I choose to believe that all the Monolith Soft staff were passionately arguing for this internally
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I choose to believe that all the Monolith Soft staff were passionately arguing for this internally
[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that
I presume that, like all good monarchs, he has bravely entered a match-three scenario shark-infested sewer with only rocks to back him up purely of his own accord
Well, it’s meant to be medieval Poland, so by my calculations, Geralt needs to fight the Teutonic Order
I’m optimistic just because a lot of the stuff in the trailer was very unique and interesting, but FE has a track record of learning the wrong lessons. “Why did everyone buy Awakening, the first game we really bothered to advertise? It was definitely the large empty maps, fill Birthright with them”
I don’t think that’s true- different eras of the franchise look extremely distinct in art style. Engage is most obvious but also SoV looks different to the Kozaki games, different to Shadow Dragon I picked up pretty quickly in the new trailer that it was connected to 3H because of how it looked!
Keeping Mandelson would mean Number 10 thinks not following a recommendation to take specialist tax advice is a resigning matter, but believing the world’s most notorious paedophile over his victims and lying about your post-conviction contact with him isn’t. That’s…not a sustainable position.
Tennessee Williams died in 1983, so he was alive at the same time as Venus and Serena - the other tennis-y Williams
Do we all get to freely sink one boat because of our trauma or is it just him?
And this was done as part of any coherent geopolitical strategy, legal or illegal: it was done to create a fan-service snuff film for social media.
I was just reading a book which covered the US reaction to the Lusitania sinking, and while of course it was always hypocritical and self-serving at times there was a lot of genuine horror being expressed at this German ‘frightfulness’. And then this
I do actually own an Austria-Hungary flag (the civil ensign which has a clear Austrian and Hungarian part) but it’s comically large so even if I wanted to I don’t think I could hang it anywhere. I’m sure there’s a metaphor in that somewhere
What a low, despicable person Starmer has shown himself to be, and for nothing.
I vaguely remember one like ‘if you go to the library in Mario Galaxy and spin 25 times you unlock a Twilight Princess demo/transform into Wolf Link’. It wasn’t part of the zeitgeist like a 90s playground rumour, but late 2000s GameFaqs ‘secrets’ sections could certainly hold their own!
I’m always saying this
The problem is, I think ZA might not have abilities just like Arceus didn’t, meaning that megas might end up feeling like ‘Hawlucha but he’s more powerful’ rather than giving them something interesting, like for example Charizard X, Pinsir, Sableye
I’m kind of finding these reveals underwhelming, not because of the designs but just because they don’t have abilities. I don’t have any sense of what these guys do, only what they look like
What happens when a government with no moral scruples ends up with vastly overcrowded internment camps because they are trying to deport people to countries who are not rushing to receive them, I wonder
I always liked Despotar and Brutalanda but the best German Pokémon name is Relaxo
This is nightmarishly bad. Like this is no longer a joke, someone has to take action. He has to be fired from the premiership.
Also I appreciated there being a remix of NSMB DS’s Athletic theme. That game’s soundtrack has barely been used since while NSMB Wii started showing up everywhere
'Is it time for the Government to drown innocent human beings for political advantage?' and other questions now apparently deemed acceptable in the British media
god I hate this I hate this I hate it I hate it, I hate that the mainstream right has gone this mad and racist and radicalised, I hate that no one seems to know how to stop it from getting worse, it worries me so much and I hate it all
There’s little cartoon frogs in the other versions of the game hidden throughout the levels, but the 3DS version replaces them with Yoshi dolls and he makes his SNES Yoshi sound when you shoot them
And the 3DS version has a compelling reason to exist, which is ‘there are little Yoshis in it’
I write a lot about miserable game development stories, so it sure was a pleasure to hear that one of the reasons Silksong took so long was that Team Cherry is having too much fun making it and didn't want to stop
They removed the Nintendo Today listing because it wasn’t supposed to have been announced yet
Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Bulbasaur, Ivysaur, Venusaur, Charmander, Charmeleon, Charizard, Squirtle, Wartortle, Blastoise, Caterpie, Metapod…. …Hydrapple, Gouging Fire, Raging Bolt, Iron Boulder, Iron Crown, Terapagos and Pecharunt.
The demo version of Mario Kart: Double Dash contains an unused Game Over screen. Notably, the smoke graphics used here are humorously called "smork" internally. It is unknown if this is a legitimate misspelling of "smoke" or if the word was deliberately spelled in a funny way.
I know I’m not telling anyone anything new here, but this is a massive “Show me who you really are” moment for America’s mainstream media institutions: Faced with a naked authoritarian power grab, the Washington Post has decided to look for ways to normalize rather than oppose the regime.
Wouldn’t that be more accurately conveyed by just removing the word ‘observant’ though?
In general there are very few games I would ever want remade. Either rerelease it as it was or make a new one FE is only complicated because they lack localisations and that makes rereleases less likely (though not impossible!). A remake would probably change so much of FE4’s identity
The biggest and worst thing to happen in politics over the past decade is the mainstream right losing its mind. Actual reasonable centre right conservatives are like giant pandas. We’re going to have to breed them in captivity
Ralph Richardson is in Doctor Zhivago which gives me another excuse to share this, my favourite ever theatre anecdote
Nine years ago it would have seemed quite familiar after Microsoft launched a chatbot that quickly went Nazi. But that was because they had failed to consider bad actors, whereas now the whole thing is engineered by bad actors en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(ch...
This is true and also, increasingly, I am less and less understanding of a public that indulges these lies - because what is meant by illegal in too many minds is "inhuman". And that belief is encouraged by the media, yes, but at some point citizens have to take responsibility for it too.
Well you see, we will release a limited part of our soundtrack in Japan, and nowhere else, about a year from now. So we couldn’t possibly put it on the app. We are very smart
But it wasn’t all bad, at least he paid for the construction of Vienna’s city walls
There’s a little Sean Bean who lives in my Nintendo and he always seems to have a quip prepared when I discover something I thought was new. Why aren’t these AI boffins making better of this
me when I get beaten to a wonder in Civilization: it's plain to see that someday the video game industry will soon be taken over by Emperor Qin Shi Huang
I'm currently in immigration exile, see below. Since I'm stateside, I'll be talking to the Morbidly Curious Book Club tonight at 7 pm EST about Victorian surgery and my first book, The Butchering Art. Please come and distract me with your questions. Link below 👇 www.youtube.com/live/Hl3OO7p...
I’m perfectly willing to believe that they were attempting 5D chess but if your grand strategies are gradual plans that are completely destroyed by you losing the election, they were not good strategies
@ostrl.bsky.social
“If you know anything about American history you would know that it’s deeply culturally linked to Britain, and used to belong to something called the British Empire. I bet you didn’t know that, checkmate!”
In the end the TV series will be worth it, but only for the enjoyment of his posting about it
This has made me wonder if Japanese sources ever refer to Oliver Cromwell as a shogun
Fun fact: the 18 Numberblock is voiced by Rasmus Hardiker, who is also Tora from Xenoblade 2- it’s pretty recognisably the same too
Tragically, the DLC gives us one of the best written characters in the franchise’s history but gives him the worst haircuts known to man
Incredible article about a bunch of children - now in their 50s and 60s - who were taught to read using a doomed alternate alphabet invented by a Tory MP www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Radical is not an inherently bad word and I don’t think you get to complain about it if you have endorsed it as self-description before! bsky.app/profile/zack...
Remember that this happened because Arin hated Rob Schneider’s sitcom so much he went on an extended rant about it during Mario Maker (and by general consensus he was right, it was awful)
Seems like it’s not available anymore, or I don’t understand the Argos website
Look there’s a lot of competition but tagging @jamellebouie.net in a post about a random diplomatic maneuver in Africa may be one of the most racist things Vance has ever put his name to. He even doesn’t cover foreign policy! It’s literally the VPOTUS declaring “you people are all the same to me.”
Interesting that Harebrayne’s badge is the modern German flag 🇩🇪 when in the game he has the period-accurate Imperial German flag
Numbers unclear: organisers hoped for 35k to 40k to defy the threat of legal consequences. “We believe 180,000 to 200,000 people attending,” Viktória Radványi told AFP. “It is hard to estimate because there have never been so many people at Budapest Pride.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
According to media estimates the participants to the Budapest Pride may have been in the hundreds of thousands defying the ban 📸: Gábor Tenczer, Balázs Ivándi-Szabó
Fire Emblem Awakening does have a lot going for it but none of that is gameplay. On several occasions this game presents you with a big open field and proclaims it to be level design. Very few levels approach the complexity and interest that was standard for the series before
Austria-Hungary, July 28, 1914
No one wanted this!
I remember reading that it also carried some Polish exiles to the UK from Mexico, but what the rest of the story is there I have no idea
If only there were an accepted and widely recognised word for that phenomenon
That doesn’t make any sense If terrorism as a term is wilfully used to imply state violence is more OK than non-state, how does using it for state violence too strengthen that?
I don't want to live in David Frost or Matt Goodwin's country, that country would be shit.
ToTK is a game that frustrates me more every time I think about it. Why did you make a whole new map the size of the original game, make the whole thing look the same, and put nothing in it
What’s the top-left manga?
I believe the rights to Xenoblade music are owned by Mitsuda’s studio, and they chose to release the soundtracks for digital purchase on iTunes- I don’t think they’re going to come to the app at all. If you want them you have to buy them!
Xenoblades 1-3 are available for digital purchase on iTunes, I don’t think they’re likely to come to the app at all
Apparently that’s right for higher difficulties, but on lower ones XCOM has its own methods of trickery… bsky.app/profile/itha...
The mystery then is just why FE6 specifically had such an unfair reputation- people used to say that it rolls for crit before hit, which isn’t true and has never been! The best theory is just that hit rates in 6 are lower generally so people have more annoying, memorable misses
Unfortunately the game that introduced this system, which usually is cheating in your favour, has a completely unwarranted reputation for screwing you over with the RNG
In most Fire Emblem games, hit chances above 50% are more likely to hit than the displayed chance, and chances below 50% are less likely to hit than the displayed chance- because players never expect to miss a 99% and never expect to get hit by a 10%
I feel compelled youtu.be/spQ8WLoT2Hc?...
Playing Celeste for the second time. Last time I did Chapters 1-8, A-sides and B-sides, and left it at that… this time I managed to halve my death count for those and now am most of the way through the C-sides. Chapter 9 might prove too much though
… Today that image they created is being circulated all over social media by official DHS and WH accounts. They’re all very excited about it! I suppose someone might want to ask govt officials how they happened to be using anti-immigrant images created by open white supremacists. Seems bad.
In case you want to buy a 5m tall, 1.4 ton statue of an Austro-Hungarian cavalryman, there's one for sale: www.troostwijkauctions.com/en/l/statue-...
Fire Emblem but it’s set in the Habsburg Army in WW1. Not very narratively compelling since the army eventually melts away, maybe we can have a timeskip to the interwar period and get the old gang back together to fight some kind of evil dragon/Hitler
Gamerant and about a billion other guide websites have optimised SEO by churning out a dedicated page for every possible question, which then also means churning out useless AI paragraphs so that people stay on the page slightly longer. It makes finding any guides for anything such a nuisance !
Switch 2 is the first console in history to have Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones available on day one, making it the greatest console of all time
Ruling both Lombardy and Bosnia at the same time even though they never actually managed it… that’s LGBT+
Franz Joseph’s politics changed a lot over the course of his reign, what’s one more string in his bow
Yeah, I'm for LGBT rights Lombardy Galicia Bosnia Transylvania
I did notice a part of this image and assumed there was some crucial flour or fridge knowledge I was missing
I think we’ll probably get the Welcome Tour soundtrack added pretty quickly, a way to promote Switch 2 but also probably not something that would be selling soundtrack CDs in itself!
russian nuclear aircrafts are shredded, happy Pride
In the last three US elections there have only been two major candidates who were not ‘old men with applesauce for brains’, both of whom lost. The voters want applesauce
Unless Mozart Balls have led me astray he was a big fan of spheres, Galaxy’s spherical planets make it perfect for him
Oops, I missed that!
Does anyone know if this stuff was ever made available in Japan? Or if the US disc would be able to grant access in non-US versions of FE7?
What collectibles did Woolly World have? I only remember the little yarn bundles that I think unlocked costumes and I thought they were fine, pretty standard platformer collectible fare
I read a duology once where book 2 had far worse reviews. Loads of them said ‘X character was so competent in the first one and now he’s unbelievably useless’. In the first book, said character thought he was great but everything he actually did was stupid fell apart!
Goodwin is sadly predictable these days, but still a disgrace.
This is—it bears repeating—ethnic cleansing and a war crime. It feels utterly pointless to say, and roughly equivalent to screaming into the void, but the United States should not be supporting or providing any aid to a state that has ethnic cleansing as a policy position.
On the Civ VI subreddit a common complaint is that if you do some big wars then every other Civ hates you forever. That is to say, the game has systems designed to make your life difficult if you decide to conquer the world. But people want to conquer the world *and* have everyone like them
at first you think "ah the dog is passively having fun" and then you realize the dog knows how to steer the skateboard and THEN you learn the dog knows how to PROPEL the skateboard
In Fire Emblem Three Houses (a game and franchise which definitely has this problem usually!), when you have your characters kill enemies for the first time they all have brief lines about it; some of them do standard ‘I won, great!’ but some of them are like ‘oh god, I think I’m going to be sick’
Béla Kun must be a very difficult historical figure to take seriously if you’re Japanese
One Hungarian novelist, Mór Jókai, was extremely famous in Victorian Britain and very widely read. But as far as I can tell his stuff has never been published in English since that era which is bizarre!
On an unrelated note I sure could go for some piracy right now, I presume there will be no negative consequences
And Reginald Pole came close in the 1550s which would’ve been pretty significant for England, since the guy who beat him turned out to be quite hostile to Mary I’s regime for basically no reason