Xander
@xanderhworks.bsky.social
Very tired furry who makes art and rambles about video games. 🔞 27 🏳️🌈 He/Him Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/alstar_hworks FA: https://www.furaffinity.net/user/hw358 Header image by emdeejaydraws.tumblr.com PFP by @cobalt2112.bsky.social
My friend said the other day that the worst thing about british-people smalltalk is that people don't actually start conversations, they just observe things like "you're wearing green" & expect you to turn that into a conversation, & since then it feels like I'm wearing the glasses from They Live
I cannot stress enough: the AI bubble has already popped it is just being kept on life support by corporations trying to squeeze even a dollar more out of their shit investment, and tech bros doing the same before abandoning their shit company startups. keep hating on AI, you're winning
Kotaku@kotaku.com · yesterdayReport Suggests Nearly No One Is Buying AI Generated Goods https://kotaku.com/3d-model-markets-are-being-flooded-with-ai-sellers-but-no-ones-buying-2000724790
Pat saying xenoblade 2 ping pongs between a 2/10 and a 9/10 means he's getting the full xenoblade 2 experience
it’s weird how certain white people idolize the crusaders or the confederacy; armies of poor, ignorant zealots who fought for racism and lost
jon christian@jonchristian.net · 12h agoAbsolutely horrific: white nationalists are holding a "Christian Crusader March" today in one of America's largest Muslim communities, and Meta is refusing to remove overt hate speech promoting violence at it. It's like they WANT another Myanmar futurism.com/artificial-i...
Still blows my mind at the detail, appreciating so many small things in the animations now. Even more crazy that @jaysmods.bsky.social does such damn good work that even the hands and fingers around the handle don't even wildly clip into it
I will say I’m really digging the Pureblood Heartless designs in 4 so far, and it gives me hope that it could make the Heartless actually kind of menacing again, in a way they haven’t been since the first game. Let them be PG-rated zombies again, dammit!
It’s genuinely sad listening Hayden Panettiere in the prologue of KH1 now.
![Speaking on why she remained closeted until age 36 and whether she has had relationships with women, Panettiere stated, "Yeah, I did. It was scary, though, because there were paparazzi always waiting for me outside, to follow me everywhere. I had very little privacy. I have dated women. I was much more into women even as a child than I was men. I have explored it, but because I hadn't shared this with anybody, I didn't really have the courage to throw myself fully emotionally into it. Because then if I did fall in love, that wasn't something that I wanted to ever have to hide."[83]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zy6sn6tkic24e6p52g2yh4zn/bafkreiala6xwkfbb5j4tzr7wstxrirp7pdkjhx5c3dm4kcak5vvlt3jupa)
Bound Destiny 1.5: Interlude (GBA romhack, 2026) Full disclosure, the authors are good friends of mine, but I loved this! The story and character writing are Bound Destiny's greatest strengths IMO, so it's amazing that Chuji and Akvo have written dialogue that captures each (1/2) #2026MediaThread
![The title screen of Bound Destiny [1.5]: Interlude, showing a Delphox on the left pondering a wood carving and a Zoroark leaning against a tree and thinking. At the bottom it says:
Press START
By Chuji & Akvo | New Sprites: ErrantSquam](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:onsi2hf2i7yynb3h47tkvse7/bafkreid7yqkzto677a3ctys7pnzyyfb6d2huckeq5ypu747ditwpvnz2mu)
"I'm pretty sure he had a gun, I felt threatened" - Mario Sunshine explaining why it clipped Mario through the sand bird four times in a row
K'eeg@armormodekeeg.blacksky.app · yesterday"mario sunshine only does that if it detects you're not pure of heart" yeah if you're white maybe.
This is shocking. She was everywhere when I was a kid. She was amazing in Kingdom Hearts, Heroes, Scream. Fuck. She was so young.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2d agoActress Hayden Panettiere has died, her representative confirms. She was 36 abcnews.com/US/hayden-pa...
In all seriousness this is a legit steal and I truly think you owe it yourself to at the very least play Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2 if you haven’t. They are genuinely some of the best action RPGs ever made (honestly 3 is too, continuity lockout aside).
Lady Emily ☄️@ladyemily.nebula.tv · 2d agoBy the way, with Kingdom Hearts 4 trailers bringing hype back to the series, gonna mention that you can get the entire Kingdom Hearts collection is $30 on Steam until the 20th. Incredible deal that'll get you basically everything you'd need to play. Start with the firsts game and go from there.
Me when I remember that getting the Torna blades in New Game + means I have to pull them from the gacha again:
I've been working on this for over a year: I'm remaking all of Ocarina of Time's prerenders in 3D, trying to match the N64 style rather than the 3DS one. The provisional name is OoT unJPEG. It will be distributed as both a romhack that runs on real N64 hardware and a mod for Zelda 64 Recompiled.
I finished Small Saga. Genuinely delightful game. A short tightly paced RPG wrapped in delightful pixel art and a great soundtrack. Couple that with endearing characters and writing that juggles multiple tones very well and I had a blast from beginning to end.
Thinking of you, wherever you are. Rest in peace Hayden
Small Saga is evoking that rare feeling in me where I’m putting off the final boss and going to do all the side content not for completionism…but just because I want an excuse to keep playing.
Well… Ok I do kinda have to eat my words here. I do hope that other playable characters will be more of a fixture and it won’t be a one off (like 3). But that was definitely the logical next step after Re:Mind to expand the gameplay so that’s a genuinely cool thing to see.
Xander@xanderhworks.bsky.social · 4d agoOK I have to ask… I get that Coco is a thematically fitting pick and all…but I was kinda hoping characters besides Sora would go to the Disney worlds. Otherwise what’s the point of him effectively dying? If he still gets to do the same old KH stuff?
Man, this is still one of my all-time favorite games ever made. Seriously. I think it's the best 2D Sonic game too. Obviously it built on classic concepts but it uses them flawlessly. Just an amazing game.
Christian Whitehead@cfwhitehead.bsky.social · 3d agoIt is now 9 years since Sonic Mania came out 😱... another trivia nugget: at one point we had a screen that showed you the animals that were inside the Heavies giving them their personalities! It didn't make the cut (maybe didn't comply with brand guidelines or there wasn't enough time IDK)
My favorite part of the trans Peter Parker art going around is that everyone understands Jameson would be incredibly supportive of Peter and hate Spidey for being a bad example to trans people. THAT'S understanding a character.
2027 got Final Fantasy XIV: Evercold, Final Fantasy VII Revelation, Kingdom Hearts IV, Persona 4 Revival, Pokemon Winds & Waves, Xenoblade Genesis, Spyro, Resident Evil Veronica, Virtua Fighter, Mega Man, Deltarune Chapter 6, and maybe even Sonic and Persona 6
In the 7 years since KH3 I feel like I have slowly become this guy when I watch trailers for 4. See the me of ten years ago WOULD know and care about Sigurd because he would have been in a 15-20 hour DS game and not a huge shitty gacha that’s also dead now. youtu.be/UrMr4iZPFz8?...
me watching Kingdom Hearts III trailers
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