ShadowsThePrideMammal

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Massive Sonic and Dragon Quest nerd CURRENTLY WATCHING: Dragon Ball, Sonic X CURRENTLY PLAYING: Emerald Dragon, & working on a marathon of all the sonic games/animated adaptations/comics cos I have too much free time They/Them

I genuinely think we’d be in a better place right now if English gaming media could’ve flushed all the casual racism towards Japanese art out of its system by 2010 or so. Instead everyone just saw the rise of AAA western games as a means to double down on that shit

"the graphics have caught up with our imagination" is intended as a compliment but is inadvertently damning of the whole project. Yeah, the imagination of Halo no longer exceeds a high-resolution tree. Cool.

The original Halo presented an alluring and mysterious setting that combined alien ruins with Pacific Northwest-inspired natural grandeur, but the level of detail back then simply hadn't yet caught up with the imagination. That's resolved here, with a gorgeous visual update that makes the whole campaign pop with excitement.

like you can absolutely have nuance in an oppressor/oppressed narrative not everyone on the oppressed side has to be an immaculate blorbo; not all of the oppressors need to be sneering snakes but this is NOT the time for a "if the oppressed got a chance they'd have a boot on YOUR neck" narrative

Final Fantasy IV turns 35 🎂 I've long believed this is the best one to start with if you're interested in Final Fantasy. It's the game where the series really found its stride, and kicked off an incredible 10 year run from 1991-2001.

FINAL FANTASY IV

Yeaaa I'm just gonna cop to getting really really really really really bored by ff7r personally? All the power in the world to people who love it but the dungeons just feel way longer than I'd care to be in them without enough going on to make me wanna be in there so it's just not for me

Mat Piscatella@matpiscatella.bsky.social · 3w ago

*starts FFVII Remake for the umpteenth time* 'This time, I'm playing it! For real! This time!' *game doesn't let you play for 10 seconds without interrupting you with text tutorials or cutscenes for what feels like an eternity* 'Oh well, maybe next time!' *deletes*

Microsoft is laying off 4,800 workers today. Its CEO made $96.5M in 2025, a 22% increase from the previous year. Microsoft made $101B in net income last year — and raked in up to $12.5B in tax breaks from Trump's Big Ugly Bill. This is what a rigged system looks like.

I'm reading fate stay night and I unironically adore how much effort and world building is going towards what if classic Chunibyou delusions were actually a thing, randomly chanting in German and cursed powers in my arm I must be careful about unleashing included it's so peak