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User @userplayer89.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh shit! I’ve been really looking forward to this one.

Sajan @planetsmudge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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An absolute delight to do the cover + slipcase for this one www.lostincult.co.uk/shop/p/caves...

Switch cover for Caves of Qud - illustration of a sweeping landscape framed by trees, whose roots are crowded by various denizens and artefacts beneath the earth

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User @userplayer89.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yuji Horii really caught a whiff of job/hybrid class systems from other games and went hog wild

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User @userplayer89.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’ve seen LP’s of it and it really caught my eye because in a way that’s hard to explain I really felt that the level design seemed to flow in a way that’s more similar to HL1 than doing a VR version of 2 with the ways it constantly plays with structure and the lots of map/chapter specific beats.

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User @userplayer89.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I never had the chance to play it myself but it still looks great and the thought it’s probably going to lead into a rebooted HL3 that actually has a chance at good gunplay and enemy design if this game and CS2/Deadlock are any indication is almost nauseating

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User @userplayer89.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There’s a common pattern with fan games where people will look at the flaws of the games they like and then completely overcompensate for them so hard it becomes annoying

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User @userplayer89.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Of all the random ideas that became sort of standard in video games during this period I’m disappointed hidden techniques were never one of them just for the experience of accidentally using one of the special beam attacks when I had Power Bombs equipped and Losing My Goddamn Mind

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Ten Thousand Metal Sonic’s: Come Outside

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I think turtles and tortoises are some of my favorite animals on this Earth

Osmose @osmose.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I really wish 3D video games looked even half as cool as TRON

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The Tower of Zeldaga is a mashup of the Legend of Zelda and Tower of Druaga. Every room has a secret puzzle and the puzzles get more obtuse as you go on. It's free, runs in your browser (incl mobile), supports controllers, and I'd really love for you to try it out! legitimatebusiness.biz/tower/

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The sorts of features the UZ have promised or already shipped are already more substantial than anything the ports gotten in years. We’re getting fucking ray traced lightmap baking in DOOM eventually

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Graf getting told to fuck off really was just removing a 20 year weight from an entire community’s shoulders

Stuff like Raven Beak or Bananza’s eleventh hour reveal of K. Rool

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Nintendo’s gotten good at hav their finales be so insane it almost makes the past few hours worth it

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This is reminding me of how bad of a state MCC is in and Halo modders for all the games kind of being left for dead after being served barebones undocumented tools

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User @userplayer89.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Not diminishing that there’s probably some good stuff there but a lot of the indie “Metroidvanias” I’ve played haven’t really been actually like 2D Metroid or Igavania with the exception of like Zexion or Acrolyte or something.

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Guy who thinks their being religiously persecuted for liking Japanese RPG’s or someone who refuses to play something that doesn't have a jump button in it

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User @userplayer89.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It also caused a permanent head on collision of two of the worst kinds of people

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User @userplayer89.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I just realized the car and its lights almost form the shape of the Umbrella logo. That’s sick

User @userplayer89.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I know this is like original art of Nidoking but when they faded in I actually physically jumped just cause I was watching it quietly in a dark room

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User @userplayer89.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Quake was also inspired by Virtua Fighter. This isn’t a joke

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User @userplayer89.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It’s also hilarious that their banning depictions of violent or pornographic material in GRAND THEFT AUTO

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User @userplayer89.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

With the power of DLSS5 we have reimagined Hop Top for modern audiences

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User @userplayer89.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It’s just supposed to be a comedic video making fun of video game advertising but the whole flat colored minimalist early CG look is weirdly compelling and probably done just to not make whatever pc funnymovieinternet was using on 2006 explode but it’s on my mind a lot

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User @userplayer89.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I think if I ever felt assed to pick up and learn a 3D engine I think I’d wanna make something like Cube unironically youtu.be/4aGDCE6Nrz0?...

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YouTube video by funnymovieinternet

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User @userplayer89.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

For pretty much their entire history Valve is really good at making software engineering decisions that just snowball in terms of second order consequences because their just a bunch of nerds with Fuck You Money

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User @userplayer89.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

There are little pedestals you can stand on to save with Start but they’re always at the start of whole areas and spaced out for a game of its size

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The whole Quake II line of games are the unloved stepchilds of 90’s/2000’s PC gaming. SiN was sick too, glad Nightdive’s on that one. What happened with Kingpin was Unfortunate though

A research project my brother at uni was supposed to be doing where they were supposed to use drones for bird spotting basically got DOGE’d and I’m still pissed off about it

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Extremely strangely wide gulfs between the damage output of most enemies or the actual utility of some weapons that exist more for deathmatch it feels like

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It’s not a bad game but a pretty poorly balanced one

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You could say it’s a skill issue but I think BLOOD’s gunplay is way overtuned the and level design is pretty average and it’s mostly carried by vibes

So many flash games were just about beating up a digital guy cause it’s really funny

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They had to for System Shock 2

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Good work often isn’t done by just being perfectly passively “nice“ to everyone and doing what you’re told all the time.

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Imagine if the people complaining about stuff like re4 remake paint ot wolverine scent trails found out that old games were doing stuff like plastering floating arrows everywhere lol. there’d be hell raised.

Robocop Versus The Terminator (Genesis) Playthrough - NintendoComplete

they did an honestly mediocre licensed run and gun game about it and it has a completely batshit opening text crawl that says OCP was contracted to develop Skynet’s CPU and they used Robocop’s as the blueprint among other things. youtu.be/QNv6r5gMA-A?...

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User @userplayer89.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

And now their biggest fascination is building Jarvis/HAL-9000 in real life even if it takes cannibalizing the entire consumer electronics industry and building massive resource hog data centers that just kill us all even faster to do so

User @userplayer89.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

what makes me the angriest about tech guys is that the subject of their idealistic detachment is stupid impractical fake tech they saw in sci-fi films and books when they were 12. their burning the world down trying to make stupid shit like flying cars, humanoid robots or self driving cars happen.