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31, easily distracted, sadly british

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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 2h
Switching between DW3's classic and normal mode is an experience. Classic reveals very intentional design, where your actions have risks and reward. But how is open, and sometimes too loose. Normal adds a lot more do action when X happens, a bit rote yet also reactive so play feels intentional
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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 3h
Castlevania Belmont's Curse is nice, but sure is full of the current video game design. I guess every era has its trends and they aren't done badly here. It also isn't like CV hasn't suffered from design elements means you can ignore all enemies by the end either. Guess this is how Dread haters feel
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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 5h
Good vid. What are you playing for is an overlooked topic in game and difficulty discussions. Cause for many the compulsion is a secondary aspect, community, discourse or credibility. Which will make climbing the wall very annoying, and misses you're meant to find a wall that climbing interests you.
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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 6h
Techno Optimism is weird and kinda sad. Like the dying breath of reddit fuckyeahscience! I like checking AI subreddits for the half aware, type who say AIslop but to separate it from the "good stuff." Or maybe the box that says ow does have more going on, then start arguing it isn't predictive text.
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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 7h
Dong Zhuo: Liu Bian showed a pitiful amount of filialty upon his father's death, yet he was appointed Emperor? Joe Rogan: Yeah that's so true, the left hate filialty. Hey you ever done DMT? Dong Zhuo: All the time.
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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There's a ship of theseus issue with game design, art and difficult. Most art accepts they are personal expression not all can engage with on deeper levels. But games are modifiable, everyone can have their personal version that gets the true intent. Except isnt authorship part of the communication?
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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm caught between if popular series have hard to define qualities that makes discussions, memes and fan content more likely. Or it's simply a case of whatever is popular will generate these by sheer force of inertia. I lean towards the latter, there are qualities that help but desire is the fuel.
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Wanderstill || Commissions Waitlist @wanderstillart.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Nuwa / Shin Megami Tensei V #SMT
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lete lyre@C108乙 @letelyre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
『転生したらSpiders Georgになって蜘蛛1万匹を食うチートスキルでなんと平均をめちゃくちゃにした件』
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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's entirely possible that the pension triple lock isn't a very good policy, and scrapping it for vague promises will be ineffective. While the left gets too jittery on mentions around re-examining a benefit. In the end a wealth tax and likely higher tax generally is probably the only real answer.
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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Discussion of gameplay is hampered by people refusing to engage with certain systems, even when sequels shift to encourage use. This also may not become clear until a fair ways into a conversation. Games can fail to incentivise, but many would rather bloody their nose than explore options.
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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Metamorphosis is brilliant for not only avoiding some pretty karmic bow where the family or capitalism is punished. But the frightening nagging feeling a burden on society is better gone, what if Gregor's death was the neat bow? A core fear shaken that you personally have to grapple back.
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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wish discussion on friction put more focus on purpose. This gets to the point, random encounters can serve purpose. Disliking being regularly forced into combat is more likely an issue with another aspect of the game, rather than that point of friction. Including just not really being into it.
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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Come to see Stellar Blade as a litmus test for gameplay analyses. I get why someone would enjoy it, SB lifted popular design and made it feel like you're doing a lot. But sit back, think what enemies ask of you, what moves are worthwhile, what utility strings have. It's a puddle, one way or another.
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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Reading Grendel the Dragon reminded me of Joyce from Disco Elysium. Someone with insight beyond their cynical nature, yet seemingly settling on nothing more than a fatalistic view to collect gold. So in looking it up I was surprised she had brought up wyrms. Probably unintentional but neat.
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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
People buy into "Bayoentta totally wasn't designed for guys to stare at her vacuum packed vagina!" a little too much. But then you look at Eve and it's like, okay they also vacuum packed some integrity. Bayonetta is in fact an adult woman with a fitting personality.
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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I dislike that Chocobos are pushed as Final Fantasy's main mascot, but appreciate it's cause Moogles are capable of credit card fraud
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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If the pilots lack fur suits Then on the ground stays my boots
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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every day Fujimoto doesn't confirm a single thing about Chainsaw Man's ending the happier I get. In fact the only way creators should engage with fans is in the style of those couple sentences you get inside a manga's cover. You don't get to know if someone is gay, just breakfast recommendations.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 25/09/2026
it's been less than a year, and already the socialists are forcing people to go to the opera
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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Read this as Beatmania and thought Arcades were a pretty mixed space then but I guess that's true
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PandaMonium @pandamonium.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Today, I decided to dump all my thoughts about A.I. infecting the retro and Saturn scene into one cohesive article. In short, I am certifiably sick of this.
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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I don't blame the failed attempts, but it does seem the wrong lessons were learnt from early KS and it has spiralled into the current cynicism around it. Just not a platform good for delivering big projects. KS as a dreams factory rather than secure funding for small sized project has been a mistake
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🟢RNGundam @rngundam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Mobile Suit Gundam I (1981) 01:34:38.508
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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Dislike for copyright is understandable, but control of an image lets you craft meaningful consistency. Equally being free to everyone can breed creativity, or sand down to suit whatever brainworms a fandom has. Instead we seem to have got corpo control where only they get to it sand down to dust.
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FIX MOJANG BEDROCK ANTI VIRAL SPIRAL @adventurewetpaint.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Dismaiden 🍥 @dismaidenart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"The Fallen Angel" Etna from Disgaea
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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Maybe friendslop catching on despite being an insult is people do miss junk food games. Those AA titles that were sloppy but heavily leaned into a certain idea. By all means criticise Dynasty Warriors, the average action game today is better designed but also fails to lean into a concept so well.
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
England is a made up thing. It has no basis in the ineluctable laws of nature. Its extent is defined by Edward II getting his arse handed to him. Athelstan conquering York. The Welsh of Cumbria were incorporated, the Welsh of Gwynedd were not. It is a political idea, an aspiration - not taxonomy.
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Wanderjegson @wanderjegson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Shanoa Castlevania i love you Shanoa Castlevania
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Jammers @jamtildrum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
torneko taloon
An MS Paint doodle of Torneko Taloon from Dragon Quest. He's drawn in a very squat, portly style, carrying a bag larger than he is overflowing with items, weapons, and even a slime.
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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Revaluation of 360/PS3 seems to include far less interest in the notable releases, when PS2 etc you'll see the whole range getting focus. Not a blanket disapproval, but a lot more apathy for games that were a big deal at the time. Much easier to find enthusiastic Sly fans than Infamous evangelisers.
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Obscure Video Games @obscurevgs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Flower, Sun and Rain (Grasshopper Manufacture - DS - 2008/2009) obscurevideogames.tumblr.com/post/8261203...
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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Concern over time spent is commodification. Time is finite but to see it as a resource is placing a value on art and any human experience. You'll start seeing time as credits that can be best used to chase achievements or gain cred in fandom. Just sit back and engage with things on their own terms.
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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Parody VNs annoys people for various reasons, but one I don't see discussed as much is it bypasses the actual opportunity to explore different types of social interactions. The third wall can stay unbroken, the format already allows you to explore varied ideas and investigate player centric nature.
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Amp ΘΔ& @ampersandourselves.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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eve @voltaicchains.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
dude???????????????
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Kris 🐉⚔️🤖 @cmykristyart.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I think they've outdone themselves. #monsterhunter #mhart #fanart
Two panel comic of a small flying wyvern called the Myenmao and a Khezu Whelp from Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance. Myenmao has crouched to form a fluffy feather blob and look more like the tiny, amorphous Khezu Whelp. They're sitting together in silence before they start loudly screaming.
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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
An art form regularly having discussion on wasting people's time or needing to be more skippable for people with commitments. It's not great. Hard to square with the same types arguing for games as art and that capitalist pressures on design suck. Engagement metric based art either way.
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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Centuria being inspired by Turner's The Slave Ship (Zong massacre) is a great example of the need for inspiration outside your field, while also being knowledgeable of it. Tho with it in mind prob should add some diversity to the cast. Also annoyed it's one I've never seen cause its in Boston.
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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
MAD already had some pretty great body horror, but adding incestial cannibalism mutations? Great twist on how family can make you do horrific things.
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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I don't mind games having cheat codes, dip switch and dev tools. But sometimes it feels like a way for devs not to reconsider and tune their design. Which in the 3rd part of a AAA remake, you probably can't Solutions to these issues exist, maybe it doesn't even need levels/exp. This is a non answer
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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
lolcow stuff, especially around Christine, always had fake moral justification. The target was racist, mean, a woman. Deplorable things. So you can be vaguely left and still join in. It's a team sport. Nothing changed we're just layers deep on making a cartoon I dislike is trauma dumping so die.
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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When a youtuber is talking about a game having a meter the player can spend for abilities/enhanced attacks, they do this weird dance where they don't quite now what to compare it to. And it's super meter, the game now has super meter with EX moves and other gimmicks. Pls play fighting games.
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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH HITLER COOP? FROM THE MIDDLE AGES IN GOOD OLD DEUTSCHLAND. FUNNY PEOPLE THE GERMAN, VERY AGGRESSIVE. YOU'RE FOLLOWING IN MR ADOLF'S FOOTSTEPS COOP. BUT IN THE END, HITLER WAS DEFEATED."
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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Tetris feels public domain, both in a vague cultural cornerstone way and it's falling squares fucking stop me.
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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
HD2D is always a bit incongruous, but Final Fantasy Resonance is extra weird. It is almost interesting by committing to the bit even if something is clearly 3D they'll pixelate it. Except when it just doesn't. Can't have a women's face not be pretty in a cutscene even if the rest of her is pixelated
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PJ @pj101.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
AC6 really would've benefitted from more missions where you're just doing merc stuff with neat set pieces. Need that playing both sides, corps are bitches but Unions ain't got as much cash. Shame DLC campaign seems unlikely cause it could've bulked up post-worm where it all gets a bit streamlined.
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