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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

incredibly well-done resident evil teaser from a movie theater

Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I saw the Resident Evil movie yesterday! it’s a lot of fun. and it’s pretty messed up from time to time. I heard the final edit removed a lot of jokes they had initially. which is hard to imagine since the finished movie is really funny throughout.

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

finally got through Deltarune Chapter 5 light spoilers . . . . . . . . . Flowery's fight was a pain in the ass. died a lot of times, retreated to max out on GreenTea, specc'd Ralsei to have more magic at expense of health. spent a lot of time just reviving Susie so that she could have her idea.

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hmmmm Nintendo stuff. I'm loving the looks of Metroid Ravenous. people already made the Kirby joke, so I'll just say she's really reminding me of Metal Gear Rising's cut-and-take style gameplay. to think that Samus' niche in the Nintendo pantheon is being the biggest aura farmer there ever was

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

now that I'm getting into the swing of Splatoon Raiders, I'm really digging the new wrinkles on the gameplay. it feels partly like Ratchet Deadlocked with the arena swarms and the AI buddy, and partly like Destiny with the abilities on cooldown timer and the high jumping and slow floating.

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

we are so back… immediately??

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I haven’t seen the Zelda Direct yet, but what I’ve seen of OoT Remake Link so far looks uhhhh over-designed. the textures are a bit much, and the lighting seems intent on accentuating the noise.

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

so I watched Mandalorian and Grogu as an inflight movie. it’s pretty pulpy, which is true to Star Wars’ roots. the big monster arena fight was pretty tasteful as far as key jangling goes. some of the later action was a bit much even for me, tho that might be bcuz I was watching on a red-eye flight

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

oh shit I just reached credits on Hades 1. ngl I wasn’t expecting this to be my next backlog game I’d check off the list, but hey I’ll take it. it’s kind of ironic in a classic Greek way. this run I played wise and made a reasonable build, only to SPOILERS? . . . . . . not need it in the end.

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

am I seriously considering getting the Metal Gear Solid 4 / Peace Walker PS5 port at launch for no good reason? why? David don’t do it. please see reason

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

the GTA6 preview is a pretty damn good preview. though idk why Netflix bothered getting exclusivity to it for like, a single digit amount of hours during the work week.

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I saw Toy Story 5! I have thoughts on it, but I am currently tired from a long day. I will say for now that I would watch a full movie of the Buzz army. they are like the Minions. they have the speech and inspiration of cavemen, yet have the hypercompetence of Seal Team 6

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Oops. I meant to post about The Odyssey more seriously the other day, but I was tired and figured I'd do it later. then got distracted by something else, then something else, then something else. almost like I went on an extended detour before doing what I originally set out to do. how familiar.

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ScruffyTurtles @scruffyturtles.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

thinking of you, wherever you are #kh

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

after Brand New Day and No Way Home’s revelation that MCU Peter literally never heard of Great Power Great Responsibility specifically before, I’m feeling more charitable towards Homecoming. like, I don’t need this movie to be something it’s not anymore. it’s just an 80s comedy with Spider-Boy

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

imagine if Odysseus' men could still talk and tried to reason with Circe and neither side totally bought it

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I really wish the Ahsoka show would just let live action Thrawn look like an old guy. I actually don’t imagine even fanboys would be too annoyed about Old Thrawn. and even if they were, it wouldn’t even be the worst publicity they’ve ever gotten!

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This has like actually nothing to do with anything. maybe I can imagine that Doom was a charming yet tragic side character that was set up in Fantastic Four: Zeroth Steps. and that he had clever allusions all throughout Loki Season 3

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

KH4 trailer… spoilers? is there even such a thing???? . . . . . . so we knew Donald and Goofy went to Hades apparently to find Sora, but he’s not there because he’s presumably in Tokyo, but actually actually he’s in Coco-World, a completely different land of the dead? is that what’s happening?

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

oh cool, the MCU’s finally following up on White Vision, whose name sounds like some extremist group’s five year plan. genuinely though, I did wanna know more about his deal. I just think the moment for that must have been like three or four years ago.

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

sometimes I think I ought to stop watching movie trailers if I already know I’m gonna go. occasionally they spoil stuff I’d rather learn later, right? but even though I’m gonna see Avengers Doomsday regardless, they’re gonna have to do some explaining to rationalize how any of this adds up

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I watched NGE with the Netflix dub back then, and I watched the Rebuild movies with subs. so this time I’m rewatching Rebuild with dub. I think it’s the original English dub cast? everyone sounds like they’re either pretending not to be old, or sound older than they’re supposed to be. except Mari

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I haven’t booted it up in a while, but it’s a little funny to me that Spider-Man PS5 probably has like 7 similar movie suits that casual fans might not be able to distinguish, and like 8 fashion disaster suits that no one would wanna pick

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I’m rewatching Spider-Man (2002). Sam Raimi’s New York is just filled with Some Guys. the extras get a lot of moments to shine, and the camera is often close with crowd shots. really helps sell the living city.

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I saw Spider-Man: Brand New Day. I think it’s funny and sad that Peter is able to speed-run his comic book career and build his beloved friendly neighborhood celebrity status in like 4 years by completely neglecting his personal life. he became the brand man by letting the brand consume the man

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I’ve now seen Aang movie. it’s very much an anime movie, with all the rule-breaking and let-us-never-speak-of-this-crazy-yet-nearly-inconsequential-event-again quality that might imply. it feels more like a Korra prequel than an Avatar sequel.

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

went to see the Hadestown Proshot yesterday. as I understand it, the story of Orpheus and Eurydice is normally a tragedy of faith and doubt. Hadestown is that too, but it is also the tragedy of becoming employed.

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Spider-Noir is remarkably solid for being live action Sony Marvel. idk how it fares as detective noir since my only point of reference is RGG’s Judgment games. and Who Framed Roger Rabbit I guess. but it’s fun! normal Spidey does a fair share of detective work anyways, so I think it works out

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The new Ghost in the Shell is funky. despite it apparently being truer to source material, the anime feels to me like a Cyberpunk 2077 playthrough at 2x speed. it tosses concepts at you so fast, I think it’d only make sense if you’d already consumed dozens of cyberpunk media by this point

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Forgot to mention since I got swept up by the work week, but helping table at Open Sauce was so refreshing. seeing people interested in @fangeese.bsky.social’s game reminds me this stuff is real. that’s what all this game dev is for, to put a new thing into the world

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Fang💡Devil Typocrypha: aLt-ESC @fangeese.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

posting this here and now in-case i forget but if you want to see a work in progress Video Game you can try it. because things are obviously busted so i need more notes altimagine.itch.io/devil-typocr... #aLt-Project #aLtProject

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Devil Typocrypha: aLt-ESC Prototype Demo I by Altimagine Games

Card x Command Active Typing Battle Prototypocrypha

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Fang💡Devil Typocrypha: aLt-ESC @fangeese.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

there is only 1 game that has -typing of the dead -jojo's bizarre adventure -monster hunter greatsword all at the same time. megami tensei too i guess wishlist devil typocrypha you'll never get anything like this ever again store.steampowered.com/app/4707000/ #screenshotsaturday #godot #indiedev

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

it occurs to me that maybe most people didn’t see The Martian? whereas most people did see Project Hail Mary because Ryan Gosling’s in it? hence why people give the vibe of feeling like it’s so fresh. this is like Persona 4 to 5 all over again for me

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Brian Shea @brianpshea.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

PlayStation and Xbox have been fiercely competing in the Bad News Olympics in 2026, and every time one side takes the lead, the other comes in with some very Bad News to recapture the momentum. It’s incredible to watch.

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

God I didn't realize they were shutting down the PS3 and Vita stores too. Honestly, in our game availability study, we didn't even count PS3/Vita games as "available" because the stores were so broken that they barely worked. That's the long-term state of digital storefronts

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

getting rid of discs when storage cost is at its height is insane

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Keith Stack-o'-lantern @keithstack.com · 01/07/2026

It's official, Sony has completely forfeited the grandma-buying-you-a-game-at-Target-for-your-birthday market to Nintendo.

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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 01/07/2026

There's a lot of reasons why Playstation no longer putting games on discs is bad but I think it has to be said that even if you don't mind digital gaming, Playstation is consistently the most annoying platform to actually gift digital games to someone, in that there's no way to do it at all

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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

It's fitting that neither of these two people work there anymore.

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i’m just ken @shepardcdr.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

This has such a huge impact on people in rural areas who have to deal with ISP monopolies with unusable speeds. The industry wants to act like the infrastructure is there for this to be the way forward, but big tech is just trying to leave poor people behind.

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kelsey lewin @kelslewin.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The last year has made it clear that we are losing all meaningful competition within the video game market. What incentive is there for Sony to offer a better product when their primary competitor has lost so much public confidence?

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John Linneman @dark1x.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Another thought on this - storage space (ie - SSDs) have increased so sharply in price that storing digital games is becoming increasingly difficult and expensive. Discs are DIRT CHEAP to produce - so even if you have to install them, you have a physical, cheap solution right there.

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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

If you're curious what a non-preservationist gaming ecosystem looks like, you can look at the mobile stores, where most of the shit you remember does not exist in any form anymore.

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Steve Vegvari @svegvari.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

PlayStation in 2026

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Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

As the director of a historical video game preservation institution, and someone who has dedicated his entire adult life to this cause, this is accurate. We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organization to find a legal path forward, but they refuse to offer a meaningful alternative.

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