Akira Cast
@akiracast.bsky.social
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He/Him Youtuber, QA tester in limbo, FOSS advocate, Controller Guy, FPGA enthusiast, Retro-head and Resident VR Party Animal with a heart of Platinum Forever! Game projects I shipped: -Xbox back-compat -Halo MCC (updates) https://linktr.ee/akiracast
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Reminded of:
"If they want to sell banana to Americans they can grow them in America"
"Bananas cannot grow in America"
BREAKING: The US is rolling back tariffs on “products that cannot be grown, mined, or naturally produced in the United States," per WSJ
Very small price to pay. I feel like if one is trying to use google wallet on graphene, why did one switch over in the first place if one was gonna continue to be willingly surveilled?
I've been using it for the past ~4y and have been pretty happy with it. Only thing that doesn't work (and prob never will) is google wallet, but every other app I've ever used works.
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Earthbound, AKA Mother 2 has a Deluxe version on #SNES that was just upgraded to version 3.0 and its wild how much the devs took a #Nintendo classic and make it new again (while also being familiar)...def worth playing! youtu.be/u4iVj31zAUQ #gaming #gamingnews #gaming_news
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SUPERHOT (Steam) is $5.93 on Fanatical w/ code OMENVIP buff.ly/Hhs3YUg
$7.49 US eShop buff.ly/S6pAMlA

Deck verified
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We prototyped some ~$10 PS1/PS2 memory cards for SuperStation. They work very well.
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Karin is teaching Honda how to do the rich white girl sweep.
Don't EVER let capcom live it down
Got me thinking about french fry hair Alex.
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I got those Guile french fries from McDonald's.
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For those seeking a quick way to keep up with and/or block all of these Trump admin accounts: bsky.app/profile/did:...
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I still don't understand dithering haters, the fact that patches exist to remove them from ps1 games is completely nuts to me.

When I see obvious dither patterns on a flat panel I think "Ah, let me turn on the CRT shader" to blend them into the scene, y'know, as was artistically intended back then.
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The shorter games with worse graphics made by less people discourse is starting again and the nuance lost in this conversation is: we absolutely CAN make big, hyper-realistic games, sustainably. The problem -- and the money drain -- is executive pay, leadership overreach, mismanagement, and whims.
Flashbacks to when this type of bullshit was happening in QA x.x

I hate that high school shit so much cause like, BRO we're QA, we're the LOWEST rung of the industry and are NOT paid what we should be for how important the work really is. Not too dissimilar to that of voicework.
One thing I did learn during the VA strike was that a particular voice actor was screencapping things I was posting and sharing them privately to other VAs to be like "can you believe this?"

And hey, to that person I say:

In a situation where dialogue could have helped, you instead chose gossip.
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I’ve never been more proud of a product I worked on. The team put so much effort into making SS1 the best FPGA platform possible.
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Drawing of Ayane from Dead or Alive in honor of Tomonobu Itagaki.

Rest in peace to a legend and a worldwide influence.
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Rest in peace, Tomonobu Itagaki. Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden made an undeniable impact on gaming. I only crossed paths with him a few times, but he could not have been nicer.
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I’ll have more to say on the topic of Itagaki-senpai’s passing soon. But I have been looking at my Team Ninja collection all morning. There’s a bunch still tucked away that I need to dig out. But whenever I ask a creator to sign something, it’s an acknowledgement of their hard work, and memories.