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Lodum @lodum.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A game I love has an amazingly emotional moment that it then undercuts so severely that I can't help but wonder if that's mostly why I can't finish it. If you're gonna kill a character, don't fucking chicken out.

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Lodum @lodum.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Especially because, let's be real, this is Warframe. I'm not doing something fun like dodging attacks while I wait for a new damage phase. I am standing there staring at my minimap to see where this bastard snake head pops back up for the one second it's not completely immune to damage.

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Lodum @lodum.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Grinding some Lephantis for Neurodes reminds me, if you have a boss that's just immune to damage 90% of the time except when it's doing a specific animation, go back and redesign that boss, you did it wrong.

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Lodum @lodum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

As a follow-up, as of September 29th "there will be no streamer mode" according to one of the Community Managers in the Steam Discussions.

A comment on the Steam discussion forums for Hellraiser:

Em@Saber [developer]
Sep 29 @ 11:55am

Hello!
Our best advice is to properly label all streams and videos with appropriate age restrictions, sexual theme labels and other necessary platform tools. There will be no ‘streamer mode’ for our game, so context and intent behind your content will matter.

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Lodum @lodum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm guessing it'll be Endacopia, I doubt there will be a streamer toggle by then, lol.

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Lodum @lodum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

...i miss baconreader.

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Lodum @lodum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Julie army is following you too!?! I THOUGHT I WAS SPECIAL

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Lodum @lodum.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I can already hear the fan artists making smut of Hank the Handy.

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Lodum @lodum.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

From that, I found a 2002 GDC audio-only talk called "Payneless Level Design" that's like 50 minutes long and it doesn't specifically say who the speaker is and, as far as I can tell, he introduces himself as a level designer and doesn't say his name. gdcvault.com/play/1022568...

gdcvault.com

Payneless Level Design

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Lodum @lodum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Would certain Witches from, say, Mercury count?

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Lodum @lodum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I want people who love the things I love to make NEW things inspired by the things we both love. And then I want people to make new things inspired by that! I do not want the things I like to be an Intellectual Property leveraged as an asset to make money just because.

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Lodum @lodum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's almost, I dunno, religious? Cheating is bad *because* cheating is bad. It's different to ruin a game by messing with its sacred numbers. Ruining a game by being so vile no one wants you around is everyone else's skill issue.

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Lodum @lodum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Unintentionally sorta interesting person that will stick with me of the day: reddit commenter not understanding why people would treat bans for "saying words" in global chat as seriously as they'd treat "actual cheating and exploits."

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Lodum @lodum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Wasn't even AI, just someone genuinely confused that a computer could say something incorrect. No thoughts in how the countdown might work (just a countdown to the expected release time). A computer was just wrong and that's not supposed to happen. This will probably stick with me for a while.

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Lodum @lodum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

An episode of a show didn't get its dub put up on time yesterday. A commenter on its subreddit was distressed that some random wiki page with countdowns to episode release times said it was released and was now counting down to release time for next week's.

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Lodum @lodum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I wish more games packaged their years of completely changing their games as something more akin to DLC rather than making the 1.0 version of a game I really like(d) inaccessible.

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Lodum @lodum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's kind of bonkers the guy who joined the club and left because nobody liked him or his ideas because he's a fucking idiot but then he got his daddy to buy him the club so now he's in charge is the story of the US military.

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Lodum @lodum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I couldn't tell you how many times cool/pretty sci-fi girl art almost tricked me into playing another space ship shoot-em-up.

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Trans Lady Frankenstein @kaijunellie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Short Horror Film Pitch: A young girl, probably about eleven years old, is taken to the Hospital. She's alone, but she says that her father will be there in the morning after her surgery.

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Lodum @lodum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah I usually use dunmeshi myself. I sometimes have to explain I'm not doing it to be a weeb, lol, but just that it's the best name we got for it.

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Lodum @lodum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Geofront crew knew ahead of time and waited to see what the official localization of some terms were gonna be but these (probably under)paid professionals couldn't even muster like a Google search.

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Lodum @lodum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I still haven't started the Trails in the Sky remake because I'm anxious about its new translation. I really like the original and it doesn't fill me with confidence that this one got patched after release because the studio just made up their own translations for quite a few series proper nouns.

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Lodum @lodum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I want one of those "faithful" localizations but English to English. Strip out anything that might not translate well or would need to be changed for better context and see how much you can ruin a work that way.

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Lodum @lodum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah it being "D in D" is cute but the full name sounds real stupid and no one is going to ever abbreviate it because it's more effort to clarify you mean the manga/anime, not the trrpg.

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Lodum @lodum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The hour limit is because, without a limit, people would sit (stand) there for four hours or more and, like, don't do that? It's very draining to be in customer service mode for that long without any breaks all for you to buy three dollars of cards.

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Lodum @lodum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Need a polite way to explain the hour limit on searching tcg bulk isn't "please search the bulk for an hour!" but "if you spend an hour doing this, I want to stab you, especially if you're the only one keeping me from taking a pee."

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Lodum @lodum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Right! I didn't remember that you went with. Hopefully Madison is going well!

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Lodum @lodum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

...wait a sec, in a hilarious small world coincidence, I think I know you? Do you sometimes frequent a comic store with a cat named Gerry?

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Lodum @lodum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Even Three Houses is like "Good start, needs more Edelgard, four stars."

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Lodum @lodum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's a warning to other tech CEOs that, no matter what you do, don't be mean to that one specific person.

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Lodum @lodum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yeah, it *usually* just means the restaurant doesn't have the order at all (they gave it to someone else, they're closed, they're too busy and it ain't happening) and the drivers just don't know to or how to cancel it on the app.

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lalage @lalage.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

oldie (but relevant again) (maybe) (???)

(during the Eden storyline) Ryne asks the warrior of light, "What was Shiva like? What do you think of when you think of ice?"

an image of memories of ysayle reflected in shards of ice - her determination, her shattered hopes, beefing with Estinien, adoring moogles - and, in the center, our last memory of her, falling through the skies

The warrior of light covers his face, unable to reply. "I don't know what Shiva was like," he thinks, "When I think of ice I think of my friend."

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Lodum @lodum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ten drivers in, I'm pretty sure this U*Eats order isn't coming, and I don't think there's any way for me to cancel it and order something else until one of the drivers does it.

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Lodum @lodum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In the shop we got two Rhonda Rousey Funko Pops we use when we need to check the other room (such as if we don't remember if there are any customers) and someone bought one almost immediate fter we put it out! We're down to only one Rhonda Rousey!

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Lodum @lodum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm not 100% sure how *genuine* it was, like if he was just a pathological liar or seeing how crazy he could be and I wouldn't call him on it (which is basically infinitely crazy, this is retail and I just want you to stop talking at me) but it was an... interesting thirty minutes or so.

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Lodum @lodum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

He actually cleaned up the mess he was making, which was nice! We *did* get a crazy person in shortly after tho. He's, apparently, Apocalips and Superman and Thor and Doctor Strange. And also Thanos and everyone else, too. He's every god and also got baptized on August 2nd.

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Lodum @lodum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Feel like I've really fallen behind in gaming news because I've been going out of my way to not watch any trailers for games I can't afford. ...which is all of them, really.

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Lodum @lodum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hrm. Would it annoy this guy more to tell him to make sure he leaves the Pokemon card area as tidy as he found it, or to tidy it up while he waits at the counter for me to check him out..?

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Lodum @lodum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Him taking other peoples' names off things is the most glaringly obvious "this is my weak point" boss design we've ever seen.

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Lodum @lodum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's a special feeling when someone else picks a show you started, lol.

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Lodum @lodum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yeah, i figured out a while ago *I'd* never remember to do things without them being scheduled so we did weekly for a while and then moved to every other week. So we each pick two in order and slowly work our way through some good shows at least one of us has seen/is interested in.

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Lodum @lodum.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

So if my opinions ever feel weird in what I think a show could skip, it's because some of my best anime time is spent where every. single. episode. is at a premium while I try to share stories I like with friends.

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Lodum @lodum.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The system really does make me emphasize better pacing, though. I focus on things worth sharing that are faster paced. Something like Full Metal Panic is hard to go with because that first season is either six months of all my picks or an entire year one at a time.

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Lodum @lodum.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I have an anime watch group where we watch six episodes, usually of a handful of shows, once every two weeks and I'm picturing us taking four months to get through the infamous Endless Eight.

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Lodum @lodum.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I would still rather the story move ahead than spend an entire episode saying "and everyone I loved died!" and following it up with another episode "and this is *how* everyone I loved died!"

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Lodum @lodum.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

To be fair, I'm underselling how big of a moment it is precisely because I don't like it, lol. It's one of the truly memorable bits that stands out in the books for all the reasons I don't like it. It's not bad to adapt it and it's probably better to but, man, that bit is such a bummer.

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