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Post the last four games you played (don’t sleep on evil egg)
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky for PC Evil Egg for PC Q-Up for PC Fantasy Maiden Wars for PC
November 15, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Aaaaand just finished Ys Origin over my lunch break! A bit less story forward than Earthbound, let’s say 😅 but a nice action game that goes down quite smoothly!
A screenshot from Ys Origin. A large green tree stands under a dark sky before a line of cliffs. In the background on the right there is a tall, skinny tower. A picture of Dalles from Ys Origin. Dalles is a man with long, white hair, red eyes, and a large four-bladed scepter with a big red oval jewel at the top. He’s wearing a red, black, and blue outfit with a wide black collar and gold trim. The text box reads, “Dalles: I lead the Darklings in their noble pursuits.” A screenshot from Ys Origin. A young woman runs up a sort of floating staircase in a cavernous, darkened room. The landings are lit with purple light. You can see further down the room; there are more lights and staircases and rings of light below. A screenshot from Ys Origin. Two women with white hair sit slumped holding a large blue sphere. A group of people look on.
November 6, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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I finished Earthbound on Tuesday!!! Wooooo! What a fantastic game.
A screenshot from Earthbound. Ness, Paula, Jeff, and Poo stand facing a cave wall spotted in dots of light. Some of the dots form words: “I’ll be…” A screenshot from Earthbound. A black and white bedroom with a crib in the middle. The crib is shinier and a bit more defined than the rest of the room. The text box reads, “rich or famous… but I want him to be a thoughtful, strong boy.” A screenshot from Earthbound. Ness stands in a purple lake before a horned, golden, sparkling statue. The lake has three pointy pink and green rocks sticking up out of it in a triangle. A screenshot from Earthbound. Gerardo Montague, Dr. Andonuts, Apple Kid, and five Mr. Saturns stand next to the Phase Distorter in Saturn Valley. The text box reads, “and they all started praying for the safety of Ness and his friends.)”
November 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Ideal Hallowe’en afternoon
A black dog with a white splotch on his muzzle watches a fire in a fireplace.
October 31, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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A THRILLING package from Alligator’s Mouth in England came yesterday!! Can’t wait to crack into the Harrison, but I’m going to have to reread all of His Dark Materials before I get to Rose Field 😅
A stack of four books on top of bright orange fabric. Two are Philip Pullman’s Rose Field, and the two on top are paperback copies of M. John Harrison’s The Course of the Heart.
October 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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A topical Kirby Air Ride for #randomgamesaturday! I got this from a non-gamer friend I was visiting last week — I’ve never had a GameCube so I had no idea the discs were so small and cute 😮😮
Kirby Air Ride for the GameCube.
October 26, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Too many games to play!!!
A screenshot from Hollow Knight: Silksong. Hornet holds her Needle straight up in front of her while absorbing the white soul energy from a sphere-headed spidery creature behind her. A screenshot from Ball x Pit. A warrior shoots pinballs at an encroaching horde of square monsters. Greenish experience cubes litter the field. A screenshot from Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles. Ramza and Delita sit on a rocky hilltop, whistling with blades of grass. A screenshot from Ys Origin. A huge cylindrical tower rises towards the dark cloudy sky.
October 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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The season begins!!!
A fire in a freshly cleaned fireplace.
October 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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A skull from Devil’s Crush for the TurboGrafx-16. It has glassy, spherical red eyes. You can see the last three digits of the score, 500, above it.
October 24, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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The only good millionaire is a gummillionaire?
A pile of ship-shaped gummies. The text reads, “This isn't something you have to constantly pay attention to, but I hope you aim to become a gummillionaire.”
October 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Losing it
A menu showing 24 ship-shaped gummies. The text reads, “By pressing the + Button, you can observe the gummies.”
October 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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The Sicko looking in a window saying, “Yes…Ha Ha Ha…YES!”
October 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Found some wild Concord grapes growing in my train station parking lot! What luck!
Several clusters of beautiful spherical Concord grapes.
October 1, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
So far, so Capital, volume one. Then there is our own unpaid labor of interpretation and optimization. When we grade an AI-generated essay, we accord it a kind of dignity. When we press a chatbot to fine-tune its answers or sift its sources, we serve the machine. With every click and prompt, every system-tweaking inch we give to the spectral author, we help underwrite AI profits (or at least the next round of equity funding; no major Al product has yet come close to actually making money). As we train our sights on what weoppose, let's recall the costs of surrender. When we use generative AI, we consent to the appropriation of our intellectual property by data scrapers. We stuff the pockets of oligarchs with even more money. We abet the acceleration of a social media gyre that everyone admits is making life worse. We accept the further degradation of an already degraded educational system. We agree that we would rather deplete our natural resources than make our own art or think our own thoughts. We dig ourselves deeper into crises that have been made worse by technology, from the erosion of electoral democracy to the intensification of climate change. We condone platforms that not only urge children to commit suicide, they instruct them on how to tie the noose. We hand over our autonomy, at the very moment of emerging American fascism.
October 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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A certain retailer delivered my copy early so I’ve been enjoying some #finalfantasytactics!
A screenshot from Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles. A woman confronts a man on a chocobo behind a chapel. The man is saying, “I think not. If you feel wronged, blame yourself or the Father.”
September 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Horrible room.
A screenshot from Hollow Knight: Silksong. Hornet stands on a ledge facing a pit full of evil cogs. A grappling ring on a rail is above the pit.
September 29, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Needed a game to play for when I get too frustrated with Silksong…enter #YS ORIGIN! I love the way Falcon games from this era look!
10 fantasy-looking characters stand in a round room. Two angel ladies with pale blue hair talking to a young woman kneeling on the ground in front of them. Text box reads, Goddess Reah: Promise that you'll follow through with your training and become a Holy Knight. And that you’ll protect us with all your heart. A young woman stands on a dais. The room is lit by torches and a reddish light. On the altar in front of her lies a glowing red sword with a rectangular blade. A ghost floats above the sword. A sort of giant goblin automaton thing in its death throes. It’s standing in a big pool of lava.
September 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Maybe I assuaged my 3DS sadness at my lgs…😅
A stack of 12 used games. There are 5 PS3 games, including Final Fantasy X and X-2; 4 Xbox 360 games, including Alan Wake; 2 PSP games, including Yggdra Union; and 1 Switch game, Splatoon 2.
September 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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I think my 3DS is toast 😓 no matter what I do I get the black screen bug. Sigh…
A black old 3DS.
September 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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I actually got my first #dreamcast this weekend, just in time for the birthday celebrations 🎉🥳 I am celebrating by being bad at tennis. (bonus #scanlinesunday on tuesday)
A Sega Dreamcast and controller on an orange quilt. The fabric has squiggly patterns on it, not unlike the Dreamcast logo… The Sega Dreamcast’s date and time select screen. The date is set to 09/09/25. A disappointed tennis player sits on the side of the court holding his racket, his head hanging low. “Continue? 4” is superimposed over him. Screenshot from Virtua Tennis.
September 10, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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yay :) I’m so happy
A small bug in a red cloak looks up at a oval-shaped sign. Text box reads: Pilgrim You are blessed to walk the foundations of Pharloom. Humble yourself before the shells of those who gave their lives to hold our kingdom's weight. A small bug in a red cloak lies on the floor of a mossy cavern next to a spherical cage.
September 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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I actually have a (sort of boring 😅) belated #scanlinesunday this week! Waku Waku Puyo Dungeon fan translation on the MiSTer :)
A top-down view of Waku Waku Puyo Dungeon. Your character, Schezo Wegey, a white-haired guy, is in the center of the screen facing off against a green Puyo. The map of the dungeon floor is on the bottom left, your HP and MP bars are along the top of the screen.
September 2, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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It is so delightful. And the localization is INCREDIBLE!
A blue screen with green and blue modish patterns flowing across it. White text reads: You’ve traveled very far from home… A horrible spooky town where all the lines look like different colored neon. A text box in the upper right reads: Welcome to Moonside. Wel come to moo nsi ns dem oons Three children stand by a waterfall. One is smiling and giving the peace sign while a man in a top hat takes their picture. A small club. There are people clustered around two round tables. A rock sits prominently on a stage. A text box in the upper right reads: You guys can’t envision the final collapse of capitalism? Incredible!
August 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Continuing my self-taught JRPG 101 with EARTHBOUND!
Three kids stand on top of a mountain near the crater of a heat-red meteorite. A text box in the upper right reads: Three things are of the utmost importance: wisdom, courage, and friendship. A blond boy with glasses rides on the back of a purple Loch Ness monster type of creature. A monkey stands on its head. A boy talks to a white dog in a shop. The dog’s text box reads: I’m being possessed by the spirit of the game designer… (RUFF!) Six musicians stand in an arc on a very red stage. The sign above them reads “Runaway Five”. The floor is a red and black zigzag pattern like in Twin Peaks.
August 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Wowwwwieeee I forgot how much I love Brandish.
A screenshot of the EGG Console release of Brandish Renewal. The stat bars and floor map are in a column on the left, the gameplay screen in the middle, and the inventory and the movement keys are in a column on the right. Title screen of the EGG Console release of Brandish Renewal. A picture of the back of the manual is on the left, and a closeup of Dela from the cover art is on the left.
August 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM