Murph04

@murph04.bsky.social

Some people laugh, I suppose Talk about Video Games on The Daydreamcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4fI3YMKs6KZ1QpKlLQsKYG Talk about Nonsense on This Podcast is a Bad Idea: https://open.spotify.com/show/6uO8FNXpamHgqYmBGPDH2I

I know DCU: Online is the go-to for clowning on live-service failures, but I think it's also worth acknowledging that fucking ADVENTUREQUEST and all it's spin-offs still get regular updates

A tweet from fantabeetlejuice quote-tweeting the news about 2XKO shutting down in December
"DC Universe Online has outlasted another live-service game"The News Portal on Battleon.com for AdventureQuest
"Archives of Oulbara coming August 2026: Gear up for a legendary semester!"

So you're telling me Kingdom Hearts teases the direction of it's next phase by directly invoking a cancelled game, then the title meant to kick-off that next phase is itself cancelled? AND that game was titled "Missing Link"??

The E3 Reveal trailer for Final Fantasy Versus 13 juxtaposed with the secret ending of Kingdom Hearts 3 Re:MindKingdom Hearts: Missing Link

Books used to be called shit like "Solomon Sure and the Colosseum of the Fire Lords" and 200 pages would be Solomon Sure trapped in a cave debating nationbuilding with a minority and then in the last 10 pages they fight in a colosseum ran by some dudes with an oven

When the flush of a newborn sun fell first on Eden's beautious everness, Our father Adam sat under the Tree and mashed out a sequence on his leverless; And the first combo that the world had seen was joy to his prefrontal, Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves: "It's flashy, but is it optimal?"

"Had you consumed the breadth of the genre and classics therein when you said this entry was good?" "Ain't telling..." I hiss through crushed ribs. My head is smashed against the wall. "IS IT GOOD SET AGAINST CANON, OR ONLY ACCORDING TO YOUR LIVED EXPERIENCE?" "Fuck you." I spit blood on their face.

You ever think about how there are half-formed versions of you littering the internet? Abandoned forums, fanfics left standing, maybe a personal blog you haven't updated in 20 years. Crystalizing a version of you at maybe your cringiest, angriest or most optimistic.

Game with a tutorial fairy that's excited to tell you stuff, but when you skip their dialogue they get really quiet and distant for a while and later ask if you hate being around them