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spoonshiro

@spoonshiro.com

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Old man gamer, lover of retro games (especially RPGs), computer geek, writer, retired streamer. Guy who's reviewed over 500 RPGs and always hunting for more awesome ones. https://www.spoonshiro.com https://www.rpgreats.com

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spoonshiro @spoonshiro.com · Sep 9

September promo post

I've reviewed over 500 RPGs on RPGreats and nerd about retro games of all sorts.

A few favs:

* PC games on Linux
* Mario, Zelda, Metroid
* Fallout
* Dragon Quest
* Final Fantasy
* Classic Phantasy Star
* Ultima
* XCOM
* Baldur's Gate
* Undertale/Deltarune
* Mother/Earthbound

RPGreats

RPG reviews from actual RPG fans, not influenced by advertisers, crooked content networks, corporate shills or fanboyism!

RPGreats.com

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spoonshiro @spoonshiro.com · 6h

I'm going with bad greenscreen F-Zero

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spoonshiro @spoonshiro.com · 6h

I'll hold out for a remaster so I can play it at more than 20 FPS

spoonshiro @spoonshiro.com · 6h

Aw snap. My favorite unburied internet skeleton is finally gone after going unupdated for a quarter of a century

RIP AOLwatch

Dreamhost error page where AOLWatch.org used to be

spoonshiro @spoonshiro.com · 7h

Today on Ghost of Yotei: Atsu joins the Polar Bear Club

spoonshiro @spoonshiro.com · 8h

a puppet in a tuxedo and bow tie is pointing at the camera with the words i 'll allow it below him .

Alt: a puppet in a tuxedo and bow tie is pointing at the camera with the words i 'll allow it below him .

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spoonshiro @spoonshiro.com · 8h

If your good deeds and acts of kindness are purely transactional that doesn't make you a good person

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spoonshiro @spoonshiro.com · 9h

That's about 38 hours longer than I was able to stand it. What a fucking turd of a game

spoonshiro @spoonshiro.com · 10h

Well there's one upside to Christmas starting earlier every year
Egg Nog baybee

spoonshiro @spoonshiro.com · 11h

What's the worst game you finished/rolled credits on?

I was bored enough in 1998 to finish Quest 64 if that tells you anything

Steve Will Shan @stevewillshan.bsky.social · 11h

What's the worst game you finished/rolled credits on?

Hmm, I'm trying to think. I don't wanna say "worst", but we DID do 4 player co-op LAN Gears of War 3 in one sitting. It wasn't "BAD," but... just... not memorable. Where else I replayed Gears 1 like 3 times when it came out. Franchise fatigue?

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spoonshiro @spoonshiro.com · 11h

When you die and go to hell this is the music that plays in the elevator on the way down

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJYv...

Resident Evil Director's Cut DualShock OST - Mansion Basement (Reupload)

YouTube video by Aidn's Thing

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spoonshiro @spoonshiro.com · 13h

I mean it stops any hope of anyone following them back so maybe they'll quit posting Occupy Democrats griftershite and go get real jobs

spoonshiro @spoonshiro.com · 15h

The political cloutchasers now just give Invalid Handle errors when you click their profiles

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 16h

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 19h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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spoonshiro @spoonshiro.com · 15h

Only difference is they don't hide it anymore

spoonshiro @spoonshiro.com · 15h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=52G8...

Blood Part 2

YouTube video by spoonshiro

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spoonshiro @spoonshiro.com · 17h

Stuff I want to retrospect in the future:

Castle of the Winds
Shadow Hearts
Suikoden
Chrono Trigger
Marvelous: Another Treasure Island
SimTower

spoonshiro @spoonshiro.com · 17h

May just trade in my PS3

Don't see any real reason to go back to it tbh

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spoonshiro @spoonshiro.com · 17h

The only anime/manga I keep up on anymore is Berserk and Vinland Saga and they get one new issue like every 5 years so w/e

spoonshiro @spoonshiro.com · 2d

"Why don't you watch anime anymore?"

(Interminable action series with shit character designs, no plot and constant contrivances to drag fights out longer)

(Series whose whole message is "Eugenics is good actually")

(The same lame 40+ year old tropes repackaged again)

"Just not interested"

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spoonshiro @spoonshiro.com · 17h

Meatheads missing the whole point of having power

Cuz they'd rather just destroy what they hate then benefit anyone else

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M-AAAH!!!-tty 👻 @mattythemouse.bsky.social · 17h

Good Superman comics aren’t about how strong he is. Good Superman comics are about what it would look like if somebody had infinite power and a perfect moral compass.

Reducing Superman to whether or not he could beat somebody up is missing the point of Superman

DC Updates @updates4dc.bsky.social · 3d

Invincible and The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman says Omni-Man could easily take down Superman, adding, “Superman sucks.” (via Collider)

#OmniMan #Superman #Invincible #TheWalkingDead

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spoonshiro @spoonshiro.com · 17h

Well if you can't shame horrible, shameless losers then who can you shame?

Hi there,

Your Bluesky account (@spoonshiro.com) has created a list called "The Incel Graveyard Shift" that may violate our Community Guidelines. We've temporarily hidden this list from other users because it contains one or more of these issues.

spoonshiro @spoonshiro.com · 18h

Yeah I bought one of those. It had like, what... maybe 3 or 4 games that required it?

Not my best gaming investment for sure.

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spoonshiro @spoonshiro.com · 19h

If you're not 1000% compliant with whatever 8chan tells them to think you're a phony apparently

spoonshiro @spoonshiro.com · 19h

They do! I get good deals on used games from them sometimes.

spoonshiro @spoonshiro.com · 19h

But if you still want something else that draws inspiration from the classic Zeldas, I'd say check out Cadence of Hyrule. It puts the game into a rhythm-based multiplayer roguelite format, and it's actually a surprisingly entertaining combination.

The overworld, featuring Link attacking enemies, treasure chests and a second player as Zelda.

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