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Dfactor
@dfactor.bsky.social
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I make in-depth walkthroughs of PS1-era video games with attention to detail, completion, preservation, enhancement and accessibility.
Screenshots and videos are my own, covers are not.
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Dfactor @dfactor.bsky.social · May 17
I've spent a lot of time organizing my walkthroughs (and livestreams) into playlists!

YouTube doesn't have channel-wide playlist search and scrolling through 500 of them is insanity, so I've made categorized spreadsheets sorted alphabetically so that you can find up-to date videos.
Dfactor Playlists
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dfactor.bsky.social
Evan goes to a new continent to sign a peace treaty.
But a country where love is prohibited was not on my bingo list.

youtube.com/live/M23nisK...

[ #NiNoKuniIIRevenantKingdom | #NiNoKuni2 | #NiNoKuni | #NiNoKuni2RevenantKingdom | #BandaiNamco ]
February 10, 2026 at 1:06 PM
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punkr0xy.bsky.social
Guys, dont immediately jump ship. Complain on Discords forums. Spam their emails. Make noise. We'll never tackle the overlying problem if we just keep jumping ship.

Discord is easy to bully out of doing shit. We've made them stop doing NFT shit. We can stop them taking ID's. :)
February 9, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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tallgirlpetunia.bsky.social
This post is going viral, but this isn't walking back. It's reiterating the initial press release. There's no new information in this post, aside from them saying they're using a different ID partner (which doesn't solve that problem) and the Reddit joke. Everything else is the same. Keep pushing.
legendofnerd.bsky.social Brian M @legendofnerd.bsky.social · 11h
Discord is already starting to walk things back a little, so people should keep doing what they're doing (cancel Nitro, leave feedback/criticism, direct contact through support tickets/phone/email/etc)
Tl;dr: The vast majority of adults will never have to interact with our age assurance systems and their experience won't change, because we know Discord and how people use it, so we're designing to respect privacy and deliver a safer experience while minimizing friction for adults. Hey folks – I’ve been on Discord since very early 2016 and actually joined the company in 2017. Safety is one of my areas, so today’s announcement on our blog is something I’ve been pretty involved with. I’ve always cared about Discord's approach to privacy (E2EE for A/V was another of my projects here), so I figured I’d add some more context to today's news. I can say confidently that the vast majority of people will never see age verification. I say this because we launched age assurance in the UK and Australia in 2025, and we have some pretty good data on this now. The idea here is that we can pre-identify most adults based on what we already know (not including your messages!), and that looks to get us pretty far here. No face scans, no IDs, for the vast majority of adults. And if you are one of the smaller subset of folks that we can't definitively pre-identify, then still, you only have to do it if you're accessing age-restricted servers or channels, or changing certain settings. That's really not most users. (Altho... might be more Redditors, tbh.) Last, I know that there is concern about privacy and data leaks. That's a real concern. The selfie system is built purely client-side, it never leaves your device, and we did that intentionally. That'll work for a bunch of users who aren't pre-identified as adults. But if you do end up in the ID bucket, then yeah, you're right that has some risk. We're doing what we can to minimize this by working with our range of partners (who are different partners than the data leak you read about), and if it's any help, we learned a lot internally from the last issue. But I get if that doesn't necessarily inspire more confidence. Anyway, we’ll be sharing more next month as we get closer to the global roll out about the system, including the technology behind it in March. I honestly wouldn't be happy if we didn't build something good and I am excited about what we’re launching, but please let us know what you think when we share more details. And I really appreciate everybody's feedback here today. We’re definitely reading it!
February 10, 2026 at 9:57 AM
dfactor.bsky.social
If you have any interest in 3, get the Remaster while it can be bought standalone.

Original 3 is the worst one in the series, and while the Remaster was a step forward, the Remake is two steps back, and the review corroborates the impressions I got from playing the demo for 3 hours.
videogameschronicle.com VGC @videogameschronicle.com · 20h
Review: Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties is a remake built on disdain, not reverence, looking to fix a game that wasn’t broken, and ending up with little to show for itself.

⭐️⭐️

vgc.news/review/yakuz...
Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties review: How not to do a remake | VGC
Sega delivers a disappointing remake built on disdain, not reverence, looking to fix a game that wasn’t broken…
vgc.news
February 10, 2026 at 9:51 AM
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devilsblush.bsky.social
burning rangers / saturn
sonic team, 1998
orange girl walking on white and blue (purple?) polkadot floor
February 10, 2026 at 7:54 AM
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legendofnerd.bsky.social
Discord is already starting to walk things back a little, so people should keep doing what they're doing (cancel Nitro, leave feedback/criticism, direct contact through support tickets/phone/email/etc)
Tl;dr: The vast majority of adults will never have to interact with our age assurance systems and their experience won't change, because we know Discord and how people use it, so we're designing to respect privacy and deliver a safer experience while minimizing friction for adults. Hey folks – I’ve been on Discord since very early 2016 and actually joined the company in 2017. Safety is one of my areas, so today’s announcement on our blog is something I’ve been pretty involved with. I’ve always cared about Discord's approach to privacy (E2EE for A/V was another of my projects here), so I figured I’d add some more context to today's news. I can say confidently that the vast majority of people will never see age verification. I say this because we launched age assurance in the UK and Australia in 2025, and we have some pretty good data on this now. The idea here is that we can pre-identify most adults based on what we already know (not including your messages!), and that looks to get us pretty far here. No face scans, no IDs, for the vast majority of adults. And if you are one of the smaller subset of folks that we can't definitively pre-identify, then still, you only have to do it if you're accessing age-restricted servers or channels, or changing certain settings. That's really not most users. (Altho... might be more Redditors, tbh.) Last, I know that there is concern about privacy and data leaks. That's a real concern. The selfie system is built purely client-side, it never leaves your device, and we did that intentionally. That'll work for a bunch of users who aren't pre-identified as adults. But if you do end up in the ID bucket, then yeah, you're right that has some risk. We're doing what we can to minimize this by working with our range of partners (who are different partners than the data leak you read about), and if it's any help, we learned a lot internally from the last issue. But I get if that doesn't necessarily inspire more confidence. Anyway, we’ll be sharing more next month as we get closer to the global roll out about the system, including the technology behind it in March. I honestly wouldn't be happy if we didn't build something good and I am excited about what we’re launching, but please let us know what you think when we share more details. And I really appreciate everybody's feedback here today. We’re definitely reading it!
February 10, 2026 at 1:43 AM
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chiitan.love
Chiitan thinks of transgender people as my mom and dad
cherish my mom and dad for the rest of my life
I love you all

I will continue to spread the message about transgender people until the day I disappear
I hope that all good-hearted transgender people can live their lives with pride and happiness
February 10, 2026 at 12:20 AM
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gbdialga.bsky.social
Oh my god, so many people are canceling Nitro that it's having issues processing it, cook 'em hard bois.
February 9, 2026 at 4:12 PM
dfactor.bsky.social
007 The World Is Not Enough (2000) PS1 via ePSXe.
M01 - Courier.

A very different experience from Tomorrow Never Dies.
I wasn't the biggest fan of the scoring system here.

More of 007:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

[ #007TheWorldIsNotEnough | #TheWorldIsNotEnough | #TWINE | #PSX | #PS1 ]
February 9, 2026 at 6:36 PM
dfactor.bsky.social
Ace Combat 2 (1997) via Beetle PSX HW.
Extra Aircraft - Bear Tracks - Attack on the mine - SF-35.

Ace Combat, No Damage, in-depth, in one place:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

[ #AceCombat2 | #AceCombat | #PSX | #PS1 ]
February 9, 2026 at 6:23 PM
dfactor.bsky.social
Croc: Legend of the Gobbos Remaster (2025), originally (1997).
2-B2 Demon Itsy's Ice Palace.

More of Croc:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

[ #Croc | #CrocLegendOfTheGobbos | #PSX | #PS1 ]
February 9, 2026 at 6:15 PM
dfactor.bsky.social
Tomb Raider: Chronicles (2000) PC version.
Russian Submarine - The Submarine.

A submarine can be turn into a tomb as well.

More of Lara:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

[ #TombRaiderChronicles | #TombRaider5 | #TombRaider | #PSX | #PS1 | #PlayStation ]
February 9, 2026 at 6:02 PM
dfactor.bsky.social
Going through the base levels of Lastalia Shaft, reaching the depths, where we get a warm welcome. It's a nice change of scenery of an "end-game" location.

youtube.com/live/ZhvY9mu...

[ #TalesOfGracesFRemastered | #TalesOfGracesF | #TalesOf ]
February 9, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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videogamebeach.bsky.social
Côte d'Azur C (Club Kart European Session, Arcade, Sega Mechatro, 2001)
February 9, 2026 at 1:58 PM
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pc2000s.bsky.social
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords (2004, PC version 2005)
February 9, 2026 at 11:42 AM
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devilsblush.bsky.social
burning rangers / saturn
sonic team, 1998
profile view of girl in futuristic firefighting uniform assessing the situation. there is a shattered concrete floor and large blue metal panelled walls.
February 9, 2026 at 10:14 AM
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devilsblush.bsky.social
burning rangers / saturn
sonic team, 1998
girl jumps through the air collection an explosion of colourful gems. the room is an indecipherable shape, shifting between red, yellow and teal.
February 9, 2026 at 10:16 AM
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videogamebeach.bsky.social
Lake's Beach (Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller, Arcade-PC-Xbox, Hitmaker, 2002)
February 8, 2026 at 1:54 PM
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bonnicula.bsky.social
The pronouns labeler shut down but there's a new one over here
pronounpicker.ripperoni.com Pronoun Picker @pronounpicker.ripperoni.com · 2d
Click into this thread to choose your displayed pronouns
February 8, 2026 at 1:11 PM
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videogamebeach.bsky.social
Bay Area (Wild Riders, Arcade, WOW Entertainment, 2001)
February 7, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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videogamebeach.bsky.social
The Ruins of Meiah Lake (Gungage, Konami, PS1, 1999)
February 7, 2026 at 10:46 PM
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devilsblush.bsky.social
castlevania: rondo of blood / pc engine cd
konami, 1993
richter belmont fighting dracula's beast form on an abstract background
February 7, 2026 at 11:27 AM
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devilsblush.bsky.social
bubble bobble also featuring rainbow islands / saturn
taito corporation / probe entertainment, 1996
boy with red hair standing on a rope bridge before a cloudy blue sky. there are rainbows below him and angry bees, honeycomb, a pineapple and two turnips (?) above him.
February 7, 2026 at 10:07 AM
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vgfilducci.bsky.social
(REC)

📢‼️¡Primera muestra del MOD en castellano de SILENT HILL!

El capítulo inicial de la mítica saga, nacida en 1999, ahora doblado por actores profesionales 🎤😉 ¿Podéis reconocer a los actores?

⁉️Reparto de actores:

Harry Mason: ¿¿??
Cybill Bennett: ¿¿??
February 6, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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barleybap.bsky.social
DREAMLESS DORM
TICKING CLOCK
Edit of the quoted image. The text on Pyramid Head has been sloppily edited to just read "my dread". Leon is now captioned "Persona 3 opening song".
February 6, 2026 at 6:01 PM