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HokutoAndy 🤜🤜➡️ 🦶👊 @hokutoandy.bsky.social · 2h

Looking at Jun Suemi paintings to doodle more like Jun Suemi.

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HokutoAndy 🤜🤜➡️ 🦶👊 @hokutoandy.bsky.social · 2h

Everything reminds me of Banquet of Fools

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HokutoAndy 🤜🤜➡️ 🦶👊 @hokutoandy.bsky.social · 5h

If you still want to give it a go, focusing on summoners turns the brawler into a more passive RTS. Think every char has a limit of 3 minions at once. Pipes: Start with Raven, Bats Fauna & Vines: Classic summoning mage Binding: Yeah even the giant horrible slow-you-to-deff spider is tameable.

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Frost Llamzon @frostllamzon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Banquet for Fools fan art

Artwork by Illustrator Frost Llamzon depicting a group of player characters from the game Banquet for Fools. It features the guardsmen of house Lazure, in front is a woman with snake for hair brandishing a whip, on her right is a woman with mothlike wings, summoning vines and wielding a sling, On the left is a man with a polearm on his right hand and 3 vials on his left hand, and at the back of the group is a huge hairy yeti wielding two giant katana like swords.

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HokutoAndy 🤜🤜➡️ 🦶👊 @hokutoandy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"It is beneath my dignity" >>"MY LEGS ARE FAR STRONGER THAN A FROG'S!!"

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HokutoAndy 🤜🤜➡️ 🦶👊 @hokutoandy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh man this "Dryad Flower" quest was really sweet! It's like a... "cozy dillema", like you came home and your dog has a new dog friend and the dog owner is looking for the dog. The choice of text in Banquet for Fools plus the juggling, feels similar to my 90's and 00's games experience hahah.

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HokutoAndy 🤜🤜➡️ 🦶👊 @hokutoandy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Awesome a "Victory Fanfare" screen for completing a quest is very very good!! youtube.com/live/Fsx3Vj7...

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HokutoAndy 🤜🤜➡️ 🦶👊 @hokutoandy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Banquet for Fools has the sort of stamina/universal cooldown that I like from Secret of Mana. Secret of Mana though has pushing as something you can do regardless of stamina. Man I wish Diablo-likes Path of Exile genre was more like this than number crunching VFX.

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Trials Of Mana Seiken Densetsu 3

ALT: Trials Of Mana Seiken Densetsu 3

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HokutoAndy 🤜🤜➡️ 🦶👊 @hokutoandy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Really great windup, impact, recovery and ready punchiness, really makes sense the developers (two people?) grew up with brawlers to enhance the cRPG experience beyond number crunching (which is still fun spent hours looking up armor hahah).

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H+J games🌙Banquet for Fools out now! @hannahjosephrpg.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Banquet for Fools releases March 5th! It's in the fae thug beat-em-up genre, which starts now 👊 🧝‍♀️ 👊 #indiegame #crpg

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HokutoAndy 🤜🤜➡️ 🦶👊 @hokutoandy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The art direction for this game really really makes metal feel like metal.

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Long_Painter @longpainter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A miniature plein air painting of the waning moon from my studio the other night. #sciart

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Walaber @walaber.com · 07/10/2026

Many people still don’t know that I made a massive modern JellyCar game that’s widely available and filled with all the old content + lots of new as well! “JellyCar Worlds” www.walaber.com/jellycar

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HokutoAndy 🤜🤜➡️ 🦶👊 @hokutoandy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ah the Banquet for Fools creators mention brawlers as a gameplay inspiration, it's not like an auto attacking stick in place melee RTS.

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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.co.uk · 07/10/2026

It me. Come and say hi and talk about words.

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HokutoAndy 🤜🤜➡️ 🦶👊 @hokutoandy.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

So epstein files IS what the cancelled 2010 Metal Gear Rising script was about. Raiden's rescuing Olga's daughter Sunny from "US financier Wexler". Wexner's IRL victoria's secret ceo, AIPAC donator, trafficked girls for epstein. Platinum's rewrite removed connection to real life to be released.

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HokutoAndy 🤜🤜➡️ 🦶👊 @hokutoandy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The original Rising villain's name was "Wexler", based off of real life in-the-epstein-files zionist billionaire Les Wexner (owns Victoria's Secret, trafficked girls for epstein). That could be why the storyline and main villain was changed so much for release.

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Mitchell Hammond 𓆙 @bipedalbastard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sunny's Rescue

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HokutoAndy 🤜🤜➡️ 🦶👊 @hokutoandy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Halloween update comes the 13th FFXI Gigas are the coolest take on "VOTOMS sized ogre" brutes! Their huge arms but ribby pectorals go with their skull faces so uniquely.

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HokutoAndy 🤜🤜➡️ 🦶👊 @hokutoandy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Seeing a screenshot of the cool giant sode armor is what got me into the game.

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Hampus Viklander @spookystirfry.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Finally getting around to that Banquet for Fools fanart, here's my party of guards that made it through the game! #BanquetForFools

digital drawing of a party of guards from the videogame Banquet for Fools. In front to the right stands winged a wizard in robes holding a book. Behind the wizard to the left stands a fighter wielding a large shield and a whip. Behind the fighter to the right stands an archer with hair made from snakes falling over their left shoulder. Behind the archer to the left stands a large horned Yeti, most of their body is covered in hair and fur but large armoured shoulder pads stick out. Behind the entire group is a cresent moon hanging in the air.

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HokutoAndy 🤜🤜➡️ 🦶👊 @hokutoandy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Was thinking "been a while since I've played Baldur's Gate I & II", then remembered Banquet for Fools is a 90's cRPG with a cool stylish aesthetic and Parasite Eve party based ombat. I enjoyed the demo will try the full game now.

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HokutoAndy 🤜🤜➡️ 🦶👊 @hokutoandy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Jack Kirby's lifelong fear of Asians doesn't lead to mockery, but AWE in his sweaty art & writing, the (inaccurate) Kali statue KILLS the brit! Warhammer 40k Xenos writing often sucks cuz there's no FEAR, the Relatable Imperium of Man Hero smashes "Slanting XENOS EYES statue" in mockery, no AWE.

Eldar Dark Reaper Exarch with Hindu Kali inspired skull necklace.

depictions of the aliens’ false gods.’

And so it was named the Godspire. Tribune Endymion and the Soulless Queen now used it as a command centre.

The approach was once a scene of stunning, if alien, beauty. An eldar traveller in the time of that star-spanning empire’s glory would have made a long, sloping ascent through gardens of luminescent singing crystals, across arcing bridges that curved over the bottomless void between tier platforms, before standing at the gates that led into the tower at the city’s heart. Now the crystal formations were melted remains on their floating pedestals, many supporting the weight of automated Tarantula gun batteries. Most of the bridges were broken, their spans long since fallen into the nothingness below the Impossible City. The courtyard’s once-open expanses housed a bustling hive of Mechanicum arming stations, supply depots, prefab barracks and landing pads.

In the cathedral, Ra levelled his gaze at the statue of the alien goddess-maiden once more. A filthy creature, forever staring with her slanted eyes. Who was she to judge the species that fought this new war in the ruins of her city? Her time, and the time of her people, was over. The eldar had been weighed by the implacable whims of the universe, and they had been found wanting.

His spear began its singing spin — the first blow shattered her reaching hand, sending sundered wraithbone clattering against the floor; the second cleaved through the goddess’ neck, toppling her hooded head to the floor with an echoing ring. A great crack lightning-bolted across her pale features from forehead to throat. Her severed neck steamed from the vicious kiss of the spear’s power field.

‘A fit of temper?’ came a gentle voice from the temple’s entrance.

Ra turned slowly, irritated that he’d not sensed his visitors’ approach. Truly, his humours were more unbalanced than he had realised if it was so easy to enter his presence undetected.

A woman and a girl. He hadn’t expected t…

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HokutoAndy 🤜🤜➡️ 🦶👊 @hokutoandy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Jack Kirby's WW2 comics get into Lovecraftian imagery... his view of Buddhist / Hindu art! American heroes aid a British officer trying to keep Burma in the hands of pip pip jolly Empire, but the heathen demon statues of the jungle Orientals give him nightmares. Kirby wrote this during Vietnam War.

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HokutoAndy 🤜🤜➡️ 🦶👊 @hokutoandy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Any idea of the artist is a dude or a lady?

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HokutoAndy 🤜🤜➡️ 🦶👊 @hokutoandy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The new generation of Japanese fantasy writers grew up with mainstream hit wRPG's and novels localization, lead to a Slaver Fantasy Boom in Japan decades after The West. Dragon Age slave kink, Fallout slave gf, Baldur's Gate under new studio still got classic "abuse the slaves choice that MATTERS"

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日菓シ @phrasedead413.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

リアスカートがリフトされ、おしりのラインが丸見えのがポイント

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HokutoAndy 🤜🤜➡️ 🦶👊 @hokutoandy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Can an octopus hear with that organ through air too?

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HokutoAndy 🤜🤜➡️ 🦶👊 @hokutoandy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

On Star Wars empire uniforms, Russian costume designer John Mollo was drawing more from his imperial past, plus WW1 Germany. Lucas Mollo said it's too obvious to make them WW2 Nazis, so go older, more Oriental. Mandarin collar + double breasted is the terrific Fu Manchu they grew up with.

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HokutoAndy 🤜🤜➡️ 🦶👊 @hokutoandy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

20th century US British Allies comics were anglos vs everyone else, so Ming's forces are broadly oriental including Balkans to North Africa, western gear with cool sashes. There's a bunch of one-off monsters like snow-bird cavalry, comics back then really were whatever came to mind panel to panel.

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HokutoAndy 🤜🤜➡️ 🦶👊 @hokutoandy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The first appearance of the pointy eared Oriental Space Elves with names like "Ming" and "Lin-Chu", in Flash Gordon. They got enclosed dragon space suits, fight in space with swords, got the swoopy shoulders all "tolkien trope" elves got, and worship the mystical Tao ☯︎

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HokutoAndy 🤜🤜➡️ 🦶👊 @hokutoandy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Dracula was British Slav-Peril but continues to be THE Noble Gigaslav in modern takes Dr. Doom was "Stan Lee Presents Jack Kirby's Cold War fear of off-white Balkan-Romani" but has awesome Capcom moveset! Terrific Oriental Ming's archtype can be modernized without making him a Star Wars white guy

Ayami Kojima's take on Romania's most famous guy, Dracula

Faces down a Belmont.

A cruel space Oriental despot with xenos slanting eyes enslaving the white wimmens.

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HokutoAndy 🤜🤜➡️ 🦶👊 @hokutoandy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Star Wars draws from the yellow peril origins of Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. The Jedi are space samurai, so the Empire dress like space Manchus with Mandarin Collars and double breasted fold. Confederate smashing Union troops wore similar. Starship Troopers 90's movie, they dress like Americans.

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HokutoAndy 🤜🤜➡️ 🦶👊 @hokutoandy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yeah that robot was also made to kill Dictatorship Chinese infiltration,

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HokutoAndy 🤜🤜➡️ 🦶👊 @hokutoandy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

For those new to these comics, David Low was still a white man of his times, so his depictions of Africans and Chinese hahah. -- Some of his early cartoons get shared as pro-Communist, but with years and news he saw Stalin and Mao as more of the same Mussolini-ish personality cults.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 23/04/2026

🧵 We tend to think the internet is permanent, but VANISHING CULTURE—the new 📚 from Internet Archive—starts with a simple reality: our digital record is far more fragile than we think 🕳️ 📖 Read for free: archive.org/details/vani... 🛒 Purchase in print: www.betterworldbooks.com/product/deta... ⬇️

Book cover titled “Vanishing Culture” on a teal background. Pixel-art style graphics show a VHS tape, open book, film reel, chain link, and vinyl record dissolving into digital fragments. At the bottom, a cursor icon points to the word “SAVE,” alongside an archive-style building icon, evoking digital preservation.

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HokutoAndy 🤜🤜➡️ 🦶👊 @hokutoandy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is the translation by someone making up dialog and removing homoeroticism, but they quit uploading their fake scanlations after Yujiro Hanma raped a man. The accurate translations are by this group and friends: mangadex.org/group/444b72...

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TheSpinyBackTeam - MangaDex

TheSpinyBackTeam on MangaDex!

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Jace Pento @jace-pento.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

One of my favourite bits of character writing in any manga is shortly before this where Doyle breaks into Baki’s classroom and Baki bursts into tears of joy because now he gets to fight a escaped killer instead of having to do schoolwork.

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Triafis the Sword Wolf @triafisswordwolf.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Baki Anime got sword cutting pretty good!

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HokutoAndy 🤜🤜➡️ 🦶👊 @hokutoandy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Baki spinoff manga For Girls: For Men: *Baki is for everyone, but for the sake of this joke, I

Baki Gaiden: Retsu Kaiou Wa Isrkai Tensei Shitemo Ikkou Ni Kamawan

バキ外伝烈海王は異世界転生しても一向にかまわんッッ

Baki Side Story It doesnt matter if Retsu Kaiou is Reincarnated in Another World

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HokutoAndy 🤜🤜➡️ 🦶👊 @hokutoandy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

They were made at the same time, so there is a symmetry there.

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GuileWinQuote @guilewinquote.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Front Mission 2's window color configuration menu is still the most romantic thing i've ever seen in a video game

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HokutoAndy 🤜🤜➡️ 🦶👊 @hokutoandy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Finally did some painting on canvas, looking at Jun Suemi.

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HokutoAndy 🤜🤜➡️ 🦶👊 @hokutoandy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Of course Takayuki Yanase designed those wheel heels and knees/skirts His incredible Xenoblade Chronicles X skell mecha has similar. Ah he did FromSoftware's Xbox exclusive Murakumo, and Armored Core 2! Ghost in the Shell Arise cool tread legs...

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