Ripperley
@ripperley.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 Ripley | 🏳️⚧️ She/Her | 💀 30
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Born in Yorkshire, England 🌹
Based in Aberdeen, Scotland 🏴
My brain is completely poisoned by too much internet and too many bad video games.
linktr.ee/Ripperley
Born in Yorkshire, England 🌹
Based in Aberdeen, Scotland 🏴
My brain is completely poisoned by too much internet and too many bad video games.
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Ripperley
@ripperley.bsky.social
· Oct 20
If, for some reason or another, you want to hear more of what I think about various different video games, I write little reviews up for just about everything I play these days over on Backloggd:
www.backloggd.com/u/Ripperley/...
Fair warning that I have very questionable taste and opinions.
www.backloggd.com/u/Ripperley/...
Fair warning that I have very questionable taste and opinions.
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yearning? you mean you're self-shipping with a real person you know?
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 AM
yearning? you mean you're self-shipping with a real person you know?
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Also I want to make it clear that a part of this isn’t Delta being a bad game or bad remake but rather the original Snake Eater holds up so goddamn and is so impressive that even 20 years later I’m looking at it and going “how did they get so much foliage running so well on the PS2??”
Played the opening mission in the OG version of MGS 3 on PS2 and in MGS Delta and it’s almost refreshing that after years of me being nonchalant about video game remakes changing things, I finally have a game where I can be snooty and say “I think the original Snake Eater looks and plays better”
November 25, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Also I want to make it clear that a part of this isn’t Delta being a bad game or bad remake but rather the original Snake Eater holds up so goddamn and is so impressive that even 20 years later I’m looking at it and going “how did they get so much foliage running so well on the PS2??”
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OMG they put Metal Gear solid Snake eater remake in "Outstanding Visual Style" a game notable for stripping out the visual style of the original game
November 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
OMG they put Metal Gear solid Snake eater remake in "Outstanding Visual Style" a game notable for stripping out the visual style of the original game
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Sims 4 being in the Labor of Love category is my joker moment
November 25, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Sims 4 being in the Labor of Love category is my joker moment
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Windows 8's design being centered around those colored squares was absolutely awful. They chose some real rancid colors for those.
November 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Windows 8's design being centered around those colored squares was absolutely awful. They chose some real rancid colors for those.
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Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
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Dumb gaming localization concerns: They censored dialogue about dating an 11 year old or some shit
Actually important gaming localization concerns: They stopped calling the soil "loamy"
Actually important gaming localization concerns: They stopped calling the soil "loamy"
November 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Dumb gaming localization concerns: They censored dialogue about dating an 11 year old or some shit
Actually important gaming localization concerns: They stopped calling the soil "loamy"
Actually important gaming localization concerns: They stopped calling the soil "loamy"
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there is almost no feedback I will reflexively ignore as a game developer but “you shouldn’t name something X because people don’t know that word” is one of them. oh no! You might learn a new word! God forbid you take away a piece of knowledge from a game that’s not a brand of gun or some shit lol
November 25, 2025 at 6:52 AM
there is almost no feedback I will reflexively ignore as a game developer but “you shouldn’t name something X because people don’t know that word” is one of them. oh no! You might learn a new word! God forbid you take away a piece of knowledge from a game that’s not a brand of gun or some shit lol
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still blows my mind that you used to be able to rip music from a cd and just put it on your console. they'd kill you if you tried that now
November 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
still blows my mind that you used to be able to rip music from a cd and just put it on your console. they'd kill you if you tried that now
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ff17 has to have a cool woman with a gun as the protagonist again its been too long. for like a decade if you bought a final fantasy game there was a 50% chance it starred a cool woman with a gun. but square abandoned the true path
November 23, 2025 at 9:02 AM
ff17 has to have a cool woman with a gun as the protagonist again its been too long. for like a decade if you bought a final fantasy game there was a 50% chance it starred a cool woman with a gun. but square abandoned the true path
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Transgender awareness week is over, you are unaware that you are transgender
November 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Transgender awareness week is over, you are unaware that you are transgender
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#3157 A helpful tutorial
November 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
#3157 A helpful tutorial
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A major antagonist dies in the guilty gear pachinko machine and is never mentioned again
The machine has a built in ash tray
The machine has a built in ash tray
After "film trilogy that dropped a critical plot point exclusively via timed Fortnite event" and "video game series whose story only makes sense if you're aware of the events of a canon pachinko machine", I feel like there are whole frontiers of user-hostile narrative design waiting to be explored.
November 22, 2025 at 1:26 AM
A major antagonist dies in the guilty gear pachinko machine and is never mentioned again
The machine has a built in ash tray
The machine has a built in ash tray
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After "film trilogy that dropped a critical plot point exclusively via timed Fortnite event" and "video game series whose story only makes sense if you're aware of the events of a canon pachinko machine", I feel like there are whole frontiers of user-hostile narrative design waiting to be explored.
November 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
After "film trilogy that dropped a critical plot point exclusively via timed Fortnite event" and "video game series whose story only makes sense if you're aware of the events of a canon pachinko machine", I feel like there are whole frontiers of user-hostile narrative design waiting to be explored.
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Monday Premium: The 12.7k word Hater's Guide To NVIDIA: how it makes money, how millions of GPUs are likely sitting uninstalled, and how its entire future relies on companies raising hundreds of billions in debt.
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November 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Monday Premium: The 12.7k word Hater's Guide To NVIDIA: how it makes money, how millions of GPUs are likely sitting uninstalled, and how its entire future relies on companies raising hundreds of billions in debt.
Here's $10 off annual.
edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo...
Here's $10 off annual.
edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo...
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November 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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All Landlords Are Bad
November 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
All Landlords Are Bad
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*crumbles to dust gayly*
November 22, 2025 at 8:54 AM
*crumbles to dust gayly*
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In a world of genitally-obsessed bigots and hateful parents, be a DeNiro
November 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
In a world of genitally-obsessed bigots and hateful parents, be a DeNiro
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Soulja Boy makes fun of Braid on September 16, 2008. Awareness of indie gaming begins growing at an exponential rate
November 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Soulja Boy makes fun of Braid on September 16, 2008. Awareness of indie gaming begins growing at an exponential rate
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if we're going to be out here saying the 360 is twenty years old then we need to confront the fact that the last time anyone had any new ideas in the AAA space was 2008
November 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
if we're going to be out here saying the 360 is twenty years old then we need to confront the fact that the last time anyone had any new ideas in the AAA space was 2008