i can’t get behind people saying alan wake 1 plays better than 2 at ALL lmao
2 has its issues but 1 has a WOAT-ass dodge while having relentless fucking enemy spawns that really feel like remedy was either scared of having more quiet moments or a microsoft exec was demanding they have more combat
2 has its issues but 1 has a WOAT-ass dodge while having relentless fucking enemy spawns that really feel like remedy was either scared of having more quiet moments or a microsoft exec was demanding they have more combat
November 30, 2025 at 5:47 AM
i can’t get behind people saying alan wake 1 plays better than 2 at ALL lmao
2 has its issues but 1 has a WOAT-ass dodge while having relentless fucking enemy spawns that really feel like remedy was either scared of having more quiet moments or a microsoft exec was demanding they have more combat
2 has its issues but 1 has a WOAT-ass dodge while having relentless fucking enemy spawns that really feel like remedy was either scared of having more quiet moments or a microsoft exec was demanding they have more combat
it’s horseshit how sony was allowed to acquire funi & crunchyroll so they own like 90% of anime distribution in the us and now the latter’s fucking w/ ai slop subs while amazon’s doing ai dubs.
it’s morally correct to buy ur anime from discotek and pirate everything else
it’s morally correct to buy ur anime from discotek and pirate everything else
November 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
it’s horseshit how sony was allowed to acquire funi & crunchyroll so they own like 90% of anime distribution in the us and now the latter’s fucking w/ ai slop subs while amazon’s doing ai dubs.
it’s morally correct to buy ur anime from discotek and pirate everything else
it’s morally correct to buy ur anime from discotek and pirate everything else
acab includes garp from one piece
November 29, 2025 at 2:49 PM
acab includes garp from one piece
gonna be crazy when that max payne remake remedy’s making plays worse than the originals lol
November 29, 2025 at 4:56 AM
gonna be crazy when that max payne remake remedy’s making plays worse than the originals lol
i still think square enix & namco being hellbent on never re-releasing xenogears/xenosaga respectively has to do w/ xenoblade arguably being the more popular xeno than either
they ain’t touching them unless nintendo pays for it & they get to lean on that xenoblade association in their marketing
they ain’t touching them unless nintendo pays for it & they get to lean on that xenoblade association in their marketing
November 27, 2025 at 2:51 PM
i still think square enix & namco being hellbent on never re-releasing xenogears/xenosaga respectively has to do w/ xenoblade arguably being the more popular xeno than either
they ain’t touching them unless nintendo pays for it & they get to lean on that xenoblade association in their marketing
they ain’t touching them unless nintendo pays for it & they get to lean on that xenoblade association in their marketing
ngl the switch 2 being fairly above ps4 tier specs-wise has me thinking ppl should def get used to the likelihood nintendo’s software output is gonna be slower going forward, they aren’t immune to the increase in dev time generational scope/fidelity leaps tends to add
November 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
ngl the switch 2 being fairly above ps4 tier specs-wise has me thinking ppl should def get used to the likelihood nintendo’s software output is gonna be slower going forward, they aren’t immune to the increase in dev time generational scope/fidelity leaps tends to add
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you should buy Y0 before this btw; the Director's Cut is a markedly worse experience and isn't even done BY the director of Y0
Yakuza 0 Will be Delisted & Replaced by Yakuza 0 Director's Cut Starting Dec. 8th. https://ow.ly/AW7950XyiP5
November 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
you should buy Y0 before this btw; the Director's Cut is a markedly worse experience and isn't even done BY the director of Y0
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Nov 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Reps privately push ban on trans care in ACA/Obamacare as part of moving any subsidy deal forward. It was stripped from the last ACA deal. This one would hurt perhaps 500k trans ppl among the 20m who need Obamacare subsidies. Even blue states would be impacted.
Republicans Privately Pushing Anti-Trans Funding Ban For ACA Subsidy Deal After Shutdown Compromise
The proposal, which was first detailed in the Wall Street Journal, could harm transgender people even in blue states if it becomes part of the negotiated deal.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Nov 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Reps privately push ban on trans care in ACA/Obamacare as part of moving any subsidy deal forward. It was stripped from the last ACA deal. This one would hurt perhaps 500k trans ppl among the 20m who need Obamacare subsidies. Even blue states would be impacted.
something i’ll hear ppl say about valve having a monopoly w/ steam is that at least they didn’t get to that point unethically and like i mean
it’s not as bad as tearing down competitors but steam blowing up started with them going “fuck you install our launcher if you wanna play half-life 2” lol
it’s not as bad as tearing down competitors but steam blowing up started with them going “fuck you install our launcher if you wanna play half-life 2” lol
November 25, 2025 at 6:06 PM
something i’ll hear ppl say about valve having a monopoly w/ steam is that at least they didn’t get to that point unethically and like i mean
it’s not as bad as tearing down competitors but steam blowing up started with them going “fuck you install our launcher if you wanna play half-life 2” lol
it’s not as bad as tearing down competitors but steam blowing up started with them going “fuck you install our launcher if you wanna play half-life 2” lol
i feel like modern console games having graphics & performance modes with the former arbitrarily being hard locked at 30 fps is one of those things that’s gonna age like ass with every successive gen/midgen refresh until somebody realizes frame rate caps should really be a separate toggle
November 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
i feel like modern console games having graphics & performance modes with the former arbitrarily being hard locked at 30 fps is one of those things that’s gonna age like ass with every successive gen/midgen refresh until somebody realizes frame rate caps should really be a separate toggle
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One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
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Spoke to my source familiar with internal workings at Mastercard. The holiday call campaign re payment processor censorship is working, there is a lot of pressure being felt from your calls. This is resulting in increased response times at a core moment for Mastercard due to the holiday season
November 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Spoke to my source familiar with internal workings at Mastercard. The holiday call campaign re payment processor censorship is working, there is a lot of pressure being felt from your calls. This is resulting in increased response times at a core moment for Mastercard due to the holiday season
kinda feels like there’s a throughline between “nintendo starts doing directs to centralize their marketing while avoiding E3 gaffes” to “game journalism has massively declined while everybody does their own direct and the only event ppl give a shit about are the keighleys”
November 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
kinda feels like there’s a throughline between “nintendo starts doing directs to centralize their marketing while avoiding E3 gaffes” to “game journalism has massively declined while everybody does their own direct and the only event ppl give a shit about are the keighleys”
genuinely starting to feel like the major platform holders expanding their shit into miiverse-like networks would be the best solution to all this lol
elon fucking killed a major piece of not only driving game discussion, but also sheer inherent word-of-mouth advertising. it has no doubt kneecapped many small- and mid-sized titles and i can't even tell what big games are popping off right now unless they have a Little Guy people wanna doodle
In a post-Share button world, it's been very hard to tell what games are actually hitting. It takes effort to post clips or fan art.
That new Digimon game has some fan art.
Death Stranding 2? Very few clips
Yotei? A little here
Kirby? You would think it's the biggest game in the world right now
That new Digimon game has some fan art.
Death Stranding 2? Very few clips
Yotei? A little here
Kirby? You would think it's the biggest game in the world right now
November 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
genuinely starting to feel like the major platform holders expanding their shit into miiverse-like networks would be the best solution to all this lol
mgs4 def got fucked over super hard by early HD gamedev woes lol
outside of its cutscenes the whole thing is underbaked
outside of its cutscenes the whole thing is underbaked
Replaying MGS4 and I'm yet again feeling the Psyche and Stress systems were majorly underbaked
www.resetera.com/threads/13...
www.resetera.com/threads/13...
November 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
mgs4 def got fucked over super hard by early HD gamedev woes lol
outside of its cutscenes the whole thing is underbaked
outside of its cutscenes the whole thing is underbaked
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since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
Google says “we do not use your Gmail content for training our Gemini AI model.”
www.theverge.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
extremely funny how nintendo’s solution for upping hidden mansion mode’s difficulty in the PAL ver. of luigi’s mansion included adding so many ghosts into certain rooms that sometimes their sfx peaks & clips out when they spawn in cus the engine can’t handle that many sound sources at once
November 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
extremely funny how nintendo’s solution for upping hidden mansion mode’s difficulty in the PAL ver. of luigi’s mansion included adding so many ghosts into certain rooms that sometimes their sfx peaks & clips out when they spawn in cus the engine can’t handle that many sound sources at once
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Id you havent been calling your representatives about KOSA and other bills, NOW is the time to start doing so
November 21, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Id you havent been calling your representatives about KOSA and other bills, NOW is the time to start doing so
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Important update: I have received word from insiders that Crunchyroll executives have deemed the user backlash to be small enough that their subtitle enshittification & OOONA plans will NOT be cancelled, only delayed.
I have added an update to the article. There's a summary at the top now too.
I have added an update to the article. There's a summary at the top now too.
New article on ★ daiz.moe ★
Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason
daiz.moe/crunchyroll-...
A ton of research and effort went into this one. This is the article to read to get to the bottom of Crunchyroll's subtitle changes!
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Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason
daiz.moe/crunchyroll-...
A ton of research and effort went into this one. This is the article to read to get to the bottom of Crunchyroll's subtitle changes!
Replies here will show up as comments (eventually)
Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason | Daiz.moe
With the Fall 2025 anime season, Crunchyroll demonstrates zero respect for anime as a medium as the presentation quality of its subtitles reach an all-time low.
daiz.moe
November 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Important update: I have received word from insiders that Crunchyroll executives have deemed the user backlash to be small enough that their subtitle enshittification & OOONA plans will NOT be cancelled, only delayed.
I have added an update to the article. There's a summary at the top now too.
I have added an update to the article. There's a summary at the top now too.
the 0 DC ones are especially egregious but honestly the writing in this series is already a little borked cus it seems like its had a ”ok this game’s definitely gonna be kiryu’s last. for real this time” problem for even longer lol
Yakuza/Like a Dragon has had a problem with unkilling characters (spoilers)
www.resetera.com/threads/13...
www.resetera.com/threads/13...
November 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
the 0 DC ones are especially egregious but honestly the writing in this series is already a little borked cus it seems like its had a ”ok this game’s definitely gonna be kiryu’s last. for real this time” problem for even longer lol
if they budge on that it’s absolutely gonna be via nuking game pass altogether lol
Do you think Xbox will pivot on putting all their games Day 1 on Game Pass?
www.resetera.com/threads/13...
www.resetera.com/threads/13...
November 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
if they budge on that it’s absolutely gonna be via nuking game pass altogether lol
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please for then love of Christ do not give some fucking British sissy £1800 a year in return for an unpaid prescription of 2mg oral
November 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM
please for then love of Christ do not give some fucking British sissy £1800 a year in return for an unpaid prescription of 2mg oral
i‘m not sure if i’ve ever heard someone genuinely praise the past two seasons of one punch man jfc
so glad mob psycho got a (very) good anime adaptation in comparison
so glad mob psycho got a (very) good anime adaptation in comparison
November 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
i‘m not sure if i’ve ever heard someone genuinely praise the past two seasons of one punch man jfc
so glad mob psycho got a (very) good anime adaptation in comparison
so glad mob psycho got a (very) good anime adaptation in comparison
occasionally i’ll hear that FF14 ended a major arc or something & some say that’s why ppl are tapping out & ngl i wonder what‘ll happen to warframe after DE wraps up the man in the wall stuff
i haven’t even done the new war yet tho so i’m not caught up, dunno if its got other plot threads brewing
i haven’t even done the new war yet tho so i’m not caught up, dunno if its got other plot threads brewing
November 19, 2025 at 11:04 PM
occasionally i’ll hear that FF14 ended a major arc or something & some say that’s why ppl are tapping out & ngl i wonder what‘ll happen to warframe after DE wraps up the man in the wall stuff
i haven’t even done the new war yet tho so i’m not caught up, dunno if its got other plot threads brewing
i haven’t even done the new war yet tho so i’m not caught up, dunno if its got other plot threads brewing