enotria, Castle Crashers, and Doom 64. Also I never played it before but I picked up Gylt and I was always super interested in it - like a cute(r) Alan Wake.

#Sony is trying to take away our consumer rights, create a monopoly, and destroy a huge piece of #gaming culture by ending the era of physical media for #Playstation This is not just a matter of Digital VS Physical It is about our choices being taken away by force. #BoycottPlaystation #NoDiscNoBuy

"Chinese courts allow heirs to inherit accounts of deceased gamers — multiple cases spanning years establish precedent for digital ownership of games, in-game items, and microtransactions." You'd never find this in western liberal democracies, lol. You don't even own the games while you're alive. 🤣

Games that have a projectile weapon (like a crossbow or sawblade tosser) where you have to work around the projectile having a drifting trajectory are underrated. Actually love doing a little physics puzzles every combat encounter, makes it much more engaging.

Lost my 400+ hour Starbound save D:! But! It looks like Frackin' Universe has been updated a lot since I last played, so I feel like I'm discovering everything for the first time. Really adore this game.

The "I don't buy physical so I don't care" crowd will only care when their digital libraries start disappearing. And here's the thing, Sony will keep capriciously changing their TOS to do that. They want a captured audience who will re-purchase everything every few years. That is their goal.

One cool thing about today is seeing everyone post their own game collections. I love seeing it and its so nice how many people care about this as a hobby.

So like. I love video games. Truly, deeply, madly love them. Its not an exaggeration to say: video games saved my life. This is a portion of my collection, everything retro (7th gen and before) are organized neatly and boxed up. 1/x

I wonder if Keita Takahashi's To a T is consciously a metaphor for living with disability. It's so interesting how many things they got right or feel familiar to me. Also, as with all of his projects, its a visual joy and the music is so good.

My Razer Nommo v2 speakers were being a little weird so I tried to install their software to see if there was a firmware update or something. There are a half dozen apps to control a pair of speakers, they all have universally awful UI designs, and none of them have a clear way to check firmware.

I'm never quite so aware of having raid awareness as I am when I'm playing a game with someone who loses track of their own character.

I don't know what kind of licensing issues there are but Level-5 should really push to rerelease the Dark Cloud and Yo-Kai Watch series on as many consoles as they can. Rogue Galaxy too. It was less popular than some of their other games but I'd really like to play White Knight Chronicles again too

Lots of trouble focusing on any one game right now so I've been playing a scattershot of genres. But when I can get my brain to function for 20 minutes in a row, I've been enjoying these titles

It bums me out I can't even be a little excited for the Monster Hunter Wilds expansion. The game is such a failed experiment. And I'm not even speaking to its technical issues. The changes to base mechanics and systems in the game is unfixable as it stands. Just adding more stuff won't help.

Ubisoft shouldn't be supported either way but someone should probably tell them the whole appeal of Rayman Origins and Legends was the stellar art and music. Stripping out the hand drawn 2D art for 3D is just deeply stupid and pointless.

The last great invention was microfiber clothes. All downhill from there.

One of the reasons I've never fallen out of love with MMOs is how much agency they allow me that I otherwise do not have. They allow me to be more of the person I am. I can help people in ways I can't in life. I can socialize without my brain sabotaging me. All of that feels pretty good.

Storygraph users! This is my very professional post promoting the very professional giveaway for my real book for adults about a deranged dragon whose heads can’t stop arguing with each other. Damn it, I was almost normal for a whole sentence. Anyway! Here is a giveaway!

I think a healthy trait to develop is being able to check yourself and say "This isn't for me but I recognize the quality of it." When a piece of media doesn't immediately cater to you, most react by denigrating that piece of media instead of recognizing that, sometimes, it really is just taste.

I’m so furious about how stupid everything is

Just a quality of life/health tip for people who enjoy both old games and a lot indie RPGs. If you have trouble with your hands I suggest finding an arcade stick - they're great for retro stuff and work well with many modern turn based games. Not having to grip a controller is really helpful.

This is a goal I've been carrying since I was a teen. Though the level cap was 75 then. I'm hoping I can keep pushing to get every job to 99!

When I say "Heya" this is what I mean

It's been like 4+ years since Endwalker and I still teleport to Rhalgr's Reach instead of Radz-at-Han every single time.

I love FFXI so, so much but god. They desperately need to revamp/remove PlayOnline and streamline setting up the game. I go back to play it frequently and its always a headache to get the game up and running again.

One of the reasons I adore Dragon's Dogma so much is that it lets you be an adventurer. It feels almost like a Life Sim. I go out, cull a few goblins, maybe a Griffin if I'm feeling saucy, and then head back to town with my loot and grab a good nights sleep. I love it.

Huge game design pet peeve for me is mounts/vehicles in any kind of open world/survival crafting/life sim game. They all expect you to stop every three feet to pick something up - and mounts just slow down interactions, either having t0 dismount to interact or turn the mount like a forklift.

I've been a big fan of the Orcs Must Die series since the first one and I think its kind of impressive how its had a consistent story line. Even having the characters visibly age from game to game. Totally unnecessary for the genre its in but also deeply appreciated.

>ask the game dev if their game is actually cosy or just has resource gathering

It is actually kind of hard to do these lists since I have to resist slapping EarthBound and Monster Hunter into every square. But I also want to find room for lost gems like The Last Story or Little King's Story and can just never squeeze them in.

Pokopia is generally great but the Animal Crossing stuff shoved into the DQB formula are all universally the worst parts of the game. It basically creates issues/bad mechanics out of stuff fixed in the first DQB game and that is a little frustrating.

In general, Doctor's are really unequipped to prepare patients for what long term chronic pain will do to your body and brain. But I wish someone would have at least once talked to me about how much cognitive damage this had the potential to do, I've felt really unprepared as its getting worse.

I started my second round of ketamine infusions, for treatment of chronic pain, yesterday morning. It has so far been the only thing to meaningfully impact my pain and the results are still small. This first day of this set left me nauseous for the better part of 24 hours but it feels worth it.

I have this giant old plastic everready flashlight I got in the 90s for probably 20 bucks and it still works perfectly. Every expensive LED flashlight I've ever bought is dead after a couple months.

It's kind of fun to think about how excited the Ninja Turtles must have been the first time they saw Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.

Monster Hunter Stories 3 just goes to show how much cat puns are a load bearing pillar in a good MH game.

Tobi-Kadachi is the Pukei Pukei of Monster Hunter Stories 3.

I opened up Pokemon Go for the first time in nearly a year to mess around with the Pokopia event. Abrupt reminder of how aggressively inaccessible Pokemon Go is to disabled people - going as far as monetarily punishing disabled players for features/items others can access for free. Too real.

My social battery is actually one of those 2,000 year old ceramic pots that somehow still works but you wouldn't trust it to power a nightlight.

There have been an astounding amount of bots in FFXIV lately. Nearly in every single roulette I do, I get at least sprout/returner bot. I'm not sure what has caused this specific surge of it. Usually it's after an update that requires, say, light farming or some such.

I did that thing I've seen people doing.

Just finished Reanimal with @wiswell.bsky.social and it was 60% of a good game made much better by a good friend. But there was some terrible, terrible design elements and a story that's painfully obtuse and not really worth digging through for an actual meaning.

I think it's interesting how long Nintendo has held onto resentment for the poor sales of EarthBound in America, despite their own aggressively bad marketing of a game that was already in a niche genre. In this context, interesting means stupid.

Something I love about The Muppets is Kermit is struggling every day to stop the theater from going broke but also somehow knows Alice Cooper's agent.

The Stardew Valley symphony was a really lovely experience, the composer was funny and engaging, and the orchestra was wonderful. I think the thing I enjoyed most though was seeing how many people showed up as their Stardew characters.

The same Dems who are telling people to get in line with Newson are the ones who championed the chance of Liz Cheney running as a Dem. They are profoundly unserious people and it is nothing but a game to them.