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I made some of the sound effects & jingles for Catena, which is out now on iOS! (Android coming later) It's a pomodoro/focus timer app where adhering to your study/work goals lets you make meals for cats check it out :) apps.apple.com/us/app/caten...

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maxr @maxrcise.com · 28/09/2026

it's not every day you get new unreleased stevie tunes from the golden era, what the hell youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Songs In The Key Of Life (The EP) - YouTube

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niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 26/09/2026

the way i would have smashed this fucker to bits once it came out the other end would have sent me straight to hell

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maxr @maxrcise.com · 25/09/2026

this is the flamenco guitar duo they got to play for fortune's weave. kentaro & kojiro tokunaga, aka the tokunaga brothers naturally they are my new obsession youtu.be/z6JhlIriQiQ?...

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Llama de arena ～砂の灯～ (Tango)

YouTube video by Flamenco guitar duo KENTARO & KOJIRO - Topic

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💖 @saintconsumed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

anyway so happy that he/him lesbianism is back

kurt and rose from fire emblem shadows standing together under bright blue skies, smiling and happy. rose is hanging off kurt's arm. kurt is a young person with layered shoulder length silver grey hair and floppy dog ears wearing a dark blue uniform with gold detailing, and rose is a young woman with long wavy pale teal hair and large white wings wearing a black dress and an ivory crown.

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maxr @maxrcise.com · 19/09/2026

i will have the slowest and longest fortune's weave playthrough possible because i'm gonna do all the routes (obviously) and also every time a new music track plays i stop & listen to the whole thing until it loops before i resume playing

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maxr @maxrcise.com · 09/09/2026

i am such a mark for metroid, you show me samus and i just immediately swoon. looks incredible

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maxr @maxrcise.com · 08/09/2026

Playing Ocarina of Time for the first time as a kid was a very formative experience. One of the first times I felt like I had an "all-time favorite game". I was obsessed for months. I knew they would remake it someday, and that it might be a hard pill to swallow, but ultimately I am happy.

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purpleschala.bsky.social @purpleschala.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

NEW COVER! To celebrate the release of Fortune's Weave in two weeks, this month's composer focus will be on none other than Takeru Kanazaki!! 😍 Starting with this underappreciated banger vocal theme, The Heritors of Arcadia - Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia (www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8MS...)

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maxr @maxrcise.com · 29/08/2026

he is inches away from discovering strong one (masked man)

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maxr @maxrcise.com · 25/08/2026

masuzaki confirmed ✅

A screenshot from the YouTube video "Mario Kart World - Title Theme [In the Studio] - Nintendo Music". Takashi Masuzaki is seen sitting in a chair playing electric guitar. Lots of other equipment is seen in the background.

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maxr @maxrcise.com · 24/08/2026

im not the biggest house person (yet?) but this is so good youtu.be/NlU1XNZdQI4?...

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マカラーニャの森 - House Grooves

YouTube video by SQUARE ENIX MUSIC - Topic

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Xploshi @xploshi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

the Mario Galaxy planet off in the distance with a boss waiting on it

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nat. @natclayton.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

nobody is forcing you to buy a video game ever, but a "boycott" works in instances like BDS where you're applying mass pressure over long periods in concert with other tactics. what the union needs right now is money to fight a corporation that robbed them of their livelihoods.

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nat. @natclayton.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A lot of "well I'm boycotting it anyway" quotes sort of missing the point that a boycott is a specific tool you deploy with a purpose. I think it's the right move to sidestep trying to make a public dent in what *will* be an immensely high-selling game in favour of directly asking for legal support.

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maxr @maxrcise.com · 15/08/2026

MAGWest! Swing by the jamspace between 12-2pm today for Ultra Combo's showcase. i'll be joining them to play Shop 3 from Deltarune & prob other tunes too! 🎷 i made the lead sheet just 4 this :>

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Jessica Cogswell 🌸 @jessicogs.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Without good journalists, it’s alllll just PR—and I feel like that should terrify people SO much more than it does.

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MAGWest |August 14th- 16th, 2026 @magwestofficial.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

MAGWest's Jamspace combines open jam sessions with special curated content and sets, including live performances and participatory events. Visit magwest.org for the full schedule of events!

MAGWest Jamspace - Music Showcases - Visit MAGWest.org for the schedule

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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

ever since i saw theodora in the first fortune's weave trailer, i knew i was gonna write a blog like this

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poondonkus @poondonkus.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

whatever Go, my Annaphant

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maxr @maxrcise.com · 04/08/2026

it will take time for me to process 10 new fire emblem tracks... but i've listened once through and i love them 😭 SUPER cool that every character has their own early game map theme instead of fódlan winds x100 like in 3H also SETETH!!! i literally audibly exclaimed out loud!!!

A screenshot from the Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave Direct. The character Seteth is seen sporting yellow-ish hair while riding a dragon. On-screen text lists his name, his level (37), and dubs his Dragoon class "Advanced".

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

everyone in the world of One Piece, every single last person: so you see then I ate the extremely rare and mysterious devil fruit, a special thing very few people get to do

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rachel lake⁷ @rachel.dcellgames.com · 02/08/2026

i've made a ko-fi to fundraise a new PC for my work/streaming 🥹 my old desktop died out and my laptop cannot handle it. any help is appreciated more than u can imagine ko-fi.com/rachelklake

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maxr @maxrcise.com · 31/07/2026

i haven't posted in over a month so here's some tunes i've been enjoying lately

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The Belly and the Beast
Anaïs Mitchell

Horrific Voyage (Dreadworm's Maw)
Jake Kaufman

Rewind
Josiah Everhart

Time in Place
Mike Stern

Whirlpool Tune / On the Clock
Sayako Doi

Scalar Wave
S U R V I V E

Heartburn Waltz*
Vince Guaraldi

In a Silent Way (Live)
Weather Report

Hard Won Nobility
Yasuhiro Ichihashi

*from this album**, specifically! the recording is unique. it is also misnamed, the name of the composition is Never Again.

**Vince Guaraldi and the Lost Cues, Vol. 2

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v1ris @v1ris.com · 19/07/2026

a beautiful album I got to play a part in! you can hear me play violin on track 5, Halcrya by SpiralFlip

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Dr. Emily Price @emilyprice.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

we laid off the people who develop the games, we laid off the journalists who cover the games, everyone is freelance and there’s no freelance budget. It’s probably fine though

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i’m just ken @shepardcdr.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

This has such a huge impact on people in rural areas who have to deal with ISP monopolies with unusable speeds. The industry wants to act like the infrastructure is there for this to be the way forward, but big tech is just trying to leave poor people behind.

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maxr @maxrcise.com · 25/06/2026

finished d.r. chapter 5 :) somehow always better than my high expectations i feel very appreciative of how each chapter varies in tone, it reminds me of the contrast between infinity train books (seasons) in fact, a lot of things about this game remind me of infinity train

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maxr @maxrcise.com · 24/06/2026

hell yesssss 🥹🥹

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purpleschala.bsky.social @purpleschala.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Composer series continues! Breaking the Xenogears streak but still in Mitsuda's Celtic-heavy PS1 era: Dragon's Prayer - Chrono Cross (full vid: youtu.be/5bMl2_L9UV8?...), showcasing his talent for devastatingly gorgeous lyricism--g minor, wide intervals, a constant, inexorable LH ostinato--

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Cameron Kennedy @cameronken.com · 11/06/2026

The way people cheer for and celebrate this corporation, not the developers, the brand itself, has really turned me off from some creators. The BDS list, the dangerous levels of consolidation, the mass layoffs, and people still treat it as their favourite sports team.

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maxr @maxrcise.com · 10/06/2026

procyon x anúna gotta be one of the best things to happen in vgm DEFINITELY check out their music outside of xenoblade btw, drop dead gorgeous youtu.be/9PIiwqUgr0M?...

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ANÚNA : O Maria

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jas 🪷 @baoxie.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

i had to draw some of the ladies from the new trailer.... #fefw

Doodles of various characters from the Fire Emblem: Fortune's weave trailer and promo art. From left to right, top to bottom: unnamed manakete with a star on her forehead, unnamed woman with ringlet hair, unnamed girl with glasses, Ninae, Ultand, Ursula, the white cloak character who may be Eshmel, and little doodles of Leda and Theodora.

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maxr @maxrcise.com · 09/06/2026

for anyone that doesn't understand, this is like the second coming of christ, for me

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mcc @dryad.technology · 07/06/2026

There's a video game coming out which used generative AI to make assets but is also "protected by Denuvo" which is just such a perfect encapsulation of how intellectual property law works and who it is for

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maxr @maxrcise.com · 06/06/2026

my whole life has been leading to this

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maxr @maxrcise.com · 05/06/2026

mina the hollower wasn't love-at-first-jump the way shovel knight was for me, but i absolutely did grow to love it long before i reached credits 🐭⚔️ also, virt deserves a nobel peace prize

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