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Cryptic in QA @crypticjacknife.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You think companies understand that when you do this you look very insecure (about the product you're trying to get them to sell)? You think influencers understand that when you show these off you also look very insecure (about your legitimacy as a independent voice)? It's weirdly untalked about
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Cryptic in QA @crypticjacknife.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And that's the final of Part 1's done in Fortune's Weave. What a god damn ride, and somehow its not over, with a total playtime overtaking that of Engage, a game that I have been thoroughly to completion on 3 separate occasions on the highest difficulty. God they just really nailed this game.
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Cloudi @cloudidoodles.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Mina
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Cryptic in QA @crypticjacknife.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Dietrich Part 1 done. Absolutely incredible and very different from Leda/Cai paths. The incredible stakes and tension do seem to be cut by the fact that Dietrich himself is if a unit had Lyn's speed and Hector's power all wrapped into one. Someone will solo his story with him. He's that broken.
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Cryptic in QA @crypticjacknife.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Turns out The Pokemon Company can, in fact, do things that are just objectively good when they put their mind to it
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Cryptic in QA @crypticjacknife.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Second Part 1 story down in FE:FW. Cai's. That's the Expected-Fire-Emblem-Story™ I was anticipating; It's good that one of those are in there. It took so long because I also went and spreadsheeted the growths of every recruitable unit which is...quite a lot. 😳 Discovery is fun though.
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Lee @frameflickerlee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#レイリダーナ #FireEmblem #fortunesweave #Reiridāna #digitalartㅤ
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Cryptic in QA @crypticjacknife.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Leda Part 1 down. Hard/Classic, ofc. Many positive thoughts so far. Time to start staring at the numbers now that I've done a route basically promoting as the game presents characters. Also shoutout Mu, heart and soul of Leda's Story. Cai next. Let's see how this game's stock protag goes.
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Nintendo of America [Twitter/X Parody] @nintendooamerica.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hate to break it to ya pal, but Super Mario Bros. 2 isn't an original game. Yea. Blew your mind, didn't I? It's actually a reskin of the Japanese game Sonic & Knuckles. That's why Peach can glide, cause of her dreadlocks.
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Gil Hova @gil.hova.net · 17/09/2026
Any opportunity to re-post "When the Glove"
Web cartoon of the cartoonist waking up at 5 am, still half-asleep, saying "Just had such a good idea, gotta write it down", and is writing it on a piece of paper.

THE NEXT MORNING

The paper says "When the glove"

The cartoonist stares at the paper.
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Midnighters @midnighters.games · 18/09/2026
🎉 We've passed our first year as a publisher 🎉 and with so many upcoming announcements we thought we'd celebrate with a games showcase straight from us to you Tune in for games, trailers, and ✨DEMOS✨ ⏰ Oct. 1st @ 10AM AEST // Sept. 30th @ 5PM PST 🔗 midnighters.games/events/midnight-screening-2026
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Cryptic in QA @crypticjacknife.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Alright Fortune's Weave. You got my ass. It's extremely good so far. It's also extremely A-Whole-Lot. 9 Hours Deep and I haven't even gotten to the first Heroic Games match of the first of four teams 😵
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Cryptic in QA @crypticjacknife.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Rapid-Fire hopes and dreams for Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave, redacted version before it launches tonight 🧵 Let's split it up into 3 sections:- - What I expect/demand - What I'd like to see - Concerns to be assuaged
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Cryptic in QA @crypticjacknife.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If I were trying to evangelise snake oil and convince the masses I wasn't trying to functionally damage society, I probably wouldn't constantly feel the need to make transparent threats. But what do I know, I work for a living.
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Cryptic in QA @crypticjacknife.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Apropos of nothing, you absolutely should play Metroid Dread. The best player controller ever featured in a front-row Nintendo IP.
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Cryptic in QA @crypticjacknife.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Incredible that we get a Diablo 5 announcement before Diablo actually appears in Diablo 4. The new cycle of not working out what you want a game to be before deciding you're making a new one really does just illustrate the utter planning and execution failure plaguing these studios.
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Cryptic in QA @crypticjacknife.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If you've got deep love of a game franchise that hasn't seen the light of day for a while, honestly you're not in the worst position. You could be a fan of an IP made by Level 5. Deepest sympathies to you if you are. Don't think I've ever seen the iconic artistry of a company collapse so fast.
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LeviChou | Commission Closed @levichou-phys.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
#kirby #metroid (Nintendo direct spoiler)
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Cryptic in QA @crypticjacknife.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Was still feverishly thinking about Metroid Ravenous when I woke up. Ladies and gents, this amount of attachment does not happen often for me anymore.
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Saku @sakuart.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Feeling inspired so I’m just throwing these together and seeing what comes out METROID - RAVENOUS
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Cryptic in QA @crypticjacknife.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
So proud of the squad omg 🥺
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Momento ✨ @playmomento.com · 09/09/2026
Such an honor to be nominated for two @agdas.bsky.social this year: Excellence in Debut and Game of the Year 🎉 This means so much to have our little game recognized! 🥹
Momento - Finalist, Game of the Year. Finalist Excellence in Debut
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Cryptic in QA @crypticjacknife.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Bluesky users reacting to hungry Samus as the designers probably wanted them to www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sMQ...
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I love the kind of woman that will actually just kill me.
YouTube video by Gianni Matragrano
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Cryptic in QA @crypticjacknife.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Official art is giving "She's the EMMI this time" and I absolutely love it
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Ash @santanaelchan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
OKAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
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Cryptic in QA @crypticjacknife.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
No more god damn remakes of 90s games, Age of Calamity finally getting the Switch 2 edition that it desperately needs to actually hold up, and a new 2D Metroid game following in the footsteps of the technical masterpiece that was Dread. Good work Nintendo. You actually have new games again.
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Cryptic in QA @crypticjacknife.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Call me crazy but I think if Valve (The Great Caretakers Who We Must All Pay And Thank For No Reason) leaked all of the achievements for my very narrative centric game before any details about the plot had even been announced I would probably want cash-in-hand damages compensation from them.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
OpenAI set $22M on fire just to steal $1M from a human who did the actual work, and that’s the business plan our economy is betting everything on? Lol.
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Cryptic in QA @crypticjacknife.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It just dawned on me that they really said "The movie is going to be called The Legend of Zelda. Watch the movie to find out why it's called that". Why did they say that.
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Cryptic in QA @crypticjacknife.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Cryptic in QA @crypticjacknife.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
General Musing on OoT Remake - They told Aonuma to rein it in. Good. - Link's outfit and shield look atrocious. Like "I made a UE5 Zelda game" atrocious. Unnecessary amounts of texture. - Link himself still looks extremely strange. Cereal mascot ahh child. - Enemy redesigns looks gnarly. I like em.
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
referring to metroidvanias as "hollowslop" to simultaneously piss off people who like metroidvanias, people who like hollow knight, people who want a better genre name for "metroidvania", people who are sick of the word slop being misused, and gradius fans who want to see more checkpoint recoveries
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Cryptic in QA @crypticjacknife.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I cannot stress enough how spiritually important it is to me that Alien: Isolation 2 starts with multiple hours of dead silence and tension ramping before the game loop properly starts. It is possibly the single best choice made during development of the first game to tone-match the original movie.
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Cryptic in QA @crypticjacknife.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I cannot stress enough that you should treat Youtubers that use AI Thumbnails with the same contempt and "Do Not Recommend This Channel" reflex as you would those who use it for the entirety of their content creation. One and the same. Freeze them out of your feeds.
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Alfred Reinold Baudisch @alfredbaudisch.com · 28/08/2026
Imagine Aseprite or another #pixelart program inside Blender? Pixel Perfect Pixel Art drawing and texture painting on top of the model in the 3D viewport and in 2D. Drawing, painting, selection tools, layers, texel density (pixel size) setup and density zones (multiple pixel sizes). #blender3d
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Sixaxis @sixaxis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Devour🌱 @devoureroftime.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Gamescom AI Slop Thread. Every game from the Gamescom Opening Ceremonies that was actually AI Slop so you don't have to care about it.
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Cryptic in QA @crypticjacknife.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I can't imagine a more perfect representation of corporate eSports' current influence on the industry than the Trackmania EWC pre-bracket map updates.
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Cryptic in QA @crypticjacknife.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
That fun moment when a super popular game can execute kernel-level code no-questions-asked natively and you're not sure whether Windows, Steam, The Devs or Unreal are the real ones to blame for not seeing that vulnerability (or if its all of the above, its probably all of the above)
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Cryptic in QA @crypticjacknife.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Oh yeah, Valve personally got in touch to tell them they gotta disclose ALL of it if they're fans of being able to sell games on their platform. 100%. This also means Valve reps definitely saw the CEO crash out. Absolute humiliation.
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 15/08/2026
I just want to share the funniest possible update to this, which is: a full two years later Saber finally revoked my Steam key for this game today
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Cryptic in QA @crypticjacknife.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The plebeian way to prepare thoughts on the new Fire Emblem's design is to continue playing back your favourite installments, as I have. The patrician's way to prepare thoughts on the new Fire Emblem's design is playing Long War of the Chosen in XCOM 2 again. God I wish more games were this good.
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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
We have signed you up for free to use the Dick-Ripping-Off Machine. This is standard practice for new features. Nobody would use the Dick-Ripping-Off Machine if they had to sign up manually, but we believe the Dick-Ripping-Off Machine will create new value
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Cryptic in QA @crypticjacknife.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
In a reasonable world that actually wants companies to create good products through good reputation, not even good art, this guy's career as a representative leader of any company would be permanently over. This is disastrous PR that is going to confine this company to the dust bin of history.
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Cryptic in QA @crypticjacknife.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I think if your only qualification is an MBA you should genuinely never have your words publicised with any form of weight. Let me be clear. You do not work in this industry. You only own people who do.
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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 08/08/2026
SLEEPING DOGS is on sale for like 3 bucks... i will now sing the praises of sleeping dogs. sleeping dogs is like if gta was very good instead of super insecure and littleboyish. sleeping dogs is so confident and rad and fun. play sleeping dogs imo store.steampowered.com/app/307690/S...
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Cryptic in QA @crypticjacknife.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I will inevitably say so much more about my hopes for Fortune's Weave as we get closer to mid September, but making class growth rates visible and not vague actually might be the single best UX choice a Fire Emblem game has ever made
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Cryptic in QA @crypticjacknife.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
FE Direct First 5 Minutes: Here's what Fire Emblem is FE Direct Middle 10 Minutes: By the way every feature of Fire Emblem ever thought of is in this game FE Direct Last 5 Minutes: Also we're going to openly spoil a core story arc of the game Why did they do that
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Cryptic in QA @crypticjacknife.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Extremely common Godot W.
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