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faea ʚїɞ

@faea.bsky.social

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the world's first "woman who is also a bug and is in your computer"
she/her, queer, nd, weird :)

https://faearie.neocities.org/

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faea ʚїɞ

@faea.bsky.social

opened it and spent like 30 minutes doing this and not actually playing it but i think it was very important. it's also now uhhh way past my bedtime so goodnight every one

November 17, 2025 at 10:43 PM

faea ʚїɞ

@faea.bsky.social

questions i ask myself daily

November 17, 2025 at 7:57 PM

faea ʚїɞ

@faea.bsky.social

hello everybody. everybody say hello to me

November 15, 2025 at 8:58 PM

faea ʚїɞ

@faea.bsky.social

don't like how much cosmetic bloat that's been piled onto discord but they let me make a bad joke with this one so BEGRUDGINGLY I WILL ACCEPT IT

stupid discord favourite game widget thing:

Favourite game

Touhou 11: Subterranean Animism
"Cat Sign "Cat's Walk""
👎 Rage quitting

November 15, 2025 at 1:10 PM

faea ʚїɞ

@faea.bsky.social

i do need these this is true

Beetles need food, fun, rest
and grooming to be happy

November 14, 2025 at 9:50 PM

faea ʚїɞ

@faea.bsky.social

hiiiiiiii

November 14, 2025 at 9:42 PM

faea ʚїɞ

@faea.bsky.social

me and who

two beetles facing each other and theyre probbably gay i think

November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM

faea ʚїɞ

@faea.bsky.social

PIPISTRELLO AND THE CURSED YOYO
store.steampowered.com/app/2870350/...

This is really cool :) I’m a really big fan of the depth in such simple combat here. You see the diagonal walls, and the game sort of aggressively teaches you that you can bounce your yoyo off them, and I was thinking “oh, is that the Thing I’m going to be doing over and over until I win”. But the best way to use diagonals is to off-string throw your yoyo, since oftentimes rooms are set up to let it bounce around infinitely, but that leaves your character unable to deal direct damage… BUT the empty yo-yo string deals stun and knockback, which is sometimes more ideal than damage. It leads to a game with a lot of genuine planning and decision-making when it comes to combat, as well as a little chaos… sometimes you really don’t want to pick up the yoyo again, but it’s somehow managed to fly back into you!, and now you have to figure out how to scrape your plan back together. There is geniunely so much to this combat; it’s a little overwhelming to think about it all at first – moreso when it’s weaponising said depth against you! – but as far as ten hours in I was still working in different elements of the combat system into my own play. Might be a miracle work, honestly?

It’s also the first Zelda-ish game I’ve played to have puzzling that I genuinely enjoy? The vast majority of puzzles are sectioned-off rooms that just involve applying your simple moveset in interesting and creative ways – oftentimes you’ll learn something new about your toolkit from hitting your head against a puzzle for a while, and since the moveset you use to interact with the world is the very same you use in combat, sometimes you walk away with a new trick you can apply during fights. And the looser puzzles can often just be done, like, blatantly wrong… more than a few times I’ve walked out of a room thinking “I wonder how I was actually supposed to do that”. i ran out of characters in the alt text sorry

November 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM

faea ʚїɞ

@faea.bsky.social

Nvm I found goku

Goku from dragon ball zed going freaking and fucking super saiyan!!!!!!

November 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM

faea ʚїɞ

@faea.bsky.social

POKEMON LEGENDS: Z-A

November 9, 2025 at 12:52 PM

faea ʚїɞ

@faea.bsky.social

solving a puzzle that's fairly on the beaten path, then getting a reward that i am being explicitly told not to use, is.. hm. not sure how i feel about that

"Cheater's Unleashed Badge: Enables you to change directions during the Walk-the-Dog move. (This Badge breaks the game! It is recommended to leave it unequipped for a standard experience.)"

November 8, 2025 at 10:46 PM

faea ʚїɞ

@faea.bsky.social

MOTHER

Wowwwwwww. Very, very, very sweet little game. With any classic RPG experience it’s fairly obvious that, in spite of its kind of baffling reputation, this game is quite easy! It never really lets go of your hand, not in the common Video Game colloquialism sense, but in how it’s always handing you juust enough niceties to make the journey generally very smooth, even when it isn’t – enemies aren’t that hard outside of specific identifiable lategame encounters, only *held* money is dropped on wipe, which is realistically never going to happen, and you’re always able to teleport to a magical fantasyland where you can heal for free and have access to all the game’s conveniences. Everything feels like it’s expressing that it’s just, like, a bunch of kids playing outside – being all very believable to them, but also never putting them in the way of genuine harm. Particularly love how the lategame is about deciding which encounters are worth it or not, and which aren’t – and just running from the latter; the difficulty of the game being deeply tied into running away from danger feels very apt. Game feels like an expression of love towards childhood and play, and some other things too. Lovely game :)

November 5, 2025 at 9:56 PM

faea ʚїɞ

@faea.bsky.social

finally a game with GOOD fucking writing

Just leave me some
cash, then with the
Goods you can dash.
Hee Hee Hee.

November 2, 2025 at 8:47 AM

faea ʚїɞ

@faea.bsky.social

samesies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

November 1, 2025 at 8:26 AM

faea ʚїɞ

@faea.bsky.social

this is the avatar btw

i did some halfhearted alt text before then bsky put my picture through the Compression Destruction Machine and killed it and i dont want to write it again. its framed in a black border as a protest against compression algorithms

October 31, 2025 at 8:44 PM

faea ʚїɞ

@faea.bsky.social

anyway, i caved and started playing that new entry in the long-running turn-based jrpg series that innovates by adding a real-time action combat system