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Ryan "Zalo" Biddulph

@zalomar.bsky.social
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bird fancier, forest troll, Game Designer (Intermediate), writer. I live in Winnipeg/Treaty 1! opinions my own. i'm allowed to post about donkey kong.

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Ryan "Zalo" Biddulph @zalomar.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
AI models might soon chase all the campers out of Silver Maple national park. AI models might soon invite their nieces and nephews to spend one night in the Haunted Manor. AI models might undergo gruesome lupine transmogrifications under the full moon. AI models are UNDER THE BED GET OUT OF THE HOU-
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Pyramid Chad @pyrameadhead.wifeguy.online · 02/08/2025
"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" Well I asked Patches and he said "There, that hole. Take a closer look."
Patches from Fromsoft games. Bald man in armor and no eyebrows.
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Ryan "Zalo" Biddulph @zalomar.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
nicholas cage and myself both owning a copy of bomberman 64 2: the second attack has given us a spiritual connection
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Ryan "Zalo" Biddulph @zalomar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
listen--i am not immune to a nice castlevania item. i regret nothing!
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PNP Games 🇨🇦 @pnpgames.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
GIVEAWAY ALERT 🦇 REPOST, LIKE, AND FOLLOW PNP GAMES for your chance to WIN a Castlevania Anniversary Collection Ultimate Edition for Nintendo Switch! Celebrate 40 Years of Castlevania with this Beautiful Collectors Set! 1/2
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Ryan "Zalo" Biddulph @zalomar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
yea okay. child terror post! I spent an inordinate amount of time as a child being afraid of both TIDAL CAVES and MASSIVE SCORPIONS, which was not really required based on where i live.
the kid from the Tescuers being put into EXTREME CHILD PERIL having been sent into a flooding tidal cave to retrieve a diamond--the cave is actively flooding, and she looks appropriately concernedthe goddamn hell scorpion from fievel goes west. it slowly advances out of the darkness of the burrow in this shot, sable black carapace with a colossal stinger and blood red eyes. fuck this thing
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Bran 9 From Outer Space @bransonreese.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I like that a side effect of Coyote Vs. Acme is now a lot of people are talking about Wile E. Coyote and The Roadrunner being in love. Sometimes that happens and I'm like "I don't think that's really present in the original text but whatever, go nuts" but in this case it's for sure there in the DNA
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Ryan "Zalo" Biddulph @zalomar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
--and I think it worked pretty well! But you're absolutely right it changed the game pretty remarkably when all was done to something a bit further away from xcom and its other contemporaries (and introduced new problems--players can find a -lack- of RNG can make things a little too static!)
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Ryan "Zalo" Biddulph @zalomar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In Chaos Gate, we tried to remove the "random" rolls and %'s from the core combat actions. Cover was a flat damage reduction based on the state/location. instead, we relegated RNG to lower impact secondary systems--status effect resistances or critical hits.
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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Movie recommendation for tonight, Kung Fu Hustle I'm always adamant that the best parodies have a love of what they're parodying, and nowhere is this more evident than Stephen Chow's glorious and manic send up of Kung Fu movies. It's impossible to not have fun watching this.
static.klipy.com
Comedic Slipper Whooping Showdown
Alt: Comedic Slipper Whooping Showdown
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Ryan "Zalo" Biddulph @zalomar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Zero Company has both a lock to the players camera controls -and- the ability to free pan it when a players action or movement is playing out--but it always seems to be either or, and there doesn't seem to be any logic to which is used...... I would love to ask someone about this lmao
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Ryan "Zalo" Biddulph @zalomar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
alan wake but he's played and likenessed by ben stiller
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sthng that maybe I could get better at is teaching folks new to game design that making detailed plans or game design docs at the beginning of the process, or really anything that is more than a page is really just a waste of time. Broad strokes are fine bc no one reads and early changes are fast
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Ryan "Zalo" Biddulph @zalomar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
mannequin pussy ended their show with a 15 minute appeal against fascism and capitalism and the power of rage as a fuel for love and then lead the crowd on a collective primal scream. i haven't felt that alive in years holy shit
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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 08/09/2026
This really is the fundamental toxicity of this technology that just can't ever be escaped; even if it wasn't the object of economically destructive hype, even if it wasn't being overdeployed in environmentally harmful ways, etc, it's like asbestos for the brain
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 06/09/2026
even if ai could perfectly sort through information with zero errors and deliver instant results it would not be worth the environmental cost. even if ai had no environmental cost it would not be worth its every output being unfixably error-prone. imagine if it was both with no upside lol
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Ryan "Zalo" Biddulph @zalomar.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
there is no inevitability here--only subjugation, the pillaging of dwindling natural and creative resources, and death. book burning, water consuming, environment poisoning--it's all the point. with every little thing they ruin, to their minds, what they hold increases in value. it's sickening
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Ryan "Zalo" Biddulph @zalomar.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
neat, i may have to cancel my donations to the internet archive because they too, uncritically posted some weird AI boosting shit. We don't have true AGI. we will NEVER have true AGI, not when this fucking fascist grift is the root technology. I'm sick of this awful world being forced down my throat
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Ryan "Zalo" Biddulph @zalomar.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
i hope everyone who is super into zero company gives our game a chance. seeing everyone talk about zero company's combat gives me a lot of confidence in our combat system too (us and the zero company team really seem to have been on similar wavelengths :3)
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Ryan "Zalo" Biddulph @zalomar.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
i'll be so good at being an environmental storytelling skeleton yall don't even know
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Ryan "Zalo" Biddulph @zalomar.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
i want a pokemon pinball table :(
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 25/08/2026
We've been getting a lot of questions about how the Internet Archive digitizes books. The short answer: page by page, by hand. You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it. Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/m...
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Ryan "Zalo" Biddulph @zalomar.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
yea alright. Breath of Fire V: Dragon Quarter
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 20/08/2026
i have done what many said is impossible. i have made an order guide for playing the entire kingdom hearts series, for normal people. i hope this can be a helpful resource to at least one person out there:
docs.google.com
Kingdom Hearts: Normal Person Order
Normal Person Order A complete guide for the entire Kingdom Hearts series, in release order, as simply as possible, without missing anything. by headfallsoff Introduction It may feel intimidating to...
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Ryan "Zalo" Biddulph @zalomar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
is odysseus the blueprint for a tragic antihero? or is he patient zero for the type of guy who writes "don't email my wife" on their garage door?? - the greatest thread in history of the grecian forum locked by a philosopher after poseidon killed a bunch of people
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Ryan "Zalo" Biddulph @zalomar.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
the odyssey is about if you're good enough at smash bros your wife be into you again
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Ryan "Zalo" Biddulph @zalomar.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
they should invent a video game that takes a normal amount of time to make
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Earthbound.txt @earthbound-txt.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Ukki Ukikie(I am Man K. Man. )
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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 14/08/2026
far too often, writers in games have waaaaaaaay less say in what a game's story ends up being than you probably think they do. it would probably shock the average person how often that amount is "next to nothing, aside from a couple cool small bits they were able to sneak in or fight for"
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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/08/2026
BREAKING: Dogs Running
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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
🎉 WE'VE OFFICIALLY REACHED OVER 200K!!!!!! 🎉 Thank you so much to everyone who has purchased the bundle or even just helped spread the word. This is officially twice what we originally set out to raise, and we still have a few days left in the drive. Can we make it to $250k?
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Ryan "Zalo" Biddulph @zalomar.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I will never get over how ambitious the legends games were. Such an incredibly rad setting
youtu.be
MegaMan Legends 2 44 - Nino- Ruins of Water
YouTube video by ClassicTyler
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Ryan "Zalo" Biddulph @zalomar.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
the to world we dream about... and the one we live in now
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Ryan "Zalo" Biddulph @zalomar.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
did the thing
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Ryan "Zalo" Biddulph @zalomar.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
the lady who cannot die has learned to control the winds
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Ryan "Zalo" Biddulph @zalomar.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Sexy Beast is such a wild movie to me because the first 45 minutes are some of my favourite ever put to film and the rest of the movie is... good! It's fine, it's a crime thing! it needs the first half as setup! but god that first half, man
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Ryan "Zalo" Biddulph @zalomar.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
what if i just went and saw hadestown again because it gets under my defenses and it felt good to cry
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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Wanna do me a little birthday favour? It's a bit of an uphill struggle for me to get eyeballs on my videos, lots of people don't know I have a YouTube channel and I'm working on video essays these days, so if folks could help me out and spread the word? That'd be nice! youtube.com/@caseyexplos...
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Casey Explosion
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erin @dracula3d.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I'm gonna fucking explode dude, I'm so mad. They wanted Japan Studio making God of War-sized games. www.gamesradar.com/games/action...
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Ryan "Zalo" Biddulph @zalomar.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I did a bunch of meticulous research on the logistics of "new world" train lines (V. depressing btw!)--the politics of how lines were negotiated to territories and communities, what or who got prioritized--in the interest of making the rail system feel real. players never took a train even once lol
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Billionaires being unafraid to say things like this publicly is a major indicator of how bad things have gotten
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Ryan "Zalo" Biddulph @zalomar.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
who cares if a voyage takes a month. bring back tallships and dirigibles. i've had it up to here with "airplane" and "cruise ship"
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Ryan "Zalo" Biddulph @zalomar.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
oh my god hadestown. oh my goddd
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Ryan "Zalo" Biddulph @zalomar.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
i'm at the max dose now and i'm not sure it's working :( maybe it never did--the curse of a brain full of bees and ghosts
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Ryan "Zalo" Biddulph @zalomar.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
it's called BI-phentin because it's for BI-sexuals (with adhd)
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Ryan "Zalo" Biddulph @zalomar.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I'm not terribly concerned about losing gear, or even dying in general--but when you get steamrolled by a kitted team who wipes lobbies as a matter of protocol... it just feels bad, and like i've wasted time. What I want is the surprise of players not treating other players as enemies on sight.
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Ryan "Zalo" Biddulph @zalomar.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I think this meta could be turned around by incentivization. I've always had the impression marathon was intended to be more than just a high stakes/time investment deathmatch. Carri tickets were meant to do that clearly, but people absolutely do not give a hoot about those!
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Ryan "Zalo" Biddulph @zalomar.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
there is little uncertainty or surprise with libby wiping and just cold empty aggression as an optimal strategy. it turns matches into a zero sum, and that can really bog down progress--not due to gear, but to contracts or salvage collection. Like ultimately players should be free, but...
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Ryan "Zalo" Biddulph @zalomar.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I think something that is really demoralizing is the prevalence of just kill-on-sight mentality. The most fun i've had is when people are interacting or negotiating over prox chat, or trying to bluff their way out of a 3-way standoff. The tension comes from uncertainty surprise!!
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Ryan "Zalo" Biddulph @zalomar.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
too hyperfixated to sleep properly--there is an english patch that just released for the largely forgotten Quintet ps1 RPG, Brightis. it rocks!! God i miss Quintet.......
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