I was really dragging my heels on sampling this one, afraid that it was gonna be needlessly complicated and I was gonna spend an hour just being lost. Nevertheless, I'm kinda tantalized by its complexities, not overwhelmed by them. Guess it hit me right after all!

Nate E-K@newertkrocker.bsky.social · 21h ago

Been on vacay, so am only now getting around to last week's #RandomBacklogSampler game -- SONGS OF SILENCE. They really threw in the kitchen sink here: turn-based tactics, 4X-style world map, autobattler, card-based gameplay... It's pretty overwhelming, but after about an hour, I was still playing!

Finally got around to seeing The Odyssey, and I agree both with folks who praise it as A Great Time at Da Cinema and folks who scoff at its awkwardness as Bronze Age Collapse parable

Last day of vacation and my parents are offering to take the kids for a couple hours so Kari and I can go see a movie in a real theater. Do we go see The Odyssey or The End of Oak Street?

See Persona 4 always resonated with me because it accurately represented my high school experience: hanging out with a bunch of silly idiots in a podunk town where there was nothing to do except meet up at the food court of the local big box store and occasionally go inside the TV to solve mysteries

Cravat クラバット🍷 @SUNNYCON!! <3<3<3@datcravat.bsky.social · 2w ago

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I reread H.G. Wells’ “The Empire of the Ants” this morning, and I highly recommend you do the same. Just a lovely bit of fiction. en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wor...

Baldur’s Gate 3’s combat was too fiddly and navigating the UI on console was a nightmare, so I gave up after a couple hours

I wrote a pretty fun, rather rough YA adventure novel when I was in my twenties, and I remain frustrated with myself that it was the only novel manuscript I ever completed. Feel like I might’ve been a pretty good writer of fiction if I’d kept at it

Part of my yearly reading goal involves re-reading some favorites that I haven’t revisited yet, so I’m currently in the middle of Paolo Bacigalupi’s THE WATER KNIFE, which, in addition to being a ripping great thriller, continues to hold a very high SFPS (Speculative Fiction Prescience Score)

The best way to honor John Crowley, take a couple minutes and read aloud the last paragraph of Little, Big.

"Today is August 4, 2026." Can't find my copy of The Martian Chronicles to take a photo of the actual published story, but it remains a collection well worth reading 76 years later: bookshop.org/a/862/9781668094853 #books #writing

Isabel J. Kim@isabel.kim · 2w ago

happy there will come soft rains day to all those who partake

Wall Market babes 👠✨ #FF7

Deeply envious of everyone who has a group of people with whom they can play Big Walk. I too wish to walk big.

🚨 RENOVATIONS COMPLETE! 🚨 After 34 months, today I unveil the final form of the single largest creative project of my life. THE NAMCO MUSEUM MUSEUM: EVERY GAME, EVERY COLLECTION, EVERY PORT! I've meticulously studied & presented EVERY single instance of Namco's historic game collections, for you!

The Namco Museum Museum | Every Game, Every Collection, Every Port! [REVISED & EXPANDED!]

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In response to the unprecedented number of game developers laid off this year, we have created a bundle on itch to benefit a Game Industry Hardship Fund, managed by @videogameworkers.bsky.social. More than 100 games for 10+ bucks! Please share widely and donate generously! itch.io/b/3802/game-...

Aw yeah, there we go: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcDv...

GO GHOST

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Nate E-K@newertkrocker.bsky.social · last mo.

When is that King Gnu song from the Science Saru Ghost in the Shell going to release in full? I can't get it out of my head and I need more than just the 90-second OP cut

Still booking mastering slots for August/Sept and I'd love to do more soundtrack/score work. Game and Film composers and mixers, get at me! I would love to collaborate on your OST. ❤️

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It probably feels good as hell to yell "ENOUGH!" and transition into the final phase of your fight.

Foretales is a really interesting game mechanically, and it’s got great style — very much worth picking up and sampling if you’re in possession of an Epic account

Cheap Ass Gamer@cheapassgamer.com · 4w ago

(PCDD) Foretales is Free via The Epic Games Store. OTXO & Sol Cesto Will be Free Next Week. https://ow.ly/Js4650Z7Eh0

With the Like A Dragon series evidently foundering, is Trails the sole remaining long-form soap opera in games??

Nate E-K@newertkrocker.bsky.social · 4w ago

#25 - The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III This series pulls its punches a little more often than I’d like, but every once in a while it lets one land — or sometimes several at once — and it can bring the weight of several story arcs to bear. I move excitedly on to the next.

It is as the legends foretold

Chris Kerr@kerrblimey.bsky.social · 4w ago

BREAKING: POINPY HAS RETURNED

@sfbdim.bsky.social Playing the original Detective Grimoire for the first time and I just wanna say that Sally’s features continuing to pop up in Grimoire’s internal puzzle-solving mechanics makes me laugh every single time. Impossibly charming.

I played the first few missions of Ace Combat 5 while flying across the country and I heartily recommend the experience

My flight’s been delayed for at least an hour, so I’m doing the only natural thing under the circumstances (watching THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE (1972) on my Steam Deck)

I still haven’t played Ys X because they announced the expanded version immediately after I bought my copy and I haven’t yet jumped through the hoop of selling/trading in my vanilla version to get a copy of the expanded edition

Mine was "Broken Arrow," which I didn't watch until I was about 11. Not a very auspicious start!

Patrick Klepek@patrickklepek.bsky.social · last mo.

Do you remember what *your* first R-rated movie was? I finally asked my mom (I couldn't remember), and she told me it was The Lost Boys when I was roughly the same age as my daughter (about 9). The movie traumatized her more than it did me, apparently

I need the Cleveland Guardians to cancel tonight's game so I don't have to tell my kids "yes, they're playing the game we have tickets for. no, i'm not comfortable with you each smoking two packs of cigarettes to go see it"

Man I had tickets for the Guardians game tomorrow night

Man c'mon

Even those of us living in the Mistake on the Lake are getting a bit of the Bad Air

When is that King Gnu song from the Science Saru Ghost in the Shell going to release in full? I can't get it out of my head and I need more than just the 90-second OP cut