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I got curious and googled, and they actually have a bsky and post regularly. I'm not gonna link it here because idk if that's appropriate, but google a little and u shld be able to find it. They apparently have a D&D podcast now. It's a trip seeing old NG people in the wild like that.

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 10h

Also no, I haven't forgot about Naruto Konoha Senki lol. I put too much on my plate and I'm going to Japan this week, but when I come back I'm going to try churning through my project backlog then revamping the codebase.

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 10h

It's nice watching people enjoy Spectral Tower after seeing so much bashing online. If you think of it as an arcade game for the PS1, I think it's easier to understand what Idea Factory might have been going for.

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Sorry, I'm unfortunately a little busy with other projects right now. But thanks for asking!

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

To be honest I still don't know wtf the Woodpecker Ball thing is about. I thought it was a reference to an item in another game or something, but I never found anything about it. There were literally typos in some of the text of the game, so I can't even rule that out lol.

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Matatabi Mitsu @matatabimitsu.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Spectral Tower has a bad rep but honestly I felt it was more like outsider art when I played it. Yeah it's not made like other games and some of the choices make absolutely no sense but there's a kind of fun and wonder in digging into games this bizarre and obtuse.

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Wow, 266 health at floor 100 is a really good run. Even as an item hunter.

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is exactly how I felt too. One thing that I think was lost on the western community is that the game is extremely self-aware. It's brutal and unfair, but weirdly rewarding. The main antagonist of the game is the devs, and they imply it a lot.

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Fianna Ashley @affogatonokokoro.qtbrewer.moe · 03/10/2026

Some of you are jumping on this tile every chance you can get.

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thanks! And it's all good. It turns out they were just joking and I misread the post.

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Well, that's embarrassing. Looks like I misread entirely lol. Sorry about that!

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MakeMonsters @makemonsters.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

At one point, a thief stole all my items including the sword I had equipped, and when I got lucky and killed him he didn't drop any of it. Perfect game, no notes.

Screenshot from the game Spectral Tower:

The player investigates the "Useless Sword" they start with, and the description reads "A sword that has absolutely no positive effects."

Screenshot from the game Spectral Tower:

The player attempts to equip the item "Useless Sword" and the response is: "Your Weapon level is too low to equip Useless Sword."

That may be the funniest thing ever written in a video game.

Screenshot from the game Spectral Tower:

Player gets a critical hit on the boss of the first tower, killing him instantly.

Screenshot from the game Spectral Tower:

Brief cutscene at the end of the first tower. The player stands on top of the tower looking out at a sunrise/set, accompanied by the text "After slaying Brimolin, a part of my soul felt peace," which is an accurate statement for me as well.

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I worked on this. Pls give it a shot. It's interesting in so many ways its hard to describe.

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Despite the rep, the game is actually fun when you get in the groove. It's incredibly frustrating but weirdly rewarding at the same time.

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clees @clees.me · 17/09/2026

it's been a hot minute, huh trails in the sky 2nd chapter BAYBEEE twitch.tv/clees

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

genuinely considering just entirely redoing the naruto codebase after seeing some other code from romhacking projects im on

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izzy @isobel.top · 11/08/2026

logging into bluesky

chrono trigger screenshot:

Welcome to the Millennial Fair!
Have fun!

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MirnAAH! @goodbye.computer · 12/08/2026

If you insist

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MirnAAH! @goodbye.computer · 04/08/2026

trying the new Castlevania

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Sorry about the lack of updates. I've honestly just been busy with another project that should be releasing this year, work, and living real life. Here's some pics from camping recently.

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

pretendo 64 vs the phony playshitstation

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Microsoft has gotta do something about their tendency to make sure their users have as many windows open as possible. Word, Excel, Outlook, Notepad...blasted by a gazillion windows on startup.

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

same. I'm playing for the first time and the menus pissed me off at first but I really like them now. Also I'm not a fan of the blitzball stuff but the base game is amazing.

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

FROSTY THE SNOWMAN IS AN ANIME?????? AND OSAMU DEZAKI DIRECTED IT?????????? world shattering stuff.

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

lol my dad was blown away the my computer had 2 monitors attached when he came to visit

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Kaisaan @kaisaan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Happy 10th anniversary to the sequel story to Lost Kefin! In all seriousness, Ys 8 is a really wonderful game! Everyone should play it!

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

i did it... loved trails from start to finish. up there with ys 8 for me.

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Sorry guys, if you've been wondering where the progress is...I had to take a break. I will be back on it soon but now that I'm back on my feet I'm going to fulfill a couple other project obligations first.

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I've put this off long enough. Because one post on machine translation and the devaluation of human labor wasn't enough, I wrote even more words about it than before (2900, to be precise), this time from one former fan translator to another. Or at least, some of you out there.

dateemups.com

What's Not Yours Isn't Theirs, Either

On the disturbing rise of LLMs and machine translation post-editing in fan translations.

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The variable width font is getting there (i totally underestimated how hard this would be to do)

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

lol the vwf ended up being an mfer but im still trying

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Started working on inserting a VWF for Konoha Senki. Hopefully I'll have some updates soon.

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

this game was the shit man..

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

lol... a whole weekend to find and 2 seconds to fix

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Holy smokes...learned my lesson about writing shitty assembly lol. If you're wondering why there haven't been many Naruto updates lately it's because I was tracking down a bug that shows up partway from the game that ended up being from assembly I wrote and "tested" months ago lol

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

i saw a cat in chinatown when i was walkin to work today and i thought about takin a pic but i was running a lil late.. but damn i regret not takin it now cuz it was chillin in da fruit market like it was a clerk lol

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

writing python and realizing u actually did it p clean this time makes me feel like a million bux

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

It's a display I'm gonna put on my fridge for arrival times to the bus station next to my apartment lol

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

and yes, i know you can connect it directly. i didnt have female jumpers and industrial electronics wuz closed..

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

sorry guys i didnt work on naruto today but i decided to play with some stuff i've been meaning to do for a while

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

What's even crazier is that this award show was better than most of the others.

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