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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 9h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 15h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Shedvolans @shedvolans.bsky.social · 11h

Damn, you're telling me the people who are racist in public are even more racist in private? I don't believe this.

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Politico @politico.com · 16h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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ParanoiaDragon @paranoiadragon.bsky.social · 2d

Casting call for dubbing the PC Engine version of Popful Mail

#PCEngine #TurboGrafx #TurboDuo #Falcom #HudsonSoft #NEC #gamedev #RETROGAMING

www.castingcall.club/projects/pop...

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Popful Mail PC Engine English Dub. <p><em>Magical Fantasy Adventure Popful Mail</em> is a 1991 computer game for the PC88 developed by ...

www.castingcall.club

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t understand why we need a “Columbus Day” when this country celebrates incompetent white men failing up and taking what isn’t theirs all year round.

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Hatok @hatok.bsky.social · 1d

they don't make goons like this anymore

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Shedvolans @shedvolans.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, they developed that game in 3 years on new hardware as their first HD game. I think they killed it under those conditions and it's absolutely a quality product, but it had its fair share of flaws for sure.

Gen 10 looks to be on a 4 year cycle so hopefully that's enough time to cook it right.

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Shedvolans @shedvolans.bsky.social · 1d

The devs realized that more =/= better but still want to introduce more pokemon to keep the series going so they compromised with the new approach and it works. Completing a game's national dex isn't a tremendous pain in the ass anymore. And Home is still there for the long-time collectors.

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Shedvolans @shedvolans.bsky.social · 1d

It's not a matter of how many people will buy the games, believe it or not but the devs at GF actually care about delivering a quality product, and bloating one game's national dex with every single pokemon would make it more of a mess than a quality product. Gens 6 and 7 were already getting there.

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Shedvolans @shedvolans.bsky.social · 1d

Also, competitive is a core pillar of the series and is something that by necessity needs to be taken into account with every mainline game.

It's not the main draw but you can't just brush it aside as something that can be comfortably ignored either, VGC is huge.

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Shedvolans @shedvolans.bsky.social · 1d

I mean yes, it's absolutely possible to have 1200 pokemon in a game.

It'd be a bloated broken mess with next to no animations or the usual charm that the series has, and would have to be half as ambitious in all other facets, but if you're arguing solely that the number is possible then sure.

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Shedvolans @shedvolans.bsky.social · 1d

Again, you are comparing a game with 1200 monsters that have no animations at all and no competitive to balance around, and you keep saying it's proof that GF can do the same in their games with tons of animations and a competitive scene.

I doubt even massive AAA studios could pull all of that off.

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Shedvolans @shedvolans.bsky.social · 1d

Pokemon games are nearly as complicated with as many if not more moving parts than most AAA games and are made with half the team size and half the time.

BG3 took at least twice the time to develop if not more than the typical Pokemon game. Again, this is far, far more complicated than "hire more"

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Shedvolans @shedvolans.bsky.social · 1d

TCPi is in charge of the most profitable franchise on the planet. Game Freak is in charge of the games that make a small fraction of that profit. Simply throwing money at the problem and hiring more people is not a feasible solution the same way adding more lanes doesn't stop traffic jams.

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Shedvolans @shedvolans.bsky.social · 1d

Something tells me you don't know how much work it is to model, animate, and balance hundreds of playable characters, let alone over 1000. Even with simple animations, though pokemon animations are way more complex than you seem to think too.

Next to impossible with the teams and timeframes GF has.

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Shedvolans @shedvolans.bsky.social · 1d

Never heard of that so I looked it up. Shame about it using AI for translations because it looks dope otherwise.

It's also a 2D game with still sprites for the monsters and far as I can tell no competitive multiplayer to balance around those 1200 mons. So not really a good comparison here.

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Wanderjegson @wanderjegson.bsky.social · 1d

Imagining Jack Frost, Pikachu, and Agumon having a conversation

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

If you're wondering whether or not to get a flu shot, I didn't get one in time, and I just had a fever dream where I was in the Drew Carey Show because several days ago I was on the Wikipedia page for the Drew Carey Show. You don't have to do this to yourself.

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Shedvolans @shedvolans.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly yeah, there's no real comparison

K. Rool is WAY more interesting and awesome than Dracula.

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Shedvolans @shedvolans.bsky.social · 1d

Not a very high percentage but that has nothing to do with what Pat said tbh. Nor does what makes it "interesting to watch"

But also, almost everything you've referred to doesn't apply to the official competitive format at all, which imo is way more interesting than 6v6 singles.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 1d

democrats pretend winning elections is this Herculean task when all they have to do is follow the blueprint of the guy who won so hard they changed the rule to "you can only be president for 8 years"

logo, acting spoopy @logophobe.bsky.social · 2d

Step 1: disband ICE
Step 2: give ICE's entire bloated budget to the IRS
Step 3: record white collar crime task force kicking in penthouse doors and macing unresisting billionaires
Step 4: one hundred years of Dem reign

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Benson @ Sky 1st + Backlog Hell @amiiboarcanav2.bsky.social · 1d

Unpopular opinion: leak culture in gaming needs to fucking die

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Shedvolans @shedvolans.bsky.social · 1d

Oh yeah you're right in fact I bet you could go make a team right now and go up against an average competitive player or even above average one and just switch to type advantage and I'm sure you'll win.

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Shedvolans @shedvolans.bsky.social · 1d

It's way up there for sure but things are so goddamn stupid lately that I could honestly see it not even cracking the top 10 despite topping most any other year.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

I know it’s the most obvious thing in the world but it’s really sad that so many people have absolutely no desires or dreams in life except to accumulate money and our entire world is becoming a fucking pit because of it

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