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Shin Megami Taiku
@taiku.bsky.social
Preservation advocate. Unprofessional blogger. Fan of Megaten, Final Fantasy, FGC in theory, and RPG mechanics. ♂️
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Good news! I found an HTML guide I don't hate and finally got around to polishing up a NeoCities page! Right now it's just my social media links and a FAQ, but I can finally start to evolve it a bit.
Taiku's Domain
taikuando.neocities.org
Figured out that the new online feature of Elden Ring Reforged is what's causing the performance hitches. They clear up immediately offline, but I still get some slowdown. Oh well, at least the mod's playable now.
November 18, 2025 at 7:46 AM
More games where you can make two custom characters romance would fix me
November 18, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Oh yeah you bet I'm playing some weird shit tonight
November 17, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Guys I never thought it'd happen but I think I'm about to fall down a rabbit hole of obscure Japanese RPGs with virtually no fan translations
November 17, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Looking for fan art of Final Fantasy classes pre-XIV is like trying to find Lord of the Rings fan art pre-movies
November 16, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Distant Worlds was an amazing show. It did not follow the album tracks like I thought they would and ended up being way more diverse than expected. Music from 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, and 16, including my beloved Battle on the Big Bridge.

10/10 would get my knife confiscated again
November 16, 2025 at 4:48 AM
ALL of the CDs
November 16, 2025 at 3:19 AM
It is time
November 16, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Why the hell does the SNES have a goddamn gambling RPG with digitized interactive actors and a free-roam casino
November 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Snatcher's got some cool vibes but it's also some premium 80s adventure game design. Definitely wanna keep a walkthrough on-hand to get through this one.
November 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Trying out Snatcher and incredibly disappointed there are no Genesis emulators with light gun support. Guess I'm playing without the Konami Justifier.
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Wanted to try Elden Ring Reforged's 2.0 update but sadly it is unplayable. Painful stuttering in-game and trying to use DLLs to fix it just tanks the frames before you even get in-game. It even forced my Windows Explorer to restart a couple times.
November 13, 2025 at 6:32 AM
The world needs more Skyrim RPGs
November 13, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Man I was just thinking about potential VR headset replacements and Valve are goddamn mind readers. I got other things to buy first but I'm watching you, Steam Frame.
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Ah hell Enhance came for the Puyo Puyo fans. Now I gotta play this.
Save 10% on Lumines Arise on Steam
A mind-blowing, fiendishly addictive reinvention of the puzzle classic Lumines from the creators of Tetris® Effect: Connected, where sound pulses through your body, mind, and every block you place, tr...
store.steampowered.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:07 AM
My futile Amazon boycott has been to order things off Ebay since they carry most of the same inventory and a lot of it is second-hand.

Today I found out a package I ordered on Ebay is being shipped through Amazon delivery services.

I can't escape.
November 12, 2025 at 4:55 AM
I don't think I've ever played an RPG with level design as immaculate as Scarmonde. Game uses shortcuts as exploration rewards instead of progression rewards. Fuckin rules.
November 11, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Rearranging hotbars in XIV and discovered Superbolide no longer brings HP down to 1. Now it just brings you down to half your max HP.

I even brought my HP below 50% to see what happens and it's just an invincibility spell. The job reworks in 8.0 better be good
November 11, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Y'know, the neighborhoods & wards of XIV are commonly cited as a tradeoff to limited housing, but being real, how many people actually explore the wards surrounding them? Any time I'm doing housing stuff I'm always laser-focused on my house exclusively.
November 10, 2025 at 11:08 AM
she smol
November 10, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Goddamn I'm hot
November 10, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Tasted some raw MSG out of curiosity and y'all I was NOT expecting it to taste like straight-up meat. Literally just meat salt.
November 10, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Article! I beat Blade & Sorcery and wanted to get some thoughts out.

This one's super short and wasn't gonna be an article, but I felt compelled to share it on my more public platform
Blade & Sorcery could be more than it wants to be
Blade & Sorcery is one of the most popular VR titles. It entered early access at the peak of the technology’s hype, and it’s also one of…
medium.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Date a girl worth posting bail for
November 9, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Fussing with subtitles trying to watch the new Frankenstein movie and as soon as I enable a feature to see if it works everyone starts speaking English
November 9, 2025 at 1:04 AM