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Cotton

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Cotton @cottonelybit.bsky.social · 29d

vsona.co/lore-writing...

Had an idea.
This will be the place for the transcriptions of my oc / worldbuilding writings that I post now and then

Lore Writing Transcriptions: All Concepts

"hey " | (Not a character, a vsona to store transcriptions of all lore documents)

vsona.co

Cotton

@cottonelybit.bsky.social

Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers

January 15, 2026 at 1:33 AM

Cotton

@cottonelybit.bsky.social

This is what most of us did as kids when we found that the graphics folder can be modified

January 10, 2026 at 6:46 PM

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Nostalgic CRT Games

@nostalgiacrt.bsky.social

Super Mario 64 (N64 - 1996)

A nostalgic look at the 1996 N64 mega hit, Super Mario 64 on my nostalgic CRT television.

(A Whomp in Whomp's Fortress, but his face texture is replaced with the "Epic Face" meme)

February 3, 2025 at 10:39 AM

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️

@sharkabytes.bsky.social

They say that Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder...

Romance options in AD&D for those with an eye for the exotic. 💋

📖: Dragon Magazine #157, April 1990

The cover of Dragon Magazine 157 with a stout adventurer in a teal blue belted tunic kneeing by a beholder with lush red lips and eye shadow, presenting her with a bouquet of flowers.

August 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM

Cotton

@cottonelybit.bsky.social

so this is what ID meant by e3m3's track name

January 5, 2026 at 9:02 PM

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️

@sharkabytes.bsky.social

AD&D Adventures in Krynn through PC-98 eyes - and the ears of a future Final Fantasy composer.

Hitoshi Sakimoto worked on the scores for a fair few AD&D game conversions to Japanese PCs & Mega CD, including this one for Champions of Krynn, giving it some dramatic energy in the battle scenes.

January 5, 2026 at 1:13 AM

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Low Poly Depression

@polydepression.bsky.social

autorun.ini

January 4, 2026 at 5:11 PM

Cotton

@cottonelybit.bsky.social

Normal mode and heroic mode tier sets

January 4, 2026 at 12:24 AM

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Skylar Patridge

@skyepatridge.bsky.social

repost to give those 2 or 3 followers who always like your weird posts a little forehead kiss & a grilled cheese cut diagonally

January 3, 2026 at 8:53 PM

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️

@sharkabytes.bsky.social

Oh, the weather outside is frightful,
But the fire is so delightful,
And since we've no place to go,
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow! 🎶

The totally valid SNES nostalgia for a generation. And the gateway to Onett, Narshe, and Porre I'll always be grateful for. 💜

January 3, 2026 at 9:16 PM

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Melo

@letitmelo.bsky.social

I think a lot about this bit by Kazuya Niinou about how an RPG can be one thing on your screen and another thing in your brain

How to use your imagination

When your party stays at the Inn overnight, what do they eat?

If you ever catch yourself wondering that, then you know you've formed an attachment to your characters.

With Etrian Odyssey's characters, you only give them a name and a portrait, so no matter how you think of the character, it's technically just your imagination. But even in that case, without your imagination, the character is nothing.

For example, a landsknecht who uses an axe might eat his meat with his bare hands and no utensils, but one who wields a sword might prefer a knife and fork at dinner. You might think differently, but... If you can imagine small details like that, you might find that you enjoy this kind of RPG even more.

The essence is an RPG is using numbers to make calculated decisions, but if you invest those "numbers" with your own feelings, you can spice up the game a little. Think about this:

In your party of five, three characters are dead. Two of them are alive, but they only have a couple of HP left, and no TP. They're certain to die in their next turn, giving you a game over. Number-wise, those characters are useless, but how do you imagine they feel about that? What kind of people are those 2 characters who are about to die? Try to imagine things like that in the brief time before your game ends.

Are they a landsknecht and a ronin, who'll die facing the enemy and laughing? Is it a protector, ordering the weak medic to run with his last breath?

The game over screen looks the same every time, but in your imagination, it could play out very differently.

The game itself isn't that big of a thing; what you imagine for yourself is much more fun. We hope that the player uses this game as a tool, to create dramatic and fun situations in your own minds.

January 3, 2026 at 12:50 AM

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Misha B. Barkin'

@mishabbarkin.bsky.social

Okay yeah today might be a day to spend less time on social media...

Don't be ignorant, stay informed, but please take care of yourself and don't doom scroll and consume nothing but negative information all day. Make yourself some tea, eat a yummy snack, anything that will help you be okay ❤️

January 3, 2026 at 2:06 PM

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Khayyaam #LIUKANGGANG

@khayyaamb.bsky.social

This reminds me of one of my favorite jokes in the Mother series. In Earthbound Beginnings you can get a "Last Weapon" that promises you'll never have to enter a battle again.

The game tells you if you don't want to fight then turn the game off.

This joke only gets funnier as time goes on.

January 2, 2026 at 8:32 PM

Cotton

@cottonelybit.bsky.social

Chroniyita lore (1/?)

A screenshot of a text document in Windows XP

Transcription is on VGEN

January 2, 2026 at 4:18 PM

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Sea

@1driedpersimmon.bsky.social

Okayyyy so totally not late but heres 2025’s…. Annual Lucirav redraw HAHA (rest in thread) gosh……. 9 years….. personally 2025 was a bit rough but I did a lot that year so it was a mix of ups n downs, looking forward to this year!