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Charlie Verdin

Charlie Verdin

@charlieverdin.com

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Fangamer Owner-Employee. Huge nerd that sometimes runs for office.

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Charlie Verdin @charlieverdin.com · 3h

"I started with a Rock Band microphone" is the "I started in my garage" of podcasting.

Charlie Verdin @charlieverdin.com · 7h

I've really been enjoying many of the quality of life changes in the Final Fantasy Tactics remaster. Restarting battles! Random battles on command!

Then I cast Raise for the first time, and it had 100% chance of success!

Alas, it was just good compatibility, but I was REALLY excited for a moment.

Charlie Verdin @charlieverdin.com · 3d

I was on the ship Nieuw Amsterdam a few weeks ago and found a guitar pick from the 2023 Joco Cruise in the couch cushions.

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Massoluk @massoluk.bsky.social · 3d

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 4d

No Kings protests were one of the few times Trump, MAGA, and right-wing media were reacting to something the opposition did, rather than the opposition reacting to whatever they do.
Adopt a principle from war strategy: generally better to be taking action and forcing opponents to react. Good point.

Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 4d

Point five is really important. The protests provoked errors from the administration (shit force one) that may haunt them for years. That’s what happens when you stop being reactive.

Charlie Verdin @charlieverdin.com · 4d

Ok, yeah, I beat nightmare Cronos now. Much easier without the training weights.

Charlie Verdin @charlieverdin.com · 4d

True, certainly if given the opportunity prosecutors will charge you with both.

Charlie Verdin @charlieverdin.com · 4d

Okay so, let's say you're at the self checkout. You have a bag of expensive honeycrisp apples, but you ring them up as the much cheaper gala, saving yourself like a dollar.

Is that theft? Or is it fraud?

(A purely hypothetical question. I prefer gala, so my apples are already the cheapest.)

Charlie Verdin @charlieverdin.com · 5d

But yeah, I need to move on, haha. Shall I wade into Silksong next? Or shall I return to by beloved Final Fantasy Tactics?

I feel like I'm overlooking some other options, but I can't think of them right now.

Charlie Verdin @charlieverdin.com · 5d

All in all, though, I love the game very much! I absorbed me pretty thoroughly for a whole month. I'd dream about it, even.

It feels great to play, and it never got stale. The story and characters were perhaps even more charming than the original, which is an impressive feat. Awesome music.

Charlie Verdin @charlieverdin.com · 5d

The only challenge I'd like to accomplish but haven't yet is defeating nightmare Chronos. He definitely humbled me, but it's been a while since I made the attempt. I may be able to do it now, though.

I haven't found any truly broken builds yet. I tend to rely heavily on Hephaestus and Demeter.

Charlie Verdin @charlieverdin.com · 5d

Likewise, it only took for 8 attempts to conquer the surface route once I was actually able to survive there at all. That was on my 38th run over all.

After that, my win percentage rose to about 66% and stayed there, even as I increased difficulty and experimented with unusual weaponry and builds.

Charlie Verdin @charlieverdin.com · 5d

My first true success was on run 29, but that's a bit misleading since that includes chaos trials and failed attempts on the surface before you can spend more than a couple of minutes up there.

Better, I think, to say that I succeeded in the underworld on my 16th attempt at that route.

Charlie Verdin @charlieverdin.com · 5d

I think I'm about done with Hades 2! There are a few tasks I may want to wrap up, but I've been playing it a lot for the past month, and after 89 runs I feel pretty good about my completion level.

That said, the way it tracks runs makes tracking my stats less clean than I'd like.

Charlie Verdin @charlieverdin.com · 9d

"Do not be afraid."
The words appear in our minds.
We remain afraid.

Charlie Verdin @charlieverdin.com · 9d

Her terrible gaze
We labor beneath, afraid
Do not fall asleep

A giant pinata of Toriel from Undertale stands on a mezzanine, arms spread wide, in a foreboding manner.

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Mato @clydemandelin.bsky.social · 12d

Today is #IndigenousPeoplesDay, so I hope you'll play my work-in-progress game demo about #Choctaw language and culture:
tomatogame.itch.io/halito-tomato

OR if you'd just rather read about the backstory instead, it would make me very happy:
halito.tomato.game/about/

Thanks for your time! YAKOKE!

From the About page for my game/blog - there's a lot more on this page, so please check it out sometime!

From the game - there's not much to the game right now but the Nanih Waiya burial mound is at the center of it all

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Jack @jack-o.bsky.social · 15d

Aside from just being a cute fellow to see everyday, if you bring him along with you on Halloween this year, with his own candy bucket, and tell everyone it’s his first time trick-or-treating, he’ll pay for himself in candy alone.

Saber Murphy 🧸 @stitchwyrm.bsky.social · 17d

Woohoo! Just re-opened my shop for the season 🎃👻🍁
My Chibi Mothman plush is up for sale again! If you missed out last year, now’s your chance to bring home this sweet little friend ✨
🔗 Stitchwyrm.com

Mothman plush by Stitchwyrm, sitting on a wooden fence in front of autumn leaves

Charlie Verdin @charlieverdin.com · 16d

That stinks. I'm sorry.

I am in the US and closely follow politics but get no DMs. Thankfully.

I get tons of unwanted texts, though.

Charlie Verdin @charlieverdin.com · 26d

The way I interpret this is not that Klein can't accept that Kirk was acting in bad faith, but that bad faith is an acceptable tactic in politics.

Which is also bad, but also is historically expected. Politicians famously don't run on good faith. They pander and renege.

I prefer sincerity, but ok.

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gg @ggdg.bsky.social · 26d

whenever i say "i'm not a furry," i want it to be known that i do so with faint sadness, as if looking out over a quiet sunset. that's just the way it is.

Charlie Verdin @charlieverdin.com · 27d

That's why I appreciate the ways I keep getting asked to play games on streams. I'm not a speedrunner; my directive is to hit all the important points in a given amount of time. I'm a video game tour guide.

Charlie Verdin @charlieverdin.com · 28d

Oh trust me, I did. They're not all of the original original non blondes, but it's the same members from the time of their 1992 studio album, so it's about as authentic as it gets.

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scarechomp @skarchomp.bsky.social · Nov 24

this is one of the most chilling scenes in jurassic park, wherein, rather than showing us the brutality on screen, the movie uses sound effects to imply the gruesome violence as the cow beats the shit out of a bunch of velociraptors

Charlie Verdin @charlieverdin.com · 28d

Woah, 4 Non Blondes got back together?