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Cassidy Cope @cassidycope.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I don't remember the exact details, but games like Hitman use a variety of methods to make sure animations — like grabbing an item, opening a door, or climbing a stair — actually hit their target objects. When you do things like getting close to the door and spamming the button, they can break.

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Cassidy Cope @cassidycope.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

after two years, my website is now just about online! cassidycope.com

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Cassidy Cope @cassidycope.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

It's a bit of a strange decision, considering previous collections of the classic games (rightfully, imo) included only the PS2 trilogy: Silent Assassin, Contracts, and Blood Money.

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Cassidy Cope @cassidycope.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Curiously, this set is comprised of Codename 47, Silent Assassin, and Contracts -- the latter of which is not only a remake of Codename, but also has notable interactions with the story of the unincluded Blood Money, which was developed in parallel to it.

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Cassidy Cope @cassidycope.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

We are Mr. Kite We do tricks with no sound Our horse does the waltz We somerset on the ground

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Cassidy Cope @cassidycope.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

the way i made the last two minutes work in the timeline is so cursed and fucked up that it took an hour to render. the entire project only took three to render.

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Cassidy Cope @cassidycope.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

oopsie, forgot to post this new video, featuring the voice and writing talents of @leovader.com! feel free to share thoughts or ask questions about it here! youtu.be/vkdqgffb2q4

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My MOST USEFUL Hitman Facts! - Hitman Facts & "Features"

YouTube video by Cassidy Cope

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Cassidy Cope @cassidycope.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

the kind of book you write entirely so you can credibly claim "i literally wrote the book on how to make cowboy horse gear" to impress people

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Cassidy Cope @cassidycope.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

As of today, it's been six years since i uploaded my first video to YouTube. That number feels right -- not weirdly short or long -- but what fucked with me was the fraction: "I should work on a video" has been a regular thought for me for ~25% of my life. youtu.be/WF-27SHNCDI

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David Bateson Telling You Not to Make a Sound

YouTube video by Cassidy Cope

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Cassidy Cope @cassidycope.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The music's excellent in the rest of the game, too! The entire soundtrack is outstanding.

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Cassidy Cope @cassidycope.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

After several replays and watching many others play it, I think this is also the game narrative where I've felt the most payoff for my choices — above any Fallout, Mass Effect, Telltale, or Life is Strange that I've played. It's one of my most favourite games of all time now.

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Cassidy Cope @cassidycope.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Red Faction: Guerrilla remains the game with the best audio settings I've seen yet; six simple sliders, and each of them can be raised *above* 100%. Close second place is the mobile port of XCOM: EW, which played overlapping voice lines every time you incremented the voices slider.

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Cassidy Cope @cassidycope.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

so there's Italian Fascism, German National Socialism, and American Stupid Trumpism, but what form of fascism is native to and threatens democracy in the Republic of Gamers?

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Cassidy Cope @cassidycope.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I expect we'll see it late '26 or early '27; we just won't hear much about it until then, since developing a live service with a skeleton crew is unpredictable enough to give them good reason to keep their cards close to their chest — cross-save was a big feature, and a totally unexpected surprise!

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Cassidy Cope @cassidycope.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I'm pretty sure IO revealed it unusually early just to make their 1st showcase better; the only other stuff it had was Le Chiffre and MindsEye lmao. First Light's announcement in 2020 wasn't dissimilar; they wanted to show what they were working on to attract talent, since the studio was expanding.

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Cassidy Cope @cassidycope.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

It also means the game a new player is most likely to get crushed in is her very first; even if she follows the tutorial, the starting deck's so bad that it can drag her down. And I'm sure there'd be at least a small scene of fans playing it pvp, if only the game wasn't built to be pay-to-win!

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Cassidy Cope @cassidycope.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

It's funny that the weakest part of Fallout New Vegas's card game is unironically that you have to play Fallout New Vegas to engage with it. Half of the game is about building a deck, which requires doing a collect-a-thon where the "collecting" is just picking up some cards from the shops.

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Cassidy Cope @cassidycope.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

And finally, my capitalists have little else to spend money on, so they've gone mad with building *thousands* of railways in foreign countries, particularly China. My best guess as to why is that AI governments always subsidise them, so they're very safe investments.

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Cassidy Cope @cassidycope.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Some assorted highlights: - We executed the titular Victoria and established a republic relatively quickly - The Tories became politically sidelined until the party's corpse was just being puppeted by the military - Sigmund Freud became a political activist - I decisively beat Eugene Debs in combat

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Cassidy Cope @cassidycope.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Trade Leagues seem to just be quite OP. More-free-than-free-trade trade is a ridiculous boon to everyone's economies, and even great powers are willing to remain within them, if catered to properly. You don't have to worry about vassals causing problems, either.

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Cassidy Cope @cassidycope.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

I should note that while it's not a humanitarian organisation, the Commonwealth greatly benefited member states, offering investment, economic specialisation, a defensive pact with other members, and increases to the standard of living -- the top ten countries in the latter regard are all members.

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Cassidy Cope @cassidycope.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

While I banned wars for personal conquest, war for other reasons was still on the menu, so whenever I was in a conflict with a power that was annoying me, I'd make chunks of it independent, allowing me to woo them (and, if weakened by the war, its mother country) into joining the Commonwealth.

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Cassidy Cope @cassidycope.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Being the toolmaker, engine mechanic, auto mechanic, and electrical engineer of the world demands people to work the industry, so I was swift to remove all barriers to immigration, resulting in an extremely diverse Britain with nearly three times as many people in my 1936 as Britain in the real 2026

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Cassidy Cope @cassidycope.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

The market provided free trade and investment opportunities between its members, giving less developed nations buyers for their goods, more developed ones raw materials to refine, and Britain further influence, as everyone increasingly depended on British tools and engines to do basically anything.

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Cassidy Cope @cassidycope.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

This meant I had to strictly neo- my imperialism, winning the trust of small powers, investing in their economies to build sway over them, and eventually inviting them into the Commonwealth of Nations' common market--which, as of 1936, has 107 members, at least 74 of which actually want to be there.

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Cassidy Cope @cassidycope.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Just finished a very fun campaign in Victoria 3! I did a run as Britain where I freed all of my vassals upon the ascension of the titular Victoria, and was then banned from conquering or vassalising any lands outside of Great Britain itself.

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Cassidy Cope @cassidycope.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I'd do this myself, but no version of Hitman will even launch into the main menu on my laptop, and the Switch 2 version doesn't support cross-progression yet.

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Cassidy Cope @cassidycope.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

If you own it on PC and have enough space, you can get a DLC-less copy by downloading the free demo from a platform you don't already own it on, whether that's Steam, the EGS, or the MS Store. It wouldn't be able to test Freelancer, but you could at least do the first tests from the main menu.

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Cassidy Cope @cassidycope.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

...as well as if the DLC-less account would be able to change away from a DLC cosmetic and re-select it.

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Cassidy Cope @cassidycope.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I'm also interested in testing if DLC items and cosmetics in Freelancer (from the Makeshift, Street Art, Disruptor, Drop, Splitter, Banker, Bruce Lee, Eminem vs. Slim Shady, or Undying Packs) will appear in the safehouse if set on a version that owns the DLC and viewed within another that doesn't,

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Cassidy Cope @cassidycope.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

The specific items I want to see are The Profligacy Suit, the Sieker 1, and The Ephemeral Suit with Eye Patch.

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Cassidy Cope @cassidycope.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Hello! I need help with a video! If any of you happen to own Hitman with DLC on one platform, and another copy of Hitman without on a different platform, could you please configure cross-progression so the DLC account is the active save, and tell me which items carry over to the DLC-less version?

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Cassidy Cope @cassidycope.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

for anyone else struggling to connect their nintendo accounts to hitman's new cross-progression:

A Reddit comment from an IOI staff member saying the following: "Cross-Progression for Nintendo needs a tad bit of polish as we encountered a major problem with Nintendo stats not triggering Achievements on other platforms. We will fix and enable it asap. Sorry for the inconveniences."

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Cassidy Cope @cassidycope.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

as an artist who makes most of her money from copyright myself, i couldn't care less if i'll still be getting royalties from facts & features in 2087, let alone if my kids will get them in 2157

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Cassidy Cope @cassidycope.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

you wouldn't even have to do a lot beyond that, and you'd still have a policy that's very generous towards actual artists; only the massive media companies (primarily from hollywood) that outlive us benefit from life+70 years of monetisation

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Cassidy Cope @cassidycope.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

even if we just put it on the table as a threat, i think a lot of media companies would be more aggressive against trump if enough countries threatened to reduce the term to 20 years and put everything before 2006 in the public domain

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Cassidy Cope @cassidycope.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

can the death of american hegemony pretty pretty please push the civilised world to finally do ip law reform, including massively reducing the term of copyright ownership

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Cassidy Cope @cassidycope.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

New Vegas's magazines, in contrast, are next to useless for dialogue checks; unless you either remember the exact points and thresholds of each one, or are willing to reload a save, most key checks are too urgent to let the player to say "Goodbye," eat a magazine, and start the conversation back up

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Cassidy Cope @cassidycope.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Fallout 4's dialogue system has a lot of flaws, but I love how it finally let you just step away from the conversation for a moment to use any drugs or wearables you needed to pass a skill check. Now if only Fallout 4 had enough skill checks in dialogue for this to be particularly useful...

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Cassidy Cope @cassidycope.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

i was too proud of this one to make you guys wait until the video goes up on the 31st (hopefully).

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Cassidy Cope @cassidycope.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

It's definitely a fun way to imagine it, but alas, the internet is a tool for communication with people, not voids.

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Cassidy Cope @cassidycope.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

What I'm saying is that everyone on the internet with a public presence must strive for impersonal connection and an inauthentic portrayal of themselves.

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Cassidy Cope @cassidycope.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

If you have friends, vent to them! If you're venting about your friends, vent to family! If you've nobody to vent to, write your thoughts down somewhere safe and organise them yourself! Literally anything is better than publishing a contextless, incoherent statement for the world to see and critique

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Cassidy Cope @cassidycope.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

It's very easy to fall into a reverse-parasocial relationship with a space that will give you love no matter what, but it's also a space that will judge you no matter what, which means you should watch your words much more carefully than you would in the company of real friends.

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Cassidy Cope @cassidycope.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I've noticed recently that some people actually feel comfortable publicly venting about their lives online, which is now unimaginable to me. I think you'd have to either control yourself too much for it to be effective venting, or worse, convince yourself that the internet is a friend that listens.

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