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Inanimate @inanimist.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I say you lean into it with the most absolutely painful puns like this, and ones that don't even make sense to say. "Yarrbula, avasteroid me maties!"

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Inanimate @inanimist.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

This sounds REALLY cool! Definitely gonna check this out!!

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Inanimate @inanimist.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Oh, definitely! The first 5 games are the 'retro-est' of the bunch I'd say, and there's lots of real gems sprinkled throughout. I'd recommend Party House, Max & Mini, Valbrace, Night Manor! That's a good selection of genres and playstyles, so hopefully something in there will appeal to you! :D

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Inanimate @inanimist.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Exactly how I've been playing it as of late, lol! First the wait for Donkey Kong, then Trails in the Sky, and next, Digimon Story!

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 06/09/2025

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

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Inanimate @inanimist.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Thank YOU for sharing your awesome art and ideas, dude! Everything you do is amazing, and honestly I should be commenting way more often about how much I love all of it 😁

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Inanimate @inanimist.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Another amazing design! I just got done playing through Cyber Sleuth in anticipation of Time Stranger, and this feels like it would fit right in. Perfectly captures the unabashedly-cool aesthetic of Digimon!

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Inanimate @inanimist.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

To me, it instantly escalated it from "surprisingly good comedy shounen" to "really compelling isekai story that actually CARES about the isekai element", you know? Still thoroughly a gag story, but I feel like the plot really came into its own around chapter 20 or so (IIRC)

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Inanimate @inanimist.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Was going back through the thread (thanks again for these! my wife loves isekai so I'm collecting all the ones you recommend) and was curious how far you got into this one / if you kept reading it? I was loving just the gags, but around chapter 30 it drops some AWESOME worldbuilding and twists.

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Inanimate @inanimist.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Damn, absolutely stunning stuff!

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Inanimate @inanimist.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I also really struggle with Souls-like games, and it took aw hile, but once Bloodborne 'clicked' for me it did get quite a bit easier. (Though I still haven't beaten it myself yet.) Don't be afraid to grind for a while, try out other weapons to see if any feel more intuitive.

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Inanimate @inanimist.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

This trailer music is PHENOMENAL.

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Inanimate @inanimist.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Wow, amazingly beautiful! I've never considered a hard case before, but this, this I'm considering!!

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Gory Thing @korybing.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

This is why I don't like AI use for ANY reason, even if it's just to dunk on AI. Any use takes up resources and energy that could be better used doing literally anything else. Any "good potential use" for AI is annihilated by how much energy it takes to make it. Throw it in the trash, it's no good!

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

It's almost like it's the diff between a generation who got calls mostly from friends and one that gets calls mostly from scammera

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Inanimate @inanimist.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Yeah, they did a fantastic job improving the combat! I really recommend seeing the game through, it certainly has its lulls here and there, but I found the finale to be fantastic. It's a strange and uneven game, but so was the first one honestly, and I loved my time with it nonetheless!

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Inanimate @inanimist.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

I haven't had the chance to play TOO much of this one myself yet, but I really enjoyed the demo of "Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom" and felt like it had a lot of potential. Super stylish and slick and fun, full of personality!

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Inanimate @inanimist.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

If you've played a lot of 3D platformers, you've probably played them, but Psychonauts and Psychonauts 2 are both fantastic!

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Inanimate @inanimist.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I'd recommend both! They are very fun!

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

anyone saying this has also probably not paid any attention to the indie dev community's broad feelings on this subject, nor the ridiculously high quality of the art coming out of it year after year

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Endless Mike @squirrelsquirrel.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

"If you hate GenAI you're going to have to stop playing new games when they all start using it" My brother in Christ, my backlog is literally thousands of games long. I have lifetimes worth of earlier titles to play, & I will gladly do that instead of boiling the oceans for a new CoD or whatever

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Inanimate @inanimist.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

So charming!! Absolutely love the personality of these two - and the LITTLE HAT ON THE BIRD!!

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

You know what would encourage people to get more physical activity? No, it is not wearable fitness trackers. It is: 1. A liveable wage so people have time for it 2. Safe parks and other infrastructure for such activity But that’s too hard.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 25/06/2025

Brad Lander: "I also need to thank some of the most important people in my life and on this campaign—I mean, of course, the NYT editorial board. Just kidding, of course: I love Wordle and Connections, but I really urge the Times to cancel their new feature 'Editorial Riddles.' No one likes those."

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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Democrats are racking their brains trying to find the "Joe Rogan of the left" while doing everything they can to defeat people like Zohran Mamdani and AOC, who actually possess the skills they're so desperately looking for.

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Inanimate @inanimist.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

It’s depressing, but yeah… anecdotally I’d have totally guessed 15 to 20 percent of people think aliens have visited Earth, etc…

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Inanimate @inanimist.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Yeah, I think the context of the survey made people think of “little men in saucers visiting us” rather than “exist, somewhere, likely as a microbe”

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Inanimate @inanimist.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Very excited to see your ideas!

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Inanimate @inanimist.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

It’s absolutely incredible. Massive upgrade.

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JB @ COMMS @gunbusted.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Everyone go buy Raidou Remastered. I've only just beaten the tutorial but as someone who played the original on PS2 I can already tell this is gonna be an all timer PLEASE we need a Raidou 3 we need this game to get 17 trillion sales

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Inanimate @inanimist.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

A writer can trust their friends, or circle, to understand the intent of their piece. To know that some imperfections are meant to be there, what parts are meant to challenge and which are not. I wouldn't have a bunch of randos - a focus group - read any of my drafts. It sands it down to nothing.

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Inanimate @inanimist.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Yeah, IMO if videogames an artistic medium, then playtesting too often, and capitulating too much to the audience, dilutes the artistic intent of the videogame. And while having a friend or writing circle read a rough draft of a story is a 'playtest' in a way, that's not analogous to this.

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Inanimate @inanimist.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

How is this show? Does it have the vibes of the movies? Always been curious!

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Inanimate @inanimist.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

A perfect fit! I can't wait to watch!!

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Inanimate @inanimist.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

It wasn't a perfect game, but as a kid I was obsessed with Away: Shuffle Dungeon and I've never met anyone else who's even heard of it, let alone played it. I'm not sure it actually holds up at all, but I remember it being a blast!

Concept art for Away Shuffle Dungeon (NDS)

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Inanimate @inanimist.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

CITY TRIAL CHAO GARDEN? That's absolutely genius!

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Inanimate @inanimist.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Have you ever checked out Natsume's Book of Friends? If you like Mushi-shi, I think you'd love it too!

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Inanimate @inanimist.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

That sounds rad! I know lots of procedural gens do it where there's setpieces that are connected by procedurally generated sections. That could be a good way of balancing the random generation with the vignette feel.

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Inanimate @inanimist.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

The Steam description mentions you can go solo :D And it also notes up to 4 player co-op

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