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CRIMINAL SIMPSONS @criminalsimpsons.com · 5h

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 5h

The bloodbath is global. Everyone hears about layoffs at English-speaking sites like Polygon, but every other language just gets reported locally.

Jovem Nerd is big enough to get a cameo NPC & quest in Cyberpunk 2077. When they fired their game journalists, only Brazilians heard about that... :/

Andy Robinson @andyrobinson.bsky.social · 8h

More than 1,200 video game journalists have left major publications in the past two years, and not returned to the media, according to data supplied to VGC.

www.videogameschronicle.com/news/more-th...

More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC

According to Press Engine data, the global pool of games journalists has shrunk by 25%

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euphy 🩸🌀 @gutterbride.bsky.social · 14h

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H.K // デビル零 @devilrei.bsky.social · 7h

The whole elephant in the room wrt localization is that “adequate and cheap” is good enough for 90% of companies, and they really don’t care about what the audience outside of Japan gets as long as they make some profit

Jetzero Infinity @ Snobby Black Weeb @jetzeroinfinity.bsky.social · 8h

As the threat of AI translations and subtitles keeps rising, at some point we need to have the conversation about how the push for these are coming more from JP producers and publishers rather than western ones because the reality is Japan generally doesn't care that much about localization quality

unhinged eldritch abomination @rhymeswithk.bsky.social · 12h

Friends, #weebwednesday is upon us once again! You know the drill - quote-post with your weebiest hot takes, nothing racist, nothing intentionally inflammatory, have fun with it ♥

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airco @airco.bsky.social · 6h

"Turn on the news, it doesn't matter what channel."

Screenshot of Crash B-Daman anime. A destroyed skyscraper is shown on a bunch of screens.

Screenshot of Crash B-Daman anime. A completely different destroyed skyscraper is shown on a screen as a researcher who developed the weapon to do so crumples at the sight of what horrors his creation hath wrougth.

airco @airco.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah, the Bomberman licensed worked when the marble shooters were a generic thing you molded a copyright-ed little guy around, but after a while of Takara Tomy adding gimmicks and customization options during the Super B-Daman series, they just went and made their own little guys.

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airco @airco.bsky.social · 8h

the b-daman-inspired war weapons that the villain was selling to america are autonomous, so maybe it's more of a commentary on the drone strike program that would define the obama administration

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airco @airco.bsky.social · 8h

i'm always down for a good Lovers to Enemies myself

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Mel"The Smell"Troid @melfunnysmell.bsky.social · 9h

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airco @airco.bsky.social · 9h

yep, it's a play on ビー玉 and "Bomberman" because who else is gonna shoot your marbles for you

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airco @airco.bsky.social · 9h

I mean, there were; Hasbro sucks, but even they managed to import two generations of B-Daman (Battle and Crossfight). Bomber ones were a little too early, though. They shoulda tried with Bottleman, though, no excuse there.

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airco @airco.bsky.social · 9h

"Is Crash B-Daman commentary about 9/11?" I wonder, before remembering that the main game mode of the generation involves players building and then attempting to destroy twin towers.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

i don't get it. omen sushi in nyc is cheaper than nobu in malibu, where you dined last year without your wife

Michael Rapaport tweets: "How’s a so-called “working class” mayoral candidate like Zohran Mamdani eating at OMEN SUSHI tonight — one of the priciest joints in NYC? 🍣💰
This clown lives in a rent-stabilized apartment in Queens but dines like a diplomat on a Qatar-funded per diem.
Who’s paying for that toro, “Zoron the Moron”?"

There are two photos of Zohran Mamdani and his wife eating at a restaurant.

Michael Rapaport eating outside of a restaurant. There are some white canopy umbrellas around him and a tree in the background. Also the ocean and some fence.

Two photos. The first shows the outside of Nobu in Malibu. The second shows the area where Michael sat. There is the same tree, ocean, white canopy umbrellas, and fence.

The menu for Nobu in Malibu shows prices around $60. The menu for Omen Sushi in NYC shows prices around $35.

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airco @airco.bsky.social · 1d

hey yo, i translated this one, it's neat

Yen Press @yenpress.com · 1d

Cover Debut! - A Misanthrope Teaches a Class for Demi-Humans, Vol. 2 (manga)

The demi-human students of Shiranui High are going to school to learn how to behave like reguar humans. However, their teacher is Rei Hitoma, a human and a self-declared misanthrope!

Pre-order Here: buff.ly/mOb9gba

airco @airco.bsky.social · 1d

ten years of cooking for myself at this point and i still haven't figured out how to cook more than one (1) meal without giving myself a heart attack over nearly burning my apartment down

like yeah this boxed mac n cheese turned out good so i guess it's all right but still

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Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.social · 3d

It is deeply immoral that cashiers in the US are not allowed to sit.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 6d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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airco @airco.bsky.social · 1d

am i watching the hobbyani version of blood-c's ending

screenshot of blood-c anime. giant rabbit things are on screen. you don't wanna know the rest.

airco @airco.bsky.social · 1d

crash b-daman has gone from an arc about kidnapped adults doing forced labor in an underground mine to build secret b-daman war weaponry and is now in a tournament where entrants are put through traumatizing WW2 trench warfare to develop child soldiers before kidnapping them in giant nets.
Cartoons.

screenshot of crash b-daman anime. children in a b-daman tournament are shown being exploded by land mines(???).

crash b-daman screenshot. a bunch of children are captured in a net and are being drawn up into a helicopter.

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neko68k @rokumanhassen.jp · 1d

I need a body pillow shaped like a 68000 in a ceramic DIP package

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二倍だDouble @jinjiroubouei.bsky.social · 1d

happy challoween

Serebii.net @serebii.bsky.social · 2d

Serebii Update: The Pokémon GO Halloween 2025 Part 1 event is now rolling out globally.

Runs from 10:00 local time October 21st to 10:00 local time on October 27th

Details are being added @ www.serebii.net/pokemongo/ev...

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airco @airco.bsky.social · 2d

they really repeated the safety measures of "don't point these things at people" in the first episode just for these kids to fire rocket launchers at each other halfway through. it was really illuminating to learn what this show's tagline was.

airco @airco.bsky.social · 2d

To be fair, the JP msrp is ~20k yen/$130 USD, so a good chunk of that price there is just us getting assfucked by tariffs lol

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airco @airco.bsky.social · 2d

mid-20s? i thought the traditional hobbyani tournament stuff at the start was solid, but this dark lizard arc has just been completely off the rails.

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airco @airco.bsky.social · 2d

i've come around on Crash B-Daman since posting that. Not in the sense of going back on a single word I wrote, but I think I can at least change the nuance of its insanity from (derogatory) to (affectionate)

Screenshot of Crash B-Daman: a dude with one frame of animation falls from a hole in a blimp.

Chargeman Ken screenshot. FORGIVE ME, PROFESSOR VOLGA

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