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Loke @lokeloski.bsky.social · Jul 20

Bom, uma ideia que vinha me comendo espaço no cérebro desde o ano passado finalmente saiu do papel: comecei uma newsletter sobre tradução de videogame.

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Loke @lokeloski.bsky.social · 2h

Pensando em montar um plano B e tratar SP como "base de operações" para caso eu não consiga sair de novo do Brasil depois de voltar (nunca se sabe os capotes que a vida pode dar na gente, né).
Acesso fácil a aeroporto internacional e vários eventos de jogos, então vira um lugar conveniente pra isso.

Loke @lokeloski.bsky.social · 6h

Acho que a maior dificuldade em traduzir videogame é que, mesmo com passo de revisão depois, a tradução inicial já precisa estar em qualidade de texto editado.
Só que não há tempo suficiente pra ficar revisitando texto e mexendo nele até ficar bom, precisa acertar de primeira.

Loke @lokeloski.bsky.social · 10h

And as per the contract, Arthur Guinness will only be able to rest after the 9,000 years have passed.

[On a more serious note, 45£ must've been a fortune at the time.]

Arthur Guinness started brewing ales in 1759 at the St. James's Gate Brewery, Dublin. On 31 December 1759, he signed a 9,000 year lease at £45 per annum for the unused brewery. Ten years later, on 19 May 1769, Guinness first exported his ale: he shipped six-and-a-half barrels to Great Britain.

Loke @lokeloski.bsky.social · 22h

So yeah, it all ends up being me, my blog, and the few comments on posts here and there when I see something going through my timeline, haha.

Loke @lokeloski.bsky.social · 22h

And as someone with low social battery, even for online interaction, I'm sometimes a bit "want to chat, but don't want to bother". I try to keep in touch, but at the same time, I don't have the energy to start an interaction I'm not sure I'll be able to follow through adequately in a chat environ.

Loke @lokeloski.bsky.social · 22h

The "scattering of friends" and the subsequent "reduced communication" happen every time a social network goes down (which is why I have an account in almost every one of them lol). It sucks a lot, but at least my brain still processes them as friendship, even after long periods of silence.

Loke @lokeloski.bsky.social · 22h

Oof, but also, yeah. I like having my blog, but the lack of instant feedback that cohost provided with shares/comments hits differently. The environment there encouraged me to write about localization way more because it was easy to see what people thought was interesting.
In a blog? Not so much.

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 1d

Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI.

Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...

Loke @lokeloski.bsky.social · 1d

I truly believe that if companies thought about selling a game _forever_ instead of just during a console's lifespan, the industry would be way more healthier.
No need to "sell more copies than the last game at release" if all of the games are still available for purchase 20-30 years down the line.

Misty De Méo @cdrom.ca · 1d

I always knew companies treat remakes as straight replacements of the original games but it’s still galling seeing it said this plainly. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/capcom-...

“Capcom were like, ‘we have all of those remakes. It’s already the superior experience to those games’,” recalled Paczynski, who says he was one of the GOG members who led the project.

Loke @lokeloski.bsky.social · 1d

I never played the DS ones before because I didn't have a DS and emulators were terrible trying to run the ROMs in my PC.
It's _so_ good to have the minimap always showing on the screen, holy shit.

Loke @lokeloski.bsky.social · 1d

Played just a few minutes of Dawn of Sorrow and Portrait of Ruin (the rest of this week is going to be busy af) and, man, these games are incredibly nice to play. Control and combat feel _so_ smooth, almost like the SotN on the PSX.
I guess the GBA did have a lot of limitations.

Loke @lokeloski.bsky.social · 1d

I don't like killing spiders, but had to spray some poison, can't have them coming into the apartment as the weather gets colder.
They _usually_ don't cross inside anyway (seems they understand boundaries lol), but with this many spiderlings, it would 100% happen anyway.

Loke @lokeloski.bsky.social · 1d

The spider living inside the rails of my kitchen window changed. The old one either lost a battle to this one or died of old age. That's fine and all except this new one not only laid two bundles of eggs, but there were tons of spiderlings crawling around already.

Loke @lokeloski.bsky.social · 1d

Aria of Sorrow's hitboxes are kinda wonky, huh? Didn't expect that. Sometimes you hit the enemy, sometimes not, just because of 1 pixel, even tho weapon and enemy made contact.
The map is also pretty tiring to navigate.

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wargen @funeralpig.bsky.social · 2d

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. One for practice and the other one is the "main" grave.

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St1ka @st1ka.bsky.social · 2d

I am covering EVERY First Person Shooter EVER made in Japan.

From 1985 to 2025, that's over 40 years and 70 games of gaming history.

Link: youtu.be/F80Cl6WzBNo?...

This was without a doubt the most ambitious video I've ever made.

Loke @lokeloski.bsky.social · 2d

Às vezes eu fico pensando no que deve ter passado pela cabeça da Gillette quando ela foi convidada pra se apresentar com Short Dick Man em um programa infantil no Brasil.

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Alex (2.0 Remodel) @archiverxp.lol · 2d

bandcamp is pretty goated. just putting that out there.

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 3d

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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Úna-Minh 🔥 Play Eyes of Hellfire! @unaminh.bsky.social · 2d

Wow, ok FFVII. I see how it is.

Description from FFVII. Cid Highwind's age is highlighted as 32 and the description reads that he is a 'warm hearted old pilot'

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morrowind.txt @morrowind-txt.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, we heard Caius had been recalled. He said we'd still be forwarding our reports to him. I think he thought what you're doing is important -- whatever it is -- he didn't tell us -- and we weren't supposed to bother you.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 3d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
2? Questions
I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

Loke @lokeloski.bsky.social · 2d

One thing never changes, tho: the Clock Tower is always the worst part in any of the games. I hate it so much lol

Loke @lokeloski.bsky.social · 2d

What I like about the Castlevania sidescroller games post-SotN is that they are pretty easy to pick up and play, and you're not punished for missing secrets.
Great, casual games to play just for fun.

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Wanderjegson @wanderjegson.bsky.social · 3d

Imagining Jack Frost, Pikachu, and Agumon having a conversation

Loke @lokeloski.bsky.social · 3d

People like me, who don't have a Switch but have a jailbroken N3DS and have never played MonHun GenU, here's a tip: open hshop and search for the hshop ID 20134, and then 6774.
Downloading it from the hshop inside the N3DS works out of the box.
You're welcome.