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I'm not giving the context for it but if you know you know

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Oh also it gets incredibly good when this happens lmao, Fujimoto was cooking

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idk what I'll read next, maybe dunmeshi

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The story is -incredibly- cynical while also acknowledging that the pursuit of happiness and companionship is ultimately worthwhile and arguably one of the most human things you can do in the face of a world that just wants to take what it can from you Also being too horny will ruin your life lmao

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It's also pretty punk, which I like? denji's relationships are entirely shaped by exploitation which is also reflected in the setting as a whole - utilitarianism comes up time and time again in the plot, reflected in the personal sacrifices devil hunters make as well as mass sacrifice by government

All in all its probably one of the better manga series I've personally read, the mix of extreme violence and humour tonally worked for me and I liked how irreverent it was, though what kept me invested was really the interpersonal stuff

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Finished chainsaw man, I don't hate the ending honestly, worst you can say about it is it's a bit abrupt

Will Koehler @willk3d.com · 08/10/2026

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You'll never guess where this goes

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GachapanTV @gachapantv.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

im enjoying chainsaw man but it has a really bad habit of making all its characters fun and interesting and then they get unceremoniously killed nonstop I do think it is in service of something though as big themes of the story are emotional manipulation and desensitization to violence

GachapanTV @gachapantv.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

They just can't help themselves I'm begging you please make enjoying KCD less of a humiliation ritual by association

Dani Yuan 🔜 LBX @dagger6.art · 03/10/2026

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FurAffinity (a furry focused online art gallery) is looking for funding after refusing to comply with advertiser demands. And oh boy are some of those advertiser demands are pretty ridiculous.

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Makkon @makkon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm immensely proud to announce that my texture library that's been in the making for nearly a decade is now available on my itchio store for indie devs to purchase commercial licenses. makkon.itch.io

screenshot of my itchio store, showing several texture packs available for purchse

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GachapanTV @gachapantv.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm ngl I'm planning on getting it as soon as I get paid, had my eye on it for a while

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Andy Dershon @andydershon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

On October 11, I'll be hosting my first ever game show! The Scrandle Game Show, featuring @regentheowl.bird.gay, @gachapantv.bsky.social and @ezrasecur.bsky.social! It'll start at 1PM PST, and I hope to see you there! www.twitch.tv/andydershon

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As much as I glazed how arcsys teaches its games, the execution on those can be dry and it can be frustrating to just bash your head on a combo for hours. World Tour is much more palatable for a new player, I just feel like its priorities are skewed

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And it's a shame because SF6 World Tour is a genuinely really neat concept (hell, so neat that RGG seem to be copying it beat for beat for the new Virtua Fighter title), it's nice to gameify learning how to play fighting games, which is important as its a notoriously hard genre to get into

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This all really drives home that a good tutorial is really difficult to pull off. The ideal is singleplayer content that does introduce FGC fundamentals in a piecemeal way like WT but also does provide the information and feedback that players need to really learn and that's where it fails imo

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Ultimately the info does get covered (again with World Tour's general attitude of "figure it out <3" as opposed to actually teaching anything) and it's fine if you're not looking for any kind of technical instruction in the game's mechanics but I can see this leading to bad habits in new players

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Having progressed a bit further, the rate and order at which World Tour introduces very fundamental fighting game knowledge is a little wonky. For instance, it teaches you about animation cancelling before it teaches you about blocking attacks, and it doesn't educate about low block until way later

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It might get better further in but early impressions are not good, as i've had several lessons now where figuring out what I had to do felt more like guesswork than an actual lesson.

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So yeah, for teaching you kind of how to play Modern it's fine, but it really fails as a tutorial for really learning the meat of the game imo.

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This wouldn't be that hard to remedy - track correct or incorrect inputs on the screen and offer suggested moves based on which style you're using. Guilty Gear managed this for every single character on the roster, when you speak to the NPC in WT that teaches you this stuff you have access to 2!

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And let me be clear that's fine - Modern is by far the more accessible control set, a few years ago I actually had a pretty decent go on SF6 with Modern but I'm someone who wants to learn Classic inputs and World Tour is, frankly, godawful for learning the minutiae that you need to know.

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That sounds pretty bad right? It's actually not that bad at all IF you're using the modern control scheme - this control scheme takes a lot of the guesswork out of your inputs by design - you don't really have to think about input timing as that's all figured out for you. WT is designed for modern

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By contrast, Street Fighter 6's world tour tells you some of your moves work and some don't, but have fun experimenting! Did you do it correctly? If you do, a counter goes up. If you don't, no feedback whatsoever. Did you mess something up? Have fun figuring it out, dummy!

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Granblue's practise mode and Guilty Gear's mission mode both have this and it's honestly pretty neat for learning characters. It teaches you little tricks and, most importantly, it gives you immediate feedback on where you're messing up if you pay attention. Is your timing off? Are you misinputting?

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How would GGST or Granblue handle it? You'd get a list of inputs up on the screen with your choice of notation - if you input the commands correctly and with the right timing the game will progress down the list and confirms when you input the entire string correctly, easy.

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For example, one NPC you encounter early on tells you that some normals can be cancelled into supers. That's a concept that makes sense to me, however they then tell you that not all supers can be cancelled into. They then tell you to figure it out and refuse to tell you which ones.

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My main issue that arises is the game makes no real effort to actually tutorialise you in anything. Lessons are delivered via talking to NPCs and being given missions which put you into set fights, however these missions make no actual attempt to explain their concepts to you. Which isn't great!

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(I suck at charge inputs so I will not be playing as Chun-Li)

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The game starts you out with Luke's moveset which makes sense - it's relatively straightforward and strike based, the inputs for supers aren't all that difficult and to test players that want something a little meatier, you immediately unlock Chun-Li's in case you want to mess with charge inputs

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I want to learn Street Fighter 6 and so I fired up World Tour as that seems like the intended progression. I opted not to use modern controls as I want to learn the more technical inputs and have greater control over my fighter, and here's where my issues with WT have begun

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Which is perfect! Street Fighter 6 is a more complex 6 button fighter as opposed to GGST's 4 button input scheme so it does feel more complex overall. Whether or not one game is "harder" than the other is open to debate that I'm not prepared to have here right now.

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First of all, my credentials - I started playing 2D fighting games moderately seriously as of just over 2 weeks ago in preparation for a sajam slam style tournament which I got 2nd place in. Most of my experience is in Guilty Gear Strive and some in Granblue Versus. I am for all intents a noob.

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As someone rapidly acclimatising to learning fighting games, I have OPINIONS about Street Fighter 6's World Tour

I am fully aware pagans also built the colosseum and the Parthenon but these were the "right" kind of pagans for these people - anything greco-roman is based and trad in their minds.

The one outlier is stonehenge, I genuinely think that's the only monument built by white people that they claim was aliens, and even then I have a pet theory that it's christofascism - pagans built it therefore must be aliens

notice how those people never say aliens built anything the romans or greeks built, we're not wringing our hands about how they didn't have the technology to build the parthenon however the idea of people putting rocks into a big triangle is suddenly beyond the pale

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Do you think the History Channel will ever face up to the fact that the whole ancient aliens conspiracy theory thing is incredibly racist and they probably did the most out of anyone to platform it

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It's fine. If you read that as damning with faint praise or a recommendation you'd be entirely correct. If it retails for 50 dollarydoos I wouldn't bother personally.

Not sure I could recommend this to newer fans of the series, the jank that comes with it being so early in the series is still present. It's really one for the oldheads and even then I'd rather get a remaster of DW5, as that's the title where it feels like everything really fell into place

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