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VGDensetsu @vgdensetsu.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I've written an article about Taku Makino, a little-known Sega artist whose face and work you may be familiar with (notably his contributions to the Golden Axe, Sonic and Shinobi series). vgdensetsu.net/takumakino/ Article aussi dispo en français vgdensetsu.net/takumakinofr/

Photo of Taku Makino seated in front of a workstation. Behind him, Mark Cerny accompanies Michael Jackson on a visit to Sega of Japan.

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animal jayson ⭐️👁️ @animaljayson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

arcades can only exist in a society with rigorous public transit, walkable infrastructure, public social spaces, etc to support their model whereas console games can only exist in a society of atomized suburbanism which lacks these things, ie car countries like the US do you understand me

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b3baSah @babasah.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Teenagers are actually saving us from fascism making titoks

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b3baSah @babasah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Probably is... Yet indie filmmakers also reproduce absurd and inappropriate formal elements thinking they are being correct/fair to the audience, instead of deducting their grammar from more fundamental properties of the medium

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b3baSah @babasah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Is it though ? When discussing filmmaking I find myself arguing about the same stuff

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b3baSah @babasah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What makes me absolutely mad is that no dev seem to believe that a reliable logic would actually help me engage more than any modern bullshit designs trick they come up with

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b3baSah @babasah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Truth is you would never say that of any other artistic medium ever

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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b3baSah @babasah.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You finally got it, congrats !!

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b3baSah @babasah.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'd say my time playing has decreased significantly since I excluded non-arcade games from my life, although the joy I get from it is stronger than ever

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b3baSah @babasah.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I still remember that Deamon's Souls trailer hitting my spot so hard I doubt it could topped

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b3baSah @babasah.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Je suis shyyyyyyyyy 🪰

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b3baSah @babasah.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

PK LES GENS ME REGARDENT MAL DANS LES PARCS LE SAMEDI DEJA JE SORS C BON LAAAAA JE VOULAIS JUSTE FAIREMEQS SSTEPS

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VGDensetsu @vgdensetsu.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

According to Yukio Futatsugi, Junichi Suto, the lead programmer on the 3 Saturn episodes of Panzer Dragoon, has passed away. Someone reported on Twitter that he had died in the summer of 2020. He was still employed as general manager of the development business division at Land Ho! in 2017.

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b3baSah @babasah.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

J'ai eu la visiond'un assistant IA hyper insolent et plein de mauvaise foi qui commenterait toutes mes activités et ne ferait jamais exactement ce que je demande un peu comme le chat-oiseau de The Last Guardian mais bcp plus drôle par ce que ça aurait des répercussions sur la vraie vie

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b3baSah @babasah.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

why the double jump though

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b3baSah @babasah.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The cinema crowd is craving for a technical reason to keep believing their medium is special and different from video (which it is but for cultural/ethical reasons that are no longer tied to the superiority of film). They fight the wrong battle out of panic

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b3baSah @babasah.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

looking forward to see that! Must be fun indeed to build upon strong fundamentals like you have here: inspiring for players and devs alike

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b3baSah @babasah.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

@boghogstg.bsky.social caramel action is brillant really, hooked me hard. Ideas are clear elegant and numerous

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b3baSah @babasah.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Filmakers are generally misinformed/ignorant themselves

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b3baSah @babasah.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

minor offenders compared to those who argue in favour of shitty standard mechanics within the content itself. I get that there could be some sort of poetry in looking at a skybox, while when parying in a loop there is nothing but real painful boredom

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Visual Novel News @visualnovelnews.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Yorhel has passed away He was known for running vndb, a website he created back in 2007 The moderation team is working to preserve the website but cannot provide details at the moment

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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

My favorite sequences are the ones where you feel a balance of approaches that are normally kept separate. For example, a great combination of coherent close-quarters action choreography with magic beams, which many anime struggle to incorporate seamlessly into moments like this

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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

All my condolences about the passing of KyoAni founder & president Hideaki Hatta. No exaggeration to say that he's been one of the most important individuals in the history of this industry, especially if you consider that he also had a hand in IG's inception www.kyotoanimation.co.jp/information/...

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b3baSah @babasah.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Un immense merci pour ton travail vraiment!

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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

He actually drew them himself, Saito loves dolls this much. The process was: -Saito designs the puppets -Professional troupe makes the physical props -Saito storyboards -Troupe performs as instructed -Saito animates it with the live action references

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b3baSah @babasah.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I feel this game is a brain exploit

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b3baSah @babasah.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Yellow Brick Road is a strange game

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b3baSah @babasah.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I miss having a correctly operated boom directly feeding the camera. Makes everything so simple.

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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

We traveled back up to Edinburgh to be there as Rockstar Games and its fired union members took their case to court: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnui...

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Rockstar vs. Union: We Went to Court and Saw the Evidence

YouTube video by People Make Games

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b3baSah @babasah.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

they changed Mushihime's dip switch to the easiest at my local arcade, thought I became a genius overnight

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b3baSah @babasah.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Congrats ! Great achievment indeed! And according to the rule a 1cc on an LCD counts for two.

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b3baSah @babasah.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

The hard mode certainly isn't as bad but I have yet to be authorised to experience this mode

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b3baSah @babasah.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

It is depressing because it sure seems like a lot of work to achieve this level polish but man there is just so little to play. And the worst part is that I feel just by increasing the enemy count and mixing their type you had something worth playing. The "arena bossfight" paradigm is sooooo sad

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b3baSah @babasah.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Playing through the beginning of Metroid Prime 4. Never played any other entry in the series so I have no point of reference but still I find it extremely uninteresting. Don't know how many more hours I have to put into this thing before it shows me anything actually fun. It's gorgeous though

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b3baSah @babasah.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

thanks for the sharing, thats's a good one

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/01/2026

Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"

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b3baSah @babasah.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

EU has been built upon colonialism and imperialism. I fear we will play the game once again.

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Richard Monvoisin @richardmonvoisin.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

En guise de subversion, une submersion. J'assiste un peu navré à la déroute lente de Frédéric Lordon, qui signe une tribune boursouflée pro-soupe psychanalytique. Vouloir faire rentrer le carré droitard de ce cadre théorique dans le rond des valeurs progressiste me fume complet, 👇

Sandra Lucbert et Frédéric Lordon disent œuvrer pour le retour de la psychanalyse

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b3baSah @babasah.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

This is not a private matter. Devs and execs know this very well and count on it. Playing is essentially a misappropriation hence hollow designs finding success. Having a community promoting fun playstyles and creating gameadjacent incentives has always been a concern even back in the arcade days.

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b3baSah @babasah.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

for most the figurative elements constitute the game. Narrative interpretations of those elements are the only thing they rely upon to build their appreciation.

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b3baSah @babasah.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Yes, totally get it. I guess knowing who to sell your game to used to implie building upon strong, already established ideas. But as boundaries between genres became looser, marketing first thinking became nonfunctional.

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VGDensetsu @vgdensetsu.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Started on Saturn, completed on Dreamcast and drawing inspiration from Dragon Quest III, Captain Harlock, Treasure Island, Laputa, The Secret of Blue Water and Grandia (?): the making of Skies of Arcadia, AKA Eternal Arcadia. vgdensetsu.net/riekokodama14 Dispo en VF vgdensetsu.net/riekokodamav...

Skies of Arcadia illustration by Itsuki Hoshi, featuring the 3 main characters

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b3baSah @babasah.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Yet, genre-specific elements provide a framework to express ideas. Ideas are not floating within the ether.

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