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Rex Zakel @rexzakel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Finally got a jet in AC8 with some post stall maneuverability. Its a bit limited, since you go into a full stall after a sec, but thats still long enough to do quick turns and pugachevs cobra. Its time to start stylin' on the Sotoans 😎 This matches up with AC7 so I expect the PSM list to be the same

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Rex Zakel @rexzakel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

While doing one of the early missions I noticed that Theve in Ace Combat 8: Wings Of Theve is based on Toronto! It has a CN Tower look-alike overlooking the train track I use to go to work, and the exact same island formation offshore from the downtown area. Guess the FCU is Strangereal Canada 😄

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Rex Zakel @rexzakel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I played Project Wingman and I was really surprised this was considered on par with Ace Combat gameplay-wise. While it looks pretty, its flight model feels way worse than any AC I tried. Turning doesnt scale your speed which removes the entire dichotomy that is core to movement and dogfighting (1/2)

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Rex Zakel @rexzakel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Metroid Dread done. Strange game. Better than Fusion to me but not by much. Bosses are good but it feels like there is only 5 of them. They repeat a bunch of them without any escalation which is a shame. The way in which it chooses to be linear is a lot less elegant than Fusion somehow, which (1/2)

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Rex Zakel @rexzakel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Metroid Fusion done. Wasn't a fan, felt like a downgrade from SM in every way that matters. I don't mind it choosing to be more linear, but it did so in really annoying ways, feels like a modern AAA game. It was at its best when it accepted being an action-platformer but that very rarely occurred

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Rex Zakel @rexzakel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Acr Combat 7 got its hooks in me. Not surprising given my enjoyment of combat games with non-conventional movement and committal actions, a lot like another game that goes by AC... Anyhow you ever intentionally stall yourself to flip into a 180 turn while weaving thru incoming missiles? yeah its gas

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Rex Zakel @rexzakel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

How to kill The End in MGS3 and get away with it

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Rex Zakel @rexzakel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

its my birthday today for some reason. i think next year i wanna make it the year where i try a bit more actively to leave a trace of my existence out there. i feel like a ran out of things that felt substantial enough to write about in my blog this year so maybe i should try something else...

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Rex Zakel @rexzakel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

the Wilds Xpac power creep is probably for the better imo, the game's foundation is too rotten for it to be worth trying to balance it this late and its cool that the GU director will get to iterate on his concepts. Just make sure the portable game differentiates itself by not having focus mode :)

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Rex Zakel @rexzakel.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I recently watched the new trash talk ep featuring MenaRd and I thought it was a very fun listen that I'd recommend if you are in interested in high level street fighter at all, but here is a quick and dirty summary of some of the most interesting things MenaRD talked about (Continued below)

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MenaRD's true feelings about Street Fighter 6, becoming the champ, dealing with haters | Trash Talk

YouTube video by Brian_F

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Rex Zakel @rexzakel.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

holy fucking shit I got top 8 at 3rd Strike in toryuken and I had to clutch a round by red parrying a ken sa3 that would have chipped me idk how the fuck i managed to do that

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Rex Zakel @rexzakel.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Hit a wall with her for a bit in Tekken God and started learning how many layers I need to add to my neutral to create openings. For an aggro character, Reina has trouble against passive opps cuz her lows are risky and plus frames are weak, but the tools are there to bait someone out of passive play

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Rex Zakel @rexzakel.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Been on a Tekken kick again and enjoying playing Reina maybe I will go to Toryuken and GOML and see how I do..

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melos han-tani (Danchi Days out Oct 29!!) @hantani.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Wrote a Anti-"Animation Action" / Pro-Environmental Action Manifesto for manifesto jam! Against action games leaning too much into animation. Let's start some Discourse! han-tani.itch.io/anti-animact...

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Anti-AnimAction Manifesto / Environmental Action Manifesto by Melos Han-Tani

Against animation focused action games

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Rex Zakel @rexzakel.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

i am so happy Nintendo dedicated 50 minutes to announce deltarune chapter 5 for me

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Rex Zakel @rexzakel.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Since a lot of my friends are jumping into SF6 for Ingrid, I whipped up a beginner-friendly Ingrid gameplan guide for them. Using it myself I got to master rank pretty fast! Check it out if you wanted to learn Ingrid but weren't sure about how to win matches with her docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Maddison Baek @maddisonbaek.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

ko-fi.com/maddisonb829... Okay, I opened the Ko-Fi page with the proper commission board. Rules and directions will be clearer than before, so I hope it can clean up some confusion. Also, considering my target audiences, I decided to price them a bit cheaper in general. Let's see how it goes.

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Seungjee "Maddison" Baek's Commissions

Commissions Open! Click to see Seungjee "Maddison" Baek's commission menu.

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HotPocketHPE @hotpockethpe.neocities.org · 08/05/2026

Shogun Ceanataur!!!

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Rex Zakel @rexzakel.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Could have also picked Yang or K' for favorite character. Also for Squigly its not that I hate her particular playstyle its actually fine and I like her buttons and specials, I just hate how Skullgirls plays in general lol

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Herbert @xxgr1llmast3rxx.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

sacred geometry

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Herbert @xxgr1llmast3rxx.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

bro look at that fucking hitbox interaction when the tall guy tries to knee strike me it's beautiful

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Celestio @celestiox.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Developing your ability to articulate what you value in art will also naturally lead to critically assessing what you don’t value and why, a process anyone who’s ever bothered to thoughtfully engage with this stuff will go through at some point.

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Celestio @celestiox.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

There’s a certain type of discourse that keeps cropping up on these sites as pushback to what is ultimately a niche group of people who strongly advocate for what they value in arcade game design and it’s always so insufferably hypocritical for how aggressive it is

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Luke ☕️ @lukegirard.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

After 4 years, I'm finally able to pinpoint my thoughts on Ninja Gaiden Black! A lot of work went into this, and after ages of fighting with myself to put something together, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Shares and comments are appreciated <3 lukegirard.neocities.org/posts/ngb-an...

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Boghog @boghogstg.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Unfortuantely saw RE4/RE4make rng kicks discussion again. Ppl tend to conflate between consistent stun & consistent kick prompt states when the two are completely different things. Consistent stun inconsistent finishers is how NG2 delimbs work. U can have baseline consistency & RNG as an extra

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Rex Zakel @rexzakel.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

this Alex skinwalker is pretty fun. He's pretty hard to control, but his stance is surprisingly flexible in terms of options, lots of creative applications in pressure & neutral unlike the prescribed mixups of many previous stance/rekka characters in SF6. He's probably weak in FT2 though, too risky!

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Rex Zakel @rexzakel.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I don't think Alex players like fighting Alex

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speedy @spdlooker.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

i dont have much time to draw but i wanted to draw her anyway

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Rex Zakel @rexzakel.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

The recent discussion around RE Requiem has made write a little rant on the stun systems in the three Leon RE games and what they accomplish for the skill ceiling, while trying to clear up some misconceptions on how RE4R's stun system really worked. Enjoy! rexzakel.wordpress.com/2026/03/14/r...

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RE4, RE4:R, and Requiem: A tale of stun systems

Resident Evil Requiem has recently been released, and with it revived the discussions around RE4 Remake regarding the different approach to action gameplay that Capcom has taken to modern Resident …

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Rex Zakel @rexzakel.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

anyone wanna play alpha 2 with me

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Rex Zakel @rexzakel.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Unfortunately RE9 turned out pretty bad for me. Grace's first section was really engrossing, but it nosedives immediately after. Insanity mode for Leon is just fuckshit where nothing flinches and there are no rules to anything, just an rng slop fest that makes re4 remake look brilliant in comparison

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Rex Zakel @rexzakel.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Some Resident Evil Requiem discoveries🔍 Usually your melee prompt knocks zombies into the floor, but if melee while sprinting you instead send them stepping back a great distance to let you get a wall splat into hatchet followup. Makes the wall followups from 4RE more common and practical.

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Nitos @nitos.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

how am I gonna explain this to the feds

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Rex Zakel @rexzakel.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Been playing Pathologic 3. I was wondering why they would make a 3 instead of releasing the Bachelor as DLC but they definitely earned the number with the way they rethought the entire gameplay concept to fit the worldview of the Bachelor. Where P2 discourages savescumming, this game canonizes it.

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Rex Zakel @rexzakel.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Prepare for your death, Leon.

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Rex Zakel @rexzakel.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Playing RE4 on Pro with the HD mod. First time I played it was on mouse and keyboard, now I am correcting that mistake. Game is still overall pretty easy but without mouseaim its actually possible to feel overwhelmed by enemies when you cant flick shot them on reaction to any threatening movement

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Shinra Archaeology @shinraarchaeology.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

📣 Big news: Shinra Archaeology Cut is now available for the PS1 version of FFVII! With this patch developed by HitByBricks, you can update your existing ROMs and enjoy FFVII with the SAC retranslation applied. (Note: this is Vanilla Mode only, with no restored content.) www.romhacking.net/hacks/9352

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DatSpardaUser @datspardauser.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Short write up on combat animations in Bayonetta 1-2-3 and maybe a slightly different perspective on approaching them for 3D action game design. I think I managed to make it pretty concise and easy to follow... www.reddit.com/r/Bayonetta/...

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From the Bayonetta community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the Bayonetta community

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lincoln carpenter @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

First post in the new year is about one of the biggest videogame bummers of the last: www.pcgamer.com/games/action...

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In 2025, Monster Hunter fell prey to profit

There's no predator more vicious than infinite growth.

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Rex Zakel @rexzakel.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Alex's logo in SF6 using the same font and colors as SF3 NG's logo is making me feel some type of way

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Rex Zakel @rexzakel.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

AT Jin Dahaad is pretty bad. Two new moves, one of which is just that he does the leviathan body slam twice, and the other is a sweeping laser with blindspot behind his head which is where you want to be anyways... just not a lot going on here. Unfortunately AT Rey Dau remains the standout by far

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Rex Zakel @rexzakel.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

is this what the kids call schmovement

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