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I straight dropped Advance and AH. I thought I had it in me to tolerate that shit but they won, they did me in! I still need to finish the final phase of the final boss for Sky Crawlers but not having enough advanced parts for planes has made her borderline impossible.

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Pokey @pokaiserv.bsky.social · 6h

I am now thoroughly blooded in Ace Combat

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Pokey @pokaiserv.bsky.social · 6h

Final phase of the final boss in Sky Crawlers is absolute shit. Rest of the game is great, though, hope it gets a remaster.

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つねざか @tsunezaka.bsky.social · 13h

Makoto in casual clothes #sailormoon #fanart

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Pokey @pokaiserv.bsky.social · 15h

Anyway Sonic X is surprisingly solid. I’m still blown away by how consistently good all of its own unique mechanical designs are.

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Pokey @pokaiserv.bsky.social · 15h

YGO GX dub was such a mess and holy shit just outright never dubbing the final season is so shitty. Shit feels like someone driving home but they park one state over.

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Pokey @pokaiserv.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

which goes the samme for AH/AHL+, but its just wayyyy funnier to see it performed on super old timey planes

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Pokey @pokaiserv.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Semi-related note, it's hilarious that Sky Crawlers also yoinks the Assault Horizon/AHL+ dog fight mechanic that initiates PSMs in planes entirely incapable of such

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Pokey @pokaiserv.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

its funny to me that for entirely different reasons both Joint Assault and Infinity make me look back on ACX Skies of Deception and go "huh, I was too harsh on you"

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Pokey @pokaiserv.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Anyway, really excited to go through Sky Crawlers next. Already did the first mission last night to test out my Dolphin control setup, love the 2D animated cutscenes.

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Pokey @pokaiserv.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Wrapped up Ace Combat Infinity's very brief single player campaign via Operation Eternal Liberation. That took a hell of a lot of effort for something really not worth it at all. Very glad I didn't have to suffer this game while its f2p nonsense was at its worst.

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Pokey @pokaiserv.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Infinity is only 8 missions long for the campaign, but I've been picking away at it slowly the past two days. Very much a snooze fest, all things considered, but also I am not hating my time with it (playing through the Operation Eternal Liberation fan server) beats the shit out of Assault Horizon

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Yllande @yllande.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Hello #PortfolioDay 🌿 I'm Yllande, a German artist fueled by anime, manga, and (retro) gaming. Drawing pretty ladies for a living 🤍

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Pokey @pokaiserv.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Yeah I’m glad I missed out on it back then! I’ve been playing through RPCS3 using the Operation Eternal Liberation server. Straight up lets you mod your save file to load up on enough fuel that you’ll never have to think about it.

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Pokey @pokaiserv.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

AC Infinity has been very nothing. Inoffensively nothing. But at least it has its rare moments of looking nice.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 13/10/2026

Remembering that time when some big name accounts were arguing that X is all good now and the algorithm has been de-Elon'd. Wait, that was yesterday. The same time this was happening.

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Regulus @sirknightbot.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Happy #portfolioday AND happy birthday to the NEC PC-98

A PC-98 style pixel art illustration of Cammy White from the Street Fighter series. Inspired by her portrait from Super Street Fighter 2.

A PC-98 style pixel art illustration of the Verus skell from Xenoblade Chronicles X. Drawn in the style of a PowerDoLLS series title screen.

A PC-98 style pixel art illustration of Elma from Xenoblade Chronicles X. Drawn in the style of the PowerDoLLS series intro and end card illustrations.

A PC-98 style pixel art illustration of Tifa Lockhart from Final Fantasy VII.

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Pokey @pokaiserv.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Like yeah the games traditionally have solid mechanical designs but I had no idea they actually gave a fuck for this show

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Pokey @pokaiserv.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Why the fuck does Sonic X have good mechanical designs?

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ゆきだるま @yuki0114.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

ずっとマルーちゃんが描きたくて‼️やっと描けた‼️😽ちょこちょこ違うかもしれないけど資料が少ないからしょうがないです(他責)

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かとら @katoraman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

本日はターンXとギム・ギンガナムさんをアップするのす #ターンエーガンダム

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Pokey @pokaiserv.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Say hi to Nagase! She's probably working at NASA right now as we speak!

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Pokey @pokaiserv.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

AC Infinity is a hodgepodge of Strangereal story elements like the Greymen and Stonehenge except this is all taking place on our earth. Then it caves in your skull with the "Slash and Edge are now real life people" crescent kick.

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Go! Go! アンディロボ! @gogoandyrobo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Happy Columbo Day to those who celebrate

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Pokey @pokaiserv.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Me when I’m slightly inconvenienced

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Lumin 🔜 Eclipse [1st Cour] @screwy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

wait I get to post this again

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アヤモ(ayamo) 🦋🔞 @lustercloud.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

これはおskebで描かせていただいた、ドラまたリナ

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I'm Uni :3 @unicouniuni3.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"Meeeowww!! Pet Me!!"

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Pokey @pokaiserv.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I feel alot of people aren't very interested in it, wholistically. It's something that requires risking it and just taking the dive to figure out for you own. But you already got spoiled so it's not even worth it if you're not interested in the puzzles/spending time with the cast.

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Pokey @pokaiserv.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Rocco Botte is the perfect human being

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Rocco Botte @roccobotte.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Grown adults don’t eat chicken strips.

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Pokey @pokaiserv.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

TL;DR good game, too long, decent writing, should've been more thoughtful with the visuals

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Pokey @pokaiserv.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The aesthetic of Townfall ultimately felt way more sci-fi to me because this. I'm not exclusively referring to the hell dungeons or Clara Woods/CEG Tower brutalist architecture -- I mean the texturing, filtering and post processing feel way more like a derelict, synthetic space colony sea side town.

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Pokey @pokaiserv.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Compared to SH1-4, texture and filtering wise, everything in the world looked painful to touch. Railings, walls, floors, everything looks like it'd leave you with a scratch. Whereas SH2 Remake/Townfall feels so much more smooth and plastic, that real UE5 magic. SH F somehow avoided this.

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Pokey @pokaiserv.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I mentioned in another thread the reasons as to why the visuals gave me headaches, but separate to that I'm not a fan of the visual style of Townfall. Fidelity wise, it's drop dead gorgeous, but it shares a trait with SH2 Remake where everything looks like polymer trying to emulate the material.

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Pokey @pokaiserv.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Hands down, the strongest trait of Townfall are its puzzles. Top notch shit, stumped me many times. Hell, I was scratching my head with this games puzzles more than almost any other in the whole franchise. Screen Burn, you knocked that aspect out of the park. Good shit.

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Pokey @pokaiserv.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"But you just said it's a decent entry, how the fuck does that work?" The gameplay loop, in isolation, works mostly fine and is entirely befitting of Silent Hill. Characters are solid-great, narrative was fun to unravel with its unique themes of gentrification/poisoning/etc etc.

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Pokey @pokaiserv.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Finished Silent Hill Townfall. No desire to play this game again, despite it being a decent entry in the series. It overstays its welcome, the enormity of each area doesn't compliment the hide and seek gameplay, and the visuals laid me flat with headaches to the point that I needed long breaks.

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Pokey @pokaiserv.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

oh yeah CMW had a lot of fun animations attributed to its moveset

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Pokey @pokaiserv.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

my brain didn't even register that until you mentioned it just now lmao that said I always felt Scarborough Fair had a better design over Love is Blue and Colour My World

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Pokey @pokaiserv.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

There're even times when you don't have a CRTV to study enemy patrols so you need to squint through the fog or through the darkness of interiors to know when you can make your move. Townfall really has beaten the shit out of my eyeballs.

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Pokey @pokaiserv.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

actually this is kind of a lie, even the fog world doesn't givde my head much relief. I have to sped most of that time (just like everywhere else) studying enemy pathing patterns through that shitty handheld CRTV. Cool technology, but a poor mechanical choice.

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