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Faizan @fazon.nexus · 19/12/2025

Been thinking about it. Juna is solidly my number 2 favourite character Number 1 is still Rene, no spoilers but before playing Trails I have had my eyes well up at media before but Renne is legitimately the only character to ever make me full on cry and she managed it three different times

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Faizan @fazon.nexus · 19/12/2025

I'm 40 hours into Trails of Cold Steel III I think Juna might be my new favourite character

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Faizan @fazon.nexus · 17/12/2025

What are some of your favourite female character designs?

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Faizan @fazon.nexus · 22/11/2025

My four favourite FF games X was my first one, it'll always hold a special place in my heart because of that. V I love, I think it's very underrated, especially the annual 4JF Shadow ringers was the current expansion when I got into XIV (patch 5.2) and it was an incredible time to jump in. (1/2)

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Faizan @fazon.nexus · 21/11/2025

Just beat Trails of Cold Steel Wasn't sure what to expect since, from what I can tell, this seems to be one of the least liked Trails games And yeah, out of the six I've played I'd probably say this is the worst one, but I still really enjoyed my time with it, its like an 8/10 in a series of 9s

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Faizan @fazon.nexus · 15/11/2025

I'm playing cold steel right now and the idle animations just look so odd when you put turbo mode on. Like I get it, I have turbo mode, of course it'll look weird but I just find it funny how it looks like they're breathing really fast but they're heads move very little or not at all

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Faizan @fazon.nexus · 10/11/2025

Just beat the crossbell games I think my favourite trails game so far is still SC, but Crossbell was still incredible, especially Azure Will be jumping into Cold Steel next

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Faizan @fazon.nexus · 08/11/2025

Never did I expect to see a Shrek is Love Shrek is Life reference in Trails to Azure

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Faizan @fazon.nexus · 28/10/2025

Just beat Trails in the Sky the 3rd Holy shit this game is incredible, way better than I expected honestly I'm now a trails addict though, I've immediately jumped into Zero

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Faizan @fazon.nexus · 13/10/2025

Just beat Trails in the Sky SC for the first time Fantastic game, 9/10

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Faizan @fazon.nexus · 28/09/2025

If you see this, repost with a game from the year you were born!

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Faizan @fazon.nexus · 06/09/2025

Gonna try to be more active on here, completely forgot to talk about my new addiction since June Rift of the NecroDancer. My first rhythm game and I'm obsessed.

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Faizan @fazon.nexus · 06/09/2025

Only played a bit of Hollow Knight a few years ago, didn't get very far, but I felt the need to play Silksong I heard the first miniboss is apparently really difficult but I did it first try without much issue. What is the problem here? (Marked as Adult but its supposed to be a spoiler tag)

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Faizan @fazon.nexus · 25/07/2025

Looking through my old FFXIV screenshots and found this. I forgot I even took this screenshot Dated 8th December 2021, I was unemployed back then, Jesus

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Faizan @fazon.nexus · 15/06/2025

God Damn, it really does look like Alexandria from FF9

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Faizan @fazon.nexus · 15/06/2025

I've been really bored playing through Dawntrail. Nearly done with it thankfully but this area looks phenomenal, god damn

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Faizan @fazon.nexus · 09/06/2025

I know P5 didn't release in the west until 2017 but I haven't played much from 2016 honestly so it's going here

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Faizan @fazon.nexus · 30/05/2025

Messing around with ReShade and discovered the comic shader. I really love the look of it. Gonna have to have a look at how to make my own ReShade shaders, I'm sure I can make something that really pops even more.

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Faizan @fazon.nexus · 30/05/2025

Getting back into FFXIV for the first time since Dawntrail launched Time to finally get that Necromancer title (I'm never going to get it 🥲)

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Faizan @fazon.nexus · 10/05/2025

RG RX-78-2 Ver 2.0 built Did some poses #Gundam #Gunpla #RG #Real-Grade #MSG

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Faizan @fazon.nexus · 01/05/2025

i guess my 1015 graph dowa look healthier than my 2024 graph though, at least so far

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Faizan @fazon.nexus · 01/05/2025

Crying at my GitHub contribution graph right now, I've been so busy with uni that I feel like I've neglected my personal projects

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Faizan @fazon.nexus · 25/04/2025

for my university computer graphics assignment we've been tasked to create a road simulation I kinda went out of my way to make a crt shader... not sure i'll even get marks for it but fuck it whatever, we ball

crt shader, not sure how well you can see it in the screenshot, but trust me its there

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Faizan @fazon.nexus · 18/04/2025

Just got a new 4TB M.2 SSD. I've effectively doubled my storage Time to clone my boot drive and move a bunch of stuff over so I get blue bars again

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Faizan @fazon.nexus · 06/04/2025

On th plus side, this is probably the best day in ages in terms of visibility, almost all of ursa major is visible

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Faizan @fazon.nexus · 06/04/2025

Really annoying that most stars don't show up where I live Took a picture of the only 2 visible stars of Gemini (plus Mars on the left, also just focus on the brightest stars, pretty sure the others popped up because of my hand shaking slightly)

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Faizan @fazon.nexus · 30/03/2025

As a kid when I first discovered emulation I tried playing Sonic 1 on my PC but the smooth filter was on by default and I was too dumb to figure out how to turn it off, it was so frustrating

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Faizan @fazon.nexus · 05/03/2025

Just beat the Sonic Unleashed Recomp Great technical achievement I still hate this game

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Faizan @fazon.nexus · 28/02/2025

Just beat Sonic and the Black Knight for the first time. It really isn't as bad as everyone seems to make it out. I think I still prefer Secret Rings but Black Knight is actually fairly solid imo #Sonic

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Faizan @fazon.nexus · 20/02/2025

It is one of my favourite games of all time though (maybe even my favourite game of all time honestly) so I'm super happy I can play an enhanced version on vita

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Faizan @fazon.nexus · 08/02/2025

I just had a check on the board itself just to make sure I wasn't being stupid and it actually does have a M.2 slot, I just never noticed it because it's really hard to see with everything else in the way Don't know if you can see it in the image but it says "M2A slot" on it

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Faizan @fazon.nexus · 06/02/2025

What it looked like yesterday for comparison

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Faizan @fazon.nexus · 06/02/2025

I said I'd make fazon.nexus look nice using nothing but HTML, CSS and JavaScript and I just delivered on that. I deployed a change which looks quite nice imo, needs more work but I'm happy with this btw that triangle isn't an image, its a polygon getting rendered on your device in real-time

My website, still under construction but please go an give it a visit! fazon.nexus

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Faizan @fazon.nexus · 06/02/2025

Bit more of a positive post now. I looked up at the sky once I got off the bus and saw that we've got a clear night sky today so I took a couple (not so great) pictures 1st pic is of the moon, that little dot on the left is Jupiter 2nd pic is Mars, no idea where the coloured dots came from

Mars and some coloured dots (no idea where they came from)

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Faizan @fazon.nexus · 06/02/2025

ADHD can make it super difficult to get started on projects I've been meaning to get fazon.nexus up and running for a while now and I know it takes me a while to get started on atuff So I've just created the most basic ass HTML page and deployed it, not much to see but please give it a visit

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Faizan @fazon.nexus · 06/02/2025

Was supposed to put an image up for the game but completely forgot so it's going in a quote instead

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Faizan @fazon.nexus · 03/02/2025

Deep learning might be the most soul draining work of all time I have an RTX 4070 Super and this tiny model I've made took 32 minutes to train I've had to do this multiple times

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Faizan @fazon.nexus · 28/01/2025

I've been playing Ninja Gaiden 2 Black the last couple of days and it's honestly incredible, think I might have found a new series I love. I did get the sudden urge to play the original on NES too and I actually managed to beat it without save states for the first time, super proud of myself!

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Faizan @fazon.nexus · 24/01/2025

The system requirements are out, seems that the game requires a GPU with ray tracing and NVME storage. I meet all the recommended requirements except NVME which is a minimum requirement, my motherboard doesn't even have NVME slots 🥲

Minimum:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10 64-bit / Windows 11 64-bit
Processor: AMD Zen 2 or Intel 10th Generation CPU @3.2 GHz with 8 cores / 16 threads or better (examples: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X or better, or Intel Core i7 10700K or better)
Memory: 16GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia or AMD hardware Raytracing-capable GPU with 8GB dedicated VRAM or better (examples: NVIDIA RTX 2060 SUPER or better, AMD RX 6600 or better)
Storage: 100 GB available space
Additional Notes: 1080p / 60 FPS / Low Quality Settings, NVME SSD Storage required

Recommended:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10 64-bit / Windows 11 64-bit
Processor: AMD Zen 3 or Intel 12th Generation CPU @3.2 GHz with 8 cores / 16 threads or better (examples: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X or better, or Intel Core i7 12700K or better)
Memory: 32GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia or AMD hardware Raytracing-capable GPU with 10GB dedicated VRAM or better (examples: NVIDIA RTX 3080 SUPER or better, AMD RX 6800 or better)
Storage: 100 GB available space
Additional Notes: 1440p / 60 FPS / High Quality Settings, NVME SSD Storage required

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Faizan @fazon.nexus · 24/01/2025

I'm so happy we're getting 2 (3 sort of) new Ninja Gaiden games this year. I never played the 3D games growing up since I never had a 360 or PS3 as a kid but I loved the NES games so I'm happy we're getting Ragebound. 4 does look incredible also so I might need to play 1, 2 and 3 soon.

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Faizan @fazon.nexus · 27/12/2024

Repost with games coming out in 2025 you are most excited for Cheating here but I'm not excited for much tbh, but I'm really excited for the Switch 2

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Faizan @fazon.nexus · 18/12/2024

Steam year in review! Got way more time on PC than I have on Switch and its mostly JRPGs... not too surprised but I expected Shadow Generations to be up there too

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Faizan @fazon.nexus · 18/12/2024

Switch year in review! I honestly didn't use it much this year unfortunately but here we go Just played a bunch of DMC 3 this year on it

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Faizan @fazon.nexus · 18/12/2024

Last one PC: This ones really difficult, so many PC games are also on consoles so I feel I need to pick a game thats either a PC exclusive or a game that feels like it belongs on PC I'm going to give four games because I just can't decide Deus Ex, Fallout 1, XCOM: Enemy Unknown and Doom (1993)

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Faizan @fazon.nexus · 18/12/2024

PS Vita: Gravity Rush

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Faizan @fazon.nexus · 18/12/2024

PSP: Final Fantasy Tactics The War of the Lions

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