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This game is not "Digimon: Digital Card Battle" as the west knows it, which is actually "Digimon: Digital Card Arena" in Japan. It features an early game boss duel against a creature that has come to be known as "Fuhrer Agumon". The game names him 総統 (soutou) - "supreme ruler". He runs a slave camp

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Serenade @emptysetgames.com · 22/09/2026

Not even Nintendo's most disasterous character name gaffe:

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Serenade @emptysetgames.com · 08/09/2026

it took me a while to remember this brand name but it was the first shit I thought of seeing his face

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Serenade @emptysetgames.com · 27/08/2026

this is the shittest reason of all time

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Serenade @emptysetgames.com · 19/08/2026

Super Mario 64 Original Sound Track CD. We didn't even have a CD player and would not have a CD player for another 5 years. I was super stoked to blast the SM64 soundtrack in the new family car that actually had a CD player.

covert art for the US release of the Super Mario 64 Original Sound Track CD

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Serenade @emptysetgames.com · 29/07/2026

this space reserved to preemptively dunk on myself

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Serenade @emptysetgames.com · 16/07/2026

wowie I sure can't wait to install this super cool progr- oh

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Serenade @emptysetgames.com · 13/07/2026

is this actually the deepest cut mario alt color

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Serenade @emptysetgames.com · 12/07/2026

I have long been a Sega Saturn advocate

Donald Duck thanks Jesus for running interference and primarying Lindsey Graham the old fashioned way

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Serenade @emptysetgames.com · 23/06/2026

peak has hit the nintendo music app at long last

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Serenade @emptysetgames.com · 28/04/2026

in fairness I'm basing this all on my favorite Tim Follin album with attached dogshit video game MTV ran this sweepstakes and there's some evidence that there were non-grand prize winners but the big money might have just been a scam. Its insanely funny that kids got baited into playing this.

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Serenade @emptysetgames.com · 10/04/2026

.... no its not it grows on trees

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Serenade @emptysetgames.com · 12/03/2026

dude I love this kind of stuff. Pinks/reds were killing me.

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Serenade @emptysetgames.com · 27/02/2026

Damn it, I forgot transparent becomes black here. Now you can actually SEE.

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Serenade @emptysetgames.com · 27/02/2026

Honestly surprised I had the time to do two #pixel_dailies in a row. Metal only brings one thing to mind: The Metal Empire baybee! The intention was actually to try to work in the style of D-1 Tamers, but that fell through. I still used the color palette, though, which might have been too limited

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Serenade @emptysetgames.com · 26/02/2026

Now that I botched the first try, let's try my almost 3 month late new year's resolution again: #pixel_dailies A washer and drier for today's set of household appliances. The 16x16 set is here, but also an enlarged version, for the elderly such as myself.

a 16x16 and whatever 3x that size is isometric pixel art of a washer and drier.

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Serenade @emptysetgames.com · 21/02/2026

yeah dude I still have my little rescued man pardon the dust, I'm not cleaning up for a shitpost.

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Serenade @emptysetgames.com · 21/01/2026

sure this looks more like the actual gameplay but consider

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Serenade @emptysetgames.com · 21/01/2026

Through the kind of shenanigans only Metal Gear can bring to a crossover, I contend that James Bond has been with us since Brawl.

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Serenade @emptysetgames.com · 13/01/2026

give it up for Ultimate's 6th year in a row of top spot not even fucking accurate seeing as how I do most of my play on a hacked switch now. Also not a proud 25 hours in Prime 4, I'll be honest with you.

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Serenade @emptysetgames.com · 10/01/2026

"inspired by The Fonz" yeah, dweeb.

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Serenade @emptysetgames.com · 02/01/2026

I was possessed by an evil spirit.

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Serenade @emptysetgames.com · 11/12/2025

This is worse than that time Hitler was Time's man of the year

AP news article headline showing Time Magazine naming "Architects of AI" as its person of the year.

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Serenade @emptysetgames.com · 03/11/2025

really it makes me think about how I get salty over the fact that this picture has like 80 dollars worth of toys in it (they are typically 15-20 bucks a piece) but the Jada Toys line is so much better than anything Jazzwares produced 20 years ago. Look at these guys, so full of soul.

the "wave 1" line of Jada Toys MegaMan figures, including FireMan, ElecMan, MegaMan himself looking very American, CutMan and IceMan.

They're like 4 inches tall but really well articulated and a lot of fun to hold - they feel quite substantial.

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Serenade @emptysetgames.com · 03/11/2025

There was a 10 inch Zero figure too (and black armor, which was called "nightshade" for some reason), and he looks just as bad as you would imagine. I'm really only bringing this bastard up because he comes with the sword too, so its not like they couldn't find a use for the ugly sword they made.

ginormous 10 inch tall Zero figure with disproportionately long arms and a squishy face, with removable chest part and buster gun. an absolute abomination. Probably a floppy piece of shit just like his best buddy, 10 inch MegaMan X.

the same shit but its black zero. they call him "zero nightshade" for some reason. I'll nitpick a little here too and say that his sword should be purple, but if they gave even one half of a shit about fanciful concepts like "canon" then I don't know if we'd be having this conversation at all.

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Serenade @emptysetgames.com · 03/11/2025

like sure this guy looks like complete shit and has this pointless chest armor removal gimmick and can't hold his heavy arms up especially not with that ugly sword and can't shoot the weapon which is part of the selling points... but at least they were bold and went with an odd color choice

magnet mine megaman x figure by jazzwares from like 2001. absolutely nightmarish looking 10 inch "action" figure with loose joints and virtually no articulation.

gotta be the worst thing that happened in 2001, thinking back on it...

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Serenade @emptysetgames.com · 28/10/2025

when the job sucks but the pay is outstanding

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Serenade @emptysetgames.com · 09/10/2025

I slept on this card because the whiffs can be pretty dogshit especially since you put the cards back on top of your deck but I'm starting to see the light in terms of its strategic value so here I am today filling out the official apology form.

the digimon tcg card "Supreme Connection!" featuring Machinedramon standing atop the corpses of its component digimon.

explaining what it does is a bit outside of the scope of alt text I think.

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Serenade @emptysetgames.com · 22/09/2025

there's a preposterous amount wrong with this, such as the fact that that's Zeta in the thumbnail, ZZ Gundam only has 47 episodes, "Prelude of ZZ" is technically the first ZZ episode, not some kind of season finale of Zeta, and in no universe is this giant robot show for hormonal teenagers "TV-MA"

A screenshot of Crunchyroll's "Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ" featuring the Zeta Gundam and Hyaku Shiki in the thumbnail. Crunchyroll calls this "S2 E51 - PRELUDE ZZ" despite this being the first episode of ZZ Gundam. This video is marked "Try now", "YouTube featured" and, bafflingly "TV-MA"

You should always either buy the official release of DVDs/Bluerays, or pirate anime rather than pay for a subscription streaming service.

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Serenade @emptysetgames.com · 16/09/2025

first thing that comes to mind

an ancient shitpost with an overly crowded HUD

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Serenade @emptysetgames.com · 06/09/2025

this is a horrendous use of the very low amount of shelf space I have but fuck it we ball

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Serenade @emptysetgames.com · 04/09/2025

yeah just buy a 300 dollar printer so you can use 2 dollars of plastic to create a stand for a 90 dollar model kit that didn't include a stand for some god damn reason fucking kotobukiya (at least he looks cool)

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Serenade @emptysetgames.com · 14/08/2025

wait a minute I recognize this guy

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Serenade @emptysetgames.com · 07/08/2025

adventure haters our hero has arrived

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Serenade @emptysetgames.com · 26/06/2025

a third digital world has hit the lore

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