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Data_Error @dataerr.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

yeah I love #gdq Gettin' Dairy Queen

A photo of me (or, rather, my hand and forearm) holding a chocolate ice cream treat in a sun-soaked parking lot in a city neighborhood.

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Data_Error @dataerr.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

He's such a good little cuddly bug! Mine was too stuffed-full to even fit in one of the geneated banners 🙃

A text box on a website showing "Declarations for Sentret" next to an icon of a round brown creature with rabbit ears and a raccoon's striped tail. Text below by "Data_Error" reads: A perfectly adorable little chimera of the best parts of woodland critters. He at once feels familiar and fantastical, unassuming but distinct. A clear role in his ecosystem as well as in my heart. Immensely huggable. The platonic ideal of a Pocket Monster.

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Data_Error @dataerr.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Best of luck to Minnesota in their weird double header tonight

A screenshot of a sports score tracker showing two games of Dallas versus Minnesota scheduld an hour apart. The first game displays the logos for their respective soccer teams, the second shows the logos for their respective hockey teams.

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Data_Error @dataerr.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Having visual novels available portably is convenient and all, but real ones know that *all* novels are meant for luxuriating in the home. #DatingSimMonth

A picture of my arm, toasting a goblet of grapefruit soda, in front of a TV running the visual novel game Variable Barricade. My orange cat is observing the soda with great interest.

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Data_Error @dataerr.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Burglin' Gnomes (NextFest Demo)! I honestly don't mind this wave of $5 co-op games whose premises have the longevity of a tabletop game (which has a similar per-player time/value proposition). Specifically I welcome non-horror options, even one this yet-underpolished. Spring Boots are fun, dammit.

An image of a largely unpolished garden gnome in a video game, viewed from such a low angle that it's making eye contact. The edges of the screen betray a beard at the bottom and red cap at the top - you, too, are Gnome.

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Data_Error @dataerr.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Altered Alma (NextFest Demo)! Adore the neon aesthetic and animation style - clearly somebody else played Megaman Zero at a formative time. Bonus points for the diegetic Demo boundaries. Not sure if it qualifies for #DatingSimMonth, but I'd schmooze up alien rogues between scrounging for biomods.

A screenshot from the opening of Altered Alma. A cyborg woman is lounging toward the screen, action distorted into tunnel vision.

A screenshot from the demo of Altered Alma. In a pixel-art-rendered metal room in front of a mechanical cityscape, a grinning purple alien in a pilot's shirt-and-vest is grinning and remarking "Hi, Jack." On the right, a proud robot warrior is posing and deciding whether to reply with a flirty "Let's talk about you, Harry." (denoted by hearts) or a flat "Bye" (denoted by a sigil for an exit door)

A screenshot from the demo of Altered Alma. In a pixel-art-rendered metal room backlit by the soft purple-pink hues of a metropolis, a hologram of a police-tape barrier hovers overhead explicitly noting "BLOCKED for DEMO"

A screenshot from the pause menus in the demo of Altered Alma. Rendered in green, the DATA page holds a subsection marked with a heart, wherein VERA and HARRINO "HARRY" Y'ASTRELLA options are presented. Harry is selected, his purple-skinned visage beaming at the camera. Two out of seven hearts are lit up next to his name.

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Data_Error @dataerr.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Age verification? The only Humongous Installation I was doing was for this cool dude.

An ad flyer for 1993 adventure game Putt-Putt Goes to the Moon, featuring a purple cartoon convertible with a bugged-out face

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Data_Error @dataerr.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

There's 1000% a treasure chest or a little old man with a quest o'er there, yeah?

A picture of Minnehaha Falls, frozen over in the February chill and bathed in shadow despite a sunny day. A break in the icy falls creates the mouth of a cave.

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Data_Error @dataerr.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

A friend and I have emergently decided on playing the NYT Scrabble as chess and it's proving immensely gratifying.

A screenshot of a Scrabble-like game, with very many short words clustered densely at the center of the board.

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Data_Error @dataerr.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

What a delight that we're at a stage in publishing to have multiple ongoing, thoughtfully-produced, women-centric historical fiction manga set around the Caspian Sea. Called shots, delivered. (Yes they're set ~600 years and many more miles apart; no that doesn't diminish the point.)

A photo of two books next to each other on a white holy tablecloth - one is a lavishly-illustrated hardcover featuring a woman dancing joyfully with arms open in a red dress, and the other is a modest paperback with a young woman in red garb hunched sheepishly over a tome. The first reads "A Bride's Story", the second "A Witch's Life in Mongol".

A photo of an open spread of pages from A Witch's Life in Mongol All illustrated in a retro pop art style, one page features a full illustration of a Persian man and woman meeting for tea in a textile-adorned room. The opposite page features panels set in a black room but punctuated by a light and text bubbles.

A photo of an open spread of pages from A Bride's Story. On one page, a woman in intricate layered clothing stands atop a horse to scout the steppe, which is rendered in a wide scope among the panels opposite.

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Data_Error @dataerr.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Gravity Rush Remastered! I'm so glad I left myself a third act to return to. Plot aside, everything else about this game hits, from its euro-comic stylings and delightful "falling-as-flying" to Kat making a superb Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man. I could Platinum this just for fun. #PortableCGA

A screenshot from the game Gravity Rush. Our hero Kat is floating casually past a red-tinged alleyway.

A comic book panel from a cutscene in the game Gravity Rush. Our hero Kat is dashing from left to right, her scarf flapping heroically in the wind.

A screenshot from the game Gravity Rush. Our hero Kat is falling past a skyline defined by both skyscraper roofs and the its foundation floating above a green-tinged sky.

A comic book panel from a cutscene in the game Gravity Rush. Amongst a murmuring crowd, our hero Kat is licking an ice-cream cone.

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Data_Error @dataerr.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

April Grove! Literally "harvest twigs until number go up" as a game. And somehow, it works? Not just because of the charming-as-hell pixel art, but because it's so judicious in how it does and doesn't complicate that grind with additional stats and systems. Just a pure lil' romp. #PortableCGA

A screenshot from the video game April Grove. The main character, all in green, is petting a cat, who is uttering a speech bubble with a frowny face.

A screenshot from the video game April Grove. The main character, all in green, is sat in a comically large plush chair in a back-room library with bookcases stacked high and a lone potted plant.

A screenshot from the video game April Grove. The main character, all in green, is chatting with a giant woman sitting in a spring, her flowing hair apparently made of water. In a speech bubble labeled "April", she remarks "Look at how cute you are."

A screenshot from the video game April Grove. The main character, all in green, is exploring graves in a shaded clearing. A text bubble reads "Jeffrey Oliva / Rouji - Assistant Pixel Artist"

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Data_Error @dataerr.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Some librarian put in the work to make sure their branch has the entire spread of Stardust Crusaders and honestly they're an inspiration.

A picture of a shelf of books. Nearly all of them have matching black spines with a ribbon-splash of color.

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Data_Error @dataerr.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

This blend that I picked up on a trip to Iceland! Kenneth is a gentleman of descernment, clearly.

A picture of me holding a brown box with an illustration of ferns that reads "BODFLENNUR Angela Blend - 10 Teabags"

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Data_Error @dataerr.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Tea Time (Preemptively: the liquid level is definitely lower than he can reach and it's a barely-tepid herbal besides)

A photo of an orange cat with his full muzzle stuck into a snowman-themed mug.

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Data_Error @dataerr.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Yolk Heroes: A Long Tamago! There's only so much "game" in an idle game, but that's kind of the point of something that sells itself as a Tamagotchi RPG. Charming little app to keep running off to the side over some many months - torpedoes my end-of-year Steam metrics, though. #PortableCGA

A orange-and-green screenshot from idle game Yolk Heroes. Actions for the toilet, a bath, and a bed are queued in the upper-left, and a progress bar that reads "Pooping 1:09" is along the bottom. A bathroom scene is in center frame, where the character is indeed pooping (in a sufficiently abstracted way that you can't see anything of note).

A orange-and-green screenshot from idle game Yolk Heroes. A ghost named Ghosty is doing a backflip and remarking "My ghost parents would tell me I should be proud of how scary I am."

A orange-and-green screenshot from idle game Yolk Heroes. A cat-eared warrior and egg with tentacles are being addressed by a Fairy, who remarks, "Thank you so much for saving all Fairykind!"

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Data_Error @dataerr.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Life after Magic! I was drawn to this by GBC-looking character art, but really it feels like an amalgamation of what might have been in vogue around 1999. "Ex-Magical-Girls have quarter-life crises" seems to be a more and more common story conceit nowadays, and frankly it's still working for me.

A screenshot from the game Life After Magic. A pixelated makeup boutique is shown with a date of DEC 20th, '99. A girl with brown hair is looking trepidatiously over a text box that reads "Leez: Why are there so many people here?!"

A screenshot from the game Life After Magic. An illustration of a photo of five girls is shown. A text box reads "Om a week and a half, it'll be New Year's Eve and everyone's all excited (or terrified) for the year 2000 and the new millennium."

A screenshot from the game Life After Magic. A character with short blond hair, glasses, and a full sleeve of tattoos is shown next to an illustration of a desktop CRT monitor and keyboard/mouse combo, with the date shown to be DEC 30th, '99. A text box reads "With a little help from KJ, I connect the computer to the Internet and then open the web browser. Look at me! I'm surfing the information superhighway!"

A screenshot from the game Life After Magic. A message board for "insidemahou.com" is shown in pastel colors, navigated to a "Topic about Muscat Marina and Banana Bri". Users are arguing "i heard rumors they moved in together after Fruit Fatale broke up." "They're obviously related lol. Probably cousins." "..." "WTF are you guys on about."

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Data_Error @dataerr.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Hijacking Calvin's sentiment here because a 3-day weekend is basically as close as I get to summer vacation as a working adult.

A black-and-white comic strip, Calvin and Hobbes, wherein a young boy bemoans that "somebody owes him big" for the deeply unfair fact that he's feeling ill during summer vacation.

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Data_Error @dataerr.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

RV There Yet! Further progress is contingent on alignment with IRL folks, but even a couple sessions is enough to get its cut-of-jib. After Phasmopohobia, Lethal Company, etc. being spotlit for years, I'm chuffed at the surge in communal games that aren't designed around invoking panic responses.

A screenshot from multiplayer road-trip game "RV There Yet?". A recreational vehicle, its side paneling utterly demolished, is hanging by a thread from a wooden bridge. A stiff taxidermized moose is bolted to the roof.

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Data_Error @dataerr.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Danchi Days! (The demo; full game still forthcoming.) Comes out strong tackling the stresses of Elder Care before pulling back into an adventure game where the explicit goal is to meet-and-greet your neighbors. I could do with more sandboxes I can knock out in a single session! #PortableCGA

An image from the demo of PC game Danchi Days, an indie title with Gameboy-Advance-era pixel art. We see the main character's PDA interface, displaying a "NeighborDex" of all the townsfolk I've interacted with showing off their wacky personalities.

An image from the demo of PC game Danchi Days, an indie title with Gameboy-Advance-era pixel art in a Gameboy-Color-like aspect ratio. We see a Kappa (a green duck-like spirit) named Moro-Q reciting poetry to an old woman: "Our fates part / But I trust the stars / Will guide me back to you."

An image from the demo of PC game Danchi Days, an indie title with Gameboy-Advance-era pixel art in a Gameboy-Color-like aspect ratio. We see the main character, a young girl, dancing through a star-packed sky above apartment buildings.

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Data_Error @dataerr.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

"diet garfield" is an inherently incorrect concept also, garf could never

An image of a recent Heathcliff cartoon, dated 12-31, with the titular cat being led down the street by uniformed police away from an implied new year's party. The caption reads "So much for his new year's resolutions."

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Data_Error @dataerr.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

it is 2020. I am living through a once in-a-generation crisis. My neighbors fear to leave their homes. I am downloading Animal Crossing. it is 2026. I am living through a once in-a-generation crisis. My neighbors fear to leave their homes. I am downloading Animal Crossing.

An image of Dr. Manhattan, a blue man who is famously forced to watch history repeat itself, sitting plaintively on a pink landscape. From the graphic novel "Watchmen".

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Data_Error @dataerr.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

(image sourced -bingsu on reddit)

A crudely drawn diagram of a plane shooting the words "nationalism is bad", which arc clean over the head of an observer remarking "wow!! cool plane!!"

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Data_Error @dataerr.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Don't remember where I picked this up, and I'm pretty sure I'll hit a lot of these fairly easily thanks to my graphic novel diet, but should be a good resource to give myself little prompts with. Resolutions are allowed to be fun!

A sage-green bingo card that reads "2026 Book Bingo". All the spaces are marked with reading goals, from "Read a book written before 1850" to "Try a recipe from a cookbook."

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Data_Error @dataerr.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Inaugural issue of @animeherald.com Magazine came in and I'm loving leafing through it so far! Chock-full of the kinds of essays I love to read (and write!), tastefully composed, and bookended by community promos and CITATIONS. Even has a mini-print in for a "subscription card"! Excellent stuff.

A photo of a magazine laid off-kilter upon a gray couch. The cover features an orange-haired girl looking over her shoulder at a corner convenience store in the middle of a fictional modern city.

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Data_Error @dataerr.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Weeb Mail came in, I've got more important things to watch tonight than That Other Thing.

A photo from overhead of Blu-ray copies of Digimon The Movies 4-6 and Metal Skin Panic Madox-01

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Data_Error @dataerr.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Chainsaw Man was good on its own, but made for a pretty weird double feature.

A screenshot of the Letterboxd page for Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc, a 2025 anime movie. On the poster, a man with chainsaws for arms is locked in battle with a woman coated in black chitin.

A screenshot of the Letterboxd page for Bloody Chainsaw Girl, a 2016 grindhouse movie. On the poster, a Japanese schoolgirl is squatting in front of bright pink text, wielding a chainsaw in front of her.

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Data_Error @dataerr.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

As is the case with so many things, they're holding onto good ideas! And then burying them under so much cover-your-legals and eye-grabbing short-sighted ideas that they lose their luster. At least after all of these years I'm finally equipped to be a GAMER, allegedly [4/4 - Bonus]

An image of the pre-order-bonus desk/card-game mat that comes with day-one copies of Pokémon Legends Z-A. A green dog-creature is visible against a triangle-tiled pale-blue-and-white background.

A closer image of the pre-order-bonus desk/card-game mat. It reads Pokémon Legends Z-A GAMER MAT

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Data_Error @dataerr.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Either *only* early printings have this insert for a very time-limited download, or this'll be a wee downer for later buyers. And I *love love love* having art and maps on the inside of the cover! They're completely illegible behind a Switch 2 box! Maybe this should've been the insert. [3/4]

A picture of a flyer on the inside of the Pokémon Legends Z-A box, advertising a free content download that's only available until the end of February 2026, in about four months from now.

A picture of the inside of the box for Pokémon Legends Z-A. A map is printed on the inside cover, but obscured behind a translucent red box such that you'd have to fish it out of the tight case cover in order to appreciate it at all.

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Data_Error @dataerr.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

I get that it's marginally different than a native-to-Switch-2 game, but having "Nintendo Switch 2 Edition" on the spine is garish and illegible on an already-anemic space. Relatedly: Objectively good that the back-of-box text is bilingual! But damn do you need a magnifying glass. [2/4]

The spine of "Pokémon Legends Z-A Nintendo Switch 2 Edition". For scale against my hand, the total height of each line of title text is less than half of my fingernail. You absolutely will not be able to read this from five feet away looking at a bookshelf.

An image of the back of the box for Pokémon Legends Z-A, divided in half vertically between screenshots on the top screen overlaid with green-and-red text; and several paragraph-length boxes of disclaimer, warning, and informational text that is next-to-unreadable at this image's scale. Some of the images up top form a cool little zoetrope, which is kinda cool but ultimately kinda wastes space.

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Data_Error @dataerr.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Weird off-the-cuff observations about the Pokémon Legends Z-A box, because it's a convergence of tiny things that irk me and are becoming increasingly common. First off: A big ol' block of multilingual text (which is *not* line-separated by language) that feels like it belongs on the back? [1/4]

The box for Pokémon Legends Z-A. Two human characters in the foreground, facing away from the camera, are looking on with a pair of small Pokémon as a third leaps into a street corner at night. Opposite them is a young woman and a larger Pokémon enveloped in an aura, with Pikachu nearby.

A block of text in English and Spanish, where the division between the two languages is only delineated by a single thin "pipe" character.
The text indicates that the box contains the Switch edition of the game and its Switch 2 upgrade pack. It overlays approximately the bottom sixth of the box art.

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Data_Error @dataerr.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

My second-favorite aspect is the set design. #HorrorGameOct

A screenshot from video game Alan Wake Remastered. Set in a dimly-lit radio station, an injured Alan Wake looks at a wide poster for in-universe radio show The Night Owl. The man illustrated on the poster looks unfortunately, goofily cross-eyed at a glance due to the oddly sharp and unfortunately-placed shine off his eyeglasses.

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Data_Error @dataerr.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

My favorite aspect of Alan Wake I so far is how deeply unapologetic it is in building out its own Definitely Legally Distinct version of Twin Peaks. #HorrorGameOct

A screenshot from video game Alan Wake remastered. Set in the morning in a diner whose layout is an almost exact match to the Double R Diner in classic television show Twin Peaks, a "lamp lady" (clear reference to the show's Log Lady) is peering into a hallway, slightly hunched over and trembling.

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Data_Error @dataerr.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

And *I Think* the last one on the list is Voidblazers. Sorry to say that I failed to get the Playdate simulator working correctly for this one, so no direct impressions here, but it's clearly savvy enough to make the bundle's sizzle reel!

A screenshot of a game rendered in entirely black-and-white pixel art. A fighter jet flies through space among a fleet of alien ships.

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Data_Error @dataerr.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Back at this! Cosmic Zephyr DX plays kinda like if a bonus stage from a Sonic game was also a bullet-heavy shmup. I'm pants at both those things, and the visuals can be a bit ambiguous, but honestly the gamefeel is so good that I was really vibing with this one.

A screenshot of a fairy racing down a half-tube track in space in front of a moon in a low-definition video game. The speed, time, score, and level are noted in a simplistic view at the bottom of the screen

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Data_Error @dataerr.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Street Cleaning Day is a twin-stick where your second stick is automated by default, which focuses the play on how well you can dodge and kite nasty soap bubbles as Pizza Rat. An incremental upgrade system and endless mode has me hooked for better and for worse here.

A screenshot of "Wave: 3" of in-browser game Street Cleaning Day. A rat balances on a paper plate on a grody city street, the sewer lid in the center releasing a sickly steam. Bubbles close in from all sides.

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Data_Error @dataerr.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

This bundle is just great for Genre Mash-ups, really; how about a twin-stick *Metroidvania*? MF-01 Aerostrike is mature enough for its own Steam listing, with a full campaign and three game modes. The enemies are bit meaty, but that allows space to experiment with inevitable upgrades: #Shmuptember

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Data_Error @dataerr.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

I'm not as sure if KeyGunner qualifies since the controls are entirely a typing test, but it's interesting in how it doesn't confine itself to real dictionary words, making its tight attention economy very shump-ish. #Shmuptember ?

A screenshot of vibrant pixel art game KeyGunner. A stout fox with a handgun stands in a desert field; little bugs are coming from every direction with little letter tiles above their head.

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Data_Error @dataerr.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Tetap Kacau is a neat lil' area defender with a lil' guy who just can't stop groovin' ahead. Nice little low-pressure option bolstered by a lovely BGM track. #Shmuptember

A screenshot of a pixel-art game (Tetap Kacau) showing a black background dotted with a pair of lampposts and a symmetrical arrangement of white cubes. One cube in the middle is flashing yellow. A white ghost-like creature is dashing toward a freshly-exploded red orb with a slashing effect across it.

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Data_Error @dataerr.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

I'm sure I'm playing "7 Days to Escape" wrong, since I mostly ended up wandering in circles and getting shot on sight by NPCs. An actively-developed *exploration-centric* twin-stick is intriguing, though, and there's seemingly enough here to beget dedicated fans and... a farming system? #Shmuptember

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