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CaptainTechnicality @cpttechnicality.bsky.social · 17h

I might be the best Mo & Krill to ever do it

CaptainTechnicality @cpttechnicality.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My opinion is that if that really was the intention, they should have committed harder, because the castle town NPCs just look like HD Zelda NPCs. Make everything look like puppets! Make the environments look like models!

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CaptainTechnicality @cpttechnicality.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The thing that's actually funnier to me is not him crashing out over numpad notation it's him crashing out over LMH instead of the buttons on the controller like brother I don't know what your control mapping is

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CaptainTechnicality @cpttechnicality.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Looked it up and the fact that it was a reply on a post about the Space Lesbians game of all things makes it extra hilarious. Actually just mashing on words.

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CaptainTechnicality @cpttechnicality.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Like if it was actually indie you might politely call it charming but knowing the budget behind it I'm more liable to compare it to that one KFC twitter pixel profile picture

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CaptainTechnicality @cpttechnicality.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Can I finally say that regardless of whether it's an indie game or not Dave the Diver is one of the ugliest "pixel art" games I've ever seen and I can't believe there are people who glaze it

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CaptainTechnicality @cpttechnicality.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Cel-shaded is when it doesn't look like Unreal Engine 5

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goba (ACT 2 out NOW!) @gobadev.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

REAL WEB LEGENDS: Carter's Quest Act 2 Launches SEPTEMBER 18th!! A FREE update to my 2024 solo indie game, continuing the story while the combat, performance, graphics, and more. This has been a labor of love and I can't wait for you to play it.

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CaptainTechnicality @cpttechnicality.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I feel like people have been pretty grumpy in standard matches ever since the update too. But also I think school got out around the same time so I'm crossing my fingers that it'll go back to normal in a week or two.

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CaptainTechnicality @cpttechnicality.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Honestly I kinda just wanted to couch my opinion but I mostly just meant from like a vibe standpoint yea (my partner likes him but doesn't like how his videos remove all dead air in his speech for example)

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CaptainTechnicality @cpttechnicality.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I totally get why some people don't like Sajam but also every time I watch him I feel like he's trying to claw as many people back from insanity as possible and I respect that

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CaptainTechnicality @cpttechnicality.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Watching Sajam talk about it and I feel like he's the only FGC influencer holding the line on "yeah it was probably just bad marketing/management on Riot's part" everyone else has their pet reason why it didn't work out

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CaptainTechnicality @cpttechnicality.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I think this is definitely a case of someone letting their dislike of game direction get in the way of their common sense. Pat (staresat) has been known to dislike complicated fighting games, but he also definitely should know better.

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CaptainTechnicality @cpttechnicality.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Writing a review and removing all my biases (what's left are the implicitly held biases so fundamental to my worldview that I don't recognize them as such)

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CaptainTechnicality @cpttechnicality.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It's so crazy to me that the blog post announcing the end of development ended with them saying "hope you're looking forward to the genres we'll cover in the future!" like, no? Not really the right time for that one.

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CaptainTechnicality @cpttechnicality.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I don't think Vanguard killed 2XKO but it definitely didn't help it

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CaptainTechnicality @cpttechnicality.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Tangentially related to the news of 2XKO shutting down, my hottest fighting game take is that fighting games don't really need anti-cheat and the downsides of adding one to your game always outweighs the benefits.

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CaptainTechnicality @cpttechnicality.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

If you are flaming out playing deadlock street brawl you will never see the light of heaven it's genuinely embarassing; this shit is like playing casual smash with your friends and getting mad that the items are unbalanced like, I thought that's why we were playing it???

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Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 15/08/2026

Going to start charging a timeline tax: For every shitty person inflicted on my TL - yes, even as a helpful warning about their bad behaviour - you have to repost at least one (1) cool person to make up for it. Nice people posting fun things shouldn't get crickets while dickheads suck up all the air

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CaptainTechnicality @cpttechnicality.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

So many people talk about that game like the game was design to insult them, specifically as a person and you know what if that's their response to a game that doesn't bend over backward to accommodate them maybe it was

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CaptainTechnicality @cpttechnicality.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I'm a little mad at them for using "it makes me uncomfortable because I'm autistic" to shield them from criticism like not every part of your being is a result of one neurodivergence, you can't just be like "it's abelist if I don't like something"

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CaptainTechnicality @cpttechnicality.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Play this game if you like toxic yuri and speculative sci-fi worldbuilding that makes you go "....oh."

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CaptainTechnicality @cpttechnicality.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I grew up with XP so I have nostalgia for it but I also have the experience of going back and running it on VMs to run old games and I'm like damn it was not that great huh

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CaptainTechnicality @cpttechnicality.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Melee controllers is a particularly funny case because the leverlesses are like, this is unreasonably consistent but you need a PHD to use it so whatev but then you have $500 gamecube controllers that auto-perform ledgedashes for you because it's "necessary for the health of the game"

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CaptainTechnicality @cpttechnicality.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

In 100 years from now people are gonna treat the N64 controller the same way we treat industrial revolution era electrical devices with all the knobs and bulbs and stuff

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CaptainTechnicality @cpttechnicality.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Is it a hot take to say Boba Tea serving sizes are way too large? 9/10 times, the smallest size is like 2x more than I actually want. Why is boba the only drink where they get away with selling you way more than you actually want

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CaptainTechnicality @cpttechnicality.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

This is a particularly funny example because jkr said "I wrote him to be gay" and it's like wait, which part of the text is supposed to support this? And you realize that maybe she just wrote her stereotype of a gay man and thought it was good rep.

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CaptainTechnicality @cpttechnicality.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

PTB "gets it", there's a lot of F-Zero type games that I think try to copy GX too much, PTB has a bit of the 3D DNA in it, but it also feels like the best of the 2D F-Zero games to me.

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CaptainTechnicality @cpttechnicality.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Yeah I think I would mostly recommend it on its strength of very genuine writing about the trans experience, there's some absolutely brutal scenes, especially going to the gender clinic

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CaptainTechnicality @cpttechnicality.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Have you played Lovely Lady RPG? It's a bit more limited in scope (not a bad thing!), honestly as a trans woman it was just hard to finish because a few segments hit too close to home, but would highly recommend

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CaptainTechnicality @cpttechnicality.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

It's such a 1:1 photoshop clone I legitimately believe that they will never make a desktop version only because if they did, Adobe would actually just nuke them from orbit. The web app thing is keeping them from being a threat.

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CaptainTechnicality @cpttechnicality.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

While I wouldn't say it *looks* stunning this was God Hand for me. I've heard for years about how unapproachable it was and I pick it up and I think it just came out at a time when every other game was trying to streamline the experience as much as possible? Tank controls really break peoples brains

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Run, It's Ghidra! @ghidrainlove.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

i think the most critically undeserved niche of multiplayer games is "games where you all coordinate operating some kind of vehicle of machine" man i miss guns of icarus

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CaptainTechnicality @cpttechnicality.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

MMOs definitely have interesting potential in terms of creating a world for players, but there has got to be a more interesting way to introduce players to that world than "just pulled into town and I have *no* idea what I'm here to do"

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CaptainTechnicality @cpttechnicality.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Booted up FF14 for the first time ever and MMOs have gotta have the worst introductory experiences of any genre. Start by showing me a cutscene of people I don't know or care about and then spend 2 hours tutorializing the UI of the game with no real story or gameplay hooks present.

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CaptainTechnicality @cpttechnicality.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I dislike what SkyUI is doing honestly the biggest issue with Skyrim's UI to me is that it just like, doesn't work half the time? Particularly on mouse, the UI is super glitchy, sometimes your cursor doesn't update, sometimes clicking does weird stuff, etc.

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CaptainTechnicality @cpttechnicality.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I looked it up and DAMN that fit is straight ass you weren't lyin'

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CaptainTechnicality @cpttechnicality.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The whole enemy team ragequit after this fight

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CaptainTechnicality @cpttechnicality.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Never ceases to amaze me how consistently asking a question on programming forums will summon "guy who answers a different question than what you're asking because they assumed you were fucking stupid and didn't know what your problem actually was" even when they're completely wrong.

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CaptainTechnicality @cpttechnicality.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Similar to bugfix patches in that some creative license is required to determine what is and isn't part of the intended experience

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CaptainTechnicality @cpttechnicality.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I think the closest thing to this in another medium is stuff like the One Pace edits, which is a similar case of "restoring to the intended experience" but the intended experience is based on the source material not some original version of the anime that isn't viewable anymore.

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CaptainTechnicality @cpttechnicality.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I think the primary demo is people who have enough money to have disposable income, but not enough money to have anything better than that. They can't exactly save for a house on their income so they just spend it on convenient restaurant meals instead.

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CaptainTechnicality @cpttechnicality.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I've also seen this in a defeatist sense (players will *always* optimize the fun out of the game) where people nonsensically posit that all games will inevitably become un-fun as they are optimized regardless of what the designers try to do to prevent it

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