The Balsa Master (@balsamaster.bsky.social)
Kazuya has officially fallen in with a bad crowd.
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At times I'm Hatsune Miku.
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It's like people are actively brainstorming new and innovative ways to be stupid.
Yuri Posting (@yuriposts.bsky.social) reposted
Artist: puni (punycolors) Media: g gundam, gundam, gundam suisei no majo Source: https://twitter.com/wokutoAMAGI/status/1676574690486403072
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Oh hey, it's that pizza place from Code Geass and that defunct konbini chain from Girls und Panzer.
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It's kind of a weird sentiment, since I'm almost saying "she lets you get away with bad writing", but that's not really what I mean. She's sort of a built-in fourth wall as she analyzes things in a textual way without actually getting meta or anything, and I think that's pretty nifty.
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"The Best and the Rest" skit in Berseria (51:17) really highlights how great having Magilou is. It's only because she is how she is that you can say something so on the nose, and gives you the excuse to say something cool you'd otherwise have to gussy up all subtly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD9X...
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My literal favorite thing in the world
The Eclectic Gaymer (@eclecticgaymer.bsky.social) reposted
Amerzone (2025, PS5) Rating: 9.5/10 First, Werner Herzog would *love* this game. Second, who in the world asked for a remake of this obscure 1999 point and click title? Whoever it was.. thank you! This was an incredible journey. Beautiful scenery, exquisite music, intriguing world. I was engrossed.
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cockney monogatari dub when??
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Meanwhile Ajisai is probably like, "woo, eloping with Rena-chan!"
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Well, I at least don't get my reward. Let's see if their support, which their website very much obfuscates, can make this work.
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Imagine if Microsoft never introduced XP product activation. Person most responsible for that should be tried in the Hague
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I lied, I'd started with the "free" product that still requires auth, finally figured it out, got excited, and now the paid thing seems to be unauthorizeable completely. Fuck drm so hard.
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On the plus side, compared to what I used to do that no longer seems to work (authorize as admin user), I no longer have to run my DAW as an admin user which was always really shitty. Tho now there's some popup complaining that it's not run in admin, but if anything it's a reminder not to use these.
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DRM is the fucking devil.
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I should get some kind of monetary reward for getting ancient IK Multimedia instruments running and working. I should put that money toward going through every ancient song file I've ever made, no matter how crap, and updating it to use some other instrument so I never have to do this again.
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Me: "My cat is so sweet and aloof" Me: "My cat is literally Hitler."
Andrew "Steiner" Hodgson (@distantvalhalla.bsky.social) reposted
It's that time of year again.
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I fucking love horses games.
MrPatastic (@animerambles.bsky.social) reposted
Mama bear Kabura was fun to see! Nazuna opening up to her brood about her relationship with the detective & even apologizing was unexpected. I like the development Nazuna has been getting this season, even if the rest has been uneven. #CallOfTheNight #anime
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This describes my perfect game, though I am a dirty ~ Lamb ~.
Yuri Posting (@yuriposts.bsky.social) reposted
Artist: hisa09 Media: yahari ore no seishun lovecome wa machigatteiru. Source: https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/83309982
Jaiden Shephard (@mrulity.bsky.social) reposted
The Sleepy Driver Mako-chan Appreciation Screenshots for Her Birthday!!🎉🎂 #Anime #GirlsUndPanzer #冷泉麻子 #MakoReizei #冷泉麻子生誕祭 #冷泉麻子生誕祭2025 #ガールズパンツァー #ガルパン #Garupan
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Happy Birthday to the Sleepy Driver of a Main Character's Panzer...🎉🍰 i made this Drawing for you Fans of Mako... she is my favorite overall! watching Girls Und Panzer is a Whole lot of Experience... World of Tanks The Anime! Enjoy♥️ #冷泉麻子 #MakoReizei #冷泉麻子生誕祭 #冷泉麻子生誕祭2025 #ガールズパンツァー #ガルパン #Garupan
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wtf
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Played a bunch of FF, Mega Man, Resident Evil, Mario, Zelda... but haven't comprehensively played everything in any of those unless you narrow it down to something that's shorter anyway ("All the NES Mega Mans" is only 6). If I played MM11, maybe 1-11 + Powered Up could get me to 12 for OG Mega Man?
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Seeing this made me realize there are almost no long series where I've actually played all the entries to completion. I've played all the Silent Hill what weren't mobile/arcade/shovelware. That's 11... 8 mainline games, two short free games and one remake. Really can't think of anything longer.
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Artist: cosmic (crownclowncosmic) Media: shokei shoujo no virgin road Source: https://twitter.com/crownclowncos/status/1545381047289884679
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To this day, my mind remains blown at how Tales of Berseria foreshadowed the Xillia cameo in its introductory section.
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For everything wrong with the English-speaking world, we at least have had no barriers to our whole-hearted embracing of bukkake.
Demi (@bloodygoodgamer.bsky.social) reposted
Battler running up the endless staircase from Mario 64 but the Bowser Portaits are Beatrice Portaits. (Battler doesn't *believe* in endless staircases)
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Tom Clancy's My Little Sister Can't Possibly Be This Cute
Yuri Posting (@yuriposts.bsky.social) reposted
Artist: torinone Media: girls und panzer Source: https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/95064307
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It's apparently a high performance birthday #ATRI store.steampowered.com/news/app/123...
kate bush’s husband (@airbagged.bsky.social) reposted
This is gonna piss off the biggest losers who had zero intention to play the game
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That sounds exactly like what someone who wants to ruin your life would say.
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This is the story of Rena Ryugu having a blast.
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If anything, Ruka's somehow become EVEN MORE impenetrable with less cryptic text pointing at her. Was she having a blast? Or even just some good old fun? Reiji will slow burn it to death and never tell us. #kanokari
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As I get caught up on Rent-A-Girlfriend, I'm dying to know whether the anime will finally answer the big question of whether or not Ruka was having a blast. #kanokari
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7. Character Theme - Kefka (FF6) Also reminds me of Bach. Kefka's theme isn't a fugue, but the melody reminds me specifically of Little Fugue, one of Bach's most recognizable songs. Sweet Jesus is FF6 one of the most melodically strong soundtracks in human history. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxe7...
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This is a big threat to the touchHLE project and all emulators and software preservation projects on Android more generally. Please do what you can to push back against this, while you still can.
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Hadn't touched the save in like a year and didn't remember, so it was a total surprise to me, too.
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Don't have screenshots, but I put all my Berseria characters in towels before my new game plus, so all the characters get introduced in their towels and half of them you can't change their outfits until a while after they're introduced. "You'll be fighting him!"
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6.1 Kid playing Dancing Mad on a real organ Just sharing this along the way. He also did a great One Winged Angel, an obvious second choice for this category—also great, more iconic, not quite as mindblowingly amazing and certainly overexposed at this point. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ-O...
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6. Final Boss Theme - Dancing Mad (FF6) Bach meets progressive rock. Amazing that this exists at all, much less as the final boss music for an SNES game. God has blessed us, even if God is a clown. www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6Ug...
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5. Dungeon Track - Ultimecia's Castle (FF8) I was tempted to put Devil's Lab from FF6 because its industrial funk is great, but have to go with this. Moody, baroque gothic horror, which also reminds me of the third movement of... www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd1a...
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4. Overworld Theme - Terra (FF6) Feels a bit unfair to every other Final Fantasy that they used an Ennio Morricone-inspired arrangement of a character theme for the overworld, but that doesn't stop it from being the best. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUg8...
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3. Vocal Track - Eyes on Me (FF8) Nobuo Uematsu wrote one of the most perfect love ballads ever, and got the generational talent of Faye Wong to sing it AND it's brilliant lyrically as Julia's song. Her version of The Cranberries' Dreams is at the end of this clip. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUuu...
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2. Battle Theme - FF1 Already going back to FF1 for the second and last time... I legitimately think it's fucking awesome. Started the iconic bass line intro, but it also clearly reads to me as a metal song. Listen on the NES, chiptune music plays and I hear this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=n81G...
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1.2 - "Modern" Prelude - FF6 For the "arranged, monophonic arpeggio" version, FF6's is the best. Harp and flute used elsewhere in the game are great, make it cohesive, and the flute swings into the notes and does all these great little flourishes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi_x...
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1.1 - Prelude NES Notes You can see what it's doing here, just to illustrate the point. Also, the VII'th round of apreggios (29 seconds in) is basically J-E-N-O-V-A. God damn did that game love to do things with its number. :p www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLST...
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1. Prelude - Final Fantasy I The original NES version of the prelude in FF1 does this sort of concurrent delayed/round/chorded arpeggio thing. FF2/3 have the monophonic arpeggio we know today and 4+ introduced the strings. FF1's is, such, ethereal as all hell. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYE4...
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Going to be heavily FF1, FF6 and FF7-biased, but felt like doing this Final Fantasy Favorite Music Opinion thing.
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Speaking of green-haired oni with a taser...
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Just occurred to me that Ruka is basically Lum without a taser. I never really got the Ruka hate. #kanokari
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The most sensual weather event.
☕ doodlemancy (pumpkin spice) (@doodlemancy.com) reposted
oh im gonna get some mileage out of this one
Axelsaurus (@axelsaurus.bsky.social) reposted
Although I appreciate the Xenoblade 2-3 or Guilty Gear style, I think the "anime" design hasn't been translated as well since the early 2000s wildly expressive face swaps. I wish we could reach this level of expressiveness with more modern techniques.
Jaiden Shephard (@mrulity.bsky.social) reposted
i made my First Rent-A-Girlfriend Drawing... so here's the Best Girl(sorry Chizuru Fans)💕 Happy Birthday Ruka-chan!!!🎉🎂 #Waifu #Ruka #更科瑠夏生誕祭 #更科瑠夏生誕祭2025 #彼女お借りします #かのかり #Kanokari
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This "episodes will only be up for a week" thing with #watanare seems to be like those products that are never not on sale and the sale price is actually just the price.
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SHOUT IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS:
Yen Press (@yenpress.com) reposted
NEW NOVEL ANNOUNCEMENT: Casebook of Kurumi Tokisaki, Magic Detective A magic bullet fired from an impossible angle; a doll mixed up in a series of comas; an expensive meal said to restore youth; and a doppelganger spotted at an all-girls' school. Magic Detective Kurumi Tokisaki is on the case!
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Every letter in the main part of Genesis looks like it might stab you to death except for the N (which is like an H that got fucked up in the factory) and the I.
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Wrecked him? I didn't even know him!
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Definitely think Genesis is the better name. For a computer-adjacent thing, I want mega drive to refer to some sort of storage drive, which it definitely doesn't, and that breaks my brain. I do appreciate the very liquid metal vibes in the mega drive logo, but also the sharp edges of the genesis.
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Watari-kun's ****** Is About To Prolapse
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This watari-kun shot just screams "visual novel CG" to me so hard I may be going deaf.
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That is one hot mic
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