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Sailor Moon🌙✨

Here's what it will look like when fully restored.

Met up with @bro3256.com at PRGE and he asked me to sign the tag on the $1000~ game he bought from us for $11.99.
I love this hobby.

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Viz Media announced they licensed I'm No Angel by Ai Yazawa for a physical and digital release

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game // NES // Commodore 1702 via s-video

I've made this scale to help people out during this holiday season

Text that says: "Seeking Translators for Puyo Puyo Fever 2 English Patch!" is overlaid on top of a Fever 2 image showing Sig, Amitie, and Raffina

📢 We’re looking for a new main translator to join our team! One of our long-time translators is stepping away, so we’re hoping to bring someone on board who’s familiar with JLPT N3+ grammar (no test score needed—just the knowledge!).

#PuyoPuyo

Bookshop is having an Anti-Amazon sale, with cheap e-books and free shipping for print today and tomorrow:

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Some old advice about starting big projects (game translation projects in my case, but a lot of it is probably universal)

#gametranslation

Lock and Key A MAGICAL GIRL MYSTERY

Fight crime, be gay—do things the magical girl way! 💖

Our latest yuri game, Lock & Key: A Magical Girl Mystery, is out NOW✨ Follow a pair of married magical girls on one last mission to solve a string of murders before their powers fade for good.

Play it: store.steampowered.com/app/1803850/...

Four frames comic about two types of Isekai I found and read lately. The first frame shows a young man with a sword. He says: "My name is Josh Itcantbehelped and I used to be a loser before a car crash brought me to a world where I am a god and half the population is made of SLAVE CATGIRLS". The second frame shows him crying and clenching his fist, with many a cat behind him, wearing bikinis. He says "To make it here I guess I have no choice but to own as many catgirls as I can...how tragic...". The third frame shows another character from another type of Isekai. She's a woman with a fluffy dress. She says "My name is Elise Robespierre and after being hit by a truck of terminal cancer I am now in my favorite 900 pages novel. With many a hot man.". The fourth frame shows her giving a board presentation to citizens, with graphs and pictures of plants on it. She says: "Hello citizens. This is my plan to modernize the agricultural system and prevent any further plague by creating medicine [...] taxes which ..." the text becomes unreadable as she keeps talking to her captive audience.

Been trying to read some isekai lately.

Facebook post from Kaleb Horton, September 18, 2017: Toys R Us is probably going out of business this year. I'm fascinated by the collapse of retail, because what it really signifies is the collapse of the 20th century. The reason I pushed to profile guys like Harry Dean Stanton, Merle Haggard and Chuck Berry, was that writing about them is a way of writing about the 20th century, and how different it was from where we are now. How shockingly different, in retrospect. The migration out of the south, the descent of the Dust Bowl, which was a Biblical plague; the millions of people who were killed during World War Two. Monoculture, and the idea that a great episode of a television show would be seen by *half of all people.* The arrival of flight, and the end of horses. Homes without electricity. Coming of age without computers, without television. Listening to the radio for entertainment. The 20th century was a long time ago and it's a ghost now. It's a ghost you see in the places you wouldn't expect. It's seen in towns that were bypassed by the freeways, the dusty little towns out west that still have old diners and motels and payphones. It's seen in the places that we left, places where mines shut down, places where tourist attractions died off. It's seen in Bakersfield with Buck Owens' Crystal Palace and it's seen in Roswell, which stubbornly maintains the relics of the '90s UFO boom. Things like that won't be around forever. Someday owners will die and towns will burn and they won't be rebuilt. And it's difficult to suss out what those things are, because they're on roads, physical and metaphorical, that we no longer travel.

The ghost sightings happen in stupid places, unexpected places, and uncool places. A few months ago, I went with Marie to the Toys R Us on Victory Blvd. in Burbank, which still looks exactly like it did in Back to the Future in 1985 somehow. It's not nostalgia that you see there, it's just a customer base and economic model that's aging and won't be around a lot longer, and it's *boring.* There's no reason for anyone to ever go to Lancer's, the little diner by that Toys R Us. Because it's not good. People go there out of tradition, and old habits. 80 and 90 year olds go there. We were lining up for a Nintendo, which is still a hard thing to keep stocked in stores. Toys R Us was actually the best place to obtain one, because it's no longer a place children beg their parents to take them to. When we went in, wham, there it was. The ghost of 1996. I was 8 years old, for a fraction of a second. The feeling wasn't nostalgia, it was a kind of temporal dislocation. A confusion. But it wasn't an immaculate 1996, it was a fading 1996. It was lonelier than I remember it. It's time for Toys R Us to go out of business. It was time ten years ago, fifteen. There are reasons to be nostalgic about the 20th century. We weren't plugged into so many wires, so many screens. We were a little bit closer to the process of manufacturing and agriculture than we are now. We made more things by hand, and our goals as people were uniquely audacious and driven by mad, desperate power that was temporary and had to end.

But the 20th century was hopelessly cruel and soaked in blood. The 20th century gave us flight, but it also gave us bombs that can end the world and Richard Nixon and his evil sidekick Kissinger and it gave us new mutations of slavery and race and class subjugation and it gave us useless, disgusting monuments to Confederate slavers and traitors and cowards. It gave us President Trump, who wouldn't exist today without New York City's collective cocaine addiction in the 1980s. I want to find the ghosts, not because I miss the past -- the good old days can't return because they're imaginary and what you really miss is youth and if you're lucky a warm feeling of safety -- but because I don't even know what things we'll lose, or when we'll lose them, or how long we have to document them. I know ghosts when I see them. Toys R Us for the mundane side and the Salton Sea for the widescreen wasteland side. But I have absolutely no idea how many there are. I figure people go first, then places. Those are the things we have a limited time to physically document and historically examine and preserve on film. The ideas will go away much slower, and some of them may be eternal, like cold wars. But those are a lot less fun because you don't get to drive to them.

And now I'm just spelunking around and here's this Facebook post by Kaleb Horton from September 2017. It was three months after MTV dumped its freelancers. I'm sure it would have been a piece there; instead he posted this on FB just to have it written out: Toys 'R' Us as societal microcosm.

#screenshotsaturday #pixelart #pico8

Bubble Symphony is the 1994 sequel to Bubble Bobble.

I went from 320x224px and 256 colors to 128x128px and 15 colors. Only achievable by very tight pixel art technique

Fall is in the air, and with it, a new shoujosei release calendar to share! 🥳

Surprisingly, the number of releases in October is much smaller than usual, but hopefully you'll still see some of your faves and new series that seem interesting to you! 🤗

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Playful theory site header

I finished teaching my Playful Theory class, a seminar for studio artists focused on games.

It was my first academic course in the post-ChatGPT era, so I tried out a few strategies to handle students potentially skimming readings and submitting AI-generated response papers.

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A photo showing the box, manual, disc, and art book for Fortune Summoners (PC). It’s all cute anime girls and pastel colours. Makes you feel happier just looking at it, if you ask me.

IIRC I paid about £90+shipping back when it was new. I felt grateful… and sad, because nobody else would be able to enjoy it. Now, thanks to Robin, Andrew, and Carpe Fulgur extraordinary work, it’s just another translated doujin game on Steam. I can’t thank them enough for opening the floodgates.

This does a wonderful job of showcasing how the Japanese text uses vivid wording and elevated diction just as much as the WotL translation. (FF4 also does this to an extent, which is another reason why I consider the DS translation to be the best both in terms of accuracy and writing quality.)

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Comm for @sqishy.bsky.social

How Samus uses the psychic powers she gets in Metroid Prime 4

A screenshot of the dance in kitsune tails, with kiri dipping a shocked looking yuzu. Above them is a pull quote: "Nintendo wasn't brave enough to put lesbian fox girls in Super Mario Bros. 3" GamesRadar+

Kitsune Tails is still on sale for 30% if a weekend of disaster sword lesbian fox girls sounds like a good time store.steampowered.com/app/1325260

it should go without saying but if you want users to voluntarily tag their art then you need to not threaten to ban them if they do. like, you can either have a well-regulated, easily-filtered art ecosystem or you can ban art you don’t like and see it come oozing back out of every crack and crevice

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Pink Link🎃

Namco Boys (2019)
Glad to See Mr Driller 2 and Klonoa on the GBA NSO

please buy my game so i can continue to afford rent 🙃

The sky was on fire tonight

TM28はアクキーの代わりにシールを作りました☺️

pixel art shows the numerals 1 through 80 over a background of genderfluid pride flag colors. each number is on a section of a ribbon shape creating a woven appearance, with rainbow and transgender pride flag colors and various textures.

4️⃣2️⃣ You have 42 hours left to buy Queer Games Bundle 2025. Get over 600 radical, heartfelt games and projects for $60 (or $10+), less than the price of one AAA game. This morning, we've passed $80,000 for queer artists.

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@loekalization.bsky.social 's write-up about the current situation with Silksong's Chinese localization is equal parts fascinating, funny, and downright horrifying.

A must-read for any localization professional that carries a powerful warning for translators: pride goes before the fall.

Screenshot of an announcement from SESAME WORKSHOP. The Sesame Street library is coming to YouTube! Beginning in January 2026, YouTube will have the largest digital library of Sesame Street content, with hundreds of full episodes coming to the Sesame Street channels. Join us as we help children everywhere grow smarter, stronger, and kinder, one episode at a time.

Oh HELL yes