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Blader's Alt @bladerlbm2.bsky.social · 17m

Please no replies from the "busy brigade" that can somehow not find time to play for 30 min (yet have hours to doomscroll social media)

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Blader's Alt @bladerlbm2.bsky.social · 17m

If you are working on a clear, seek to play at least 30 min a day, every day (either full run attempts or practicing sections) 30 min of brain reinforcement >>> 3 hours once per week

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Blader's Alt @bladerlbm2.bsky.social · 20m

Please no replies from the "busy brigade" that can somehow not find time to play for 30 min (yet have hours to doomscroll social media)

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Blader's Alt @bladerlbm2.bsky.social · 20m

If you are working on a clear, seek to play at least 30 min a day, every day (either full run attempts or practicing sections) 30 min of brain reinforcement >>> 3 hours once per week

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Blader's Alt @bladerlbm2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Whenever you see me defend the infinite or Final Fight, it is because nuance is being maliciously flattened in order to excuse degenerate exploits as somehow not flaws that break combat

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Blader's Alt @bladerlbm2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Final Fight Infinite is obviously a flaw (Capcom fixed it with later Bmups), but it is also - Tricky to pull off without Auto (Esp with Hagger) - Closer to a mechanic than an exploit (Does not break the combat, only makes one phase of easier) All can be true at once

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Blader's Alt @bladerlbm2.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Decided to actually wrap up Half-Life, dropped it like 10 years ago Incredibly influential game, and G-Man is lowkey top 5 characters of all time

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Blader's Alt @bladerlbm2.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Guy that decides to 1cc Final Fight because they saw this concept art:

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Blader's Alt @bladerlbm2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Is there any other game that Is able to completely absorb and hijack discussion the moment its slightly alluded to, like Dark Souls 2?

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Blader's Alt @bladerlbm2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"The economic model LITERALLY encouraged difficulty" "Okay and how is that different than the current economic model incentivizing unlocks?" "Uhh well...its cuz... difficulty is.... unfair?" "What makes it unfair?" "You need to learn it!" Start reading peoples implications

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Blader's Alt @bladerlbm2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Whenever people talk about the "economic model of the arcade" they are basically covertly stating hard games have no right to exist

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StrayCatChillin @straycatchillin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hilarious phenomenon on Just Action Games twitter where they’ll invoke values like positioning, crowd control, enemies that “actually freakin fight back 😏” but their go to example is like Dynasty Warriors or a Tales game. 💀

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StrayCatChillin @straycatchillin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The most hardest freakin core era of action games. Yeah, that’s right… the PS2 era…

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Cass (makes games) @cassmakesgames.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

New Blog Post: Why I Love Unfair Traps in Arcade Games People usually dislike hard memo traps in arcade games, or at best think they're "not that bad". I love them, though, and I think arcade games would be worse without them. Here's why: duckberet.com/blog/i-like-... (game: Violent Storm)

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Blader's Alt @bladerlbm2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Dying to the bullet pattern you just spent 2 hours practicing to perfection:

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Blader's Alt @bladerlbm2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Do you actually expect me to play that shit with no indie publisher attached? Grow up and join the rest of us

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Boghog @boghogstg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's over All the content's done, just need to make music, tweak a few things & draw more shit and it'll be finished

Blader's Alt @bladerlbm2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It is fascinating how hypocritical the "just have fuuun" gamer is If only there was someone in their ear to tell them to control the buttons they press when it came to games they didnt like

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Blader's Alt @bladerlbm2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One of these days I should post a clip shitting on DMC2 in order to get the uncritical flesh mass to post "you control the buttons you press" to defend it Or is that only reserved for when the games flashing colors and sounds tingle you?

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Blader's Alt @bladerlbm2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I have been sitting on this ever since my Ng4 video got a slew of spiritually peasant entities commenting how dismayed they are that I wanted to jump directly to master ninja by downloading a save

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Blader's Alt @bladerlbm2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Hardcore gameplay guys" when you download a save file in order to get to the "hardcore" gameplay quicker:

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Blader's Alt @bladerlbm2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

2.5/5 always feels like a cheating score, but thats what im feeling (tempted to make it 2/5 but brevity pulled it higher)

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Blader's Alt @bladerlbm2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Leaving a zombie Alive to stave off the round sounds degen as hell tho LOL We need more auto scroll everywhere

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Blader's Alt @bladerlbm2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

From my limited experience, because the enemies basically chase you, conga line seems way too powerful. Looking up records also seems to just be kiting a long line if undead

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Blader's Alt @bladerlbm2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The twist isnt nearly as clever when you already know about Glados

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Blader's Alt @bladerlbm2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Portal 1 still packs a punch writing wise, but man its kneecapped hard by the fact the IP has been memed to death by the entire internet since 2007

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Blader's Alt @bladerlbm2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I dont care if its Reddit, its a pretty funny game writing wise

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Blader's Alt @bladerlbm2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

AI becomes much easier to design when you can reasonably predict the players actions The current understanding of game design is dysfunctional. At worst it leads to clips like this, at best leads to a barely functioning fun game

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Blader's Alt @bladerlbm2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Appreciating the game on its own terms" by people results in this basic strategy not being patched despite the game coming out 10 years ago Very nice 👍

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Blader's Alt @bladerlbm2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I am not joking when I say this, doing a Final Fight 1cc changes how you view Action games

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Blader's Alt @bladerlbm2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ports/editions are preferable to patches and updates, usually

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Blader's Alt @bladerlbm2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Okay I did 2 of the Vanquish challenges, I like that they are explicitly timed and permadeath, but im stopping for now Im bored of the game and its dynamics. I will return to check out the infamous challenge 6 one day tho

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Blader's Alt @bladerlbm2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Mikami touch is a hitscan meter-slop Campaign AAA game getting a 3.5/5 from Bladder

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Blader's Alt @bladerlbm2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My overall thoughts on Vanquish without getting in too much detail (I dont try hard for free) I think we can definetely get some interesting videos out of this game moving forward

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Blader's Alt @bladerlbm2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Vanquish on Godhard WITH a controller took 5 hours less than Metal slug 1cc...

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Blader's Alt @bladerlbm2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I found out about jerking off when I was playing Yugioh Tag duel on my Jail Broken PSP (These are not tied together)

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Blader's Alt @bladerlbm2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yea its like a bucket to catch any spillover at the bottom. Which seems like common sense, and only seems ridiculous if you believe Action games should not also instil frustration and anxiety

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Blader's Alt @bladerlbm2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Like its nice and all that this or that game fail you if you run out of time, but the goal is to have all action games fail you from the situation themselves. Spot on about peoples avoidance of negative emotions

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Blader's Alt @bladerlbm2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The tragic thing is that a timer is really just step number 1, and people getting stuck on it prevents us from seeing it that way. Ideally time pressure should be the neutral assumption for an action game

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Mason @finalmasonry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

2026 really was the year of Final Fight! So many of us cleared it for the first time this year

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Blader's Alt @bladerlbm2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why should a game meet the player where they are, instead of the other way around?

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StrayCatChillin @straycatchillin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fighting the penguin boss in Hyper Bun Buster

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StrayCatChillin @straycatchillin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I NO MISSED THE DEMO FOR UPCOMING ARCADE ACTION GAME HYPER BUN BUSTER. CHECK IT OUT. youtu.be/SHd0b40vs20?...

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HYPER BUN BUSTER: ROCKET HAMMER ACTION DEMO 1CC - HYPER - NO DEATH/NO MISS

YouTube video by YoStrayCat

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Blader's Alt @bladerlbm2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Its really funny to see guys who insulted me over the "action games should not have combos" post, now come around and follow It really is just Blader at every highway exit, just depends when you take the off-ramp

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Blader's Alt @bladerlbm2.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

How it feels to lose an extend to popcorn:

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