Alex Stemcell 🏳️‍🌈

Alex Stemcell 🏳️‍🌈

@astemcell.bsky.social

Indie developer - Unlicensed Linguist - Existentially Gay - Free love is too tame for me - EN: him / DE: er

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// Shin Megami Tensei | 真・女神転生 // Mega CD #SMT #megacd #segacd #crt

Bancho ZX@banchozx.bsky.social

// Shin Megami Tensei | 真・女神転生 // Mega CD // Intro youtu.be/pnH9A_tqoNY

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We tried "everyone is entitled to an opinion" for three straight decades and all we have to show for it is four thousand cases of measles and a death cult running the government. It's time for people who don't know what they're talking about to shut the fuck up.

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My favorite BioWare memory isn't a game, it's interviewing the Doctors at GDC 2008. Rather than talk up their own work, they wanted to gush about Eternal Sonata—how someone turned their Chopin obsession into an RPG. Their excitement over using games for personal expression seems extra poignant today

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"i sold a number of games that someone would use it as a cryptographic key" used to mean something.

Joe Wintergreen@joewintergreen.com

on this point in particular: egs sales are so bad it's common for devs to share and compare out of disbelief, and often what you find is quite popular games are selling only in the double or triple digits of copies last i checked, my game had sold (drum roll please) five

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Laplace's Demon (1987) was a horror-themed RPG by Hummingbird Soft first released for the PC-88 and 98 in Japan and later, for the Super Famicom in 1995. Set in 1924, players choose a profession then embark on an investigation with others to the haunted mansion, Weathertop Hall. (a ghostly thread)

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in this era of everyone willingly shitting in their own pants, it's silly to demand someone shit in a toilet. I no longer use a toilet, it's so much more convenient to just do it in my pants. I shit in my pants before there was this "groupthink consensus" that it's bad to do that

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"dont worry, we didn't use LLMs for real art, like writing, or graphics, or sound, we only used it for dumb gross useless basic shit like programming" always the funnest thing to read as a programmer, as someone whose whole career is based on code, whose handwritten library changed the industry etc

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The Dead of the Brain re-release coming out soon lets you swap on the fly between any soundtrack from its various releases and it also includes the PC Engine sound effects as a toggle, this is insane and a very good sign for future PC-98 ports.

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Of course playing Visual Novels takes immense skill. Do you know how hard it is for gamers to read?

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in bloodstained a villager solemnly asks you to retrieve mementos she can bury with her neighbors slain by demons. one such memento is a really good sword dropped by a specific enemy, and in exchange she gives you a pair of clown shoes that squeaks with every step. this is the essence of video games

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'My nuts' ('balls' ('testicles')) are conscious. They can distinguish between 'self' and 'environment,' they can detect and report on their own internal states, and they can suffer. I have no more patience for hedging on this matter. It’s time for you to face the reality and 'suck on them.'

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151 - Small Meeting Rooms * The larger meetings are, the less people get out of them. But institutions often put their money and attention into large meeting rooms and lecture halls.

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I'm sorry, an AI guy telling you "The wool is being pulled over your eyes" while simultaneously owning a huge ass yarn factory will never not be funny. You're literally part of the problem my guy.

Morgan Johnson@poormojo.bsky.social

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads