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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 5h

dudes with attitude, title screen, nes (1990) www.mobygames.com/game/33166/d...

dudes with attitude are balls, wearing shades, grinning, bouncing across a blue landscape. a kinda evil looking ball is looming in the background, wearing an eye patch.

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 5h

The Switch version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door includes its own fictional language that is a cipher for English. Amusingly, the misspelled "Game Cuve" graffiti from the original version is translated into the new language... but still reads "Game Cuve" when deciphered.

The Nintendo Switch version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door contains an in-universe language used for signs and labels that is a cipher (i.e. a one-to-one symbol conversion) for English.
Textures that were in English or unreadable in the original (left) are translated into the cipher in the remake (right). The remake's poster reads "Wanted" and the signboard reads "Signboard".
A famously misspelled "Game Cuve" graffiti appears in Rogueport in the original.
In the remake, it can be seen through this arch from the back.
Analyzing it reveals that it is still misspelled! The designers deliberately kept the misspelling in the translation.
Here is the key to the cipher used.
Source: research/images by Mario Wiki users "LadySophie17" and "Reese Rivers", mariowiki.com/List_of_fictional_languages

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Action Shakespeare 🐙🤤 @thatgalinthehat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Environmental storytelling at the elementary school

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Matt @talkingchicken.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah i definitely missed playing Xrd lol

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Matt @talkingchicken.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

screw it i had fun with it last weekend

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Matt @talkingchicken.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Goomber Definitely a bit more of an older styled one because of how it got constructed but it still checks out

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ColorBrews @colorbrews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Happy Anni Dragalia Lost. :> (Hope I'm not too late!) Botan in her second anni dress hands you a balloon :D (which may or may not have personal meaning.) #ドラガリ

Botan from Dragalia Lost. She is wearing her second anni dress, in the sunlight. Holding balloons in her hand and handing a pink one to the viewer

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SungWon Cho @prozdishere.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

should you use english or japanese titles for anime www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_nf...

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should you use english or japanese titles for anime

YouTube video by ProZD

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NightmareSnake🐍 @nightmaresnake.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Real shit Pikachu, thank you.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Still one of the greatest contributions that homestar runner ever made to culture at large is this image

The good graphics!!!! Still from homestar runner

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A pro-union game journalist would be explaining the history of Japanese labor unions & strikes to readers. Telling them this is why no one at Nintendo can be easily fired. Instead we get this limp dick "I wish Iwata saved us all 😭" demobilizing nonsense

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

These things really bother me because games journalists are always saying they're pro-union. Well, Japan's game industry doesn't has mass layoffs because of the work of labor unions! Of strikes! But here we are, rewriting that history into "Japanese CEOs are nicer". Kill the neoliberal inside you.

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Real talk, why half of the remaining games media is in Japan this week but no one can ever find a Japanese dev, consultant, journo or researcher to talk about Japan? Especially when we then get these experts who ignore the well-know fact that Japan has laws which make firing people extremely hard.

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kill ghost @willjobst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

truly tickled by this recommendation for “things that feel like elden ring”

Looking for books, worlds with expansive lore, dark but also immensely beautiful gothic vibes. Deeply sad/ melancholic undertones and wildly bizarre and exciting creatures and aesthetics
There's something incredibly beautiful and romantic, but deeply unsettling about the entirety of the Elden Ring universe and I would love to read something like that
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Ima be 100 percent Honest. The Old Testament bro

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Matt @talkingchicken.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A random interaction I had that turned out to be super wholesome was finding out the guy I was talking to for like 15 mins was close friends with the fiance of one of my close friends and I guarantee that would not have happened if I had a phone to stare at

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Ryyudo 🔜 SQXL @ryyudo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The lack of cellphone/internet connectivity is a feature and secretly is the strongest point of the event. Folks couldn't just retreat to their own world. That made folks more aware of others around them. Folks would jump into conversations because they overheard something. Or saw a cool shirt.

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lete lyre@C108乙 @letelyre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

『転生したらSpiders Georgになって蜘蛛1万匹を食うチートスキルでなんと平均をめちゃくちゃにした件』

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deck.blue @deck.blue · 26/09/2026

quick reminder to commission real artists over here instead of generating ugly stuff

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Line @linesonwhite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Something deep inside me told me I should draw Donkey Kong today.

A four panel comic titled "Hours, Bananas, Doors."
Donkey Kong awakens staring at himself in a mirror, then stares down at his hand as he notices a strange watch on his wrist.
Staring at his wrist, the watch turns out to be one of the numbered bracelets from 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors from the Zero Escape series. It's Junpei's bracelet. For some reason.
Peach then asks a confused Donkey Kong, "Donkey Kong? Have you ever heard of the Parallel Banana Theory?"

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Matt @talkingchicken.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

These haven't changed since last time so I'm just gonna qrt it

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Matt @talkingchicken.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Finally have signal again Cabinet in the Woods was great and you should totally go next year Mandatory internet detox and just good vibes and good games was so much fun

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joy @joyxrd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🍉 CABINET IN THE WOODS! Norcal's hottest side game, ✨ Suika Game ✨, is coming to Camp Collins this Friday evening at 7:30pm!! I will be running a Single Elimination bracket on the 1v1 Time Limit mode with a $50 prize for 1st place! More info below vvvvvv!!! 🍉

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Matt @talkingchicken.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hey Discord against my better judgment I am literally giving you money can you stop shoving an ad in my face 10x a day

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026

Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano

Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC

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Matt @talkingchicken.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I know we're all mad at the musician right now and yes he did cave but I would like to remind people that we should also be very mad at the billionaires who conspired to put him in this position in the first place so that we can blame him instead of them

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The Yetee 🌈 🕊️ @theyetee.com · 21/09/2026

Gar's counter attack. That's the post. Designed by @henriqtorres.bsky.social #dailytees theyetee.com

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You gotta give it up to Earth Wind & Fire for not even bothering to add a Water guy. They were just like it’s fine

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A man rapped with his dog at the Apollo, the stage famous for booing acts off before their first verse, and the crowd went wild for both of them.

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Steeeve Duffy @stevenduffysstuffy.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

How I’ve Been Pronouncing It (Feat. Foghorn Leghorn, my… roommate?)

Comic. I’m at my desk, leaning over to the doorway, saying “Hey! Foghorn! Foghorn Leghorn! Get in here!”
Foghorn Leghorn is walking past the doorway, “Boy, I tell ya, I tell ya, not so loud, boy. What, I say, I say, what d’ya want?”
Next panel, I’m gesturing to my computer. “How do I find that really good manga you recommended? It’s an anime now? I keep getting Halloween costumes.” Foghorn leans over my chair, “well, boy, I say, I say, you ain’t typin the entire title.”
Last panel, I turn around- “you said ‘witch hat.’ Foghorn gets in my face- “open your ears, boy!! ‘Witch Hat Atelier, I tell ya! I tell ya ‘Atelier,’ I tell ya’”

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Matt @talkingchicken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I got a monitor arm for my drawing tablet after having it for a month and I can finally use my keyboard again without it being too awkward, it's so nice

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Matt @talkingchicken.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Aoko, wooooooo

Aoko Aozaki of Type Moon fame sitting on a ledge.

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WongKarWaifu @wongkarwaifu.com · 17/09/2026

Je suis retombée sur cette image et je suis partie en fou rire

C'est une photo d'une affiche publicitaire avec un bonhomme en forme de planète Terre entouré d'images qui évoque le recyclage. Il est écrit : "T'es qui ?... t'es rien. Qu'est-ce que tu attends pour dire STOP"

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Unused graphic found in the files of Mario Superstar Baseball, possibly used as a placeholder for the title screen. It features crude sketches of Mario and Luigi seemingly made in MS Paint and the text "ルイージの兄野球", which translates to "Luigi's Older Brother Baseball".

ルイージの兄野球
Source: tcrf.net user "Geno Penguin", https://tcrf.net/File:MSSBTitleScreenSketch.png

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wren! @tropical-rouge.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

‼️KNOW THE DIFFERENCE‼️ umineko - visual novel by ryukishi07 ooh, me neck, OH!! - last words of charlie kirk

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Matt @talkingchicken.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm actually a little frustrated with that piece because it has some "once you see it you really can't unsee it" mistakes that I could have caught early but only noticed much later after it was finished But I'm posting it anyway because it was ambitious and there are still Ws of improvement there

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Cαrínα ᓚᘏᗢ @carina.delachancla.com · 16/09/2026

things that live in my head rent free #1247386

Drawing by unknown artist.

Twinbee asks Kirby, "You ever played Pop'n Twinbee?"
Kirby answers "What's Pop'n Twinbee?"
And then Twinbee answers, "NOT MUCH HOW BOUT YOU?"
Kirby turns away with a huge frown in response to the bad joke

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Foo Midori -碧風羽 @foomidori.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

ワンドロ涼宮ハルヒ

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Matt @talkingchicken.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I have an art wip that is extremely ambitious (by my standards at least) that I'm super proud of coming out of the sketch phase and I am not looking forward to rendering this thing lol It'll be worth it in the end though, please look forward to it

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Matt @talkingchicken.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I haven't tried it yet but the UNI patch seems to be overall a good change. Everyone expected the meter gain nerfs, though it looks like for the most part the frame data itself wasn't really touched. That does mean that if you found Izumi pressure annoying before that won't really change too much.

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The Yetee 🌈 🕊️ @theyetee.com · 15/09/2026

We’re shouting out loud from the very top of Mt. Celeste… TRANS RIGHTS!! Designed by @athanuki.bsky.social and available thru Sept 20th as part of our official @framefatales.com collection. $6 from each tee sold gets donated to Malala Fund: theyetee.com/flamefatales

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 14/09/2026

It's TIME! TO! GET! HYPE! Today, I get to proudly unveil Steam Hype, the project I've been working on with the help of @hookshot.media for the past two and a half months. A new PC gaming site which aims to demystify PC gaming, cut through the 100+ daily releases and spotlight indies as much as AAA

steamhype.com

Steam Hype

Steam Hype is your go-to destination for discovering the latest, greatest, and most talked-about games on Steam.

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Tred @tredlocity.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Luke: Profesah how do we solve this puzzle Layton: I don't know Luke, let's ask ChatGPT

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Matt @talkingchicken.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Tea party girls

The five members of Hokago Tea Time from K-On! each putting on a face.

Left to right, top to bottom: Mio Akiyama, Yui Hirasawa, Ritsu Tainaka, Azusa Nakano, Tsumugi Kotobuki

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