Me and the one other person I know who's into old, jank-ass survival horror, hearing people say Silent Hill f's combat sucks, knowing we're in for a good time.

Finished with Metaphor Refantazio. A very good game. It's not my favorite RPG or fantasy story ever, but it might be the one that best encapsulates what I like about fantasy.

Cannot wait for the new Fire Emblem to lead to more 3 Houses discourse.

Oh shit, Sothis?

Amazing. The new Fire Emblem has Castlevania's Alucard in it.

I see this reducing in reposts - this situation never went away. You may have seen a lot of people posting about it and some inroads made and thought " yeah things will turn out alright" Unfortunately no. we actually do have to keep holding their feet to the fire until they deliver.

I always subconsciously thought this way, but this is the best summary of why I make 9/11 jokes. The event is a horrible tragedy, but 9/11 as a 'brand' the U.S government has used to start never ending wars, take away human rights, and make the world worse is that much more tragic.

Me calling VISA for the 3rd time this week in an angry but dignified matter, but this time I've added a random excerpt to my script demanding they let me put on cat ear accessories.

Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement today at 2pm?

2012: Terminally online weirdos ranting about 'fake gamer girls'. 2025: Terminally online weirdos ranting about 'fake reader guys'.

Yuji Naka could never.

Sakurai beating the 'I only care about the Kirby games that I made' allegations.

I grow more insane every time I see people nostalgic for 7th gen gaming, who genuinely want to go back to it. I won't say no good games came out in the 7th gen. But it might be the blandest, most boring era of gaming. Every trend I remember makes me think, 'Man, glad that's over'.

Finished Vinland Saga a couple days ago. 10/10 might be my in my top 10 mangas now. Anybody who thinks it goes downhill once the farming arc starts is idiotically wrong.

Frieren playing Fire Emblem Awakening and getting to the Say'ri x Tiki A support conversation like #FireEmblem #frieren #葬送のフリーレン #ファイアーエムブレム

For crying out loud, I started learning history at school in the early 2000s, in a pretty conservative part of the U.S, and even they said Columbus was a jackass. Even my conservative family, one side of which descends from Italians, said he was a jackass.

Jojo Part 4's arc 'Let's Go Eat Some Italian Food' is one of my favorite things in fiction. It has nothing to do with finding Kira, has no dire circumstances, and doesn't advance 'The Plot' (TM). But it breathes so much life into Josuke and co. and the town of Morioh.

Tom Bombadil's intro is one of my favorite moments in LotR. He has no great importance in Frodo's journey and doesn't advance 'The Plot' (TM). But he shows a world that exists beyond Frodo's plight, and that there are people singing and finding joy despite the dire circumstances.

I hate the idea that the measure of a story element's worth is if it advances 'The Plot' (TM). Stories aren't Rube Goldberg machines. They aren't rigid constructs built solely for 'The plot'. They can take time to breathe and show other ideas, other parts of the world. That includes people banging.

Reminder that AI has not made a single cent for its investors and is held up solely by Silicon Valley dip shits who think they might possibly make money off it at some point, and MUST be the first in line to do so. Even if it means pissing and burning away their workers, money, and infrastructure.

I know we're upset about itch, but they're not the only ones Payment processors harassed companies bc of a 1,000 email hate campaign But we can EASILY top 1,000! I prewrote an email + got the contact info - you just have to send! ↻💬♡ to boost We CAN make a difference 💕 #itch #censorship 1/🧵

'I know writers who use sub-text, and they're all cowards.' - Fujimoto after writing the newest Chainsaw Man chapter, probably

When you spend the day calling and complaining to credit card companies about Collective Shout's censorship push, then wind down by looking at porn.

I don't know if it's a hot take, but I prefer Donkey Kong's Bananza design to the Rare one. It looks more cartoony and expressive. I don't think it blows the old design out the water, and get D.K has had a set look for almost 30 years. But I do prefer it.

re: generative AI I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used. And now, you can use it, too.

I'm glad FF Tactics is getting an updated port, but has there ever been a 'smoothing filter' that doesn't look like pure ass? People cannot expect me to think, on any subjective or objective level, that the image on the right looks better than the one on the left.

I listened to a podcast covering the Epic of Gilgamesh a few years back. Gilgamesh and Enkidu are unironically the original shonen battle rivals with homoerotic subtext that makes people ship them.

Repost your favorite Pokemon, Legendary, Mythical, and game. Most of the '#gamers' I follow on here have already been tagged, so I'll omit tagging 5 more people. Rowlet has perfect roundness.

The people who are 'unlike other mecha anime'-ing Clair Obscur are annoying, but it's nice that they're getting a sizeable pushback. 10-15 years ago, idiotic declarations about how all RPGs from Japan exclusively star teenagers would go unopposed.

This post remains ever-green.

Here it is, my latest for ANN. I'll be frank: this is the most important piece I've written. The deepest of thanks to every librarian and person I spoke to in this investigation. It's an honor and a privilege that they trusted me to share their stories. With that, go support your local libraries.

Now that Baldur's Gate 3, Metaphor, LaD7&8, and Clair Obscur have all received critical and financial acclaim despite (or rather thanks to) being turned-based, can people finally STFU and stop saying turn-based RPGs are dead and that nobody wants them?

Year 2.5 billion of the future calendar. Humanity has transcended into immortal beings of pure data, and achieved Nirvana. Universal peace is now real. I awake in the morning to this happy, enlightened state, and my mind says to me, 'That thing you said when you were 14 was really fucking stupid'.

Any dumbass who watched Frieren and concluded a group of immaculately dressed, iredeemably sociopathic European aristrocrats with German names and horns MUST be an allegory for racial minorities, should be directing their hatred towards Netflix DMC. 🙂

Frieren would champion Luigi Mangione, and I will not elaborate on this statement.

Cops in fiction: In a dangerous bout of 5-D chess, police used their wits to decode the killer's message, and raced to the scene to save the day. Cops in reality: After the 20th call, police finally got off their asses to investigate the awful stench that was festering in the killer's apartment.

My fellow gamers, our video games are going to be more expensive because of Trump's ill-advised tariffs. This is the most important and damaging aspect of his bad economic decisions. We must rise up against it.

Hilarious how the anti-woke crowd is currently viewed by the public the same way SJWs were 10 years ago. Absurdly annoying, terminally online losers, who will obsessively demonize media for the most minuscule of things, and are largely seen as posers and 'fake gamers'.

Sakurai is returning to his boy?

Bloodborne 2 in all but name just got announced.

Hopefully the frame rate to this Hyrule Warriors doesn't chug like a drunken sailor.

Ohhh, more Hyrule Warriors.

Josef Fares is too good for this world.

I REALLY hope the magnetic joycons fix the drift issues of Switch 1.

Yo, Metroid Prime 4. Let's fucking go!

THE COPE WAS REEEEAAAAL!

New Nintendo direct, and with it my cope for an HD re-release of the Devil Summoner games is rising.

It is sooo funny how much public perception of Inafune has shifted over 15 years. I cannot understate how much he was seen as a golden child who could do no wrong from 2010 to 2015-ish. Especially after all his comments about how, 'Japanese gaming companies need to become more like the west!'

Urban Myth Dissolution Center is pretty good so far. In no small part because the protagonist has 'it's my first day' energy.

This will stop being a discussion when execs and analysts stop claiming single player games are dead. For every think piece about something as obvious as 'a single player game that's good and doesn't have any predatory bullshit will make money', there is another that seriously argues the opposite.