Kiyo 🦋
@amethystreverie.bsky.social
Video game history enthusiast.
Reader. Occasionally writer.
Sometimes a streamer.
Doing my best to make time for myself.
She/Her. 🏳️⚧️
Icon: @matchaprince.bsky.social
Blog: https://amethystreverie.com
Twitch: https://twitch.tv/amethystreverie
Reader. Occasionally writer.
Sometimes a streamer.
Doing my best to make time for myself.
She/Her. 🏳️⚧️
Icon: @matchaprince.bsky.social
Blog: https://amethystreverie.com
Twitch: https://twitch.tv/amethystreverie
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Kiyo 🦋
@amethystreverie.bsky.social
· Jun 28
Final Fantasy II: The Mythril That (Nearly) Filtered Me - Amethyst Reverie
Imagine you are me, playing this game where I was tasked to retrieve this random item called "mythril" from a cave. Yeah, sure, why not? Absolutely simple affair. Real shame about the imperial soldier...
www.amethystreverie.com
Rather than sit around aimlessly tonight, I decided on a whim to tell the tale of my first time playing Final Fantasy II, as well as my first encounter with mythriI. I hope you enjoy.
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Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from.
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 30, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from.
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
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There's something delightfully scrunchy about 320x200 DOS Quake.
My love affair with playing SVGA-era DOS games at VGA resolutions continues.
My love affair with playing SVGA-era DOS games at VGA resolutions continues.
December 14, 2024 at 11:23 PM
There's something delightfully scrunchy about 320x200 DOS Quake.
My love affair with playing SVGA-era DOS games at VGA resolutions continues.
My love affair with playing SVGA-era DOS games at VGA resolutions continues.
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VGHF's latest Video Game History Hour podcast features audio of our PRGE panel on the 40th anniversary of the NES launch, ft. Gail Tilden, Marketing; Bruce Lowery, Sales; and Lance Barr, Product Design: https://gamehistory.org/episode-145-the-40th-anniversary-of-the-nes-a-prge-panel/
November 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
VGHF's latest Video Game History Hour podcast features audio of our PRGE panel on the 40th anniversary of the NES launch, ft. Gail Tilden, Marketing; Bruce Lowery, Sales; and Lance Barr, Product Design: https://gamehistory.org/episode-145-the-40th-anniversary-of-the-nes-a-prge-panel/
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A small but nice thing I added to #StarSpark this week -- the game will now pause if you're using a controller and it disconnects for whatever reason.
#GameDev #IndieGames #ScreenshotSaturday
#GameDev #IndieGames #ScreenshotSaturday
November 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
A small but nice thing I added to #StarSpark this week -- the game will now pause if you're using a controller and it disconnects for whatever reason.
#GameDev #IndieGames #ScreenshotSaturday
#GameDev #IndieGames #ScreenshotSaturday
Once again thinking about how much Metal Gear Acid 3 would rock. Alas.
November 29, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Once again thinking about how much Metal Gear Acid 3 would rock. Alas.
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seeing beeg phat snowflakes makes for a happy (snotty) catte
November 29, 2025 at 5:18 AM
seeing beeg phat snowflakes makes for a happy (snotty) catte
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This game is insanely fun by the way. Both it and Prototype N feel like lost Sega Genesis platformers in the best way possible. Very Mega-Man like. Highly recommend trying them out.
November 29, 2025 at 5:23 AM
This game is insanely fun by the way. Both it and Prototype N feel like lost Sega Genesis platformers in the best way possible. Very Mega-Man like. Highly recommend trying them out.
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Wanted to see if I could get @arrietty.itch.io's "Nadine in: Diamond in the Grave" working on MacOS and it seems to work with Crossover? Neat. Only thing that doesn't seem to work is the CRT filter.
https://arrietty.itch.io/diamond-in-the-grave-prototype-n
https://arrietty.itch.io/diamond-in-the-grave-prototype-n
November 29, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Wanted to see if I could get @arrietty.itch.io's "Nadine in: Diamond in the Grave" working on MacOS and it seems to work with Crossover? Neat. Only thing that doesn't seem to work is the CRT filter.
https://arrietty.itch.io/diamond-in-the-grave-prototype-n
https://arrietty.itch.io/diamond-in-the-grave-prototype-n
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class change: priest
November 29, 2025 at 5:27 AM
class change: priest
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last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
November 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
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It's cool and exciting to see #StarSpark in Kotaku among a bunch of other cool indie projects! :O
#GameDev #IndieGames
#GameDev #IndieGames
Hooray! The first of the Thanksgaming 2025 posts is up on Kotaku, with an epic TWENTY unknown indies to check out!
I'm going to put up another 20 tomorrow.
Spread it far and wide!
kotaku.com/indie-games-...
I'm going to put up another 20 tomorrow.
Spread it far and wide!
kotaku.com/indie-games-...
20 Incredible Innovative Indie Games To Wishlist This Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgaming 2025 everybody! Celebrate with a huge pile of unknown indies to put on your radar
kotaku.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
It's cool and exciting to see #StarSpark in Kotaku among a bunch of other cool indie projects! :O
#GameDev #IndieGames
#GameDev #IndieGames
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Apologies for how many more times I'm very likely to share this, it's just wild to me that it's actually _there_ and I'm still being a little geeky about it.
![A screenshot of the Star Spark section in the post on Kotaku (https://kotaku.com/indie-games-steam-wishlist-thanksgaming-2025-2000648051).
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Star Spark
[There's a youtube trailer of Star Spark here]
Developer: JoyFlow Games
Release Date: TBA
Store Page
Surely this can’t be the first time someone’s had the sense to combine a Slay The Spire-style roguelite progression with old-school NES-like turn-based combat? Surely? But I’ve never seen it until now, in the excellent-looking Star Spark. And I want to be playing it already! The sprite art, the feisty animations, and the pumped up music are all on point.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:e7xmfdjzn4arhrm3mcj2nzp2/bafkreiexz6zphkymepk3nq7uooa52i4alunmfe5pus3whmi5fsifyfeb74@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Apologies for how many more times I'm very likely to share this, it's just wild to me that it's actually _there_ and I'm still being a little geeky about it.
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Ok good it's time now, Merry Crimbus Time 🎄💜🎄
(I got this a while back from @matchaprince.bsky.social, I don't know if it's been shared on here but you get it now for silly holiday time 💜💜💜)
(I got this a while back from @matchaprince.bsky.social, I don't know if it's been shared on here but you get it now for silly holiday time 💜💜💜)
November 28, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Ok good it's time now, Merry Crimbus Time 🎄💜🎄
(I got this a while back from @matchaprince.bsky.social, I don't know if it's been shared on here but you get it now for silly holiday time 💜💜💜)
(I got this a while back from @matchaprince.bsky.social, I don't know if it's been shared on here but you get it now for silly holiday time 💜💜💜)
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Japanese and North American DCs hooked up and ready for capture.
Dreamcast December starts now
Dreamcast December starts now
November 28, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Japanese and North American DCs hooked up and ready for capture.
Dreamcast December starts now
Dreamcast December starts now
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Super High School Level [REDACTED]
Kirigiri Kyoko fanart 💜
Kirigiri Kyoko fanart 💜
November 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Super High School Level [REDACTED]
Kirigiri Kyoko fanart 💜
Kirigiri Kyoko fanart 💜
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One of my guinea pigs for testing my IWAD was @lvendead.bsky.social's FORLORN.
I kept second-guessing my work while testing in vanilla Doom 2 because the texture use is so eclectic, but this mapset gave me a really lovely cohesion to compare my textures and make sure they went together nicely.
I kept second-guessing my work while testing in vanilla Doom 2 because the texture use is so eclectic, but this mapset gave me a really lovely cohesion to compare my textures and make sure they went together nicely.
November 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
One of my guinea pigs for testing my IWAD was @lvendead.bsky.social's FORLORN.
I kept second-guessing my work while testing in vanilla Doom 2 because the texture use is so eclectic, but this mapset gave me a really lovely cohesion to compare my textures and make sure they went together nicely.
I kept second-guessing my work while testing in vanilla Doom 2 because the texture use is so eclectic, but this mapset gave me a really lovely cohesion to compare my textures and make sure they went together nicely.
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NEW VIDEO: Phoenix Games is beyond notorious for releasing metric tons of garbage for the the PlayStations 1 and 2, sometimes in compilations of asset flips.
What if, though, one of these games was kinda... okay? And how would such a thing be possible?
youtu.be/EngHesUk2g8
What if, though, one of these games was kinda... okay? And how would such a thing be possible?
youtu.be/EngHesUk2g8
That time Phoenix Games accidentally released something kinda okay
YouTube video by Alien Bob
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 11:02 AM
NEW VIDEO: Phoenix Games is beyond notorious for releasing metric tons of garbage for the the PlayStations 1 and 2, sometimes in compilations of asset flips.
What if, though, one of these games was kinda... okay? And how would such a thing be possible?
youtu.be/EngHesUk2g8
What if, though, one of these games was kinda... okay? And how would such a thing be possible?
youtu.be/EngHesUk2g8
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Some sidequests sneak past typical heroics and resonate deep emotionally. It’s in those silly moments that I actually feel close to the characters. Sticking only to the main plot means missing out on some of the best emotional beats, and the Yakuza series has some of the best.
#blog #gaming #sega
#blog #gaming #sega
Finding Heart in the Absurd
innerspiral.lol
June 9, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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You're probably familiar with "gamblification", the increasing presence of gambling in our lives. Well, have you heard that comic books are getting gamblified too?
In 2025, blind bags became a huge hit for the comic industry: playingps2.xyz/comics/blind...
In 2025, blind bags became a huge hit for the comic industry: playingps2.xyz/comics/blind...
Comic books are getting gamblified now too.
Because of course they are.
playingps2.xyz
November 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
You're probably familiar with "gamblification", the increasing presence of gambling in our lives. Well, have you heard that comic books are getting gamblified too?
In 2025, blind bags became a huge hit for the comic industry: playingps2.xyz/comics/blind...
In 2025, blind bags became a huge hit for the comic industry: playingps2.xyz/comics/blind...