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anyone else hear the Teams notification noise in their brain randomly and get jump scared and then immediately relieved it was in your head?

that bing noise is engrained in my subconscious 🫠

This is super cool, congrats Josh!!

Dragon Quest 11 is absolutely wonderful

Can’t believe it’s taken me this many years to play a Dragon Quest game but I’m fully on board. Definitely planning to play the older ones afterwards

An original illustration from me! There’s a cute little cat reaper, in a desaturated blue robe and hood, with a body made of deep purple shadows. She is standing atop a grassy hill of different color stripes that go up in hue (purple at the bottom, then indigo, then blue, then cyan, then light green), and is dotted with flowers in many colors. Her scythe has a crooked, curly purple handle, and two blades (one big one, one smaller one under it). Around her swirls an ethereal swarm of ghostly souls, all in different colors of the rainbow, swirling around the hill and up into the sky. The sky goes from dark purple, to dark blue, to dark teal, and up where the ghosts meet it- it becomes a shiny rainbow of colors leaking down into the rest of the background.

In a moment of serendipity, I ended up finishing this piece I’ve been working on for quite awhile now (chipping away between other works) in time for Halloween, AND it’s spooky themed!
I think I started this in September. Maybe even August, lol
At any rate- Happy #Halloween! :D
#art #illustration

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this old Toys R Us advert with a kid looking extremely excited and happy next to silent hill 2 is cracking me up

I live for the times when I play through a game smiling throughout and think “yeah I’m so grateful that video games exist and there’s people out there passionate enough to make this”

that is so sad!! I haven’t had this happen in a long time (well before I was so invested in the indie gaming space), hope it doesn’t last too long and you manage to find a fun game soon!

It feels like every year that goes by, I get more and more enjoyment from puzzle games, especially logic puzzle games

They make me very happy

I also do this with coworkers quite often too 😅

I find it baffling how “playing video games” or “reading a book” is still such a widely frowned upon response when someone asks if you have plans for the weekend 🙃

1985

a celestial shower 🌕🌟
#art

Final Fantasy Tactics is SO good

Best strategy RPG I’ve played since I first discovered Fire Emblem 7

The new voice acting is wonderful too 🩵

Silksong 100%!

I adored it, everything I hoped it would be and more 🥺

I was considering the 3DS method to experience some of these as a pure curiosity but I’ll wait for this now - I’m personally really excited about it

This looks amazing

Silksong is absolutely huge, and highly polished, I’m in no way surprised it took them 6 years to make this

It never stops opening up and revealing more and more, with seemingly very hidden secrets unravelling entirely new areas

It’s so much fun and some of the late-game bosses are truly legendary

There’s something really intriguing about seeing an advert for a FromSoft game before they gained popularly with Demons/Dark Souls

Team Cherry did it again

Genuinely 10/10 so far, Silksong feels like Sekiro or Elden Ring in comparison to Hollow Knight’s Dark Souls

I had no doubts it would be great but I didn’t expect them to top the original in many respects, crazy stuff

Boss fights feel like a dance, the movement is perfect

the purple one 🥺

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It’s so good!! I adored Öoo!

Kirby and the Forgotten Land on Switch 2 is dreamy

I forgot how damn good this game is - with the 60fps and additional levels, I think it’s 3D Mario tier

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discovering saxophone house as a sub-genre has been life changing 😌

I’m barely into house at all but add a sax in there and suddenly it’s my favourite thing ever

Screenshot of the pokemon anime showing Professor Oak giving Ash his Pokédex and pokeballs at the beginning of his journey

what I wanted for my 10 birthday

The anti-consumer and more consumer-friendly pitches for Game and Watch were hilarious 😭 I also had some good laughs with What Have You Done, Pikachu? and would love to play Nintendo Worlds

Looking forward to the next episode :)

@nintendormant.bsky.social is my new favourite podcast. The synergy and banter between @jon.gvg.io @georgebanks.bsky.social and @nantenjex.bsky.social is unmatched.

Discovered it the other week, and my partner and I have since watched a good chunk of past episodes. Thanks for all the laughs, guys 🩵