riley

riley

@riley.gauche.rodeo

game designer | “products guy” | temporarily embarrassed poster

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i heard you only get to play as donkey kong for the opening hour or two on the tanker. the rest of the story is told from the perspective of diddy kong as he infiltrates the “big peel” bananaspill containment facility on a hostage rescue mission, manipulated by unseen players in a larger game (1/14)

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taking a detour to play Metroid Prime 2 (skipping 1 because i’ve already played it) and whoa nelly there are a lot of cutscenes. game is good so far tho. samus can now speak purple and yellow, but no other colors yet

just impulse bought this gargantuan thing…i have to keep it in my car for a couple days before my one Friend Who Lifts Stuff is available, but fortunately it’s just too gosh darn heavy to steal. you’d need an Ocean’s Numerical Film’s worth of guys to pull it off

the older i get the more i wish there existed a Device that could reset the internet, AI, and a few other technologies worldwide to a permanent early 2010s state. no critical thought here; it just sounds nice

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"Port by Devil-System & GPT." Serious question: what is the fucking point of all this retroslop? I can play Alien 3 on other systems easily? It's not 1993, I don't only have an Amstrad CPC and a Game Boy anymore. Retro ports are interesting for the human *craft* this is just digital landfill

IndieRetroNews@indieretronews.bsky.social

Indie Retro News: Alien 3 - Probe Software's Alien platformer arrives on the Amstrad CPC Plus! www.indieretronews.com/2026/10/alie... #retrogaming #gaming #amstrad

new cameron winter live album really hits an excellent stride when you’re on your sixth hour in the ER waiting room

getting some real Winston Niles Rumfoord vibes from this one

leon@leyawn.bsky.social

new idea "one time" instead of 24 hours in a day there's just one. also there's only one minute, one second, one year, etc. "meet me tomorrow" sorry doesn't work anymore. tomorrow is today and so is yesterday. it's all now

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i felt like i was playing this game for longer than i was. not sure if that’s a good thing…interesting game though; glad i played it. super metroid up next!!!

i beat Super Metroid a few days ago but i have been sick all week so here i am talking about it now. game rocks as hard as everyone says and it’s a genuine tragedy that i didn’t get around to it sooner in my life. wowie zowie. fuck that grapple beam room though. you know the one. sinister place!

this new deadlock update is going to be the one that sends it into the stratosphere. your cousin who has a computer but only plays rainbow six siege is going to be talking about it in a few weeks. plus…look at these guys! (vote solomon btw)

being sick is kind of fun, like an excuse to regress to a twelve-year-old state for days at a time. today i woke up on the basment couch, watched several episodes of Naruto, ate some spicy ramen, and played most of Super Metroid in one sitting. who knows what wonders might await me on the third day

some of the hidden the morph ball tunnels in this game are ridiculous guess-em-ups, including one that feels particularly cruel in that it is necessary to progress in the early game. i have more minor gripes (why are the spazer and plasma beams so close to each other etc) but i will leave it at that

just saw The Last Black Man in San Francisco and man, it sucks that jonathan majors turned out to be such a bastard, because he sure was compelling in his role. guy really speedran the success-to-right-wing-grift pipeline. great movie though! curious to see more from jimmie fails and joe talbot!

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Eurogamer@eurogamer.bsky.social

A new petition encourages you to power down your PS5 for a week to protest Sony's all-digital future. https://bit.ly/3TCPnrm

there was a time when i would have gone to bat for fortnite as the best multiplayer game of all time, but that was years before the AI darth vader thing, which was the last in a line of increasingly repugnant straws for me. this is just the logical next step for such a floundering idiot parade

VGC@videogameschronicle.com

Fortnite has started adding AI voices to its NPCs for an upcoming 'conversations' feature. The feature, which rolls out at the end of the month, will let creators add Gemini-powered NPCs with preset voices and personas to their Fortnite islands. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/fortnit...

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As a US politician you can routinely call for, and use your considerable power to vote for and agitate for the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people around the world and it doesn't count as killing them for some reason. A person who does that is not a killer for some reason.

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Democrats if you told them not to do insider trading

Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social

people need to go to jail over this, its the only thing the democratic party should be saying right now. all of them, in unison, no matter the question or topic, needs to be saying “insider trading is against the law”

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every time i see people taking the stairs in FF7 Remake I wonder how many people never even see some of Barret's best lines in the game because they're exclusive to the elevator route

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Calvin and Hobbes strip that says it quite well;

tctc@toastcrust.bsky.social

even if LLM actually made gamedev more efficient, which I see no reason to believe it has or will, that won't reduce crunch, because the business people will just push harder until you're crunching again. When a tool increases worker productivity, that doesn't translate into better work hours.

i sure am tired of being let down by relatively cool game announcements that are later asterisked as corrupted by The Enemy

seeeeew@seeeeew.de

@duckaislop.bsky.social I have another one for your list: The devs of 1666: Amsterdam have confirmed that the game currently contains AI-generated assets. They used the classic "temporary assets made their way into the game" excuse and say the assets will be patched out. x.com/PanacheDGame...

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btw this is who runs Tupac's estate

Mike Sholars (Parody Adult)@mikesholars.bsky.social

So when Snoop said "I helped work it out with Tupac's estate" to Geoff Keighley onstage, remember that it was probably him and his lawyers asking a man BEING SUED BY TUPAC'S SISTER if they could do a revshare-split on the image right royalties for this game. The man is a jester for capital.