Ben
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Ben
@coupdegravy.bsky.social
Game translator in Tokyo.
he/him
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Dragon Quest 2 HD-2D expanding on themes of recognizing that the critical weakness of a seemingly unstoppable enemy is that they all hate each other as much as they hate everything else and have no cohesion or loyalty beyond access to power was a warm blanket for a winter playthrough.
January 31, 2026 at 7:36 PM
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asking my wife if she wants to watch wonder man on disney plus
January 29, 2026 at 1:15 PM
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I saw many brilliant details in 3 hours with Resident Evil 9, but my fave was how unnecessarily pressing reload with a full clip as Grace makes her instead pull the slide with trembling hands to double check the chamber. My obsessive reloading neuroses when entering a scary room became /hers/, too.
After one final extensive hands-on, Resident Evil: Requiem's formula mash-up has me utterly convinced

www.eurogamer.net/resident-evi...
January 26, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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"Dreamcast", a haiku

Each day he rises.
Asks me, "Is it still launch day?"
"Yes," I lie. "Always."
January 21, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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外神田 / Sotokanda
January 16, 2026 at 1:59 PM
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This translation from 2012 has a Napoleon Dynamite reference lol
January 18, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Finished Citizen Sleeper. Minor shame the skill customisation doesn't impact the experience very much but I enjoyed it a lot. I think the scruffy & human character designs complemented the mega-clean UI v nicely. Btw I got the Warmth and Light ending (rejected the Gardener because I have hay fever)
January 18, 2026 at 3:29 AM
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Hoonter must hoont
January 13, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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howling at the tagline "better than you think" for microwave burgers 😭
January 7, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles ad (2003)

#retro #art #gaming #FinalFantasy
January 12, 2026 at 10:52 AM
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January 12, 2026 at 6:37 AM
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The powerful thing about FF7 OG is how even innocuous paths that are only ever traveled once had to be their own dedicated pre-rendered areas. The sewers under Don Cornio's mansion is the spot for me; completely unimportant area that would be tilesets in an older game but had to be fully crafted
January 10, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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Final Fantasy VII, on the path to Mt Corel, you enter via a rocky path that leads to a beautiful sunset over the mountains. It's one of my favorite places in the game.
January 9, 2026 at 7:18 PM
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Wake up babe, new NiGHTS lore just dropped.
January 7, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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Grasshopper sidestepping the question of capitalizing "is" in titles (it should be capitalized) by going both all lowercase and all caps
January 6, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Convinced that a certain three-shot sequence in episode 7 of Pluribus is an homage (?) to an identical sequence in the film Goldeneye
January 6, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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Man this HITS.
January 6, 2026 at 10:56 AM
All 10 mins are bliss but there was an absolutely legendary moment at 8:26 during this symphonic perfomance where the conductor turned to the audience and encouraged them to clap along with the climax, which imbued the last minute with an almost intolerable level of hype
youtu.be/DOs99ZZk9So?...
The Liberation Of Gracemeria (from ACE COMBAT 6) -Live
YouTube video by Release - Topic
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January 6, 2026 at 10:25 AM
Caught all 204 monkeys in Ape Escape. I wasn't planning to but I'm not sure I would've been able to sleep at night knowing some were still out there. The platforming was a bit iffy but the gadget swapping and ape netting was SICK
January 5, 2026 at 12:32 PM
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No matter how good of a writer you are, you will never be as powerful as a Dragon Quest localizer.
January 4, 2026 at 11:39 PM
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“When you go to the supermarket, don’t forget the milk.”
“Okay.”
January 4, 2026 at 9:55 AM
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New favourite headline.
December 16, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
My New Year's resolutions aren't especially ambitious but I'm hoping to eat more yoghurt and generally be more like Huener from Ape Escape
January 2, 2026 at 2:14 PM
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Click on the part of the body you need to keep close to you?
December 30, 2025 at 9:27 AM