This MD player combines two of my favourite things: Final Fantasy VIII and stuff I don’t need

Earthbound Markers (2024)

Thought these paragraphs on Tomino were fascinating. I wonder about the 'no one else does this' part though. What about Yasumi Matsuno? Reading this I was reminded of FFXII

Dragon Quest 2 HD-2D expanding on themes of recognizing that the critical weakness of a seemingly unstoppable enemy is that they all hate each other as much as they hate everything else and have no cohesion or loyalty beyond access to power was a warm blanket for a winter playthrough.

asking my wife if she wants to watch wonder man on disney plus

I saw many brilliant details in 3 hours with Resident Evil 9, but my fave was how unnecessarily pressing reload with a full clip as Grace makes her instead pull the slide with trembling hands to double check the chamber. My obsessive reloading neuroses when entering a scary room became /hers/, too.

"Dreamcast", a haiku Each day he rises. Asks me, "Is it still launch day?" "Yes," I lie. "Always."

外神田 / Sotokanda

This translation from 2012 has a Napoleon Dynamite reference lol

Hoonter must hoont

howling at the tagline "better than you think" for microwave burgers 😭

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles ad (2003) #retro #art #gaming #FinalFantasy

The powerful thing about FF7 OG is how even innocuous paths that are only ever traveled once had to be their own dedicated pre-rendered areas. The sewers under Don Cornio's mansion is the spot for me; completely unimportant area that would be tilesets in an older game but had to be fully crafted

Final Fantasy VII, on the path to Mt Corel, you enter via a rocky path that leads to a beautiful sunset over the mountains. It's one of my favorite places in the game.

Wake up babe, new NiGHTS lore just dropped.

Grasshopper sidestepping the question of capitalizing "is" in titles (it should be capitalized) by going both all lowercase and all caps

Convinced that a certain three-shot sequence in episode 7 of Pluribus is an homage (?) to an identical sequence in the film Goldeneye

Man this HITS.

All 10 mins are bliss but there was an absolutely legendary moment at 8:26 during this symphonic perfomance where the conductor turned to the audience and encouraged them to clap along with the climax, which imbued the last minute with an almost intolerable level of hype youtu.be/DOs99ZZk9So?...

Caught all 204 monkeys in Ape Escape. I wasn't planning to but I'm not sure I would've been able to sleep at night knowing some were still out there. The platforming was a bit iffy but the gadget swapping and ape netting was SICK

No matter how good of a writer you are, you will never be as powerful as a Dragon Quest localizer.

“When you go to the supermarket, don’t forget the milk.” “Okay.”

New favourite headline.

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

My New Year's resolutions aren't especially ambitious but I'm hoping to eat more yoghurt and generally be more like Huener from Ape Escape

Click on the part of the body you need to keep close to you?

They say imitation crab is the sincerest form of crab

twentysomething comedians criticising Stewart Lee for having a go at Russell Howard

Started reading Chainsaw Man last week and I'm caught up now. I think it's amazing. Like all my favourite stuff it nails both the mundane and the spectacular. Already looking forward to reading through it a 2nd time to see what else I can pick up on. Favourite characters are Asa, Kobeni, and Makima.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.

I wonder if Yoru's design is a reference to how Regan changes in The Exorcist. Her and Asa both go from being normal girls to having manic eyes and a scratched-up face when possessed. Also they both get way crasser

Dark Souls looks gorgeous on a CRT. PS1 pre-rendered background energy from the pulled-out shot of Firelink. Imagine low-poly Cloud Strife running around there. #crt, #darksouls

This is probably the pure best game Square Enix has released in twenty years btw, but only true connoisseurs will identify this fact

I interviewed Deus Ex: Human Revolution's art director years ago and he said MGS2's stylised, minimalist environment textures were a big inspiration, which is particularly obvious in the FEMA facility level. Convinced they used the Big Shell as direct reference for this.

I always thought it was charming how you could hear all the little lip noises from some of the voice actors

Been playing Scarlet Nexus and although I think the story is wholly incomprehensible, the game's visuals are pretty amazing. The enemies you fight are these nightmarish creatures built out of innocuous objects and random body parts

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

Wake Up Dead Man does for Benoit Blanc what MGS2 does for Solid Snake via Josh O'Connor as Raiden. Btw the highlight of the film for me was the phone call with Louise. PS. I like Raiden a lot

One of the producers on Guilty Gear Strive said it was basically impossible to source player feedback on balance changes online because nobody had original opinions and would just parrot what the most popular content creators said and so they had to rely on data and I think about that every day.

If Ace Combat 8 has social links they should be called Aero Dynamics

absolute bargain if any of yous have a use for 7,949,020,598 wasps

Final Fantasy IX // PlayStation // JVC AV-27D201 via component

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

Frankly astonishing explosion in Ace Combat 7 here. Btw I struggled through this game and finished it last night using the standard control scheme only to find out today that the expert controls are almost unanimously considered the proper way to play

my hero 😍