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Glasses Man Danee @daneeboundeng.bsky.social · 1h

Fun fact: Pin*Bot was one of the earliest IRL tables to get (more or less) faithfully adapted into video game form. Courtesy of Rare on NES.

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Glasses Man Danee @daneeboundeng.bsky.social · 1h

Pinball FX has the actual Williams Pin*Bot table now, and the bundle that contains it was on sale, so I caved.

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Glasses Man Danee @daneeboundeng.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Spreading the FEVER. And the prescription will be… 200mg of Ibuprofen, a cold compress and a can of black tea.

Assortment of various console ports of Puyo Pop Fever.
For the PSP, DS and GameCube.

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Glasses Man Danee @daneeboundeng.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You want a respectable pair of spectacles? You got it.

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Glasses Man Danee @daneeboundeng.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Sadly, it's consistent with what pre-owned PS5 Pros currently go for on eBay.

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Glasses Man Danee @daneeboundeng.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Unless you lived in Germany at the time, where it released a day early, because of the national holiday.

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Glasses Man Danee @daneeboundeng.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Today is German Unity Day. 36 years ago today, the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) ceased to exist, and its territories ascended to become states of the Federal Republic.

Berlin at Midnight on 3rd of October 1990.
The Flag of Unity is being raised in front of the Reichstag Building.

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Glasses Man Danee @daneeboundeng.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

as per the announce on Backerkit „once all of the game content we had planned is ready“.

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Glasses Man Danee @daneeboundeng.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#lrp Same deal when works get imported into German.

Marco

Japanese title: 母をたずねて三千里 (3000 Leagues in Search of Mother)

Tim und Struppi

French title: Les Aventures de Tintin (The adventures of Tintin)

Das Schicksal ist ein mieser Verräter

English title: The Fault in Our Stars

Super Probotector: Alien Rebels

American Title: Contra III: The Alien Wars.

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Glasses Man Danee @daneeboundeng.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Flayn may just be asleep around FW's time-frame, and Seteth’s just in Dagda to keep an eye on the happenings during the heroic games. but part of me likes to pretend that Seteth is actually in Dagda to get away from Flayn’s cooking for a while.

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Glasses Man Danee @daneeboundeng.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

small nitpick, this theoretical collection would have to carry a T for Teen rating, because of Donkey Konga 2’s inclusion of some spicy songs.

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Glasses Man Danee @daneeboundeng.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There is in fact a way, using the DIN 2137-1 E1 layout (called “Deutsch erweitert (E1)” on Windows), but it’s far from obvious: ALTGR+P+Ü followed by O: ở

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Glasses Man Danee @daneeboundeng.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

out of morbid curiosity, I just looked up what 64 GB of DDR5 RAM currently go for…

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Glasses Man Danee @daneeboundeng.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

1996 appears to have been the year where several Japanese RPG developers either collectively or independently said: “you know what? Our game(s) should have a romance system.”

Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War
dir. Shōzō Kaga
dev. Intelligent Systems
pub. Nintendo

Sakura Wars
dir. Tomoyuki Ito, Yasushi Takeuchi
dev. Red Company, SEGA CS2 R&D
pub. SEGA

Harvest Moon
dir. Yasuhiro Wada
dev. Amccus
pub. Pack-In-Video / Natsume / Nintendo

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Glasses Man Danee @daneeboundeng.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

And conveniently they hit that button right after sending a reply, which I now can’t read. Classy.

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Glasses Man Danee @daneeboundeng.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Apparently someone can’t handle the ugly truth.

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Glasses Man Danee @daneeboundeng.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Probably excluded on purpose, given recent events with the company involved.

Polygon article “Level-5 finally issues official apology for rampant AI use”
https://www.polygon.com/level-5-ai-use-apology-statement/

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Glasses Man Danee @daneeboundeng.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

in other words: it affects every stable release.

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Glasses Man Danee @daneeboundeng.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There's two different horsepowers. The imperial horsepower, which is defined as a 550 pound weight being lifted by 1 foot in 1 second. and the metric horsepower, which is the more or less the same, except replace the 550 pound weight by a 75 kg weight and lift it by 1 metre instead of 1 foot.

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Glasses Man Danee @daneeboundeng.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

FYI: Japanese Wii U owners had this feature as early as 2014.

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Glasses Man Danee @daneeboundeng.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Q: remember when Magic made you feel like a wizard casting spells? A: Yes, I remember casting Albert Einstein.

Presence of the Master

Enchantment

While Presence of the Master is in play, any new enchantments cast are countered.

Illus. © 1994 Phil Foglio

The Illustration depicts a Albert Einstein lookalike surrounded by an array of planets.

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Glasses Man Danee @daneeboundeng.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Landscape shot I took yesterday while I was at the outscirts of town.

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Glasses Man Danee @daneeboundeng.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

as the dude who actually took those pictures and uploaded them to the Wiki, it should not have taken me until literally today to notice the resemblances.

Minion Enthusiast found in Gridania. Accompanied by an USApyon minion.
the NPC bears a visual resemblance to Hailey-Anne Thomas (Japanese name: Inaho Misora), the secondary protagonist of Yo-kai Watch 3 and the second season of the TV show.

Minion Enthusiast found in Limsa Lominsa. Accompanied by a Shogunyan minion.
the NPC bears a visual resemblance to Katie Forester (Japanese name: Fumika Kodama), the female player character of the first two Yo-kai Watch game and a supporting character of the TV show.

Minion Enthusiast found in Ul'dah. Accompanied by a Komasan minion.
the NPC bears a visual resemblance to Amy (Japanese name: Emi-chan), a minor character from the Yo-kai Watch games and TV series.

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Glasses Man Danee @daneeboundeng.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Honourable mention: Yo-kai Watch. Technically that show only went on for like 3 seasons (not counting the 2019 and 2021 reboot series), but you could tell the writers and producers had no plan in place for what to do with it if it were to go on for as long as it did.

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Glasses Man Danee @daneeboundeng.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

On Switch 1, Amelia N. was pretty consistently depicted with a orange jumper, a yellow headband and red earrings. On Switch 2, she’s now depicted with a black jumper (featuring red sleeves and a red collar), and she traded in her yellow headband for a red one, and her red earrings for green ones.

Amelia N. as seen in the Information Centre banner for the Switch 3.0.0 update

Notice the orange jumper, yellow headband and red pearl earrings.

Amelia N. as seen in the Information Centre banner for the Switch 2 23.0.0 update.

Notice the black and red jumper, red headband and green pearl earrings.

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Glasses Man Danee @daneeboundeng.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Lastly: Import the Mii into your Switch (2), using the „copy from amiibo” option in the menu. Afterwards, manually adjust the hair-colour, and voilà, There’s our very own Amelia N. now.

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Glasses Man Danee @daneeboundeng.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Second: set up an empty amiibo with Amelia N.’s Mii as the „owner“ (if you don’t have a „new“ 3DS/2DS, you need a separately available amiibo scanner)

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Glasses Man Danee @daneeboundeng.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I want to import that Mii of Amelia N., but I don’t have a Switch 2 webcam. So I’m using a workaround. First: scan the QR code with the 3DS Mii Maker (using a „New“ 2DS). (3DS Miis don’t have the expanded hair colour palette from the Switch Miis, so it’ll revert Amelia’s hair to grey for now)

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Glasses Man Danee @daneeboundeng.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If your card game’s deck-building rules include a hard two-colour limit, then what it tells me is that your game has received little to no play-testing before release.

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Glasses Man Danee @daneeboundeng.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

But playing it this way is… taxing on your thumb to say the least. You practically have to set the Grab mode to inverted to make it work (and that comes with its own problems). So no surprise then, that Maddie and team chose to put the Grab function on the shoulder buttons by default instead.

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Glasses Man Danee @daneeboundeng.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

How much does this view hold up to scrutiny as the scope of the game(s) increase, though? Celeste for example is a 2D action game with only three general action buttons: Jump, Dash and Grab. You could theoretically consign all actions to the face buttons… [cont.]

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Glasses Man Danee @daneeboundeng.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Clearly, they didn’t take this aphorism of Shantotto to heart: “Calling the Empire to help in our cause, would be like freeing us from demons in return for dragon jaws.”

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Glasses Man Danee @daneeboundeng.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

They’re all worth playing. but if you have to play just one to start out with, make it Metroid: Zero Mission on Game Boy Advance. Not only is it chronologically the first (being a remake of the original '86 NES game). It’s also the easiest of the 2D games, which makes it an excellent starting point.

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Glasses Man Danee @daneeboundeng.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This prop-plane side-mode in Nintendo Switch Sports Resort is probably the closest there'll be to a new Pilotwings in a while.

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Glasses Man Danee @daneeboundeng.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Indeedee-F and Rillaboom are back. You know what that means:

Meme based on the Duck Season Rabbit Season template

Red and Lyra stand in for Bugs and Duffy.
The sign reads:
"Electric Terrain"

Meme based on the Duck Season Rabbit Season template

Red and Lyra stand in for Bugs and Duffy.
The sign reads:
"Grassy Terrain"

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Glasses Man Danee @daneeboundeng.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Not that hard to believe, considering one of their earliest games is a half-dating sim/half-3rd person shooter for the original PlayStation.

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Glasses Man Danee @daneeboundeng.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

That thing makes those cheepo off-brand N64 paddles from back in the day look like the real thing in comparison.

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Glasses Man Danee @daneeboundeng.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I could also pop in the original Crazy Taxi instead. Same kind of fun with none of that baggage.

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Glasses Man Danee @daneeboundeng.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Though I guess him wearing a pair of trousers of some kind isn’t really a novelty any more.

Bachellor Bowser in Super Mario Odyssey.
(Wedding Dress Peach to his left)

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Glasses Man Danee @daneeboundeng.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

at least my wallpaper (the other commonly reported issue with this update) is still intact.

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Glasses Man Danee @daneeboundeng.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I’d say Zenos (FFXIV) or Pokey (EarthBound), but they're supposed to be hate-sinks, so that’s low-hanging fruit. So I instead go with literally every Justice League member in the “New 52” continuity-inspired DC Animated Movie Universe… movies.

From left to right:
Shazam, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Superman, Batman, the Flash, and Cyborg.

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Glasses Man Danee @daneeboundeng.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I dun goofed on this one. But in my defense, Polywalker is not the name I had in mind for the functional Elnina/Lanino/original Starwalker throuple.

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