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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 6m

I know sharing is caring. Doesn't mean I have to share your opinion. But I can still care all the same.

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Legends of Avantris @avantris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

D&D Animated Side By Side: Deviled Details 🤣 #dnd #ttrpg #dnd5e

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 4h

Finished listening to Curse of Strahdanya. Many tears were shed. But I'm sold on @avantris.bsky.social now. On to Once Upon a Witchlight! Will be a while till all that's downloaded to my podcast app.

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 11h

I wish my brain still worked well enough so I could still remember the names of all the people who told me 2023 how bad of an idea it was to build a new PC because things were gonna get cheaper again eventually.

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 14h

It's 2026. If you still have an appliance connected to the internet, even Kyle Reese may not be willing to help you anymore.

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 16h

It's the start of an Akira Yamaoka song.

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 16h

I opened the window and was greeted with such a dense fog rolling over the town, it made me monologue about that letter I got from my dead wife.

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 23h

16 years... Oh where did all the time go? :) Oh I'll leave the rest of the math to you as I crumble into dust.

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 23h

I recently said part of why I love Xenoblade is because of the funny stuff they do. Here's another great example. :D

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Mareep 2: Electric Blue Wooloo @m2ebw.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

“Do you know our names?” “Have you known our names?” “Will you recall our names?” “When will you recall our names?”

Elijah Wood with a Shulk (Xenoblade) wig

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

As much as I like the new outfits for Pyra and Mythra that the Switch 2 Edition introduced, I think I'll be switching back to the originals soon-ish. I guess I am still very much attached to the original designs.

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

If nothing else, it keeps the version of the game I want to see - a version that allows me to make what more "standardized" building blocks wouldn't, but one where procedural generation can generate unique stuff. Just gotta put all the pieces together so that building is as much fun as observing.

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HouseQuay @housequay.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Having the time to try out colour and study someone else (cravat's Mio) is a big reason my comms have been closed for so long. Just the jump from Pyra to how I did Roxas feels noticeable, but I need more time to make this consistent. I winged them both and can't keep doing that.

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Mythra kills Driver and Nopon after sleepwalking into their bedroom. More at 11.

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I am surprised I didn't get any "but godot takes LLM contributions, too" as if that would be a good comparison to Epics downright degenerative arc.

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

To think that just a few short years ago when I turned my back on Unity, I had considered using Unreal. Phew, talk about dodging a fuckin bullet.

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Right after all those "dumplings" the guy wants a Rice ball, eh?

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

With all the other food related puns this game throws around, I am 100% convinced that the localization team did this on purpose to poke fun at the "donuts" in Pokemon.

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I love how increasingly realistic the world of Cyberpunk 2077 is. Like the reason why you can't hack all those fucking corpos from home is because the internet is terminally infected by AIs and not corpos being smart enough to keep important systems off public infrastructures.

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I love Legends of Avantris. I can't wait to get to all these moments in the podcast. :D www.youtube.com/shorts/bnuDk...

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D&D Animated: Double Dracula! 🦇 #dnd #ttrpg #dnd5e

YouTube video by Legends of Avantris

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I like it when I scroll through YouTube Shorts and instead of all the bad news and goon bait, I come by this guy who goes "you're using a Master Lock 606. It can be opened with a Master Lock 606" and it puts a smile on my face.

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

*copy paste from MAstodon*: yeh for terminal, I'm a nano user, too. GUI is usually Kate or Geany. But I also promised myself to dabble in vim... eventually.

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I don't really participate in the vim vs emacs war. I don't know why one should be better than the other. But on the other side, who the fuck would call something "emacs"? Sounds like a program you'd install on a bootleg iMac from Temu.

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

But I am also very stubborn in the things I want to do.

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Yeah. If I had a better sense of practicality, I would have designed my game to be a "marble machine diorama". But coming from the idea for a VR game, I wanted full flexibility/modularity in building and observing. Needless to say, it's been years of iteration in VASTLY different directions.

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

One reason I love Xenoblade so much is because of its fandom. Because this is the kinda stuff they come up with: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWZF... www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPE4...

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You Will Know Our Names ~ Finale ~ Is the Theme of All Time

YouTube video by Ramen Bomber

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Appointment over. It was very informative and productive. No idea why I was panicking so much. ... ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffu-

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It's quite fun cause sometimes I go to a random website I've never been on before, it screams at me "There's too much traffic from your IP!" Good thing is that it's a surefire indication that this site doesn't support IPv6, yet.

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It's quite funny that a main reason I got a VPN subscription isn't to access geo-locked pages, but rather to overcome throttling because apparently my ISP - while natively supporting IPv6 - the amount of IPv4 addresses seems to be very low. Maybe even just one.

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Time to get to bed approaches and I stat panicking again. I know by tomorrow I'll think "oh this was very informative, productive", but right now I feel I'll face a firing squad. I know it makes no sense, but whatever I do, I can't bring my brain to think logically. It's frustrating and exhausting.

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

X2 with its more stylized visuals provides better baseline to keep the upscaling stable. I wonder how X3 fares, but I assume it'll strike a middle ground. Nevertheless, to me, the small flaws don't matter much. I love these games too much to be irritated by those details.

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

As I now play #Xenoblade 2 in its Switch 2 Edition, I think that one is so far the best. The first game with its extremely detailed nature environments overwhelmed the upscaling technique of the Switch 2 a lot, causing a lot of pixilation in certain areas.

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I"m still in awe about how pretty #Xenoblade 2 is. And it's been like that in the OG Switch 1 version, too - lower resolution, granted, but still unreasonably pretty.

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

One response may increase trust with party member, the other with your Blade. Granted, sometimes one reward is greater than the other, but it's - far as I can tell and remember - always a win-win.

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I like the Heart-To-Heart system in #Xenoblade 2 more than 1. For starters: Party members have a talk and you get to to chose responses. in X1, there were only responses responses which raised or lowered Affinity between members. In X2 there are no "wrong" responses. Just different affinity rewards.

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Considering the Blade gacha and loot salvaging systems in #Xenoblade 2 I can't shake the feeling that we evaded a timeline in which that game had micro transaction where you can buy core crystals and salvage cylinders. I don't wanna think about this, cause it sure wouldn't be my favorite game then.

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Team Rocket blasting off agaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiin~

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Zeke, Pandoria and Turters have entered the stage. #Xenoblade 2's own Team Rocket.

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Got an appointment tomorrow. While about an important topic it's getting advice about said topic. At worst, I'll come out knowing as much as I do now. Yet I've been panicking since Wednesday and getting worse over time. Today I'm calm cause I know by tomorrow that time it'll be over. #anxiety

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Part placement has been the bane of my existence since I started working on this game. With placement on a 3D grid, mid-air, dynamic camera perspective and many parts not having a shape I can summarize as a little block, most tricks to aid depth perception and alignment don't apply.

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Marcy Nabors @shadolith.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I wonder if more people would be into xenoblade if they knew the continent-sized giant robot from the box art is canonically a girl

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

And of course Nia: "Who's gonna say Pyra won't stab you in the back?" Rex: "Pyra would never do that!" Pyra: "Of course I wouldn't. I don't have a knife."

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

And of course to keep in line with the tonal whiplash of this game, 5 minutes earlier, we had Tora casually dancing into a serious conversation just to be punched away by Rex (nobody bothered to add a sound effect).

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

One of the most beautiful scenes in all of #Xenoblade 2 and of course Rex had to blink.

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I think aside all that I'll also just show the coordinates of a part while the player moves it around. I already do that with rotation values when/if the player rotates it. Having position data could also help lining up.

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Aside that, I can only try and recommend new players to move around and look at things from different angles while they build. I dunno if my efforts were enough. I can only wait and see cause I'm out of ideas.

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