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Cryptic_TX55 @cryptictx55.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Is it known that you can mash through this door with just a tiny amount of effort

Cryptic_TX55 @cryptictx55.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Is the reason that Simon Belmont is presented as a vain, prissy, cocky, douchebag diva in Captain N: The Game Master because the credits of Castlevania NES frame the game as being a movie with parts played by legally-distinct versions of real-world Hollywood celebrities? 🤔

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Cryptic_TX55 @cryptictx55.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I finally went back and did it

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Cryptic_TX55 @cryptictx55.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

But once I did that I went back and figured out your swag version

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Cryptic_TX55 @cryptictx55.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I eventually got it but at first I did it the lame way with no swag

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Cryptic_TX55 @cryptictx55.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I remembered to find my stupid unfinished Metroid II map. I might finish this playthrough One day

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Cryptic_TX55 @cryptictx55.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I also did this but I made it in a spreadsheet. It was actually really fun. I did a 100% best ending run in the Famicom version and an any% best ending run in the NES version.

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Cryptic_TX55 @cryptictx55.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I at least have the 3DS version I can put there even though it's the odd one out Not pictured: HGH for PS4 Also not pictured: stuff from LRG they take forever to ship as usual

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Cryptic_TX55 @cryptictx55.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

4Kids decided it was too risque and sloppily painted one on you for the dub.

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Cryptic_TX55 @cryptictx55.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

My cope is that if you focus on the dragon in the background + the flame, it kinda looks like a 3.

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Cryptic_TX55 @cryptictx55.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Yeah, the Game Boy NSO app only has the original DMG green, Game Boy Pocket gray, and the default Game Boy Color/no-input palette. It doesn't even have any of the alternate GBC palettes.

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Cryptic_TX55 @cryptictx55.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

What about the Xenoblade X USB stick that came with the special edition of the game?

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Cryptic_TX55 @cryptictx55.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Also there are multiple Airbenders that have beards...including...you know...Aang. Tenzin.

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Cryptic_TX55 @cryptictx55.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I'm sorta in a weird place with this because I don't disagree with anything in your video. (I'm not going to make multiple posts, so image for convenience)

But I'm also just inclined to think Sony would lie about anything because tech CEOs are like...evil, have no actual interest in video games as an art or a business, hate their customers, hate their employees, have AI psychosis, failed upward, are lizard people, etc. Like I just have no reason to respect Sony's business numbers at all even if I believed they were real.

Aside from that, all of the discussions of the numbers just makes me wonder: If you did a survey of actual workers at PlayStation, no risk of reprisal, would they say "keep physical media" or "discontinue physical media"? My assumption is that they would say keep, in which case, again, I don't care what some spreadsheet loser says when they shovel Scrooge McDuck Money Bin's worth of cash into a furnace gambling on live service.

Again none of this has to do with your content really (I like you and your stuff), I just feel compelled to keep doing this rant because I'm so pissed off. Feel free to ignore my ramblings.

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Cryptic_TX55 @cryptictx55.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I had to think about how to get the center pillar though since it was protected, so I built a little bridge to the side so I could get the right angle.

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Cryptic_TX55 @cryptictx55.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Personally I'm a big big big big big fan of the original artwork, so I would rather them do some high-fidelity version of that, like how ArcSystemWorks sorta makes their 3D games have a 2D feel. If we could achieve the "2D artwork brought to life" feel for Ocarina of Time, I would cry.

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Cryptic_TX55 @cryptictx55.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Well, I was confused after OP's post and looked it up and...no, apparently Sony themselves confirmed it was Sonia in an article, but edited it sometime after. So the misconception was so wide that even the PlayStation-employed author of the editorial also thought it was Sonia.

An PlayStation article referring to Sonia Belmont by name.

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Cryptic_TX55 @cryptictx55.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I figured you had to have it. For a physical version though, I don't think it was in the collection you posted. You'd need one of the JP ones.

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Cryptic_TX55 @cryptictx55.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Pictonico also really likes putting Myles MacKenzie from Metroid Prime 4 in stuff

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Cryptic_TX55 @cryptictx55.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I don't have a lot of personal photos, so for me it's mainly images I might've downloaded once or screenshotted. But as a result sometimes things will show up and I'll be like "where did it pull THAT from?" eg, Joel shows up in Pictonico. Source?:

A post pitting Leon Scott Kennedy against Joel Miller, saying Leon would suplex Joel and comment "Guess that's The Last of Him"

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Cryptic_TX55 @cryptictx55.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Good and funny art lol It also occurs to me now that Roy isn't the only name shared between an FE6 character and a Koopaling, heh

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Cryptic_TX55 @cryptictx55.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Since you know way more about Doctor Who than I do, is this art Tubi uses legit or is it AI

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Cryptic_TX55 @cryptictx55.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Yeah, from what I had searched it seemed like it predated World, I just couldn't tell exactly when. I also got confused because I saw art from the same game where his nose was both long and short

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Cryptic_TX55 @cryptictx55.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

This reminds me I only ever got the Fox plush out of this set and now I'm sad because the other two seemingly no longer exist

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Cryptic_TX55 @cryptictx55.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

The plush looks like she got stung by a bee

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Cryptic_TX55 @cryptictx55.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Time to get you to bed, Miyamoto

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Cryptic_TX55 @cryptictx55.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

PoR is my favorite but part of that is that it was my first one. Most of the other games there is also some aspect or event that causes me to drop the game for months or years before I finally go back to finish it.

PoR - this was my first FE game so I actually beat it rather quickly iirc
RD - by the time I got through Elincia's chapters, I got burnt out (which was mainly the fault of Micaiah's chapters). Which is ironic since Ike's chapters were way better. This is partially bc at this time I was not playing the game right and training too many units so they were underleveled.
SS - Possibly, again, underleveled, but I had a lot of trouble with the big desert chapter just before the split ends, and also when I was shifting the game between my GBA and my GBA Player, the save disappeared randomly, so I had to start all over, so I quit for a while.Awakening - Children and deciding who should be who's parents and a huge detour to overtrain the parents so they would pass good skills. Analysis paralysis.
Shadow Dragon - ugly as sin
FE1 - I actually didn't have any hiatus-inducing events here.
Fates - This was the first FE game I played on Hard...which, for Birthright, wasn't bad, but for Conquest, was legit challenging, and I got pissed on the chapter with all the vases filled with poison and enemies having bullshit skills. That chapter I switched to Normal and played for a while, but after that it wasn't satisfying it all, so hiatus. Then I reloaded a backup save and cleared the poison vase chapter on Hard and beat the game from there, but it was a struggle. (Fun though, I don't regret doing it...I also had some self-imposed rules in Conquest like "no exploiting DLC for EXP" and I didn't bother with the children, which possibly made things harder but funnily I didn't miss them at all, almost like that feature didn't need to be in the game.) (Incidentally, when I initially played Awakening I started on Hard, but I got pissed off because of enemy reinforcements moving on the turn they spawn.)

Current multi-year hiatus - Three Houses, because I fucking hate the academy sections. I know you can technically skip it but that sounds fucking stupid.

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Cryptic_TX55 @cryptictx55.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

It's actually more consistent than I thought, because even old sprites show this difference where they have different blues.

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Cryptic_TX55 @cryptictx55.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

unmentioned detail: sometimes Luigi has slightly different colored overalls than Mario

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Cryptic_TX55 @cryptictx55.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Since this is mostly random stuff I've been calling a collection like this Mega Man Gems Legacy Collection

Sonic Gems Collection for Nintendo Gamecube

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Cryptic_TX55 @cryptictx55.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I just brought up Great Ace Attorney specifically because I find their use of dialects great, which I know DQ does at least sometimes too.

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