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star @scarletstar.myatproto.social · 17h

yeah it feels like we design all our roads for people to go 75 or 80 and then set the speed limit anywhere from 55 to 75 based purely on how some bureaucrat was feeling that day

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star @scarletstar.myatproto.social · 17h

the police have a much bigger propaganda effort

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star @scarletstar.myatproto.social · 17h

yeah in MI they're almost all 70. 55 is the speed for various other non-highway major roads

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star @scarletstar.myatproto.social · 17h

you really think the company that's giving people only an hour off for ratting out unions is going to give the devs of this game a single cent of bonus?

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star @scarletstar.myatproto.social · 20h

but I'm a sicko who prefers kb for basically everything where analogue input isn't an absolute necessity so your results may vary

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star @scarletstar.myatproto.social · 20h

been playing castlevanias on kbm for a while now and it's definitely a better experience imo

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Nazih Fares | Wishlist The Arab League of Misfits @nazihfares.com · 18/10/2026

Why do we keep on doing this? Praising a 'small core team' for a game with 1100+ people in the credits is incredibly misleading. This PR narrative hurts, hides the massive shadow workforce of outsourced developers and testers, and sets impossible standards for actual indie teams.

A screenshot from Star Wars: Galactic Racer from Moby Games site, highlighting 1,136 people (1,109 professional roles, 27 thanks) with 1,159 credits.

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Katt @sarcastickatt.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Repost if $30k would change your life right now

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star @scarletstar.myatproto.social · 18/10/2026

sorry for posting about this a lot this game just pisses me off lmao

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star @scarletstar.myatproto.social · 18/10/2026

something very funny about belmont's curse putting paintings of alucard everywhere like it doesn't just serve to remind everyone they could be playing a better game

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star @scarletstar.myatproto.social · 17/10/2026

when the reviews are bad for a specific language that usually means a bad localization. silksong had this happen on launch too iirc

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star @scarletstar.myatproto.social · 17/10/2026

also opioids for a period of time, and a whole litany of conditions that were actually just "woman complains too much"

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star @scarletstar.myatproto.social · 17/10/2026

love how the shadow looks even more like Kyubey...

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star @scarletstar.myatproto.social · 17/10/2026

secret service implies it's about Trump

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star @scarletstar.myatproto.social · 17/10/2026

the funny thing is lack of enemy variety is actually one of my complaints with belmont's curse, but that's more because the later castlevanias consistently match an area's vibes with the enemies. this game keeps using the same enemies and most of them are skeletons

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star @scarletstar.myatproto.social · 17/10/2026

yeah like. my "oh this is going to be BAD" thoughts were there by the end of the demo, and even then I pirated it and played a while just to make sure it didn't get better (it didn't)

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the homophobic boy detective @gaorush.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Type of enemy you fight in Dawn of Sorrow that has a Soul drop rate of 0.5% and all it does is give Soma +10 CON

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star @scarletstar.myatproto.social · 17/10/2026

this game is just a massive cascading chain of design decisions resulting from "we should have air combos" and "no contact damage" that loses the entire gameplay identity of castlevania in the process. they even explicitly had to make candles *not* stall you when hit so they don't feel awful

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star @scarletstar.myatproto.social · 17/10/2026

they put that game's wacky ass bats in a room with some very basic jumps and it was more annoying than medusa heads ever were because doing it CORRECTLY and hitting the enemy STILL made me fall

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star @scarletstar.myatproto.social · 17/10/2026

re: medusa heads, they absolutely could not put actual medusa heads in belmont's curse. the platforming immediately falls apart the moment there's flying enemies in the same room because hitting an enemy kills all your momentum

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casey @gloombreaker.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

the devs seem to have learned from other castlevania games that medusa heads move in sine waves, but they seem to not have learned why

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star @scarletstar.myatproto.social · 17/10/2026

why is there no contact damage??? Why can't I do a falling attack in the air that is the most basic castlevania shit ever???

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star @scarletstar.myatproto.social · 17/10/2026

i genuinely question if any of the developers on this see castlevania as anything beyond an aesthetic because none of the sauce is there. where's the positioning in combat? why did they neuter medusa heads? why is there a get out of jail free parry button?

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star @scarletstar.myatproto.social · 17/10/2026

like. vampire survivors is like. an entire genre of slop. and they still cared more about castlevania than THE PEOPLE MAKING A CASTLEVANIA GAME???

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star @scarletstar.myatproto.social · 17/10/2026

thinking about how fucking crazy it is that the fucking vampire survivors castlevania dlc has more respect for castlevania than the entire new castlevania game does

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star @scarletstar.myatproto.social · 17/10/2026

I can only think of 2 in most and they tend to have fully unique sprites?

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star @scarletstar.myatproto.social · 17/10/2026

I'm a white american and uhhh honestly same. thankfully that's most of my social media use anyway though

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star @scarletstar.myatproto.social · 17/10/2026

isn't this one circle of the moon and basically only circle of the moon

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star @scarletstar.myatproto.social · 16/10/2026

from my messing around it seems to only be able to cancel animations at specific cancel points or something. it felt really bad and janky compared to the DS backdash, especially with the whip

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star @scarletstar.myatproto.social · 16/10/2026

the spite games spawned by belmont's curse are going to go crazy

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star @scarletstar.myatproto.social · 16/10/2026

i really don't think most of us out here who enjoy castlevania and wanted the new castlevania game to be castlevania instead of dead cells are even going to be playing gta6

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star @scarletstar.myatproto.social · 16/10/2026

also did we play the same game? there's fucking constant platforming challenges in this game???

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star @scarletstar.myatproto.social · 16/10/2026

yeah they made all the modern metroidvania stuff look like castlevania stuff. the backdash is nearly entirely gone (its utility in cancelling almost every animation isn't there) and the slide functions more like a souls dodge roll than an actual slide (the castlevania slide is NOT a dodge move!)

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star @scarletstar.myatproto.social · 16/10/2026

a bunch of actual programmers have fallen into the insanity too though. i think it's partly a symptom of most of us just not respecting what we do in the slightest

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star @scarletstar.myatproto.social · 15/10/2026

on linux they're just a regular ass package usually

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star @scarletstar.myatproto.social · 15/10/2026

still think it's crazy that they made a castlevania game where you cannot position yourself against a boss because every attack moves you forwards and nobody went "hey this is the complete opposite of castlevania combat" at any point

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star @scarletstar.myatproto.social · 15/10/2026

if it's not a situation that could result in pregnancy who gives a fuck though

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star @scarletstar.myatproto.social · 15/10/2026

increased risk of genetic disorders is the main one

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daria argento @mommywiseau.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

for a while i was confused by "protect the dolls" because of course you want to put yours in a glass dome propped up in a pose with a claw so they dont get any dust on them. i couldnt fathom why anyone would be against this

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nicole🎃🕸️ @renaryuugu.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I thought Wario64 just went for the jugulars but it's literally what they said what the hell man

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star @scarletstar.myatproto.social · 14/10/2026

why does she look like charlie kirk to me

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star @scarletstar.myatproto.social · 14/10/2026

I have to wonder if this is because there's somehow only one equip slot. Some of the original's puzzles require continuous use of multiple items, which would end up even worse than the iron boots situation with only one equip slot.

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star @scarletstar.myatproto.social · 14/10/2026

...well, that's kinda terrifying. Losing LLVM to a slop spiral would be a huge net negative

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star @scarletstar.myatproto.social · 14/10/2026

isn't it significantly more consistent than english orthography despite the omnipresence of silent letters

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star @scarletstar.myatproto.social · 14/10/2026

creating a female self-insert OC is also occasionally acceptable

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Remyhime @remihime7.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

you aren’t supposed to create self-insert ocs to ship with touhou characters you’re supposed to project onto a female character and then gradually start questioning your gender

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