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Touch encounters are usually worse because they are very hard to do right. If ambushing is too important than the whole game revolves around character hitbox tag than the battles themselves. If they are easy to avoid than that can lead to hard boss fights OR it wont matter and its all pointless

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I dont think the average gen x annoyed gamer channel is completely lying when they say "random battles are annoying" as an end user experience data point but most design problems are an enigma of scaffolding than any one mechanic.

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In dragon quest 1 every battle costs you something youll eventually have to turn back, but the question is when? and can you squeeze out just enough exp before going back? A lot of RPGs just don't actually do this lol and theres sometimes a disconnect when people blame them

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shweep @shweep.dev · 27/09/2026

The pain points of random battles are less about the random battles themselves and moreso ps1 rpgs shifting away from exploration/survival and expecting you to fight trivial battles inbetween solving a puzzle that requires looking at the dungeon layout for more than 5 sec-*random battle flash*-

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A local rental place went out of business and i bought some of the last exile dvds though some of the cases were in like xbox360 green??? And a liytle mismatched. Weird artifact to have considering i rented them back in the 2000s

shweep @shweep.dev · 25/09/2026

i thought it was abandoned? *1 second in* oh

shweep @shweep.dev · 25/09/2026

i think i might boycott youtube at some point, not for any ethical reasoning but i think this might be bad for the brain yo

stop guessing what hooks you audience with video a/b testing you can test up to 3 edits of a short or video simultaneously. review the stats, pick the clear winner, and seamlessly lock it in as your video.

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shweep @shweep.dev · 25/09/2026

badass, yeah although models/textures resource were cool i always thought 90s mixed 2D/3D games required a context based interface to truly dig at them as opposed to overlapping sprites in 2d games

Alfred Reinold Baudisch @alfredbaudisch.com · 25/09/2026

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FF7 scenarios with pre-rendered backgrounds were always a mystery to me during childhood; but even to this day it's still something that amazes me. Now you can inspect every single Final Fantasy VII stage, including the 3D path + variations. #FF7 #FinalFantasy #FFVII #PS1 #PSX #RetroGame

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shweep @shweep.dev · 22/09/2026

Being in mid 30s is just "Yea um there was thing called... i forget what it was called. Which reminds me of... forget what that was called" In every networking convo

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shweep @shweep.dev · 22/09/2026

...And it came ina a cereal box!

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I don't think ive ever heard him in a serious tone before

Gas lighting you with dead end mazes. "No YOU went the wrong way."

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I remember meeting a leftist old guy who is very offline and didnt understand the starship troopers as satire angle despite seeing it. Theres no like default interpretation i think a lot of people keep forgetting.

There already a word its called trolling, like playing a shrewd character as the forum troll. but that term has turned into "joking" ????

Doing priest job quest in ragnarok online and the quiz is like "thou shalt not drag monsters over to power level your friends" Im like WHAT im feeling like larry david here, mobbing is a very pious thing to do!!!

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Ready to develop dig

I miss when larping meant yelling "lightning bolt!" in a forest

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I found out that teen spirit was actually a deodorant

shweep @shweep.dev · 20/09/2026

This whole time i thought it was just playing the sims but underwater

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shweep @shweep.dev · 20/09/2026

went to an art game conference, was fun

Charlie MacLean and Emily Flinn on their exploration of games

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shweep @shweep.dev · 19/09/2026

went to a digital art exhibit, i think this is twilight

a CRT with a game, depicting Twilight therefore Twilight is art

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shweep @shweep.dev · 18/09/2026

yeah but also ff4 was 10 years old when ff10 came out 👴

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shweep @shweep.dev · 18/09/2026

What if in order to save on internet data we just compressed images as they get older. Youll see an old facebook photo from 2010 and it'll be deep fried to hell.

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shweep @shweep.dev · 14/09/2026

im always like "whaddya mean the backgrounds are just made up of pigmented brush strokes only to show up for a single second?? 😮" every time. ill never get over it

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shweep @shweep.dev · 13/09/2026

why does kojima own a pheasant...?

shweep @shweep.dev · 13/09/2026

The vibe i get from MercurySteam Metroid is "THIS AINT YER GRANDMAS METROID"

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shweep @shweep.dev · 12/09/2026

He watched Oppenheimer Barbie movie

shweep @shweep.dev · 11/09/2026

Sorry to hear, was anticipating the Steam release but good to know the purchase will support you in some way.

shweep @shweep.dev · 11/09/2026

I put this on my flashcart because i could not believe this was a snes game, unreal

shweep @shweep.dev · 11/09/2026

Youtube lately either giving me very direct life advice or y2k dnb music with Link smoking a blunt on a ps1 cover thumbnail. No inbetween

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shweep @shweep.dev · 08/09/2026

Im not sure if its just using the botw engine or what but i noticed a lot of fog or god rays tends to bring that out. Like maybe theyre relying on the LUTs too much that it just eyedrops the rolling fog.

shweep @shweep.dev · 08/09/2026

I dont like that the oot remake looks so washed out, like it looks so grey in places. There's a lot you can extract with the og dark style and some clothing clearly has color to them. Maybe theyll change that in the next remake in 10 years

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shweep @shweep.dev · 07/09/2026

growing up in the 90s with unrestricted internet access seems to be the only prereq to knowing how to google for roms.

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I would have a lot more acronyms if i was rgb scart CRT pilled

Reminds me of some portal 2 testers saying it was the funniest game they ever played despite being stone faced the entire session.

Retrotnk2x pro + 25 dollar guermok using svideo. There's probably some delay on it as the only drawback

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Finally can record my snes. SaGa monster: *coolest sprite youve ever seen* *dies in one hit*

Romancing Saga 1 screenshot with elf lady in dragon cosplay???

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I actually dont mind the dead ends and quests ending off screen if you trigger certain things etc. But venturing to find out information or explore is just 🫠

Ive been playing RS1 on the snes and it's not too bad with a primer The battle to exploration ratio is horrendous tho. Go through a whole dungeon full of easy encounters where your 6 party commands take up the entire combat time, then you find out you cant kill the boss and then have to leave

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I never feel like saga quite fully takes advantage of the emergent format as much as it could. There's a lot of "I don't know what I'm doing I guess I'll do this now" as opposed to experimenting with things to get interesting outcomes. But I do like that the world doesn't center itself around you

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im shaking in my boots.

unlimited saga - you call y-self hardcore

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shweep @shweep.dev · 01/09/2026

doublefine is doing a kickstarter, did i go back in time...

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is johnny cash the ikaruga of country music or is ikaruga the johnny cash of shmups find out in this video