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December 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM

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Joshua Rivera

@jmrivera.bsky.social

forgive me father for I have blogged

simulacrum.pika.page/posts/but-th...

As much as it pains me to admit this, I have been watching The Game Awards since their inception 11 years ago. I write about culture and entertainment, so video...

simulacrum.pika.page

December 12, 2025 at 7:47 PM

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Dia Lacina

@dialacina.com

If you missed the first episode of the new Let's Play, catch it here!

youtu.be/YahfzrWxnV8

Let's Play Echo Night - Episode 1

Let's Play Echo Night - Episode 2

December 1, 2025 at 1:20 AM

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Dia Lacina

@dialacina.com

This week we make a cocktail for a ghost by looking at a painting of Rastan hanging major dong. Seriously.

If you're not watching me and @shirokumahi.me play From Software's creepy ghost adventure, now is the best time to start!

Watch Episode 2 here 👇🏽 and RT it for a friend!

youtu.be/cN6NjhZL4_o

The Great Gundam Project 404: Gundam Build Fighters 21 & 22 | Abnormal Mapping

November 30, 2025 at 9:40 PM

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Em

@shirokumahi.me

A new episode of GGP! @foxmomnia.exportaud.io fills in for Jackson this week as we talk about Aila’s turn to lose to the boys, luck alteration, and self sacrificing women in anime! www.patreon.com/posts/144417...

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November 26, 2025 at 6:40 PM

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Em

@shirokumahi.me

This is legitimately one of the most personally meaningful things I’ve ever done in terms of work on the internet. It’s mostly a funny time with a campy game. but the experience ended up having a long tail in my life.

I really, really hope people watch this series if they haven’t! it’s SO good

Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · Nov 26

Oh what's this?

The complete and uncut Let's Play of Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within from me and @shirokumahi.me now presented as one uninterrupted video instead of a continuously broken YouTube playlist? That's right!

There's even CHAPTERS!

Go watch! It rules!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7qw...

Let's Play Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within

Let's Play Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within

November 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM

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Dia Lacina

@dialacina.com

Oh what's this?

The complete and uncut Let's Play of Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within from me and @shirokumahi.me now presented as one uninterrupted video instead of a continuously broken YouTube playlist? That's right!

There's even CHAPTERS!

Go watch! It rules!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7qw...

Let's Play Echo Night - Episode 1

November 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM

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Dia Lacina

@dialacina.com

Having concluded our business with the Blue Prince, it's time for @shirokumahi.me and I to begin a new adventure...

Echo Night!

Come join us as we get sucked into this atmospheric PSX ghost story from From Software!

youtu.be/YahfzrWxnV8

Let's Play Blue Prince - Episode 17

November 24, 2025 at 3:49 AM

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Em

@shirokumahi.me

Since it's been almost a week, I feel comfortable saying we finished Blue Prince in this episode! Well, got the first ending, and are bringing our videos to a close. Cooking something new that we're about to record the first episode of, please look forward to it...

Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · Nov 16

After last week, @shirokumahi.me and I really needed a breakthrough moment in Blue Prince. It doesn't look like the Gods of Bloop would oblige...

What happens next?

You'll just have to watch the latest episode and find out!

youtu.be/8Gku76a6b9Y

Let's Play Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories - Episode 4: Level 3 Donald (Uncut Commentary)

November 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM

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Chip (aka Josh)

@chipcheezum.bsky.social

Okay, now that the audio is fixed, here it is again. Episode 4 of our Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories let's play is live! Everyone's getting dumber by the second and people are getting shot in the ass by a Level 3 Donald. youtu.be/uw7tvocF7D8

YouTube video by ChipCheezumLPs

Let's Play Blue Prince - Episode 17

November 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM

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austin_walker

@austinwalker.bsky.social

So that you can enjoy it in its full beauty, here's the PAXU Realis postcard image in high quality, along with the in-game text & Sentences of Halfmoon Twaintcut's that Si was working from!

An image of a green/brown moon, cut down its equator, floating in a sea of clouds. In the foreground at the bottom of the image, a group of shepherds or nomads, along with their alien animals, look off to the horizon. Upsidedown at the top of the image, but still In the foreground at, a group of adventurers climb over rocky hills and look into the horizon.

Impulse: Cut something of yourself free.
It could not have been a blade—no hand nor hardpoint is strong enough to wield a sword so large. It could not have been a searing beam, as the edges bear neither char nor residue. It could not have been a dip into the Great Void nor the edge of Realis-Itself, both of which are known to take pieces of those worlds that come too near—for the halfmoon Twaincut bears no radiant aura, no abyssal mark.

It is simply a half-sphere, smaller than most moons yet still its own by all rights, perfectly flat on one side, and curved as orbs ought on the other, rotating in the blue light of Realis like a gamepiece floating in black water.

It would be a puzzle, except for the greater one: Whether human or beast, to be born on Twaincut is to be born twice—first on the prairie-like Flatside, and then, after one’s first death, on the village-dotted Hillside. Or else reversed in order. And so to live on Twaincut is to live twice, soul and sense contiguous, yet with only fleeting memories of the life before. A nomad lord turned village priestess. An ox of the field turned ass of the mountain. A chicken-keeper turned sage of the open sky. A child lost and then a child again.

Simplicity and complexity, ease and ambition, clarity and ambiguity. This is the amateur perspective. No, it is not so obvious as that. The plain is flat, but it is not simple. The hill requires effort but not all who climb have aims.

It is a dream place, a haunting. Life and death, youth and age redoubled in on themselves. Spend a while there and you may wonder what I did: Perhaps Twaincut simply split itself.

People Sentences
Twaincut flatsiders always see without horizons.
Twaincut hillsiders always seek what’s beyond the peak.
Twaincut mystics always remember both lives.

Place Sentences
The Twaincut Flat always provides for those who journey far enough.
The Twaincut Hill always turns a traveler down a new path.
Twaincut depths always split outsiders in two.

November 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM

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Monica Valentinelli is buried in snow ❄️🏔️⛄

@booksofm.com

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM

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Em

@shirokumahi.me

We find some new objects, new rooms, and new walls to hit in this ridiculous episode of Blue Prince! Please enjoy.

Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · Nov 16

After last week, @shirokumahi.me and I really needed a breakthrough moment in Blue Prince. It doesn't look like the Gods of Bloop would oblige...

What happens next?

You'll just have to watch the latest episode and find out!

youtu.be/8Gku76a6b9Y

Abnormal Mapping 179: Onimusha: Warlords — Abnormal Mapping

November 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM

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Alison Fisk

@alisonfisk.bsky.social

Delightful detail from the Roman “unswept floor” mosaic by Heraclitus, showing a mouse nibbling a walnut.

Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect!

2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse...

#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology

The image shows detail from a floor mosaic of a brown mouse on a pale background facing left with its nose close to half a walnut in its shell. The mouse has a long thin tail stretched out behind. The mosaicist has used a mix of lighter and darker brown tiles for the mouse’s body to hint at fur. The walnut is created with warmer light and dark brown tiles. Slightly darker background tiles have been used beneath the mouse and walnut to create subtle shadows

November 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM

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Em

@shirokumahi.me

A new Abnormal Mapping (yes, already!) as we get to the game we ran out of time for last month and talk about Capcom’s fulcrum game away from Resident Evil and towards a future Devil May Cry: the first Onimusha! Really glad I finally played this one www.abnormalmapping.com/the-abnormal...

This Abnormal Mapping needed an extra week to cook, but it’s finally here for you to enjoy! We talk about a bunch of arcade games, Capcom’s inability to tell a good story (charm point), and Jackson is...

www.abnormalmapping.com

November 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM

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My Name is Grant

@mynameisgrant.bsky.social

We've started a let's play of Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories! Right up top we learn two important things: Everything is Cards, and everything has a Lore Reason www.youtube.com/watch?v=irvIa9QTmFs

Let's Play Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories - Episode 1: Cards! (Uncut Commentary)

YouTube video by ChipCheezumLPs

Let's Play Kingdom Hearts Final Mix - Episode 1: Cards! (Uncut Commentary)

November 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM

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Chip (aka Josh)

@chipcheezum.bsky.social

Our let's play of Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories has begun! It's a game with great ideas when it comes to card game mechanics in a real-time action RPG... but the execution misses the mark a bit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=irvI...

YouTube video by ChipCheezumLPs