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"Find me a decent Glen Powell face pic for the thumbnail. Real intensity. Nothing goofy"
"You got it"

Blame the Beer: The Witcher Dev Explains Why Combat in the First Game Felt Like a Rhythm Game Nearly 18 years after the release of the original The Witcher, fans have finally learned why its combat system felt like something out of a rhythm game — and how beer was involved in that decision.

See also, as of only recently: Witcher 1, which did so to ensure you could have a beer while playing vgtimes.com/news/135502-...

I'm gonna say Bionic Commando '09. Stupid, silly game, but I was morbidly fascinated
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Tried playing it semi-ironically a few years back and I can't believe how nauseous the camera alone made me

"Enjoy your deathtrap, gamers!!"

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Can of Limited Edition Star Wars Episode 1 Pepsi with Anakin on the can. It is inside a protective glass case.

Helped my brother buy a new car today and this was the only decoration the salesman had on the desk.

'Went to a 2016 expo's retro section and heard a dad say "let me educate ya" and his son said "I'll pass". These were the games' a list of games by DaleBastion | Backloggd Systems listed in Notes

I regularly think about the extraordinarily weird retro section of Sydney's one and only EB Expo, and I made a list of the games that were there
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Funniest moment from when I played Baby Steps tonight

Gonna start my full playthrough of Ocarina on Justin dot Teevee in a few days. Chuck a follow if you like the sound of that
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Wonderful game

*no 4 Zelda, whoops. I'm not playing any Satellaviews or CD-i's here

The front box art for Super Mario Land 2, featuring Mario and various enemies and locales from the game.

I like how that art and the Mario Land 2 cover have a bit of stylistic overlap.

Promotional art for Link's Awakening featuring Link, Marin, Tarin, and Owl in the game's island setting. The iconic Wind Fish egg is perched on a mountain backdrop.

Playing through the Zeldas in release order and I've hit my outright new favourite with no 5, Link's Awakening. Many have sung its praises, but it surprised me how even Link to the Past felt like a dry run for how much more effective this was in narrative and design.

Alex does good shit that I can't imagine anyone else doing. Well worth your time.

Simple... MCG RPG

A Dragon Quest 8 screenshot of a skeletal warrior in a stadium, with a text box that reads, "Captained by Dale . . . it's LEGO ONE PIECE!"

Needed a name for my Dragon Quest 8 monster squad, so I took it from a banner ad in my browser

Gex, as seen on the front cover of the 2025 remaster of the Gex trilogy.

Bubsy, as seen on the cover art for the upcoming title Bubsy 4D.

Crash Bandicoot and Spyro are locked in the ABK dungeons. In their place, two unlikely retro platformer banner-holders rise

Wishing you great strength in the wait for Project Robot

PAL PlayStation 2 box art for Ico (2002), with a critic pull quote reading "9/10. Official PlayStation Magazine. Absorbed beyond reach. Ico will take over your life."

Played (the PS3 remaster of) this recently. I can't say that it managed to "take over my life" but it's a very, very pleasant experience and a nice way to furnish my armchair-critic bona fides.

A poster for the 2016 Western film titled In A Valley of Violence, starring Ethan Hawke and John Travolta in period costumes.

My extremely dumb film nerd wish is that this got 25 sequels for the other letters in the alphabet

Message from a user called BBBen on discord: Collective Shout, who have been provoking this latest wave of trouble are registered as a charity in Australia, but their work seems to be purely as a political activist organisation generating moral panic. This is against the rules for registering as a charity. If any Australians (Aussies only, please! It's counter-productive for people from elsewhere to do this) want to register a concern about their wrongful listing as a charity, then you can do so on the Australian Charity and Non-Profit Commission website. Here's the relevant links. Collective shout's profile, including their ABN: https://www.acnc.gov.au/charity/charities/8f14b7df-39af-e811-a963-000d3ad24077/profile Raise a concern with the ACNC: https://www.acnc.gov.au/raise-concern You can also attach evidence, which would probably help, though any concern is a valid one to post. Just explain the situation and try to call attention to the fact that political lobbying is not charitable work. You can go into other relevant details if you wish. All of this only takes a minute.

Action for Australian folks:

register a concern about Collective Shout's wrongful listing as a charity, do so on the Australian Charity and Non-Profit Commission website

Collective shout's profile + ABN: www.acnc.gov.au/charity/char...

Raise a concern with the ACNC: www.acnc.gov.au/raise-concern

YouTube video by Kyle Bosman I Respect These Stupid Games - Delayed Input with Kyle Bosman

If you're watching Splitgate 2's bust-out with fascination, I can't recommend Kyle Bosman's recap of its baffling pre-launch app/lore enough (from 11:38)
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Well done, hope you're enjoying. Also are you aware of how to turn those control labels off? (From the Home screen's settings menu iirc)

Almost as if it heard me, subsequent scenes are all idle-to-idle canned animations and lip flap. Boo.

The opening splash graphic for Anthem, featuring mechanised armoured warriors posing on a triangular composition of sci-fi landscapes.

I am playing Anthem (2019). Poor sweet Anthem (2019). I think I'm going to enjoy your Sega CD-ass first-person cutscenes.

Can thoroughly recommend solo Peak + Death Stranding OST, just for everyone's info

I've been playing one game per Smash Bros Brawl character as a little project and this one is easily the best of the lot