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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 2h

thinking about tokimeki memorial red version and blue version again

Boxes of both versions of Tokimeki Memorial Pocket for the Game Boy Color, featuring Shiori on both of them, along with an assortment of other girls for each version.

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Ppugu (kofi comms💫CLOSED) @pktmgs.bsky.social · 20h

Fiona 03/31 #HauntingGround

The image consist of a platinum blond woman, dressed in a white lacey blouse and purple skirt, being startled. Luckily, she is accompanied by a white dog that looks to her for her next command.

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rdein @rdein.bsky.social · 22h

I've written a post introducing Record of Dorathia, the dungeon crawler RPG project we have been working on these past few years. I hope you enjoy it! Let us know your thoughts! Link: www.bombservice.com/post/record-... #rdein_dev #redora

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GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Sony has overlooked, or perhaps simply disregarded, a really genuine commercial concern about this decision," says Rob Fahey regarding the PlayStation company's move to ditch physical discs bit.ly/4ALTMJw

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Comic Samanthas @comicsamanthas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Tokyo has a new independent English language bookstore! They've got a good selection of queer books and books on Palestine. Please give them all your money. featherheartbooks.com

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I probably don't actually want this because it would just mean giving Google even more information about myself, but it sure would be nice if you could tell the algorithm to stop recommending product reviews because you made your decision and you don't need to hear more YouTuber voice on [product].

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

anyway, you should play more dating sims and if you're already playing more dating sims, you should tell your friends to play more dating sims, and if you can't play more, you should tell devs to hire me, i think dating sims have an important role to play in making video games healthy again in 2026

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I've put this off long enough. Because one post on machine translation and the devaluation of human labor wasn't enough, I wrote even more words about it than before (2900, to be precise), this time from one former fan translator to another. Or at least, some of you out there.

dateemups.com

What's Not Yours Isn't Theirs, Either

On the disturbing rise of LLMs and machine translation post-editing in fan translations.

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I wrote more words about how it feels to be a translator watching the games press report on AI and labor, coming from a field that's fought these battles for decades. It may look like I'm beating up on one outlet, but it's not about them; I've been trying to write this for me and my peers all year.

dateemups.com

You Can't Report on Hunger While Taking Bread Off the Table

On the proliferation of machine translation in video game outlets covering the effects of AI on labor.

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm just cackling. What else can I do these days? GPM is such a godawful choice to throw into the machine. The game can barely keep itself together in spots natively as it is before you ask Claude to translate and hack it and the game is so sicko-coded, the """ROI""" for clout is minimal. Bonkers. 🫠

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We've read 246 books this year with Z. This is revolutionary!

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Liz Bushouse @lizbushouse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Happy spooky season! 🎃 I'm proud to announce that Death Antique, an indie game I translated, is available in English on Android and iOS for the low low price of ✨free✨! Check out this short, sweet Floofy Stealth Horror game for maximum chill, spooky vibes. 👻

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Death Antique - Official Trailer (English Ver.)

YouTube video by SleepingMuseum

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Odyssey Eurobeat 🍓 TLT OCT 8 @odysseyeurobeat.com · 02/10/2026

Just as I'm recovering from an illness that's kept me from recording/streaming/doing my work for a month, I've been hit with an awful car repair bill. With more bills on the horizon before my usual income sources kick in, I sadly must ask for help.

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Jon Kimball @jonkimball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This really made me think

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just got this from one of my credit cards. "Don't trust the new Facebook or ChatGPT robots with your financial info" followed by "trust our robots instead" is maybe not as reassuring as you think it is, you guys. 😵‍💫 Anyway, looking forward to getting these emails every month until the bubble pops.

Headline: AI can do amazing things. It can also create new risks.

Body: As you explore third-party AI tools, protect your personal and financial information. Never share your [redacted] username, password, or security codes with anyone, including an AI tool or personal AI assistant.

Before connecting or sharing financial information with an AI tool, take time to understand what information it can access, how that information may be used, and whether you can remove that access later. Just like humans, AI can make mistakes. If you give an AI tool your username and password, you may be liable for any mistakes made by the AI tool.

For help within [redacted]'s secure environment, you can use [redacted], our AI-powered virtual assistant, with [redacted] security and customer protections built in.

Protect yourself.

Thank you for choosing [redacted].

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woof @woofycakes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

BLUE REVOLVER is 50% off during the steam autumn sale! i personally recommend it to both beginners and experts of shmups: store.steampowered.com/app/439490/B...

Val is sitting down and wants 2 take the day off

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

fuck the clout chasers and their probability boxes, man, i dunno what else to say wanting the prestige of creating culture of any sort but too chicken shit to struggle and learn any craft and be vulnerable in sharing it nobody you're stealing from made it for you and it never will be for you

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i am the only man left alive on this earth that remembers that there was once a time you could walk into a store and pick up yokai watch just dance for your nintendo wii u, huh

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MotorRoach @motorroach.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Honestly refreshing to see a recomp clearly stating this. Go check it out, tbh

Warning To AI Bros

Again, BlackLabelHQ and by extension MediEvilRecomp is proudly made entirely with human hands. We want to keep it that way, so please respect that.

* Fully AI written issues will be automatically closed

* ALL AI based PRs(such as ones containing claude as a contributor or clear AI code) will be rejected innately, however this is your warning that you will be permanently banned from BlackLabelHQ's repos if you do it anyway.

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

nuzlocke run of tokimeki memorial where if you get rejected for a date even once by one of the girls, you're not allowed to voluntarily talk to her ever again and if she approaches you, you have to give the worst possible response every single time

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John Linneman @dark1x.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here’s a recomp project that deserves a look! Slop free goodness.

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p.carredo @pcarredo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Walkin'

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Misty De Méo @cdrom.ca · 01/10/2026

Kicking off a new series over at CD-ROM journal: covering Daiso’s ¥100 ultrabudget game series. Just how much game can you even get for ¥100? You’d be surprised! Some really interesting stuff in here - for less than a dollar a game, they couldn’t afford to be picky. cdrom.ca/games/the-ga...

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An Intro to Daiso's The Game Series (Trump 1, Nekomata Tanteisha, Nyanpoline, TechnoSylph: vsys gaiden)

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is.

Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.

Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.

an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol

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Ubuyo 🏳️‍⚧️ @ubuyo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

TRUTH NUKE

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Torneko HD FINALLY got patched on Switch/S2 yesterday, so I picked up my save and beat it first try. (Not literally, but, y'know.) Mixed feelings overall. The patch does make diagonal movement tolerable, but it's still overall slower and clunkier than on SNES barring some minor QOL improvements. 🤷

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I wouldn't normally comment on this, but it's been genuinely heartening to see a game I spent a lot of long nights on break into the 90s on Metacritic, which puts it above my other games. Thanks for showing it so much love, folks. It genuinely means a lot knowing how beloved the original loc is. 🥹

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Ants Schmants @zippermint.itch.io · 24/07/2026

This reminds me of a youtuber I saw once complaining that Garfield Kart would shut down his computer with a controller plugged in and it turns out the problem was that the most upvoted steam config for Garfield Kart at the time was a community config that bound every button to "Shutdown Computer"

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Morgan Lea @morglea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Little disappointed in ANN's headline here. Tsuda's point was still made, and Japan has now made it very clear that actor's voices do, in fact, belong to them. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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AI tool that copied actor’s ‘lustrous’ voice violated his rights, Tokyo court rules

Kenjiro Tsuda wins case against TikTok account in landmark Japanese verdict to protect publicity rights

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SUDA51 @sssuda51.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

NEXT FUCKING ADVENTURE.

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Nick C. @nickisonlinet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

reiko nagase ridge racer from the hit game pac-man fever

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm pleased to inform True Gamers the spaghetti game du jour is, in fact, Retroid Pocket 6 compatible (and the Ayn Thor, by extension). No longer must you be confined to your personal computer to cook spaghetti for the masses. Now you can twirl noodles on the go on your favorite Android handheld. 😌🍝

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i think i deserve a nintendo 64dd already, i've waited 27 years and that's 27 too many 😔

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zac 3amsoda @3amsoda.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

kohran li

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

my main take on turn based rpgs is sony should hire me to translate the first oreshika (or really, the psp remake) because it's cool as shit mechanically and also that shouji masuda has a real way with words like nobody else in that space and i gotta work on at least one of his games before i retire

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sharc @s-h-a-r-c.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

yet another day on this hell app reading an argument about optimal garegga rank management. god forbid any of these people step out of their normie PCB bubble for a bit and expand their horizons with an unjustly overlooked classic like sonic or metroid bsky.app/profile/fara...

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Lorraine🍬 @lorandbehold.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ok here we go 🍝 Spaghetti Celesti: Devour the Heavens ⛅ is out now for free!! 🍴 the best pixel spaghetti of your life ↪️ prepare them & fork them perfectly ⭐ get those 5-stars reviews 😡 and be quick ! the people are hangry play it at punkcake.itch.io/spaghetti-celesti #fallingblockjam #pixelart

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Privaty Business @wanwanattack.qtbrewer.moe · 28/09/2026

Genuinely, this completely rules

－Recently, the game has been going viral on X for its beautiful undressing animations. I’ve even read in one of your previous interviews that the development team practiced stripping themselves as reference for the undressing animations. What was the process behind making the animations actually like?

Matsui:

I’d love to know how far that story has spread. It’s true.

First, we write a plot for each undressing scene, then draw storyboards, exactly as the original team did. Then the real work begins, because the animation is essentially all keyed by hand. A designer moves the clothing’s 3D model, frame by frame, manually. It really is pretty much like the claymation method I mentioned.

We did try automating it with physics simulation first, but it was a total failure. The cloth moved in a physically correct way, but had absolutely no allure. We learned a profound lesson: accuracy and sensuality are two unrelated properties. In the end, we accepted that humans would have to do all of it.

Then VR adds its own weight. In a normal game, if something becomes awkward, you can cut away or swap models between scenes. In VR, the player can look from any angle at any time, so none of those tricks are available. The same model has to undress convincingly no matter where you’re standing. When I described this to a designer at another studio, he said, “I would never do that.” I’ve chosen to take it as a compliment.

And then, yes, the part you’ve read about. The undressing motions themselves use motion capture, but the deeper problem was that nobody actually knew the correct rhythm and order in which a person takes off clothes. So, the directors gathered and undressed themselves as reference. “That zipper is coming down too fast.” “She’d pause once before slipping her shoulder out.” These were serious, sober discussions. For compliance reasons, the Super Real Mahjong Venus Returns team works in a walled-off section of our office – and that was the moment those walls truly earned their keep.

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David Miles @davidmiles.dev · 28/09/2026

I’ve been (slowly) playing around with that at github.com/Davermouse/g.... As you say probably impossible to do anything proper (and for sure my Japanese isn’t up to it) but kinda fun to play with, even if just browsing the event scripts and art

github.com

GitHub - Davermouse/gpm-tool: A tool to view and manipulate data for the PS1 game Gunparade March.

A tool to view and manipulate data for the PS1 game Gunparade March. - Davermouse/gpm-tool

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I've described Alfasys' PS1 RPGs as being RPGs for RPG devs and nowhere is that more true than Gunparade March. I almost never use the word "masterpiece" since it's so hackneyed, but if ever there was one for systems-driven storytelling, GPM is it, as barely held together as parts of it often are.

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I feel truly sorry for any and all Japanese devs who set their games in Tokyo. A portion of their audience is simply going to be broken for the rest of their lives if they so much as hear or see "Shimokitazawa" for reasons even I, a professional loc-meister, feel ill-equipped to explain in Japanese.

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Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 28/09/2026

This cover's a great illustration of just how big of a deal Sakura Wars is. Look at it: The series ~being remembered decades later~ is enough to relegate fresh Persona, Silent Hill, Ace Combat, Dynasty Warriors and more news to plain text in the top-right corner.

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kuraine @lena.fyi · 26/09/2026

i am begging people to make gamefaqs for new releases... make me an ascii map, even be opinionated about how much you hate a certain mechanic, anything to save us from 500 websites listing the same information chock full of ads

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speedy @spdcooler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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ハードオフ燕三条店【公式】 @hardofftsubame.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

PC-9800シリーズの最終モデル PC-9821Ra43/DZを買取りました😆 箱付き📦だけでも貴重なのに😳まさかの未使用品⁉️最終モデル✖️未使用品の組み合わせはなかなかお目にはかかれない代物🤩 国民機PC-9800シリーズが歴史に幕を下ろした当時を物語る受注終了のお知らせが入ってます😭 #ハードオフ

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

All enemies in Shiren the Wanderer are God's beautiful creatures made in His divine image, but they all still deserve to burn in hell for simply following their animalistic instincts.

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sometimes I wonder if I'm slowly losing touch with contemporary American English, living abroad and all, but then these people dropped the term bomb "recessmaxxing" without warning and the emotions I've felt ever since have been the only answer I need. American English has never been more dangerous.

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