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Lord Darias @lorddarias.bsky.social · 2h
I started playing RetroSpace. Im enjoying it so far, but unless the early game has lulled me into a false sense of security, I think I picked too low a difficulty setting, and it cannot be changed, so now Im left with the dilemma of starting a new run and rushing the intro or pushing forward
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Lord Darias @lorddarias.bsky.social · 20h
A rich variety of reasons for absences amongst the craftsmen and pyramid/tomb builders of Ancient Egypt
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Lord Darias @lorddarias.bsky.social · 20h
Sale Haul
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Lord Darias @lorddarias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Made a list about one of my favourite subgenres. Suggestions very much welcome bckl.gg/wVV9
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'Driving, not Racing' a list of games by LordDarias | Backloggd
Games about driving vehicles but which are not about racing them like most games in which you drive a vehicle Im also not counting combat racers Tanks dont count cause I feel like those are a different kettle of fish Cars Trucks Buses Tractors Forklifts all are fair game Also if its a big franchise dont just suggest like 10 of them 1 or 2 will do
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b-blum.bsky.social @b-blum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The North Carolina Supreme Court ordered UNC to release the names of students disciplined for violating their sexual assault policy in 2020. His name is on that list. Coverage - dailytarheel.com/226351/unive... Case info - law.justia.com/cases/north-... List from IA - archive.org/details/dth-...
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Lord Darias @lorddarias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It would seem the game's translation was made with an LLM, which Im sure will be a dealbreaker for a lot of people. Im already past the refund window however
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Lord Darias @lorddarias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Enjoying my time with Radiosol. (These are all from the beginning of the game)
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Lord Darias @lorddarias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Government employees will always be so shocked when you turn up to their offices like "dont you know you can do it via our web portal?" YES! I KNOW, YOUR WEB PORTAL IS FUCKING TRASH HOWEVER, SO IM HERE BECAUSE IT DIDNT WORK. I dont mind having to go to a place twice, just set up the appointment ffs
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Lord Darias @lorddarias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Holy shittt
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Lord Darias @lorddarias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not to emo post too hard here but whomever it is who said "man is cursed to be free" was really cooking with that one
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Lord Darias @lorddarias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Its all so fucking hopeless
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Lord Darias @lorddarias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Really dont like that whole "what are your salary expectations" questions for job applications, like what do I gotta haggle for my pay? Call me old fashioned but I rather preferred the traditional system wherein you offer a specific salary for a job offer and I agree to it or not
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Lord Darias @lorddarias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Inside you are two bishops
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Lord Darias @lorddarias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🤔
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Lord Darias @lorddarias.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Its funny, I dont usually watch lets plays or gameplay focused videos of games I dont already play myself, but there's a couple of exceptions; a handful of games I watch but dont actually play. For me its TF2, Paradox games (CK3, HOI4 etc) and the odd arena shooter or fighting game
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Lord Darias @lorddarias.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Remembered someone giving me shit for putting Atari 50 in a favourite games list because "it was like putting "Best of Phil Collins" as your fav album" or something and its like, first of all, fuck off. But second of all Atari50 isnt just a glorified ROM folder? Its a virtual museum
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Lord Darias @lorddarias.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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POV : Vas en metro y tienes que hacer transbordo en Núñez de Balboa
YouTube video by LordDarias
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Lord Darias @lorddarias.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
youtu.be/hTl0F2cKzLk?...
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Modjo - Chillin' (Official Video)
YouTube video by ModjoOfficial
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Lord Darias @lorddarias.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I cant draw, but I was walking to the 24 hour shop at like 3 AM when I saw this guy slouched over, sleeping on a bench in the same pose as Jarl Balgruuf from Skyrim, wearing a cap, fisherman vest and chinos. Idk this is as closest as I could depict it in 10 minutes
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Lord Darias @lorddarias.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Obviously the greater evil with it is its relation to the antisemitic far right conspiracy theory "stab in the back" myth, but its legitimately the stupidest fucking contention ever to think that Germany had not already lost WW1 before the 1918 revolution. Like you have to be dumber than a rock to
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 25/09/2026
I mean, this seems like entirely fake filler reporting on shit that doesn't happen (can't find out because WaPo posted the wrong link in the tweet) but if a hiring manager cares about someone walking into an interview with a coffee that seems like a signal of a company that's run by idiots
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Lord Darias @lorddarias.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
might be a recent change of meds thats making me emotional but reading this is pretty devastating. One of those things that Pentiment does well in highlighting but which is still hard for us to grasp is just how high infant mortality used to be (and still is in some parts of the world). Unfathomable
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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
nice Pentiment reference
Plaque for the Church of the Holy Apostles in AthensHighlighted part “built partly over the remains of the Roman Nymphaeum”
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Lord Darias @lorddarias.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Was working on a list regarding humour in games, mainly to try and figure out what the common pattern was in games that made me laugh and games that made me scratch my head in bemusement. Idk if Ive managed to find the formula but it occured to me that despite having laughed with and at many games-
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Lord Darias @lorddarias.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
*posts a video link on social media* "Havent watched the video BUT..." If you ever find yourself in that position, my advice would be to delete your message entirely and decide whether or not you care enough to actually watch the video and comment on it, or you dont. You cant have it both ways
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Lord Darias @lorddarias.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Prison, forced labour working in mines for every konami exec who made this happen. Also prison for the patent office clerk who approved this insanity.
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Lord Darias @lorddarias.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Less of a review than pondering/speculating on a specific bit of graphics technology in 3D action games that Id be interested to know if any of my more game dev focused mutuals have a better insight into backloggd.com/u/LordDarias...
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LordDarias's review of Dark Souls | Backloggd
I was playing this PS1 game called Brightis recently, on account of its "connection" to Dark Souls 2. Its a sword and board dungeon crawler with a core mechanic revolving around light, lighting sconce...
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Lord Darias @lorddarias.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I feel like most of the problems with US politics (aside from the inherent ones obviously) are caused by the major factor of Congress being useless, and most of the potential fixes to its system (other than just overthrowing the system) hinge on Congress not being useless.
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Lord Darias @lorddarias.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Been playing some Ms Pacman on my steam deck lately. Feels good to smash your previous highest score
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Lord Darias @lorddarias.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Its funny, for how often auteurism gets invoked in videogame design its usually a thing of the press and fan discussion more than any "institutionalized" lets say, support of the concept. And it made intrigued when I spotted an official collection of games "by the same person" major asterisk
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Lord Darias @lorddarias.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Got my first ending on Way of the Samurai. Its a tough game to get into at times, but its grown on me, with all its odd quirks and eccentricities. Definitely curious to check out the sequels cause its a game just begging for a few tweaks and QOL to make it truly great
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Lord Darias @lorddarias.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
@jobosno.com inmediately thought of your list www.ign.com/articles/fin...
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'A Larger File Size May Not Necessarily Mean a Better Game' — Final Fantasy 7 Revelation Director Warns of 200GB Install Size for Remake Trilogy's Final Chapter
Final Fantasy 7 Revelation will require around 200GB of storage when it launches next year, director Naoki Hamaguchi has warned.
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Lord Darias @lorddarias.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Yeah man, no wars have ever been almost started by computer error, no sci fi writers ever predicted AI being used in decision making or intelligence or warfare before metal gear, the genius Kojima just "predicted it" out of thin air. Please Kojimbo, our Prophet! Let us know what the future holds!
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Lord Darias @lorddarias.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Just glad its over. Idk here's my write up I guess bckl.gg/wDM6
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LordDarias's review of Roman Sands RE:Build | Backloggd
Its been a while since Ive found a game so fucking exhausting. I was first attracted to Roman Sands by the surface level similarities in aesthetics and theming to games like Paradise Killer, Danganronpa (and Outer Wilds, in a weird way) way back when and sure enough, those impressions werent wron...
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Lord Darias @lorddarias.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Starting lots of games, not so much finishing them just yet though, but what else is new
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Lord Darias @lorddarias.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I have loved all my cats, but I think I like my current one the most. My first one who tragically ran away was nice but a bit too wild and scared. My second one who sadly got sick and passed was very nice but super clingy and overbearing. Rangar by contrast (now that he trusts me) is just right
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Lord Darias @lorddarias.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Spent like 15 minutes working out a semi tricky puzzle, solved it, went to interact with the solution, game got soflocked on a related screen, no way out except for resetting the game which means redoing the whole thing + the entirety of the ingame day. Yeah im taking off half a star just for that
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Lord Darias @lorddarias.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
How arcade devs felt putting in those gameplay demos where they constantly eat shit in the first level of their run and gun or whatever
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Lord Darias @lorddarias.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
@hamirapingpong.bsky.social watched Bad Apples at the cinema and remembered your sim game article during it, as funnily enough the protagonist is shown playing Farming Simulator (partly cause of the apple/tree theme) and its like, predictable, controlled activity in contrast to her teaching job
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Lord Darias @lorddarias.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
People talk about memorable villain deaths and there's a lot of good ones to choose from, but I always liked how in The Princess and the Frog (a mixed bag of a movie admittedly) the villain gets straight up dragged into hell. I especially love how Keith David plays it www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sot...
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The Death Of Dr Facilier
YouTube video by Bruh Bro's
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Lord Darias @lorddarias.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAkM...
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Methuselah the Australian Lungfish: 100 and Thriving | Cal Academy
YouTube video by California Academy of Sciences
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Lord Darias @lorddarias.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Beauty and harmony, governed by one eternal law : All that begins, must end. The reign of the old shogunate...IS OVA!" Lives rent free inside my head since the first time I booted it up
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Lord Darias @lorddarias.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Gotta say, from my layperson perspective, self experimentation in science seems cool. Sure, it has gotten some people killed, but of all the foolish and/or risky shit that has been done in the name of progress, being willing to literally put your money where your mouth is and test it on your body
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🐰The Ingenious Doll of La Hamcha🐰 @hamirapingpong.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
what.
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Lord Darias @lorddarias.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Always unfortunate when a game is actively trying to be funny but falling flat at every occasion
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Lord Darias @lorddarias.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Always a funny thing to tell people about, that Tower Bridge in London (left) was finished and opened to the public 10 years AFTER Brooklyn Bridge in NYC (right). Most people think of Tower Bridge as being a lot older than it actually is. Admitedly, it was designed to look "retro" to fit the area
The iconic Tower Bridge in LondonThe also iconic in its own way Brookyln Bridge in New York City
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Lord Darias @lorddarias.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Kinda impressive just how tied up to having a job/studies my sleep cycle is. Had a stable "normal person" schedule 7:30 to 00:00 for a couple of months there, been a week since I went back to effective unemployment and Im now typing this at half four am on a sunday walking to a 24hour shop
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Lord Darias @lorddarias.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
you know a game is good when you finish and the achievement for reaching credits looks like this percentage wise
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Lord Darias @lorddarias.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Looking up guides for an obscure game that only released recently and discovering that they're all AI generated fills me with the kind of dread that is probably not warranted in the grand scheme of things (there is war and famine in the world) but nevertheless fills me with pessimism for the future
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melos han-tani (Danchi Days out Oct 29!!) @hantani.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Rocks with some great art direction from the museum of charming stones in Japan.
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