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MobileTortoise

@mobiletortoise.bsky.social

Xbox really does a terrible job at Directs.
Just the most corporate, focus-grouped way to present their staff and ideas. No feeling of sincerity or that anything being said is genuine, just teleprompter scripts and staged interactions.
#Xbox

January 23, 2026 at 1:26 PM

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Catbus

@catbus.phd

📽️
#OnePerfectShot

Frodo from Fellowship of the Ring meeting gandalf on the road to the Suite, looking serious:
Gandalf, this edible ain't shit

Frodo from Return of the King, being carried away from Mt Doom over heaving waves of lava:

(ten minutes later)

January 20, 2026 at 4:22 AM

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Mallorie Malcontent ✨

@sweetbeanscomix.bsky.social

Evergreen Comix.

January 19, 2026 at 6:35 PM

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robdog 👾

@robdogdraws.bsky.social

January 19, 2026 at 5:29 AM

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Marchshift

@pendingshift.bsky.social

Blue Mary city of the wolves

January 19, 2026 at 1:49 AM

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Count Mysterioso

@mysteriosox.bsky.social

This is quite a post

www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...

January 17, 2026 at 6:26 AM

MobileTortoise

@mobiletortoise.bsky.social

8 hours of sleep, but I did it wrong. So more like 3 hours of sleep, and my neck hurts.

January 17, 2026 at 12:37 PM

MobileTortoise

@mobiletortoise.bsky.social

The newest member of the DK Crew, Kontent Kong.
#Kong #DK #Nintendo

January 14, 2026 at 8:28 PM

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JRT GRN

@jarrettjawn.bsky.social

For IGN: I played Code Violet. The only thing with more ass than Violet herself, is the rest of this game.

youtu.be/9nNnZGuvVRM?...

Code Violet Review

YouTube video by IGN

youtu.be

January 10, 2026 at 11:05 PM

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BarDown

@bardown.bsky.social

Nic Dowd’s brother shotgunned a beer in the locker room after reading the starting lineup 😂

(via Capitals)

January 10, 2026 at 4:38 AM

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Deogie

@deogie.bsky.social

thanks for reading. there's a new deogie up on tinyview! tinyview.com/deogie/2026/...

January 6, 2026 at 5:01 PM

MobileTortoise

@mobiletortoise.bsky.social

Here is the full list of all the games I beat in 2025 (across 2 images).
Somehow with everything going on I played an absurd amount of games last year, 46 in total.
Was really just trying to play things I would enjoy.
#VideoGames

January 3, 2026 at 7:55 PM

MobileTortoise

@mobiletortoise.bsky.social

Here is the full list of all the anime I watched in 2025 (across 2 images)
Actually managed to watch a few more than last year.
As always my plan this year is to spread things out between the backlog and currently airing shows!
#Anime #Backlog

January 2, 2026 at 8:48 PM

MobileTortoise

@mobiletortoise.bsky.social

Rang in the new year as was intended, with Dig by Mudvayne

January 1, 2026 at 5:55 PM

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Anime Herald

@animeherald.com

Anime Herald Magazine #1 is now available! We have about 150 copies left, so be sure to order your copy of this gorgeous, 100+ page edition while supplies last. 💖

Digital copy ($15.75 USD): hera.fyi/buyahmag1dig 💻
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Bundle: hera.fyi/buyahmag1bun 📦

Cover art for Anime Herald Magazine, which features a tag that reads "Anime Herald Magazine - we speak otaku. No #001 Fall 2025, launch issue"

December 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM

MobileTortoise

@mobiletortoise.bsky.social

Envy the dead,
they get ALL the channels

December 26, 2025 at 8:16 AM

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KHAN 可汗 🔜 Hyperbolic Time Chamber

@yungkhan.bsky.social

WELCOME IN NEW COMERS!!!!
go.bsky.app/4RzjAQP

December 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM

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Time Extension

@timeextension.com

Saturn RPG 'Airs Adventure' Is Finally Playable In English. (Repost)

Saturn RPG 'Airs Adventure' Is Finally Playable In English

1996 game finally gets localised

www.timeextension.com

December 22, 2025 at 8:50 PM

MobileTortoise

@mobiletortoise.bsky.social

Larian using Gen AI to replace the jobs of humans in the concepting phase... Probably lost my purchase.

Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · Dec 16

NEW: I spoke to Larian boss Swen Vincke about their ambitions for their new RPG Divinity, cutting down development time, pressures from Baldur's Gate 3, why BG3 wouldn't have happened without Tencent, how Larian uses generative AI, and much more www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’

‘I think this one is going to be way better’ than ‘Baldur’s Gate 3,’ Larian CEO Vincke says

www.bloomberg.com

December 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM

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CyricZ - The Dragon of GameFAQs

@cyricz42.bsky.social

Announcement:

I will not be writing a GameFAQs guide for Yakuza Kiwami 3/Dark Ties.

Full statement below:

Hi everyone. CyricZ here. After giving myself time to reflect on my options, I’ve decided that I will not be writing a GameFAQs guide for Yakuza Kiwami 3 / Dark Ties. I will not be purchasing the game, nor playing it in any capacity.
I write guides because I love writing, and I write for the games that I write for because they inspire me. The joy I find in them drives me to give my best work. If I were to write a guide entirely out of obligation or expectation, I do not believe my best work would find its way to the page.
With the hiring of known sexual harasser Teruyuki Kagawa to the face and voice cast of Yakuza Kiwami 3, I do not find myself inspired by the game. The Like a Dragon series has a long-standing history of opposing sexual misconduct in all its forms and I feel this casting goes against that message.

Key members of RGG Studio have refused to speak on the hiring of Kagawa after his misconduct was made more widely known. While they are by no means required to speak about this, by their silence they have sent a message that they do not view Kagawa’s misconduct as a dealbreaker for inclusion in the series cast, nor do they deem it worth addressing. This stands in contrast to steps taken in the past to replace other cast members that did not align with their values.
I won’t go into further detail on the issue itself as the information is widely available via the #REMOVEKAGAWA movement. The rest of this will be about me, my guides, and my relationship with RGG Studio and the Like a Dragon series.

I remain a fan of the Like a Dragon series. It’s not something I can just excise from myself. I intend to continue playing past Like a Dragon games on stream as they are some of my favorite video games. That may be subject to change in the future, but the plans are to continue playing the games on stream in my intended order, with the exception of Yakuza Kiwami 3 or Dark Ties. The only minor thing that will change with regards to my streams is that I intend to take special note during stream of the many, many instances during the series that remind us of the societal ill of sexual misconduct.
As to future games put out by RGG Studio, I reserve the right to not make a decision on those at this time. That will be a “wait and see” situation, dependent on future actions or inactions by RGG Studio.
Further, if things change with regards to the release of Yakuza Kiwami 3, I reserve the right to reassess all the preceding. RGG Studio still has the opportunity to do right in this situation, and I hold onto hope that they will see the best way forward.

Finally, I promise to all my readers that my GameFAQs guides for the Like a Dragon series and other RGG Studio games will be going nowhere no matter what happens. Not only are they some of my best work, but if I preserve the guides with myself as the author, I remain in creative control of them. This prevents others from taking the text and redistributing it without my consent, which is something I fear would happen if I were to remove them from GameFAQs entirely.
For those of you who read my guides, thank you so much for your support, and I’m sorry I will not be helping with this upcoming game. For anyone who wants to write a guide on GameFAQs for Yakuza Kiwami 3, be my guest, not that you need my permission anyway. For those of you joining me in solidarity against Kagawa and this release, I thank you all for sticking with it. Your commitment has inspired this.
Be good to each other,
Scott “CyricZ” Zdankiewicz

December 11, 2025 at 12:51 PM

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Kars

@karoshimyriad.bsky.social

A new trailer has released for Fate/Strange Fake.

The TV anime adaptation will start airing weekly on January 3, 2026.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjtd...