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Matt Leslie @lesmocon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the reality of taking Koby to a major One Piece regional is settling in so I'm just assigning myself to the "try your best and have fun" mentality, after a few hundred games of practice here's a tier list for how screwed I am in each matchup

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Matt Leslie @lesmocon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

admittedly as I've fallen out of love with wrestling I haven't seen a lot of Pac's recent work but the title match he had with Zayn in NXT was what locked me in on watching that show every week for a while, also mad respect for him walking out on them for not being booked to the level of his talent

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Matt Leslie @lesmocon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Townfall in the books, a mixed bag but there's some banger moments in there, some tighter design in some parts and a little more dreamlike subtlety would've elevated it. It's pretty blunt with what it's going for from the first hour but it's generally well done just doesn't crawl into your mind

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Matt Leslie @lesmocon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

not breaking new ground here but Townfall is a reminder that the idea of "less effective combat = scarier monsters" is fundamentally flawed unless you come up with something else to fill that gap (also instantkill monsters immediately become more annoying than scary after they get you once lol)

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Matt Leslie @lesmocon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

hoping to wrap up Townfall tonight but I'm just happy in general that Silent Hill is back, Konami deserve zero credit their strategy for the series is basically Ctrl + F reviews of indie horror games for SH2 comparisons and google the devs email address but it's better than them trying to make one

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Matt Leslie @lesmocon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My gf was in Prague with a friend last week and she didn't bring back much but I insisted she slip on a few Happy Meals at Maccy Ds.sincw the SpongeBob X One Piece collab isn't in the UK

SpongeBob Collab Happy Meal toys - Blackbeard, Sanji, Chopper and Brook

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Matt Leslie @lesmocon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

about six hours deep into Silent Town Hillfall and so far my expert analysis is: parts with monsters: 😱🫠🙄😡 parts without monsters: 😀😍😋😇

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Vanylla Beane🍦 @vanyllabeane.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Bridget but she is shopping 🪀

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Matt Leslie @lesmocon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I have no interest in playing the Wolverine game but also not got much time for the dogpiling on it either, worse games than this have got free passes and if Sony wasn't already in the Gamer Doghouse then different people would have these guys in their replies

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Matt Leslie @lesmocon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I watched the full Hasan Axious interview (the one the terrorism clip is from) and it's like entirely gotcha questions designed to farm clips of him praising China/Russia/Hamas etc. and he manages to juke about 95% of them gracefully with an answer noone can really argue with

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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

just learned this today

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Matt Leslie @lesmocon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

One Piece regional is 2 weeks away and I'm accepting that my dumb ass is just gonna play Koby even tho he has two borderline unwinnable matchups in the meta and there's no way I won't run into them on the day, but also I'm not doing much better with anything else so I may as well roll out the boy

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Matt Leslie @lesmocon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I already wasn't that interested in this Wolverine game but now I can never forgive it because I'm seeing screenshots of people complaining about Sweet Baby on my feeds again genuinely recoiled the first time I saw it I can't believe this is still a thing, 2014 never ended for some people huh

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jessica harvey @jessiscah23.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Roman Sands RE:Build is out. After so many years, you can finally play our labour of love. It's deranged, it goes SO MANY PLACES, it probably shouldn't exist, and I've no idea if you're going to like it or not but that ain't the point. Roman Sands RE:Build. store.steampowered.com/app/2231460/...

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A service industry adventure with an apocalyptic flavor. A manic genre mashup told across two broken realities. Step through the cracks: find your Exit.

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Matt Leslie @lesmocon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

every card shop on my feeds is putting out their hostage statement to Pokémon people to please not smash up the shop or kill their staff probably a sign of a healthy market I haven't even seen or heard anyone talking about the actual cards, it was predetermined that this set would be The End Times

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Matt Leslie @lesmocon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

idk if they used AI for the new Layton (this is talking about the remake) but I was really underwhelmed with the reveal either way, sadly it looks like Level 5 is a shell of what it used to be

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Matt Leslie @lesmocon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

my local Reform-led council is wasting £150,000 of taxpayer money on their own pound shop version of ICE which equates to 3 towns having 2 goons each with no enforcement powers. I saw em today chatting outside the cat café and felt very safe thk u www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Why council is funding patrols near Wethersfield asylum base

As private security guards begin patrols of towns near an Asylum base in Essex, we explain everything you need to know.

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Matt Leslie @lesmocon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

there's some drama from someone who bought the Crew Luffy from a rip n' ship shithead and had it sent in a toploader smoshed together with bulk and it's got into public callouts and lawyers getting involved and boy I'm feeling that crash coming again

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Erin Returns!! @woodaba.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

OBJECTIVELY the funniest screenshot in any nintendo direct im dying

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Matt Leslie @lesmocon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm home late for the Direct and I've caught up in about 5 minutes, looks like Nintendo Switch Sports takes Game of the Show award for me two Directs in a row and in second place *checks notes* Yu-yugioh tax GX???

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Matt Leslie @lesmocon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm not a big Zelda or OoT guy anyway but I'm glad I threw that Direct on the background otherwise I would have assumed all the screenshots on my timeline were "DLSS On" memes

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Matt Leslie @lesmocon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

maybe this is unfair but this wishy-washy bullshit feels worse than not mentioning it at all

Eurogamer article: "Gen-AI controversy aside, after 30 minutes with Crazy Taxi: World Tour, it feels like classic arcade Sega - and it's an absolute blast. Link in comments for more."

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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 05/09/2026

almost word for word

Screenshot of tweet from @InternetHippo:

New right wing thing is describing crimes as generically as possible to pretend like they're not crimes. Someone gets convicted of conspiracy and they start yelling "Wow so it's illegal to make plans with friends now"

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Matt Leslie @lesmocon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I know he's larping anyway but isn't it awesome we have to hear about scary Muslims and the radical left all day every day and the guys in charge just get to say stuff like this and stay in office

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Matt Leslie @lesmocon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

fully locked in on One Piece until the regional so haven't been paying as much attention to Dragon Ball but uhh turns out they've been cooking for the next set??

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New Video Game Advisor @newvgadvisor.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Metal Gear Solid (PSX, 1998)

Roy Campbell is saying to Snake, "Snake, don't worry about it. There's more to being a good person than just having a stereo television."

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Matt Leslie @lesmocon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

bruh Austin and Kofi confirming that WWE expected them to take even less than a 50% cut is unbelievable, genuinely less insulting to just fire them outright at that point

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Matt Leslie @lesmocon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'm definitely not signing up for any more regionals this year doing back to back events for two different games is stretching my brain beyond capacity, and at least last time it was a game I'm familiar with and it was a fairly closed format I gotta learn basically all of One Piece in a month

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Matt Leslie @lesmocon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

probs not gonna bother watching the AEW London show beyond the clips I've seen but the bickering about kicking out at 1 is silly, you can make anything work in the appropriate context there's no concrete rules the main gripe is just that they do that kind of thing too much

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

this is classic neera in that it’s extremely racist but also substantively incorrect: bin Laden was interviewed repeatedly pre-9/11.

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上倉エク @uekuraeku.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

はっぴーばーすでー！🩵

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Matt Leslie @lesmocon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

you think you've seen the worst things online has to offer and then you hit the ol' translate button on the Facebook profile of an Israeli landlord promoting his AI app in your trade groups O_O

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Matt Leslie @lesmocon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I see SEGA has acknowledged the possibility of Sonic Mania 2 again it's time for another round of my fellow elderly people to insist Mania was a monster commercial success because even elderly people forget their social media feed doesn't reflect reality

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Matt Leslie @lesmocon.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I am also a doomer about the future the AAA game industry the affordibility crisis is going to kill next gen for sure, but I keep seeing people use this an argument for GTA VI underperforming and I feel like that's kinda making the "being poor = no treats" Avocado Toast argument in reverse

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Matt Leslie @lesmocon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

the only thing that's got me interested in GTAVI is how weighty and grounded it looks, you gotta go all the way one direction or the other on that stuff you can't have characters who control like drunken haunted potato sacks and mix that with Burnout: Soapbox Racer

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Matt Leslie @lesmocon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

not developing any concrete thoughts based off a (very well done!) scripted """gameplay""" trailer but it is nice to see that GTAVI has at least committed to having characters again, making Trevor the wacky stand-in avatar for The Gamer was such a betrayal of everything interesting GTAIV did

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Matt Leslie @lesmocon.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

GTAVI had such an absurd dev cycle one of the interesting parts of it is going to be trying to carbon date when writing and design concepts made it into the stew...I just saw the pet the dog part

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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 27/08/2026

To honor Tim Curry's memory, we are making Brütal Legend FREE on Itch.io, for 666 minutes: itch.io/s/199277/the...

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton invested the royalties she earned for writing ‘I Will Always Love You’ in Nashville’s Black community www.washingtonpost.com/arts-enterta... "This is the house that Whitney built" - DP 🥺🙏

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Video Essay Bot @videoessaybot.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Tekken: The Most Disturbing Game You've Never Heard Of

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XEECEE @xeecee.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

the PC version of LA Noire's driving physics get a little wonky if you play above 30fps so occasionally it turns into Burnout 1947

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