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When I played onimusha: warlords I was mostly unimpressed but hearing so many people i respect talk about their love for the series recently, I started up 2. After about 3 hours I'm left like this

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Glunch @glunchboss.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Voice acting in Onimusha 2 is great

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Glunch @glunchboss.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you're looking for something to buy this steam sale that is cheap and wont be on your front page, these are my recommendations

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Glunch @glunchboss.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I don’t think there’s an aesthetic I find uglier than dark fantasy western. Western themes video games already have an abysmal aesthetics hit rate (remember, borderlands is trying to ape westerns) but this shit is just hands up ugly and has no real point

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Glunch @glunchboss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

after five hours, its solid. worth digging around in for a few hours, but its not gonna blow you away or anything

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, and the rare virtue of thick walls, and the rare virtue of interior spaciousness

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Glunch @glunchboss.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Total radicalism perspective on the ff7 levelling discourse. They should set your level minimum for every fight in that game. The medium has been held captive by the checklist-ticking child despots for too long, it’s time to make games for the people who skip cutscenes and never stop sprinting.

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Glunch @glunchboss.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Built two decks for one piece tcg this meta. One just got banned and the other is now food for what will be the new tier 1 deck. I got totally owned.

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Glunch @glunchboss.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

so close to winning the one piece local today, beat someone whos won before. i know im almost there. huge confidence boost compared to a dreadful performance last week. lost to a deck on top table partly because i tech'd for certain popular decks i never faced. thats how it goes

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Glunch @glunchboss.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

ninja warriors and de la soul kinda saturday night

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Glunch @glunchboss.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

yeah man, this is my shit right here

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Glunch @glunchboss.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’ve been possessed by a demon that tells me I have to play Xanadu Next right now or I’ll never feel peace again. That games been on the lowest of the low on my priority list for years but right now it feels like nothing else will satisfy me. The last time it happened I played dragons dogma

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Glunch @glunchboss.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Was trying to take one piece a lot more seriously but feel like it’s just leading to a terrible mindset. I’m just gonna play, focusing on irls, mainly for the social outlet, and then if I’m still playing 6 months to a year from now I’ve hopefully exposed myself enough to start actually learning

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Glunch @glunchboss.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Unfortunately not enjoying EOSD nearly as much as I hoped I would. Not a huge fan of both learning and playing the stages in this game, which is a huge duller on getting motivated for the lunatic clear

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

And damn me, Ahab, but thou actest right; live in the game, and die in it!

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Glunch @glunchboss.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

SPRAWL Zero is riffing on that kinda late-2000s-early-2010s style of fps that has always been a guilty pleasure for me. People use wanting a brain-off game as an excuse to play mid but this is is totally a brain-off game thats good and fun

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

They think me mad

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Glunch @glunchboss.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

im -500 on buying one piece cards to fill out two different top meta decks this month im not too fussed about spending that much right now but doing that every set would be way too much lmao. gonna have to marry these decks until next year where i start building for melb regionals

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Glunch @glunchboss.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Little did he know that this would be the last time he actually does stealthing around for the rest of the game MGS4 is unfortunately on indefinite hiatus until i can find 3-4 uninterrupted hours to finish act 5. i think thatll happen on like, maybe the 19th lmao

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Glunch @glunchboss.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The real test with oot remakes visuals is: divorced from the knowledge you already have about oot, does this new art style do anything to communicate the tone/style/world/fantasy/whatever of oot. I think overwhelmingly the answer is no. It looks like a different game in every screenshot

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Glunch @glunchboss.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I’ve been desperate for one place to keep all my Zelda-related notes so this direct was a huge win for me

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Glunch @glunchboss.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Lufia II is the most 4/5 game ever made

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Glunch @glunchboss.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

MGS4 SPOILERS I knew about the act 4 twist ahead of time, one of the few things I knew about the game, so maybe that’s why it didn’t hit for me. But man, I just don’t think this kind of thing works at all lmao

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Glunch @glunchboss.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Posted on Reddit for the first time in probably ten years last night, pretty straightforward, and wow that community is a hundred times worse than I could possibly meme it to be

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Glunch @glunchboss.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I got into the one piece tcg cause I had just finished the manga and really liked it. I was kinda skeptical of it just being the ip tho so I’ve dipped into a lot of other tcgs as well, recently come back and realised just how much I love it

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Glunch @glunchboss.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Reading about epistemic loneliness really helped me reframe a lot of habits and lifestyle choices that I thought were self destructive into smth necessary

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Glunch @glunchboss.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Midway thru act 2 and mgsiv is really blowing me away with its gameplay. I think if I played them as they came out or if I marathoned them I’d be like ‘it’s another one of these’. But only playing the first 3 and then getting to play 4 a decade+ later has me like HOOOLY SHIT ANOTHER ONE? THIS RULES

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Glunch @glunchboss.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

game dev practices are terrible and unhealthy and theres a lot of cognitive dissonance that occurs when you play a game and are aware of that (this is double true for everyones favourite classics too). I don't often draw a line at refusing to play smth because of crunch, but I always do w Rockstar

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Glunch @glunchboss.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I would skip fewer cutscenes in video games if they were more like this

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Glunch @glunchboss.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It's really easy to dunk on gacha posters but underneath the 'anti-elitism' belies a much more annoying truth, that a lot of people feel entitled to a portion of your attention and consideration but don't really want to put in any effort to deserve it. total democratization of taste.

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Glunch @glunchboss.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

less than 24h later im seeing that witcher 3 remaster go yeah look at how we improved the combat, we made it take way more time and effort. dragons dogma has much better combat than all these other open world rpgs and is less combat focused than the ones with shitty ass gameplay LMAO

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Glunch @glunchboss.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

whenever i play counter strike and im walking aimlessly, i pull my knife out and slash at the corner of every building i pass. it's just a little thing to fill in that extra time between moving from point a to point b. this is exactly what the function of combat in the 2d zeldas is

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Glunch @glunchboss.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

sometimes u just gotta remember u cant trust the pulse on anything with video games

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Glunch @glunchboss.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The choreography in Five Elements Ninjas (1982) is so meticulous. There are like 80 fight scenes in this movie and each one moves like this.

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Glunch @glunchboss.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Had a dream that every one was mad at me for my super mario sunshine takes. People kept telling me to post a video of me playing with hand cam to verify I ever actually played it.

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Glunch @glunchboss.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Currently gathering data for a research project. If you are currently enrolled as a university student, I would really appreciate filling out this survey. It should take 3-5 minutes and every response means a lot to me. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Sedentary Behavior in Extended Classes Questionnaire

This is an anonymized survey designed to capture data about sedentary behavior during extended university classes for a La Trobe University research project. The survey should take around three minute...

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Glunch @glunchboss.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

i saw a mario kart type drift in the new crazy taxi and i fell to my knees

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Glunch @glunchboss.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

One of the reasons I feel an immediate kinship with any arcade gamer is that there are very few direct lines pointing from modern games/game discourse to arcade games, so anyone who ends up there did so out of a real curiosity. It’s much more fun to talk to people who are curious.

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Glunch @glunchboss.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

because im a straight man in my 20s who watches a lot of movies everyone just assumes im really into tarantino. Ive never said anything about tarantino in public (dont like the movies). this assumption feels worse than being asked where a good kebab place is, at least im passionate about kebabs.

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Glunch @glunchboss.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

brief excursion into tgm4 today taught me that im sooooooo bad at tetris lmao. When I wrote this I thought it was something I would be able to grind out like other arcade games, but Im realising Tetris is so amorphous that actual improvement would best be achieved by playing a little bit a day

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Glunch @glunchboss.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Whenever I write my reviews I try to keep a certain standard to my analysis, but for these commentaries I prepare nothing in advance and just waffle. Only uploading this to shill the game: i think this is an underrated game mode for raw survival, perfect middle between a 1all and 2all

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Glunch @glunchboss.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

That throws a wrench in my plans, I expected this to take at least another week LMAO

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Glunch @glunchboss.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I had more elaborate plans on what i wanted to play through this year, but ive decided after i clear mushi futari black label im going to play through dragon quest 7 as my game for basically the rest of the year. I did a lot of great gaming this past few months, time for more books and movies

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Glunch @glunchboss.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

One thing I really try and stick to when I write about older games is to really focus in on whatever meaningful commentary I'm able to provide and then only bring up examples that I absolutely need. A lot of what I read brings up a dirth of mechanics without ever having something to say about them

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Glunch @glunchboss.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Up to date on One Piece! An incredible journey. I saw so much cynicism about late time skip era arcs that I expected my enthusiasm to wane, but no. I can't really say how good one piece actually is, but it's as popular as it is for a reason. Essential storytelling for post-modernity.

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Glunch @glunchboss.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Wano done!!!!! Gonna read some more fata morgana and then potentially watch egghead, it seems like a really cool arc 150 chapters in 5 days, one of which i didnt read at all, got me feelin dizzy tho

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Glunch @glunchboss.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Done with the New World, on to Wano!

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Glunch @glunchboss.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

extract shooters such a depressng point for video games to end up at. shooter rpg loot collection quest games where the shooting is meaningless, the character creation is meaningless, the loot is meaningless and the quests are meaningless. games that are played just for the sake of playing them

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Glunch @glunchboss.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

One piece update SPOILERS AHEAD: Really enjoyed dressrosa! I think it’s an interesting foil to alabasta and smoker says as much at the end. De-emphasising the straw hats is a weird choice, but i dont think it is without intention

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