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InnerSpiral (the scary version) @innerspiral.lol · 16h

Goodnight my lovelies! Going to have myself a very long sleep. I'm admittedly very tired and sleep deprived so I'm going to fix that. I hope y'all have yourselves a wonderful start to your weekend 🩷

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Onimai Mihari Sleeping Peacefully

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InnerSpiral (the scary version) @innerspiral.lol · 16h

Oh, that sucks. I hope you take the weekend easy 🩷

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📉𝙇𝙤𝙬-𝙋𝙤𝙡𝙮 📈𝙃𝙞𝙜𝙝-𝙍𝙚𝙨 @lowpolyhighres.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi (PS1) (1997) 1/2

In an uncharacteristic anime move on account of the Emperor, he introduces Arden Lyn, the master of the martial art of Teräs Käsi in a plan to fight the Rebel leaders to eliminate them once and for all in mortal kombat.

However, this scene in the misty swamps of Dagobah is just a lovers quarrel between Princess Leia wearing a brown outfit with boots and gloves, wielding a double sided yellow lightsaber, a couple of years before The Phantom Menace, as she's about to deflect Han Solo's blaster fire because he shot first.

Chewbacca punches Luke Skywalker in the groin so hard, a yellow flash pops from his cockles as Luke flinches backwards in an almost 90 degree swing, embarrassing himself in front of pretty much the entirety of Cloud City.

Thok the green pig-like Gamorrean warrior, raised on Pzob with his brother Gorc, the siblings famous for being able to burp a fireball after drinking Gamorrean hooch (hey don't ask me, it's all cannon), pulling out his axe to defend himself just as Hoar, real name KkH'Oar'Rrhr (he was teased a lot as a child), a force-sensitive Tusken Raider, deciding to instead flail his rifle around like a polearm.

The misty night time on the forest moon of Endor, Boba Fett is lying on the metallic platform just as Darth Vader does a crouching dick stab with his red lightsaber right in Fett's bobas.

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

D&D in Japan: The big mid-90s push. The bunkobon format of the three-volume Rules Cyclopedia, localized in both text and artwork style. It sought to reclaim some of the ground lost to Lodoss and Sword World - complete with D&D in the arcades with Capcom to promote the Mystara setting.

A scan of the anime inspired cover artwork with a party of heroes in dramatic poses

A crt screenshot of Shadow over Mystara, Capcom's second D&D themed brawler.

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InnerSpiral (the scary version) @innerspiral.lol · 10/10/2026

i don't mind at all. we're usually not in a good headspace to want to talk in those moods anyway, so its a good compromise

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InnerSpiral (the scary version) @innerspiral.lol · 09/10/2026

there's been more and more ai-generated recomps, reverse-engineering projects, mods and fan translations, and i wish people would stop selling them to me as a win for preservation. don't lie to my face lmao 🧵

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InnerSpiral (the scary version) @innerspiral.lol · 10/10/2026

waiting for the portal port any day now

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InnerSpiral (the scary version) @innerspiral.lol · 10/10/2026

You know it! The Linkle mod is waiting for youuuu :3 And yeah! It's a full decomp, so even better! I know the Zelda 64 recomp doesn't use AI, and has randomizer mods too! 😁

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InnerSpiral (the scary version) @innerspiral.lol · 10/10/2026

good morning lovelies! on my way to work, just having a little pitstop for something to eat :3 i hope you're all doing well 🩷

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InnerSpiral (the scary version) @innerspiral.lol · 09/10/2026

Aww, you're so kind!! Thank you, Mia! 🩷

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InnerSpiral (the scary version) @innerspiral.lol · 09/10/2026

Yeah... Luckily there are some good ones around. The Dusklight team is doing amazing with Twilight Princess! Also it seems there's a Mario Galaxy one on the way too, AI free too!! :3

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AstroCore | Luma's Workshop

The Super Mario Galaxy modding community!

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InnerSpiral (the scary version) @innerspiral.lol · 09/10/2026

I'm so sorry. I've been learning JP for the past eight years, and it's such an easy tell if AI or translate has been used from the cadence, and yeah the pronouns!

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InnerSpiral (the scary version) @innerspiral.lol · 09/10/2026

Aw, thank you Markus!! Also, love the Halloween pfp!! :3

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InnerSpiral (the scary version) @innerspiral.lol · 09/10/2026

they feel guilty and don't want to accept that they're feeling that so they either lash out, or just stay in their circle of tech bros that encourage it. it's insufferable

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InnerSpiral (the scary version) @innerspiral.lol · 09/10/2026

stop giving time to this slop because they have some game you love. give the people keeping this culture alive your support, accept that it might take longer, and have some fucking spine about what you’re willing to encourage.

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InnerSpiral (the scary version) @innerspiral.lol · 09/10/2026

there's so many easier ways for people to learn and participate, with accessible tools and communities willing to help literally everywhere. but also share! sharing what we know gives somebody else a way in, including people who haven’t had the time or support to learn before

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InnerSpiral (the scary version) @innerspiral.lol · 09/10/2026

look for human-made alternatives and help other people find them too. it's okay to be inconvenienced. you are literally NEVER in enough of a rush that you need to resort to a bot that you'd have to do double the time bug-checking

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InnerSpiral (the scary version) @innerspiral.lol · 09/10/2026

it's just a fucking game, you can wait for the proper channels to make something. i promise

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InnerSpiral (the scary version) @innerspiral.lol · 09/10/2026

finding out a tool you rely on has added generative ai randomly (ala PPSSPP), is enough reason to stop using it. being invested in the thing already doesn’t mean you agreed to everything its developer might decide to do with it afterwards. go find a fork or older version that doesn't have it

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InnerSpiral (the scary version) @innerspiral.lol · 09/10/2026

i hate seeing the love for a game reduced to wanting the next download. the curiosity and learning around these projects matter so much to me, and i don’t want the people doing that needed work treated as obstacles to getting something faster. stop using nostalgia as some excuse for everything

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InnerSpiral (the scary version) @innerspiral.lol · 09/10/2026

even "literal" translation involves choices, because words can have several meanings and languages organise things differently. An ai model just makes the same kind of wording, and calling that shit pure gives me no reason to believe those choices are faithful

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InnerSpiral (the scary version) @innerspiral.lol · 09/10/2026

localizers have to work out how a character speaks and what the audience is expected to understand. it takes genuine skill and judgement to do that, and i love being able to feel something because they cared enough to do that work to bridge the language gap

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InnerSpiral (the scary version) @innerspiral.lol · 09/10/2026

talked about this before too, but ai translations sold as a way around localizers are a coward’s way out. these chuds show so much contempt and arrogance for some make believe proper translation that they resort to using ai to translate it in a language they don't understand

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InnerSpiral (the scary version) @innerspiral.lol · 09/10/2026

these community should have knowledge and control over their work. turning our nostalgia about old games into advertising for paid ai services is a relationship i have no interest in encouraging, because it's ass. plain and simple

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InnerSpiral (the scary version) @innerspiral.lol · 09/10/2026

they think your achievement depends on leaving somebody else’s labour, for clout or whatever they're chasing; it's that capitalist version of efficiency i fucking hate. always generating work faster means very little to the volunteers who now have to waste their time to check and repair all of it

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InnerSpiral (the scary version) @innerspiral.lol · 09/10/2026

the internet thrives and has always thrived on people sharing what they’ve learned and helping each other. a community that understands its work has a way to keep going when someone steps away, and that continuity is part of what i want preserved

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InnerSpiral (the scary version) @innerspiral.lol · 09/10/2026

a vibe coder can’t explain or repair what they’ve published, and the project will die when their interest in it does. somebody else might rescue it, but they now have the job of figuring out what the fuck its supposed creator never even understood themselves

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InnerSpiral (the scary version) @innerspiral.lol · 09/10/2026

n64recomp ALREADY translates a game’s machine instructions into c code automatically. people have built and shared tools that make preservation easier, so stop pretending we need generative ai to escape doing everything by hand. it's bullshit

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InnerSpiral (the scary version) @innerspiral.lol · 09/10/2026

these Youtube vids and headlines praising somebody for reverse-engineering adobe's suite and i'm all hyped and then you go there and realize it's all claude coded. this shit is ass. and it's so evil because it's just building off of what PEOPLE have done

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InnerSpiral (the scary version) @innerspiral.lol · 09/10/2026

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downchasm @downchasm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

ハイスコアオリジナルファミコンソフト第一弾！
アクションロールプレイングゲーム
ゾンビハンター

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InnerSpiral (the scary version) @innerspiral.lol · 09/10/2026

goodnight lovelies!! had a relaxing day, but i gotta wake up extra early tomorrow to pick somebody up before work, so sleep it is! oh and uhh i scheduled a rant thread because that photoshop ai slop + the endless recomps got to me today so uhh sorry bout that! hope you have a lovely Friday! 🩷

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Jo-eek! ‘Dead-chibe' W. 👻 @thestacks.ca · 08/10/2026

TV Gamer [週刊テレビゲーマー] Vol. 1 No. 36 Issue 36 (December 19, 1997) has been scanned and archived, please enjoy! archive.org/details/TV-G...

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Neimi @aquaticscent.digital · 09/10/2026

Game: Magical★Taruruto-kun
Developer: Game Freak
Platform: Sega Mega Drive
📺: Sanyo DS24425

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Videogame Beaches🏳️‍⚧️ @videogamebeach.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Climbing (Bishi Bashi Special 3 Step Champ, PS1, Konami, 2000)

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📉𝙇𝙤𝙬-𝙋𝙤𝙡𝙮 📈𝙃𝙞𝙜𝙝-𝙍𝙚𝙨 @lowpolyhighres.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Miracle Space Race (PS1) (2003) 1/2

A budget hover-kart racer with little furry critters flying through a number of the same looking tracks made out of metal panels, grates and sci-fi arches with purple space nebulae up above, piloting little hovercrafts with two side engines, with Paulie the beaver here with his blue jacket and puffy winter hat narrowly avoiding an attack from one of the other racers, landing on Rocco the raccoon, making him blink in a bloody red flash as he spins out of control.

Rat guy Chaz piloting a red hovercraft through a green glass tunnel with arches every few meters made out of metal panels with black and yellow stripy patterns and red arrows pointing that the race is that-a-way.

Yellow bear Chloe in her black hovercraft, flying through a winding sci-fi tunnel with electricity bars sparkling on the 45 degree tilted walls near the ceiling.

A green tunnel made out of stone slabs with lots of neon green outlined arrows pointing forward as the racers all crowd together in a very unsportsmanlike conduct.

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Spoopy Spoapy🧼🫧 @soapy5296.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My latest review for Noisy Pixel is out! I had an absolute BLAST reviewing Echo Weaver and I hope you all enjoy what I had to say on it! I'm excited to get to spread the word of how much I adored this game💜

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InnerSpiral (the scary version) @innerspiral.lol · 09/10/2026

haha thank you, Ryley! You have yourself a lovely night 🩷

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InnerSpiral (the scary version) @innerspiral.lol · 09/10/2026

Good morning, lovelies! I'm out being errand girl, and hopefully i'll be able to relax and play some good games later!! Happy lesbian day too from this silly fool!! Hope you're all doing well! 🩷

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InnerSpiral (the scary version) @innerspiral.lol · 09/10/2026

and you're right to say it! adaptability is like one of THE things we do as people, so ppl acting like it suddenly doesn’t apply to video games is absurd

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Esper Quinn 💠 @esper.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

today's gender

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