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Max Fagandini @maxfagandini.bsky.social · 9h

Tantalisingly close to 100%ing it but Absolute Radiance is such a crap shoot - feels like there's basically just a coin flip in whether I can get her or not while practising, so I think I may just have to start transitioning to Pantheon of Hallownest runs and hoping for good luck!

Max Fagandini @maxfagandini.bsky.social · 9h

Went back to Hollow Knight post-Silksong which has been a fascinating experience - it stills holds up easily, but you can really feel the difference between controlling the Knight and Hornet.

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Max Fagandini @maxfagandini.bsky.social · 14d

Every basic income pilot scheme ends up showing the same thing: people are happier, more stable, and generally the government (or other issuing body) manages to profit from it too!

If anyone tells you these programs are unworkable, they are either lying or misinformed.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 15d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Max Fagandini @maxfagandini.bsky.social · 15d

I may be clutching at straws but I do feel like there's potentially an argument to be made that Sunshine was something of a precursor to Odyssey in terms of augmenting the platforming - ie FLUDD and Cappy both open up new and distinct ways of controlling Mario compared to say 64 or Galaxy

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Max Fagandini @maxfagandini.bsky.social · 15d

I feel like the Galaxies are definitely stronger in terms of like, mechanics and finer control and stuff (ie to actually play) but Sunshine will always have a spot in my heart for vibes alone!

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Max Fagandini @maxfagandini.bsky.social · 16d

Holy moley this one particular boss is absolutely shredding me. Is grinding kind of expected in FFT?

Max Fagandini @maxfagandini.bsky.social · 16d

Wow this Argath fella is a real arsehole huh

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Max Fagandini @maxfagandini.bsky.social · 16d

Boy this game has some bonkers status effects. I feel like I might start drowning in the depth of these systems

A screenshot of Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles. A tutorial screen details the Atheist status condition.

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Max Fagandini @maxfagandini.bsky.social · 16d

But hey, the future doesn't exist yet. Maybe I'll wake up tomorrow and go 'maybe...' and give it a shot. It's not like I know what's good for me or anything 😂

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Max Fagandini @maxfagandini.bsky.social · 16d

Plus - it feels like Silksong is just much bigger and longer than HK? And so the odds of making that one mistake that will land you with a game over are heightened just because you have to spend more time in it, if that makes sense

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Max Fagandini @maxfagandini.bsky.social · 16d

Like, I did Steel Soul for Hollow Knight and it was hard and tense but felt achievable after I'd really fully familiarised myself with the game.

It's possible I may come to feel that with Silksong but right now it feels like with the ratcheted up speed and intensity of fights there's just no way

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Max Fagandini @maxfagandini.bsky.social · 16d

So I finished up Silksong the other day, 100% (because I am that kind of sicko). Spent about two hours on turn final boss but felt real good to get it down!

One thing I will say - I simply cannot fathom doing a Steel Soul run of this game

Max Fagandini @maxfagandini.bsky.social · Sep 17

So I ended up coming to Silksong later than intended but I am well into it now - what a game! What a beautiful, smart, haunting, extremely fucking hard game

Max Fagandini @maxfagandini.bsky.social · Sep 4

Yessss

Just in time for a flight to the UK tomorrow too...!

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Max Fagandini @maxfagandini.bsky.social · 24d

I don't think I've ever rolled as many natural 1s as I have in today's DnD session 🥲

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Max Fagandini @maxfagandini.bsky.social · 25d

Kind of feels like he should be fighting a little fucking harder then rather than repeatedly telling everyone how great Reform's ideas are but that they should just let Labour do them instead

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 25d

Keir Starmer to warn Labour that battle with Reform is ‘fight for soul of the nation’

Exclusive: PM says history will not forgive his government if it fails to confront and defeat the populist right Keir Starmer will warn the Labour party that it is in a “fight for the soul of the nation” and that history will not forgive his government if it fails to confront and defeat Reform UK and the populist right. Speaking to the Guardian ahead of a vital conference for his leadership, he said he would tell disgruntled party members that now was “not the time for introspection” and infighting. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Max Fagandini @maxfagandini.bsky.social · 25d

There but for the grace of God go I 🥲

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Max Fagandini @maxfagandini.bsky.social · 25d

I am exactly the sicko who went back to square up against this guy like 20 times while hilariously underpowered just out of sheer morbid curiosity and stubbornness 😂 I think your way is much more sensible

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 25d

I hope there will come a day soon where it dawns on someone in Starmer’s team that their strategy of communicating “Nigel Farage is right about everything but please vote for us instead” is fuelling these disastrous figures rather than mitigating them, but today is not that day

Peter Foster @pmdfoster.bsky.social · 25d

Brutal new MRP poll out today showing Reform at 311 and Labour support collapsing.

Worth reading steaming @financialtimes.com column on Starmer by @robertshrimsley.bsky.social

“Starmer can’t afford to wait for reckless Reform to implode”

on.ft.com/3VxxCaR

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Max Fagandini @maxfagandini.bsky.social · 27d

BREAKING: Wes Streeting is a hateful little turd

Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 27d

🚨 BREAKING | Wes Streeting confirms Labour is actively working to BAN trans women AND trans men from female spaces, describing their presence as "unpleasant".

Streeting confirmed to MumsNet that Labour aims to exclude ALL trans people from single-sex spaces.

(Via MumsNet)

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Max Fagandini @maxfagandini.bsky.social · Sep 19

OK scratch that I've reached Bilewater 🥲

Max Fagandini @maxfagandini.bsky.social · Sep 18

One thing I will say is that I haven't felt the frustration I'm seeing about Silksong's runbacks - there are one or two I've encountered that are marginally frustrating (eg. Hunter's March) but I seem to have avoided the worst of these 5+minute runbacks people are talking about

Max Fagandini @maxfagandini.bsky.social · Sep 18

To be clear I'm fundamentally and entirely anti-gun anyway but I never really considered how arguments like self defence and recreation(?) simply don't hold water in the way that they might have done previously. The world is different and to pretend otherwise at this point is wilful delusion

Max Fagandini @maxfagandini.bsky.social · Sep 18

...but any 'rational/common sense' second amendment advocates seem to treat it as though we still live in a world where there isn't a school shooting or something similar in America basically on the daily

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Max Fagandini @maxfagandini.bsky.social · Sep 18

You know, this is somehow an angle on the US gun crisis I'd never really considered: it's fundamentally a different environment for gun ownership and use these days than it was even a few decades ago...

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · Sep 17

and again if guns weren't available this obviously wouldn't happen, but guns have been available for decades and it took a long process for using them this way to become so normalized. both those things are obviously true to anyone paying attention.

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Max Fagandini @maxfagandini.bsky.social · Sep 18

If anything I've found a lot of bosses etc have fairly charitably-placed benches or convenient shortcuts back if you have a root around before heading in! It's not exactly Elden Ring's Stakes of Marika but I really haven't had a problem with it.